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TRENCH AND CAMP
CAMP HANCOCK, Augusta, Ga.
editi<Tn7'h,ooo.
GEO. B. LANDIS, Editor.
Publshed with the co-operaton of THE
HERALD PUBLISHING CO,
Augusta, Ga.
ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY.
Vol. I—February 20, 1918 —No. 20.
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CAMP HANCOCK ARMY Y. M. C. A.
From the Office of The Augusta Herald
THROUGH THE WORST TO THE
BEST.
Even in the army are some who feel
that they are enduring all ,the ills of
•life, that temptations are more severe
for them than for others, that prev
ious experiences have unfitted them
for efficiency. Under discouragement
they have succumbed. Seemingly they
do not realize that the “fire refines
gold.’’ The following comparison by
Adelaide Kennerly may help £uch an
one.
A giant sassafras near Keswick,
Va., some years ago, had a hollow
trunk, with its top broken off and
it seemed to die. Somebody
started a fire it in. The fire was
stopped with difficulty and it was
thought that the tree was killed.
* Striking example of humanity as
it is—no different. Let a per
son se apparently empty of what
other people want, and someone
will try to destroy. The man or
womajg who missteps or allows one
foot to start on the ' downward
path may be sure of a push—•
a fire within or around to destroy
them.
But this old sassafras tree was
an exception- It did not die after
the fire. On the contrary the tor
ture it endured only burned out the
parasites that were eating the heart
from the tree.
Strong*Old Tree.
It was a strong old tree. It had ■
endurance—something noble way
down deep under the surface which
willed that it should not only live
but survive the torture with
triumphant heart.
After the fire the old trunk with
its clean ’“vithln” branched out
like the springtime and now stands
crowned with Strong, healthy,
. boughs, adding beauty to the scen
ery and giving of its pure self to
the world.
So do some souls tower above the
weaklings. Souls have been puri
fied by years of suffering; by white
hot fires of the brain which burned
to ashes all that was yile or impure
. in thoughts.
Fluffy-Nothings Go Under.
The fluffy-nothings of life go
down to ashes with the fire, the
pains, tiie repulsions and the tor
tures of life, but the rare persons
survive them and stand as symbols
of great spirits. They show what
can be withstood. They are as the
sun which passes through pollu
tion and comes out clean.
There is none so worthy as one
who passes through the worst and
comes out the best.
THE REASON WHY
We are a bunch of husky lads
We come from dear old Phillie,
Give us a chance to go to France
And we’U knock the Germans silly.
The war we’U win; we’ll enter Berlin
And we’ll capture Kaiser Billy
That is the reason why we left
Our hemes in dar old Phillie.
We are a bunch of fearless chaps
From the City of Brotherly Love,
Give us a chance to go to France
And our courage we wHI prove—
The war we’ll win: we’ll enter Berlin
Or we’U enter Heaven above!
That is the reason why we left
The City of Brotherly Love.
—ign trtoU. JJZ-alUu-JUUUJKj
TRENCH AND CAMP
MORE CAREFUL DRIVING.
Recent accidents compel very serious
reflections on the part of thinking men
with reference to the rcekless driving
of motorcyclists, trock drivers, and ci
vilian chauffeurs. The narrow roads
in camp and the greatly increased traf
fic, lead to serious congestion at cer
tain periods of the day and night.
What with officers on horseback, ar
tillerymen exercising their horses,
rickety wagons drawn by a single
mule, delivery trucks from city stores,
jitneys driven by novices familiar with
a wheelbarrow, side cars attached to
motorcycles, and the large “F. D; W.’s”
the roads are frequently jammed.
The reactions of some men are
hardly swift enough for the pace main
tained- The psychological tests are
given to drivers, either in camp or in
Augusta. The natural recklessness of
some men is greatly increased by the
military drill and the anticipation of
actual warfare. "Safety First,” is not
a proper motto in battle or in the pres
ence’ of the enemy, but he who takes
care of himself and acts with reason
in any complicated situation is able
to erert his powers over a longer pe
riod and generally.. to use them to
greater advantage than one who
throws his life away. To sell one's
vitality for the largest possible return
is really as good business proposition.
