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IL J ® rHS lu! /Met - ® Sj IliWiri i il ■ls fcanma ®! MLm- WS w iT/gwr VW 11 < V Cl W A \ w \ r d ATh 0 Page 10 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 • * • » • On my BUNK •♦♦ • • ♦ Wondering WHAT • • • ♦ * To write for this WEEK'S ♦ • ♦ ♦ » “Trench and CAMP.” » ♦ . » * Today I am WORKING *•* * . v On a detail in the KITCHEN • * * * * Tomorrow I shall CARRY * • • ♦ » Water and UNWRAP • • * » » Yeast and PUT • * * « » Sugar and SALT • • * * * In the TROUGHS. ♦ * ♦ ♦ * Then I will BEGIN * • ♦ * ♦ Fussin’ around in FLOUR ♦ * * ♦ ♦ Until I have it MIXED ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ Into DOUGH. * * ♦ ♦ » Then, after it is RAISED, ♦ * * ♦ ♦ Enough and MOULDED * ♦ ♦ » ♦ Into two-pound LOAVES, ♦ ♦ * * ♦ And after it is PROOFED, ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • We shove IT ***** Into the OVEN. ♦ ♦ * • * When it is BAKED ♦ 4> * • ♦ We take it OUT ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ And feed it TO * » * » • 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 The editor of Trench and 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! Leave at any Y. M. C. A. Building, addressed to Trench and Camp.