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I Pvbt'shert weekly at the National Camps and Cantonments for the soldiers of the
United State*
National Headquarter.:
Loom 504, Pulitzer Building
New York City
JOHN STEWART BRYAN
Chairman cf Advisory Board of Co-operating Publisliera
Camp and Location Newspaper Publisher
C»mp Beauregard, Alexandria, I.aNew Orleans Times Picayune. ....D. D. Moore
Camp Bowlo, Fort Worth. Texas. Fort Worth Star TelegramAmon C. Carter
Camp Cody, Deming, N. MexEl Paso HeraldH. D. Slater
Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michßattle Creek Enquirer-News....A. L. Miller
Camp Devens, Ayer, Massßoston Globe Charles H. Taylor, Jr.
Camp Dix. Wrightstown. N. JTrenton Times James Kerney
Camp Dodge, Des Moines, lowa...Des Moines Register Gardner Cowles
Camp Doniphan. Fort Sill, Okla Oklahoma City Oklahoman.E. K. Gaylord
Camp Forrest, Chickamauga. GaChattanooga (Tenn.) Timesll. C. Adler
Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, Cal San Francisco Bulletinß. A. Brothers
Camp Funston. Fort Riley, Kan. Topeka State. Journal Frank P. MacLennan
.Camp Gordon, Atlanta, GaAtlanta Constitution Clark Howell
;Camp Grant. Rockford, 111..... The Chicago Dally News.. Victor F. Lawson
iCamp Greene. Charlotte, N, CCharlotte ObserverW. P. Sullivan
• Camp Hancock, Augusta, GaAugusta Heraldßowdre Phinizy
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. CColumbia State.W. W. Ball
,Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, F1a.... .Jacksonville Tlmcs-Unlon. .W. A. Elliott
Camp Kearny, Linda Vista, CqL ..;. . .Loa Angeles Times Harry Chandler
'Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va.....‘.Richmond News Leader John Stewart Bryan
jCamp Lewis, Tacoma. Wash Tacoma TribuneF. S. Baker
Camp Logan. Houston, Texas. ... ... .Houston Post..Gough J. Palmer
.Camp MacArthur. Waco, Texas.. Waco Morning News.. Charles E. Marsh
[Camp McClellan. Anniston. Ala. Birmingham /Ala.) News.. Victor H. Hanson
Camp Meade, Admiral, MdWash.. D. C., Evening Star Fleming Newbold
Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark.. Arkansas Democrat Elmer E. Clarke
Camp Sevier. Greenville, S. CGreenville Dally Newsß. 11. Peace
.Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg. Miss New Orleans Item James M. Thomson
‘ Camp Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala. ... .Montgomery Advertiser .C, H. Allen
Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky.. Louisville Courier Journalßruco Haldeman
|Camp Travis. San Antonio. Texas... o m.ki
: Kelly Field and Camp Stanley| San Antonio Light Charles S. D.ehl
Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. 1., N. Y.... New York World Don C. Seitz
Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga. Macon TelegraphP. T. Anderson
Published, under the auspices of the National War Work Council, Y. M. C. A. of the
United States, with the co-operation of the above named publishers and papers.
Marshal Joffre, with the reticence so
frequently characteristic of great mill
jtary commanders, spoke very seldom
; while on his tour of this country. It
■was not alone because of his inability
( to speak our language that he was so
i seldom heard; but because he is a
man of action.
1 When he spoke his words were
eagerly heard. It was felt that he
would not speak unless the occasion
demanded some word from him and
unless he. had something to say. He
coined one epigram that will be as
sociated with hirn»so long as his name
shall endure—and the hero of the
Marne is not likely to pass soon from
the memory of man. This was the
epigram: German soldiers are dis
ciplined by force; our soldiers by faith.
In that single sentence he spoke
volumes; his message compensated
for the many long and sometimes awk
ward stjences.
America is coming to know just
what the marshal meant by the dis
cipline of faith. The Prussian Kaiser
to whom might is right and whose gos
pel is that of the sword, could not
comprehend this discipline. America
ns a lighting force will be negligible,
the Kaiser told his counsellors and his
troops, ‘‘for discipline in a democracy
is impossible and without discipline
there can be no military efficiency."
For many months it might have
f seemed that the Kaiser was right. The
instant click achieved by force was
not attained by the French or British
troops—not, by the admission of their
own officers, until months, even years
after the outbreak of hostilities. To
learn the lesson of discipline cost mil
lions in money and thousands of hu-
“It took Germany forty years to
.build up her mighty military machine.
In less than eight months we have
built up a shipbuilding machine which,
when it gets into full swing, will de
feat the military machine of Germany.”
