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"WILD CATS" HAD THE RIGHT NAME 81 ST DIVISION TRAINED AT CAMP JACKSON. Put On Original Show. Division With Many South Carolinians Goes Into Theatricals in France. I Mussy-sur-Seine, France, Feb. 5. ?Now that the Wild Cats, insignia by which Maj. Gen. C.harles J. Ba*ii ley's Eighty-first Division is recognized, have courageously performed what Uncle Sam asked of them on the Meuse-Argonne front in the vivorrinn?and performed in V/1JJ.1 CJ U1 ? v- v. _ a manner that will never be forgotten > by the Fifth Prussian division and Third Bavarian division of the German army?they are executing training schedules, filling the time prior to the return to America, in an area known as the Chatillon-surSeine. Mussy-sur-Seine is the location of tht division headquarters, with various branches of the service in the division scattered out in some half a hundred villages adjoining Mussy. It is not my duty to write about army achievements in this letter to your valuable paper, which is read, I am positive, due to familiarity with your circulation gained while visiting your city as press agent for Cohan and Harris attractions, in ? homes abounding in interest in the welfare of the Eighty-first division. The army achievement will be duly tabulated through military chahnels for the attention of mothers and fathers, who have centered their loving and devoted* interest in this division. But, without infringing upon army regulations, I may tip off the fact, as a doughboy of the division, to, mothers and fathers of sons in the Wild Cat division that they may anticipate splendid news in the army report?news that will make them feel proud their sons were enrolled under the emblem of the Wild Cat. /' It is for me to relate what is ab sorbing the attention and spare mo. . -ments of the men while they remain on foreign soil, abiding with the wishes of Uncle Sam toward the fulfillment of the armistice conditions, ahd awaiting the "big word" to start for America. Since December 3, the date on which the Eighty-first division completed its triumphal hike from the spot in the Meuse-Argonne sector, where the Wild Cats put the finishing touches to the ambitions of the Huns, and arrived in this area, light training schedules have been the order of things hereabouts. These tv schedules were organized with a view of maintaining the health ol ha man and in this respect they have answered the purpose. The health of the Eighty-first division ax this writing is superb. This news, mind you, is from the pen of a doughboy in the division, pessimists ? can't say it is exaggerated, due to hearsay. The men are thinking and dreaming and guessing of the hour they will hear the word to go home, being so completely occupied in these thoughts that they haven't got time to become ill.. Of course there is illness of a "trifle" nature, as is to be v expected in any big body of men, but the health, the fighting health of the division, is today 100 per cent. This is an item the writer is fully aware will be pleasing to the anxious ones back home. Want to Go Home. Si Naturally, the men want to go home! They want a peep at the Statue of Liberty. Or will it be Charleston harbor or ' Newport News? There's another guess the men are making?the exact location where the division will land in America. The men find interest in laying wagers between themselves as to where the division will land. It's an official topic to be decided, but all can rest assured that the happiness will be supreme wc:a the or1 . der is given to start for America. On February 11 the Eighty-first division will have registered the duration of the overseas service that will entitle each soldier in the division to the first gold stripe. Entertainment is what is serving as' the big attraction to fill the thoughts of the men, while the training schedules are lightened in comparison to what they werfe while the men were preparing to clash full swing throughout the A. E. F. as the result of a general order declaring tha>t the men be awarded a big measure of enjoyment to while away the wintry nights. The Wild Cats are exceedingly conspicuous in the entertaining line through Gen. Bailey seeing to it. that entertainment be established as an important factor ip the present situation. Lieut. Robert L. Hayes of division headquarters, is the division enter tainment officer. Under Lieut. f Hayes* supervision a wide table of -y entertainment plans have been s spread broadcast throughout the di- c vision until those plans have become s as important as was the manual 01 arms to the beginning of each sol- 1 dier's army life. Situated in an t area, far from the possibilities of en- t tertainment at the command of men f placed in camps in America.