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ABRAHAMJ.INCOLN
Address By Judge Speer
Judge Emory Speer of the United
States district last Friday favored the
soldiers at the Young Men’s Christian As
sociation Building No. 232 with an admir
able address on Abraham Lincoln. Tn
the judge’s estimation Lincoln’s father
was not poor white trash as is so often
stated, but one of those brave and hardy
pioneers who struck out where softer or
less courageous men feared to go. He.
braved the dangers of the woods, blazed
his way into territory heretofore unin
habited by white men, developed a farm
out of the wilderness, and established a
home for his family.
The mother of Lincoln was a pious and
loving woman who left her impress upon
the young boy, for when he was Presi
dent of the United States he was wont to
says: "All I am, or hope to be, I owe
to my angel mother.” She died when
Lincoln was but eight years old and the
father moved to Indiana where after some,
time he disappeared for a few weeks and
later returned with a new mother for
the children. This was Mrs. Sally Thomp
son, a rather wealthy widow, who, to
gether with several children brought to
the pioneer home a considerabl amount
of furniture, dishes and other conven
iences which were in striking contract to
the simple home-made beds and chairs
previously in use. The young boy studied
hard with the few books which he had:
wrote his lessons on % wooden shovel
which he would afterwards scrape and
use again; became an orator at the ex
pense of his audience; practiced as a law
yer in the solitude of the woods arguing
both sides of a supersitious Ajase and
charging the jury as judge.
No one knew the middle class people
better than did Mr. Lincoln. His aris
tocratic cabinet members could not under
stand his free and easy attitude with the
common people. Lincoln’s knowledge of
the , Southern character, especially with
the people of the border states, frequently
stood him in good stead.
With reference to slavery Lincoln was
willing to retain slavery or to overthrow
it if only by either means the Union
might be preserved. At Petersburg, Lin
coln visited Brandt and shortly afterwards
recommended to his cabinet an appro
priation of three hundred million dollars
as compenstion for the slaves. When op
posed by a cabinet member, he asked
him how long the war would last. The
reply was .‘‘probably a hundred days.”
“Then,” said Mr. Lincoln, "since we are
spending three million a day would it not
be cheaper to pay the proposed compen
sation for the slaves?”
On April the 11th, 18'65. he stated, “Al?
agree that the seceded states are out of
the proper attitude toward the Union.
Let us all join to re-establish the proper
attitude.” With this determination on
he part of the noble President of the Unit
ed States, reconstruction in the South
would have progressed satisfactorily to all
interested, but events moved on hurried
ly. The incomparable army of Lee was
vanquished, and "then came the deep
damnation of the taking off of Lincoln,
the most dastardly deed ever struck at
the heart of our country.” but his spirit
was manifested in a statement made in a
decision in the United States Supreme
court.‘that the United States is an ‘in
destructable Union of indestructable
States.’ ”
The Young Men’s Christian Association
greatly regrets that Judge Spec’s duties
take him away from Augusta before he
can be heard in all of our buildings.
ROTARY CLUB FEASTS
CAMP HANCOCK MEN
At the meeting of the Rotary Club
last week one hundred men not only
enjoyed the banquet at the invitation
of the club, but listened to a brilliant
address by Hon. Emory Speer on the
subject of compulsory military train
ing. A program of piano and vocal
music, together with several entertain
ment skits was rendered by soldiers
most of whom came from the motor
mechanics.
Judge Speer spoke of the necessity
of preparation for a contest of arms
forced upon us by outside agencies, or
in an. effort to secure justice from
military nations not willing to abide by
decisions of international courts. He
detailed the elements of Prussian pre
paredness; called attention to the em
phasis which Napoleon the First plac
ed upon training, and led up to uni
versal training of American youths.
This, h eclaimed was necessary be
cause of the attitude of the Kaiser to
ward Americans and the well known
desire of Germany to secure colonial
possessoins in this hemisphere.
