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SCOVELL A WONDER
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Former Actor Thrills Soldiers
at Camp Hancock With Story
of Trenches.
Benjamin Scovell, who has visited
all the Y. M. C. A. buildings at Camp
Hancock during the past few days, has
given a thrilling account of conditions
in the trenches in Europe.
So graphic have been his descrip
tions that the men have' been held
spellbound. One moment the soldiers
are in laughter with his witticisms and
the next moment they are in tears.
Mr. Scovell was in the trenches with
the men and knows conditions thor
oughly. He tells many things that
have not been printed and the men
have crowded about him at all the
buildings, seeking further information.
On Sunday morning, Mr. Scovell
spoke at the First Baptist church and
one man said: "He had the audience
so enraptured you could have brushed
them c- ‘ of the window with a feather.
His i s of description are wonder
ful an. e has great command of his
voice. He is a nephew of the late Sir
Henry Irving.
KAISER WANTED
NAME CHANGED
A young man walked into a New
York City recruiting office a few days
ago and said he wanted to enlist.
"What is the name?” asked the ser
geant.
"The name is Harry Kaiser, of 538
Morgan Street, Union Hill, N. J.,” said
the young man, "hut when you write it
down make a misake and spell it Kay
ser.”
"Why?’
“Its a bum name,” said Kaiser. “It
has come near getting me into a lot of
fights, and I don’t dare fight when I’irt
kidded about it because if I did some
body wohld say I was fighting for the
kaiser. And as a matter of fact, I want
to fight against him.”'-
Sergeant Doherty promised that he
would do his best to make a mistake in
the spelling and Kaiser went away
happy.
MAKIN(FfHrCA>~
'SURROUNDINGS CLEAN
Yesterday an important conference
on war camp environment was held by
the War Camp Community Recreation
Service at Washington. The purpose
of the conference was to study inten
sively and map out work of making
communities outside all merican mili
tary camps a source of inspiratiori and
help rather than a drag to the men who
are preparing to fight the battles of
democrarcy. This is the first time in
the history of the world that any nation
has made an organized effort to guard
an army in this way. John W. Wil
lys the well known automobile and
aeroplane manufacturer, is chairman
of the committee, and among the mem
bers are Cyrus K. Curtis, Mrs. Thomas
Edison, Mrs. E. H. Harisan, Mrs.
French Vanderbilt and Rev. Frank
Mason North , D. D.
504 DECISIONS -
AT OGLETHORPE
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Mel Trotter, the evangelist, who is
conducting meetings in the Y. M. C. A.
Buildings at Camp Hancock, was at
Fort Oglethorpe last week and had the
joy of seeing 504 officers make decis
ions to live a Christian life.
Mr. Trotter tells an interesting story
about one of the men. It was the night
before some of them were to leave for
France. There were some tears shed
and one of the young oficers said to
Trotter:
“Are you going with us?”
“No,” said Trotter.
“I wish you were going with us.”
“Why?" said Trotter.
‘‘Weil, if you went along with up,
I could fight like hell,” said the young
officer, between his sobs.
HANCOCK’S BOXING"
DIRECTOR ARRIVES
Wiliam Armstrong, appointed box
ing director at Camp Hancock by the
war department commission on train
ing camp aetvities, arrived in Augusta
last night and will report to Walter
Camp, Jr., camp athletic director, this
morning. Mr. Armstrong, who is a
well-known American athlete, his home
being in San Francisco, has been en
gaged for the past year in instructing
Canadian soldiers, in the art of box
ing, at training camps in Canada. Box
ing is‘taught soldiers as an aid in
bayonet practice, it having been dem
onstrated that skill in boxing makes
for efficiency in wielding the bayonet.
Mr. rmstrong is an expert with the
gloves and his work at Camp Hancock
will be of invariable assistance in pre
paring the Pennsylvania boys for work
in the trenches.
b o x7n g th 7s a FTERN OO N.
Johnny Gill and Eddie Ramsey will be
the feature artists in a ten-round boxing
bout at the Plaza Theater this afternoon.
Chick Myers and Billy Waltz will mix
matters. Young Wiggins and Bup Mil
ler will also disport themselves in the
squared arena. The bouts begin at 5
o’clock and Jackie Clark will referee.
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TRENCH AND CAMP
STEVE CAN PICKET ALL WASHINGTON WITH
' SIGNS LIKE THIS IF HE WANTS TO
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■Some White House pickets may land
in jail. Not so Steve Vasilgkos, peanut
vendor. . Book at the sign he displays.
Stave's battle-ground is .anywhere be
tween the treasury, state, war and navy
CARDINAL GIBBONSPRAISES
“TRENCH AND CAMP”
Cardnal Gibbons has written the fol
lowing letter to John Stewart Bryan,
of the Richmond News-Leader, com
mending “Trench and Camp,” the sol
diers’ newspapers being issoed at the
various cantonments through co-oper
ation of nearby newspapers:
“It was indeed a most happy idea of
yours to prepare a paper for the spe
cial benefit of our soldiers and I sin
cerely hope the noble enterprise will
meet with the widest
“The need of such a paper is evi
dent. It will give our soldiers just
the news they want and will also af
ford them appropriate and refining in
etllectual entertainment and strength
en their moral and religious feelings
without starting the bitterness of con
troversy or the discord of Proselytism.
