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PRES. WILSON PROCLAIMS THE RIO GRANDE RATTLER NOV. 30 AS DAY OF THANKS -;- PERSONAL

President Woodrow Wilson, on Nov The Governor and Mrs. Whitman-left Published Weekly at Odd Places in Texas. 17, formerly designated by proclama By the for the North Thursday afternoon af• The Subaltern tlon Thuraay, Nov. 30, as Thanksgiv ter an anto ride through the Division New York Division, ing day. The President's proclama Camps and a personal visit to the hos• with the authority of fcion follows; pital where the Governor talked to a General John F. O'Ryan "It has long been the custom of our lot of the patients from the Empire Among ourselves we used to call him Pot I Harry H Bandholtz people to turn in the fruitful autumn State. Not nasty-like, but only just in fun; Chief of Staff of the year in praise and thanksgiving We'd snicker when bis yellow curls got wet to Almighty God for his many bless Colonel James M. Andrews has And make believe*-we saw the color run. jjjgs and mercies to us and to the na ceived the resignation of Letters and news items from the camps along the Border are solicited tion. John A. Goetz of Schenectady. He was He was so pink and white, so trig and trim, Advertising Bates "The year that has elapsed since we in command of the machine gun com- So awful young, he was, to hold command Furnished on request* 'ast observed our day of Thanksgivin_g pany of the Second Regiment during O'er us Welsh miners—Why, the likes of him Subscription Bates has been rich in blessings to us as a* the service on the Mexican Border. Each man of us could throttle with a hand! One year $2,00 people, but the whole face of the world Single Copy 05 has been darkened by war. In the J. E. Bayles, M. C, U. S. A. Post Office Address, McAllen, Texas. midst of our peace and happiness our and Lieutenant R. R. Molyneux , aide Fresh from the schools, he was, and full of pride thoughts dwell with painful disquiet to O'Ryan, went on a In "England's warriors" as he called our show! upon the struggles and sufferings of "forced hunting trip" this week to Say! "Rule Britannia" lengthened out his stride M^ifC^ff Editor the nations at war and of the people provide ".game'' for the Governor's The best old anthem set him all a-glowt Major Franklin W. Ward, Asst. Chief of Staff upon whom war has brought disaster camp dinner. They returned with without choice or possibility of escape twenty-six quail and forty white-wing• Well, one day Morgan got his bit and fell, on their part. We cannot think of our ed Mexican doves, besides a small col• With German shell-bursts jetting all about, Major Fred M. Waterbury, pi v. Ord. Editor own happiness without thinking of lection of wild ducks, rabbits, etc., as And, though their fire made all the place a hell, their pitiful distress. Howard Irving Young, Co. B., 7th Asst. Editor a forenoon's hunt. Some hunters! Our cub subaltern ran to pull him out. "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil• Lieut,. Samuel J. Fisher, 12th Infantry Asst. Editor son, President of the United States of Major Edward Olmstead, Assistant America, do appoint Thursday, the We let him go—I say it to our shame !— Private Donald Emery, 3rd Ambulance Co. Art Editor. Chief of Staff, spent the week-end .at Alone he went through all that roaring din, thirtieth of November, as a day of na• San Antonio, where he was joined by And tugged and pulled—Oh, he was game as game! Lieutenant Gordon Grant, 7th Infantry Special Artist tional thanksgiving and prayer and Mrs. Olmstead, who has come to the Till, by the Lord, he brought old Morgan in! urge and advise the people to resort Border for a visit. Cap.t. A. L. Howe, Signal Corps Associate Editor to their several places, of worship on Hat Lieut. Percy E. Barbour, Corps of Engineers Associate Editor that day, to render thanks to Almighty Captain Guy Bates of the Engineers Then he went down, a little crumpled heap, God for the blessings of peace and un• has been detailed as Acting Engineer But in his eyes there burned a somber bliss. First Lieut. Wheeler C. Case, Aid, 3rd Brigade Associate Editor broken prosperity which he has be• Lieutenant James L. Baker, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Associate Editor. at Division Headquarters to succeed He spoke but once—like he was off to sleep— stowed upon our beloved country in Captain Daly, who has returned to the "Perhaps the mater'11 get the cross for this." Privv Edward Streeter, 1st Associate Editor such unstinted measure. command of E Company. Private A. F. Jenks, Jr., A, Squadron A, Associate Editor, '' And I also urge and suggest' our By. O. A. O. Childs In New York Times. Manoel F. Behar, 12th Infantry Associate Editor duty, in this our day of peace and Captain Hugo F. Jaeckel, Jr., of the Corp. Joseph T. McMahon, 7th Infantry Associate Editor abundance, to think in deep sympathy Quartermaster Corps, N. Y. Division, of