1918-12-02, The Howard Crimson

HO WAR 01ЛМК IV BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. DECEMBER 2, 1918 NUMBER 4 JOHN INZER FREEMAN earn Prepares I For Marion Game Howard Soldiers to Be Discharged Soon DOCKERY WRITES New City Pastor Addresses Qnb MADE FIRST LIEUTENANT Wants to Get News of the Campus Oftea. A very interesting letter was re¬ ceived by Professor Dawson from Lieutenant Lewis W. Dockery who iis how in France. Following are some Extracts from the letter: • . "There is a bit of comparatively little activity in our sector today and ! am writing a few notes. This is the second drive for me and I have safely reaped so far. I was in the Saint Mihiel advance. Am now at the strongest Demobilization to Begin December Fourth and Carried Out Rapidly. An interesting letter was recieved the other day by Dr. Dawson from Lieutenant John I. Freeman who is now ,| Practise Feat. ires Weeks Work Dt. Dillard Will Giro Series of Lec¬ tures to Divinity Students. CREW LOOKS GOOD. a first lieutenant stationed at the _ headquarters of the Fourth United States Division, American Expedition- After nursing bruises and wounds ary Force. •eivsd from tjie В rmingham game Lieutenant Freeman graduated from t team settled down to hard practice Howard in 1917 and attended the preparation for he Marion game first Officers Trainirg Camp at Fort Thanksgiving, -ong and gruel- Oglethorpe where he received a sec- me signal practice featured the ond Lieutenant’s commission. «ks work. The men realize that Since his arrival in France he has iy have a hard t*M before them and been promoted to a First Lieutenancy, t working to this end. There has While a student at Howard he was en plenty of pep shown the past Editor-in-chief of the Crimson and ek and Marion nay look forward took an active part in all the activities the usual stiff gm ne. of rthe со,1в^- LIEUTENANT HILL PLEASED. GIVES GOOD ADVICE Orders have been received by Lieu¬ tenant John H. Hill, Commanding Officer of Howard College S. A. T. C., calling for the immediate demobiliza¬ tion and discharge of all troops sta¬ tioned at Howard College. The process of mustering out will begin on December Fourth and will be carried out as rapidly as possible. Every man must pass a rigid physi¬ cal examination before he is discharg¬ ed and various reports and papers must be filled before anyone leaves. “Compared with my former ex¬ perience in training soldiers,’.’ said Lieutenant Hill, “the progress of the Howard College Company has been excellent. The work has been very efficient in spite of the epidemic of influenza and the short time the men have been in training. And I am very- well pleased with the progress shown here.” Lieutenant William R. Gentry, Pcr- sonel Adjutant, has gone to Nashville to attend a conference preparatory to the work of demobilization. As yet Lieutenants Hill and Gentry ave not yet received orders to go any- Eugene Dunaway, A. B. 1917, and 1 where else and it is not known where i Editor-in-chief of the Howard Crim- they will go from «Чеге. son, visited on the campus Wednes- - i - day. He has juet returned from Bos- RUSSIAN RIFLES ISSUED ’ ' ton School of Technology where he has TO HOWARD COLLEGE MEN finished a course in the Naval Aviation - department of that institution. He The rifles for the Stedents Army “Some secrets of Sermonising,” was the subject -of the very interesting lecture delivered to the Divinity Club Tuesday evening. The speakers ob¬ ject was to give the hearers some of the results of his experience of twen¬ ty-five years in the ministry. “A preacher is one who proclaims,” said Dr. Dillard in his introduction, -‘He should never argue, for the mom¬ ent he begins to argue with a man he loses him. A preacher proclaims,, a minister serves, a pastor feeds, a clergyman draws his salary.” The speaker emphasised strongly the physical, mental and spiritual point in the line. Two weeks ago I was at Verdun. Was in England two weeks. Spent some time in Paris. Have seen much of France. As I have gone from place to place 1 have often wondered of you and how much different it must have been when you were here, Most of France is the most beautiful place I had imagined it to be and the devastated part is much more devastated than 1 could have ever thought. No voice, picture or pen has ever made it ap¬ pear worse than it is. The once beaur tiful forests are cut to pieces, nothing remains but stumps of large trees. Trees two feet in diameter are cut in¬ to fragments. There remains only fragments of stone walls of once beau¬ tiful cities. The earth is one mass of shell holes. It looks like a great storm had blown up huge trees from a forest and left only the holes in the : earth. The suffering is pitiful. Night be¬ fore last there were forty-five wound¬ ed around our aid station who had to wait all night for an ambulance. It was cold and raining. Ten of them bub around,” he said, “For after all the man is more important than the subject." The latter part of the lecture was mostly advice to the students in the preparation and delivery of sermons. “You will never need to preach a ser¬ mon in which you cannot either begin or close it with something about Jesus Christ,” he concluded. There was a good attendance con¬ sidering the sickness prevalent among the students. Dr. Dillard was engag¬ ed to give a series of lectures on* each month during the remainder of the EUGENE DUNAWAY TELLS VALUE OF DEGREE playing , stel ar ball in the Naval Aviation Reserve. This They were received from the state organization requires only one months Quartermaster Corps for 8. A. T. C. training each year. This enabled him at Auburn. When the pieces were to return ко his position in the bank issued to the boys they looked as if at Orrville. they had been packed in grease. As Lieutenant Dunaway made a short each fellow received his rifle he wont talk in chapel encouraging the S. A. to his room and prepared for a big T. C. boys to remain in college after cleaning. There was a general de- they have been discharged from the mand for old towels, socks and “cit” army. He emphasized the value of a shiits. After several hours of steady college - degree by saying that his di- work and with the aid of everything ploma from Howard College admitted in the barracks the guns were put in him to the Naval Training Corps. such condition to pass inspection. According to a statement made by These rifles were designed for the Lieutenant Dunaway, 97) per cent of Russian Army but on account of the the students at Boston Tech have an- collapse of that government they nounced their intention of remaining, were taken over by the United States, in school after demobilization. Con- With the bayonet attached one of sidering the demand for college train- these guns weighs twelve pounds, or. ed men Howard students should make about three pounds more than the the same record. regular United States rifle. Iihowing up unusually well. He ha* [the fight and with ‘Big” Nichols play¬ ing his usual good game we have no worry about the guard positions. 