This statement by Chairman Hurley
of the United States Shipping Board
shows what America can do when the
people of the nation set themselves
to a task. Future generations will
marvel at the speed with which a
peace-loving people took up the work
of participating in the world war, a
war at whose outbreak few, if any
persons, thought would involve the
United States.
Not only in the building of ships,
but in the manufacture of supplies and
equipment for soldiers, the United
States has undertaken its task on a
most prodigious scale. Already the pro
duction of war materials in this coun
try has been more than treble the
production of England and France in
a similar period. Expansion and en
largement continues. Within a short
time the American war machine will
make the German war, machine-look
like a miniature or a toy.
TWENTY SHEEP NEEDED
It has been estimated that the wool
fronr twenty sheep is needed to sup
ply each American soldier for a year.
This means about 160 pounds of
wool. The garments worn by the sol
diers calling for wool are, overcoat,
two service uniforms, three suits
heavy underwear, two olive-drab
shirts, four blankets, two pairs of
gloves, six pairs of light and four
pairs of heavy socks.
DISCIPLINE IN THE AMERICAN ARMY
WAR MACHINES
TRENCH AND CAMP
man lives —gold that perhaps could be
spared, as Lieut. Col. George Applin
of the 14th Hussars stated, but blood
that no nation could afford.
The awful imperatives of the war
were heard. Men began to submerge
themselves in the larger life of the
nations. Previously they had offered
to die if needs be; now they came to
live as the nation might ordain, sub
mitting themselves to the collective
will. This was the needed response to
the dictates of the highest human im
pulse, love of country.
Discipline came to have a new mean
ing. Hidden values became disclosed.
Then came a change. The discipline
of faith as contrasted with the dis
cipline of force became a fact.
Again in the words of Col. Apptin,
"we began to click exactly on time.
We showed the Germans what dis
cipline meant. We taught the teach
ers. Germany once had the finest
fighting machine in the worM I use
the past tense advisedly. It H. To
day the French and British surpass
the Germans and when we meet them
we beat them.’’
America, too, will achieve this dis
cipline of faith. It is even now achiev
ing it; .but the task is far from accom
plishment yet. The time will come
when the click of America will be so
well timed that it will synchronize
with that of her Allies and produce
but a single sound.
Some of our troops have achieved it
already. Witness the splendid record
from the sectors held by our men. All
of our troops must achieve it.
To the great tasks before us we
must sacrifice ease, ambition, associa
tions and, personal inclinations —all
that we have and are.
Then and then only can America
function in that perfect discipline of
faith.
America entered the war to bring
it to a successful close, and to insura
a permanent peace in the future. With
her boundless resources, thousands of
factories, and millions of skilled men
and women. America intends manu
facturing the materials of war on a
scale which Germany could never hope
to reach. It is not going to take any
thing like forty years for America to
produce more war materials than Ger
many evor thought could be manu
factured. This manufacturing is go
ing to continue so long as the materials
are needed to carry out the job of
bringing "The Mad Dog of Europe” to
bay.
Before this war is many months
older, "writers are going to discard
that pet expression “with characteris
tic German thoroughness and effi
ciency” and adopt in its stead “with
characteristic thoroughness
You could put Germany in Texas
and 'Jexas would never know it was
there —it would take up so little space.
Before this war is over the whole Ger
man war plant will look like a small
tool house in comparison to the Amer
ican war plant.
NOT WATCHMEN
The War Depar ent has refused to
furnish soldiers tc uard private man
ufacturing plants in which munitions
and equipment for the Army are be
ing made. “The soldier in training
who has offered his life for the de
fense of his country should not sacri
fice his effectiveness by performing po
lice duty in the protection of property
back of the line,” said the depart
ment's reply to the manufacturers.
I CANTONMENT TYPES
THE MILITARY MOTOR MAN -J
BLOOD is the life fluid of the Amer
ican army. But a secondary liquid
crowding it close is gasoline —
lymph to the military body. Dissect
the roar of victory in modern warfare
and you will lay bear the healthy pound
of a motor. Bread, beef, bean,
"blesses'’ and bullets —sinews and
symbols of struggle—all depend to the
greatest extent on gas—impelled ve
hicles for ultimate power.
As do ali throbbing things, the might
of military motors, too, is dependent.
Man is the prop against which this
strength in weakness leans. These mil
itary motor men, the brawny, stal
wart chaps who guide the destinies of
the countless lorries, trucks, ambu
lances, despatch cycles and plain fliv
vers, make an interesting human seg
ment of the cantonment life. Their
hands are rough. There is little silk
in their manners or speech, but they
arc a Great Lot. May this be a puny
tribute to the place they have had in
bringing organization and order out
of crashing, whirling chaos!
