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Nov. 7,1917. WITH THE Y. M. C. A. AT CAMP HANCOCK ENGLISH TEACHERS WANTEDBYY.M.C.A. Many Drafted Men Do Not Speak or Understand Our Language. Demand For French at Building No. 75 Great. Checker Tournament. BUILDING NO. 75. (Serving Artillery Brigade. Ammuni tion Train, Ambulance Corps, Field Hospital, Motor Truck Companies and Field Bakery). Building Secretary—R. A. Spahr, Sewickley, Pa, Religious Work Director—A. B. Cur ry. Jr., New York City. Physical Work Director —F. W. Prechtel. Lancaster, Pa. Educational Work Director—J. A. Brodhead, Cincinnati, O. Assistant Secretary—-Harry P. Lunt, Williamsport, Pa. Assistant Secretary—-Harry E Bicks ler, Missouri. French. . Demand for French is so great and the number of available teachers so few that it is impossible to provide for .individual requests for French lessons. Self help booklets can be provided to ■individuals. Otherwise, requests for instruction can only be ronstdered when coming from groups of twenty* five men or more. Movie Orchestra. The rattling good comedy of Lew Fields in Old Dutch on Friday night was made doubly enjoyable by the ex cellent music provided by an orchestra, from the Ambulance Corps, composed of Alphonse Durago, pianist; Vincent Special,' guitar; John Sullaraay. bajt jorine, arid Charles Phipps, first viol lin. Checkers. AH men interested in a checker tour nament are asked to give their names and locations in camp 'to Secretary Brodheah. or Sergeant Gardner of Bat- E, 108th Field Artillery.- First meeting of all interested to be held on ■Wednesday evening of this week at 8 o’clock. Volunteers. Volunteer teachers in English are requested for the incoming draftees who do not speak .or understand- or dinary English. ■> material and direction's fur teaching will be fur nished. Volunteer reporters are wanted for Trench and Camp to furnish poetry, write-ups and camp happenings of all kinds. Leave at building. Program for the Week. Wednesday, 7:30 —Open night. Thursday, 7:3o—Religious service. Friday, 7: 30—Movies. Saturday, 7:30 —Open night. Sunday—Regimental services. 0:30 t. m., 108th F. A., Chaplain McFet ridge at Y. M. C. A. No. 75. 107th F. A.. Chaplain Peters; at lO.'.th F. A., Chaplain Farr; at Ammunition Train, by Y. M. C. A.: at Motor Supply Train and at Base Hospital, at 10 a. m., by Y. M. C. A. 7:30 p. m., evening devo tional services at Y. M. C. A. building. Monday, 7:30 —Augusta cnetrtainers. Tuesday, 7:30 —Movies. Wednesday—Open night. “They Take Care of Us” Says Boy to Father Camp Hancock. Dem Father: Ju«t a word to let you know what the Y. M. C. A. people are doing for us. Every Monday and Thursday we have novies, and the other evenings we have talks or doings of some kind, so that during our spare minutes, we have only to turn to the Y. M. C. A. and they take care of us —which is mighty fine of them. Kindest regards to all. HOWARD M. TTANYEN, Medical Department, 109 Infantry. CAMP RELIGIOUS WORK SECRETARY HERE Rev. Thomas A. Wigginion. D.D., pas tor of Broadway Presbyterian church, Nashville. Tenn., arrived at Camp Han cock yesterday, to assume the duties of Camp'Religious Work Secretary with the Army V. M. <’. A. Dr. Wigginton has a three months’ leave of absence fro mhis congregation and may serve for a longer period. For the past nine years fie has been pastor of the leading church at Nashville and prior to his pastorate there, was for eleven years pastor of the lending Presbvterian church in Evansville. Ind Dr. Wigginton is well qualified for h's important work and will personally su pervise the organization,, of Bible classes and religious meetings throughput the eamu co-operating with the religious work secretaries already In the field. He is prrntlv pleased with Camp Hancock. Tn addition to his ministerial duties, he is also instructor in the Biblical depart ment of Vanderbilt University and asso ciate ndUor of the Presbyterian Advance, published at Nashville. TRENCH AND