The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-07
BOYS AT MORALES
 ARE INDIGNANT AT
 RECENT EDITORIAL
Geneva Paper Arouses Their Resentment and They Write Complaints to
 The Age-Herald

The Alabama brigade stationed at No gales, Ariz, is greatly stirred by an edi- torial which recently appeared in the Geneva, Ala, Reaper, under the title, T Want to Go Home, Boo-Hoo"
 Letters have been coming in a stream to The Age-Herald complaining of the injustice of the article and asking that the misleading impression it makes be corrected. The editorial has been printed in circular form and circulated all through the brigade at Nogales and sev- eral copies of it were sent to The Age
 Herald yesterday. It is impossible to print all the letters from Alabama boys who are full of indignation but as mat
 ter of general information the editorial
 complained of is here reproduced:
 Affairs at the camp of the Alabama
 brigade at Nogales, Ariz., have finally taken a disgraceful turn and the result will be that Alabama will have cause to feel ashamed of the actions of some of her soldiers, provided, of course, that re ports coming from the camp are true. A soldiers first duty is obedience to his superiors and without obedience on the part of the men in the ranks no military discipline can be maintained. Reports just to hand are to the effect that mem bers of the brigade nave refused to eject the correspondent of the Montgomery Journal, when they were ordered to do so by their officers. The dispatches of this correspondent to his paper in Mont gomery have aroused a considerable feel ing of discontent on the part of the mem- bers of the brigade, and his statements of fact have been contradicted by the Chamber of Commerce of Nogales, relat- ing to the health of the camp and the mortality of it's members.
 official reports from the camp are con- elusive evidence that the mortality and sickness of our troops is not above nor cessation of these wild-eyed and highly sensational stories being published by some of the Alabama newspapers.
 "Our boys left Alabama of their own volition, and it was to be hoped that
 they would go to the border and do their duty as men until the war department
 saw fit to dispense with their services.
 But it seems that the contrary is a fact.
 After three short months of picket duty we at home are regaled with baby pawls of I want to go home! Our boys have been well clothed and well fed. They have foored and walled tents and everything
 has been done for their comfort and con-
 venience that could well be done in a
 military camp, and what Is the result?
 T want to go home, boo-hoo!
 Shades of the old continental heroes
 at Valley Forge defend us! Those old
 boys didn't have enough clothing to keep
 them warm and mighty little to eat ex-
 cept acorns. They didn't want to go
 home boo-hooi' No They stuck to their
 duty like men and helped the immortal
 George Washington to hew out the great
 est country the sun shines on.
 Shades of the old boys in gray, pro-
 tect us! Doubtless the few of these old,
 grizzled vets who are still with us are
 laughing in their sleeves at our molly
 coddle kids on the border. These old boys
 followed R. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,
 Nathan Bedford Forrest and other lead CTS year after year with no rich and powerful government back of them to
 supply them with nice, warm clothing,
 boarded and walled tents and turkey and cranberry sauce, such as the Alab anna brigade is at present enjoying. The Con- federate heroes had Gods blue canopy
 for tents during most of their long cam