1 buried some bodies yesterday that had lain on the ground so long that field mice had eaten holes through them and were playing as they ran through the holes they had eaten through. It is war. Personally 1 am standing up О. K. Have marched a week with my pack, through drizzling rain, in blue mud that pops at every 3tep, day and night. I thought I could stand it and I have. Neuritis has not hurt me. My work is pleasant. I have it arranged so that every man In my batallion may hear a sermon three times each week. Of course it is im¬ possible to do much in the front. The men must keep hidden. I hope that Howard is going on with the great work. May good fortune attend you. Love to the other Pro¬ fessors and the student body.” A worthy running mate to Smith at end has at last been found, with Отел» filling the bill. Crew is a scrappy player and showed up good in the lie and Smith will Roses are red, I reckon, There’s no chance for Griffiths To get seconds. Owenton game certainly give the Marion backs trou¬ ble. The backfield is the same with, James at quarter эаск, Newman and Blackwelder at ha f backs and McLai.e it fall. The students are looking for the team to put up a good game with Marion and the s.ogan everywhere is “On to Marion.” Being on К. P. every day certainly agreed with Monroe Holly, who since going into the kitchen has acquired a shape second only to “Stout” Price. Pat Heard — (Looking at big army fie) ”1 didn’t know that I waa in e Artillery. I thought I enlisted in CIVIL AND MILITARY LAW ► “Discuss the difference between civil and military law” was one of the questions asked in a recent test on Military Law. Among the interesting answers Professor Burns got were the following: “In civil law there is always some delay, but in military law they al¬ ways 'shoot the prisoner as soon as possible.” i “In civil law the prisoner is inno¬ cent until proved guilty, but in mili¬ tary law the prisoner is guilty until proved innocent.” “An American soldier in France when found asleep or in cowardice is shoe at sunrise unless President Wil¬ son reverses the decision.” TOP SERGEAN GOES BACK TO LINE WORK WILLIAM LIEUTENANT 8. I.. PRICE AT LOMBARD COLLEGE Two Ranks to the High Port - FALL IN! The hard and gruellsome work of digging trenches has at last given way to a more fashionable sport, that of bayonet practice. Every¬ one hated to dig trenches to a certain extent, for in the first place we were only issued one pair of shoes or “Submarine Chasers" and a fel¬ low who had a date with a fair damsel couldn’t figure any percentage in cleaning the tops and wheels of these vehicles. The -only members of the company who hated to see trench dig¬ ging pass out were Joe Jeffers and Acker the two “Traveling Shoe Stands” who think that the Lieutenants did this to run' them out of Second Lieutenant Sidney Lanier Price has been assigned to Lombard as small arms instructor, making the third officer to be assigned exclusively to Lombard. Lieutenant Price had one year of military training at Mar¬ ion Institute, Marion, Alabama, and was for two years a student at How¬ ard College, Birmingham, Alabama He completed his infantry drill at Fori SheiidanTeftei' which he received seven weeks of special training in the use of fire arms at Camp Perry, О hie, from which camp he was commission- Sergeant Wiliams resigned his Position as first tergeant of the How- “d College Student Army Training Corps, arid is now filling the position private in thi company. He gave “P his sergeant у in order that he •«ht put more time on his acaderric The bayonet practice which we indulge in is comical to a certain extent. Lieutenant Gentry runs across the field like a rabbit and to see the whole company chasing after him would lead one to dream of the good old days as a civilian on a fox hunt. The boys certainly seem to enjoy themselves when engaged in bayonet practice. They can be heard laughing for blocks. If one could, only come out some afternoon and see Tom Morgan run like a lame duck and hear Bluford Nelson laugh and see Karl Duffy carry a gun they would swear never again to spend their hard earned “dough” on a ticket to the Lyric. We should be proud of the fact that we have soeh able comedians. If anyone haa seen the company on one of their famous charges across “No Man’s Land” they would know why the Kaiser atted for an armstice. The men certainly charge with a vim and they go in£o the bayonet work with energy and pep. Bayonet practice is certainly interesting and here’s hoping we continue to indulge in it. Private Williums began his mili- *7 career at Fort Sheridan lost ®mer when lie was appointed by • faculty to represent ' the colh-ge • Pre S. A. T. C. course. He was one of the most popular TOant in со lege being liked by «У one. A great loss was mjs- “>*d by the conpany by his resipna- Bobby— “Sister must be able to see in the dark.” Mother— “Why soT” Bobby— “Because last night when she was sitting in the parlor with Mr. Staylate I heard her say, ’Why Tom, you haven4 shaved!’” Lombard Review Doc Vfdst (to Prof. Bohannon) — “Professor, I can’t do that, I have too much on my hands.” Prof. Bohannon— “Why don’t you wash your hands.” AWKWARD SQUAD ant Savage has been appoint- dl this iiosition, and sergeant rider is to be first line serge- It has been suggested that a new squad be formed of West, Allen, Carr, Hall and a few others .who continue to drop their rifles on their feet. Samford University Library