Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-06

All letters not to exceed $50 tn 200
words.
Dear Children: All of a sudden it
occurred to me that 1 hadn't seen
any children rolling hoops for ever,
and ever so long. 1 wonder if that
graceful, lovely pastime has gone
out of fashion. There is one thing
that has come in in full force and
that IS roller skating. In the small
suburb, where [ live, the sidewalks
swarm with skaters and it is as
much as your life or theirs is
! worth to try to pass. | guess I am
a coward, but if I had any really
own children know L would be too
afraid of broken arms, ETC., to al
low them skating. There [ hear
some young skater saying, "Isn't
Aunt Julia an old fogey?"
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
! Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins:
Here comes another soldier boy from
! Georgia to join your ranks, that is
providing some of you cousins will
vacate a seat for a few moments,
while I have my little chat out. Your
| letters have been very interesting to
me in the past, and many times have
started t. write and see if 1 would
| be one of the lucky number who
gets their letters printed, but some
thing would always happen and l
would nave to put it off.
Have any of you cousins had the
| pleasure of visiting Fort Benning?
If you haven't then you have missed
! something. This is the Infantry
| school and everything is taught here
that would be Of benefit to an officer
in time Of war, and also in time of
| peace. The reservation is the larg-
est military reservation in the world,
$4,000 acres of land; that is some
large place for school, don't you
think so? Not many people have at
tended a school that owned so much
land. We have ample room here for
| any kind of battle that may be
thought Of and, believe me, there are
battles most every day during the
school year. The term is nine
months. During that nine months
everybody is kept busy. After the
school term is over we have it pretty
| easy for the remaining three months
Of the year. Demonstrations are
pulled off frequently, at least two
each week, now what we call demon
strations are commonly known as
sham battles by civilians. There
is not very much "shanG' to these
demonstrations though, as the am
munition used is real live ammuni-
ton, such as would be used in
sure-enough battle. If you could only
| witness some of our demonstrations,
| especially some of them that we have
while out on maneuvers at night,
you would have some idea Of what
war is.
Just a few days ago there was a
review of the troops of this COM
mand. Major General Farnsworth,
| chief of infantry, came here on a
| visit and also on tour of inspection
and that was the reason for the big
review or parade as you might call
| it. The people OF Columbus, Ga,
were we'll represented as they have
learned that it is a very interesting
| sight to watch all of the implements
of war in motion here. The tanks,
| infantry, engineers, artillery, chem
| ical warfare service, signal corps
| and medical corps were all repre-
scented in the parade. The most in
| teresting part Of the parade was
| the tanks. I'm sure all of you would
have enjoyed seeing them go by,
especially the large ones.
All of you seem to describe your
selves and guess I'll do ~ditto'-
twenty-five years old, feet 71a
inches in height, weigh $50 pounds,
| have black hair, brown eyes and a
ruddy complexion.
I am a printer by trade and, be-
lieve me, I'm kept. busy. We have
a large print shop here and do all
the printing for the Fourth corps
area. There are about fifty men, on
duty with the shop.
Now for fear that if I take up too
much space I shall be barred from
admittance to your wonderful club
I shall close.
Assuring each and every one of
YOU an answer to your letter, am
a new cousin,
| CORP. PRESTON COLLINS,
Infantry School Detachment,
Fort Benning, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia: Should this de-
serve it, please print it. The things
of nature point to God" Haggard
said. az know that no man MADE
| the roses, that no man painted the
| sunset coloring on the evening
skies, and in the same way [ know
| that no man or set Of men pro
duced such book as the Bible. 1t
points to God as truly as the roses
and the heavens"
God has provided abundantly for
our needs, viewed as an animal,
man cannot frame wish for that
which has not been abundantly sup
piled.
For Him the seasons come and
go. Winter with it's treasure of ice
and snow; spring, with it's swelling
buds and beautiful flowers; summer,
with its fragrance and enchanting
prophecies, and autumn, with its
bursting gamers and crimson and
gold roll on in endless progression.
For man the ocean washes his
shores and the rivers murmer an
thems of peace, mountains life their
| snow crowned peaks into the blue
vaults above and grass carpets the
valley on which he walks.
All these things teach us that our
Creator is God Of nature. We are
| told in the last chapter of the
Bible that there will be no night
in that wonderful city of gold
where the faithful of all ages will
spend eternity No night of hate
of envy, of the loss of our loved
ones, of division, of death. Here
our hearts often bleed with disap-
pointment, and ache with irrepa
rable loss.
Here we often reproach ourselves
with failures, even when we do our
best. Here the breath of contagion
floats in the air and death blooms
in the sweetest flowers, but heaven
the place to which all the righteous
will go, no cry Of death will fall
upon our ears. No crepe warns us
| of house of mourning In am