the stricken peoples of the world up• who returned home the first of Septem• on whom the curse and terror of war ber, sent a box of especially good pal• has so pitilessly fallen and to con- Ootpl. Fred B. Barton, 1st Cavalry Business Manager ate ticklers to the members of the tribue out of our abundant means to Moonlight Club at Division Headquar Private Stuart J. Saks, Troop D, 1st Cavalry Acting Business Manager the relief of their sufferings. ters. "Thanks, Jake.'" Lieut. Col. H. S. Sternberger, Div. Q. M. Circulation Manager '' Our people could in no better way The Incinerator show their real attitude towards the present struggle of the nations than Captain E. H. Janes, one of the ex• by contributing out of their abundance pert rifle shots of New York State, Ring out, ye wild bells. Ring out, weto pay those dues now say, and blow, oh ye trumpets, blow WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, i916 to the relief of the suffering which has been detailed to take charge of the Camp very, excited. Didn't talk so war has brought in its train. target practice of the 12th Infantry early and blow late for now there has much before, even about election, "In Witness Whereof, I have here• at Penitas and Sam Fordyce. Cap• come unto you a blissful harmony and somebody said we weren't going back unto set my hand and caused the seal tain Janes commands Company I, 12th in our ears sweet music sounds. And to N. Y. after all. Doctor fixed him of the United States to be affixed. Infantry. the beating of many drums and the up afterward. Tore up a lot of old THE WISDOM OF G. O. NO. 7. "Done at the City of Washington, shrieks of the flutes. "Curfew Shall letters and packed the rest in my box. Not Ring Next Week." this 17th day of November, in the Major George Chandler, of Didn't eat any- dinner. No one both• j The practical unanimity with which the of the N. Y. year of our Lord, 1916, and of the in• the 1st Brigade, has completed the ered about it anyway. Big celebra• dependence of the United States the course of field firing for all the rifle Very soon the Texas turkeys will tion at tatoo. Colonel made a speech, Division have responded to the prohibitions contained in G. O. No. 7, 141st. rrying units of the 6th Division at have a great deal to say about Border everyone cheered and Joe hollered indicates their appreciation of the desirability of such restraint, under "WOODROW WILSON. La Gloria. It has been a moBt success• atrocities. And so will the mess "Harry, let's celebrate." Colonel the conditions which exist »*along the Border and which affect the "By the President, Robert Lansing, ful course of instruction and Major Sergeants who buy the turkeys—And looked wise and said, "Remember, health and morale of soldiers stationed there in large bodies. Secretary of State.'1 Chandler, assisted by Lieut. Barbour, the guardsmen who eat the turkeys. Taps is Taps. You are still soldiers." of the Engineers, has given New York Had almost* forgotten it. But if any direct evjiden.ee were needed of the wisdom of the But somebody must be thankful for We all lay awake late, talking about NEW JERSEY MEN SERVING Guardsmen their first real taste of regulation, surely it has been furnished by the regrettable deaths of combat fire. something. The President so proclaims what we were going to do when we two soldiers one of the Infantry and the other of the Field Artillery, IN NEW YORK DIVISION and urges every one to repair to his got back. I didn't talk much. Was which occurred during the past few days. place of worship. j wondering if Jim had signed up Elsie Although the several New Jersey Mrs. Frederick Reynolds, wife of I and Fay for all season, too. Joe said The soldier of the infantry violated the premises of G. O. 7. units of the National Guard which were Lieut. Col. Reynolds of the Medical We believe in following out orders. he would have gotten married when He became intoxicated. We do not know whether mescal was includ• on duty at the Border long since have Corps, U. S. A., who has been visiting At least, we do tonight. j be reached New York, only his girl ed, but his later physical activities would indicate it. He became a few weeks in McAllen has gone to How about the Little Church Aronnd ran off with an actor last week, and returned home, not all the New Jerse San Antonio for the winter. Colonel the Corner f sent him a picture postal from Little more or less violent, was returned to camp and the following morning boys who did service along the Mexiea Reynolds is Medical Inspector of the Falls. Must have been some actor. dropped dead. . line have come back and there are still Brownsville District, and spends some To think that California was never Harry said he had a lot of drinking' The soldier of the Field Artillery violated G. O. 7, and was a number doing police duty with reg of his time at the 6th Division Head• mentioned in the proclamation. to do when he got back, he had