The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 12, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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THE RECONNAISSANCE
Saturday, January 12, 1918
THE RECONNAISSANCE
Published Weekly at Camp Bowie, by all Mounted Service Branches
By leave of Commanding- Officers
FIVE CENTS PER COPY ^
Advertising rates on application
ROSTER OF OFFICERS, 133rd FIELD ARTILLERY
HONORARY EDITORIAL STAFF
COL. F. A. LOGAN..................Commanding
LT. COL. CAL O. ELLIOTT.........................
CAPT. ALLEN P. TERRELL.—Adjutant
1st LT. JAMES A. CRAIN............Chaplain
MAJ. SLOAN SIMPSON....First Battalion
CAPT. CAVIN MtTSE.-Battalion Adjutant
MAJ. W. A. GREEN........Second Battalion
CAPT. CONRAD B. OHNEMULLER....
.........................................Battalion Adjutant
MAJ. H. W. O. KINNARD..Third Battalion
CAPT. ARCHIE L. CATES........................
.........................................Battalion Adjutan
OFFICERS 131st FIELD ARTILLERY
Colonel Claude V. Birkhead.
Lieutenant Colonel John J. Jennings.
Major Joseph W. Speight.
Major William G. Tobin.
Captain L. E. Boren, Adjutant. .
Captain W. A. McDuffee, Batallion
Adjutant.
Captain J. E. Clark, Battalion Adju-
tant.
First Lieutenant George M. Boyd,
Chaplain.
OFFICERS 132nd FIELD ARTILLERY
Colonel Arthur R. Scholars.
Lieutenant-Colonel John B. Golding.
Major William H. Ingerton.
Major Felix D. Robinson.
Major Louis H. Younger.
First Lieutenant John S. Pope, Squad-
ron Adjutant.
First Lieutenant William E. Nicholson,
Squadron Adjutant.
First Lieutenant Edward E. Earle,
Chaplain.
OFFICERS 111th SUPPLY TRAIN
ROSTER
Major Donald R. Bonfouy.
Captain Lyle E. Donahue.
Captain Paul B. Mason.
Captain Calvin S. Harrah.
Captain Warren C. Tichener.
First Lieutenant Charles A. King.
First Lieutenant Tom McMurray.
First Lieutenant John S. Bradley.
First Lieutenant George H. Giddings.
First Lieutenant Alfred A. Drummond.
Second Lieutenant Oscar G. Gaston.
Second Lieutenant Guy R. Bickle.
Second Lieutenant Elliott W. Whaley.
Second Lieutenant Ralph Tolson.
ATTACHED
Medical Corps:
Major James H. Gambrell.
First Lieutenant Jesse W. Hawkins.
First Lieutenant James T. Weeks.
First Lieutenant Joseph C. Smith.
Dentftl Corps:
First Lieutenant Clifford S. Shoverling.
First Lieutenant Reuben A. Wamsley.
Veterinary:
Second Lieutenant Nicholas E. Dutro.
Second Lieutenant Jesse A. Holzman.
MEDICAL DETACHMENT—131st FIELD
ARTILLERY
Officers
Major Homer T. Wilson.
First Lieutenant Arthur S. Brown.
First Lieutenant J. R. White.
First Lieutenant W. A. Stalworth.
Second Lieutenant W. H. Haskell.
Second Lieutenant D. R. Rucker.
PRAISE FROM LANSING.
Secretary of State Honorable Robert Lansing feels that the
Reconnaissance “will serve a useful purpose.” A recent letter
from Mr. Lansing, which gives further official sanction to the
ONLY newspaper published at Camp Bowie strictly for, of and
by the soldiers, says:
ACTIVE STAFF
CAPTAIN FRANK S. TILLMAN..........................................................................................Director
LIEUT. JAMES A. CRAIN................................................................................Business Manager
CORPORAL WILL S. HENSON..............................................................................................Editor
CORPORAL KENT WATSON....................................................................Advertising Manager
CORPORAL FRANK STREET......................................................................Circulation Manager
CORPORAL GEO. B. WEBSTER......................................................................................Secretary
CORPORAL ISHAM J. OSBORNE......................._...................................................Art Director
CORPORAL GARLAND ADAIR..........................................................................Associate Editor
PRIVATE E. L. WALL............................................................................................Associate Editor
CORPORAL RICHARD HALL..............................................................................Associate Editor
CORPORAL E. N. YOUNG....................................................................................Associate Editor
CORPORAL TOM S. PETTY................................................................................Associate Editor
SERGEANT J. M. CAVINESS............................... Associate Editor
CORPORAL PHIL FIRMIN....................................................................................Associate Editor
“KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING.”
