GAS^T TAC K NEW YQRK\ DIVISION 27 th. PiV^ V. S.A. VoL i CAMP WADSWORTH, SPARTANBURG, S. C, February 23,1918 No. 14 PRICE TEN CENTS THE BANK OF SPARTANBURG IS DEPOSITOR v FOR THE Mult m &mih Carolina €mntf af ^miarMm And ha* ^'i-img -.fa sc. c tif % great number of Post £';^ferc-ge£> 1 nzi'te^n Account,® TOXLET ARTICLE£ Easfcna?' ^g^Kf for Tooth Paste I'oickv. Ko^al Fikas anc! Creams and Feeders Saf4?ike% arid 'Vest Pocket Ligon's Toilet Articles Cameras We have enlarged of best quality for ladles. on.c Caicerg and Film department, and an^w and complete stock of Cameras SAFETY RAZORS uiifi Eccesser^rs hmt just Gillette Gem Ever-Ready Auto Strap' . Enders and Penn PRESCRIPTION aiSTS AND FIRST CLASS DRUGS Cotki tint ifc Chm/^h mm Main Simma GAS ATTACK Page New heading for cover drawn by Pvt. Wilber E. Vair, Hdqtrs. Sanitary Squad No. 1 Taps, from a photograph taken by R. E. Pate, Supply Sgt. Co. B, 106th Inf...Cover That Strange Fever! illustration, by Pvt. Elmer Lauten, H. C. 108th Inf.. ..... 2 Three Weeks in the Base Hospital, the experience of Pvt. Billy Leonard, Co. I, 107th Inf. 3 The Road to Town, poem, by Pvt. Charles Divine, Hdqtrs. Sanitary Squad No. 1 3 Editorials. Let Them Howl! and Their Bit and Their Utmost, by Pvt. Richard E. Connell, Co. A, 102nd M. P................. 4 The Incinerator: Including A Soldier's Letter to His Sweetheart, by Lieut. Edward Streeter, 52nd F. A. Brigade Hdqtrs. 5 The Squad Mai! Man, illustration, by Pvt. William Breck, Co. B, 107th Inf.... 6 The ideas of Ethelburt Jellyback: XII. On a Night at Converse College, by Pvt. Charles Divine, Hdqtrs. Sanitary Squad No. 1.............. 7 Illustrated by Pvt. William Knipe, Co. H, 107th Inf.. ................... 7 Gov. Whitman Wants Guard Relics Saved, a general order.................. 8 Confessions and Confidences of an Artilleryman, by S. S., Bat. D, 104th F. A.. 8 108th Officers Open Club ...... ........................... 9 Camouflage, illustration by Pvt. Lauren Stout, Co. E, 107th Inf.. .............. 9 More About Finding Officers in the Ranks, an article on the O. T. S., by Pvt. Walter A. Davenport. 10 A Surprise Attack in No Man's Land, illustration, by Pvt. Elmer Lauten, H. C. 108th Inf. .................................................. 11 Our Broadway, poem, by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Division Hdqtrs. Troop.... 11 News from Division Units, beginning on. .................................... 12 Camouflage, illustration, by H. E. Seligman, Camouflage School. ............. 14 More Camouflage, by Seligman ............................................ 15 The Reveille Cot Dumper, illustration and text by Co. F, 102nd Engineers. ... 16 Helmet and Seeks, illustration, by Pvt. Donald Emery, Sanitary Det, 107th Inf.. 17 News of the Y. M. C. A., edited by Ray F. Jenney. .......................... 18 Why Editors Go Wrong, by C, D. and R. E, C............................. 20 Camp Sports, edited by Pvt. Fred J. Ashley, Division Hdqtrs. Troop, be• ginning on 21 World Brevities, edited by J. S. Kingsley. 24 Germany's Foreign Policy, by J. S. Kingsley. .............................. 25 In Division Society, edited by Mrs. Charles P. Loeser 26 Staying Put, by Dr. Paul Moore Strayer. ................................... 27 Pioneer Peet and His Gossip, by L. B. W 28 Announcement 34 GAS ATTACK" That Strange Fever! GAS ATTACK 3 THREE WEEKS IN THE BASE HOSPITAL other wards. I don't know. But I don't believe it. I've talked to men in other THE EOAD TO TOWN. The Reassuring Story of One wards and I judge from what they tell me The road to town is young with Spring, Mae Who Got a Close-Up that the quality of service throughout the hospital is much the same as in 14 and 21, And brave with new green grasses, View of the Care of And how my heart goes venturing No Need For Fear. Soldiers Here With every lad that passes. If that be so, no man need fear removal (Note:—Billy Leonard, Co. I, 107th Inf., to the Base Hospital. Rather, let him be For here my lover left so gay, went to the Base Hospital with a real fear glad in the certainty that everything that And on his lips was laughter, can be done for him, will be done; that he of the place, founded on rumors. He tells a But I—I turned my head away, straightforward story of his experiences will receive the best medical care and the I couldn't follow after. '"'\ there, in the pneumonia ward. He praises the most faithful attention of efficient, conscien• treatment he got, and he wants the folks tious, hard-working and unfailingly cheerful Though, gypsy heart to