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Show SECRETARY OF WAR CARRIE W PACK Baker Makes Himself "One of the Boys" While Overseas. LONDON, Sept. 30 (Correspondence of the Associated Press). Enlisted men of the American army grinned sympathetically sympatheti-cally as they watched the American secretary sec-retary of war, Newton D. Baker, trudging trudg-ing back and forth carrying the heavy pack of the American soldier, on his hack, when' he visited the camp of American soldiers In the Winchester district dis-trict while In England. Tho men were adjusting their cumbersome kits when the secretary arrived at the camp. "I would like to try one of them," said the secretary to the sergeant. The lord mayor of Winchester, the camp commandant and a group of soldiers sol-diers all gathered about as Mr. Baker lifted the pack and adjusted It to his shoulders. Then he trudged back and forth two or three times carrying the 70-pound 70-pound load, while a pair of heavy hobnailed hob-nailed trench boots, swinging from the bottom of the kit, banged against his legs. "It's heavy," he commented as he unburdened un-burdened himself, "but not so heavy as the Frenchman's pack. I tried one of them on a few days ago and it gave me an additional respect for the Frenchman as a soldier." The secretary made himself at home and was friendly with the soldiers. Everywhere Ev-erywhere he carried his pipe and several sev-eral times filled It from some soldier's pouch as he engaged in a casual chat with the men. "The whole country is behind you with everything it possesses." was one of his frequent messages to the fighting men. In the Red Cross hospitals hospi-tals the secretary went through the wards and had a few cheery words for each of the patients. In some of the camps he dropped in upon the soldiers at mess time and lunched with the big crowd of them In the mess tent beside a little woodland stream. He looked through scores of barracks and living quarters. He inspected in-spected kitchens and spent ten minutes watching soldiers playing a scrub game of baseball. His inspection of the Red Cross activities activi-ties was comprehensive. He saw the bathing houses in operation, with the long lines of rain-coated soidlers waiting wait-ing Their turn at the showers. He saw the dental huts, with the Red Cross dentists den-tists busy at their work. He visited several Red Cross recreation huts and listened to the Red Cross jazz hands at practice. At one camp he found his cousin. Sergeant Ser-geant Harry Chiswell. of Cleveland, and chatted with him for ten minutes. Altogether, Alto-gether, the secretary gained a n excellent excel-lent impression of what the American army authorities have done in preparing comfortable and sanitary camps for the soldiers In the Winchester district, south of London, In preparation for the winter' |