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

| before. have found the practise OF its
teaching to tile enlisted men that /
come III contact with has made me
more liked and respected by them
which is worth more to me than any
thing | know OF lhaye not and been
associated with few MasonS, i'll the
A. E. +. 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
Taught them in the beginning and il
ever there is time when you live
Up to them. it a "Over here will
never forget the night OF Sept 20, 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 al!
muddy. We were with in shell range
II the front, And all waiting to be sent
up. had just returned with 30 trucks
but waiting to go back we were seat
ed around little fire made OF wood
torn from the building when all Of
a sudden it dOwned upon some
)ne that we were all Masons-so be
gan to talk, and as it were | was the
lnly southern man in the bunch, one
rom Kansas and two from Mo-
And before we finished we had gone
Trough all the first three degrees
word for word and from that night on
I have been better man in many
| ways. Extra love those lessons driven
nome to You by the hum of Fretz's
shell to something that we Miss at
home, and | believe they will 60 deep
ar that way then any other. As | 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
ing the talking to me and be has done
! lots OF good to the younger sci
| around him. He gave us a talk about
once week just as either one OF you
would or my father. have learned to
love him nearly as a father.
/ Well, they say the is over and
Il don't care one bit, would like to put
ny foot in the dear old U. S. 4. fel
low never knows what a good coun
i -ry he lives in until he leaves it, !
don't know just what these people will
do over here now, war is the only oc
| 1unatinO. +ha,, boua o,1l ,,,o 4oaI- A.,
AWAY from them. When the war was
going in Block behind the lines one
never would know that there was 6
war. The men came from the trenches
cleaned up and put on their bes
clothes and went about town. Wher
leave was up they would beat it baci
and the same thing happened ever,
day.
Il But it was showing on the womer
'olks. They are the ones to bear the
BURDENS all the time, any way, the
Older has a good time, but his wife
mother and sister are the ones to suf
fer.
4 This little town St Mihiel is one Of
The towns the Huns held so long, ant
The people are just now co ming bach
when we came in here about Nov. It'll
there were only about eight families
N the whole town, but now there are
IA great many.
But the town is all torn up, no glass
eft in the windows at all, and very
ew whole building in the town, all
you have to da when you enter a town
ike this is to find a good room some
where if you can, go see the mayor
and get the number recorded and it
l'ls yours as long as you stay. This Gov.
l'ernment pays the rent. nice don't Won
thinks,
When the people left they left
| everything and tho Amor;oono a,o,,