gypsy heart, back home to know about it.) nurses; and the days of his convalescence will be made as comfortable and as pleas• I've shared his every by-way, When the regimental infirmary orderly ant as they can be made. His roads and kisses—oh! to part told me that I was, perhaps, seriously ill, I don't mean to imply that the Base On such a golden highway! and that in half an hour I was to b@ moved Hospital is a perfect institution. The man to the Base Hospital, the news filled me who designed it, as has been said before, with something like dismay. But now he's gone the road to town— evidently inclined to the belief that it was Not because I believed I was seriously Oh, God! the lilac's blooming! — to be located in a semi-tropical climate, ill; on the contrary I felt quite certain that which Spartanburg isn't, not by a heluva And from the town the ships go down quinine and sleep were all the medicine I lot. - To where the guns are booming. jieedicL But I bad a very real fear of the The buildings (each ward is a separate Base Hospital as a place of residence. State• The road to town is young with Spring, ments I had heard in the newspapers, things building, a runway connecting them) are And green with new green grasses; I had heard in camp, the death of one of scarcely more than frame shells, each heated Oh, lad, my heart goes venturing my own company mates in the very ward to by two stoves of the type made famous by country railroad stations, and burning soft which I was being taken—Ward 21 for the With each of you that passes. coal. Except on a warm day, ventilation, treatment of pneumonia "cases"—all had —Pvt. Charles Divine. of course, is inadequate, to put it mildly. conspired to create an unfavorable opinion The wards also lack running water and of the Base Hospital in my mind, an opin• It was all in the day's work, a work un• other facilities a hospital ought to have. ion I knew was almost general among the dertaken under the impulse of a patriotism But where the efforts of doctors and nurses, enlisted men, of my own company, cer• as pure and as sound as sent any man to and orderlies, too, can correct these fail• tainly. ures and defects, they are corrected. war—and a good deal sweeter. ; 1 The Things He Heard. The big thing is that the medical service Then there is an orderly, a night orderly, And so, the brief ride to the hospital in is all that it ought to be, if a layman's judg• whom it is a delight to observe. He seems a motor ambulance, which somehow man• ment is worth anything in such matters. to regard us as his own boys, particularly aged to keep going despite the mud threat• The ward surgeon of 21 is Dr. J. W. Laugh- those who are very sick. No service is too lin. Were we his private patients, he could ening to engulf it, my thoughts were any• much to ask of him, and he performs many thing but joyous. I remembered all I had not manifest a deeper interest in our wel• that certainly are not required of him. He heard about the Base Hospital: the indif• fare. He is eternally on the job. He knows ference of doctors and nurses, the lax dis• the name of every man in the ward and he will coax the grumblers to eat his oatmeal cipline and methods which exposed practi• knows all about his condition. He is one in the morning, assuring him he will "feel cally healthy men to dangerous diseases, of the most patient physicians I have ever better" if he does; with a tenderness that known, and one of the most humane. He the utter lack of that intelligent and sympa• is almost womanly, he helps the half-de• thetic care which the sick require. is the old family doctor glorified, kindly, lirious patient to drink his eggnogg. He sympathetic, winning the confidence of his That was nearly three weeks ago. I am patients and holding it. is constantly busy all the hours of the night still in the Base Hospital, still in Ward 21. and the aggregate of what he does is amaz• In a few days I'll be well enough to go back A Fine War Service. home on a little furlough to regain the ing, when one stops to think of it. Not The first two weeks I was in bed with strength I've lost. I'll breathe the rich salt that the other orderlies do nothing, but it nothing much to do but think in a desultory air of Long Island. is that patience and sympathy and father- manner, and the thought often occurred to It has been an interesting experience in me that here was a bit of war service be• liness that renders his services so conspic• more ways than one; but I value it chiefly ing quietly performed in a base hospital in uous.