Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-01-31
WHAT EARL swopE IS DOING

formed by some Of our ShOshone boys.
said q boy leaning on crutches as
he stood waiting a whole day before
land was possible or the deck Of the
United Snates TRANSPORT Northern
Pacific: "rd give q hundred dollars
10 see land" said a blinded boy who
had groped his way out to stand be-
side the boy on crutches: I'D give 4
million dollars If I could see land. %
They we're just two Of the LOO
wounded men brought from. Brest
France, by THE Northern Pacific,
which arrived on Sunday night at
Pier 1, Hoboken. Monday morning
the big shadowy pier. echoed to the
rumble of Red Cross arnbulances. as
the wounded men were transferred
from the vessel TO Ellis island. where
they were TO be assorted according
r. Injuries. and sent to various hos
pita's throughout the country.
The Northern Pacific is not hos
pi+alshi0. In its hospital there is
rom for only fifty men, and il has
in its personnel only three physicians
and seventeen hospital corps men. SO
VIXEN LOO wounded fighters who had
seen service in Verdun, at Chateau
TNierrv, st. Mihiel, and in Argoanel
Forrest. were sent back as it's pas
sengers. the regular bunking space
Of the transport ship was filled with
bows in sIiugs and splints and band /
ages and casts and the Northern Pa
cofc. camcufaged like a zebra gone
mad. in bright blue and white and
black zi2-z9e stripes, had a strange
trim home, that fifth its surgical
eases, IT'S medical cases, its seventy /
mile gales. its pitching seas. and its
seasicl1 men.
S~ilors Play Nurse
The sailors turned to on that trip
and did what they could to play
men up and down stairs, onto the
dec''s for airings. and back into their
bnnl's when the weather became too
rough.
we lust figured" one Of them said.
That those fellows had had the worst
of it over there. and that it was up
to MS TO do what we could for them.
even if it wasn't in the regular line
of our work. now that we had them
TO bring home"
And there was enough for those
sailor nurses TO do. for the weather
vT@s 81 rough that, as DR.. r. G. Davis,
Heutenant commander. Medical Corps.
geons, DR.. Waldo Richardson and Dr.
John C. euddock both lieutenants in
tie Medical Corps, II. 6. N, described
il. while we were dressing wounds
We needed a couple Of men to hold
the patients and couple to hold the
doctor. so that the whole combination
wouldn't be pitched against the wall
in bean" On one day the weather
was SO roHsh that all wounded men
were ordered to stay in their hunks
and 10 dressing of wounds could be
done until the sea subsided.
Feeding Problem
The feeding OF over 200 "arm
patients" alone in 0 sea of the kind I
hat nersisted in buffeting the North '
arn P'cific became a problem. There 2
we're fractured arms and amputations Il
md injured hands in this group. and u
here was one man who was a double
irrn case" That meant that both arms
we're in plaster casts end that the
iorh'e arm case was entirely helpless.
When one saws that the double arm
,ase was helpless. however. one is J..
'ecI7oning without First Mate Leslie q
e Valley. He made the double arm Z
ase his particular charge from the y
irst. The ship surgeons say that :
hey don't ouite know what AIillesoa. W
he man with the useless arms. would p
ave done without lie Valley. He con- r'
titpted himself new pair OF arms Z
or the wounded man. He fed him IT
nth a solieitude that was almost s'
lotherly He brought the wounded
ian's pine. filled it. and lit it. and sl
oolS it awav again; he washed the "
ace Of his charge and champOoed him, .
nd shaved him. el
When il was NIillesoa's turn to have q
is arms dressed, the physicians and q
cspital corps men stepned aside and -
t lie Valley DO the job. And lie CO
alley was very proud Of his patient ID
Tnleson. like many OF the other men, eN
I'd lost most of his clothing during ~
le course of his Dilgrimages from one OF
cspital to another. So he was n
ressed in the duh blue paiaTpas fur
shed by the Red Cross. aid about ar
IS neck there was JOYOUS crimson mi
sclytie Ie Valley kent him neat and nc
eli shaven lie Valley himself - 50
the valet@ rs they called him IN OF
NJ is bcvish. stockg char. who do
ol5s sixteen. and is twenty Il vas ja
who said that. seeing that the fo'
hers had had their hard time nj ihe is
ont. he figured that IL was ai-out
me for the ships crew to be doing Jo
melting to help make thi2gs easier. ma
r them on the way home. frc
A Frightened Ssiior sp'
Earl Swope. pharmacists mate tai
st class: Jesse Alexander. riernGl- WI
SITS mate. second class: r. J. Iiln ut
efman. chief pharmacists mattel Ne
ere others who. according to The ID
ip's surgeons. did more thaa they Sc
a to do for the wounded boys. sat c
gope and Alexander chucllled when
ey told of the trip home. The most ful
liable thing. according to them. was Cr
2 friShteaed sailor who had the wa
nix below theirs. con the night Of ticl
2 big gale they related With rel yoi
'he was so scared that he got up hes
d put on life preserver and went wa
ck to. bed. Then he kept us awake ors
: rest OF the night praying out Re-
ID All he asked he told the Lord. hel
$ that some little piece of the ship has
uid be afloat in the morning. and dur
It he'd be on that piece" wa,
rhe ship was afloat in the morn
- all of it, and it wasn't very long =