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DRAWN EXPRESSLY FOR TRENCH AND CAMP BY ROLLIN KIRBY
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
sends the following words of wel
come to “Trench and Camp,” the
soldiers’ newspaper:
”1 am glad to know that the War
Work Council of the Y. M. C. A.
will produce in every camp in
America where the National Guard
OUR DEBT TO FRANCE
(By Prof. I. L. Foster, Army Y. M. C.
A., Camp Hancock.)
In the minds of many there is, I sup
pose, a very hazy notion of our long
standing debt to the little republic
across the sea. The mention of ‘‘our
debt to France” is met all too often
with a credulous smile on the part of
those who should know better. May it
not be worth while briefly to call to
mind what she has meant to America.
It may appear that we have only the
common cause for gratitude which
falls to civilization at large in that we,
with Europe, were freed from fear of
destruction by the gallant victory of
Joffre and his little band at the Battle
of the Marne. Or perhaps we are ex
pected only to share in the world
wide admiration for the gallant de
fense of Veerdun, or applaud with mil
lions the never-ending heroisms of
those bloody days in the battle-scarred
valley of the Somme.
We must, however, go farther than
that, for we are French in part by
right of discovery. Though France was
unable to hold w’hat she had acquired
*in this way, we can find traces even
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TRENCH AND CAMP
NAVY SALUTES ARMY
and the National Army are assem
bled, a paper that is designed and
intended for the men of our Army.
For, after all, this war is funda
mentally a war of ideals, and the
Nation that thinks the clearest and
feels the deepest will do more to
win the war now and to repair its
ravages hereafter.
“I do not understand that the
today of the influence of her manners
and customs on the region she once
called her own. There is not a ham
let from the mouth of the St. Law
rence to the tidewaters of the Missis
sippi, where Frenchmen once lived
and loved, that does not bear the defi
nite impress of their gentle life and
sweet and courtly, bearing. The
French in Canada and Louisiana have
found sympathetic and generous in
terpreters in men like Cable and Wm.
H. Drummond who have given us in all
their simple beauty, enchanting pen
pictures of the lives of the descend
ants of those unassuming children of
the country of chivalry and courtesy.
Later on, when the dark days of the
Reevolution came, it was France who
loyally stood by us with men and mon
ey. It is probably known by few that
we borrowed from France, or better,
France gave us, several hundred mil
lions of francs in the course of the
seven years of the war. For this we
gave- security which we repudiated af
ter we had won our independence. In
addition to the money were thousands
of men entirely equipped, when we
needed men the most, and two fleets
which were of no little help in cutting
off England’s supplies. At the time of
Y. M. C. A. Is printing papers for
the naval stations also (I hope it
will do bo) but I would like the
men of the Army tS know that
whether they see news of the naval
stations or not that the Navy is
doing its part with head and hand
in this great war, and that on the
sea as well as in the trenches the
men of the Navy, both marines and
the surrender of Cornwallis in 1783
there were as many French troops in
the American army as Americans
themselves. The first redoubt which
led to the eventual defeat of the Eng
glish was taken by the troops of La
fayette which he had completely sup
plied with uniforms and equipment
out of his own private purse. We
must not forget either that the inspir
ation to freedom had its mightiest im
petus in the writings of the great
Frefich authors of the eighteenth cen
tury. Strange as it may seem, one
might almost say that democracy was
born of the most absolute despotism
that Europe has every known. When
incarnated in the life and action of
men like Lafayette and Rochambeau
it became the goad that drove Ameri
ca to final freedom and liberty.
And then the language which we use
in our daily intercourse is at least one
half French in origin, while the vo
cabulary in many fields is entirely
takeen from the same source. The
beautiful sideof English has its an
cestry from the Romanic tongues,
■while the sterner stuff comes from the
Anglo Saxon. The clear-cut logic and
artistic symmetry of the French sent
ence has done much to smooth out the
Oct. 17,1
blue Jackets, officers and men in the
rank, are with that great body of
young men who have been called
at this time of national crisis to
save the world from absolutism
and to protect the institutions and
the race for which our fathers died.
“JOSEPHUS DANIELS,
"Secretary of the Navy.’M
I wrinklees in our rougher tongue. The
flowery rhetoric of the orator, the per
suasive eloquence of the lawyer and
the tender pleading of the divine find
their most practical vehicle of expres
sion in the language born of the soft
and gentle speech of Sunny France.
TRANSFER RINgTnATIONAL
ARMY
Announcement of the transfer of
6,804 men of the national army from
Florida, South Carolina and North
Carolina now at Camp Jackson was
made recently. The men from North
and South Carolina will be sent to
Camp Sevier at Greenville, to fill the
ranks of the national guard of these
two states, while the Florida mer. will
the Florida men will go to Macon to
complete national guard at Camp
Wheeler. Os the men to be transferred,
1,300 are from Florida, 3,800 from South
Carolina and 3,704 from North Carolina.
