Bennett Champ Clark letter to Champ Clark - February 3, 1918
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[February] 3, 1918. Dear Little Things: We have had some very cold weather during the last week but this Sunday afternoon is bright and warm – a beautiful spring Sunday. The sun came out yesterday long enough for the ground hog to see his shadow. Latest information from Camp Doniphan [Oklahoma] is that our division will not move as soon as was expected and there is a good chance for us to finish our school before the division moves. The school is being split up this week. The infantry officers stay here and the artillery officers go to Fort Sill [Oklahoma] for the remainder of the course which will last about two months yet.
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It looks more and more like the war is going to peter out. The German government will doubtless be able to suppress the present strikes and uprisings but it will take heed of them nevertheless. All the peoples are war weary except our own who have not yet had it brought home to them by huge casualty list from the front. Are Genevieve and Jim still in the east? I have not heard anything of them since I left New Orleans except one reference to them in a letter from Dad. I’d like to know whether you all ever got the blankets I ordered shipped from Lawton [Oklahoma]. I have the bill for them and haven’t paid it because I didn’t know whether the blankets had
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even been received. I see by this week’s Literary Digest that considerable comment is running over the country to the effect that Wilson is a fine peacemaker but a failure as a war President owing to the mediocrity of his cabinet. That bunch of misfits was bound to get into trouble sooner or later. It just couldn’t be otherwise. You all never say how you are in your letters. I hope you are both feeling fine. I think the school is going to be better from now on. We are finishing up with the routine business and more and more take up tactical problems and principles in which, of course, we all still have much to learn and I think that
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will be very interesting and beneficial to all of us. We are also going fully into the subject of musketry in which our army leads all the armies of the world by a big margin. If the Germans ever go to moving masses of troops within six hundred yards of our lines as they do now they’ll learn a lesson that will last them a long time. With lots of love to you all, Dear Little Things, I remain Your devoted son, Bennett. Am enclosing Helen’s letter. Please return it to me.
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Title | Bennett Champ Clark letter to Champ Clark - February 3, 1918 |
Creator | Clark, Bennett Champ |
Source | Clark, Bennett Champ. Letter to Champ Clark. 03 February 1918. Clark, Champ (1850-1921) and Bennett Champ (1890-1954), Papers, 1853-1973. C0666. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
Description | In this February 3, 1918 letter to his father Champ Clark, Bennett Clark discussed Officer training school in San Antonio, Texas and Woodrow Wilson's effectiveness as President. Champ Clark, a long-time resident of Bowling Green, Missouri, was a politician in the Democratic Party. He served as a representative of Missouri from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1921. From 1911 to 1919 he served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Bennett Clark served as a Colonel during World War I and was Missouri State Senator from 1933 to 1945. |
Subject LCSH | Clark, Champ, 1850-1921; World War, 1914-1918--Political aspects--United States; Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954; Missouri. National Guard; United States. Army--Physical training; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 |
Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
Site Accession Number | C0666 |
Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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Date Original | February 3, 1918 |
Language | English |