The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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THE RECONNAISSANCE
February 16, 1918.
| THERE’S A DIFFERENCE I
| in the appearance of soldiers. When you see a |
| fellow with clothes properly cleaned it’s easy to j
| figure that the service is as proud of that man as |
| the man is proud of the service. |
I KEEPING UP APPEARANCES |
| goes a long ways in making for a really good j
| soldier. Invariably you’ll find that the neat ap- |
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SQUARING THE ARGUMENT—IF
ANY.
Numerous letters, clippings, quer-
ies, nightmares, tinges of delirium tre
mens, indigestion, ingrowing toe nails
and the lie have found their way to
this office this week. It will not be
possible to print them all, but those
given below are given as typical and
may serve as a solution to some
things that would never do to put in
print. Other questions are passed on
to the readers of the Reconnaissance,
for after all the most satisfactory an-
swer to all debatable questions is the
one that we arrive at in our own mind.
A young lady writes in from Worth-
am, Texas, desiring to know the
truth about Corporal Kent Watson.
Now of course as said before some
things would never do to print—but
Watson is not a bad sort. He is tem-
permental—drinks his coffee through
his nose, sleeps with his head covered
up and his feet sticking out, eats sin
sin and all that sort of thing, but he
is what you might term “there” in,
many respects. He, it seems, wrote a
letter to some fair maid and from the
tone of the letter she surmised that
some one had told him that her father
was a very wealthy man and she the
only child, but this seems hardly pos-
sible. Watson is primarily a home
man. He loves dogs, flowers, brown’s
mule tobacco, and wealthy girls. Just
how to square him with this dame has
got our goat. We will let him do it.
Sergeant Whilden went to Weath-
erford and discovered a very wonder-
ful piece of feminine humanity. He
introduced her to Corporal McCorm-
ick and Mac beat his time. Whilden
ranks Mac and all that sort of thing
but is too timid to rank him out of
the girl. He hesitates in doing any-
thing rank. Yet, she being the idol
of his dreams and the ideal of his
very existence what is he to do. He
asks this. We pass. It might be left
up to the girl, it might be. But, then,
sometimes girls don’t know what they
want. So there you are.
Sergeant Franks writes a dame and
bawls her out about going with a civ-
ilian. Corporal Dyer tells his girl
about some fair dame that Franks is
giving the grand rush at Aledo.
Dyer’s girl tells Franks’ steady, ai\d
she comes back at him with it. What
is he to do? We advised that he move
to Utah but he refuses to leave; the
army. So there you are!
Corporal Osborne, author of Ber-
tie’s Letters, received a very beautiful
letter from some unknown fair one not
long since and upon perusing it with
overwhelming admiration and excite-
ment to see who it was from, found
that it was signed “ME.” He tries
through this column to learn the true
identity of the girl, swearing that he
will marry her on sight. He makes
such a fuss about it, another girl—
not the true ME—who had always ad-
mired him and wanted him to love
her, came to Camp Bowie to see him
and after much camouflaging she
tells him that she was the true author
of the ME letters. He reconsiders her
and decides that he always did love
her and is now willing to admit it. At
this stage of the game the true au-
thor of the ME letters comes forward
and proves her identity. She also is
more attractive in every respect than
the first one. He decides he was cor-
rect in declaring that he would mar-
ry her, but the camouflage dame is
Still on his hands. What is he to do
about the matter. It is just one of
those incidents in life where a fellow
don’t know whether to sneeze o'r go
blind1. He may have to do both. We
pass as we are ready to admit that
this woman question has us buffaloed
and whipped to the knees. But what
is he to do ?
Ttomance, Just Over the Hill, for'Some
El Paso Girls:.
Yon know how it is, girls •—
Honor bright; you have? all dreaitftsd
about ;a regular, honest4tf-goodne&S
romance.
You know how it is, girls^
A lonely soldier—good family—a
Tew letters—and—
Well, romance is just over th<£ edge
of the horizon.
