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TRENCH AND CAMP
CAMP HANCOCK, Augusta. Ga.
editionTh.ooo.
GEO. B. BAN PIS, Editor.
Pirbte9usd with the co-operaton erf THE
HERALD PUBLISHING CO,
Augusta, Ga.
ISSUED lvery whdn:isday.
Vol 1— Marches,~WS-~Ne. 23.
Entered an second-claws ' rnß i u ? r ’] o f
13th. 1918, at the post office at Augtusta,
Georgia, undw the Act -of March 3, 1879.
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CAMP HANCOCK ARMY Y. M. C. A.
From the Office of The Augusta Herald
DR. DIXON FOUGHT
TUBERCULOSIS
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, lately deceased,
was the first state commissioner of pub
lic health in Pennsylvania. To him is
due in large part the excellent record of
Pennsylvania in prevention cf tubercu
losis and the care of those affected. Mount
Alto and Cressin Sanitarium are monu
ments to him.
Fight Against White "blague.
The great tuberculosis work <?f the De
partment, which has put. Pennsylvania
in a unique place with regard to relief
from “the great white plague’’ was be
gun in 1907. The first year’s complete fig
ures from the new Bureau of Vita’ Sta
tistics had revealed the fact that during
the year of 1906 there had been 10,652
deaths from tuberculosis. Dr. Dixon, on
account of his special interest in tuber
culosis, had awaited these figures with
more than ordinary interest. They gave
him a definite weapon he could Use. He
went to Governor Stuart with them and
outlined a plan for fighting tuberculosis
on a large scale, pointing out that at that
time the state contributed only $77,500 in
combatting it. The scheme was worked
out and had the unusual distinction off
being pledged as a plank in the Republi
can platform that year.
A system of free tuberculosis dispens
aries was started under the first appro
priation. The patients come to the dis
pensaries or are visited in their homes
by the nurses. They receive free medical
treatment and a prescribed amount of
milk, eggs or oil daily, where they can
not afford proper food. There is at least,
• one dispensary in each county, and in
the more populous ones, two or three.
They number 116 at the present time.
Handled Relief Work.
Ono of the most spectacular achieve
ments Dr. Dixon ever put to the Health
Department’s credit was his handling of
the relief work at the Austin flood in
1911, when the Department was fully
equipped and capable of handling any em
ergency that came along.
On Sept. 30, 1911, the dam at Austin,
a little borough in Totter County, sud
denly “went out.” There were enormous
lumber piles and in half an hour the val
ley of Freeman’s Run from Austin to
Costello, a few miles below where the val
ley widened out, was a raging torrent in
which 150,000 cords of four-foot logs
churched up what was left of Austin and
its people.
Telegraph communication was cut off at
once as telegraph poles were swept away,
but the news finally got through to the
outside World. Dr. Dixon got it early in
the evening. Within a couple of hours
fee had the governor’s authority to take
charge of the situation and a special train
was being made up at Harrisburg. Mer
chants were brought from their homes to
open their stores so that supplies of blan
kets, mattresses, food, etc., could be ob
tained. Health Department employes were
summoned from all directions with in
structions where to connect with the train
and when the train got under way it had
on board 13 doctors, 5 sanitary engineers
and 12 nurses, each one having had the
benefit of the Department’s training and
• experience.
Within sixteen hours of the breaking of
the dam Austin had relief that was or
ganized and effective. By the night of the
second day Dr. Dixon had 500 men on the
Department payroll who were engaged in
clearing away the awful wreckage, un
der which were the bodies of those who
haul perished. State constabulary troop
ers were put at. his disposal and a con
dition very like martial law prevailed. Dr.
Dixon was tireless in directing the work
and the only time he would eat or sleep
was when his chief doctor or head nurse
resolutely led him from the scene of the
work.
On the third day Governor Toner and
Adjutant General Stewart visited the
scene. On the same train with them ar
rived a Red Cross commissioner who had
been sent from Washington to aid in the
work. He took a good look around, said
to Dr. Dixon, “This is the best organ
ized relief work I eVer saw,” and then
took the next train back,
TRENCH AND CAMP
PENNSYLVANIA “PEP” HAS MADE A
WONDERFUL FIGHTING MACHINE
AT CAMP HANCOCK, AUGUSTA.
The Augusta Herald is no expert in army and military
matters, but we certainly voice the popular and universal
public opinion of laymen and civilians who have had a
chance to see the workouts of the 28th Division now train
ing at Camp Hancock, when we declare that good old Penn
sylvania “Pep” has created a wonderful fighting machine,
that is destined to give a good account of itself when it
faces the Boches in the first line trenches.