“I most heartily wish it God-speed.”
colonel~shannon“
FIELD INSPECTOR
Colonel Edward G. Shannon, command
er of the Fourth Infantry for several
years until the reorganization plans made
Machine Gun Battalions of the regiment,
has been appointed to the staff at di
vision headquarters. Colonel .Shannon and
Lieut.-Col. Brookfield of the Third will
serve as field inspectors during the ab
sence of Colonel King, division chief of
staff.
Chaplains to Play Santa Claus
The chaplains of the 28th division at
a meeting a few days ago unanimously
agreed to become the medium through
which relatives and friends of soldier
boys might send their Christmas pres
ents. The chaplains are wiling to re
ceive the presents and to follow in
structions of senders (as far as in their
power) even to playing Santa Claus on
Christmas Day.
That the chaplains should serve the
boys in his way General Price heartily
approves.
The presents of a durable character
should be sent as early as possible.
They should be securely packed, wrap
ped and tied with stout twine. They
should be carefully addressed to the
soldier by name, by regiment and com
pany.
schooloFthTtrooper
(By Lawrence J. Gutelius,)
Headquarters Troop.
In my last article, I told you this
would be about the school of the
trooper, which covers more than you
or I would think, so I shall give it
briefly.
The School of the Trooper is the
fundamental training of a soldier and
involves all preliminary details of the
cavalry manual. That is, the troopers
are taught first, the manual of arms.
Next in order follows the instruc
tions on mOunetd work. We are given
two kinds of drill —mounted and dis
mounted. One is as essential as the
other. Cavalry must always do some
fighting on foot, so that both mounted
and dismounted drills are absolutely
necessary. The dismounted drill is
given first.
Next week we shall tell of training
methods.
p. s.
(From a Woman’s Viewpoint.)
A suffragist’s idea of a sure-enough
“Liberty Day” is a day when our esteem
ed government would use one hand to be
stow liberty votes on its women while
accepting their Liberty Bonds with the
other.
buildings, and he knows by name dozens
of the government officials who patron
ize his stand. He has already given
nearly $10» to the Red Cross, and still
giving.
MOVE 10,000 SOUTH
WHITES TO MAKE WAY FOR BLACK
SOLDIERS AT CAMP GRANT, TOO.
Camo Grant, Rockford, 111. —More than
10,000 national army men now in train
ing here will he sent to Southern camps
to make room*for negro conscripts from
northern cities, according to a well au
thenticated report here this afternoon.
Os these 7.654 will be sent to Camp
Jackson, S. C-, and the remainder to
Camp Logan, Texas.
The first detachment of 100 will leave
for Camp Jackson tomorrow, it is un
derstood. small units will leave from day
to day until the movement is completed-
Ninety-six negro officers Will come
here from Fort Des Moines, lowa, to serve
as juniors in the colored division. They
will serve under veteran white officers.
It was announced yesterday that 14,-
000 white soldiers of the 89th‘division at
Camp Funston would be sent to other
camps to make way for 12,000 colored
troops, ,
EXAMINATIONS FOR PROMOTION
GOOD LUCK TO ALL.
A large number of non-commission
ed officers are being examined at the
present time in order that General
Price may recommend to the adjutant
general of the army soldiers suitable
for promotion to grade of second lieu
tenants.
The new organization a
much larger nujnber of lieutenants
than the old.
It is interesting to know that 1,600
men would fill the 28th division to
maximum war strength.
METHOD KAISER
Bishop Franklin Hamilton declares that
the Kaiser is a very, very brave man.
Bishop Hamilton, at a conference re
cently, said he frightened the Kaiser
half to death several years ago.
“I was studying in Munich some years
ago,” he said, “and one afternoon when
I was walking along with a book in my
hand I went’ through some shrubbery to
a roadway. At that moment the Em
peror came riding along. I raised my
hand with the book in it to take off my
hat. The Kaiser turned his horse in
stantly and dashed up the road as if Sa
tan were after him. He thought I was
going to throw something at him."
100 TENTH REVIEW.
Another regimental paper has made its
appearance and we welcome The 100
Tenth Review to the ranks of Camp Han
cock journalism. The first issue is a
neat eight-page affair, brimful of news
concerning every company in the regi
ment. Major Martin and Major Thomp
son were contributors to the first issue,
which which was well arranged and con
tained considerable advertising. The
publishing staff is: John L. Becktel,
managing editor; R. B. Rutter, associate
editor; Walter Adams, advertising man
ager; James Lewis, secretary and treas
urer.
BUILD ING UP THEDEP LET E D
REGIMENTS—A RAY OF HOPE.
A seemingly well authenticated ru
mor has it that 2,000 more men from
the conscription army are on their
way to Camp Hancock. These men, it.
is said, will be distributed through the
cavalry and the Third, Sixth, Eighth
and Thirteenth infantry regiments.
The intention seems to be to make
every effort to secure enough recruits
to prevent these old historic regiments
from disorganization and disintergra
tion.
