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TRENCH ftND W
CAMP HANCOCK, Augusta, Ga.
EDITION, 12,000.
GEO. B. LANDls"and J. EDGAR
PROBYN, Editors.
Published gratis Ty~ THE HERALD
PUBLISHING CO., Augusta, Ga.
ISSUED EVERY ? 2DNESDAY,
Vol. I—NovT~7, 1917 No. 5.
Application has been made for
TRENCH and CAMP fdr entry as :.: il
Matter of the Second Class r.t the Au
gusta, Ga.. Postoffiee.
~ “nottceT
This edition of Trench and Camp
is limited to 12,000 copies.' An
effort will b<y made to place one or
more copi / in every tent.
If parties are desirous of other
copies, application should be made
to the nearest Y. M. C. A. building,
where they will be gladly furnished
as long as they last.
As the edition is limited to 12,000
copies, please do not throw 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. All
copy should be turned in as early
as possible. No copy can be hand
led lator than Monday noon, pre
ceding dote 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.
PEOPLE MUST RULE.
“The world cannot afford to con
sider peace with Germany until the
people rule. The sooner the United
States and her allies tell this to the
German people officially, the sooner
we shall have peace. Permanent peace
will follow the establishment of a re
public-”
The above words were written by
Carl W. Ackerman several months ago.
Mr. Ackerman was in Berlin for
months after war was declared and
represented the United States. He
knows the German mind thoroughly
and was given opportunity to study the
German war machine.
What Ackerman said is now known
to be the truth and President Wilson’s
note to the German government, but
emphasizes it. The hope of ending the
war lies with the German people. As
soon as they unseat the despotic rulers
who govern them, then the dawn of
peace will be ushered in. Until that
time the United' States and the allied
governments will keep on fighting.
The growing unrest in the German
navy because of the submarine war in
which crew after crew has been sent
to the depths of the ocean, and the
mutterings in the reichstag are all
signs of the increasing discontent of
the German people. Pray God they
may seen emulate the example of their
Russian neighbors and declare them
selves free and independent *bf any
kingly authority.
LETTERS TO SOLDIERS.
One of the interesting sights in camp
life is the arrival of the sergeant with the
mail. As soon as his presence is an
nounced, a crowd of men assembles
around the first sergeant's tent as if by
magic, all with the same hope—that of
receiving a letter from the loved ones
back home or some friend.
Some fellows receive more than others.
We have seen some young men, popular
at home, receive no less than six letters
besides packages containing comforts and
delicacies. Other men have stood by
hopefully, waiting patiently until the last
letter had been given out, hoping almost
against hope, that a letter would come
for them. These men have gone away
disappointed, and to many of them it has
been a keen, a bitter disappointment.
Do you want the soldier lads to keep
the home fires burning? Do you want
them to retain the home contact? Do you
want them to keep up their interest in the
old town?
Write to them. In New Zealand, clubs
have been formed to secure the names of
soldiers for correspondence purposes and
many a soldier’s heart has been stirred
by a kindly and cheering message from
some unknown friend back home.
The soldiers themselves can be of
greatest value in this work. If a soldier
knows of a man in his squad who has
been neglected, who looks for a letter day
after day—the letter than seldom if ever,
comes—send his name to some friend and
suggest that a letter be sent to the neg
lected comrade.
Here is an opportunity for definite
Christian service. Get on the job!
TRENCH AND CAMP
BOOST THE Y. M. C. A.
On anothr page, will be found letters
of appreciation from soldiers at Camp
Hancock, telling of the benefits of the
Army Y. M. C. A. in camp life-
Some of these letters are duplicates
of those sent home. Some were writ
ten by the men for publication in this
issue. They give the viewpoint of the
enlisted man as to the value of the Y.
M. C. A. in the camp. They are inter
esting in that they reveal from un
biased sources, the real mission of
helpfulness which the Y. M. C. A. is
performing.
In addition to these written appre
ciations, every secretary in Camp Han
cock has had his heart gladdene'd by
the outspoken endorsement of the
men. Many men have gone to the
counter and said to the secretary: “I
don’t know what we'd do without the
“Y.”
There is. another way in which the
enlisted man can boost the work, and
especially the $35,000,000 campaign of
the Y. M. C. A., which begins next
Sunday, the 11th, all over the United
States. Write a letter of appreciation
to some friend back home—perhaps a
friend with means—or drop a line to
the editor of your newspaper, telling
what you think of the work. Every
line helps the men back home who will
make a house-to-house canvass for
funds next week.
It should be done immediately. Will
you not write it today?
NEW~WAR SONG?
The editor of Trench and Camp is in
receipt of a copy of a new war song,
from the pen of Prof. James M. Black,
of Williamsport, Pa. ■ Prof. Black is the
composer of several well known gospel
songs and is widely known in musical
and religious circles all over the
country. The title of the new song is
very significant and will bring some
disquietude to the head of the Hohen
zollerns, when he hears the American
troops singing it on the Enter den Lin
den in Berlin. “There Will Be No
Kaiser Anymore,” is the ringing chal
lenge of the song, the words of which
were written by Prof. Black. It has a
catchy style, with considerable synco
pation. A good feature of the copy is
the four-part arrangement of the chor
us, so that quartettes and choirs may
sing it with harmonic effect. Here are
the words of the chorus:
Then that Hohenzollern Kaiser will be
wiser,
And his lamps look dim when Uncle
Sam gets through with him,
His throne and crown will surely
tumble down
And there will be no Kaiser any
more.
