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■ Trench and Camp
Published weekly at the National can ton
manta for the soldiers of the United States.
ADVISORY BOARD OF CO-OPERATING
PUBLISHERS
JOHN STEWART BRYAN. Chairman.
H. C. Adler, Chattanooga Times.
C. IL Allen, Montgomery Advertiser.
P. T. Anderson, Macon Telegraph.
F. 8. Baker, Tacoma Tribune.
W. W.. Ball, Columbia State.
John Stewart Bryan, Richmond News-
Leader
Harry Chandler, Los Angeles Times.
Amon C. Carter, Fort Worth Star Tele
gram.
Elmer E. Clarke Little Rock Arkansas
Democrat
Gardner Cowles, Des Moines Register.
R. A. Crothers San Francisco Bulletin.
Chas. S. Diehl, San Antonio Light
E. K. Gaylord, Oklahoma City Oklaho
man
F P. Gia«s, Birmingham News.
Bruce Haldeman. Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Clark Howell. Atlanta Constitution.
James Kerney. Trenton Times.
Victor F. Lawson, The Chicago Dally
News.
Charles E. Marsh, Waco Morning News.
Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka State Jour
nal.
A. L. Miller, Battle Creek Enquirer-News.
D. D. Moore, Nhw Orleans Times-Picayune.
Fleming Newbold, Washington Evening
Star.
Gough J. Palmer. Houston Post.
Bowdre Phlnlzy, Augusta Herald.
Don C. Seitz, New York World.
Rudolph C. SiegHng. Charleston News and
Courier.
H. D. Slater, El Paso Herald
W. P Sullivan. Charlotte Observer.
James M. Thomson. New Orleans Item
Published under the auspices of the Na
tional War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A.
of the United States with the co-operation
of the papers above named.
Distributed free to the soldiers In the
National oantonments.
INTO THE OPEN!
The most hopeful sign in the situa
tifin on the Western front, where the
issue of the war will be decided, is the
triumph cf initiative. And to General
Byng, or to a master mind behind his
own, belongs the credit.
Not in the number of prisoners
taken; not in the extent of territory
regained;—but in the return to the
principles of the surprise attack and
in its resultant stimulus to the morale
of the Allied forces is the victory most
significant.
The victory does not open a high
way to the Rhine. It does more, for
it epens a highway to a new hope that
may lead far beyond t'-e river.
It proclaims in terms that are unde
niable that the Hindenburg line is not
impassable. The wreck and ruin of
large portions of that line are elo
quent proof of that. It may almost
be said that the victory marks the be
ginning of a new, and perhaps the
final, stage of the war.
_At the Marne and at Verdun the
French had a steadying cry, “They
shall not pass.” The lines held. At
the Marne civilization was saved. At
Verdun the forces of France were
threatened again and with them per
haps civilization itself.
It was enough at the Marne and at
Verdun to see that the lines held. But
it is not enough now. The lines must
go forward. «
The forces of righteousness are mo
bilized now. America has thrown her
weight into the war—America with
her traditions of dash and daring,
America with a fresh army and a
readiness to plunge ahead.
The trenches must be emptied. The
fighting must be forced. Out in the
open where man clashes with man,
what chance has a craven enemy
whose symbol is a submarine, a skulk
ing coward, a thief in the night, an
assassin who stabs in the back.
• Into the open, then! Let that be
our rallying cry.
Let it stir every camp and canton
ment. Let it call into service again if
it will the cavalry as “moppers up.”
Let the job be thorough.
Into the open, Americans! Into the
open!
AN UN-NAMED HERO
His name has not been told yet. It
is not his name but his example that
counts. For his story is one of the
first of those narratives of bravery
that will thrill the hearts of the Amer
ican people and convince them that
the quality which is Americanism has
by no means been lost.
Not many stories of valor have
been told. It is not because cur men
have not been valorous, but because
it takes a high quality of bravery in
deed to win especial mention in these
days when the demands upon the ca
bles are so heavy and varied.
Here is the story of the un-named
tiero, told in the plain, matter-of-fact
style of the correspondent who must
not be prodigal with his words be
cause each one demands its toll.
“The lieutenant had led a night pa
trol. He and his men had already
been on duty thirteen hours in the
trenches. They crawled out over No
Man’s Land and lay flat on the
ground, listening and awaiting Ger
man patrols. One man, utterly ex
hausted, fell asleep in a shell hole
close to the German entanglements.
TRENCH AND CAMP
"When the Anjerican patrol re
turned to its own lines just before
dawn the man’s absence was not im
mediately discovered. Then the lieu
tenant, sweeping every inch of the
ground with his glasses, located his
missing man tucked away in a crater.
It was about the same minute that the
Germans discovered him, too.
“T|ie soldier crouched down in his
haven while the Bcches loosed their
machine guns and began hurling
grenades at him. His lieutenant, dis
regarding concealment, stood up over
the trench and violently tried to wig
wag him on how tq creep back to the
American lities.
“Then the lieutenant slipped over
the too and crawled down a ravine.