For months and months the men and officers of this
splendid Division have been hard at work with ever increas
ing “Pep’ at the various tasks and problems of their train
ing. The Division naturally has had its good days and bad
days, its periods of disappointment and backsets, especially
during the reorganization period. Gradually, it has over
come these obstacles while the process of personal disap
pointments, physical disabilities, transfers, etc., has gone on.
Today the 28th Division represents as fine a body of
well trained fighting men as America can produce in home
training camps. And the good record the Division has
made training here in Augusta we feel sure is going to be
made gtfod again when they enter the final period of their
training behind the lines in France or wherever they may
be sent. It is going to be courageously and gloriously fur
ther exemplified when their time comes to take over the
first line trenches.
The presence of the Pennsylvania Division in Augusta,
during their course of preliminary training will leaev an im
press upon our own people that never will be forgotten.
Augusta has been fortunate in getting the National Guard
of Pennsylvania as its first experience with army camps and
training camp problems so far as they affect the civilian
population.
The Herald cannot speak too highly of the courteous
and soldierly conduct of the officers and men as they have
come in contact with our own people. Thousands and
thousands of friendships and intimacies have been formed
between Pennsylvanians and Augustans that will endure
during the coming years. Augusta and all of her people
have tried in every way and to the limit of their capacitv
to make the Pennsylvania boys feel at home and to appre
ciate the real welcome that has been in the hearts and
minds of our people during their stay in Augusta..
Naturally in the course of events, one of these days,
the 28th Division is going to get its marching orders, and to
fall in line with the thirty odd or more American Divisions
that are already answering “READY” to the call of service
from overseas. When they go they will take with them an
interest that lies in the heart of Augusta almost as deep and
as affectionate and as proud as will grip the great heart of
Pennsylvania herself. .
SOME PERSONAL RESOLU
TIONS FOR_WAR TIME
From Dr. Charles M. Sheldon's Church
Calendar.
1. I will try to 'preserve my own peace
of mind. If I am powerless to pre
vent the war without, 1 can put an
end to the tumult within.
2. I will resolve to do the task that is
my own, in my own place, with my
usual purpose and regularity, and
not become useless and a burden, to
others on account of my hysteria.
3. If any of those who are dearest to
me are called to serve in places of
danger or even to give their lives, I
will remember the great multitude of
fathers and mothers in the world -who
are bearing the same burden.
4. I will be cheerful and uncomplaining
under abnormal and strange condi
tions which I have never before
known.
5. I will be ready to Xany myself need
less luxuries, which have become, per
haps. selfish necessities.
.6. I will not forget the needs of others
less fortunate than myself. Even in
war-time the sympathies of of
peace must not be set aside.
7. I will strengthen my human friend
ships, and fortify my soul with divine
com pan ionship.
S. If I am too old to enlist in the army
of men, I will volunteer in the great
army of faith in God.
9. I will not lose eight of the final vic
tory for right and truth and human
freedom sure in the long run.
10. I will pray with evefly morning’s sum
rise the prayer, “Give peace in Thy
time. O Lord.” And before I go to
sleep, I will say to myself, “Uiider
neath are the everlasting arms, and
He wiil sustain thee.”
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SONG OF THE ALLIES
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(By William Chauncey Gates.)
Tune “Onward Christian Soldiers”)
We are Allied soldiers,
Fighting for the Right—
For a world of Freedom—
And we’ll win the. fight.
Like a mighty river
Rushing to the sea,
We are marching onward,
On to victory!
CHORUS:
Forward. Allied soldiers.
Fighting for the Right,
’Neath the flag of Freedom,
We will win the fight.
Victory for Justice;
Victory for Right;
Victory over tyrants
Who abuse their might;
End of ruthless fighting
For a world's control;
Peace for every Nation,
Is our noble goal.
May the God of Battles
Always guide our way!
Pray that He will hasten
The decisive day
When our Allied armies
Shall have won the fight;
Freedom for all Nations—
Might o’erthrown by Right.
CHORUS:
Forward, Allied soldiers.
Fighting for the Right,
’Neath the flag of Freedom,
We will win the fight.
(Copright, 1917, W. C. Gates.)
O ; O
THE TWO SWORDS
(A Contrast.-)
(Editor’s note: The Hymn of the Ger
man Sword which follows first appeared,
so far as I am able to learn, in a Ger
man paper published in Leipzig, Ger
many. It has had a wide circvCatien in
both the land of its qrigin and in the
German newspapers of the United
States. It faaraHy reached such a paper
the western part of North Dakota -where
Honorable Lewis F. Crawford, President
of the Board of Educational Regents of
North Dakota, saw it. It imprest him
strongly in two w-ays: first, as being
a correct interpretation of the German
spirit as -manifestei in the present war
arJ secondly, as calling for a reply.)
Hymn of The German Sword.