TIMELY READING.
Select List of Books on the War and
Countries at War.
ENGLAND
1. The First Hundred Thousand.
lan Hay.
2. Kitchener’s Mob.
J. N. Hall.
3. A Student in Arms.
Donald Hankey. •
4. Over the Top.
A. G. Empey.
5. England and the English.'
Price Collier.
6. Told in the Huts.
(British Y. M. C. A. Gift Book).
FRANCE
1. Comrades in Arms.
Philippe Millet,
2. A Hilltop on the Marne.
Mildred Aldrich.
3. The France of Today.
'Barrett Wendell.
4. Private Gaspard (The French “Mr.
Britling").
R. Benjamin.
5. For France and the Faith.
Alfred Eugene Casalis.
ITALY
1. Italy at War.
E. A. Powell.
2. Italy Today.
B. King and T. Okey.
RUSSIA
1. Russia of the Russians.
H. W. Williams.
2. Modern Russia.
G. Alexinski. *
3. White Nights.
Arthur Ruhl.
4. The Russian People.
M. Baring.
5. The Idiot (a novel).
F. M. Dostoivski.
GERMANY
1. Germany, the Next Republic.
C. W. Ackerman.
2. The Evolution of Mud rn Germany.
W. H. Dawson.
3. Inside the German Empire.
H. B. Swope.
GENERAL
1. The Diplomacy of the Great War.
A. Bullard.
2. Europe Since 1815 (1917 edition).
C. D. Hazen.
3. American World Politics.
W. E. Weyl.
4. The Challenge of the Present Crisis.
H. E. Fosdick.
5. Historical Backgrounds of the Great
War.
F. J. Adkins.
BITS OF SHRAPNEL
The name of a Pittsburg boy, Thomas
F. Enright, appears first on the first
casualty list received from Pershing’s
American army in France.
If you can’t find out why you failed
you’ll never succeed. No one but a fool
will fall down twice on the same banana
peeling.—Billy Sunday.
Nearly one in three of the foreign-born
employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad
east of Pittsburg and Erie bought a Lib
erty Bond. Oddly enough, among these
were ninety-seven Turks, of whom forty
four—nearly one-half—bought a bond. A
third of the German employes also invest
ed, and twenty-five per cent, of the Aus
tro-Hungarian employes. The Scotch em
ployes took the ribbon as to percentage
of purchasers—sixty-two per cent, in
vesting; the Canadians came next, with
59 per cent.: 40 per cent- of the Irish-born
invested, 35 per cent, of the English, and
32 per cent, o fthe Italians. The last
named were numerically- far ahead of all
others, there being 3.365 employes of Ital
ian birth working en the railway.
Two Y. M. C. A. secretaries were sent
by the General in command at Camp
Meade to accompany drafted men to Camp
Gordon.
Thirty-five letters are required to spell
the one word which, in German, is the
equivalent of the four letter English
“tank” or land battleship, which has
worked such havoc in the present war.
The German word as it appears in official
dispatches received here is “schutzengra
benvernichtungautomobii" which freely
translated is “a machine for suppressing
shooting trenches,”
Pittsburg raised its quota for the $35,-
000,000 war work fund from $1,000,000 to
$1,500,000.
Mr. George Michaelis did not last long
as Imperial German Chancellor. He has
been displaced by Count George Von
Hertling, the Bavarian Prime Minister.
Colonel’s Sister Speaks.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, of New York,
sister of Theodore Roosevelt, spoke at a
Y. M C. A. meeting and showed traits of
her dynamic brother when she declared
with Rooseveltian vigor that if those as
sembled could not put the “I" in fight,
they could certainly put the “pay” in pat
riotism. /
Humorously comparing the Kaiser with
a certain East Side bully, Vice President
Marshal recently said that the Kaiser’s
memory in history will be like the mem
ory of this other Bill. When he died, a
neighbor remarked to his widow: “So
Bill’s dead?” “Yes, he’s dead.” “I sup
pose he’s hittin’ the harp with the angels
now’?” “More likely,” said the widow,
“he’s hittin' the angels with the harp.”
Sewickley, the home of Secretary Spahr
of Army Y. M. C. A. Building No. 75, is
much encouraged in its campaign for a
share of $35,090,000 by the statement of
Mrs. Henry R. Rea, who reported $76,286
as the result of a meeting of women at
her home.
Boston has placed a ban on German
music and several of the noted German
stars will not be heard in Ambries this
season Dr. Karl Muck, leader of the
Boston Symphony orchestra for several
years, has resigned, due to agitation re
sulting because the orchestra failed to
play “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The Britsh have taken another step in
their advance on Jerusalem, by capturing
the ancient town of Beersheba, so fre
quently mentioned -in the Bible.
