The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-21
Popular Birmingham Boy at Camp Wheeler Delivers a
 Speech to Ammunition Train
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have been. Now, boys, we have the clew or real meaning of the word dis cipline
 MUST WORK WITH A CLICK
 Colonel Parkin. as well as many other allied officers have told us we must learn to act with a click. Every thing must be done with a click, mean ing, of course, with an instant jerk and snap. You boys can't tell me or any other true American that you can't submit to strict military discipline dur ing these critical times. You must sub nit to it. It is not matter of pref
 erence now, so get busy. Indications point to the fact that we will leave for lover there" in a few weeks, and General Pershing will never use us if
 we don't put ourselves in shape, and you know our motto, Ut Shall Be Done So, boys, it will only be mat ter of matching our great democratic discipline against Germany's Forced disciplin3 against 'Germany's forced
 Every one knows what Germary's forced discipline is. It is dicipIine
 which is governed by stick or club over the head or a pistol shot in the back if a soldier makes the least effort Of resistnncg or fails to carry out an or der to the very word.
 Tt goes without saying that no such methods could be practced against an American. We are free people, and our surroundings have been of democartic nature all our lives from many genera tions back. As Darwin theories of hered. ity teaches us. environment means most everything and the past environment. of the average southern boy naturally makes army life seem unreasonable at times, and i'll this connection might ,iay 1 is so much more necessary and imperative that our southern boys should awaken to the realization that we must not pro crastinate in our earnest determination ! to get this discipline.
 Each individual in the army must 1 learn to know and realize that they are | a part Of it, and his importance in the conduct of the war. One must also feel | like Uncle Sams machinery Is not coIG | pleted without his services, but mind | you, let these services be worthy of the grand uniform you wear, and it goes
 again without saying that your services are unworthy and not worth dam un-
 less you have the click and discipline,
 and these two words are so closely asso ciated with each other that you cant l have one without the other.
 GERMAN "DOPE' PROVES JOKE
 When we first declared war on Ger. l l dicted that the United States would never be able to put many men in the field, and furthermore, what men they
 did put n the field would lack the ne2cs- | sary discipline, and it wouldn't take long
 before Germany could conquer them This dope, however, has proven joke. be- | cause we have not only been able to put many men in the field, but we have a | trained army in discipline and what fighting they have done so far have re
 ceived nothing but praise from all parts l of the world. Nand the Germans have 1 learned tc call them blood mad Sav- l ages" This Dixie division is made up mostly of Dixie boys, and Dixie boys are not in the habit of being licked. and 1t l is up to us boys to prove true our old | traditions.
 "The Kaiser evidently has bad case l of 'ablespsy,' or blindness, and loses sight of the fact that he has an under. | taking or task before him which is even I preposterous to assume he can acc Jm plish-that is. whip us Americans. We | have good reasons to believe that the Kaiser appreciates this fact, and is about I to realize that it can't be done. This pre- eminence tho Germans have always hour
 ished will be driven so far into hell by