Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-24
OFFICERS DIG . DEEP FOR LIBERTY BONDS
(By Lyle Abbott)

hcer by leaps and bounds, but he has been killed" more than any other man in the camp. During problems recently, Jones has been given good deal of accommodating work to do. AL most invariably, he comes under the hypothetical fire of the enemy and is wiped out, horse, foot and dragoon. One day during bayonet practice, Major Koehler announced that any man who was behind the line when it floundered through the barbed-wire entanglements, was dead" Jones rushed forward in his usual gallant manner, but caught his heel in about a million strands of wire. His com rades dashed on at the von Hinden- burg line without him. The coach captain yelled: You're dcad.' Jones refused to be halted by little thing like an untimely end. He looKed pleadingly at the senior instructor and in his best courtroom manner asked: Please sir, may I go on:' The major gave his consent, and Jones trans formed himself into small hurri- cane. Again the captain coach holler- ed at him that he was dead.
 No I'm not Jones-yelled over his shoulder, the major revived me
 He bayoneted five Germans (dun- mies) on his way through the lines. Hart Linney is scratching his head over the complicated mathematics that make up large part of the training of artillery officers. He IS also learn ing how to groom horses Now, this is no reflection on the former assist ant county attorney, speaker of the house, etc. Every officer has to know how caballo should be treated so he can make his men handle them prop erly. The stable work is offset, how ever, by the work on the big guns, which grows more interesting every day The embryo gunner officers arc learning how to Hay" their pieces and correct their shots by means of sig nals sent from airplanes. which come over from Kelly Field, 30 miles away, for this purpose Almost any time of day. the boom of the cannon and the white smoke puffs of bursting shrap- mel over the distant hills, tell us of the work of the artillery.
 Student officers were paid their first salaries Friday afternoon. The cam. paign for the sale of Liberty Bonds had been worked up in the camp dur ing the week, and at the pay table, was Captain w. D. Moss, in charge of the sale of bonds. He is attached to the First company as an instructor and at the close Of business yestcr- day, he reported that our organization had led the entire camp in the pur. chase of bonds. Ninety-fve men oi this organization took S57 900 worth of bonds in oie day. The next best sale was in the First battery, which totaled S46,000
 The sales have been put on a com petitivc basis, and the companies arc striving to outdo each other. One chap in the First company owns Ok lahoma oil lands and few blocks of downtown real estate in Gotham. He bought Sl00OOG worth of the first is- sue. When the present campaign was inauguratcd, he put himself down for Sl0,000. If any other company starts to get ahead of us, femme know" sezee
 There is hospital company of 6 men attached 10 the camp. The en- listed men are all old-timcrs, who have been garnering their SIS and S3C per from the army paymaSter for some years. They scrapcd up So,OOO to put into bonds, and the entire Southern department Is taking its hat off to them.
 Untold millions arc pouring into the half score of army establishments in Texas All business has picked up to an unprecedented degree due to the presence of unknown thousands of troops in the big State As a result, the subscription to Liberty Bonds hereabout will be large. People are beginning to learn that when a nation is at war, 1t Is not alone the man in uniform who is soldier" but that every true citizen must assume some portion of the burden and get in ranks" as if were