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Show I Letters From Bingham Soldiers I i Letter from It, I. Fcrrell, Austin, Texas, to John W. Treloar: "It is Sunday so 1 thought I would drop you a few lines. i was wondering wonder-ing how things were going In the "Old Reliable" as I haven't - heard from any ot you guy a for some time., I have been here over three weeks. The life here, is somewhat different from Tuscon. It is more like a cadet school and less like an army, Taut many of the regulations are more strict than in a regular outfit. ; "We have bed check here every; night; except Saturday at 10 o'clock, and you can't get a paBS to be out later than that. If you have a little J dirt around your bed or your Bhoes are out of line, blankets not folded ; properly, or any other little tool j thing like not being in line for a class or a pieal, you are confined or i get a day on fatigue. , ' "One good thing is that you do not ! have to get a pass to leave camp. You ! can beat it at noon Saturday and not j show up till 10 p. m. Sunday if you ; put your name on a sheet at barracks i with the meals you intend to be ab-' sent from. We have big black nig-1 gers ,to wait tables, and the chock i is good. i "A class graduates nearly every j week now and leaves for the flying I fields. Exams are every (Saturday j morning and if you fail you are set! back to the same studies the nexti week, besides being confined all the week and, having extra lessons at night-. ' '' ' . - , - ' : J'Th echoof Jias Jteen, filling: vp "This is the biggest radio school in the United States and perhaps in the world, and It is still getting bigger. I am not at liberty to give you the figures fig-ures or how large It will be. "Ttiis state Is dry. Especially for a man in khaki, and as for the ladies, they are hard to beat, but I don't hnvo much time to play that game. Why in h don't some of you kids write? Tell Mac to forget his "red llcker" and the widows long enough to write a line. I suppose the gang1 .around the Old. Crow stand is pretty well thinned out now, hut give 'em my best." (Letter from Dr, P. S. Hageman at Camp Zachary TayloT, Louisville, Kentucky, to Postmaster C. L. Countryman: Coun-tryman: .. . C , ; "I have intended writ'ng you many fmes, but this army life sure keeps me on the Jump and correspondence is neglected Since writing you before be-fore I have been sent "here to Camp Zachary TRylor, Louisville Kentucky to help out In this epidemic of Influenza, Influ-enza, and If ever doctors and nurses are needed it is here. We are all working until we drop and then we can't begin to take care of the patients. pa-tients. The base hospital here originally orig-inally had a capacity for "soo. We now have '12,000 patients. Ko you can see what we are up against. We are doing the best we can. twit it seema we can't do enoueh. "1 am working from 8 p. m. until 8 a. m. and lota of times until noon. I s.have charge of between t seven and last two weeks with artillery men. They only take two months cou" while we take three months. I wlH get out of here some time in December Decem-ber If I don't get too many Bet backs, Haven't had any yet. They have ; what is called "bust outs," fellows ', who can't or will not learn anything. They are given fatigue lor a ' few weeks and then sent to the Infantry. "I am playing in the band. Have been playing bass ever since I came. I may have you send my baritone later, lat-er, but they make me play bass any-(how any-(how until they get some one else, and It would only be in the way now. I am excused from reville caliathentlcs and drill on account of the band pra tice about forty-five minutes a day and play In the field about twenty minutes mi-nutes In the evening. . "They try to cram a course of electrical elec-trical engineering into a fellow that would take several years in an ordinary ordi-nary school, and there are very few who complete it in the alloted time. I understand that the school will move In a'week or two to some avla-t'on avla-t'on field a few miles from here. eignt nunarea patieftU .without even a nurse to help me, and some of them are very sick. "1 can show you great lines of , buildings t'Vi w.'th pneumcnia pa- j tients and all fighting for their lives, ! and the hard feature is that we can't do much for them as it is a losing fight with the majority. Tell the la-1 dies of the Red Cross If they were here that they sure could see what the boys need and where their work counts. , "I never felt better or worked harder hard-er in my life ,but I only wish that I could' work Ptlll harder, A good many of our doctors are sick themselves them-selves as are also the nurees, and many have lost their lives. "I don't mean to make this letter discouraging. Far from that, but you see-1 only see sick people, and it 4a rather depressing at times. "Well, how is everything in Bingham? Bing-ham? I think of you all many times and wish I could drop In again, but I will have to wait until after the war. Give my best regards to all and be sure to write me." |