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ND CAMP
C. A. HUTS
, NO. 75.
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Sta ladies under
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'Week religious
is, “Colonel Car
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Outdoor sports,
T features.
Announced,
bvies, “Lost in
NO. 76.
sylvania Avenue,
th Infantry.
» Class and Teach
0, Illustrated Lec-
Clothes Mended
jOO, Special Service
► iplomas to inen of
1. Carter of Car-
jl-week Religious
f Program by Au
le Feature, “Bob’s
land 8:30 p. m..
*a. m., Regimental
Hall: 7:45 p. m.,
and Address. Pro
pdable change.
■NO. 77.
joe and Stewart
isboro Road.
he week follows:
night, letters —
is, “Col. Carter of
Ison.”
tated lecture on
jtrly Communion;
Engineers,
j 8 p. m., Dr. Dan-
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amp and Casual
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last the 109th Tn
' one of the best
kve ever heard in
Sections were well
most enjoyable,
ich has been quite
ist three and a half
regiment on Mon
as chosen as a
in the 3rd O. T.
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comrades and our
ent when they arc
ek we have a full
jv.orthy of mention
jib’s Matinee Idol”
'ark will appear as
irsday evening the
'ita.will give us an
preceded by a con
(Oth Infantry Band.
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* with a lecture on
iband concerts and
be a winner. We
h out nightly.
ited in the “Baby”
ed this past week
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emanded that the
who were in Ob
pme service.
-Big Mason.
Movies.
d Concert.
ecture on England
iiegimental Service,
m.
ption Pictures.
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glish for new
lie night, boxing,
Ach class: 8, mo
arter of Carters-
i illustrated lecture
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English for New
Mason.”
bh class; 8, mo-
Matinee Idol,” —
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jnight, chorus and
■igimental service,
k rain by Chaplain
■gimental service,
(by Chaplain Farr,
b; 8 p. m., chorus
idary Stark.
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Serving Machine
111th Infantry.
hr of the past week
Ictivities, and the
pdred new men re
this section of the
Ike new records in
ling and in amount
k On several days
sse front eight in
t in the afternoon
In classes; while
] a capacity crowd
10l for the officers
Staff, on
Rogers of Augusta,
F YOU DO NOT GET
sNCH and camp
The mails, but more likely your
jibscription has expired.
RENEW AT ONCE.
took the platform and led the crowd in
some very snappy singing.
We are fortunate in having the serv
ices of Bugler Blake, of Company F, at
the piano during motion pictures; back
home in Baltimore he is a professional
motion picture pianist, which accounts
for the remarkable quality and versatil
ity of his work.
The program for the coming week has
several special features, including a lec
ture on “England” by G. B. Landis, il
lustrated with colored stereopticon pic
tures, on Thursday evening; an enter
tainment from Augusta on Friday even
ing; Marguerite Clark in "Bob’s Matinee
Idol”, a five reel movie feature on Sat
urday and "Big Mason” on Sunday at. the
evening service.
TENT 234.
Serving Q. M. C„ Field Bakery, Ord
nance, Truck Company 332, Fire
Company, Engineer Depot and Motor
Repair Co.)
This week the movie machine will
be used to full extent. On Monday
night we will have a ntereopticon lec
ture on England by Captain Fitzhugh,
and Thursday night a stereopticon
lecture on Paris by Lt. Spare; Tuesday
and Friday nights we will have our
regular movies, “Lost in Transit” on
Tuesday, April 23rd; “Argyle Case/’
Friday, April 22nd. Monday, April 27,
Big Mason will be at the tent to give
his big message.-
UEW LIBERTY
THEM HAS
BI£CROWDS
Soldiers Smile With Smileage
Books
New Scenery, Regular Or
chestra, Good Vaudeville Bill
Make Shows Popular. Home
Folk Invited.
The New Liberty Theatre has now
been open for two weeks and has been
packed every night. The show has been
Vaudeville, Six good clean acts, and from
the way the fellows come bjtck. again and
again, they are well pleased with the
show.
The folks “up home” have certainly
been generous in sending the “Smileage
Books” for nearly every fellow has his
“coupons” for a ticket, and it is cer
tainly good to see one of the fellows bring
ing in a bunch of his “pals” on the
“Laughing" book sent by some good
“sport” at home.
The new Scenery makes the stage look
fine and with the regular orchestra, and
it is a mighty good one too, the show
goes on in good shape.
Next week, opening Monday night, the
“Vaudeville Artists” will furnish the bill,
and they are said to be high class and
have some good specialties.
Any of the soldiers who have their
wives or folks from home with them are
certainly welcome and there is a small
balcony, which is reserved for them.
JEWISH BOARD OF
WELFARE WORK
On Sunday, April 14th, at the Hall
of the Welfare Board, Rabbi David
Hirsch, of Atlanta, Ga., delivered an
eloquent talk on “Patriotism,” before
a large audience of civilians and sol
-diers. In addition to the address,
which -was thoroughly enjoyed by ev
erybody present, there was a pleasing
musical program rendered by talent of
the people of Augusta and soldiers.
This was the first of a series of such
programs which will be given regu
larly at the hall.
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Programs as successful as those of
last Wednesday and Sunday have
caused th entertainment committee of
the board to decide that there will be
more activity in the hall hereafter.
Every night in the week either Mr.