THE REJMERS COMPANY. FORT WORTH
The Secretary of State
WASHINGTON
December 8, 1917
Dear Mr r Watson:
I received your letter of the 3rd
enclosing a copy of THE RECONNAISSANCE,
published at Camp Bowie, Texas.
I have looked through the issue with
much interest and believe that it will
serve a useful purpose in giving to the
soldiers who have the opportunity of reading
it a community of interest which is of
real value in any organization, whether
mi1itary or civil.
I wish you success in the enterprise
you have undertaken.
Very sincerely,
ROBERT LANSING.
Corporal Kent Watson,
The Reconnaissance,
Battery D., 133rd P. A.
Camp Bowie, Texas.
♦—
Buoyant Bingles
(By Corporal Kent Watson.)
♦---*—-----------------
Most soldiers are “promising young
men.” With only thirty bucks to spend
promise is about all they can do.
ft
We have found one good thing about
the Kaiser—he doesn’t mess around
with red tape.
Ha
Charles Unterbergerheim recently
died at Memphis, Tenn. Any person
with such a name as that should die.
ft
The Beautiful Blond says that the
price of rouge goes up when a girl six
feet four uses it.
ft
The meanest man in the world is a
newspaper man who writes something
rotten and then won’t read it because
he knows it’s rotten.
ft
Some folks fail to catch the point
to some of these bingles. Perhaps that
is because some of ’em don’t have any
points.
ft
Our idea of camouflage is a certain
well advertised breakfast food. (Which
would be more appropriate at the
stables.)
188
Our idea of originality is a boot-
legger who has nerve enough to lose
a leg so that he may have cork always
handy when he wants to close a bottle.
ft
We are of the opinion that the Lone
Star Gas Company should be advised
that they’re too rabid in adhering to
Hoover’s fuel conservation plan,
ft
Shorty Shanks says that instead of
believing only half they hear, as they
“DOES AMERICA REALIZE?”
The question as to how we shall bring eighty per cent of the
people in the United States to the realization that this country is
at war has been asked. We shall not attempt to answer it, for we
believed such action would not be justifiable. Public opinion is
playing back at itself to the extent of apparently making eighty
per cent of the nation’s population believe that eighty per cent
of the people do not realize the bigness of the task before the
populace.
“Does America realize?” is a question to be viewed from
more than one angle. There is knowledge, most certainly, that the
United States is at war with the central powers. Some folks con-
jure themselves to admit that there are many, many other folks
who are not doing their part in making America ready for war.
America does realize that we are at war. America does realize
that we are in a war that shall consume time and the products of
millions of men and millions of dollars. America does realize that
America is going to lose many men before Kaiserism calls a truce.
Legislative action has been largely instrumental, we think,
in creating an assumption among the American people that the.
nation has not awakened to the realization that we are in a war.
This is an oddity created by a laxity of Americanism—for the fact
that so many people do not realize the horrors that may follow
our entrance into the struggle: Americans allowing themselves
to believe that other Americans have not realized what they them-
selves see so clearly. The Reconnaissance is not in a position to
assume that this prevailing condition is traditional.
We would refute the bellyachings of so many folks about
what “other folks” haven’t realized. It is not comforting to the'
men who have donned the uniform to have John Smith make the
assertion that Bill Jones “does not realize” and then have Bill
Jones say the same thing about John Smith. If America has
failed to realize anything concerning our entrance into the war,
The Reconnaissance is of the opinion that it pertains mostly to
a superfluity of gab.
America is the most progressive nation on the face of the
earth. Grasping preparedness as a key to victory, despite num-
erous depressing blunders, this country has jumped into war,
partially equipped the largest standing army under the sun, after
organization of the necessary military units, outlined and put
under way the greatest ship building program ever dreamed of
and transported nearly half a million fighting men to the scene
of destructive warfare.
If America does not realize, let us ask: What has created the
aggressive progressiveness that has marked the transpiration of
administrative events during the past year? If America does not
realize, why is it that throughout the vast commonwealth each
community is eagerly atingle with some work pertaining to a con-
tinuation of our great preparedness program?
Is it possible that some folks, while themselves realizing what
the nation faced preparatory to war, will maintain ‘ that others
do not realize? If everybody realizes that everybody else doesn’t
realize, we are at a loss to conceive anything that will offer a
remedy to the situation.
“Does America realize?” The question has been asked so
many, many times, that The Reconnaissance is inclined to wonder
who the author of the question is. We cannot stoop to the depth
of presuming that ’American newspapers have been negligent in
propounding patriotism to the multitudes and yet there comes
intermittent recurrence of the infernal question: “Does America
realize ?”
