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Show BETTER ARMY OFFICERS JUST as whisky, stud poker, and all-around all-around "high rolling" have been effectively ef-fectively banished from the United States army, so has passed the day of the cold-blooded, domineering, unsympathetic un-sympathetic army officer. Indeed ours is an intensely democratic demo-cratic army fighting for democracy. The Bayonet, published at Camp Lee, Virginia, Private It. B. Johnston, editor, recently contained a vigorous editorial appreciation of the army officer of-ficer of today. T& related a number of instances (says the Atlanta Constitution) in proof of the spirit of sympathy and comradeship between officers and men. One was to the effect that when a company of tired rookies swung into camp after a long, grueling hike in the hot sun, an officer trudged along in the rear carrying the guns of three of his men who has just about "played out" and who would have been unable to keep up with their fellows had not their more seasoned commander thoughtfully and sympathetically relieved re-lieved them of their heavy burdens. Upon another occasion a' group of West Virginians after their inoculation and vaccination the second night found themselves about as sick and homesick and utterly depressed as a lad away from home could be and keep afoot. The food strange cooking did not taste right to them, and they were still suffering from train sickness in addition to their other woes. It happened hap-pened that the plight of the rookies was brought to the attention of a young officer who himself was a West Virginian, and the officer, after dinner that evening, bought a box of oranges and put it on his shoulder and carried it to the tent in which the homesick boys were quartered. Needless to say, "army life" immediately lost the greater great-er part of its horrors to the beneficiaries beneficiar-ies of that humane officer's thoughtful-ness thoughtful-ness and ensideration. |