The Denver Jewish news., 1918-11-28
Camp and Field

ing of tile arfniSticc Is sent bS S;ifhuei
schlcsibger:
Camp Meade. Mo-. Nov. lG. 1918.
Dear Friend In reply to your last
note. since you wish to KNOW where
I'm at. what I'm doing and so forth.
Just lcnd me your ears.
The BuzZer~ school battalion com
posed OF buzzer AMI radio operators; ;
left Tor Ft. I.eavcnworth. Kan. last
Friday Nov. S. in a sixteen section
train. Saturday morning after mess.
we stopped at ST. Louis. and to relieve
our, stiff joints. we liked thru the
Streets vor an. hour. And needless 10
say, when the COO voices OF our battal,
ion, was raised in that special song
Of ours: when tho Signal Corps Si"
hals the kaiser. that the Yankee Boys
are on their way to Berlin. etc. il
sure woke up the town.
From the little saw of it, st. Louis.
is n mighty big. busincss-likc place:
hut In comparison with nice clean
l,cnvcr, st. Louis needs good bath.
ltS prclIS ulTtS.r
Well. Sunday. we PASSED thru w.
Virginia: and believe me. that trip
was certainly an ideal trip for II honey
moon couple: /. T.. we passed thru
nboht ~ long tunnels. and they were
pitch dark think there were 81 tun-
nels. I tried to count all of them. but
forgot to count the last one.
We had a pleasant reception in Cum
berland. Md. Several score of hand
picked peaches met 0r train at the
depot and insisted on shaking hands
with US. Did we. brave soldier boys
refuse? We did not, When l first
saw that gathering of attractive ladies.
Thought for n moment that l was
back IN Denver. -
Well .hfsyhOw. to cut a long story
II little shorter. we arrived at our
new home., Camp Meade Monday morn
Ing Just in time to put on our over
alls anil go to work. cleaning up around
our new barracks.
Camp Meade is a large camp or
t'hi'''>'" va go
branches of the service. At this mo
inent can see detachment of in.
fantry in sham battle: over in the
north l hear the rat-tnt-tat of n ma
airy; off in the distance, the field ar
tillcry is going thru Its various man
euvers about me. buzZer aad radio men
are clicking away at their field and
pack sets. over there man is acting
like a contortionist; no, he's not trying
TO initiate II windmill. he is scmaphcr-
ing message to station 13 so that it
can he rclayed by hrliograph to head
quarters. And overhead, we can see
twice ,laily. the fast aero mail ex-
press whizzing thru the air 5000 feet
high. n, the rate of 100 miles an hour.
Some busy place. yes. no:
Because. even tho the armislicc has
been signed, still. peace hasn't arrived
yet. and until we know definitely that
militaris,n and oppression of the weak.
has been overcome. until then we are
still preparing. Frankly. even tho
pence Is declared, / do net expect to
he ,sdischarSedi for quite n while. n
good dral of work still remains to be
done; and in my opinion. it will he
done, not by the men who have al
ready done their duty by active service
In France. hut by those who are here.
troops who, are I'm trimming in our largo
camps. However. as my friend Hill
Shakespeare once said, Its II smart
man who knows his future"
We'll. to 20 back 10 my original sub
icct Camp Meade has regular
white Way" There is n massive Y.
NJ G. A. hall where motion pictures
are shown every evening. good sized
X of G hall. which is always crowded:
nm excellent library. containing well
chosen selection of literature: Y. w.
{. A. hostess house; and. best of all
n Jewish Welfare home which is at
tractivcly arranged in bungalow
style. Without Dragging, it is the
most homelike building in camp. 1t
has a regular "Torah." and services
are held every evening and Saturday.
Unfortunately the Signal Corps can
tonment IL almost two miles from the
main camp, and ] am therefore I'M
able to take full advantage of the ser
vice. However. it sure does me good
to know that real Jewish institution
is near Inc.
We also have dandy liberty thcater
here where good broadway" features
are shown frequently. Needless to
say. this is one place which finds no
necessity for advertising The line.
waiting to get in. last night, was about
four blocks long. Really 1t was.