Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-19
"a HOURS LEAVE FOR
CAMP MEADE MEN
Make Flying Trips Home and After
All Night Calls Beat IT.
Back Again.

Camp Meade Admiral, Md, Aug. 10,
-Twcntv-four hours limit meant quick
jumping for the New York men in camp
who had their first passes over Saturday
night They showed that train and troll
lev catching is their real accomplishment
by the success they had IN getting back
within the period allowed. Good friends
of the soldiers in New York and IN Bal
timore made possible quick connections
bv automobile that would have been
impossible by the ordinary means OF
traffic. Some of the New Workers had
big wads of Money, but most of them
skimped through on the army pay, sadly
shrunken so late in the month.
4 big sign was struck up near the New
York hill bearing the dolcful words:
"'The men were absent without leave.
Near the sign were picks and shoveis.
All saw this before they left, and no
other threat was needed. They were
advised not to try for New York, but they
were not needing ADVICE that meant such
sorrow TO friends who were waiting Tor
them. The last of the p. IN. crowd did
not get away until 3.45 and did not reach
New York until 9 p. M. Those who had
many friends to see paid calls all night
long. AT 755 n. m. the crowd started
Il.
Baltimore automobile owners in many
cases raced to the camp, 20 miles away,
TO get back before 2. p. IN.
\ Philadelphia man who lives at Over
brook was not so fortunate in his con-
ncctions and had only 81 minutes at his
home He was Sergeant George Rem
schneider He said the rush TO catch
trains, jitncvs and trolleys was almost
as irving on a soldier as service IN France,
where he was in 1914 with the Red Gross.
Persistent attempts have been made
bv German propagandists to spread dis
sension among the soldiers of this cam
torment These attempts have been
made through the medium of books, which
ANONYMOUS donors have generously
sent to the officials of the American LII
hrarv Association to be used by the men
in camp The givers of these books have
done nothing more than waste their
money and time They have heen caught
in the act and their gifts consigned TO the
flames The persons behind tins propa-
ganda have sent their books to the
libraries in all the cantonments and camps
in the country They tried even to slip
them aboard battleships and transports
and into the trenches across the seas, but
they failed.
Among other things, these donors
mailed TO the camps and the warships
The White Book of Germany and
volumes which painted glowingly, had
Karl Rossncr, the Hun rs the great
virtuous superman and showed what a
humane war the Kaiser IS waging Books
of Rolshevik and pacitist tinge also
were sent to this camp, but they never
reached the men Many good dollars
that might have bought non-Hoovcrzet
meals for their owners went up in smoke
The officials of the American Library
Association were the ones who stopped the
tide Of propaganda and reported tho
matter to the government Now the
government is invest stlgatIng, seeking out
those who were solicitous for the good
name Of Germany. Not only did tht
library officials stop this influx Of per
nicious and traTtorous enemy literature
but thew fed the soldiers with readin!
matter which was stimulus to theil
patriotism and their Americanlsm anC
which imbued them with still grcatel
determination to carry on against the
foe