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Enormous Supplies Sent To
Overseas Post Exchanges
The post exchanges for the Ameri
can soldiers in France are being
stocked with enormous quantities of
supplies. Here are some of the quan
tities of merchandise shipped early
this month:
Five million bottles of pop, 2,108,000
pounds of sugar, 1,198,400 pounds of
flour, 212,000 cans of fruit, 75 tons of
coffee, 2.500,000 packages of chewing
gum, 321,600 cans of condensed milk,
215,000 packages of crackers, 54,000
sticks of shaving soap, 54,000 tubes of
toothpaste.
Another recent shipment included
10,000,000 sheets of paper and 5,000,000
envelopes for the free use of the sol
diers, and two hundred moving picture
machines, one hundred talking ma
chines, 2,500 phonograph records,
5240,000 worth of athletic equipment
and 200,000 Testaments.
HOW IT SOUNDS
TO CIVILIANS
By observing the methods of pro
nouncing commands laid down here,
one may readily become almost as un
intelligible as the most military grad
uates of Plattsburgh. Experience in
the New York Subway is invaluable:
Command. Pronounced.
Squads right Squaw-grighk!!
Squads left Haw! —wefflgk!!
Right front into line.
Glighthjkl qwzsyyzz ogvhgk!!—ungk!
Left turn Gweldji-r-bumph!
On right into line,
Punsk ri injonk wine!!
Forward march,
grownkdw ? —mhhurk!!
To the rear march,
To huh heuh —hark!
Company halt.... .Klumfunty—squalt!
11OOVEK1ZING
American packers are said to make
use of “all the pig but the squeal,”
even at that they haven’t a great deal
on a Navy cook who says: “We save
everything. If I peel apples I save
the peeling for jelly. The potato
peelings, the most nutritious part of
the potato, are saved by using them
!ln soup, and if we. have too much they
are jout IbLj the bread.**
April 17.
Camp Believe War Will End
Soon After They Arrive “Over There’
By GEORGE M. SMITH.
It would be the most foolish thing in;
the world for anyone to attempt to
draw a comparison between some
other army cantonment and Camp
Pike. It can’t be done.
• It is interesting to me, and so much
so that I am sure'it will be of interest
to you, to know that there are right
now close to 40,000 soldiers and offi
cers at Camp Pike who compose as
conscientious, patriotic. /‘get-the
kaiser” a bunch as can be found in any
training -camp anywhere You know,
I'd tell the world I’m prcud of them.
When they step out (doesn’t make a
bit of difference whether it is for
drill or ditch digging) they put real
“pep” into their every movement. If
the soldiers in every camp in the
United States are as well trained and
as enthusiastic as are the men at
Camp Pike, this war isn’t going to
last as long as we thought it would.
It doesn’t make one bit of difference
where the men are from, they are all
anxious to get to the firing line just as
soon as Uncle Sam can send them.
Camp Located on Hill
The 3,000 acres of land covered by
the camp are right up on a great hili,
making drainage and sewer conditions
just about what they should be. You
keep climbing and climbing, gradually
and when you come to the top of the
long grade you look out over one of
the prettiest sights you’d ever want
to see. There are rows and rows of
barracks buildings. It takes more
than 1,700 buildings to take care of
the soldiers of Camp Pike. They are
comfortable and they are clean —al-
ways. “Wipe your feet,” is the warn
ing given you if you are about to enter
a building with muddy shoes. The
boys are ready for “inspection” at any
time. And, what’s more, they are
proud of it. And you can’t blame
them. There are some 1,000 acres of
floor space that the men, individually,
are proud of. Why, they often drop
their clothes on the floor and then
wear them right out to inspection,
brushing not being necessary.
If you want to walk over the 30
miles of roads in th& cantonment you
will see some interesting things.
You’ll see regular fire stations and on
the street corners you’l 1 find fire
alarm boxes. You will be simply
amazed when you come to the base
hospital. And if you could go through
it, some of your ideas, or ones that you
have accepted, about army cantonment
hospitals would be revised to a very
great degree.
The finest kind of water runs
through the 32 miles of water mains
in the camp. When the water and the
30 miles of sewers were being put in,
it was necessary in many places to go
as deep as 23 feet.
Sixteen-Mile Clothes Line
If it W’ere possible to stretch out the
weekly clothes line into one long line,
you wouldn’t care anything about tak
ing a little jaunt from one end to the
other. If you really insisted, though,
you would enjoy a sixteen-mile tramp.
I might say just a word about “eats.”
