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Catholic Chaplain
Endorses YMCA
Says Association Was Friend
To Men on Mexican Border.
Farewell Talk by a Roman Catholic
Chaplain to the men of his regiment at
the Young Men’s Christian Association
Camp Building on the day of their de
parture from the border to go home.
And now, men, I would not be dealing
fairly with you were I to close this fare
well service without expressing in your
behalf our heartfelt thanks and deep’ap
preciation to the Y. M. C. A. for its num
berless kindnesses and untold helpfulness.
It is one friend x that has never failed us;
that has never found difficulties too great
if there was any chance to help us; that
Jias never left us even when we thought
it would have been justified.
When we left the State camp and start
ed for the border we felt we had parted
from our last friends. We had left every
thing friendly back at home. Can you re
member our surprise when we found that
right there on the train we were already
being taken in hand by the Y. M. C. A.?
They were right on the job in the very
beginning to cheer us and help us.
But, we thought to ourselves, they will
leave us when we reach the border. There
will be none of these kindnesses there.
But we were mistaken. For there was
the Y. M. C. A., ready to serve us and
meet our needs as long as we were to be
there. ,
Then orders came for a long, long hike
and changing of camp location. Well, we
would have to give, up the Y. M. C. A.
now. it was absolutely unreasonable to
oven think of their being able to do any
thing for us on a long drawn .out, dusty
hike like that. But not so. For the
very first day out we were cheered by
seeing the Y. M. secretary hiking right
along with us. And we were glad to know
that one of the trucks was carrying sta
tionery and other Y. M. conveniences for
us.
And the next camp in which we finally
settled! Absolutely a God-forsaken hole!
Even the sugar fermented there. Os
course there would be no Y. M. C. A. in
that place. But as I was walking around
the camp a little later [ asked "What are
those tents over there? The largest ones
in the camp." And the answer was. "Oil.
they are the Y. M. C. A. tents ” And sure
enough they were. And the Y. M. stayed
there. Willing to bear hardships with us
in order to be of service to us.
Then we moved to the next site. And
they welcomed us with open arms. A
concert the very first night—and help
fulness and delights ever since.
But now our border service is over and
it is time to start back home. Do you
think the Y. M. C. A. will leave us now?
No, sir. Just late this afternoon I re
ceived a telegram from our local Asso
ciation saying they will be glad to wel
come us home. Their building is open for
our use. And they will assist every man
of the outfit in getting a job and settling
back to his useful civilian life.
M6n, they have been our friends. In
your behalf 1 want to thank them with all
my heart. They haven’t asked us our
special brand of religion—but they've wel
-1 coined us all and tried to help us all.
1 have felt at home in holding/mass in the
Association building and we have en
joyed our Roman Catholic services here
every Sunday morning just as the Pro
testants have enjoyed theirs in the 'Even
ing. The Y. M. C. A. has been a God
send to the men on the border.
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA UP
TO-DATE.
Canning the Kaiser.
(By Upton Sinclair of The Vigilantes.)
News dispatch—London, Sept 15.—The
newspapers declare that the American sol
diers and marines have already found a
slogan, which is “Can the Kaiser!" The
British are much puzzled by the ability
oi the Americans to invent new slang
and the papers explain that the word
"can” is used in the sense of hermetically
sealing the kaiser to prevent his further
activity.
(Tune: Marching Through Georgia.)
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we’ll sing
another song,
Sing it with a spirit that will move the
world along,
Sing it as we need to sing it, half a
million strong—
While we are canning the kaiser.
Oh, Bill! Oh, Bill! We’re on the job to
day !
Oh, Bill, Oh, Bill! We’ll seal you so you'll
stay!
We’ll put you up with ginger in the good
old Yankee way—
While we are canning the kaiser.
Hear the song we’re singing on the shin-,
ing roads of France;
Hear the Tommies cheering and see the
Poilus prance;
Africanders and Kanucks and Scots with
out their pants—
j While we are canning the kaiser.
(Chorus.)
Bring the. guns from Bethlehem, by wav
of old New York;
Bring the beans from Boston, and don’t
leave off the pork;
Bring a load of soda-pop- and pull the
grape-juice cork —
While we are canning the kaiser.
(Chorus.)
Come you men from Dixieland, you lum
berjacks from Maine;
Come you Texas cowboys, and you farm
ers of the plain;
From Florida to Oregon, we boast the
Yankee strain—
While we are canning the kaiser.
(Chorus.)
Now we’ve started on the job, we mean
to put it through;
Ship the kings and kaisers all, and make
the world andw;
Clear the way for common folk, for men
like me and you—•
While we are canning the kaiser.
(Chorus.)
Send Them Trench and
Camp With a One
Cent Stamp
TRENCH AND CAMP
Statistxcal Report of the Army Y. M. C. A.,
Camp Hancock, for the Month of
October, 1917.
