The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-28

i poii AIMS DullulngS. EVERY
lhlngs is well appointed, everything
is laid out with military just.so-ness.
There are the chlorinated water
bags protecting the users against
possible infections from polluted
sources of supply. There is the mess
shack, fitted up with all the neces.
sary contrivances for turning the am.
pie American ration into palatable
food. And there, under the shade Of
the barracks buildings, are the pris-
oners themselves, rolling their ciga-
rettes, for they get tobacco ration
from their captors of three sacks of
makin's per man per week.
Regular Working Day
The varied types of German you
see in the enclosure are not always
engaged in rolling their own, now.
ever. To live and keep fit, they must
work; and work they do for nine
hours a day, Sundays excepted, which
is the average normal time put in by
the working soldier in the s. o. s..
these days. According to their
strength, according to their ability,
they work, some on road repairing
and on railroad construction, more
lat their own particular trades, such
las cobbling, tailoring. gardening,
Icooking-at any and all of the trades
that come in handy about a big base
camp.
In connection with the cooking, It
may be said that all the food eaten
by the prisoners is dished up by their
own cooks, so that there may be no
question of the Army ration's not
being handled in way to appease
the German appetite.
For each working day they put in,
the prisoners are entitled to a GER
tain amount of pay, the exact sum
not yet being decided on. Arrange
ments have been made to have this
given to them in canteen slips, ex-
Changeable for goods at their own
canteen only In addition to the can
teen privilege, arrangements have
been made to have them visited by
chaplain Of the Lutheran persua-
sion, the creed of the majority OF
them, and to have a mass said every
Sunday In their enclosure for those
of them who are Catholics,
Each prisoner is allowed to write
two letters a week, subject, of course.
to the necessarily rigid censorship.
His bathing privileges and toilet facil-
tiles are the same as those of the
Americans.
No Eagle Buttons
If he lost a good portion of his
clothes in the fighting that led up to
his being led rearward into the Am
erican lines. he is fitted out anew in
cast off American o. D., dyed a
greenish hue and with its eagle in.
sigma buttons replaced by plain
black ones. Whatever his clothes,
they are stenciled with a small "P,
w" right over the heart and another
similar device on the trousers.
When the first batch of 450-450
constituting a prisoner company, as
at present organized-came into
certain American camp, the shaving
problem doomed up as the most acute.
All that could be wheedled out of the
post quartermaster was a pair OF
safety razors. for he didn't have any
more on hand, To bridge the gap,
the second lieutenant in charge of
the company loaned the Germans
barber straightedged razor; and
the barber went at his job with typ
ical Teutonic thoroughness.
. Dav in. day out she worked, for
half a week. The lieutenant, who
had exchanged ore of the razor's
native heaths-to wit Tennessee
for the flat lands of France, dropped
nj m him to see how the debearding
process was coming,
aJa Her Oberst," the barber re-
rHed to his question. (The prison
srs Invariably confuse our shavetails
,,itb colonies, much to the formers
ao,irbn aAllretty | hat RACED tive
bnn3art and dwendy of DEM" And
10 had the rest of them in shape for
tbo most clm~1ander's Sunday morn