To-day I have eaten my portion of the
twelve tons of excellent bread that is
consumed daily. There were a few
other things on the menu that I might
mention. We had meat, potatoes, corn,
gravey. fruit salad, coffee, ice cream
and cookies. The ice cream and cook
ies were “extras” for to-day, but the
rest of the meal is just an ordinary
menu for dinner. And, too, you would
be surprised to know how often we
have the “extras." Always, yon get
all you want to eat, and always, it is
wholesome and well cooked. I have
yet to hear a soldier at Camp Pike
complain about his food.
The Army Y. M. C. A. is very much
alive in this cantonment. Soldiers
here say they wouldn’t know what to
do if the green huts were not here.
When the four new buildings for the
exclusive use of officers are finished
there will be sixteen “Y” buildings for
the use of the officers and men at
Camp Pike. One of these is an audi
torium seating 3,000 and which cost
SIO,OOO. In addition to the Camp Pike
buildings there is one “Y” hut at Fort
Roots and one at Lonake, the new
aviation field. There are seventy sec
retaries here.
Germany’s Method ’
Os Keeping the Peace
Many persons are still asking what
started this War, anyway? Some an
swer one thing and some another.
The way does not matter. If it had
not started the way it did Germany
would have found another way to start
it.
It reminds me of two of Aesop’s fa- 1
bles of the wolf. t
A wolf was drinking from a stream,
when he noticed a lamb a short dis
tance away, also drinking. The wolf
cried out to the lamb, “Why do you
muddy the w«.ter so I cannot drink?”
To this the lamb replied, “I cannot
muddy your water, as the stream runs
down from you to me.” Then the
wolf said, “Well, a year ago when I
was drinking here you muddied it.”
But the lamb said, “How can that be,
seeing I am not a year old yet.”
"Never mind, I am going to eat you
anyway,” replied the wolf, as he
seized the lamb.
In the other fable, a wolf asked a
lamb to smell his breath and tell him
how it was. The,,lamb did so and said
his breath smelled awful. This made
the wolf mad, and he ate the lamb.
The wolf then asked a goat the same
question and the goat said his breath
was sweet as new mown hay. To this
the wolf cried that the goat was a
base flatterer and he ate him at once.
Then the wolf asked the fox, and the
fox, thinking he would be a diplomat,
answered that he had such a bad cold
that he could” not smell.
“Then you are of no use to any
body,” said the wolf, and he ate the
fox also.
If a’ nation, with a base purpose in
view, like Germany, wants to start a
war and it cannot find one excuse it
will find another. No one is safe from
such a wolf, no matter what answer
they give or how innocent they are of
intending harm.
That is the reason why America
must see to it that Germany is licked
so completely that no other nation will
ever follow the Prussian example of
forcing war on people who do not want
to fight.—Charles F. Jones.
THE BIRDMAN ,
"The bird-man gay ascends each day
to hand Dame Chance a trouncing;
with carol gay he wends his way from
cloud to cloud a-bouncing; it must be
great to aviate, ’mid storm-clouds gay
ly whisking, to loop the loop with joy
ous whoop, one’s epidermis risking;
without a care he skims the air and
flltteth like a swallow; he climbs on
high toward the sky, ’mid fleecy clouds
to wallow; he madly skips and throws
back-flips amid the gusty breezes, in
heat or cold the bird-man bold each
chance for glory seizes. What though
he breaks his neck or takes a fall from
heights appalling? He risks his bun
to strafe the Hun nor fears his motor’s
stalling. His crank-shaft breaks, a
dive he takes; it causes him no worry;
he volplanes down with angry frown
nor gets into a flurry; by spiral dives
he often tries to fool some vexing Her
man; his cuticle of grit is full, he
smiteth oft the German. Machine-gun
Are and danger dire he meets and
never shivers; he gayly laughs and
photographs a few more forts and
rivers. He skimmeth through the
ether blue nor heedeth countless dan
gers; he hath no qualm, his nerve is
calm, for fear and he are strangers.
No care is his, he is a whiz, he flirteth
with disaster; with quiet air he risks
his hair to prove he’s Fritz’s master.
In heat or cold the bird-man bold each
chance for glory seizes, he madly skipt
and throws back-flips amid the gusty
breezes!” —Ralph J. Hutchinson in
“Stars and Stripes.”
HAVE YOU HEARD IT?
Have you heard that
The socks you knit for the Red
Cross are sent to France, raveled and
made into something useful?
