Gunnison news-champion., 1918-05-03
FRENCH WEATHER SOMETHING
GRAND; Wits AEHR ExTER

WAS ml8uty Bsn0 70 near II0xo yU0.
The letter WAS about six weeks cd
when ! got Il, but that doesn't matter,
It was . letter from home ana that's
what counts On this side. We do not
get mail but ence . week. and when e
comes We are more than agreeable for
. while. A letter from home 10 q big
thing and ne lock forward to eur
mail . lot moro than We Do our pay.
We could more easily get along with
out money than We could mail, for Il
keeps Us from going nuts.
Have you read the article in the
Saturday Evening Post, Of March 9th,
by Irwin Cobb? II you haven't, do %,
for it is an account Of our experience
on the big drink. It is IN account Of
the sinking Of the Tuscania, and is .
mighty good story. Cobb was on the
same ship rs we were and we all had
the same sensations that he SO well
described, that il, some Of us did. I
was on the deck Of our ship when Il
happened, was standing at the rear
Of the ship and saw and heard the &C
cident, 80 that his account Of It is more
real to me than II had been in the
hold.
had just finished supper and had
gone up to see il little fresh air
would not make it taste little better.
Meal times were the only times that
might want to feed the fish. shall
never forget the night as long as I
live; it is stamped. in my mind and
cannot be erased; it is too horrible to
be forgotten. But why try to put It
on paper? cannot make you see it
and will try to tell you Of It when I
get back to the states. I don't mind
telling you that was not sorry to see
land the next morning. ! wasn't
afraid at any time, but just the same,
land looked better than the briny
deep to me.
l wrote to you from England but
the censor must have objected to the
things told you, for you do not seem
to have gotten the letter. am sorry,
for hate to spend time writing and
then have the letters sent to the waste
paper basket, as they are sometimes
done. ! am trying to write nothing
in this one that they will object to.
Have had . pretty good Job since
we got to this camp, and I like the
work. I am in the bacteriology lab
oratory at the camp hospital, and get
~ ~ oVsAAC AAhsSACcsAu8 WVEAs ID
not what you would call hard place,
but It is more or less confning and I
do not get as much air and exercise as
should like. For q long time I was
under . lieutenant from Wyoming, .
pretty good specimen Of what q West
ern man should be. l am now under
. young fellow, am probably old
enough TO be the lads father, but I
get along with him all right. "a
We are having the finest French
weather you ever heard Of. Il II
simply grand. II has rained every
day for the past two weeks, and it
looks - II It might keep It up for that
much longer. II It don't quit pretty
noon, they will have to cut the war out
long enough to build RATS. But it
might be worse. 20 III
Q What do the folks at home think Of
the war situation now? / made . bet
the other day that II would be over In
Eide Of three months and I hope win.
Things look to me like It was the be-
ginning of the end, and that Germany
was shout thru. They evidently ex-
pected TO close the war IN their favor
~ . spring drive, II was their lest
hope and they are not going across
with II. They are done Tor, and nm
Ieps miss my guess, this viii soon bo
over. They arc paying heavily for
al they take and the cost will do them
% 70 that. they win b glad to AK
for peace. i WIN look forward to
spending next Christmas with you