The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-06

army lore.
ON those first Camp Sinclair days
n CnrtOOnist would have shouted
with glee had he been commissioned
10 dwell In our midst and make
clricnturcs from NE. striped
shirts, blazing hosiery, scrambled
head gear, with hero and th"re
portion Of faded khaki Uniform
bizarre assortment Tho pallOr OF
tho barber shop held forth beside
tho sunburn and tan OF oil-fiold ana
farm. The tool dresser toilcd beside
tho soda jerker. II ever motley
crew came together. here certainly
was one.
From first 10 last OF the war. am
hulanCe driving has attracted n big
quota Of college men. and II WAS but
natural that TulAa's school Henry
Kendall college -- should furnish
representative men to our company,
There were Grove. Jones Young.
Ammons Rider. ShOrncy, Winslow.
Gutenberg. wallace, Chathcld, Bob
Ice. Phppah among them the
flower OF every Kendall student
activity, including a big portion or
her champion football team, Al
most every other educational inTl-
tuition In tho state had representa-
IlbI. flDAhbll llfAllk'N ~ iF'''''H y 49,
contributed richards. Bolts and
Manly.
August tho fifth was on sun
day, and all day long the embryo
toldiers struggled in escorted for
the most part by curious relatives
and friends who were eager for "A
glimpse OF military life, Many OF
the boys, too, had been called out
weoka before, and had made them
selves at home the bcst they could.
These men had the fortune TO en-
dure the first hardships the long
waiting, half-cl half-fed. and
haH -hhcltored
The work OF tho first week was
blur To the most OF W. From
tho whirt, tho, several growing DIS
remain IN our memories. lh'r'
were the three guardsmen, stalking
always about the camp. with dang
INK guns strapped to their thlEhs.
| shalt not name them. for any ol
the fellows can tell you. There was
the daily scramble for passes, the
novelty of fatigue and X y. duty
the rudiments OF foot drill there
wAs the long haired photographer
Tor the "muRging' process ana the
beginning OF our raining in our wal
business, the handling OF litters ana
lectures on first aid and physiologN'
who OF us will forget the rock
there was 10 be broken up ana
nluced whore needed? Who Will for
get the endless rubbish heaps. mo
dltChes that must be aug, ne nalh-
houses that must be built. or the
daily clean n-up? There were all t"p
many OF US with willing hearts but
tender hands. and we nursod phsters
for days
II must have been about this time
when we first started curslhE INV
army. This wasn't the klhu oi
game we had Intended playing
There wns something romantic, pos
sibly. about drtv'"r nm ambulance
through shot anG shell and receiv-
ing glorious wounds IN the strugIie
hut who In ell wanted To break ms
hack constantly trying To clean up
clean up wherever he might be- WIN
no moro glorious promise thah thu
possibility OF a discharge In the drhu
future sometime. from house hlalus
knee! .,..,,t,
In the light OF subsequent events
,han.h ye have cause to thank our
officers for this same distaste'ui
training 1t was working ulsolPn"o
into our independent bones HOW, i9t
tn.tance would our scrgeants have
hcen ahie to make us, had We theh
been ma green as at first, clean np
the town OF Vaucouleurs, where we
nrst were cast to stay IN France
or Loro- NJ Montzcy or any olhet v.
rhe neglected French oommuhes .'n'
hadn't had sanitary attention since
l9tt7 .,
who will forget the day We did
'litters round and round the rae.
track" That truly was lost %,
stamina, and the boys VINO etaS'u
with Il that day, stayed win
throughout the war. There was
"shonk" Uilkerson, for instance, fat
and rabby. lie stayed with IL thcn,
and who shall say that he wasn't suu
staying with II on that night year
later up the woods from 81. M!hle''
Those were the molding days, thoush
we thcn dldn't think OF 1t in thNl
Light. SThe constant driN. the WHY
schemes for getting first in mess lihe'
all tended 10 make pals OF 'he
whole gang, and also TO wise up In
the ways ot the solder
For good quality and quantity et
entcrtaimmcn ont we were Indebted
both to the local Y NJ. 9. a, ana
To our many Tulsa friends, Among
these most noteworthy, from thnt
time throughout tho war, was Mrs,
IC, II. IAhman and Rotary club, 10
whom we have been obliged, times
without number. for substantial IA
vors. and for kindly thoughttulness.
| But maybe / have dwelt too long
on our antics at camp sinclair, ZEN
| hans most OF YOU VIII have remem-
bered moro what we did IN our rookie
DAYS Than even | can recall VINO nave
had 30 much to bring BACK from inc
eventful days later on.
So. will pass TO the day, or rather
| the evening. two weeks later, when
| the good news was read, off TO MS
We were told to say our good -byes
and TO be ready TO take train the
| following morning We were going
10 Fort Sill to receive our equipment
and TO be mustered into the federal
service.
Picture the chngrin OF our friends
the engineers company They had
received the prior orders to pack
and to. be ready to move at a mo-
ments notice. but our actual moving
orders came first. II was more than
year thereafter when we saw them
next It was In the eastern edge Of
Idhe Argonne forest They had Just
had their initial baptism OF fire. We
we're buying our second foreign -sery-
Ice cheyrons, and had been through