TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SOUTHERN STANDARD MAY 2, 1918 P. 1
Camp Jackson, S. C.
April, 26. 1918
Dear Old Standard:
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I write this letter to my dear old home paper, but the reason I do it often wanders into my mind, and why I write to the paper. I will tell you. I have lots of friends in old Clark county and I find that the best way to write to all of them, as you know I use to live in Clark county, but duty calls me away and I am trying to do my duty, and I am not by myself, there are thousands of them doing their duty. And I hope we won’t have a slacker in old Arkansas as this is the time to buy a liberty loan bond and help win the victory. So we can all say that we helped to win this war.
Well I will tell you about us boys in Camp Jackson. We all think our home state the best, but I am here to tell you that old Arkansas is never left out, for in my company over half of the boys are Arkansas boys, and we hold them a pretty good hand. I think that we have got the boys believing that Arkansas is the only state. The boys here seemed to think that there was lots of rock in Arkansas but they don’t think so now.
Well, friends let me say one word for the Y. M. C. A. I think it the finest thing on earth for a soldier. Where do our soldiers go on Sunday when they are in Camp? I can tell you they go to the Y. M. C. A., to Sunday school and preaching, just as they would if they were at home. And you don’t have to hunt for the Y. M. C. A. when you go into a camp the Y. M. C. A. man will hunt you and he is your friend the first time he sees you.
And let me say one word for the Red Cross, I want to say that it is a great thing, and the Red Cross is something that everybody will be proud of in days to come.
G. E. Callaway
NOTES: Written by Grady Eugene Callaway.
TRANSCRIBED BY GABBY RUSHING
Camp Jackson, S. C.
April, 26. 1918
Dear Old Standard:
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I write this letter to my dear old home paper, but the reason I do it often wanders into my mind, and why I write to the paper. I will tell you. I have lots of friends in old Clark county and I find that the best way to write to all of them, as you know I use to live in Clark county, but duty calls me away and I am trying to do my duty, and I am not by myself, there are thousands of them doing their duty. And I hope we won’t have a slacker in old Arkansas as this is the time to buy a liberty loan bond and help win the victory. So we can all say that we helped to win this war.
Well I will tell you about us boys in Camp Jackson. We all think our home state the best, but I am here to tell you that old Arkansas is never left out, for in my company over half of the boys are Arkansas boys, and we hold them a pretty good hand. I think that we have got the boys believing that Arkansas is the only state. The boys here seemed to think that there was lots of rock in Arkansas but they don’t think so now.
Well, friends let me say one word for the Y. M. C. A. I think it the finest thing on earth for a soldier. Where do our soldiers go on Sunday when they are in Camp? I can tell you they go to the Y. M. C. A., to Sunday school and preaching, just as they would if they were at home. And you don’t have to hunt for the Y. M. C. A. when you go into a camp the Y. M. C. A. man will hunt you and he is your friend the first time he sees you.
And let me say one word for the Red Cross, I want to say that it is a great thing, and the Red Cross is something that everybody will be proud of in days to come.
G. E. Callaway
NOTES: Written by Grady Eugene Callaway.
TRANSCRIBED BY GABBY RUSHING