The Springdale news., 1918-08-23

d CT, Harvey Joyce, who is attending an officers school at Camp Gordon, Ga. and gives The News permission to print parts of the letter of interest to Harvey's many friends, which are as follows;
 Dear Stella: Your welcome letter received this afternoon, which l was glad to get as 1 thought you had sure broken your arm or something. Well, I sure am some tired boy tonight. and have to go over and study until nine or ten o'clock. We have been on one of those hikes this afternoon. Oh hot; you do not have any hot weather at home. You should be here.
 A lot of people do not know what a hike is. I did not when l came here, but sure do now as we have two Of them each week We start out of here the first thing after noon, 1 p. m. We have to take 130 steps per minute and they have to be 30 inch steps. too. We march for 50 minutes and then we get to rest 10 minutes. All the water we get IS one mouth full every 50 minutes. We always get back at 4:30 p. m. so you can see why l eat everything they put before us, and of course Ve have ot packs q our gun, too. There was lot of the boys who dropped out this afternoon, and of course they will get kicked out of here, and a lot of the boys always come in singing. l can say that 1 felt that good today, but as soon as we get back to camp everyone makes a rush for the shower bath, and believe me it sure does help you to feel good.
 am going to do my best to get by here if there IS any chance at all. l know I can stand as much as anyone else can. Now this is just one little thing we have to do: we have two hours drilling every day, one hour bay onet drill Now this is another thing Everything in bayonet drill is done with double time. We are on the run all the time.
 We have bayonet instructions under two British captains. The one I am under has 5S Germans to his credit with bayonet. He sure can tell you some awful things about this war. In the town in which he came from all of his brothers and all of his people have been killed He asks us questions like this: What is the bayonet for?" An swer: ''To kill" What do you clean it with ?" Blood
 Everything here is with pep" and believe me you sure have got to be awake all the time. The rest of the time we have school And every night we have to study until nine o'clock. We get off at Saturday noon until Sunday evening sure have got some tan as we go without hat and shirts at bayonet drill
 l sure am going to be some changed when l get out of the army l would not take anything for what l have got since I've been in 1t.
 Another thing, We have to keep clean We have on anything that is dirty we get "skin" Of course you do not know what q skin is At a training camp when you get so many skins you are shipped out. have to shave every day. II We eshaye even a button on cur shirts undone we get a skin.
 We sure are taught discipline here am getting training here that I could not get at any school at all.
 l am awful busy this week as l am acting captain have charge of the whole company and have to drill them all. There are 256 men in my com pany We all get chance to act as captain and lieutenant to see how we can handle the men. l am doing just fine with it so far A iot better than l thought ] would, as you sure do feel funny when you get up before 256 men and begin to tell them what to do Friday l have to take the company on seven mile nike and only have two hours to do t in don't mind as l have been on them before.
 There is company here that has only been here three months and they got orders to commission the men to- day. l sure hope that they cut ours a month early
 Write when you have time I have to study.
 With love,
 Harvey
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