Baxter Springs news., 1918-09-13
u. s. Naval Aviation Forces, F. s.
Group A., North Bombing SOD,

Group A., North Bombing SOD.
Chattanooga, Tenn, 15b Rossville Av.
Sept. z, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father:
Hello, everybody. How you VAST
How is every little thing in the old
burg. Gee, but II seems like q long
time since l heard from you.
What Is everybody doing and how Is
business? Are you selling the lots
very fast? ] only wish l was up there
to try my hand at selling some Of
them.
Folks, you can take II from me, I
think will get to come home for 10
or 16 days If nothing happens. Any
way here's hoping have good luck.
am in good health and am getting
along fine. am getting another
promotion soon. rank as sergeant
now. / am in the Motor instruction
School, which is branch Of the Motor
Transportation department, and you
con take 1t from me II isn't any fun
to teach n green rookie to ride motor
cycle. ] had two rockies run into q
tree with me and smash up the ma
chine, so you can bet your life it's
no fun. But it is exciting and / like
it. But ! had much rather be across
the creek giving the Huns H with
some kind of an implement of war
fare. Something that will help go
through Berlin and put the Huns on
the run, just anything to get the
kaiser's goat. But ] guess there is no
chance for me to go across, so / will
do what / can here on this side. i
am teaching ten men a week to drive
n motorcycle to carry messages and
other important things.
Gee, but it gets my goat to see
these young fellows laying around
the Billiard halls when they could be
doing something to help, and we sure
need every bit of help we can get. /
wish they would make these fellows
wear yellow suits so that the whole
world could see what slackers they
are. Now, it would be different for q
man who has a wife and babies, but
Il lot of the wives would be better off
if their men were in the fight for
Uncle Sam gives the wife $4,000 a
month and that is more than some Of
the husbands give their wives, and a
man that is able bodied and has no
children or wife is q coward if he isn't
wearing the U. S. Uniform and
haven't much use for them. They are
helping the kaiser by not doing their |
bit, and they ought to wear yellow |
suits to let the rest of the world know |
what kind of things they are. They |
are not men. They just look like men.
Gee, but it gets me, and / have had
more than one battle with the Stacker.
" We have the Huns on the run now,
and we need every man we can get.
We want this thing over by Christ
mas and really believe it will be
,ver by then. Germany is nearing |
ler last peg and only little longer
With more men and she is under our
control. The kaiser is up q tree now
,ut he can't seem to see it. But we
lon't need any smoked glasses to see
hat with more men and more dimes
md quarters it will soon be over. And
he man that stands back is helping |,
he kaiser that much. ! don't think
here ever was a bullet made by a
ielman that could get me, and if it
oes get me / would rather die fight
ng for my wife, mother, father and
listers than to die a natural death
rom sickness or old age. And it's me
or Uncle Sam, our country always,
nd why can't others see it that way? f:
he only way is the manly way, the
rave way. Gee, pop, ! am getting to :
e a crank on this stuff.
Well, l will ring off and let Sena s
rite some. So with love to all,
Your boy,