The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-06-26
RACY LETTER FROM OVERSEAS.
Mai. j. V. Malcolm Writes Interest
ingly of His Experiences in
Europe.

his friend, Maj. j. V. Malcolm, who
has been in Europe since the begin
ming of the war:
Berlin, May 29th, 1919.
My Dear Friend, DR.. Joe Cabell Davis,
Probate Judge Of the Probate
Court of Dillon County, Champion
Bull Thrower of the U. S., Travel
Ter of some Note, Cuban Campaig-
ner, Haig and Haig dispenser,
Would be Pigeon Raiser, Husband
of a charming lady and wonderful
Cook, Boon Companion of Biff Be-
thea and Jim Carmichael, Ex-Bleas-
ite, present politics unknown,
Greetings:
l have thought of you often, old
scout, but have been working so hard
to make good in the work to which
l have been assigned to from time to
time in my wild fight for the Free
dom of the World and relief of suf-
fering humanity, I have about quit
writing Letters to any one except the
Madam, and very little to her at that.
You perhaps already know that
was transferred from the position of
Chief Accountant of the Red Cross at
Paris to that of Comptroller of the
Red Cross to Great Britain with
headquarters at London. / worked
there like old Harry for about eight
months. made good, so the public au-
ditors who went over my records have
said, and when this commission to
Germany was formed for the purpose
of giving aid to the poor Russian
prisoners here, I came with 1t as
Comptroller of Accounts with COM
mission as captain. A very short
while after arriving in Berlin, 1 was
made secretary of the Commission,
handling all personnel and later was
made general office manager and di-
rector of the Bureau of Transporta-
ton, all places not being big enough
for one man at the head of each.
Of course when got to be the whole
show like that, 1 had to fly the stripes
of a Major, but for your information,
there is only one other place higher
than mine in the Commission and l
assure you that have no designs
on that.
Now to get from the sublime to the
ridiculous, Doc, l am really working
hard, my time being divided between
the office here and the outside offlc-
.es scattered around over Germany
Get down your map and follow me
around a bit. ! have been to Stettin,
Madgeburg. Dresden, Chemnitz.
Zwickau Hof. Bayreuth, the home OF
Wagner, Nurnberg, Erlangen. Bam-
berg, Gera, Leipzig, Halle, Witten-
berg, the home of Luther, Dussel-
dorf. Coin, Coblenz, Mainz and .Weis-
baden. Most of the places are those
in which our outside offices are To-
Gated and the others are just towns
of historical interest which / visited
by combing a little pleasure with
business. l am going to Danzig next
week and from there to Palond to
look over the books and records OF
the Polish Commission located at
Warsaw. This trip was requested by
the Comptroller at Washington, ana
l am very happy over it, for l feel
that it is direct approval of the two
wears work that I have done for the
A. R. c. don't put much up against
a Commission in the Red Cross, Tor
most anybody can come over with a
big one tackled on, but when the big
gun over there says the webfoot from
the sands of Dillon County is o. X,
it makes my niggardly heart swell
with pride, for don't know OF any
others from our states who have been
able to climb very high in this or
ganiZation.
We have had quite little excite
mcnt from time to time in Berlin,
iStertin, Dresden, Madgeburg, and
Nurnberg since coming to Germany,
and I have gone to bed and walked
up quite often by the music or ma
chine guns, trench mortars and rifles,
knowing that it was a case of dog
eat dog and none of our precious boys
were biting the dust as result or
coming into contact with Boone
bullet. Everything is quiet now tho
and whatever demonstrations do
come up, they all look like stage work
put on 10 make some effect ol lhe
peace terms. would gladly lay down
my life any day, should such a sac
rifice on my part be necessary, bring
half million doughboys up here and
occupy this the proud Prussian part
of Germany The most wonderful
sight in the world to my mind would
be to see our own crack cavalry gal
Looping down the streets of Berlin, put
ting the fear of God in the hearts of
these kultured devils. have been
stared at so much Doc, l fear that /
am going mad some day and bite a
| few dozen of them. We are required
| to wear civilian clothes in the evening,
but I don't think that anything is
going to happen.
Give Miss We've Higgins, Jack
Watson, Bruce {Hargrove, Jim Sprunt
Muller, Gordon. Biff, A. B. Jordan
John c.. Verne, Larkin, John Sprunt,
Uncle Nick, Wick Mclean, Grip Hasel
den and all the balance of the boys
my best regards, and tell them that
! am coming back to Dillon some
day to renew old acQuaintnces if not
IN live