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FRESH STRIKER—“DON’T BE AFRAID, CAPTAIN, HE WON’T BITE YOU.”
Drawn expressly for TRENCH AND CAMP By BUSHNELL
Pepper Talfys
By George Matthew Adams
THE WAR
I am a believer in THE
PLANNED running through all
time. That things don’t “just hap
pen.” That a life appears at its
time for a reason—to fulfill ITS
purpose. And that there are no
; accidents of destiny.
! And that you were born at the
particular minute of the world’s
pvolving that you were because you
were meant to best fit in at your
particular time. History is but a
proving of the fitness of happenings.
This war had to come. But it will
tend—-because IT MUST. It is all
in the plan of the world.
Victor Hugo in writing of the fall
of Napoleon laid no fault at the feet
of the great Corsican. He simply
stated that the world had become
unsteadily weighted by his power
and that God had to step in. Well,
God did.
So now our hearts must bitterly
bleed with the heart of the whole
world. But we must remember that
out of it all is sure to come a “new
birth of freedom” of such quality
that the world has never known.
Events must face their time. Just
at the hour when we thought that
brotherhood had somehow come
around, it drew its sword. And this
same sword must be sheathed. But
not until after the scathing plan of
the Watcher of the world has been
wrought.
So it is that in faith we fight on.
And we are unafraid. The end is
being justified right now. This war
'must go on until the great heart
of the world has found its balance.
And then peace—the peace of
Understanding among men.
(Copyright by George Matthew Adams)
A PASSING TRUTH z
It’s queer, but it’s so,
Men are fashioned this way:
If you pay as you go
They will want you to stay.
Perfectly Safe For the Captain
SUBMARINES
(Continued from page 5)
four hours between midnight and
daybreak.
Then there were a number of spe
cial watch details, the most trying
on the nerves and muscles of the
soldier from the inland being duty
in one or the other of the two
“crow’s nests.” A “crow’s nest” is
that small Swiss Family Robinson
affair up in the masts where look
outs are kept upon the broad sur
face of the sea. Transports keep a
constant watch on duty in these airy
perches, consisting of an officer and
two men for each perch. The duty
periods are two hours on and four
hours off, requiring the services of
twenty-four men and eight com
missioned officers. It was amazing
to observe the agility of the soldiers
iter a few hours’ practice going up
and coming down the rope ladders;
they made the sailors gasp, some
of the soldiers having once been
ironworkers on skyscrapers.
Close Watch Kept
Some thirty-two men were used
in a special deck watch, there being
two in each watch box, four in the
eyes of the ship, on its prow and
four away aft with the sailor gun
crews. All these fixed watch posts
are connected with the bridge by
telephone wires, there being three
men on the bridge to take their re
ports and transmit them to the
naval officers. An officer of the deck
bosses the special watches, but has
nothing to do with the “crow’s
nest” posts up in the mainmast and
the foremast.
Under such detailed overlapping
observation of the horizon for sus
picious objects it was hard to con
ceive of a surprise attack being
made upon a troopship; it simply
took the scare of danger and
crumpled it in the minds of the
soldiers.
To keep the men fit a half-hour
of each day and often a longer pe
riod was devoted to physical exer
cise. Under competent direction
TRENCH AND CAMP
the men were put through vigorous
body drills. , One was the regular
field artillery drill exercise with
the familiar introduction: “First
exercise, raise, head, up down.”
The other was the more complica
ted West Point method devised by
and named after Capt. Koehler,
where all the arms and trunk move
ments were given in detail by com
mand. The exercises finished, the
men were taken upon double quick
runs around the decks, the com
bined fall of their feet sounding
like the roar of artillery in action.
Nothing Ijeft to Chance
Mothers anxious over the welfare
of their boys who have joined the
United States Army ought to real
ize that wherever trained human in
telligence could devise a plan of
either salvage or prevention the
element pf danger was reduced.
Nothing was left to chance. All
hazard was forecasted. Soldiers
were drilled over and over again
to meet what might happen until the
“road out” had assumed the char
acter of a disciplined evolution.
Thus panic and disorganized efforts
to escape the perils incident to the
overseas crossing were evaporated
in preparedness.
I have in mind the boat drills on
all of the American troopships. Al
though precedent is set high in the
sky against the sinking of a prop
erly convoyed transport, i. e., the
movement of Canadian troops over
seas without the loss of a single
ship, nevertheless our War Depart
ment proceeded upon the theory
that some day, perhaps, a troopship
of ours might be torpedoed. Hence
the everlasting boat drill; an evolu
tion of life upon our transport, re
peated by day and by night until it
had become as familiar to the men
as the manual of arms.
THE CHEERING TIME
It’s a pretty good world,
Es you take it dat way
And know when and when not
To holler “HoorayJ”
Y. M. C. A. Doing Its Bit
For Soldiers “Over There”
Many American soldiers who say
they could not imagine what field
service would be without the Y. M.
C. A. buildings and their comforts
and conveniences are wondering
whether they will have the same
, facilities “Over There” as in the
cantonments.
The Y. M. C. A. is on the job
“Over There” as ’.veil as over here,
and this is what Rt. Hon. David
Lloyd George thinks of it:
“Few organizations have done so
much in caring for the comfort and
well-being of our soldiers as your
associations.
“They give invaluable help to the
army, and have immeasurably light
ened the hardships which have to
be endured by our troops.
“In recognizing the excellent
worj< that has already been done,
I should like to wish you success in
that which you still propose to un
dertake.”
EAST SIDERS TAKE
KAISER INTO CAMP
Many novelties were introduced
into the parades of the selective
service men throughout the country
on their way to railroad stations to
entrain for their camps, but the
boys from one of the East Side dis
tricts in New York seemed to have
capped the climax.
Well up toward the head of the
East Siders’ column was presented
the spectacle of Uncle Sam takin*
the Kaiser, heavily shackled, into
camp.
One of the selective service men
was costumed as Uncle Sam and
the other dressed as the Kaiser,
spiked helmet, high boots and all.
Un-’e SajA walked slightly in ad
; of the Kaiser, so as to strain
I neavy, glittering handcuffs and
I ‘ Ake them visible to the thousands
of spectators who laughed and
cheered.
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