Show eureka boys mentioned in los angeles newspaper story the los angeles sunday times of january containing a feature story entitled under fire with am artillery abroad written b raymond G carroll official corres with the american forces in prance france some of the people may have haye read this splendidly written story of what Is actually taking place in in the battle fields of prance france but itkis doubtful it if they realized at that time that they were reading about the battery in which three or four of our boys are now serving but a letter to C C griggs of this city from thomas tan cock shows conclusively that the eu reka boys have been in the midst the real fighting and that mention la Is made of some of them in mr car roll s story although the newspaper correspondent uses nothing but their given names in his narrative in his story mr carrol carroll tells of certain clubs or organizations a mong the enlisted men these are i formed for the amusement of the soldiers and in most cases include in their membership only privates and non commissioned officers they hold sessions in the tile dug outa outs near the trenches and in places where there is no opportunity for the Y M C A or any other organization to provide entertainment features the clubs are called molly McGuI maguires res and while musical instruments star lecturers or motion picture machines are missing the natural talent of the men Is used in bringing cheer to the sessions mr carroll B reference to mr mir tan cock Is as follows we will first have mother ma chree from one of our members the chairman announced thereupon emerged from the brown cocoon of the army a singer with the sweetest of tenor voices it was aas hard to realize that but a few hours before this artist had been burrowing la ta the side of a hill like the we ripple of running water he touched the high spots of the mel met I 1 ody it brought the to tears I 1 they soon recovered from their emo eions and gave their famous hand applause of the trenches five hand claps given rapidly twice through followed by a single clap given slow ly three times |