$1,800,000 FOR WAR SL'FFERERS.
For the purchase of winter food sup
plies for war sufferers in Western Asia,
the Red Cross war council appropriated
5900,000, bringing to atotal of $1,800,000
the fund entrusted to the /American com
mittee for Armenian and Syrian relief.
Oct. 24, 1917.
“DOING GREAT WORK
IN PRISON CAMPS”
Captain lan Hay Beith, the well-known
English soldier-author, writes of a recent
visit he mad to a line of association huts
and tents in Flanders:
“I remember two in particular,” he
says, “both in particularly unpleasant
districts in Belgium. They were prac
tically the only places in that devastated
region where men .could come and sit
down, read, write, or make small pur
chases. And I think that what the men
particularly appreciated was the entire
absence of al! attempt to enforce the
re'igious side of the organization. Religi
ous services were held, and were largely
attended, but they were net in any sense
clligatcry; and at .other times the hut
was equally available for concerts or box
in f matches. I understand the huts
also doing great work now in the
prison camps cf both sides.”
Preparatory tc the arrival of the Am
erican expeditionary army in France,
there has been effected in Paris the ur-
of an advisory committee of
eighteen p,-eminent American residents,
among these being M. Harjes, cf -Mor
gan-Ha.-jes & Co. A new Y. M. C. A. ad
ministration building has been opened in
far is fcr the ure of secretaries who are
to work in behalf of the American troops
and $12,009 raised to start the work there,
with five secretaries in charge.
Association werk is also being pushed
at othw points in France, pending the ar
rival cf the American troops.
generalbell
ENDORSES Y. M. C. A.
Major General J. Franklin Bell, com
mando rof the Department of the East,
in the following statement today supple
mented the recognition exendetd by Pres
ident Wilson to the Y. M. C. A. work at
the army training camps. He said:
“The army branches of the Y. M. C.
A. have always promoted healthful ath
letics among the men and have furnished
amusements for their diversion. They
have served to keep the men contented
and away from the saloons and low dis
tricts which frequently surround largo
garrisons or camps.
“On the battle line its character that
wins—not ability or knowledge so much
as character. You knew what I mean.
You have only one life to live and one
life to give, and It does not matter when
a soldier leaves this life, but it dees mat
ter hew he leaves it. A soldier must
think only of his duty and must d? it in
away that all who survive him will be
proud of the way he gave up his life.”
UNIQUE“CCfiUNiON’ >
SERVICE AT Y. M. C. A.
Seldom does one have an opportunity
to attend a communion service as unique
as that held in Hut No. 75 by Chaplain
Robert McFetridgc of Second Field Ar
tillery of Pennsylvania on Sunday eve
ning, Oct. 14th.
On a general invitation by the religious
work director of the hut early in the
evening, that the chaplain would be glad
to administer Communion to any who de
sired to partake, twelve men, represent
ing seven denominations, namely: Episco
pal, Lutheran, Reformed, Presbyterian,
Baptist, Methodist and Catholic, gathered
together in a little room in the end of
the hut and received the sacrament in a
very impressive service.
It was also the occasion for the dedi
cation of the Communion set presented
to Chaplain McFetridge by Reed A. Mor
gan of Philadelphia, in commemoration
of the recovery of his son from infantile
paralysis.
NOW HAVE 431,180 MEN
NATIONAL ARMY IS IN CAMP—FUN
STON LARGEST OF ALL.
Washington, D. C.—The men of Am
erica’s new national army, either under
training or ordered to the sixteen can
tonments throughout the country totals
431,180.
In making public these figures today,
Secretary Baker said that the shipments
of clothing to the camps are keeping pace
wit hthe arrival cf the new troops. Up to
October 2nd, the day before the second
increment of draft men was ordered out,
nearly 13,000,000 articles of wearing ap
parel and sleeping equipment had been
sent to the cantonments and shipments
are being made daily.
Camp Funston, m Kansas has the
greatest quota of men of any of the
camps, its number being 39,533. Camp
Lewis, in Washington state, is second,
with 39,171 and Camp Devons, Massa
chuetts, third, with 33,090. Camp Cus
ter Michigan, has the smallest number.
16,193.
Articles sent to cantonments for the
new men included 1,402,390 blankets, 422,-
346 bed sacks, cotton breeches,
259,805 woolen breeches, 267,579 cotton,
coats, 204,728 woolen coats, 289,713 over
coats, 4,002,856 pieces of underclothing
and 937.734 pairs of shoes.
All this material was manufactured in
this country and the quartermaster’s de
partment of the arm#’ announces that de
liveries have been made that seemed im
possible a few Weeks ago. The indus
tries have been completely mobilized for
the big task of supplying the regular and
national armies and the national guard.
PRIVATE BUYsTjSO^OO” BONDS.
Private Louis A. Ripley, 121st aero
squadron at Kelly Field, purchased from
officers in charge of the campaign 604
Liberty bonds. The officers expressed
surprise at the size of the order and also
the unusual number. RipWy explained
by saying:
“I have just sold my seat in the New
York Stock Exchange for $30,200 and the
bonds are best investment I know.”
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