% Lieut, f Hayes found his task a difficult one t at the start but a Wild Cat is a Wild ( " Cat regardless of the task to be ac- t complished. The result is that the 1 present time finds splendid enter- j tainment in the division, with as i much interest prevailing as if the men had prepared for it many days , before it was known November 11 was to be productive of the opportu- t nitv now at hand. . Self-made entertainment has popped out every nook and corner of the Eighty-first division. There's conerable professional talent hereabouts but why this professional talent won't be considered as richly as the self-made talent will be learned later in this letter. The Wild Cats have the banjo players from Alabama; the sweet voiced singers from Tennessee; the good Southern darky imitation singers from the Carolinas; the soft shoe dancers from Florida, and last but not least the parody singers and story tellers from the Bronx in New York. There's a sprinkling of talent from other States in the division but those named predominate. On Christmas night regimental j shows were given, and they were so cleverly presented that bigger ideas for the Wild Cats to make progress in the entertainment department! were quickly grasped. Now the Wild Cats, via the process j of gathering choice talent from va- j rious branches of the service, plus a ' topnotch orchestra taken from the artillery, have a representative division show. It is called, "Oh, You Wild Cats." Boasted up in details that army regulations and facilities don't govern, by the wide scope and extreme hospitality of the Y. M. C. A., and Eighty-first division theatrical tal- j ent has been placed on detached ser-; vice, and formed into an entertain-! ment unit. The Y. M. C. A. guiding hand is superintended by Luther B. j Swanstrom, entertainment director, of the "Y" in the Chatillon area.! i Mr. Swanstrom is working with Lieut. Hayes in the perfection of the , whole undertaking. The men forming the theatrical unit of the division have been as-j l sembled in the town of Chatillon sur-Seine under the direct charge of. i the Y. M. C. A., which organization . , has furnished the unit with every j comfortable means that is at the' i command of any organization "overj ; here." The unit has its own rehears-! al tent; its own tent for billeting ; purposes and its own mess tent. In j . short, the Eighty-first division the-! : atrical unit is an institution in it-; self. Wild Cats Unafraid. While the Wild Cats were .assem-, ' bling their ideals for a representa' tive show, other divisions were rush-; ; ing to Paris, and gaining considera-! 1 ble publicity by presenting their rep! 1 resentative shows. The rush is still on. The Seventy-seventh gain- j ed a foothold on the publicity j ! through the efforts of the "Argonne ; 1 Players." The Twenty-second, with!' several others, followed the foot-! ! steps of the New York division. Did j, 1 this scare or discourage the Wild j i Cats? Not a solitary iota! Who ever heard of a Wild Cat being scared? I" . Instead of being discouraged at j, 1 the achievements of the other divis-: ions in theatricals, the Wild Cats re-, mained in their den in this area? i merely lying in wait?lying in wait for an original idea. This idea eventually came and it will probably be interesting for the anxious ones back home to know how the Wild Cats leaped at the American Expedi- , tionary forces theatrical honors that have yet to be officially awarded to the best division show. i The WTild Cats didn't want to become publicly active in the theatri- ; cal honor seeking until they had i original "prey" at which to leap. The / Wild Cats have gone wild, say out- < siaers, wno are aware or me greai' ness of the simplicity of the Eighty- : ; first division's original show. 1 i In presenting the plans for the ; Eighty-first division show, General Bailey's doughboys threaten to run ; away with the theatrical honors of < the American expeditionary force, 1 according to professional theatrical ; people who are "over there" with < "overseas units." Mention has been ] made, editorially, in Paris newspa- 1 pers that theatricals have broken j out like a rash in the American expeditionary force. 