“What is our refuge?” asked the
judge and replied as /ollows:
"To become as swiftly as possible a
nation in arms; to convince the world
in the words df Patrick Henry that we
are invincible by any force our enemy
can send against us. Every Ameri
can soldier, every American patriot,
and especially every American woman
should become propagandists of uni
versal and, therefore, compulsory
training and service.
“That it will cost is true, but it will
be of all other investments the most
profitable. It will insure our liberty.
It will give to the youth and young
manhood of the country that which
they solely lack respect for authority
and for law. For obedience to military
law will insure, obedience to all law.
It will encourage thrift, of all things,
that which our countrymen most need.
It will encourage patriotism and love,
country. It will revive 1 the Ameri
canism of the Fathers who made our
independence sure, and gave to us that
scheme of government, which, while
the hateful to autocracy, is, of all
others; the most beneficent to man.
Can we hesitate for the cost?”
The next time
Our mess sergeant
Cuts 1
Up a horse
• For steak,
I hope he
Won’t forget to
off the
Page 16
TRENCH AND CAMP
Nearly $300,000,000 Insurance
Written at Camp Hancock
Average Policy $8,673. Time Extended.
No Free Insurance Now •
Tuesday, February 12th, 1918, marked the ending of the recent insurance
drive and the beginning of the final lap of the Insurance Compaign.
On Tuesday night Captain Barton, Division Insurance Officer, reported
• that 33,885 soldiers a: Camp Hancock had applied for 5293.917,500 of insur
ance, an increase of $67,84f,000 over the total of 5226,076,5000 reported on
February 9, 1918. On the same day President Wilson signed the bill passed
by Congraess extending for 60 days the opportunity of taking out War Risk
Insurance. Soldiers in the service on October 15th, 1917, will now nave until
April 12th to make out their applications. Free insurance, however, ended
on February 12th, 1918.
The following w a report of the standing of organizations at Camp
Hancock; statement of number of men insured and total amount of insur
ance written at Camp Hancock up to and including February 12th, 1918:
Total number insured ?33,885 Amount $293,917,500
Average per policy of all insurance written ...$8,673
INFANTRY REGIMENTS.
Standing Per
Insured. Amount. Capita.
110th 3,391 $30,825,500 2
112th ..v.3,283 • 26,839.500 2
111th 3,089 26,452,500 7
.. 109th 3,083 25,646,500 6
ARTILLERY REGIMENTS.
Standing Per
Insured. Amount. Capita.
109th 1,518 $14,319,000. 1
107th 1,464. 13.322,500 4
108th 1,592 12,739,000 5
\ ENGINEERS.
Standing Per
Insured. Amount. Capita.
103rd 1,482 $13,291,000 3
MACHINE GUN BATTALIONS.
x Smaller Units.
Standing Per
Insured. Amount. Capita.
107th • 720 $ 6,258,000 4
108th 540 4,268,000 6
. 109th 447 3,395,500 9
FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION.
Standing Per
b Insured. Amount. Capita.
103rd 331 $3,171,500 1/
HEADQUARTERS TRAINS AND MILITARY POLICE.
Standing Per
■ Insured. Amount. Capita.
103rd Ammunition 953 $ 7,533,000 8
103rd Ambulance 555 5,345,000 2
103 Supply '. 486 3,985,000 5
103rd Field Hospital 361 3,446,500 3
103rd Military Police 325 2,508,000 7
Additional organizations.
’ Standing Per
Insured. Amount. Capita.
Headquarters 28th Division 105 $ 1,001,000
Headquarters Troop .... 97 . 905,000
103rd Trench Mortar Battery 160 1,400,000
Truck Company No. 32s 58 438,000
Ordnance Depot No. 119 29 222,000
422nd Depot Engineers 15 145,000
Veterinary Corps, Mobile. 7 70,000 -
Base Hospital 292 2,711,000
Auxiliary Remount Depot 323 2,337,500
102nd Field Bakery 110 „ 719,000
Sanitary Squads ... 45 405,000
Camp Quartermaster 165 1,216,000
Tldqtrs 3rd Officers’ T. Camp.... 57 423,000
School for Bakers 7 70,000
MOTOR MECHANICS INSURED AT CAMP HANCOCK.
