Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
DANIEIs8N
.sI-.--I.ss.-'l'..-'1,,-..----,--1--ll'.,.- ,. '1 !

Five Great Southern Canssnanefts
 Visited By Rev. iahatius Kost, Of
 Dayviile--Gcvernment Has Asoers-
 plished Wonderfui Work, Father
 kost Stsfss-- -ssbin Morstsd Mil h.
 cerporated - cemmanGseFed Goal Gars To Be Keriaeed.
 Returned from "a visit to Eve great cant onInents in southern states, Rev. Ignati1s Kost, pastor of St. J0Seph'S church at Dayvilie, told an tnteresting story Friday of. his experiences at the great training camps. Nhere thousnssds of young men are being made ready to battle on land and sea for UAcjs Szfa. Primarily, Father Kost's visit had it's object the cheering up or the boys of his own parish who are at Camp i Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, by a visit from some one from their own home
 town but he went also az keen ob- server of camp arrangements Nl1d of
 camp activities and he has come taek | to Connecticut highly ehthCkiastte over 1 the wonderful things that have been accomplished by the government ia 1 making ready the great camps ef the south, and over the manner in which they are maintained and the men car l ed for.
 Those who sit at home and depend upon press reports as 1 basis for their l criticisms of the government should
 spend a little of their money on a | visit to the cantonnehts and see with | their own eyes what has been done and l what is being done" Father Kost said "The accomplishments are little less l than wonderful and from my own ob- servations feel that it is shafnefu that the government is being criticized
 as 1t sometimes is criticized. hy per sons who speak without knowledge el the facts. Tn the past I have had op. portunities to observe arran cement; and conditions in camps and barracks
 in great military states in Europe i and, I assure you, that this govern. ment, strange as the business of wal
 was to it, has, in comparison, don'
 wonderfully well.
 Camp Lee, lt Petersburgs Vs-, Wal the most beautiful camp that l saw I Many thousands of men are duafteret in this army city, which has troilel lines running down it's avenues and it
 every way is ideally established ant maintained
 II Camp Hancock, at Augusta, va. another cantonment with which Fatile1 II Kosti was much impressed.
 Fl At Camp Gordon, where boys ron
 the town of Ki,lingly are in training ! Father Kost was celebrarlt of one Q the six masses said on "a Sunda!
 morning. He was deeply impressed If with the. religious spirit of the mel throughout the camps. At Canl H Gordon he lstd a special oportunity |, meet Connecticut men, ard he tol, \ with very evident joy of his fifeetin. H with soldier boys from Kiilfngiy. Put nam, Moosup, Norwich, and many oth II CT towns and cities in other parts o the state. as well as from Webster H Physically and morally the soldier
 are splendid, Father Kost said. Goin,
 south he took along gifts to boys 0 Ii his parishs These gifts included mon ey, some of it from relatives of sol If diers, to be used in buying them saok
 es. He told of instances where til'
 boys had declined to take the money II saving that they had given up sinokin;
 since going into the seryics, Andini
 they were better in health without th' tobacco.
 N 'sFhe boys are also learning th' H great lessons of discipline and obe II dienee,'' Father Kost said, and he feel |l sure that the nation Is going to bene II fit great deal by tins fact for man years after the war is over. He foun, the soldier boys in splendid health an spirits and he has come home an en thusiast over the success that tho gov
 ernment is achieving in building u
 the great armies that destined to 5at