The Germans discovered him almost
at cnce. They transferred all their
fire to his creeping figure.
"Back in the American trenches the
troeps watched breathlessly, firing a
barrage to protect the slow-moving
creeper. In some miraculous way the
lieutenant reached his man and the
two turned back, scuttling along close
to the ground, with bullets whistling
over their heads and cutting the high
weeds sll about them."
After reading this story can any one
believe it when he is told that the
glory has gone from war? Glory is
not in pomp; it is not in the beating
cf many drums. Rather it is in pur
pose? and in the nameless nr.?jic of the
beating of human hearts.
FRENCH WAR CROSSES
FOR 15 AMERICANS
Fifteen American officers and men
who participated in the battle with
the Germans on the night of Nov. 2-3
have been awarded French War
Crosses. Among those awarded War
Crosses were Privates Merle D. Hay
and Thomas F. Enright and Corporal
James D. Gresham, "who died brave
ly in hand-to-hand fighting with the
enemy, who had penetrated the first
line.”
The War Crosses were presented
by an American Major General. The
recipients were informed that while
they may keep the decorations in
their possession, they cannot wear
them until Congress gives its authori
zation. Congress is expected to take
th<s action at the present session.
The other soldiers in addition to
Hay,"Enright and Gresham who were
cited for bravery and daring were:
Lieut. WTJlam H. McLaughlin, Lieut.
R. O. Paterjon, Lieut. E. F. Erickson,
Sergt. John Arrowwood, Corporals
David M. Knowles and Homer Givens
and Privates Charles Massa, William
B. Thomas, George Hurd, Boyce
Wade, Robert Winkler and John J.
Jarvis.
NEW SCORING SYSTEM
Two regimental football teams
ware playing a gruelling game at one
of the cantonments. The play was
hard and fast in the fourth quarter,
both teams being eager to score.
Time was taken out for several in
jured men.
When the whistle blew for time
out for an injured player, a soldier
rooter on the side lines, with a pad
and pencil in his hands, began to
cheer lustily.
"That ties the score,” he shouted.
“I knew my regiment would pull it
self together and even the score.”
“Where do you get that noise?”
inquire another soldier standing
nearby. “There hasn’t been any
scoring. It’s nothing to nothing and
looks like it will end that way.”
“Nothing to nothing, nothing,” re
plied the gleeffil soldier. “I have
been keeping the score and it is
twelve to twelve.”
“How do you get that way?”
asked the other soldier.
“Simple “figuring,” was the reply.
"My regiment has knocked out
twelve men and only twelve of our
men have been knocked out.”
FIVE YEARS MORE?
That Great Britain expects the war
to last at least five years more was
the statement of Captain Richard
Haigh, of the British Army, in an
address in New’ York recently. Great
Britain is making plans accordingly,
he said.
SPEED AND STAMINA NEEDED
Writing from "somewhere in
France,” a U. S. A. officer who has
seen service “Over There,” says:
"Everything possible should be
done to develop agility and endur
ance in the American soldiers now in
the training camps at home.”
THEY WANT TO READ IT
The folks back home want to read
every line they can get about your
life and activities In camp. When
you have finished reading this paper
mail it home.
V- T —— ’
CANTONMENT TYPES
THE OFFICER WHO WINS HIS MEN
HE cries “Come in. please,” in a
voice that sounds as good as
money from home when you
knock on the orderly room door. Os
course, he’s busy. What officer isn’t
in these days of colossal tasks, with
the uncut wildernesses of details to
be chopped through and morasses of
preliminary organization to be
bridged over?
But he doesn’t admit that he’s
busy when you come in, nor does he
fidget and twist uneasily as if your
presence were intrusion. For he is
The Officer Who Wins Men. He
doesn’t believe in the principle of
driving men —from behind. He lives
his life on the conviction that men
are better men if they are pulled—
from in front. He believes in the
compelling power of Love, to use a
broad, often misused word.
He wins his men because of that;
because he likes them. They are
men, and he loves humanity and hu
man nature—for weaknesses and
frailities as well as for nobilities. It
is easy for him to take an interest in
bls men, because he likes them. You
are interested in anything you like,
and like anything in which you are
Interested.
How the $50,000,000 Will Be Spent
In the campaign for special funds
to carry on war work, recent
drive of the Young Men’s Christian
Association takes a unique position.
Over-subscribed by more than fifteen
millions of dollars, the response of
the country is a tribute to a generous
people’s confidence in the agency of
distribution.
Early in the drive it was stated
that the gifts would not, and could
not be construed as contributions to
the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion, but rather to the soldiers direct.
And the promise has been given that
the money will all serve the purpose
intended.
But how will this huge sum of
550,000,000 be spent?
A tentative budget was presented
in the outline of the plans for the
campaign. It called for the follow
ing expenditures:
1. To promote the physical, moral
and social welfare of the enlisted
men of the American Army and Navy
on this side of- the Atlantic,
$11,000,000.
2. To render similar service for
the American enlisted men overseas,
$12,000,000.
