Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-26
SOLDERING At SEWER
ALI Are Interested In the Big Task
Ahead.
SOME Are NOW STUDYING FRENCH
lneompetents Being Weeded Out
Gradually - National Guardsmen
Have Advantage of Draft Men in
Length of Service: but Not Other.
wise-No Feeling Of Jealousy-Al
Appreciate the Task Ahead.


Appreciate the Task Ahead.
PASSED by the CENSOR
Correspondence The iorkyille Enquirer
Camp Sewer, S. e.. February 20,
Sewer have been watching the news
papers with more than usual in
terest during the past week or so and
It Is Il safe bet that newspaper sales
IN camp have Of late been consld-
| erably on the increase. II Is the
Russian situation in which they are
| terested-intercsted because there
is Il growing impression that this d.
vision may be sent over a little earlier
than il otherwise would in order that
It might help ill the hole in the lines
caused by Russia's yellowism. When
the newsboys come down into the
roads between the mess halls anu
company streets each morning ana
afternoon they are met by scores o1
soldiers who have of late been saw
ing "a few nickles out Of the wreck
in order to buy a paper day. ana
between breakfast and drill call ana
retreat and supper the majority OF the
men read the news of what Is going
on over there.
Private Sam Jones Of "Anywhere'
U. S. a. before | Joined Old Man
Sans Army" as he expresses H. WAS
airing his views on the Russian STU
alton to a bunch of buck privates to-
day:
II been Il thinking all the time, he
said, that them Roosians was Il 60
ing to turn yellow. Their skins are
yellow and they are yellow from up
to toe-nail naturally. l used to work
among 'em in the coal mines Of
Pennsylvania and West Virginia and
II speak like man knowing what !
am a talkin' about. | don't mind
saying that l wish they had kept on
id this thing on the side of US and the
rest of Gods folks; but amt
never believed they would. There
afn't no ending to this fracas nohOw
Until we bullies get over there and
plunge a knife or two into them Ger
mans; and we have been waiting
l3ng enough"
1.-THE audience of bucks" agreed.
Soldiers attending the schools Tor
iIiiterates about which ! wrote in an
Article q week or two ago, are max
ing good progress from what can
learn. / am still writing an occas-
ional letter to Miss Nellie" for the
soldier lad / told about; though
- think the Job will last much
|8es2er. He can write his name and
even go better than that; but he isn't
ready to venture Il letter to his
brick dust blonde" as he calls her.
II he keeps on progressing for another
couple of weeks like he has during
the past two, am going to pass the
buck" to him-that is, l am going 10
inform him very kindly but firmly
that it is time he was doing his own
Writing along Win HlS SouitHib' ~
doesn't take long for soldier TO
learn Il little thing like writing let
ter in the army. Maybe it Is because
there are no holidays for the pupils
and the teachers are not like the
kind that used to tell me 1T hurts
me just us much to punish you as ii
hurts you."
OF course there are a few in this
division attending schools for Hitter
ates who have not learned anything
and who will never learn because they
are not capable of learning. They
will be discharged from the service
sooner or later. There seems TO be
no place in the front line trenches III
this war for man who doesn
possess ut least the fundamentals Oh
education. There never has been a
war like this.
Speaking Of discharges, men un-
iii for soldering are being sent home
of "a