'Tis the absolute truth. Every division is producing a show. There's a likeness, however, 1 to each and every division show thus ! far presented?a similarity of ideas to perfect the formation. It ap- 1 pears that no division believes it can 1 produce a show without adding the irofessional talent Included in the di- fision. By this is meant the profesional talent which comprises sol- ? liers who were taken from profes- G ional stage life by the army's call. ?c It is squarely in the middle of the ei 'big hurrah" over doughboy enter- f1 ainment that the Wild Cats leap in- _ o the front with an original show or the American expeditionary orce. The Wild Cats have meowed heir motto thusly: "A strictly loughbov show without professional alent." This motto has hurled nuch attention toward the entertainment efforts of the Eighty-first division. Can you imagine a soldier who was working behind the plow in Alabama or a lad more accustomed :o walking through the everglades ? Df Florida than assuming the thes- ? pian attitude, being whipped into _ :he cast of a show that Paris will witness? There's romance in the i :hought, isn't there? Well, it's this c A 1 A TTTJ 1 Pr* U'ontoH I ? "oniance mat me v> nu v,aw mauivu ? i;o insert into their show, and it's romance that will surround their show. And what is more?the idea is being speedily whipped into reality, so much so that the rehearsals bave been amusing to officials from Paris who have seen them. The premiere of the Wild Cats will be made it Mussy on February 11, with mother presentation at Chaumont before General Pershing, with the final trip to Paris in competition v.-ith the other shows. The Wild Pats are just bent on grabbing the A.merican expeditionary force medal. Except for the managerial end. which happens to be Private Joe Goodwin of the Three Hundred and Twenty-second infantry and the writer, the Eighty-first division will not have a single professional actor. Private Goodwin is no other than the 'Joe" Goodwin of song-writing fame, being the author of "Liberty Bells." "When I Walk With Billy," "That's How I Xeed You." and other popular sentimental songs known in every American household where popular music is recognized. And it is the same Private Goodwin, who is one of the song writers of America who actually saw service at the front? the other being "Joe's" pal, Jimmy Hanley, of the Eighty-second division. "Private Joe" has written all the * *' A ? TT721*3 a /I i r> nr?A_ SOIlgS OI lilt? w iiu auu 10 yivducing the show. One of the song hits promises to be "I'm in France Tonight *But My Heart is in the U. S. A." The idea of the Wild Cat show is going to be kept a secret i 'iil it is offered for A. E. F. appr< val, but those in the show are satisfied it will strike the A. E. F. with a bang, since > it will be characteristic of the same [ beginning as surrounds the formation of General Pershing's army?a cast of untried lads in an occupation new to them. Catch the spirit, dear reader? The whole Eighty-first division is behind the theatrical unit. The unit has but one thing in mind?the ambition to win the A. E. F. medal out of material that will be best for having a strictly doughboy showknown only by those who witnessed the firm assemblage of the unprofessional talent."?Color Sergt. Walter S. Duggan, Three Hundred and Twenty-fourth Infantry, Eighty-first Division. m i ? m Medical Examinations in Montana, Opponents of compulsory medical examination and inspection of school teachers and children won a signal victory before the Montana legislature on Sunday when the committee on education voted unanimously to reject senate bills No. 61 and 62, which provided both for the semiannual medical examination of all school children with expulsion from scnool or any wno reiused to be ex- i amiried or vaccinated at the order of i the examiners and for the examina-1 tion of teachers, janitors and others 1 connected with the schools or applying for positions in the schools. Roman Catholic parochial and private schools were eliminated from the provision of the bills. This with the | additional fact that it was felt that j such a stringent law would make it; very difficult to obtain new teachers j outside of Montana is believed to; have had much to do with the committee's action. Both bills were introduced early in the session by Senator Edward Xolan, one of the State leaders, but bitter opposition from all over the State developed. It is considered significant that two members of the committee on education ! are physicians. There are still sev- j aral other medical and board of: health measures in the legislature, hut nnnp nrp lnnVprl nnnn pc cr> doti. serous as the tills just killed. < I I Hi Three Wise Men. "Who were the three Wise Men of the East?" asked the Sunday school teacher. Little Jimniie?up on current affairs, but slightly hazy on Bible history: "Rockefeller, Roosevelt ana Wilson." 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