And over at Camjr Bowie therg' is' a
lonely soldier boy who would likd tf<5>
correspond with “some western youhgr
ladies.” He doesn’t specify the number
of stamps he can afford to buy daily*
and the amount of time he can find in
which to write letters, but his letter to-
the Morning Times follows:
“A soldier from one of the arsito-
cratic families wishes to correspond
with some attractive western type of
promise all wfio have ‘curiosity’ that
it will bearoused before I return from
France. Will he glad to answer quer-
ies regarding army life while in the
United States and also in France, pro-
vided we are fortunate enough to get
there. Address—Corporal Ernest
Talley, headquarters company, 133rd
Field Artillery, Camp Bowie, Texas.”
—El Paso Times.
Corporal Talley has been broke for
two weeks now and this article ex-
plains it all.. If the fair ones in the
West want to aid the cause, they will
stop writing to him immediately, as
the boys are tired of his bumming
stamps.
Sergeant Tom Walker is recom-
mended for a commission in the quar-
termasters’ department. He seizes the
opportunity and gets all sorts of let-
ters. Feeling sure that he will get
commissions he buys a supply of gold
hat cords and office spurs. He got
them from Seres & Rareback and they
refuse to take them back. They cost
lots of money. He is afraid to try to
sell them to an officer lest he get ar-
rested for owning something that he
should not. And, Tommy is a thrifty
boy! Oh, mercy!
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As usual our office has been flooded
with requests for a prominent place
in this column. Twelve stenograph-
ers and a number of orderlies have
been detailed to help us handle the
vast number and still we are hid away
beneath an avalanche. It is the duty
of all girls every where to come to
the rescue of the editor of the Recon-
naissance, and begin a systematic
writing campaign. If you, yourself,
are unable to write to all the bunch
then you are duty bound to pass this
on to your best friend. She may have
more time. If you are engaged or
married, we guarantee that the men
herein named will never tell a word.
No other kind will ever be given pub-
licity in this column.
Take these names as they come and
do your best:
William Johann is a corporal in the
Hdq. Co. 133rd F. A. He is tall and
handsome. The folks in his home town
know him as Bill, as he is not a city
fellow. He might be called the “Coun-
try Boy with the City Ideas.” Any
way, he is anything but a barber and
monkey tamer.
While speaking of the German ele-
ment in the Hdq. Co., 133rd F. A. let
us mention Adolph Beittendorf, who
is a charming stripling of some 16
years who got in the army through a
political pull that he had. He is a type
beloved of women, and will prove an
interesting guy.
Top Sergeant Jones, E Battery, is
one of those clecer men who have the
girls at his feet at all times. He is of
high rank and it will pay any girl to
spend the time to write him a letter.
Phil Firmin, 3rd Officers’ Training
Camp is all done up in- trying to make
a shave-tail, and in his wild and mad
rush, he asks for a few words of cheer
from those on the outside. You see
you don’t understand what it means to
try for a commission. Write to Phil
and ask him if he is tired, or if he
thinks it is worth it. You will get a
revelation. Phil was the proprietor of
a poultry farm before his entrance into
the world struggle.
Sergeant William Paine, Hdq. Co.,
133rd F. A. is one of those big husky
country boys that you read about in
the papers. He left his home in Waxa-
hachie, Texas, to come to Camp Bowie
to see the sights. He may insert a
little language’ of the woods, but he
is a man among soldiers.
I Had It On ’Em.
I strolled down the street one day
I met several1 officers on the way
I greeted thena as I went by
With upturned chin and angled eye
They greeted me with pleased face
And returned the salute with-, hearty
grace.
There were seven of them and one of I
. I gave but one salute as I went by
'I got Seven salutes in return,
An my bosom pride did bum.
‘“I am an enlisted man,” says I
“Il.'get it on ’em—do or die!”
—Hen.
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Henson, Will S. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1918, newspaper, February 23, 1918; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846953/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.