lost shot and killed by a soldier of the Military Police. That is what this quarters. Does Mr. Wilcox concede. Thanksgiv• so much time. Nearly everybody incuts from other States. Among these ing Day? agreed but Irv said, "Shut up and go case amounts to. By; this is meant that if he had not violated the are six Elisabeth men connected with to sleep. You aren't back yet." and regulation referred to, he would be alive today. But he violated the | the New York National Guard at Captain Edward M. Dillon, 69th N. What happens to the Seventh Regi• everyone dida but somebody is always order. He drank intoxicating liquor. With the stimulation result• Brownsville. Y. Infantry, N. G., U. S., has been de• ment turkeys? Perhaps ' they are as taking the joy out of life. ing from one drink he took another. Then followed with deadly tailed as assistant to the Chief of Mil• thankful as the Grayjackets that the Major Edward Olmstead, of 700 itary Police. formal introduction was never con• ' Saturday: Inspection today, but no• logic—the usual sequence of events, the additional drinks, the blunt• North Broad Street, one of the Eli summated. body swore—much. Everyone worry• ing of discernment, the state of recklessness and bravado, tfie desire beth squad, is a high officer in the ing more about their last winter .suits Lt. Col. Henry -A. Shaw of the Medi• than whether, their bayonet was clean, and determination to fight, to make trouble, the appearance of the New York Division, being assistant It seemed to be a toss-up' between chief of staff and others are as fol cal Corps, U. S. A., instructor of Hy• 1 or their gun polished. Bayonets would Texas turkeys and Broadway chickens. policeman, the resistance to arrest in which-the pistol was drawn, and lows: giene at West Point Military Academy, be useful in spading a garden or hang• the shooting by the policeman in self defense. has been the guest of Lt. Col. Terri- You know who wins. ing on the wall like Jim and tbe other A tragic object lesson of the evils of liquor. A regrettable oc• Private W. Oliver Dunlap, of 678 berry at Division Headquarters a Piattsburg graduates do. Suppose North Broad Street, with Troop F, 1st couple of days the past week. Who's pollyannic now? they put them there so they can reach currence portraying in vivid colors the necessity for obedience, abso• New York Cavalryj First Lieut. N. them quickly after the declaration of lute and unquestioned, in the military service. JTilIyer Egleston, of 707 North Broad We wonder if they are still wearing war. Wonder if that old waiter is still Soldiers, "hive" the lesson! The rules and regulations gov• Street, Squadron A, New York Cavalry The Misses Young of Brownsville them as short as they used to. Is that at the Majestic. Have been wondering erning your conduct are made by those who labor mightily and dis• and Priyate Philip T. Boone, of 515 and party of guests attended the dance a lot about that hotel since yesterday. Cherry Street; Private Alfred De F. at Division Headquarters last week. Everybody looking forward to a Turk• interestedly for your welfare. Regulations which at times seem need• Keys, formerly of 623 North Broad Then McAllen during a "norther ish bath and getting up mornings at 10 less and in unnecessary restraint Of liberties will be found to be based Street, all with Company F. 1st New is no place for the latest modes. o 'clock. x York Infantry. Mrs. 'John F. O'Ryan and daughter, on careful study, and judgment based upon knowledge and experience. Got a short letter from Elsie! She The Elizabeth men have done full Miss Dorothy O'Ryan left for their Just when inspiration fires us and we duty since June, when the National New York City home Monday after said, "Oh, what do you think, Dear commence the creation of a non-skid Jim has a bugle and he can play all Guard first was ordered to the Border. enjoying a month on the Texas Border. paragraph concerning politics and poli• General O'Ryan and Lieut. McCann, the calls most beautifully. You, must THE DEPARTURE OF THE SEVENTH They have been making the long hikes, cies, the Incinerator thermostat clicks hear him when you get back. I know going through the endless drilling and Aide, accompanied them as far as Har- its warning, and we -cease inditing the lingon, the trip being made in the Gen• you will enjoy it. It sounds so stirring The Seventh Infantry leave for New York today—that is training, performing the difficult and indictment. the way he plays it. Makes you want tiring work of clearing cactus and mes- eral's auto. Their presence has added to start right in and fight." Wouldn't unless the returns are modified over night as they were on a recent quite from the camp sites, digging greatly to the social life in the Magic However, there will be no use for be surprised if it had that effect on occasion. drainage ditches, building camp shacks Valley and they will be missed at Head• the thermostat next week, unless