Attendance . . ........ ... .205,900
Lectures (18) 4,875
Educational Classes (88) 2,354
Books Circulated . , 5,953
Physical Participants .. .. 20,962
Physical Spectators , , 17,234
Religious Meetings (78) . . .. . , 18,055
Bible Class (20) . .... 357
Scriptures Given . 940
Interviews .... 690
Christian Decisions 285
Entertainments (41) 17,719
Movies (38) 24,265
Letters Written 142,356
Money Orders Sold $40,857.84
Physical Training in the 28th Division
CAPTAIN HUGH DOANE
The training of a division is directed
with the ultimate purpose of reaching the
maximum of fighting efficiency. To ac
complish this, a basis of physical sound
ness must be reached. Setting up exer
cises and recreational sport have proven
themselves as the best and most logical
method of getting results.
The physical training of this division
has been based on the manual “Field
Physical Training for Soldiers." The first
step was taken by Captain Wood, U. S.
A., who inaugurated an officers’ class of
125 men in setting up drills.
Later on the class was cut to one of
ficer front practically every battalion in
the division and these officers went every
morning for instruction in physical work,
boxing, bayonet fighting and wrestling.
The instruction here received is trans
mitted by the battalion inspector instruc
tors, as they are called, to their battal
ions. In this way the work of the di
vision along these lines is made uniform.
The officers of the class are held respon
sible for the instruction of their battal
ions and their work is supervised and
augmented by the Division Physical Di-
“If You Like the “Y”
Tell the Home Folks Why”
The little rhyme carries a world of meaning; and while the Army Y.
M. C. A. asks nothing in return for the service it is rendering for the
soldier boy in the. American camps and on the Firing Line except the
burdens of war lighter, it does hope—and has a right to hope—that every
soldier boy w’ill be guided by the suggestions and write immediately—
today, this very moment if you can—and tell the home folks what the Y.
M. C. A. means to you. Will you do it?
Has the Army Y. M. C. A. been helpful to you in camp?
Have its writing room and reading room and entertainments appeal
ed to you or brought a moment’s convenience, or happiness or relief
from the routine of Army Life? Has its educational work reached you?
Has its recreational program, its athletics, its outdoor and indoor games
interested you? Has its secretarial service been of benefit to you?
Have you found the free stationery, the sale of stamps, the sale of
money orders, and the scores of little services of this kind of any help
or convenience to you? Has the Army Y. M. C. A. room visited by you
in this camp contributed in any way to dispelling the army blues so
common to most of us when away from home? Has the standard of
Christian ideals set by the Army Y. M. C. A. been helpful to you in any
way.
In all frankness —
“It You Like the “Y”
Tell the Home Folks Why”
Will you do it right now? The “Y” is trying to serve you now. It
will serve you when you get on the firing line in France. It will serve
you in the Hospitals and even in the enemy prisons. Will you do this
much for the “Y"?
May the editor of Trench and Camp ask every man in this camp to
write a letter home during the coming week, if it is only a line or two
and tell Dad or Mother or Brother or Sister if the Army Y. M. C. A.
means anything to the soldiers. If it does we want them to know it, too.
Let’s make this very week the “WRITE A LETTER HOME ABOUT THE
Y WEEK.”
Special stationery will be furnished for this purpose. Ask for it!
SONGS OF THE SAMMIES.
American Field Headquarters.—
“I’ve been working on the railroad
aw’ll the livelong da-ay.
I’ve been working on tho railro-ad
Just to pass the .time aw-a-ay,”
Any sweet singer of pool-room melpdies
canfinish the words for you. But there
is only one crowd that can sing it so con.
vincingly that you know right off the bat
they have been working on the railroad.
They are the railroad engineers, coming
mainly from Pittsburgh, New York, Chi
cago and San Francisco; They’re , scat
tered all through the place from seacoast
all through the American supply bases
right up to the camps of the expedition.
In a few short months they have filled the
corps with a spirit that will live through
the war wherever engineers may be found
—which is ’most everywhere. That spirit
is expressed in the engineers’ little ditty
which concluded:
"Oh, we build all the barracks and we
lay all the ties
And we dig all the ditches for the other
kind of guys.”
rector, by means of battalion setting up
drills.
At the start the officers were coached
in giving commands with the idea of se
curing uniformity agid the exercises were
varied so as to benefit all parts of the
body.
Lieutenant Umberger of the 109th Ma
chine Gun Battalion, is supervising the
bayonet instruction. The course that he
has outlined was based on the methods
employed at Fort Sill. From the elemen
tary thrusts and parries the men have
been taken through a final assault course
and are now engaging daily in actual
combat with wooden rifles, piastons and
masks.
The physical training has been con
ducted with the idea of whipping the men
into the best physical shape, bearing in
mind at all times the importance of ac
quiring and maintaining the correct mil
itary posture and to the end that the ex
ercises will fit officers ami men alike
for the shock action that takes place in
real warfare.
The men have taken to the work with
great interest and the enthusiasm dis
played promises well for the fighting ef
ficiency of the division.
PROSPERITY.