Standing Per
Insured. Amount. Capita.
Ist Regiment 1,899 $16,202,000
2nd Regiment 2,920 26,815,000
3rd Regiment. 1,335 12,240,500
4th Casual Companies 2,481 21,806,500
STANDING OF CAMPS- 6b9raiping
I’inal figures will show that over one million men in the service have
taken out insurance.
The War Risk Bureau at Washington has actually received 912,904 ap
plications aggregating $7,496,463,500. This is an average of $8,321 per man.
Camp Hancock figures of February 12th, published elsewhere in this issue *
show 33,885 applications aggregating $293,917,500, an average application of
$8,673.
The standing of the camps based on figures of February 9th. 1918 is as
follows:
Total Standing Per
Camp. Insurance Capita.
Greene $315,157,000 7
Lewis 284,731.000 7
Logan 273,819,000 12
Gherman 263J158.500 18
Upton 265,508500
Devens 237,224,000 3
HANCOCK 226076.500 10
Travis 225,087,000 23
Lee 223,312,500 15
Custer 1 222,486,000 2
Hix 221.677,000 1
Bowie 219,015,000
Wadsworth 216,547,000 20
Sevier 216,542,500 19
Grant 215,100,000 6 ~
Doniphan 214,093,000 5
Funston 210,974,500 ' 13
Pike .... 210,938,000 17
Sheridan 218,677,500 4
Cody 215,153,000 B
Shelby 202,468.500 ’ n
Kearney 201,548,500 8
Merritt 196,999,500
Meade 187,188,000
Taylor 187,123,000
Fort Sam Houston ... 174.803,500
Gordan 171,634,500
- Wheeler 156,185.000 21
Dodge 154,600,000 16
Jackson ■. 149,040,500 14
McClellan . 144,232,500 22
Beauregard 50,400,500
McArthur 4,800,500
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
SAVES HER NECK
The United States food administra
tion announces that it has forbidden
licensed trading in live or freshly kill
ed hens and pullets. Licensed dealers
have been notified that fresh stock of
this kind already purchased must be
disposed of by February 23rd and that
additional stocks may not be purchas
ed. They may still handle stored or
frozen stocks.
Hopes to Increase Egg Stocks.
By restricting the killing of chickens
which should soon be heavy layers, the
food administration hopes to increase
the production of eggs, adding to the
available market gßimly and at the
same time allowing them to go into
storage during the season of high pro
duction at a price which will not ne
cessitate unreasonable figures for
storage eggs next fall and winter,
Further slaughter would possibly re
duce this year’s production to the
danger line.
Increased cost of feeding, combined
with present attractive market prices,
has influenced many poultry raisers
to dispose of birds which should add
to the spring and summer egg produc
tion. If the slaughter should continue
at the rate which has ruled in recent
months, there would be a very reaj
shortage of eggs this spring, with cor
respondingly high prices paid for
those placed in storage.
AUTOMATIC INSURANCE
. ENDED FEB. 12, 1918
War Risk Insuranca Still Avail
able. ,
The time allowed for men in the service’
to take the Government Insurance has been
extended by congress up to and including
April 12th, 1918.
This extension was necessary in order
to give all men in the service a fair op
portunity to protect themselves and their
families.
This extension should appeal to every
man in the service as in keeping with the
humane and equitable spirit of the Sol
diers’ and Sailors’ Insurance Act and any
man who feels that he could have safely
waited to take out insurance until a later
date should have called to his attention
the fact that even the low death rate in
camps in America makes the War Risk
Insurance proposition a losing one for
the United States Government.
Echoes of Thrift Campaign
Fort Oglethorpe TRENCH and CAMP
conducted an essay contest on "What
My S3O per Means to Me.” The following
are the winning letters:
FIRST PRIZE.
WHAT MY S3O PER MEANS TO ME.
Five bucks to buy a Liberty bond,
To help us win this war.
