Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — WHY HE GOT TEN DAYS. [ARTICLE]

WHY HE GOT TEN DAYS.

This is the way it happened to a husky Camp Taylor select, as told in his words: They took me away from cool Indiana and brought me down South, where it’s summer all winter and hell all summer. . They took me from a comfortable bed and put me in a tent. They took away my good clothes and gave me a suit of red-hot khaki. They took away my good name and gave me a number—494. They took me away from my good job and put me to digging ditches and walking marathons till my hands and feet wore out. They made me go to bed when I was not sleepy and get up when I was. They made me go to church on Sunday whether I wanted to go or not. In church the parson said: “All turn to number 494—‘Are You Footsore, Are You Weary?’ And I got ten days in the guardhouse for answering; “Hell, yes.” __