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lawsep >=« wtcmi FXnhVvv g I Yxlv^W J s rxflfp jNW i V 1 V \V V \L* \ ’ *■ iz T |||| - I I EXZ3 SCOVELL A WONDER fa— ....„- 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 ■l,ll —ill 1 —) f 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. Page 6 TRENCH AND CAMP STEVE CAN PICKET ALL WASHINGTON WITH ' SIGNS LIKE THIS IF HE WANTS TO ■■ /“vizz—i. "" 1 • ■ mPQwWMMMR L—— . , ■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.” f i