The sweater that you knitted for
your soldier boy or friend did not
reach him, but was seen on an officer?
The men do not receive the packages
that are sent to them?
The United States is completing only
one airplane each day?
The men in the army black the offi
cers’ boots and mend their socks?
The soldiers who are ill in the can
tonments do not receive proper med
ical attention?
The men do not get enough to eat?
The men are improperly clothed?
Many transports have been sunk and
thousands of lives lost that we have
heard nothing about? t
If you have you have been listening
to a pro-German LlAß.—Memphis
News-Scimetar.
SEND IT HOME
When you finish reading this copy,
of Trench and Camp, put a wrapper
and stamp on it and mail it home.;
Your relatives will not only enjoy
reading it, but they will keep your
Uv ***
FRENCH Al
IN THE Y.M.f
BUILDING I
i Program for the w’ r
Wednesday, April 15 Z
Wednesday, B—Sou8 —Sou
recitations by Augu
direction of Tracy I.
Thursday, B—Mid
services.
Friday, 7:4s—Movil
-of Cartersville.” —
Saturday, 7:45 —<’f
boxing and wrestling ,
Monday, B—To be tv
Tuesday, 7:45 —M<
Transit.”—s reels.
BUILDING
Reservoir and Penns
Serving the 112-
Monday—7:oo, French
er Training Class; 8:0
ture on Paris.
Tuesday—lo:lo a. m
by Augusta Ladies. 8:,,
and presentation of di
Teacher Training Classy
Wednesday—B:2o, Cc
tersville —in movies.
Thursday—B:oo, Mb
Service.
Friday—B:oo, All-Staig
gusta Entertainers. J.
Saturday—B:2o, Movi*
Matinee Idol.”
Sunday—9:3o a. tn.
Bible Classes; 10:00
Service with Chaplain
Evening Song Service
gram subject to unavc
building”
(Junction of Monr
Avenues and ’Wright
The program for t
■Wednesday—Open
Takitisi.
Thursday, B—Movie8 —Movie ’
Cartersville” —5 reels.;,
Friday, B—“ BigB—“Big Ma
Saturday, B—lllustl
England.
Sunday, 8 a. m., E: |
9 a. m., regimental se <
11 a. m.. Bible Class; I
iels and song servlet &
109TH INFANTRY £
(On Pennsylvania Ave'
Infantry, 3rd O. T. C
Companies 740
On Monday evening ; >
fa ntry Band rendered
programs which we h.®.
our building. The se®:'
chosen and the result i®
Battery, 107 F. A. wl l?
in evidence at 78 the la
months returned to its '
day. This battery w
model unit to be used
< ’amp. We wish then
turn to their former
thoughts will follow th
"over there.”
For this coining we<
program. Especially v'
is the Photo play "Bt.fi
in which Marguerite CIS I
the favorite. On Thuai
Young Ladies of AugueK
evening of enjoyment r?’
cert rendered by the IIS
BUILDIN
This coming week
Africa by Dr. Bunker,
Big Mason ought to la;
look for a gang to tur||
No. 79 is also interest
Y. M. C. A. inaugural
up in Mess Shack No
an tine up that way d
“Y” give those fellows
serration Quarantine s. J
Wednesday Evening—-S
Thursday Evening—
Friday Evening—BarS
Saturday Evening—Lw
Sunday 9:00 a. m.— Us
7:45 p. m.—Big Masit
Mondky Evening—
BUILDINt
M onday, 6; 30 —Em
Americans; 8, Athlet
wrestling, etc.
Tuesday, 6:3o—Frei
tion pictures, "Col. C
ville,”- —5 reels.
Wednesday, 8:30—I; '
on Paris.” (Second sq. ,
Thursday, 6:330—F
Americans; 8, “Big J
Friday, 6:3o—Fren<
tion pictures, “Bab’s
5 reels.
Saturday—Musical
mass singing. 5
Sunday, 9 a. m., ret
103rd Ammunition T>
Bassler; 10 a. m., re«
109th Field Artillery, S
11 a. m.. Bible Classe?
and address by Secreß
BUILCHNi
Pennsylvania Avenue,
Gun Battalions and
The inclement weath<i
preventing outdoor aj
presence of several huf 1
cently transferred to
camp combined to ma! sj
attendance at the build? 1
of ourgoing mail matte ;f
the building was in '1 Jj
the morning until five,'. H
for military instruction d
every evening brought ,
After an hour’s schc,’ ;
of the Divisional Heacj ;
Tuesday evening, Mr. S
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