Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-23


and his staff were guests of honor at
Liberty Loan luncheon given Satur-
day by Captain Clarence /. Worcester
and the officers of the Headquarters
Company, Machine Gun Training Cen
ter, to the men of the company
The mess hall was crowded to ca
pacity when the Headquarters Com
pany Jass Band started proceedings
While the lunch was served. Privates
Cooper and Greeley entertained with
popular songs, and Sergeant Al Ander-
derson of the Personnel Detachment,
gave an exhibition Of magic and sleight
Of hand which merited the applause
he received.
The han was decorated with pat
riotic color5 and appropriate Liberty
Loan banners and streamers.
Seated at the guests table were
Brigadier General Oliver Edwards,
Lieut.. Col Alfred Brandt chief OF
staff; Major l.. A. Kunzig. chief Of
operations; Major Harry s. Barton.
camp adiutant, Major JOS. J.. Scott,
assistant camp adiutant; Major s. G.
Blanton, former commander Of the
Headquarters Company; Captain Wor-
cester, commanding the company;
Captain Harold NJ Wilson. camp sig
nal officer; Lieut.. Samuel Evans, Jr.,
General Edwards aide decamp: Lieuts
George r. Garrett, Raymond B. Sey-
mour, Frank 0. Andridge and James
A, Davis, of the Headquarters Com
pany, and Lieut. Harold e. Mountain
of the Senior Instructors office, Cen
tran Machine Gun Officers Training
School representing the Camp Liberty
Loan officer
After the luncheon was served, 1t
Harold f. Mountain in brief speech
introduced General Edwards who adj
dressed the men as follows:
when the first Liberty Loan started
was on duty at Camp Lee. and a
thermometer was placed with a dial
on each company shack, with a main
dial at the Divisional Headquarters
which recorded the proGress made
daily by the various organizations
This stimulated the sales and opened
ways for competition between various
organizations with the result that al
though marvellous showing was
made, it was found later by the of
ficials that soldiers wno had other
burdens to carry such as allotmeuts
and war risk insurance had become
over-enthusastic and subscribed for
more bonds than they could possibly
carry on their army earnings, and in
be called in.
But we are wiser now When this
Fourth Liberty Loan started, re-
ceived instructions to the effect to
start loan, and was eNpressely for
hidden to urge the men of this camp to
buy more bonds than their actual al
lowance could stand.
81 appointed Liberty Loan officers
in all organizations and they have
done extremely well. Without flour
ish Of trumpets, we have managed to
get fourth place in the camp list and
first place in proportion to strength
of camps, SO that l am glad to see
that the pep and click" of the Ma
chine Guuners was applied in this
Liberty Loan drive.
q wish you men could have heard
a letter read the other night from a
boy over there" wherein he writes of
being 10 days in He'll He had been
in sector where it was quiet. when
without warning the enemy bombarded
that place for is hours with gas shells,
shrapnel. siX-inch shells, and other
material When their outfit was
struck those left started forward. For
fifteen days they never got over four
hours of sleep. some days none at all,
and talk about Cold--why the cold
weather here does not compare with
the cold days they have there So we
see hat the men over there" are en-
during all sorts of discomfort. and
that we. over here, are having pretty
easy time at that
Now we all know that every one
of US would be "over there if we
could, but we all can't have what we
want. we must amide our time. ] can
only say that l would want nothing
more than to command the men from
this very camp were l sent cover
there" and no one would want any
thing betetr,
We are all doing our best whether
we be X, P.'s or pounding type
writer or commanding a company.
Let's get behind this Fourth Liberty
Loan, as much as we can afford in the
same manner they are doing things on
the other side
Lieutenant Mountain announced that
the Headquarters Company Band had
subscribed to $500 of bonds, which
was greeted with thunderous applause
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