| Show F 04 1 JW fl ALL IS NOT WORK RK NOR IS IT FUN ON ARMY TRANSPORT IS HARMONY HARMONS VIEW A letter thoin it glen Ilar harmon nion telli tellene tir of his trip across to france deals with many phases of travel nob touched on by other boya boys who have written of their experience it will bo be read with interest by scores of glend glen ci friends and others othere ile says dee dec 24 2448 dear folks at home the night before chrismen Chri and all wei ae the tile ocean no one would be stirring but tor the ships motion and this ship it la Is fierce it will not stop its As rocking roc kiriK though we grumble and growl la in a manner most shocking kinz we are tw tho aund miles prom from the tile port of IIo llo boken bokou and thus far by eum gull A no bone of tri mines lues broken aven aten st k with that ocean di gleeso dle eso so on that thit score I 1 grayr a set jour your mind at ita its case ease I 1 the tile fellows drozod rae hiva hive alt all had their troubles but ive brushed mine aside As though they were bub bubbles blee the first five days out the sky was quita cloudy tho the wand it was fierce ea and the waves ibey were rowdy causing ihfe most of the tile fellows to burckle right under v hut but I 1 from the made no such a blunder blander but the wind baa has gone zone dowa now and the waves are more quiet and the euya guys who were ee are up now on diet the sun has been shining and cna the waves are quite glassy were prepared for a christmas doth both unique and class december dezember 20 26 I 1 just reread re read the above and have decided to send it anyway christ mas is over now and what a christ mas we were 2100 miles flon new york but that made no differ ence we bad had a wonderful time there cure about officers in the wardroom for dinner eo so you can imagine the size of the sail said room analog the officer officers were a brigadier general and the ships captain who anks aa as high ua us a colonel in the army so bouja feed it was served in table I 1 id do ate hole style and the service arvice was superior to any dining car on the D R 0 after dinner smokes were i served and christmas doled out we each received a Y package of chocolate and tobacco tobi tob cco seco I 1 traded my tobacco for choco chocolate latt A picture chow show eiven given light after dinner we have had e P show every might tnie ht after that we played check cra ers or read tin till eight bells when we went into the fb to castle to to a minis trel show eiren giren hy by the men and und officers 18 wo we have had a wonderful strip our ship the most valuate freighter in the transport service and one of the largest in the service carried a crew of men and ome tome 50 chete is oom room left to carry soldiers diera and officers not counting coun linc tha the ruse huge amount of I 1 let that rit ri tta t 63 it 8 fph aoh a val wable fre biter As I 1 tried to tell in those rhymes uie the arst fiva five ays out were fierce the sky was black with clouds there was a heavy north wind and we fated faed right into it I 1 soon began to see the as high as mountains you read about they were all of 40 feet high a one would lit list the th bow and spray Y fly a hundred feet la in the air coming covering the floor of the sea deck aeck with stream of water a foot deep it was war when ik we got into such sos as that that we appreciated the size of the ship ve passed others that looked like they would turn over all we felt was a ate tily rock rod rok with sometime sometimes a blow from the waves that would send shivers through the ships bide for two days before ve we left new york it waa was rainy and foggy so when we acinto an into the storms at sea etwas it was eight days before we saw thespo the sun when it finally ame iame i out believe me it lt received some welcome it is warmer now but we are nearing the coast of france and it Is raining igalo agali we expect to oa 04 friday evening iven log when we left port the ships painters had to give the he ship its aleace time colar col jr the job ob was only partly J however so it was left for co patt cn while qute Ite kesau sult we are now really and truly an ocean instead of a Loard of 0 alige and wo are about the birst at transport to get bick back but in getting back more than one of us was spot ted up with fresh paw I 1 am ain sending my suit to the tail i today you knew know we are arc a flo floating atIns city ani arite ani everything from water works to literary and printing pres press wo we hov ta a newspaper paper wo we get dilly d illy by wireless and it is 16 run off I 1 y a alm on typewriting a paper this parries shi for fair huge guno two foi forward wara and two aft white while going through the nihed mined zone ve a aloo had ou a few mine s deepers I 1 bavo have talked a bit with the officers and ana they baye told of with subs u B cause of its size and freight capacity this ia is one of the slowest ship and the diun was after it U it was so valuable they succeeded succeed rd in n getting the president lincoln a of the eime sime size but thia this one ove out wilted witted abern this was ce c e of the german ships which we woos interned until ae a entered the war ti belonged to the hamburg ameri amerl can line there are three of us to each stateroom a email small cozy place to bunk in I 1 have two nice fellows with me one of thero them being dahl the boy I 1 of beffre I 1 loaned loaned one of lot the belows fellows my book of alor mon a week ago and be he has been reading ij IS with th th t bible trying to find parallels pai allela els to show that it was made up he came to the place la to 11 II nepha where halah isaiah is quoted and he ead said he bad had me at last lie ile suld wild that bible bad been trans so many times thai that no one be lieveld the words wele the same as the origin illy were but along came ahli smith with a new boob bool professing to be divine and yet it had the exact wording of the bible to him thai that showed that the book of moi blot mon nion had been copied so I 1 read the book of mormon and be he read the bible I 1 think in the ast 0 st 12 verses we ran across three place places where dil different Terent words were used though the meaning then I 1 pointed out to him that if smith bad had have made up the book of mormon it would have been the utmost folly for him to quote baud isaiah as be he did and an ahon hn point it out as he does at the chapter heading I 1 told him that hat to me that only meant that the bible ible in thai that particular olace was substantiated he ile ended by saying that he szn some to buy a book of mormon and read it through I 1 would have let him take mine but ut I 1 dont know how to get another no me one has the slightest idea of where we pre going after we lino our port Is st nazaire Naza Naz alre NN e are on a railroad to pan tours md ve ver sallies sailles from th re te some of us think that well stay at the port and do work but boit I 1 hope we go to the interior there Is a a wild rumor that wo we aly bo be at the peace conference we 1 ive run down perhaps before I 1 land I 1 will britts serve more but ive put lown flown omit all I 1 can think of now by tre way there were only a few of ui abo get seasick most of thoe bit bid been to sea before so I 1 boink im soun failor sunday afternoon men we pot got to sr st nazaire fri da the boat was toi bie big and heavily loaded to enter so after wailing all day for the pilot 6 left saturday night for brest we arc are now steam me ing into the harbor in a regular pro cession first the pilot boat that tb natena to overturn anny minute then a freighter that la Is striped like a zebra then us in our new now grey and behind us a huea huge battle bittle crul cruiser ser an american subi submarine narinO chase b has 1 8 just pulled by and Is sign signalling alling to 9 tte tie harbor ta Is beautiful ahr shorts alae rao steeply to about two thirds oje beights of the bcd macd ocd hil fill but they the are all co coverer vereil with gras and trees and look so beautiful through the fog for it Is always w 1111 aggy it here ere or at least at this we will probably not land till morn I 1 ine 0 a as it is now about 4 B but u t I 1 aust fillah thia and act fqy things all packed so anjou GLLNN GUNN P S I 1 got a catholic new testa ment frow the chaplain cha plair A it t LA 8 I 1 notes ind explanations of the tile scrip tures ali ah the way through and I 1 am m I 1 oine going to study it and compare wit the tile king jime J 3 ime imes ler ver |