“Less haste, more speed,” is a bad
motto in this connection. And
"He who drives carefully and gets
away,
May live to drive another day.”
> —G. B. L.
PEP AND TINGLE.
Ripping health ft pretty much all.
The brain is quick and responsive, the
legs, light and springy, the hands,
ready and willing, the whole nervous
system on edge with pep and tingle—
while health controls.
With health on the job, you are on
the job.
You don’t have to pet and tease and
humor a tired, siejt stomach. You
don’t have to wonder whether or not
you are going to “sleep the whole night
through.” With pep and tingle in
your veins, you know you are going
to make good with your whole self.
You will love the For
the finer you are in health, the nearer
you always are to the source of health,
which is out talking anl playing with
Nature.
The best in life is so much primal.
That is .touched by the prompting
hand.of Nature. A few miles of walk
away from the clamor of city life and
a man returns to his work renewed and
refreshed. People come and go, but
Nature stays. And her arms warm
the most matter of fact humans as sin
cerely and with as great a pressure of
love as thos£ who seek her in raiment,
soft and fine.
If you would have pep and tingle,
think as you would like always to live.
For thougths are deeds. They build
character as surely as the night fol
lows the day.
Just give everybody the impression
that you are the happiest man or wo
man that ever lived. You may not al
ways actually fell that, but if you keep
up this plan very long, you won’t
very far from actually accomplishing
the fart.
And everybody on earth wants to
know that kind of a person.
RETROSPECT OF 1917 r
THE WORLD WAR.
(Editorial from the Scientific
America h).
It is probable that, when the history
of the war comes to be written, the
year 1917 will named the most
dramatic of the world war—unless in
dfces the opening year of the war be so
designated. It was the year in which
the Allies demonstrated everywhere
that they were the masters of the sit
uation, possessing a superiority in men,
guns, shells and supplies, which prom
ised soon to become overwhelming.
The French army was larger in num
bers, finer in morale, and more fully
equipped than at any time in the war.
The same may be said of the British
army; and Lloyd George, at the close
of the year, stated in the house of
commons that, in the early months of
1917 the Russian army was in better
shape than at any previous period. Not
only was Italy holding the Austrians,
but she was actually forcing them back
in a series of offensives which, for
courage and persistence, have never
been surpassed on any front. So com
pletely was Germany on the defensive
that the French and British were able
to crush in her line and take prisoners
by the thousands and many guns, ap
parently whenever they thought fit to
do so. So precarious was the situation
in the west early in the year that Hin
denburg was forced to withdraw on
the Somme front, give up some ten
miles of territory and take refuge in
a prepared line of great defensive
strength.
The first of the dramatic happen
ings of the war was that startling
tragedy, the Russian revolution. Had
ther6 been in that country a man or a
body of mgn who combined with their
undoubted patriotism the necessary
genius for leadership, the revolution
would have been a powerful stroke for
the allied cause. Instead of that, Rus
sia was invaded by a body of interest
ed agitators, pro-German or pro-an
archy, who, working upon the minds
of an ignorant and too trustful people,
have succeeded in changing that great
country from a compact nation into a
disorganized mob. The German auto
.exats. from the Kaiser down, have been
quick to seize the opportunity, and,
at the present writing, there is being
enacted the supreme farce of formal
negotiations for peace between the
sham representatives of the bitterest
enemies that autocracy ever had —the
Russian people, and the accredited
representatives of the most cruel and
unprincipled autocracy in all history.
What the issue may be, none can tell—•
it is in the lap of the gods.
The collapse of Russia has enabled
the Teutons to throw their whole
strength against the western line. The
first result of this was seen in the col
lapse of the Italian armies and their
retreat to the Piave River, where the
issue of battle is yet in the balance.
