Putnam patriot., 1918-08-23
LIKE Il.NER
 CIRCLE OF GEHENNA
Training Troops on Hot Sands of Texas Tn Midsummer Is
 Really Quite Some Warm
Lieutenant Hsrotd 5. Corbin, Win.er- ed North and Summered South,
 Nov Ready For Anything

Nov Ready For Anything
 The following .ast came to hand from the pen of HarolI $. Cotbia. oneeg egneaspspe- gem. noa wearing the khaki sraftei passed through ofGeezz training school com nissionea seeo~5 lieutenant Company ] C, 7th Brigade, Camp McArthur. Waco. Texas
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 Have jus, read Charlie Ryau's let ter from overseas in The Patriot and believe Charlie should become ] news paBerman after the val. F tory is bright and breezy and his style i. en- teEtaiz.Hs Am really leaious of the Putnam boys who have beaten ne across Had hoped long ago to be where things are doing bat Uncle Sam hasn't seen | right to send me yes. and here am in Texas in Au- gust. uHeze he weather E Hke the in= =uer circle 5f zshat the clergy call Ge- heana.
 Since leaving Camp Devens have been doing replacement work that is. training ne" men Rho are 10 du up divisions depleted by casualties. and the training these men get is intensive t0 say tie least The course is for f.e or six weeks, and this is the fifth company haze helped prepare for oVerseas. Al Camp Gordon I passed The oversees physical examination and expected Q 20 across. but sudden c5auge iu plans took place when new re#faeeH e=t camps were made 70 taat s75 .ee-sa lieltenauts were sent 10 thiz comp
 Tc@a- surely dry tHis season tHat aelu z, botH red h4aor and .ve8,a as drought last season @az fafowe 5z 5tae# talz sear. and ID ra4 Has fa.leH for nearly three a58taz att.5t tHe eash as dry as taa cfaHeHs oa f.e #a=foa# fae earra teee t=e abe l8n ta8t I. ezz ceaeat normally for cotton. but the Iset af ra# ass set the cotton crop so lo8 hal estimates zre eissa of oHle 4 tffd tae usual efop Each day tGe ,uu zHues clear lH ci9uiles- sat and heats the ground t0 tae tempera taae of hol stove. Shoes crack and feel gel plrched and sore and the al= kali dust makes ones hair and beard as tough amt Uiry as the covering of old Bftnale Bsss's back The weath- er report each day is the same. Fair and continued warm only warm is rather Iadylike term as applied to the real condition Heat waves dance six feet above the earth and the oc casional breeze Is as hot as the breath of an oven Whulwinds start here and there. sucking up the dust in column a hundred ar two hun dred feet high Sometimes. too, there comes windstorm that sweeps the dry. powdery dust into and over everything, and one never realizes what grand and glorious receptacles for dirt are ears until one begins to clean up after windstorm.
 There Is an aviation tIeld here and airplanes go roaring over the drill fields eaeh morning and afternoon. The rockies, mostly country boys of Texas. are immensely interested in them. and when they should be giving attention to the rudiments of soldier ing ttey usually gaze skyward, whereat great malerietions instead of bombs, fall upon them IS inspirations from the second heutenants.
 The trip 10 Camp MaeArthur was new and lnterestlal to nae. Leasus Atlanta which Is a charming eity. We passed ia5o t5e aatlaa heIas aa tlI= peu,me forests af Aanaua then aH iato t#e v s-paess. .9t-4GzFs at- laut5t a8ua tHere=veee efe~sea#e -az. u5 Jl loolHs places where. She ef4mnea Jald us, eator, anu Wa1er moeea7.as iurAed. Soon we came into tbe eouH- ts of suGar=taue fields and tl5 sUamps where the Mormon farmers and Creeles live Both ale petuH esque people fben on into the flat lands of Texas, where the cotton fields and ranges. extending for miles elther side of the railroad were brok- en hy the taH towers of the oil wells | This part of Texas Is as flat as ta- hle and the air Is 80 dry chat distances ] to not seem great when one looks across country On the trip We stop ped for two hours each in Mobile. Ala, New Orleans, La. and Houston, Tex Crossed the Mississippi ahout l.I5 o'clock one morning. but l was sound asleep in the berth and even the jolttng of getting the tram on the ferry did not awaken me, so l did not see the father of waters
 Camp MacArtbur does not for a moment compare with either Devens ar tyorI0D Ne fiVp in tents and ,{uSt