the me. If the regiment does leave, its departure will occur at a time and all the other routine duty connect• quarters. fountain-pen of our successor is filled when the atmosphere is charged.with rumors prophesying events of ed with camp life. with gasoline and the fuel he carries Well, I guess I've written all the Tbe drilling has included rifle prac• with him is highly inflammable. diary I'm going to. When you're in importance in their relation to probable military activities. The Rat• tice, maneuvers, patrol and outpost ALONG THE RIO GRANDE. the army life is an open book, but tler has never paid any attention to rumors, that prolific source of un• along the Rio' Grande, which is only In this age of uncertainties and this I'm going to close the volume next rest and at tunes of unmilitary activity, but the rumor that conditions six miles to the south of the camp.— According to all the Teports that have month of concessions, one thinks of G. Mondar. ; on the south were never more.distressing and chaotic,, that the Gov• Elizabeth (N. J.) Daily Journal. reached McAllen, the big maneuvers B. S.'s uneasy : "You Never Can Of the "White" and the, '*,Brown' Tell.'' But shavian philosophy and ernment supposed to be in power was never so unstable as at .present, After reading the latest dispatches FOOD SPECULATORS armies in the Brownsville District, are ariuv orders never would mix. and that the bandit forces never before reached their present strength demonstrating the high efficiencyr of from Atlantic City and Washington, and degree of ambitious hope, is persistent, reasonable *and apparently the National Guard. Military experts Philosophy doesn't help one much in we solemnly pause to state, "It's a long Lane that has no turning." supported by circumstances. . Food speculators are parasites the declare that the guardsmen are doing paying off election bets, unless one world over. In olden times they used their share of the mimic,_fighting witl chances to win on recall schedules. Our good wishes go out to our neighbors of the mystic republic to be hanged until they were dead, but all the thoroughness ,q£ seasoned rcgu •Which was the way it all happened. Just received i telephone call. It on the south. We have no personal desire to interfere with their evidently the breed was 'never thor• lar soldiers. There is'.' liothing'toJ.won- was our Corporal. "Report to me, at oughly exterminated. der about in all this, b,ecausc if five affairs, their government or their activities. But the accumulation of *:_At the risk of stealing some thunder once,'' he ordered in no uncertain We always have had them in these onths in the field could not reason tones. "Your cot is packed up and evidence that we have almost unconsciously gathered since our arri• any intelligent body of "American, "eit from the Fellow Mabel Writes To we United States, and the manner in which must tell about- the urgent request we your tent is down." " But where are val on the Border, points to a conclusion that for the benefit of hu• they elude tbe tentacles of the law is zens, then the"future of this conn try we going to sleep?" we wailed. "You• would indeed. be' hopeless.' V recently received from our class sec• manity more than the safeguarding of property interests, some action a mystery even to' Philadelphia law• retary. We were exhorted to attend 're lucky if they let you sleep. You yer. But they do, and get rich at it. looking for the establishment of real government in Mexico will short• the re-union on Nov. 25th. '' Corporal guys on that Rattler have had it easy In the warring countries of Europe for three months. On the job now." ly occur. Many times we have wondered at Larry B— of Piattsburg will be the the food speculator is at his lowest Toastniaster." Too bad the 5:15 will We were so upset we forgot to answer the shortsightedness of Congress" in not him back and hung up quickly. When Adios! "Gray Jackets"—if you are really to depart. And if ebb morally.- He wishes to take ad• be behind time. We hate to miss this. you have to return, we will bid you a royal welcome. If you remain vantage of the patriotism of, his fellow raising our aviation service to the lev• one is allowed to drop in and chat citizens and their dire want in the face el of the flying corps of European with Generals occasionally, one forgets —well, we shall have-that famous Christmas dinner at McAllen. of untoward circumstances by over• ountrips, if not in numbers, at least Cabrera suffering from acute indiges• that one is still under orders to such in-' It will be noted from the foregoing statement of contingent hap• charging them '' all the trafic will in efficiency. During the five months tion would be of vital concern to more significant cogs in the machine as bear.'' that the New York Division has been people than'the Atlantic City doctors. . penings that the Editorial Department of The Rattler believes in play• encamped at