It is no duty of mine to be either
jiSt or compassionate; it suffices that
I am sanctified by my exalted mission,
and that I blind the eyes of my enemies
with such streams of tears as shall make
the proudest of them cringe in terror
under the vault of heaven.
I have slaughtered the old and the
sorrowful; I have struck off the breasts
of women.; and I have run thru the
bodies of children who gazed at me with
the eyes of the wounded lion
Day after day I ride aloft on the
shadowy horses in the Valley of cy
presses and as I ride I draw forth th®
life blood of. every enemy’s son that
dares to dispute my path.
It is meet and right that I should cry
aloud my pride, for am I not the flam
ing messenger of the Lord Almighty!
Germany is so far above and beyond
all the other nations that all the rest of
the earth, be they who they may, should
feel themselves well done by when they
are allowed to fight with the dogs for
the crumbs that fall from her table.
When Germany the divine is happy,
then the rest of the world basks in
smiles; but when Germany suffers, God
in person is rent with anguish, and,
wrathful and'avenging, He turns all the
waters into rivers of blood.
The American Sword.
I am file American sword.
I have never unsheathed except in the
cause of justice and humanity.
I punish only under solemn and com
pelling obligation.
In my presence national perfidy ana
dishonor never go unchallenged.
I opened in generous trust to all na
tions the portals of American opportun
ity and gave equal rights to al.’ in the
inheritance created by the toil and blond
of our ancestors. .
In me everything that is good finds
approval, everything mean meets re
buke.
My people are enticed to love me by
the gentle persuasiveness of my life.
I am the visual enchantment, of the
downtrodden and the oppressed; the em
blem of national honor; the embodiment
of the world’s hope.
In me is linked the command of duty
and the love of Calvary; it is mine to
trace the hiden equities of divine re
ward and connect national wrong-doing
with its swift retribution; under me ful
fillment adds splendor to the gorgeous
Mosaic of our dreams.
O Kaiser: obsessed with power, drunk
with passio.n, enemy of peace and light
and freedom throughout the world, slay
er of age and infancy .ravisher of vir
ginity, spreader ofcontagion, fiend in
carnate !
Against thee barren fields cry out in
protest; venerated works of art and ar
chitecture, hallowed by the centuries,
thou hast crumbled under shells of
frenzy; thou art wasting the flower of
the world’s manhood in red ruin spurred
on by the grim reaper of Hate.
Thou international brigand; enslaver
and robber of Belgium, looter of Servia,
betrayer of neutrals- thou art a pirate
running mad on the pathless sweep of
oceans, plundering and murdering 0.. the
world’s highway.
Diplomatic intriguer: Thou hast faith
lessly broken age-old treaties, thou hast
torpedoed hospital ships, bombarded de
fenseless cities, and unleashed liquid fire
and poison gas—outlaw demons of de
struction. In this epilepsy -of the world’s
horror thou art not bowed with a sense
of unfathomable guilt and sodden shame;
thou, the arch gutter-snipe of civiliza
tion, are more unsparing than Torque
mada, more cruel than Nero, more atro
cious than Caligula, more crafty than
Geronimo; thou hast loosed the hosts of
ill upon a peaceful world and darkened
the heavens with blasphemy.
Thou art chased by the' maddening
billows, the deeps, in malice open to re
ceive thee; ashen faces turned toward
flame-lit skies, appeal for vengeance.
My presence gives courage to endure
the appalling strain and omnipresent
peri! of battle.
I bestow superhuman nerve, sleep
less caution, capacity for sacrifice and
the justice of my cause palsies the'hand
of brutal, might and insensate ambition.
I pity the victim, not the violator;
the sorrows I bring wear no weeds of
mourning.
I open a new era in history: I fire the
human soul -with new daring and new
hope; I will survive this conflict and
pronounce its sentence.
When the name of Kaiser shall have
lost its stench and been covered by the
dust of remorseless centuries, I shall
still be glorified as the main stay of
democracy— the peace-maker of 'the
world.
LEWIS F. CRAWFORD,
President of the State Board of Regents
of North Dakota.
R E lTglonTofTp Y6Y IT.
Mr. Labouchere used to relate among
his reminiscences of his life as a mem
ber of the Briitsh embassy at Petro
grad, the story of the robbery from
the picture of the Virgin in the Iberian
chapel outside the Kremlin at Moscow.
This picture, which is Byzantine, is
(or was until recently) covered with
gold and splendid jewels, and was
brought from a monastery near Mount
Athos. One day a large diamond of
great value was missed. It was traced
by the police to the palace of a certain
princess who was known to have vis
ited the shrine on the day of the loss.
According to Labouchere, it turned
out that the ingenious princess, in the
course of her worship of the picture,
had managed to pink out the diamond
with her teeth while she was kissing lt»
She was sent forthwith to Siberia.
March 13.
