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Newspaper Page TextPage 2 I I 1 ' I || I rwr**? ’SWOS yJh&IS «t> ® I Ky O|snnp£ v \V V \ \ *J \ c / *W I TREHCH AND CAMP CAMP HANCOCK, Augusta, Ga. EDITION, 10,200 GEO. B. LANDIS and J. EDGAR PROBYN, Editors. Published gratis by THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO., Augusta, Ga. ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY VOL I—Oct. 17, 1917—N0. 2 Application has been made for TRENCH and CAMP for entry a.s Mail Matter of the Second Class at the Augusta, Ga., Poetoffice. NO i ICE. This edition of Trench and Camp is limited to 10;C00 copies. An effort will be made to place one or more copies in every tent. If parties are desirous of other copies, application should be made to the nearest Y. M. C. A. building, where they wiU be gladly furnished as long as they last. As the edition is limited to 10,000 copies, please do not threw your copy away, when you are through with it. Pass it on to some other fellow. News items, personals, programs, meetings, announcements, etc., from all the units in the camp will be welcomed by Trench and Camp and printed as far as space per mits. These communications can be left with secretaries at any of the Y. M. C. A. buildings and will be turned over to the editors. Ail copy should be turned in as early as possible. No copy can be hand led later than Monday noon, pre ceding date of issue. Trench and Camp will be issued every Wed nesday by THE AUGUSTA HERALD, Publishers of the Camp Hancock Edition of Trench and Camp. Some men who imagined Georgia to be all warmth and sunshine have been greviously disappointed the past few nights. The excellent behavior of the sol diers who visit Augusta has attracted favorable comment and the Augustans have been surprised at the gentleman ly attitude of the men from the Key stone State. The abolitoin of booze has helped greatly in winning the fa vor of southerners but the great ma jority of the soldiers have always been gentlemen at home. LOVE THE FLAG; RESPECT THE UNIFORM What a slogan the above words would be for the men of the United States Army, serving in camp, canton ment and in France. This is the watch word of the men at Camp Jackson and we pass it on to the soldiers from Pennsylvania as being worthy of their adoption. We believe there is not a man in the eentire division at Camp Hancock who does not love Old Glory. There is not a man who has not . willingly ffer ed himself in his country’s altar and pledged himself to follow the flag wherever it may lead him. A man cannot make such a sacrifice unless imelled by a great motive. We be lieve that propelling force to be love love for the flag and its free institu tions. That is why we shall soon see thousands of men of German descent battling with the Germans across the sea. They are not Germans now. They have become Americans. They love the flag. They prize the blessings of de mocracy and want to see them per petuated and extended to the whole earth, if possible. And we are glad to state, from our personal observation and the testi mony of the people of Augusta, that the soldiers at Camp Hancock, with very few exceptions, respect the uni form. In an army of 28,000 men, re cruited from all parts of the state, there are sure to be moral delin quents. Some of them have been cursed with an appetitie for booze and they have endeavored to quench their tthirst in a prohibition state by violat ing the law. These men are few, but their action brings discredit on the en tire division. What shall be done with them? The guard house and thirty days’ or a months’ pay are not sufficient. We believe the solution lies in every man so zealously respecting the uniform he wears, so jealously guarding it from disgrace, that the influence of his ex ample will permeate the whole camp and the moral deliquents become stif fened by the morale of his comrades in arms. TRENCH AND CAMP MAN FROM TRENCHES WILL ENTERTAIIN SOLDIERS Mr. Benjamin Scovell, a nephew of Sir Henry Irving, the great actor, will be with us beginning with Friday next. He is a veteran of the Boer War, and early in the present world war worked with the British Y. M. C. A. He was present at Viney Ridge, when Cornisa miners set off a huge mine along a seven mile front and demolished what was considered an utterly hnpregnab able position-. He has spent many months in Belgium visiting both trenches an-d hospitals. He knows the philosophy of the boys who go “Over the Top” into “No Man’s Land.’’ He has for thirteen weekst been on the firing line as an entertainer for wound ed soldiers, and is the man who has put Double “E” in Cheer, for sick, wounded and crippled soldiers in dev astated Belgium and France. He spent some months in entertaining wounded Canadian soldiers and is now working in American camps under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. He will speak in our building. THE FLAG Through suffering to Peace! Through sacrifice to Security! Red stripes, Turn us not from our purpose, Lead us up as by a ladder To the deep blue quiet Wherein are shining The silver stars. —AM y LOWELL. SAVE THE PAPER In another column will be found a statement to the effect that the Y.M. C. A. is now serving 1,500,000 soldiers in-this country and in France. We are so used to thinking in terms of millions and even billions that the above fig ures may make little impression, but it is a tremendous force to supplj’ day after day with free stationery, such as the Y. M. C. A. hands out freely ov er the counters in every camp and cantonment. Because of the stupendous financial demands made upon the War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A., which de mands are increasing every day, it has been, suggested that the soldiers in the camps be requested to conserve the writing paper and envelopes. Many men start a letter and because of a trifling mistake, discard the sheet and throw it in the waste receptacle or on the floor. Some men take more than they need and never think of return ing the unused to the counter. It will be seen readily that where an average of 500 men a day ask for a paper at a single building—and this is veery conservative —the aggregate of waste in all the camps and canton ments is awful. Soldiers are asked to write on both sides of the paper and to return to the counter all unused sheets. It costs the y. M. C. A. $17,000 a month for paper in the southeast camps alone. Thank you! A POLITE SUGGESTION Men and boys get lonesome for want of the home touch. There is one prac tical way to solve this problem of homesickness in camp, and we are pleased to note that in a small meas ure the work is already being carried on. Through the educational and social secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Hancock, a number of men are being sent each week to the homes of the kind-hearted Augustans who have thrown open their homes to the men from Pennsylvania for an evening's sociability and perhaps a dinner. The list of these homes is very small at preseent and we are certain that scores of people would avail themselves of the privilege of entertaining these lonely lads if they but knew how to reach them. If you wish to join the number ot hospitably-inclined citizens, send your name, address, telephone number, the number you wish to entertain and the night, to George B. Landis, Camp Ed ucational Secretary, Camp Hancock, and Mr. Landis will see that one of the social secretaries is delegated to se cure the men for you. You will re ceive a formal card in advance, giving the names of your guests and they will carry with them a formal card of in troduction when they arrive at your hornee. Those who have been entertaining the soldiers state that they receive more pleasure and happiness"out of it than the soldiers themselves. We, who are in the camp, can state that the hospitality shown them. Do it now! if You Cannot Fight, B’gosh, Buy a Bond and Biff the Bosche! ® To My BrohzTe MLaßuddhe / yLI p. FV Buddha, sitting on my desk, —/ ! Squatting in a pose grotesque, IL ; With your fingers lying flaccid I And your features ealm and placid, •OLA You don’t seem to fret about How the war is epnting out, ' You don’t seem to know or care r, *<7 J | How the fight goes, “Over There,” —■— J e? \ , You just sit and dream upon a - T- ■ ( I State of Being called “Nirvana.” [ i Blood may flow and cannon crash »- ’ States mya fa Hand empires smash, =7 A You know nor care a bit, As idle hands you sit; \ \Q Though the world grow new and strange 6 \ \ \ You don’t recognize the change. W You scoff it, if you knew, ////t a x'vS Nothing’s happened—yet-—to you. vXV Buddha, some folks would insist / You’re an arrant pacifist, / /'W 3 But 1 won,t malign you thus //Wei You don’t run around and fuss / Tva* A Hampering the land at war, / / Asking what we’re fighting for, X\T/ Making trouble by your acts And denying cosmic facts. You don’t mouth and