We are disposed to opine that there is misgiving among the
patriots. Misgiving fathers the questioning as to whether
America realizes—and makes for that element bordering on
sedition.
America’s crucial moment in the war has come, but a crisis
necessarily must follow in the wake of transpiring events. The
inevitable victory of the entente allies, we think, will not come
until America realizes that America does realize. When such
realization is brought about the crisis will be over.
It is certain that when American troops actually participate
in the annihilation of Kaiserism on European battlefronts, that
Uncle Sam will not do so with ill-equipped troops. There will be
no massacre of untrained Americans. That should suffice as an
explanation of why so many troops are “being kept in the United
States when they’re needed ‘over there’.” The training of
America’s vast army has progressed steadily and surely with
every assurance that whatever divisions reach the trenches will
be disciplined and well-trained.
If America does not realize, The Reconnaissance would not
suggest that they be awakened to realization—the realization that
the present administration sent troops abroad, at the beckoning
of public opinion, to be slaughtered because they were not trained.
SUGGESTING A CHANGE.
A sign attracted our attention the other day and we are led
to suggest that a change be made. In the heart of Fort Worth’s
business district is a hotel—the Berlin hotel. The name is very
inappropriate and we conclude that proper patriotism has not
been displayed by the management of the hostelry. The name
Berlin is repulsive to Americanism. And we are of the opinion
that the management of the Berlin hotel will have no trouble in
assuming the duty of choosing a more timely cognomen for the
rooming house.
The Reconnaissance in unable to presume that the sign has
been intentionally displayed to the soldiers of Camp Bowie as
they pass down the streets. Apparently, however, that has been
a certain laxity in the patriotism of the hotel management.
In event the Berlin hotel shall decline, refuse or fail to change
the name of the place The Reconnaissance suggests that the
patriotic citizens of Fort Worth and Camp Bowie take steps in
order to compel the desired change. It cannot be that the people
of this city can show a sufficient amount of spinelessness to allow
Americanism to be so conspicuously flaunted, we hope.
The Reconnaissance has felt -it a duty to speak of this matter
and suggest a change. Now, that your attention has been called
to this needed improvement, let American patriotism rule in
America.
WHEN THE WAR WILL END.
Absolute knowledge I have none,
But my aunt’s washerwoman’s sister’s son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on his beat
That he had a letter just last week,
Written in the finest Greek,
From a Chinese cooley in Timbuctoo,
Who said that the niggers in Cuba knew
Of a colored man in Texas town,
Who got it from a circus clown
That a man in Klondike heard the news
From a gang of South American Jews
About somebody in Borneo
Who heard a man who claimed to know
Of a swell society female rake
Whose mother-in-law will undertake
To prove that her husband’s
Sister’s cousin’s niece
Has stated in a printed piece
That she has a son who has a friend
Who knows when the war is going to end.
—Author Unknown.
should, most women believe twice as
much as they hear.
ft
We don’t mind some of the stuff
that the cooks shove by us, but we’ve
never been able to digest that goulash
made from Ford parts.
ft
What has become of the old fash-
ioned girl who didn’t put talcum
powder in the candy she sent to her
soldier?
ft
We would be willing to have the
battery blacksmith make an iron cross
for the Tarrant County Commissioners
if they’d have the road leading into
Camp Bowie fixed.
ft
The recent quarantine should have
taught the soldiers of Camp Bowie
that they’ll need gas masks in the
trenches. They had to listen to the
same old line each night.
ft
We don’t expect to have a single
typographical error in this column two
weeks from today. It is expected that
the proof-reader will be entirely sober
by that time.
That above paragraph puts the
drinks on the proof-reader. We did
wrong in writing it, because it may
mean another “souse” after the round
of drinks have been dispensed,
ft
Our idea of an optimist is a soldier
who is willing to run the risk of biting
himself with false teeth by having all
his teeth pulled in order to keep from
having the toothache.
’ ft
If all the British, French and Italian
soldiers who have been reported killed
are really dead, we are inclined to
believe that soldiers, like cats, have
nine lives.
ft
We never have liked to write this
column, but there’s a young lady at
Denison, who looks for it each week
and we’ve sworn that just so long as
anyone reads it we’ll just keep on
writing.
ft
We may be dumb,
But please tell us, pray,
What has become
Of Chancellor Day?
—Luke McLuke.
We may be dumb,
But we’d forget
That little crumb,
Bob La Follette.
—Houston Post.
We may De dumb,
But, honest, law,
What has become
Of Harry Thaw?
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Henson, Will S. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 12, 1918, newspaper, January 12, 1918; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846933/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.