Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06
MEADE DEPOT BRIGADE
NOW INTEREST CENTER
With Division Ready to Go,
Transfers Are Biggest News
of Camp
By q Std6 Correspondent
Camp Meade, Admiral, Nd, July 6.

Camp Meade, Admiral. Md, July 6.
with the Liberty Division getting
ready for overseas service the 154th
Depot Brigade jumps into first place
so far as Little Penn news is concerned
and man who bids fair to contribute
his share of the days grist is Robert
D. Goodwin. OF Memphis. Tenn
For the benefit of the iaymen, II ought
to be explained that the depot brigade
acts as a replacement camp for regular
units, as it is from this organization
that men are sent into the infantry,
artillery, machine gun and other or
ganizations that make up a division.
To soldiers it is an elementary school,
because in the depot brigade the selec-
tives learn first rudiments of their
profession. Goodwin is just one man
in more than 5000 who are listed in this
busy man. Besides his work in the drill
field, he has blossomed forth as con-
tributing editor for the Trench and
Camp newspaper, published by the Y. NJ.
c. A.
Fresh from a Memphis newspaper. he
found ii impossible to detach himself
from the game, so when Howard Haines,
editor of Trench and Camp, requested
the Southerner to create an original
! feature for the paper, he came to bat
with Column Right"
And it gives promise of being a good
Z iph
the right hand column on the back page
of the soldier paper. contains fund of
news.
This weeks Column Right contains
the following bit of philosophy:
Now just a word for the boys when
you-and you do, or you have-felt that
you are not important in this great work
of war | want you to think of this story
and then smile.
When on a trip to New York a few
weeks ago, | visited a friend in one of
the pressrooms of that city. | saw
battery of printing presses that works
wonders. All at once the din and whir of
/ the machines stopped. | asked my
| friend, the foreman, what the trouble
was. He did not reply at once, but eX-
cusing himself. he left me. In a few
moments he returned and said it was
: sHldll SCIt" IN one OF the parts Ol the
/ feeding gauge and that it would hold up
that press for an hour Now don't you
see? One little screw held up that great
machine, Are you going TO be the little
unit that will hinder Uncle Sam from
going over the crest to victory? You
are not, so after all, you see, you are
just as important in the army as that
I little screw was to the press
Let's go!'
The following transfers and assign
ments were made today:
First Lieutenant l.. X. Free, chaplG in,
to l54th Depot Brigade; Cook HSSsael
Gard, from S04th Engineers to cooks
and bakers school; Second Lieutenant
NJ. J. Shartey, 154th Depot Briga de, to
3l3th Infantry; Sergeant William j.
/ OBrien, cooks and bakers school, to be
chief instructor in baking; Second Lieu
tenant William +. Steptoe, sanitary
corps, to be divisional medical supply
officer; John A. Marshall and John S.
/ McDermott, of l54th Depot Brigade,
! discharged from service in order to per-
NIT them to accept appointments as
army field clerks: Second LieutenF mt H
J. Shoemaker, l54th Depot Brigade, to
5llth Machine Gun Battalion.
The following Philadelphians have
been rejected because of physical de-
fects: William j. Stevenson, Local
Board No. 2S; Ashley Finney, No. =;
| Charles A. Gallagher No Al Alton Nc
Mulln, Ridley Park