rant and rave in nfllH Accents of a soul that’s craven. You don’t talk, without surcease, Shouting for a Prussian peace; X-' W Pacifists are sounding brass, VlSj fl You were never in their class. You’re an idol, bronze and dumb— SB Would that some kind fate might come Touch our pacifists with wands / Chan ging them, like you, to bronze! HEADQUARTERS TROOP PROUD OF ORGANIZATION Headquarters Troop, which was for merly Troop I, of Sunbury, needs no boosting whatever. Their record and reputation is irreproachable. Every member of the troop holds a certain amount of pride in his fellow troopers, for never was there a finer bunch o» men as pertains to character, manners and general conduct. Each man is eager to learn and to attain the high est point of-efficiency. Our commander, Capt. Vrooma.n, is a gentleman of extensive training and education, and both lieutenants are splendid specimens of American man hood. Next week we shall speak of training methods. . HAVE YOUfTmAIL” ADDRESSED PROPERLY For goodness sake tell your friends in each letter to address your mail to company and regiment. Lots of mail is going astray because of insufficient address. Both postoffice and Y. M. C. A. are being criticized because of their mail being not delivered. The follow ing letter is a case in point. “Young Men’s Christian Association: “Will you kindly tell me why my son does not get my letters? I write to him three times a week and he says he does not receive my letters. Who does receive them? I get his Ittrs. ■Will you please look it up for me? It seems strange.” Even in this letter, the mother does not give the son’s regiment and com pany, so it is impossible for us to loqj< hijn up. Tell your friends to ad dress your mail to you, Company .... Regiment and then state whether Infantry, Cavalry, Ambulance Corps or what. THE BIG SHOW Next Tuesday, the 23rd, the “great and only” will be with us. Barnum & Bailey’s circus is old yet ever new and it is an assured fact that a large percentage of the audiences next Tues day will consist of soldiers of the 28th Division. It is a safe bet that the man who says he does no care for circuses has something wrong with his liver or his pocketbook. TEDDY ON THRIFT. “Extravagance rots character; train youth away from it. On the other hand, the habit of saving money, while it stiffens the win, also brightens the energies. If you would be sure that you are begin ning right, begin to save.” —Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 17,1917. SENDING J)LD BOOKS Many people who are anxious to do their bit are straining a point in their generosity by sending shelf-worn books. We have received a great many books without binding, some with pa per covers and a lot with the bindings brokeen. It is obvious that these books will not stand the hard usage of camp life. Soldiers do not have shelves convenient to their reach and often the book is sat upon, litreally and fig uratively, with the result that comes back sadder but wiser. We have re ceived hundreds of books in ercellent condition, volumes that would grace the shelves of the most ardent litera teurs. Let us have more of such kind. There is an insistent demand for the late books concerning the war. Who will send the Army Y. M. C. A. at Camp Hancock a number of these highly interesting productions of the, war, such as “Over The Top,” “A Student in Arms,” “The First Hundred Thousand,” etc. Remember that the men from Pennsylvania are red-blood eed and books of adventure, with lots of action, make a strong appeal. DRAFTED NEGROES TO BE TRAINED IN NORTH Drafted negroes from some of the Southern states will be trained in Northern camps. The following as signments have been made: Alabama to Camp Dodge, la.; Tennessee, to Camp Meade, Md.; Mississippi, to Camp Funston, Kansas; North Caro lina, to Camp Grant, Illinois; Okla homa, to Camp Sherman, Ohio; Flor ida, to Camp Dix, New Jersey, and Louisiana, to Camp Pike, Arkansas. Georgia negroes will be trained at Camp Gordon; Arkansas negroes at Camp Pike;' South Carolina at Camp Jackson; Kentucky at Camp Zachary Taylor; Texas at Camp Travis, and Virginia at Camp Lee. WILLCONTROLFOOD The food administration has an nounced that within a few days President Wilson will issue an execu tive order requiring that manufactur ers and distributors of some twenty fundamental foods operate under li cense restrictions, designed to prevent unreasonable profits and to stop specu lation and hoarding.