The Old-Timer whose memory can
unroll to cantonment formative days
knows the giant's part borne by these
motor men in building the camps. The
New-Timer realizes their present por
tion-seeing them in the jolting jaunts
Secretary McAdoo Urges Nation To Buy
Liberty Bonds And Back Up Fighting Men
Secretary of Treasury McAdoo Is urging the people of the
entire nation to back up America’s fighting men by purchasing
Liberty Bonds. His appeal to the nation is as follows:
“One million eight hundred thousand of America’s brave sons
are now serving in the Army and Navy of the United States.
Thousands of them are already upon the battlefields of France
fighting and dying to save the liberties and rights of those who
stay at home and to secure democracy and freedom against Prus
sian brutality and military despotism. Their blood already conse
crates the soil of noble France.
“Who can think of their heroic sacrifice without emotion?
Who can contemplate their trials and sufferings, their dangers
and struggles without setting ablaze the fires of patriotism in
his soul? Who can look upon the blue jacket of the sailor or the
khaki jacket of the soldier without admiration for the indomitable
hearts that beat beneath—hearts that may soon be stilled in
death as the price they pay to save civilization?
‘We must support our gallant sailors and soldiers. We must
make them swift victors in their fight with the Kaiser. We can
do it if we at home do our duty with the same quality of patriotism
that animates our men in the trenches. The least duty we can
perform—and wc should be eager and happy to perform it—is to
lend ojir money, every available dollar we have or can save, to our
C ">ment, in order that our gallant sons may be supplied with
r. need to save America.
.o true patriot will fail to buv United States Liberty Bonds.
W. G. McADOO.”
CH 1N ESE KXPECTED
t.y battalions of Chinese En
; l s, about 4 0,000 officers and
men, are expected on the French front
within the next few weeks if sufficient
transports can be provided. The
Chinese Engineers are said to be anx
ious to see actual service and arrange
s for tjieir appearance back of
ties have been completed by the
h and Chinese general staffs.
BIRTH OF “OLD GLORY”
William Driver, a Salem, Mass., sea
captain, is said to have first applied
‘‘Old Glory” to the Stars and Stripes.
In December. 1831, when he was
about to set sail from Salem on the
brig Charles Doggett, bound for the
South Sea Islands, he was presented
by friends with a handsome flag.
When the colors were hoisted to the
halyards Captain Driver exclaimed:
“There is Old Glory!”
DIMMERS NEEDED
In No Man’s Land have to
be placed over the illuminated figures
on the dials of watches to prevent, be
traying the wearer's presence.
J&HTS 1 ’ Kaiser Bill
QAc Prayer— -may I catch the
Kaiser poking his head above a trench-. !
from warehouse to supply company,
from freight terminus to quartermas
ter. The, same truck and truckman
who brought lumber for the huge nest
of barracks known as The Camp now,
deliver the bacon, the bread, the shirts,
sox, underwear, coal —to feed, clothe
and warm the troops in training. And
their work doesn’t end on this side of
the Broad Expanse. Yonder where
the roads are torn with shell-holes
and the boche artillery plays fiendish
pranks of moving supply
they must push on. Stores and
strength!
Loveliness of form, grace and soft
refinements don’t perch on the gables
of the Truck Company No. hang
out. The language is pungent, like
petrol. The fellowship is rough, but,
say, how about the Big Things—The
Heart? Bise and shout that the heart
of the Motor Truck Man is There —
and again There. When it comes to
the essential manhood that counts—•
he’s got it. And the pale-eyed, blink
ing reformer who shrivels at his cus
toms—let him pause. For the voice of
the Big Spirit speaks from the lives
and work of these chunks of sturdy
manhood that guide the Camp motors.
It is the spirit that pushes through—
and delivers!
• IN AND OUT”
The courageous spirit in which
American soldiers “Over There” have
received their wounds is illustrated
by the case of a Yank whose fight
arm was splintered by a shell. Asked
if the wound were serious, he re
plied :
“Nope. I’m just in and out. I’ll
be back in the trenches in a week.”
Another American soldier suffering
from a severe wound which rendered
him Incapable of walking, apologized
to the stretcher bearers for his
weight.
“I’m sorry I’m so heavy,” he said.
“This thing doesn’t hurt very much.
I think I can walk out if one of you
will just steer me around the turns.”
NOT PROHIBITED
Announcement has been made by
the War Department that there is no
regulation prohibiting Army officers
from carrying life saving suits on
board ship with them when they start
“Over There.” The weight of the
suit, however, must be figured in tho
baggage weight allowance for offi
cers.
April 17.