There is a consensus of opifflfm, well
founded, that the early months of 1918
will Witness a supreme and final ef
fort of Germany to win a military de
cision. In numbers the opposing ar
mies are perhaps about equal, thanks
to reinforcements from the Russian
front. In guns and munitionment, the
Allies still have probably a slight pre
ponderance. In aircraft, the numbers
are also approximately equal. But
when we come to the all-important
question of morale, there is no doubt
whatever thta the advantage lies with
the Allied forces; for, as we have said,
the French and British during <he past
year have won whenever they chose to
attack. The Allied power of muni
tionment is undoubtedly greater than
that of Germany, and their resources in
money and materials are greater. At
the Battle of the Marne, the French
had 1,50u,000 men at the’front; today
they have 2,750,000 men. The British
today havesome 2,000,000 and possibly
more-, on the western front. Against
these, Germany, as we showed in a re
cent article, can oppose about 4,500,000
fighting men. It is doubtful if the
Germans, in spite of the defection of
Russia, can break through; and with
out our aid the war would have drag
ged itself along for many a year to
come.
The absolute certainty of German
defeat is found in the other great dra
matic happenings of the year—namely,
the entrance of the United States into
the war, on April 6th, 1917. Nobody
knew better than Germany that, should
it become possible for this country to
Apply its strength on the European
battlefield, her defeat was certain. But
they knew that the weak link in any
military operations on the part of the
United States was the stretch of 3,000
miles of the western (fcean, and they
firmly believed that if they threw oft
the last restraints of civilization and
inaugurated a ruthless submarine’ war
fare against all shipping, they could at
once prevent the transportation of the
troops to Europe and starve the Allies
into surrender. Hence the savagery
of unrestricted submarine warfare.. We
have no time in this review into
details of that struggle. Suffice it
to say that in the first rush of their at
tack merchant ships were sunk at a
rate which, ii. it could have been main
tained, would have shut us out of the
war and destroyed every hope of an
Allied - victory. But Great Britain,
France, Italy and the United States,
by bending every effort to the prob
lem, have so far mastered the subma
rine, that from a weekly sinking of
55 ships the toll taken by the German
submarine has sunk to an average of
ten or twelve ships; and in the mean
time from forty to fifty per cent of
the German submarines have been
sunk or captured. The United States
and Great Britain, moreover, have em
barked upon large shipbuilding pro
grams, which, within a few months’
tithe will be launching new ships faster
than the U-boats are sinking them,
and by the end of the year will be
gaining at an average accelerating
rate. #
So, in the last great gamble for vic
tory, the Germans have lost. They
find themselves today Confronted by a
young, ambitious, highly intelligent
and profoundly patriotic people, who,
if they were to mobilize their manhood
on the 15 per cent basis, could ulti
mately Call some fifteen million men to
the colors. That will never be neces
sary. Already we have a considera
ble force at the front. It is growing
steadily, and in spite of initial delays,
the necessary artillery and other equip
ment ultimately will be provided at an
ever-increasing rate. Some time dur
ing the coming year we shall be pre
pared to strike a telling blow, and, if
the final decision does not come in
1918, we have every reason to look
for it in the year following. But a
peace by victory can be won only if we
exert ourselves to the very limit. We
should mobilize every able-bodied cit
izen, if not for the army at the front,
at least for the army back of the front
and within the nation at home. We
should mobilize every factory that can
turn a wheel to give our armies a su
perabundance of all that goes to make
up a fighting force. We should mob
ilize every usable acre of ground for
raising the food which is so greatly
needed by our dauntless allies. We
siwuid conscript labor at once; so that
for a reasonable wage it will render
its full 100 per cent of efficiency. And
finaly and above all, we should mobil
ize -the heart and conscience of the
nation until it shall look upon this war
for the thing that it is—a great world
crusade for the redemption from the
hands of the infidel of all those fair
ideals of honor, justice, freedom and
humon co-operation and forbearance,
which are at once the foundation and
inspiration of our national life and the
promise of that great, good world
which is to.be,
v; —o
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A SOLDIER’S PRAYER.
o O
O God I thank Thee that Thou
hast called me to serve my country
and hast set me apart with others,
for the preservation of liberty and
the defense of human rights. Thou
didst speak to me In the peril of
the nation and I obeyed Thy voice.
