PAGE 4 THE RIO GRANDE RATTLER 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, United States Army 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 Major 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 Colonel 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 Lieutenant 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 Captain 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 Major General 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. Officer 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. Private Howard Irving Young, Co. B., 7th Infantry 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 Cavalry Associate Editor such unstinted measure. command of E Company. Private A. F. Jenks, Jr., Troop A, Squadron A, Associate Editor, '' And I also urge and suggest' our By. O. A. O. Childs In New York Times. Corporal 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, Adjutant of Didn't eat any- dinner. No one both• j The practical unanimity with which the troops 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.