3. For extending such work among
the armies of the Allies, $7,000,000.
4. For similar work among pris
oners of war, at leas> $1,000,000.
5. To provide for inevitable expan
sion, $4,000,000.
When the complete reports had
been received and it was known that
the fund had been so largely over
subscribed, John R. Mott, General
Secretary of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association, made this state
ment:
Y. M. C. A. Work to Be Extended
“The fact that the fund will be ad
ministered by a finance committee of
which George W. Perkins is chair
man, and composed of other men
with both experience in financial
matters and knowledge of Y. M. C. A.
work, insures the most economical
application of the money contributed.
We are preparing a definite plan for
the extension of the association work
in camps both here and abroad. This
will be announced soon.”
Confronted by a fund that opens
new possibilities, the directors of the
Y. M. C. A. work are going about
their planning in a deliberate, pains
taking fashion.
This much can be said, even at this
early date, that the work as already
under way in all camps and canton
ments will be subject to a new inten
sification. Those at the head of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
realize that not only are the govern
mental agencies looking to them to
uphold the morale of the armies,
which, in a fine analysis, is more im
portant than ordnance; but the whole
body of the American people has
come to look upon them as stewards
of the welfare of the men who com
prise the Army and the Navy.
Comforts such as have been pro
vided for no armed forces in the his
tory of the world will be provided for
the men of America. Every possible
effort will be made to care for them
in mind and body.
Already the advance guard of the
Young Men’s Christian Association is
in France. Already it has heartened
ihe American soldiery there. Already
Dec. 12, 1917.
So when you knock at the orderly
room door and hear the cheery "come
in, please,” you feel a swelling
around the heart, and realize that
you are going into the presence of
a man who knows you and will help
you. There is no display of authority
and position by this Officer Who Wins
Men, but the quiet power of his per
sonality brooks no insubordination.
He has learned the name of every
man. He'knows the man’s worries,
his home problems, his ambitions,
fears and hopes. Not that he has
pried into private concerns; his ‘’win
someness” has drawn them frsm his
men. He gives friendly advice, min
isters comfort and cheers —from his
piled-up desk in the orderly room.
He has won every man in the com
pany, not as a matter of means to
the end that he may be promoted,
but because he can do no other way.
His nature is the nature that wins
men. He never drives them.
And when the supreme test is
given his men—to follow him
know not to what fate —they will 1 o
drawn by the love which he has given
them. This Officer Who Wins His
Men will win the Final Victory!
Its scientific methods have won the
admiration of the leaders of foreign
forces. Already there is a demand to
project this work into the armies of
the Allies. Italy, France and Russia
‘have been calling for a duplication of
the work of the American Y. M. C. A.
The Napoleonic maxim that the mo
rale of the troops is everything has
become generally accepted and it is
seen that American methods insure
, the maintaining of the desired mo
rale.
With the huge fund that is avail
able it will be possible to extend the
work in such a ihanner that no sol
dier will feel that he is forgotten.
The American soldier abroad will
be so far from home that it will be
impossible for him to rejoin his fam
ily while on furloughs. For the Eng
lish soldier and the French this is not
impossible. A railroad journey of an
hour or two and a quick trip across
the channel and the Englishman is at
home. For the Frenchman only the
railroad journey is necessary. For
the American soldier there would be
the large cities of France and tempta
tions. It is not the intention of the
American commanders that their men
shall be exposed unduly to those
temptations that are commonly asso
ciated with the military. Therefore
the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion has undertaken the work of pro
viding healthful, wholesome re-crea
tions for the men on furloughs. To
this end leases have been acquired on
some of the finest situated and best
known resort hotels of France. With
ample funds, the Y. M. C. A. will now
be able to care for furloughed sol
diers at these recreation bases in such
a manner that they will find their
sojourns at the resorts more than
merely restful. Opportunities will be
given for expeditions to the neighbor
ing country. Then men who thus fall
under the friendly influence of the
Y. M. C. A. will come back travel
broadened.
Family Is Strength of Atate
All of the present endeavors of the
association, so thoroughly character
istic of every American camp and can
tonment, will be carried on in France
and wherever the American forces
may be. When the men are not fight
ing in the trenches their time will be
well occupied. Educational work that
will bring into service some of the
best teachers available; athletics that
Till minister to the well-being of the
body; influence that will strengthen
the spiritual man—all of these are
in the Y. M. C. A. programme. And '
through the entire ministry of the
Young Men’s Christian Association to
the American and his Allies there will
be an effort to keep uppermost in the
minds of all the men who are reached
the idea that the family is the
strength of the state. “Keep the
Home Fires Burning” has come to be
a household word. It will not be the
fault of the Association if the men
under arms sever the home ties.
To carry on this tremendous work
it will be necessary to enlist in the
service of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association hundreds of self
sacrificing men who, prompted by a
sense of duty, will be ready to make
the same sacrifices that the soldiers
cheerfully make, who will be readv
to go to the borders of No Man’s Land
and, if necessary in the cause of this
real Christian ministry, to go over tho
top and on to the great adventure. |