(Cantain 1 cnahan*s letter continued)
could get a decent pitcher, and ITve told you what kind of bowlers •
we have in the regiment. The post is a fine one, -good brick bar
racks with street car service every twenty minutes to Portland, only
four miles away. Plenty of shows in town, -good athletic: teams for
competition, -and all sorts of recreational activities for the men.
We have the Jar Department Movies twice a week on the Post,
and the W.D.puts out a pretty good brand. Have your Iwovie Officer
get ‘'The Vanishing American”, ’’Lord Jim”, "The Scarlet West”, "The
Iron Trail”, "The Flaming Frontier", or the "Pony Express", if you
want to see good pictures that have come out of late in the States.
I expect to be here a year from this coming Spring. Then
it 1 s me for P an am a or Hawaii , I guess. ThatTs the dope, anyhow. I
keep putting for Alaska, but there’s small chance of my ever getting
it, I guess. But I’m living in hopes that I’ll return north some
day, tho ’ there, are very few of the old gang left up there with you
that ever heard of me. "Judge" Barry, Hoffman, "Shorty" Lepple and
perhaps Loft in are tno- only ones left, I imagine. Jack Geraghty is
in Panama, at Corozal. The rest of the old crew is scattered to the
fouir winds, am't they? Regards to Major Maddox.
Drop me a line when you can, and keep on sending the "Post"
to me. My mother is well, and wants to be remembered to all her old
friends. Hastily,
Jo nn F. Mon ahan ,
C apt ai n , C hap 1 ai n , 5t h. Inf.
AN ANSWEH TO "YOUNG SOLDIERS-TAKE NEW AHUY" .
Has the Any gained or lost -"Kipling's young gentlemen
rankers who are stepping into the shoes of the old timers of yes
teryear will, when their service mounts upward, he just as gruff
and snappy; if they are not, they will not have acquired the proper
discipline so necessary in our Army.
Just because the old soldier spoke gruff and to the point
should not be held against him and he should not be called hard
boiled, his heart was just as true and kind beneath the bark as
any of the younger enlisted personnel holding rank today. His gruff
snappy commands and orders got results and he held the respect and
confidence of both superiors and subordinates.
So let us omit that obnoxious word "hard-boiled" when refer
ring to our few old soldiers who are still above the ground and in
tender remembrance cf those who did their best and have passed on.
Let not his epitaph be written: Here lies a Hard Boiled
soldier.’
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THE CHARLESTON HOT NEW SAYS VETERAH MINSTREL.
George Larion, of the original Dockstader minstrels, who i
engaged in films, rises to declare that the Charleston, instead o
being a new dance, is as old as minstrelsy itself.
Larion who is celebrating his golden anniversary as an actor,
ays the leg throwing, knee shaking dance of today was evolved from
he "Twist", a step popular with the black faced minstrels a harf
century ago, except that i; is done to a slower tempo. The Charles
ton is much the same as the "Twist", which he asserts, is an adap
tation of the negro "Essence", a barbaric ritual of Africa.
BOAT AHD BAIL SCHEDULE.
Sunday, larch 21st: Admiral Rogers - States mail.
Tuesday,March 23rd: Estebeth - Alaska mail only.
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