CAMP' ADMINISTRATION STAFF Camp Secret.ry—E. Tomlinson. Camp Religious Work Director—T. A. Willington. Camp Educational Director—George B. Landin. Associate Div. Athletic Director—Geo. R. Fleming. Director of French Instruction- -Prof. I. L. Foster. Camp Business Secretary—R. P. Zebiey. Camp Musical Work Director—A. L. Tebbs. Publicity Managei—J. Edgar Probyn. Camp Stenographer—Frank W. Shriver. Camp Motion Picture Expert—George Magarian. Camp Property Man —P. A. McArthur. OFFICERS AND MEN STUDYING FRENCH Y. M. C. A. Organizes Classes in 56th Brigade. Sergt. Hum bert Will Assist Prof. Foster. Tableaux Please Men. BUILDING NO. 76. Serving the 56th Brigade, including tilth and 112th regiments, and 107th, 108th and 109th Machine Gun Bat talions. Building Secretary—W. C. Timmons, New York City. Physical Director—B. C. Currie, Punxsutawney, Pa. Educational Secretary—O. K. Arm strong, Springfield, Me. Religious Work Secretary—ll. S. Adams, Dayton, O. Business " Secretary—E. Mcßride, Nashville, Tenn. All of the entertainments and relig ious meetings of the past week have been welt attended and thoroughly en joyed. A record-breaking crowd pack ed th ebuilding Wednesday night, and were enetrtained by the Augusta enter tainers under the leadership of Mrs. Brand. The program consisted of tableaux, accompanied by musical selections. The tableaux which represented “The Qua ker Maids," accompanied by the song. “There’s a. Quaker Girl in Quakei - Town,” was the favorite of the even ing, and was cheered again and again. As one boy expressed it, “That’s Our Song.” The moving pictures were of especial merit, and were thoroughly enjoyed. The educational work has accom plished the organization of French Classes throughout the entire brigade, both • for the ofifeers and the enlisted men. The officers of the 111th regi ment meet every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. The officers of the 112th reg iment meet every Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Th enlisted men of both regiments will meet Thursday evening at 7, in their respective mess halls of Company C. If the classes are so large as to demand dividing, they will be divided into classes representing the respective battalions. The t ffic -rs will be instructed by Professor Foster, who is a very pro ficient linguist and especially fitted to teach French. He will bo assisted by Sergeant Humbert, Company L, of the 112th. Building No. 76 was unusually for tunate in receiving a large consignment of. books for circulation during the week.’ They are the property of Com pany B, 112th (of Meadville) but are placed in the care of the Y. M. C. A. for distribution. Lieut. Col. Gamble, of Meadville, was the means of securing this fine collection of books. Secretary Adams, in charge of the religious work, will preach at the Sun day evening services in Building No. 76 next Sunday. Program. Monday, 7:30 —Lecture by Mr. Law ton B. Evans. Tuesday, 7:30 —Moving pictures and sing song. Wednesday, 7: 30 —Stunts night. Thursday, 7:30 —Regular weekly re ligious meeting. F. W. • Backenmeyer and quartet. Friday, 7:30 —Moving pictures and sing song. Saturday, 7:30 —Open house. Sunday, 10 a. m. —112th regimental service. Chaplain Bassler in charge. 3 p. m., Sunday school; 7:30 p. m., re ligious meeting. Secretary Adams in charge. CLEVER PARODY SUNG BY A LITTLE GIRL When two of the pathfinders of the Y. M. C- A. were touring middle Georgia, a few days ago, their itinerary took them to Dearing, where they were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Printup. Be fore leaving, the little granddaughter. Miss Sarah Printup, sang the following parody on “Tipperary:” It’s a hard thing to whip the Kaiser It’s a hard thing to do; It's a hard thing to whip the Kaiser, And the Allies know it, too; So good-bye, little Italy, France and Russia, too; No other nation can whip the Kaiser But the Red, White and Blue. These words were sung by the pathfind ers at a public meeting in the