Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-09
CAMP CULLINGS.

Everybody knows the difference between
left and right by this time.
Bill Price, Company c, S15th Regiment,
received seventeen letters in. one mail, all
written in a, feminine hand There is
such thing as letter shower.
The fellows Of the 23d Engineers. who
went to Laurel to set up a camp all their
own will certainly drop in once in a
while to pay old Meade a visit.
With the American Library at camp
opep, hundreds of soldiers are taking adj
vantage Of the opportunity to go there
to read after duty. Books of every kind
and description are on the shelves, SO,
that those with the most peculiar tastes
are sure to be satisfied. s.
Retreat is something like. treat" ac-
cordng to the idea OF most soldiers, be-
cause mess soon follows
Since the government took over the
railroads of the country, the w. b. 4 A.,
which runs, up into the center 81 the camp,
has beer operating under schedule that
at feast recognizes the value OF time
Soldiers who have engagements in WASH
ingtOn or Baltimore now can have an idea
as t9 just when to leave camp in order to-
be on time I
Every day soldiers are -lesving .camp,
lsdischarged fog. being physically 'disqualit
Aed to continue EtAeir : military tdutie4'
Even though one may be Judged disQuaE
remain i'm camp weeks and sometimes
months before he receives his papers from
Washington. which officially allow him to
return nome. n ?.
1t seems that the loving wives. mothers
and sweethearts will not stay away, no
matter how bad the weather L.
Transfers now being made to com
plete the medical units occur from day
Ito. day. One fellow was ordered to be
an assistant to a dentist. He must
have a pull" was the comment of his
Fellows
| John Miller of Caisson Company No /,
munitfon train, got this telegram a
few days ago. Come home, it's boy"
HIS request for pass was o. KID
| Private Hamper of the Quartermas GER
Corps has discovered hidden messages
in code expressed in missed stitches IN
sweater. 1t is something of dot-and-
dash system. II the sweater comes all
apart then it means IT do not love YOU"
First Lieut.. Augustus F. Beach, who
has been assigned to the intelligence
Office to help the newspaper men to
avoid telling anything that would be
OF interest to the kaiser's agents, knows
| the game very well. He was in France
and other places abroad for newspapers
until he felt that he wanted to get in
the war game instead of standing by
and writing about II.
Bits of history crop out here at camp
every day. Why was Admiral Dewey
SO cool at the battle of Manila? The
answer is that Sailor" Kaufman now
plant, was an ice man on the flagship
\ of DeWey's feet.
letter was found the other day
which started off. my dear honey" and
ended with DO not worry honey I will
wait for you" Nobody claimed it, but
every soldier insisted that all the rest
had letter to that effect at least orce
a week. 1t seems to have been the let
ter suitable for any soldier who has a
girl back home, waiting. Dear honey"
sounds like sentimentality of the Vic
| torian era, but there is nothing essen
TALLY up-to-date about the letters that
arrive here.
Some of the men. who are here have
left automobiles back home for others
to enjoy Private Leroy Fronefield of
Caisson Company No. J., Ammunition
train, got word a few days ago that
his automobile had run amuck, and it
was up to him to please remit. Taking
part in the war to make the world safe
! for democracy seems to be a job enough
without having to worry about the - is-
behavior of an incorrigible automobile.
MANY are called but few are chosen
quote the biblical soldier.
MANY are cold, but few are frozen"
replied the optimistic guard. That is
the opinion that prevails at division
| headquarters in spite of the wild ru-
mors that come to camp in the form of
| letters and oral reports. Gen. Nichol-
son himself has heard it said that men
at Camp Meade were frozen on their
posts. He said that this would be very
bad news, if true. He also said it is
not true.
The colored soldiers are making won
derful inventions in the way of musical
instruments. The latest is thimbles on
dashboard. The player has every
finger nicely thimbled and while the
others are banging away on a Druid
hill avenue ukulele made with a single
string stretched over a cocoanut the
thimbler gives the real original touches
to the music. 1t has weird notes and
combinations not possible with any
thing less ingenious. Every colored
company has it's quartet and every
nightly rehearsals to develop novelties.
Life is one melodious surprise after an
other over near the Disney yards.
Capt Derby Crandall, one of the new
oHicerS iS a star athlete He was a