Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-08
PINE BLUFF SOLDIER
 WRITES FORM FRANCE
Robert Clyde McCulloch Says COndi- tiOnS "Oyer Wonder" Better Than
 He Expected.

A lelt9f rom PflVate Clyde McCol- loch. who is now Somewhere in France, to his mother, Mrs. Ollie A. McColloch. 509 West Sixth, shows that the American boys lover there" are being well cared for and that they ap- preciate what Uncle Sam is doing for their comfort and welfare Mr. McColloch was formerly employed at Fox Brothers Hardware company and has a large number of friends here. He has been in the army about six months and is a member Of company B, second regiment, United States ex- pediticnary forces. His letter to his mother, received yesterday and which is dated November 3, follows:
 Dear Mother: I received your most welcome letter day before yes terday, and will try to answer tonight by the light of a candle. I do not have time 10 write in the daylight, except on Sundays, and I don't want to wait until then. Had letter from Elizabeth at the same time. She writes you are taking Maude home with you about Thanksgiving. Surely wish I could be there then and for Christmas too. but won't be the only who spends the holidays away from home. Tsuppos all the girls will be home for Christmas. Elizabeth asked me for photograph. Would like to send one but sent all could while in the United States for we are not allowed to keep cameras or kodaks in cur possession while we are in France. There are several nice sou venirs in the exchange here which 1 would like to send home, but it is very risky to send anything of value thru the mail. Of course these aren't very valuable but chances are they would be lost. You know all mail leaving France is censored. 1 have made a small allotment payable to you each month. Please let ~a know when you get tho fit .l.ic received a letter from Claud the other day. He is cheerful old fellow, but tell him the stuff he wrote me won't whip the Germans. They don't fall for that Am not writing many these days for l am too busy, so you read this and forward it on to the girls, though I expect by the. time you get it the family will all be together for it takes about 23 days for me to get one of your letters. according to the dates of them
 Will be glad to get letter from Maude again. Am glad she is i'm proving rapidly. Tell the girls to get me pig pair of leather gloves with night gaunlets and be sure they are gloves. not mittens, and good heavy ones and plenty large, for you know have large hands and want to wear a pair of wool gloves beneath them. Also send heavy wool socks. That is about all I need. Have plenty of good warm clothes and good bed. They issue us hunks and my chum and knocked the 'sides s.Qnt of ours and warmer. We *halSs Nhree blankets each, so we sleep on one and cover with five and if we get cold we have our big overcoats to put on top. We have the hunks full of straw and it makes a fine bed. We have four stoves in our barracks, and, as, a whole, are very comfortably situated, as we'll as can be expected under the circumstances, really better than expected. We have our captain to thank for a big part of our good for tune, for he seems to have the com rany in his mind all the time. He has gotten American tobacco for us sev- era! times and some hob nailed shoes, and I knew he had a hard time get ting them. The other day he was on his way to another village and two deer ran acros sthe road in front ot his car. His first words were Gee, l wish I had my gun with me. Nothing would please me beeter than to take one of the home to the company That is what ne said, the truck driver told us, so you see, he thinks lot of his company, but he does not think any more of us than we do of him. must close now, mother. and write to Villa and Beatrice. l hope this finds you as we'll as I am. Lots of love to you all Your son,
 PRIVATE ROBERT CLYDE M COL
 LOCH."