The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-05-02
Major Who Was "Over
There" Gives Out Incl
dents of Trench Life.
TIN CANS GIVE ALARM
Soldiers Around Training
Camp Fires Tell Many
"reminiscences.
Ry NORA COLE SKINNER.

II Just goes to show that when OPP
portunity knocks its proverbial
"once." you must grab It by the
horns and make tho most OF II.
Major Norman II. Howes did just
that.
He entered our regular army some
| Is years ago as an enlisted man, a
private, and when we stepped into
the European conflict he still served
in the ranks as "A first sergeant, But
he went to the officers training
camp at Brownsville, Texas, and
went across with our first men in
September. 1911 a second lieutenant
| in the 9th infantry, I'd division. He
| fought through the five great battles
| the Americans participated inst.
Mihiol scissors, Relleau Wood, Can
! tigny. and the Mcuse Argonne, oCCu-
pied Germany with what was left OF
| his original band. and returned 70
Camp Travis with them. a major.
The battalion he headed was one
of those in which every nan was
decorated by the French govern
ment with the Force GuerTe, in
gratitude for their long and priced
service in action, ana San Antonio is
now dotted with uniforms about the
| left shoulder OF which twines the
picturesque cord and appendages of
| a.
| BESIDES this, Major Howes has two
citations In writing, one by General
La Jeune, wears three silver stars
and two bronze ones, and was rec
| commended for the ID. 5. &,
| But II was hard to make the major
talk OF his experience over there.
We sat informally about in the sit 81
| ting loom OF the headquarters Off
GERS mess at Camp Travis, "A dozen
or so officers and some four or five
women. 1t was Sunday evening just
| after tea, "A time when one feels in
| Prospective and subdued, and sort OF
"Confiding like"
II had been a busy week OF gaiety.
| The officers dance AT Fort sam
! Houston is every Tuesday night. on
"A waXed cement floor in the open
air, where only the moon and stars
| illumine the hall" and an army
| band plays encore after encore to
| 'Dardanella." The Camp Travis
| dance is Friday night, in what was
| one OF the great recreation halls for
| the enlisted men. And there had
| been the formal dinner dance at the
Country club the night before, and
! crowded between these were shows.
concerts artists teas and dinners AT
| the hotels. We had sampled them
all. and there had been no time for
"reminiscences of the great war. Yet
that was what | was most keen 10
| hear before | turned my face back
toward Oklahoma, where, in the bus
tie OF new day, we so quickly for
! get.
Camp Travis is no longer the TEEN
| ing, Nirile military city that our
| Oklahoma boys remember. over its
entire eNpanse one notes the neat
ness and precision as OF yore--not q
rock bordering the flower beds the
men made is disturbed, and not a
shovelful OF debris could be found in
its miles of streets--but scores of
! buildings that once seethed with
khaki-clad humanity are now unoc-
! cupied, nailed up; the bees are not
swarming, the motive power is gone,
| the drive is off
However, II is far from deserted
: for. aside from the regular personnel
belonging to Camp Travis, the End
division, Major General James G..
Harbord, commander, is forming
there. and around division headquar-
, ters the salute is just as peppery and
heels click together just as correctly
as they did two summers ago. The
huge base hospital, where all the
| 9Oth division men and thousands OF
| others from Oklahoma and Texas re-