Washing ton Court House and made a big hit. AUGUSTA TALENT PLEASES SOLDIERS Visitors From Augusta Find. Attraction at Building No. 77. Soldiers Do Stunts. Rev. Berg Returns From Trip. BUILDING NO. 77. Building Secretary—R. C. Dobson. St. Louis, Mo. Religious Secretary—William Berg, Philadelphia, Pa- Physical Director—E. 11. Landis, Dayton, Ohio. Educational Secretary—G. P. War field, Rockville, Md. Assistant Secretary—W. E. Griffin, Augusta, Ga. One of the most gratifying incidents of the pats week has been the large number of visitors from Augusta who have attended our program. On Mon day night Miss Margaret Battle and Miss Carolyn Brown entertained with songs while they were accompanied by Misses Helen and Marion Battle on the piano and guitar. A large number of our local friends Were in the audience and remained for the movies. On Tues day night a group ot these same friends returned to see the boys perform. Wednesday night Mrs. Eve brought out a fine lot of entertainers and Au gustans who made the evening very pleasant. Mrs. George F. Lamback has accepted the position of building moth er and will head a committee of ladies looking after the home touches in our domicile. On Tuesday night, many interesting stunts w«re pulled off by the boys. Kinder and Becker, No. 2, Military Po lice, gave several vocal selections; while Columbo Agostinni and two oth < er Company D boys of the old Eighth (Infantry, entertained with Italian opera •sings. All present joined in singing I popular songs led by Mr. Tebbs. I Mr. E. G. Miller from “back home,” j talked on “religion for a soldier” to a good sized crowd, Wednesday night. I After a good ringing song service on I Sunday night Mr. Dobson spoke for a few minutes on the first Psalm. Our stove is now ready and we know that heat will bring more happiness. I Many improvements to our home are I now under way; even our best friends won't know us soon. Mr. Berg comes back on Wednesday from a two weeks’ trip in a Ford. He’ll certainly appreciate our new quar ters. Company C, Engineers, has as a re cent member Mr. Pile, formerly a music teacher of note in Pottsville. We are now receiving a large num ber of current magazines on our ta bles. Corne and Jpok them over. Schedule of activities for week be ginning November 7th: Wednesday, 7:3o—Song service. Thursday, 7:3o—Movies. Friday, 6:4a—Lecture on French with Cortina records in “Y.” Saturday—“ Postal Writing Night to Friends.” Sunday, 7:3o—Song service. Monday—Movies. Tuesday, 7:3o—Stunt night. 110th Soldiers Lose toY. M. C. A. As a preliminary to the 1917 basket ball season, the Augusta Y. M. C. A. defeated a team representing the One Hundred and Tenth Infantry at the Augusta Y. M. C. A. last Friday night. The soldier lads put up a game bat tle but were outclassed by the speed and weight of their opponents. Can non made two field goals for the sol diers, the score ending 43 to 7. Following was the line-up: Y. M. C. A. Soldiers. Claussen (19.) Tobler flight Forward. Hester (6) Cannon (4) 1.-est Forward. Bredenberg (18) Seymour (3) Center. White Kelly Right Guard. Sibley, Rhodes Zerbe Left Guard. Referee; Warren Moran. Additional copies of this issue of Trench and Camp may be had at any Y. M. C. A. building. MINSTREL SHOW FRIDAY NIGHT Men of Company C, 109th, Will Give Glassy Performance —Third Regiment Band As sisting Programs. Bible Class Increasing. BUILDING NO. 79. (Serving the 109th, 3rd and 13th Regi ments.) Building Secretary—William Milton Religious Secretary—A. B. Currv Jr Educational Secretary—J. Edgar Pro byn. Physical Secretary—George R. Tyson. Assistant Secretary—Frank R. Hean. Assistant Secretary—Luther D. Miller. Assistant Secretary—Hubert N. Dukes. Another week has gone by and 4,500 men have passed in and out of the build ing, which is now virtually completed. Night after night the building has been filled with men and it is a certainty that if the old Fourth or Third Regiments were still intact, the secretarial force would be