Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-02-22

they will do it too This cLuE "
has never had such an army as
we are preparing row ard me
whole army are now REALIZING, Is
these boys do, that we have neN er
had such a cause 20 fight fey.
When you hear anybody saying
that this is an army of disgrunt.
led, dislOyal men or slackerS in
the least, they either do rot
know what they are talking
about or they are German sym,
pathizers. With very few excep-
lions the men are salts fed and
cOntented, except that three
fourtbS of them are chewing the
bit to get to the front. A man
told me last night that in one
regiment over here, they called
for one hundr red volunteers for
i'm mediate service in France and
half the regiment answered He
said he went into one company
which was To furnish eight or ten
Of them and the boys wer
pitching pennies TO see whit
would get to go. The training
these men are getting are bring
ing results almost unbelievable.
You talk with any soldier here
and in nine cases out of ten he
will tell you that be weighs from
ten to thirty pounds more than
he did when he came here They
are the best fed, best clothed
and the best cared for army the
world has ever seen. The per-
son who says otherwise. is either
a coward and AFRAID he will have
o come, or is Just plain liar. l
have lived with them for nearly
three months. Every soldier in
Camp Taylor has better bunk
than l have. l eat at the regu.
lar Mess all the time and l know
it is well cooked and absolutely
clean. The word Mess" is moi
used as we usually use it. | an
saying this that the other boy:
who are coming may not be lee
to believe as some have said thai
they are fed like so many hogs
and that the mothers and fathers
may know that their boys are
we'll taken care of. Oh, its a little
bard at first to give up the nice
dishes and little dainties that q
great many have ruined their
stomaches upon, and go to mess
kits and pine tables wIthout
cloths, and eat good plaln whole
some food, selected by experts
and hziauced to suit every neao
If the body and not our over Cui
:ivated taste, but soon you Learn
20 love it, ard my how hungry
you get by meal time when you
eat food like that which really
serves the body instead of "clOg-
ging all the machinery therein.
and how you can eat and how
mad you get ii fellow crowds
ahead of you in the mess line.
never knew how good evaporated
peaches were before | had a
pint cup full tor supper. ate them
all and drank the juice. It's a
wonderful life, but there is WORK,
and there is where a great deal
of the talk stars. Soldiers must
work and learn and learn and
work. 1t is for themselves as
well and for the cause. No sold
Ter can lay down on the JOB. 1t
may mean the loss of his life
This Is more than ever war of
personal combat and the soldiers
life often depends on his indivld
ual ability to overcome his adver
sary. The fellows soon learn
this and go to it with vim. You
see them sometimes in their bay
onet practice, with sacks Of corn
stalks for Germans You would
feel that they really thought they
were Germans. I ask one of the
officers why they used cOrnstalks
instead of something else and it
may make Won shudder a little TO
hear his answer, but he said 1t
gave practically the same effect
as the bones in the body would
was little shocked at first at
many of the things and espec-
tally The idea of teaching young
men all the tricks of war and
just how to take human life,
swiftly and surely, just as l was
shocked to hear Brother McMn-
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