The Springdale news., 1918-08-16
CAMP PIKE NOTES.
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By Erwin Funk.
Camp Publicity Secretary ]

Camp Pike, Ark, Aug. 12.-Un- douotedly the most interesting sight the past week or two within the limits o1 Camp Pike has been out on North Boulevard where some six or seven thousands Iowa selective draft men ! are belng given their meals three tunes day. As rule, a mess ser geant only has to look out for POO men or less, but Sergeant Thos A. McGiy- hey mad to meet the biggest emer- geney ln the mess line ever known in Camp Pike. With a force of 25 cooks and 150 Kitchen Police (more 1amlharly known as K. P.'s) the en- tire number has been passed through the mess hall in 40 minutes. The mess hall was formerly big open stable, and the rockies came through Tn eight double columns, eating in the open wherever they could find the space.
 Aside from chasing the festive and ferocious mosquito, the Sanitary de- tachment has to also look out for the bed bug and the fly. There are not great many bed bugs in Camp Pike, comparatively speaking but it does not take many of them to make quite commotion. So when they are found Tn building there is a hurry call. TIhe most successful way of ridding a place of them is by the application of heat. Oil stoves are used and the building is heated until the pitch fair " fires out of the upholstered walls. A temperature of 130 degrees is SUD- posed to kill the pests For flies, the manure piles are saturated with a so- luton of boraX and water. It does not kill mature flies but is expected to kill the larvae.
 An innovation that has attracted not a little attention and is meeting with much success, IS the vesper service held each evening at Y. NJ. c. A. building No. 37. It is held at 7:30 O. clock and lasts ten or fifteen minutes. There IS song or two, a few verses of scripture, and couple of brief prayers. This brief little religious service is held at an hour that does not conflict with any other meetings in the building, and attendance ranges from one to two hundred.
 From the rifle range at Camp Pike comes an interesting little human in- terest story Noble Payne of Ponto- toe, Miss, was in the company shoot ing, and while he is fine chap his early education had been neglected and he could not read the figures on the targets An officer made "50" on the back of an envelope and young Payne got the idea Tn 8 hurry. Being much better schooled in markmanship than in some other lines, he hit the bulls eye eight times in succession, and put the other two shots close up in the circle When the lieutenant asked if he thought he could do that we'll in France, the reply was: "I'll do a lot better Those d--d Germans won't be numbered"
 The war department has amended the order relative to women serving in the foreign service who have rela- tives also in foreign service, army or other war work, so that it does not apply to sisters. However, even sis ter will have to return to the United States if she marries either an officer or private.
 A would-be profiteer who attempted to sell the Iowa men ice cream cones at ten cents each the other day was allowed to carry his wares around camp until they melted and when last seen, were running down his trouser legs.
 During the month of July 646,34l soldiers attended the "Y" buildings at the camp, an increase of fifty per cent over the previous thirty days And if one could judge from the fig ures. every time a man came into one of the Red Triangle Buildings he se- cured an envelope, for 688,000 envel- opes were given away free last month. Nearly quarter of a million soldiers attended the entertainments, most of them being out in the open on the platforms. These figures of men reached by the "" secretaries do not include the thousands who partici- pate in regimental songs lead by " music leaders, nor yet the thousands who were served in their barracks owing to the quarantine.
 None of the new books has made bigger hit in Camp Pike among the soldiers than "Dere Mable. being the Love Letters of Rookie" Here IS sample: We get our mess from some felIos what stands behind a counter. One of them ii ides the cof- fee. He does it by putting half on your thumb and half in the cup. The other fellos has big spoons. 4 big
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