swamped. The building would be inadequate. A careful estimate places the number of letters written during the past .week at 2.000. Educational Secretary Probyn returned from his pathfinding tour of Middle Geor gia on Saturday morning, but his running mate. Religious Director Curry, is still on the job, lining up the Western Georgia people for the sum of $500,000, to be raised next week. Probyn spoke in the churches at Dearing on Sunday, telling the story of the Red Triangle. A number of drafted men are quartered in the infirmary formerly belonging to the fourth, and a number of the men are musically inclined. They formed an or chestra which did excellent service at the movies Thursday night. Several alumni of Girard College met m the building on Friday night for the purpose of forming a camp association. Another meeting is planned for the near future. The Sunday afternoon Bible class was conducted by Rev. Luther D. Miller, of Greensburg, and it is gratifying to know the attendance is increasing. Under the direction of Rev. Miller, it is hoped to establish classes in English for foreign ers. This Friday night a fine treat is in / store. The boys of Co. C,To9th Infantry have planned a minstrel show, which will be given in our building. Twenty men form the aggregation, of which Herman Faber, formerly one of Philadelphia’s leading violinists, is musical director. The boys promise a show as good as Dock stader’s or Field’s. No admission is to be charged. On Sunday night the religious service was attended by 500 men. Rev. Miller read the scripture lesson, following a song service, led by Probyn. and Dr. Hess gave a forceful talk on “Prophets of Righte ousness.” The members of the old Third Regiment Band, led by Antonio del Cam po, played several selections. The men oaP.E wit . h great s » irit such songs as When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder” and “Brighten the Corner.” Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Brad shaw, of Dearing, were visitors to the budding on Sunday night and stayed for the service. This Week's Program. Wednesday—Song service. Thursday—Movies, assisted by Third Regiment Band. Friday—Minstrel show by company of twenty from Co. C, 109th Infantry. Saturday—Sing-song, led by T e bbs and amateur stunts. Sunday—Bible class at 2:30. Song serv ice at 7:30. Monday—Movies. Tuesday—Augusta entertainers. Through the courtesy of Bandmaster Brinton, the Third Regiment Band will play at the building from 7 until 7:30 ev ery evening except Wednesday and Sat urday. This service is appreciated great ly by all. AMERICAN Y. M. C. A. HUT IN LONDON POPULAR British Colonials Like Ragtime, Boston Baked Beans and United States Slang London.—Ragtime music, Boston baked beans and plain everyday United States slang have made the new American Young Men’s Christian Association hut one of the most popular places in London. Although it has been open only about six weeks, there has ben an average of about 1,800 visitors a day. Canadians, Australians and New Zea landers apparently prefer the American hut to their own. Owing to the compara tively small number of American soldiers and sailors in London thus far, the hut has been patronized largely by the former. The American Ambassador, Walter Hines Page, and Mrs. Page, are said to have been responsible for the introduction of American cooking at the hut, and the result has been electrifying. Several wealthy American women resident in London, have contributed many phono graph records of popular American music, and there is an atmosphere about the place which is distinctly American. American soldiers and sailors who still find it difficult to acquaint themselves with English money have recently been hoarding “ciackers” (pennies) and ex* changing them for silver coin at the hut. It is said that its much as £2O in pennies have been charged in a day. Additional copies of this issue of Trench and Camp may be had at any Y, M. C. A. building. Page 3 i]j w i el