McAllen, not an airplane ing safe. It has not forgotten the lesson which it,'with other great But the thing doesn't work because or dirigible has been seen overhead. over yonder the respective governments Steady, • commissioners, steady. Pax journals, received the day following election. It is hard to imagine an army camp of vohisuum or adios. really govern just now. Every war• today in any quarter of the globe with• We'll be minding policemen next." ring country except Russia has taken out its circling 'planes and watchful Oh, weR we fancy we'd better be rigid steps to suppress the food specu• dirigibles. But latest reports from The following songs have been} sharp about answering that call or lator. The method applied in Germany Washington may prove that America is amended, altered, and improved bv we'll miss the Manhattan accommo• Many of the war bulletins are about as satisfying as election and Austria are well known; but it is at last waking up to the need of an The Rattler's Censor. ^'sapM dation. a fact that the strong arm of the law adequate air army. "My Little Gray Camp in tbe West." return wires. For instance, when we"read that "The allied troops are is at work in England, Franoe and Italy "When Johnnie Comes Marching to pressing the German-Bulgarian rear guard north of Mouastir," we also in connection with food specula• McAllen Again." Business of covering a yawn with an tors. hardly know whether we should move the pins on our war map or Governor Whitman expressed a wish "Gee. But It's Great to Meet a attitude of utmost nonchalance. light another pipe and await further cablegrams. The most common way is to confis• that every citizen in New York could Friend from Your Mobiliza• cate food stored for a '' rise.'' Come to have seen the big review last Thurs• tion Town." Hurried calling of taxi, and an air think of it, this might be a very ef• day. If our dreams of universal ser• •"Pharr, Sweet Pharr." of disheveled excitement. fective way in the good old U. S. A. vice come true, perhaps we shall some day have the pleasure of reviewing HIS DIARY. Curtain lowered for a few momenta . It is announced that the official work day of the Sing Sing DIFFICULT PROFESSION Broadway loungers, vaudeville actors to Indicate passage of hours. prisoners is now seven hours a day. This kind of life would be poor cut-price tailors, and pawn-shop keep• Friday; Didn't feel very well this training for a soldier. #4!j»'^-' A well dressed youth .recently stop ers, together with Fifth Avenue Club• morning until I got a wire from Dad Tableau of Incinerator man standing: ped a tattered newsboy and asked him: men and cabaret dancers, all dressed saying regiment was ordered back. with gun on shoulder and hat set at •MjSfcfrv- • • o "Do you think I could sell papers as in the democratic olive drab. Wired back quick for fifty dollars rakish angle. Fountain pen concealed easily as you do f" while he was still happy. Didn't be• in haversack. Never mind, while the snow and blizzards are in force in New The newsboy's reply was emphatic lieve it for a while though until Lieu• If Border Service has taught us tenant shook hands with me and laugh• York State, flowers and vegetables.are flourishing in the Magic Val• and philosophic: nothing else, it has at least shown us Tableau of weeping McAllen ed at a joke I polled. While the news 1 ley. "Well, do you think you can hold conclusively that a good soldier cannot tradesmen—plotting bandits,. and back three dozen papers in one hand, lick was still fresh, got a letter from Mabel files of The Rattler. be made in one month. And by the saying that as I was going to be away three or four bigger' boys with the same token, six weeks in a training other, while yer keeps two more off all winter she had accepted Jim's prop* Fan-fare of trumpets and the clash• camp will never make an officer. osition to be season escort to the Fort• 1 with yer feet, and yell last edishun at Piattsburg for all that we have joked ing of cymbals. Ajiotharv •norther" is reported due. Perhaps it means the nightly Club. Would like to have seen train to move the Seventh northward. the same time?" about it in the past, is undoubtedly a •' No, I hardly think I could do that, step in the right direcion; but it is only Jim when he heard the big news. Sav• We wave madly at the multitude. said the man." a step. Enlisting in the N. G. when ed all Jim's letters and the Bustanoby Loud cheers. Chorus from Squadron "Then yer'd be no good in the news war seemed imminent was a veritable cheek he sent me. Latter may come in A: "Give My Regards to Broadway/' line. Better get your people to 'pren• leap that few training camp veterans handy to get ..a new overcoat, prefer• The busiest worker on the Border; evenings, is Charlie Chaplin. tice yer to something 'light. '-1—Ex. took. ably one of for. Got two bills from my Exit laughingly on Tourist Sleeper. _liib in morning mail. 'Guess 111 have —H. I Y .