A campaign is being waged among col
lege and university men in the country,
to raise a fund of $4,000,000 for prison
camp work. Pennsylvana State College
was the first to pledge a sum, the faculty
and undergraduates contributing SB,OOO.
With summer weather in the afternoon,
the temperature ranging about 65 to 70,
and then dropping to 35 before next
morning, the boys at Camp Hancock are
having quite a time adapting themselves.
In the morning, the men stand around the
fires, shivering. In the afternoon, the
sun beats down fiercely and one is loath
to doff his woolen shirt. It’s a great life,
if one doesn’t weaken! The fellows who
thought orange blossoms and sunshine
were perpetual in Georgia have been
shocked most rudely. And we have known
of some men sleeping on bare floors
with but two blankets. Wouldn't it make
you shiver?
Lieut. William Thaw, of Pittsburg, is
now in command of the Lafayette Esca
drille, the French flying corps composed
of Americans, which had done such great
service for France and in which several
noted American aviators have lost their
lives.
Ty Cobb is in Augusta, having returned
from a hunting trip to Maine, He will
supervise the laying out of baseball dia
monds at Camp Hancock and the distri
bution of baseball equipment which has
been shipped here.
M. Stephene Lauzanne, editor of Le
Matin, of Paris, one of the leading Paris
ian newspapers, and head of the French
Commission to the United States, ad
dressed the men at Camp Jackson a few
days ago, declaring that France is strong
er in men and munitions now than at any
other previous stage.
Hold them, Italy! Keep them from
breaking through! Push them back!
Italian military leaders believe that
America can be of greatest assistance
by declaring war on Austria-Hungary.
The first divisional review at Camp
Jackson, Columbia, S, C., will be held to
day, when every officer and man not on
the sick list will pass before Major Gen
eral Charles J. Bailey.
Richmond Pearson Hobson, the “Hero
of the Merimac,” will lecture o n “Am
erica in War" at St. John’s Methodist
Church, Augusta, Friday, November 16th.
The women of Canada have written
a verse to their national anthem, “Cod
Save the King.” It is as follows:
God save our splendid men.
Send them safe home again;
God save our men!
Keep them victorious, fattent and
chivalrous,
They are so dear to us,
- God save our men!
The men at Building 7,». Camp Han
cock, sang these word i for the first
time on Sunday night.
Nov. 7, 1917.
A TOUCHING ODE
FROMTHE BAKERY
(Apologies to K. C. B.)
I am now SITTING
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On my BUNK
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Wondering WHAT
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To write for this WEEK'S
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“Trench and CAMP.”
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Today I am WORKING
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On a detail in the KITCHEN
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Tomorrow I shall CARRY
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Water and UNWRAP
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Yeast and PUT
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Sugar and SALT
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In the TROUGHS.
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Then I will BEGIN
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Fussin’ around in FLOUR
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Until I have it MIXED
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Into DOUGH.
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Then, after it is RAISED,
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Enough and MOULDED
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Into two-pound LOAVES,
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And after it is PROOFED,
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We shove IT
*****
Into the OVEN.
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When it is BAKED
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We take it OUT
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And feed it TO
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The MILITIA.
T h e“yTm7cTa7se 0.
E? Nolan Harmon 11.
If a rookie wants a pen,
See the Sec.
If the checker board needs men,
Tell the Sec.
That's him standing over there.
With that “morning after” air, —
Helping fix that busted ehai'r—
That’s the Sec.
“Say, have you folks got some string?’*
“Mister Sec.?”
’’Mister, can you help us sing?”
That same Sec.
“Fa’s address is put on wrong-—”
“Say, how far is Hong Kong?”—
He hears this stuff ring along—
Don’t you, Sec.?
If a blotter will not'blot.
See the Sec.
If your table mess is rot,
Tell the Sec.
If your wife is our of lard,
If you’ve got six hours on guard,
If the “M. B’s” got your pard—
See the Sec.
“Trola needles all are out,”
(Mister Sec.)
“Water sprinkler needs a spot,
((Mister Sec.)
“What is good for a frost bit nose?”
“Do you know when the mess ■ call
blows?"
That’s the way it always goes!
Don't it, Sec?.
If a rookie cannot write,
Get the Sec.
If your tent mate snores at night—
Tell the Sec.
If it’s anything at all-
Fountain pen or basketball.
He will be there when you call—
Good ole Sec.
At ten p. m. he hits the hay—
(Good night. Sec.)
But when morning bugles play—•
. .Get up. Sec.
“Say have you all got a hoe?”
“Where does the Seaboard Air Line
Go
“Gimme a punch, right quick, Bo”
Oh, you Sec!
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh and
staff, with their wives, will be enter
tained at Partridge Inn during their
stay here.
Articles From You
Wanted by Trench
and Gamp
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Camp desires all Camp
Hancock soldiers to con
tribute to this paper.
Poems, short articles on
some special phase of camp
life, human interest stories,
jokes, will be accepted.
Photographs will be wel
comed, also cartoons.
Get Busy! Send Today!
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