The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-22


duties DR.. A H. Keller, former
Health Officer and Paris physician,
now stationed at the Emergency Hos
pital, at Nitro, West Virginia, writes
THE NEWS as follows:
Your highly appreciative message
came to-day and was most heartily
enjoyed. 1t is certainly pleasing and
gratifying to a man away from home
to hear from his friends, and this in
cludes all such wherever they may be.
Our work here is pleasantly labor
ious. DR.. E. j. Wells, from Cynthi-
ana, and myself are making all en-
trance examinations at the Emergen-
cy Hospital. The two of us are ex-
aiming and prescribing for more
than 400 men each day. The work is
decidedly different from that in civil
practice. Here we are examining
and prescribing for man in two
minutes-and-a-half. Our examina-
tons must necessarily be kaleido-
Scopic, changes to quick scenes and
variety. At that the work is pleasant
though continuous and exacting, not
a minute lost.
THE big sitting room and the line
an eager, uncertain, motley and un-
ending assortment of humnity-
Americans, French, English, Italian,
Mexican, Spanish, Portuguese, Rus
sian, Danes, Sweeds, Polaks, Greek,
East India, Egyptian, Indian, Irish,
Welsh, Chinece, Japs and many other
tribes of the human family. Many
of them are intelligent, comedy, we'll
behaved men. Some of them are prob
ably leaders in the civic life of the
various communities from whence
they came. Others are mediocre in
mental development, and still others
are devoid of a semblance of such de-
velopment, though they appear to be
sober, industrious, patriotic workers.
And / believe they are all endowed
with such spirit as becomes a true
American citizen 1t doesn't follow
because they are foreigners they are
beyond the possibility of Americana
Zation. Any such argument would be
fallacious, unkind and unreasonable.
Very many of these people are
loyal and most eXactingly patriotic
men and women, whose hearts, souls,
bodies and brains are interested in
the work incident to the proper con-
duct of the war. One old man q say
old advisedly, as he is but sixty-two)
told me, after his innoculation today
that he had given up the comforts OF
home and friends to come here and
take an active part in the production
of enough powder to blow up the
Kaiser, his sons, Won Hindenberg
Ludendorff, and the whole blamed
bunch, and have no reason to doubt
the veracity of his statement.
My hours of work are from 500
a. m. until 1890 p. m, and from
1880 p. m. to 500 p. m. Was officer
of the night for the Emergency Hos
pital Sunday night. Such an officers
duty is to care for everything trans
piring therein for that special night
receive and treat all patients, be they
surgical or otherwise there
are, however, two of us. We are al
any time libale to be called for SINH
lar work at the Base Hospital. Here
Their are perhaps five hundred or more
beds. All details incident to the
building, equipment and management,
of this Hospital are second to none
in this country.
This is one of the largest powder
self, complete in every detail, each
man and woman a laborer, and OF
such there are probably $4,000 The
rush and hurry along State street il
Chicago and Broadway, New York
are not more than comparable to con
ditions here. 1t doesn't matter which
way the compass may point 1t Sui
points to a rushing, eager, earnes
body of laborers whose only deslr'
seems to be to-, individually, though
microscopic spot, yet collectively
great working force, whose aim is u
accomplish big task and they DO SO
More later on. Remember me e
all the boys. With kindest regard
TO THE NEWS force and staff, am,
Yours Truly,
"A. H. KELLER,
Emergency Hospital, Nitro, Yves
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