Lieutenant Lindley was profoundly impressed with the contrast between the south and the west, and he says that if any man wants to become an unqualified booster for this section of the country, he has only to be stationed for a while in the region of Augusta and Atlanta.
"It is impossible for me to resist this chance to take at least a little crack at the south," stated Lieutenant Lindley. "The merchants certainly held up the officers and men for every article purchased. Clothing and military supplies were sold at outrageous prices.
"The whole attitude of the west toward the troops may be indicated by this little incident with reference to our troop train when we left the Presidio. Everywhere in the west and southwest the Red Cross met the train whenever it pulled into a station and the boys were given free eats of all kinds and treated to everything that could be furnished. I noticed the difference first when we got to Augusta. The town was closed and nobody met us there at all. When we got to Augusta, the Red Cross was there all right with hot coffee and sandwiches which they passed around among the fellows—accompanied however, by a bill for fifty cents for each service. After the splendid generosity of the west and the cordial way we were treated everywhere, we could help noticing how different was the case.
When the doctor, if you have his prescription filled here, it is essential that your prescriptions have every bit of the potency that the physician relies upon or else the results will be disappointing. To insure this, drugs must be fresh, pure."  and active, and must be properly compounded. 