The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 29, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY
IS Cents per Month, $1.50 per Year
First Edition Printed at Camp Blair; the Last at Potsdam Published “Try-Weekly”
VOL. I CAMP BOWIE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1917 FIVE CENTS PER COPY No. 6
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HEADS UP, SOLDIERS—FORT WORTH IS LOOKING
HORSES HAVE GOT SENSE
(By E. N. Young-)
{ A horse may be a stupid brute,
And be exceeding dense—
As well befits a creature which
} Is quite devoid of sense.
But still I cannot quite believe
A horse is such a fool;
| For equine brutes learn readily
When they’re attending school.
They may sometimes get frac-
tious
And an ugly temper show;
But I’ve never seen a “gold-
brick”
’Mong the horses that I know.
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And then again another thing
I like that horses do,
Is that they never do pretend
That they know more than you.
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n
; They're gentlemen by every
right— I
They never try to slack;
And when one tries to teach a
horse, j
The horse will not talk back.
These things I mention just to
show
That horses ain’t so dense;
And that compared; with many
men—
Most horses have got sense.
“Straight ahead soldiers;
walk straight soldiers; keep
smiling soldiers; be men sol-
diers—Fort Worth expects it of
you.”
Fort Worth is mighty well
pleased with the class of men
Uncle Sam has sent to train at
her back door and she is not
at all slow to show it. It be-
hooves soldiers to see that Fort
Worth does not slacken in her
estimation, and effort to please.
Since the Reconnaissance
printed the story last week
about the manner in which Fort
Worth has thrown open her
heart, arms, and front doors to
soldiers at Camp Bowie, a num-
ber of letters have been re-
ceived by the editors in which
the writers wanted to express
themselves regarding the kind
of soldiers they have found at
Camp Bowie. A still larger
number, have taken occasion to
phone or call in person and as-
sure the publishers of the lit-
tle paper that is of the soldiers,
for the soldiers and by the sol-
diers that “we have a right to
treat the soldiers good— they
have proven to us that they
appreciate and deserve more
than usual notice.”
Pastors, school teachers, law-
yers, doctors and men from all
other walks of life have been
pleasantly surprised to find the
men wearing the uniform are
of such unusally high type of
citizenship.
. “I, as a great number of oth-
er people of my acquaintance
had gotten to the point in life
where we believed that soldiers
were a careless, thoughtless
class of people who were liable
to do anything,” a Fort Worth
man said. “Instead of that, we
find the men who wear the un-
iform are proud of the fact;
are well behaved and unusually
intelligent and ready to meet
anyone half way in the matter
of proper treatment.”
Others in their letters stated
that all churches, lodges and
the like are open to soldiers at
all times. With this condition
of things throughout Fort
Worth, officers at Camp Bowie
declare there is absolutely no
need for any man to visit low
type places of any kind, and
that if men do “go to the devil
it will not be because they have
no other place to go.”
Men from Oklahoma and Tex-
as feel just a lot like they are
at home in Fort Worth. Wheth-
er they knew anyone here or
not, when they came, it made
no difference. Fort Worth
has thrown the latch away and
the door is wide open. Nice peo-
ple of the city declare they are
ready to swear by Camp Bowie
men as long as they show a dis-
position to play the game as
they have during the last few
weeks.
Officers really expected to see
a number of men in each regi-
ment who would try to get
tough and jim the whole camp
with their stunts. Up to this
time, however, there has been
but little uniform disgracing
in Fort Worth and Fort Worth
people may feel sure that as
long as they make the soldiers
feel at home as they have that
if a fellow does go wrong it
will be because he was wrong
to begin with and was not at
all typical of the men, or even
a small per cent of Camp Bow-
ieites.
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GET THIS FROM THE P. M.
Say, “rookie,” if your best
girl is not writing as often as
you think she should, take a
scratch at your head and see if
you gave her your correct ad-
dress in your last Letters
should bear not only the name
of the person for whom it is in-
tended, but should also bear the
name of the regiment and the
designation of the battery to
which he belongs. Thus
Mr. John Doe,
Battery “A,” First Texas Field
Artillery,
Camp Bowie,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Correspondents should re-
member that mail clerks are
not city directories, and that
even in a regiment there are
approximately 1300 men, many
of them bearing the same sur-
name, and that it is practically
impossible to keep all the names
in mind when sorting mail.
Some addresses are extreme-
ly amusing. “Camp Bowie” is
spelled in a variety of ways,
from “Camp Bowey” to “Camp
Booie.” “Battle Field Artillery”
and “Field Artillery Battalion
Signal Corps” are some of the
designations noted on incoming
letters.
And, say, “rookie,” it would
be just as well for you to put
a stamp on that letter that you
mailed this morning.
GENERAL BLAKELY
IN COMMAND OF BOWIE
Brig. Gen. George E. Blakely
Brigadier General George E.
Blakely is now commanding of-
ficer of Camp Bowie, or the
36th Division. He is command-
er of the artillery brigade, and
is now working on plans of re-
organization that will make his
brigade second to none. It is
also believed that he will be
one of the first from Bowie to
go to France when orders to
“move on” come.
Incidentally General Blakely
is a graduate of West Point;
was later professor of mathe-
matics in West Point and later
saw service in the coast artil-
lery.
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SING SONG SUNDAY.
A Sing Song will be held
Sunday afternoon under the
auspices of the Music Commit-
tee of the War Service Board.
--3.
This is the third of the Series
of Soldier Sunday Matinees. So
many requests has been re-
ceived for more Sing Songs that
the Music Committee has de-
cided to continue them at in-
tervals through the winter.
It will be held in the First
Methodist Church. Soldiers are
especially invited and the com-
mittee urges that they join in
the singing. Printed copies of
the words will be furnished.
Old time songs, popular airs
and patriotic songs will be
ued.
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Henson, Will S. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 29, 1917, newspaper, September 29, 1917; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846968/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.