The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-01-02

before. | have found the practise of its
teaching to the enlisted men that l
come in contact with has made me
mqe aiked and respected by them
which is worth more to me than any
thing 7 know of lhave not and been
associated with few Masons, i'll the
A. L. +. that have the real stuff in
them and they are fine lot of men
in fact take them up one side and
down the. other they are the best !
nave seen. They all have the lesson
.aught them in the beginning and il
ever there is time when you live
up to them, it over here will
neyer forget the night Of Sept So 1918
n the Argonne Front, in little shell
torn room four officers including
myself, one OF them a doctor. The
night was bad one as nearly all the
days and nights are, rainy and all
muddy We were with in shell range
If the front, And all waiting TO be sent
Up. had just returned with 80 trucks
but waiting to go back we were seat
ed around a little fire made Of wood
torn from the building when all OF
a sudden it dOwned upon some
one that we were all Masons-so be
gan to talk, and as it were was the
>nly southern man in the bunch, one
rom Kansas and two from Mo.
And before we finished we had gone
through all the first three degrees
word for word and from that night on
have been better man in many
ways. Extra love those lessons driven
nome to you by the hum OF Fret2's
shell TO something that we Miss at
home, and believe they will 60 deep,
sr that way then any other. AS l have
said before / have met some fine Ma
sons over here but a captain from
Kansas. He is the finest old man !
have ever seen in all my life a big
horse and mule dealer, but we have
lad some good old time talks, he do
ne the talking to me and be has done
:. lots OF good to the younger sci
around him. He gave us talk about
once a week just as either one Of you
would or my father. have learned tc
| love him nearly as father
Well, they:-say the war is over and
don't care one bit, would like to pui
| my foot in the dear old U. S. 4. fel
low never knows what2a good ecoun
Try he lives in until he leaves bit,
don't know just what these people will
do over here now, war is the only oc
.9upation they have and we took tina
away from them. When the war was
going in Block behind the lines 4on'
never would know that there, was ;
war The men came from the trenches
cleaned up and put on their bes
clothes and went about town. Whel
leave was up they would beatit bacl
and the same thing happened ever,
day.
But it was showing on the womel
4olks. They are the ones to bear thu
burdens all the time, any way, til,
ioldier has good time, but his wife
mother, and sister are the ones to sui
fer.
This little town St Mihiel is one O
The towns the Huns held so long, AM
-..s.-. s.---- q
the people are just now co ming -baeI
when we came in here about Nov. I'll
there were only about eight familie,
IN the whole town, but now there ar,
a great many.
/ But the town is all torn up, no glas!
| eft in the windows at all. and very
ew whole building in the town, al
you have to da when you enter tow
Ike this is to- find a good room some
where if you can, go see the mayor
ana get the number recorded and i
IS yours as long as you stay. This Gov
eminent pays the rent nice don't yor
thinks.
When the people left they left
everything and the Americans drove