To help my family out a bit,
Will take up fifteen more. la
Six dollars and a half will give, .; A
Protection of the best, |2j
To all my loved ones at home,
If I am laid to rest. S’J
The movies and the cigarettes,
Take up the other three,
In fact, it’s every bit enough
You’ll hear no kick from me.
—Louis J. Carter, Jr.
SECOND PRIZE.
What my S3O per month means to me—
It does not mean craps and cards or any
other form of gambling at the expense of
my self-respect. It does not mean a big
monthly blow-out with over-eating and
the company of lewd women at the loss of
my moral strength. It does not mean
spending it free and fast the first week,
and depending upon the generosity of my
bunkies for my actual needs the other
three. It does not mean any of these
things to me, and yet, I am no miser.
“Prepare to Live,.” has been my motto
since entering th® service, and it shall be
until I die. My S3O per means more to
me than double that amount means to
men in civil life.
Ten dollarsxgoes to pay for my Liberty
bond, the surest and safest investment in
the world, for all America’ stands back of
it. Ten dollars more goes as a njonthly
allotment home, that my younger brother
and sister may acquire tin education with
out suffering from financial stress. An
other $3.25 insures me for $5,000, an in
vestment one will never regret. Every sol
dier, as far as it is within his power,
should provide for the comforts and needs
of hi# homefolks in case he himself goes
west. I consider war risk insurance a
great privilege. On the balance of my
pay I live, and live happily.
My S3O per makes me feel like a prince.
I would not trade places with either
Rockefeller or Carnegie.
PRIVATE JOHN E. WEIGELI
THIRD PRIZE.
I am a corporal in this company and am
married apd have a child two months
old. 1 have sls allotment to-my wife, a
$5,000 insurance policy for which I pay
$3.30 per month. Besides the allotment
I send $lO monthly to my wife. The
rest of my pay which is $36, Is ysed
for my everyday needs, such as tobacco,
laundry, etc.
CORPL. HARRY E. WHEINTRAUB.
An Irishman, journeying along a lonely
road, was stopped by' a higher wayman,
who thrusting a revolver in his face, said:
“Your money or your life!”
The Irishman trembling from head to
foot exclaimed: “Take me life! Take me
life! I am saving me money for me old
age.”
In an Irish newspaper, there once ap
peared the following announcement: Ow
ing to lack of space, a number of deaths
are unavoidably postponed.
ON THE’FRILL FIELD.
"Close up, close up,” cried an Irish
drill sergeant to his awkward squad of
recruits, “How do you expect the enemy
to hit ye, if you go straggling along
like that,”
PERSISTENCE.
A little boy was asked how he learned
to skate. "Oh, by getting up every time
I fell down,” he replied. This is the spirit,
that leads men and armies to victory. Its
not the fall but the NOT getting up that’s
defeat.
CAPT. BULLIS CONVICTED
Captain Edgar S. Bullis, resigned
officer of the medical reserve corps,
formerly of Glenn Falls, N. Y., was on
Saturday afternoon found guilty in the
U. S. District Court of accepting a
bribe of $2,280. This was for the pur
pose of securing the discharge of
Private W, J. S. Burgan, of Cargenie,
Pa., now a soldier at Camp Hancock.
Several weeks ago Captain Bullis
made overtures to the father of the
boy looking toward the payment of
money in exchange for the release of
his son from-the army. The father re
ported the matter to the military au
thorities who followed up the case,
found his representations practically
correct, and laying a trap caught Cap
tain Bullis who immediately tendered
his resignation. The charge was a
very serious one and though Captain
Bullis maintained his innocence, the
jury in a very short time returned a
verdict of guilty- The captain seems
to have been addicted to the use of
drugs which at one time threatened to
postpone the hearing of his case.
Judge Speer sentenced him Saturday
evening to serve one year and a day
in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.,
and to pay a fine of SI.OO. He was
immediately taken to Atlant* by a Ik
S. deputy marahaJl.
Feb. 20.