Grant me. now Thy help that I may
honor my vocation as a soldier by
an unwavering trust In Christ who
•gave Himself to save His Fellow
men, an undying loyalty ic my
country's flag and a manly courage
in the hour of conflict, living not to
myself, but to Thee and the cause
of freedom and righteousness.
Human strength alone Is weak
but weakness with Thee is
strength. Be my abiding com
panion and counselor and make me
strong, enlarge my vision of the
world’s need .and redemption, in
spire my faith that I may dare and
do not suffer, widen my Influence
for good among my comrades, keep
my soul agfcw with a holy patriot- .
Ism and purpose and arm me with
Thy conquering might.
• As a true soldier of Christ and
my country keep me unselfish, and
my thoughts and life pure, and
enable’ me to honor womanhood
and childhood that were rendered
forever sacred by the incarnation
of Thy Son.
In the heat of conflicts when I
face the peril of death, Keep me
watchful, self-controlled and brave;
and In silent hours, when the en
emy lurks to take my life, be Thou
my divine comrade and defense.
If I should fall In battle and be
called to enter death’s shadow, hold
Thou my hand, give me a strong
faith in Jesus Christ and lead me
Into the light eternal. If I should
return to my home broken In’ body,
keep me free from severe pain,
open to me some useful service and
enable me to finish my days with
cheerful confidence.
Be Thou near my loved ones who
follow me with their prayers, shel
ter them with Thy protecting
providence, provide for their wants,
give them hopeful courage, put un
derneath them Thine everlasting
arms and be their refuge in time
of need.
Through Jesus Christ my Lord.
—A men.
°— - O
EULOGY OF A SERGEANT
There’s a sergeant in our company
And you bet he is a peach.
He works his men from reveille
To long after retreat. *’•
When we are on drill grounds
You bet he’s on the job,
For he’s always yelling at you:
“Dress, up that sloppy squad.” ' **
And when he takes his class out ~~
For bayonet exercise,
The neighbors here for miles arounc
Complain about his cries. z
And if you do not do it ’ -
With vigor and with vim,
Believe me. when you are dismissed.
You’ll surely hear from him.
There are some men in the companj
That he surely likes to ride,
And when they see him coming
They always try to hide,
For they know there is some work to do,
That will take them quite awhile,
And. nine chances out of ten
It’s on the old wood pile.
Now when we come to think of it,
Perhaps we are to blame;
But the way that sergeant works us
It surely is a shame.
For, believe me, he makes us work
The whole darn livelong day,
And with the axes in our hand
The penalty we pay. >
But in his tough old bosom
Lies a heart or truest gold. <
And we’ll think of Sergeant Bleame
When we are gray and old.
And when the war is over,
We may meet again some day, J
And talk the whole thing over
Back home in old Fa.
A SOLDIER’S VISION
There’s a little girl rm loving in the
land across the sea;
Through the softness of the twilight she
comes creeping close to me!
I can almost feel her handclaps, I can see
her tender eyes.
As they glow across the darkenss with a
light that never dies.
Ah, a hard day lies behind me—there’s a
bitter dawn ahead;
There’s a man next door who’s moaning
and my bunkie mate lies dead;
But she’s coming through the shadows,
and her glance is misty bright,
And I know her love is near me through
the horror of the night.
Yes—she gave me to our country, though
she might have made me stay,
(How she kissed me smiling bravely, as
she brushed the tears astray;)
And her voice rings past the meaning;
past the battle raging near.
And she says, ‘Be true and fearless,
just because I you you, dear!’
There’s a little girl, she’s waiting in the
land across the foam.
And I know that she is praying that
with honor I’ll come home;
And I make myself a promise that TH
justify her plan—
The ideal that she sets me of a soldie/
and a man.
—Margaret E. Songster, Jr., Christian
Herald.
FIRST RIFLE FOR WILSON.
President Gets First Americanized Enfield
Product.
Washington, D. C.—The first Ameri
canized Enfield rifle turned out at the
Winchester plant for American troops
abroad was presented today to President
Wilson to be preserved as a personal sou
venir.
The President was told the rifles are
being made at the rate of 2,000 a day,
which is 800 more than ever were turned
out for the British army at the same
plant,
Feb. 20.