It’s easy to haul on the level,
A skid-road that's smooth as a floor;
You may have to work like the devil
And pull till your shoulder is sore;
An’ even a hill may not best you,
A little upgrade now and then—
But there is a road that will test you,
The test of both horses and men.
An’ that is the downgrade, my brother
the place where you don’t have to pull-
Tho easy road, somewhere or other,
Is one that of trouble is full.
"'he road up the hill you can master,
The long haul that’s level may beat,
But when things are pushin’ you faster—
That's when you must keep on your
feet.
Hard luck seldom conquers a fellah,
A fellah the regular kind;
But when you will quit, if you're vellah
Is when things are shovin’ behind.
Right then is the danger of ditchin’,
Is when you are wantin’ to run—
So brace yourself back in the britchin’
An’ keep in the middle, my son!
—Douglas Malloch, in the American Lum
berman.
nov. 7, 191/.
Adjutant Wilson
Explains Position
Y. M. C. A. aiuTK. of C. Do
Not Limit Activities to Par
ticular Constituency.
Dear Professor Bentley:
The Secretary .of War desires me to ac
knowledge receipt of your letter of Oc
tober 9, 1917, relative to a rumor current
that Masonic organizations are not per
mitted in the army, while Knights of Co-''
lumbus are, and in response thereto to in
form you that ever since the plans for the
cantonments and training camps were
first made the War Department has been
flooded with resquests from # all sorts of
organizations to erect special buildings
inside the military reservations. Various
religious denominations, a large number
of lodges and fraternities and many ath
letic and recreational clubs have petition
ed us, each seeking to minister exclusive
ly to its own membership inside the
camps. If we let down the bars for one,
we would have to take the same action in
regard to all. The Young Men's Chris
tian Association and the Knights of Co
lumbus have for many years, both in this
country and abroad, been represented in
army camps, serving the soldiers along
recreational and social lines without re
gard to any question of membership. In
other words, they do not limit their activi
ties to a particular constituency. One
organization represents the Protestant
denominations, which will constitute
roughly, 60 per cent, of our new armv,
the other represents the Catholic denomi
nation, which will constitute perhaps 30
per cent. Neither organization, however,
as 1 have pointed out, will conduct its
work on any exclusive basis. The build
ings of both as well as their activities
are for the benefit of all the troops in the
camps.
We felt, therefore, that the wisest plan
would be to admit only these two organi
zations for work inside the camps, and
the action taken by the War Department
was taken after full consideration of the
problem by the Commission on Training
t amp Activities, which has been appoint
ed to advise with the War Department
on matters of this kind.
1 am sure you will see that no discrimi
nation against any fraternal order is in
tended. it would be physically impossible
from the standpoint of space to allow the
many different organizations I have men
t>oned to erect buildings inside the camps.
On the other hand, if you will permit the
suggestion. I think these orders are con-
Witll a. splendid: opportunity in
nefd? t? the creational and social
needs of their membership in the com.
munities in the neighborhood of which our
’military camps are located. These com
a,!’e already organized along rec
iml’Vb" 1 Un s s ’ a , nd 1 confidently believe
f„L these orders have a large part to play
in the program. 1 J
J. B. WILSON,
w ., ch . ; Adjutant General,
u ashington, D. c.
It seems to me I’d like to go
Where helis don’t ring, nor whistles
blow.
Nor clocks don’t strike nor gongs don’t
sound,
And I’d have stillness all around.
Not real still stillness, hut just the
trees’
Low whisperings or the hum of bees.
Or brooks’ faint babbling over stones
In strangely, softly tangled tones.
Or maybe a cricket or katydid,
Or the songs of birds in the hedges hid,
Or just some sueh sweet sounds as
these,
To fill a tired heart with ease.
Sometimes it seems to me I must
Just quit the city’s din and dust
And get out where the sky is blue, '
And say, now how does it seem to
you?
THE SHADOW OF THE FALG.
Mary Putnam Heart, of the Vigilantees
The breath of joy was in the air,
A May-time beauty everywhere,
Yet dark beneath my feet ft lay
As ’twere a blot upon the day.
A shadow, wavering to and fro,
1 looked to understand—and, Jo!
The shadow of the flag.
The sweet winds from the orchard
came,
They caught each scarlet stripe aflame
The white stars gleamed upon their
blue—
A glorious banner ’twas to view.
But as it filled and floated free
The sun played hid-and-seek, to see
The shadow of the flag.
Emerging from the storm-cloud's
wrack
A phantom army struggles back.
To English and Canadian home
Exhausted, broken, maimed they come.
A mighty sacrificial host—
Survivors of war’s holocaust.
The shadow’ of the flag.
And millions ’neath the torn ground lie
Unfolding great Death’s mystery.
Their youth was fair—they gave it all,
Upspringing at the trumpet call.
Was needito give it? Answer ye
who sent to immortality
These shadows of the flag.
O, God, Omnipotent, bend down,
Compel a world in chaos thrown.
Man’s power is naught—Thy power is
still
The same that spoke from Sanai’s hill,
Speak now. with stern authority,
That our dim eyes may never see
Such shadows of tur fia"