The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-10
'When You Can't Go Kaiser Hunting Next Best Place
 Is Home," He Says
LOCAL RESTAURANT
 MAN BACK HOME
Talks of Uncle Sam's Big Kitchen" and of Making Cooks Out of the Rockies in
 Camp

to France and get the Kaiser, the next best place is home" said Arthur Green wood, the we'll known restaurant man and local athlete, as he shook hands with his hundreds of friends yeseer- day on returning from Camp Travis Texas.
 "when I left here May 2o," said Ar thur, ''my one hope. like 100000 other boys, was to get a Hun, and If possible the Kaiser. Just before leaving for camp I had the misfortune to contract rheumatism and upon being examined it was impossible to put one over the medical examiners. as they are jam-up on their work of discovering defects. So, when my company left Camp Stanley, where I first went, for overseas duty. my one wish went glimmering, and there was nothing to do except buckle down and do my bit at homo.
 WITH SIGNAL CORPS
 After three months at Camp Stanley, Tex, I was transferred to Camp Travis My duties were with the signal corps. or better known as the development battalion of the telegraph department.
  tearing up and putting in communica- tion lines. One day we worked in sun shine the next in a downpour of rain. But when you stop and think that yod are working for the best government in the world all days look alike.
 The last two months I was assigned to the mess hall, where a good inside view could be obtained Of how the government practices conservation Each soldier is allowed all he can eat and can repeat orders if he so wishes, but should piece of bread or bite of meat be left on a plate, the unfor- tunate who graced thas seat was re- warded by a two-weeks post in the kitchen scrubbing the floor. While con- servation begins in the home, it reaches the boys on the other end of the line, also.
 BEST OF EATS
 Talk about eats! Say, the Greenwood cafes look like booths ar county fair next to Uncle Sam's layout. It serves the best of meats, bread, pies, cake, ice cream, fowl and fruits of all kinds. Many amusing incidents happen in the kitchen when young colts are being broken into the cooking department. One raw recruit recently made up a let of pies, and instead of getting into the sugar barrel used salt. It was a great joke as the boys began to cut half moons into the slices of pie season. e1 with salt. One thing is sure, we will never forget the soldier boy who served us with salt.
 .aToo much cannot be said of the Y M. c. A. and Red Cross. They are friends to all alike ,and many a gloomy day is transformed into one of pleasure through their kind efforts. If you get into trouble, just unload them on the Y. M. c. A. or Red Cross and then for get them.
 ARMISTICE CAUSED REJOICING
 When word came that we would be needed no longer at camp we were in- vited to lecture at Red Cross head quarters Here some good and final ad- ' ice was given. Officers called upon each individual soldier to act as mem Der of the secret service; to run down false rumors, turn up suspicious citi- zens and wherever we came. across a pro-German to stamp him to earth and see that he remained there.
 When news of the armistice reached camp there was great rejoicing, not that the boys wanted to quit, but that the great world struggle had been wound up according to the schedule planned by our great President.
 "In 19O7-0S, when visited my old home on the Island of Corfu, Greece the Kaiser passed in review twice. He has held his last review of pomp, and his next will be before an international military court. where his brute spirit will receive it's Just punishment, which. according to a vote in camp, can be nothing less than death.
 Gee! 1t feels good to be back home"
 Arthur has picked up considerable flesh and with the exception of a few panks of rheumatism says he never falt better