Landman or Mr. Luchs will be present
n the hall, and also on Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons. Plans are being
made for additional furnishings for
the hall, both as decorations and for
practical use. We hone to make the
hall more of a center for the men
while they are in town, and extend the
invitation to them again to make it
their headquarters. Those conveni
ences already there will be improved,
Digest of Opinions By The Judge Advocate
General In Deciding Various Army Questions
RIGHT OF COMMANDING OFFICER.
Assignments to commands and to sta
tutory offices are governed strictly by
law and regulations, but officers assigned
to a command are subject to the will of
the commanding officer and may prop
erly be required to perform anv duties he
may direct them to perform (A. R, 746).
zyn “, a division commander may detail one
staff officer to perform the duties of an
other. Accordingly he may detail the in
spector general of the division to duty as
Achting Chief of Staff and detail a field
officer, on duty with a regiment of the
division, as acting inspector of the di
vision. Such field officer is not therebv
made an officer of the Inspector Gen
eral s Department and cannot perform
any duties which are specifically re
quired by statute to be performed by an
officer of the Inspector General’s De
-1917 1 ) lent ’ ( ° nS ’ J ’ A ' G ' 322 081 > Nov - 81
DE FACTcToFFICERS.
An officer of the Medical Reserve
Corps who refused to accent a commis
sion in the Medical Officers’ Reserve
Corps is not entitled to receive any pay
*2* s ® rv * e ® s ils an officer after June 3,
1917, for since that date such officer has
been at best but a de facto officer. Fay
which a de facto officer has received he
may keep, but he has no legal claim for
aay J? ay not yet received. (Ops. J. A. G,
324.23, Nov. 15. 1917.)
GUNNER’S' PAY.
Under section 1343, Army Regulations,
IJL, a Coast Artillery man rated as a
gunner and entitled to pay such loses
such rating and right to such pay on be
mg transferred to the Field Artillery.
(Ops. J. A. G., 242.142, Nov. 21, 1917.)
LONGEVITY PAY.
The act of June 18, 1879 (20 Stat, 150)
providing for credit of full time of ser
vice. for longevity pay has reference to
«erviee as an officer or enlisted man in
the full military sense. Service in a. train
mg camp under an enlistment having for
its sole purpose training entrance into
the Army of the Failed States as an
officer and not binding the enlisted man
‘o. any esrvice unless accepted as an
officer can not be counted thereunder.
(Ops. J. A. G., 241.12, Nov. 12, 1917.)
MARKSMAN'S PAY, MACHINE GUN
■ Under Army Regulation 1345 and para
graph 89, Small Arms Firing Manual as
amended, an enlisted man, qualified as a
marksman in the machine-gun company
of an Infantry regiment, who has been
transferred to a company in a machine
gun battalion, is entitled to the pav of a
mai ksman, for he is still a member of an
organization armed with the rille. (Ops
J. A. G., 242.142, Nov. 2, 1917.)
THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW.
rhe employment by the government of
laborers and mechanics in excess of eight
hours per day, except in eases of extra-
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and new ones will be added. The Wel
fare Hall is your hall. Use it!
Religious services will be held this
Friday night at Y. M. C. A. No. 77.
The attendance should be far heavier
than it is or has been to date. Ser
vices will begin at 7 o’clock. If you
will be there, be there promptly; if
you don’t know whether you will be
there or not, come anyway, and so
make sure.
The Bible Class will meet as usual
in the Infirmary of the 109th Infantry,
Building No. 109, at the end of Penn
sylvania Avenue. The talk and dis--
cussion led by Chaplain Futcher were
of particular interest last Sunday.
Those who were not present missed
something that they should know, as
Jews. Make a special effort to be
there this Sunday morning at ten
o’clock. It will be worth your while.
The registration cards which have
been handed out are being retuurned
too slowly. Please fill them out as
soon as possible and hand them back
to the men who gave them to you so
that they can be turned into the rep
resentatives of the board in camp. It
will take only a little bit of youur time.
Do it now.
ordinary emergency, is-vrohibited. Every
thing necessary to be done to assemble,
care for, clothe, shelter, feed, arm, and
train the soldiers of the National Army is
of immediate and imperative necessity.
And in the employment of labor to carry
forward any or all of these purposes, and
in declaring in connection therewith the
existence of an extraordinary emergency,
a very wide discretion must be lodged in
those officers charged with the perform
ance of these duties. When suchextraor
dinary emergency, a very wide discretion
must be lodged in those officers charged
with the performance of these duties.
When such extraordinary emergency is
declared, report should be made prompt
ly to the Secretary of War. (A. R. 731;
Ops. J. A. G„ 234.1422, Nov. 16, 1917.)
PROCEDURE BEFORE LOCAL BOARDS
Local boards have no power under pres
ent presidential regulations to compel the
attendance of witnesses, for the regula
tions do not contemplate the taking of
oral testimony, but require the presenta
tion of evidence by affidavit. (Ops. J. A.
G. 013.26. Nov. 7. 1917.)
DISCHARGE OF DRAFTED MEN.
A district board has no authority to
reopen the case of a man who has been
inducted into tlie military service; but
the local board may reopen his ease upon
permission or direction of the adjutant
general of the state. If upon reopening
the local board decides that tlie man
should have been exempted, it will so
notify the adjutant general, who will in
turn notify the commanding officer at the
mobilization camp. If a local board has
through error, sent a man to a mobiliza
tion camp pending his appeal, ami lie has
been inducted into the military service,
and thereafter he presents a certificate
of exemption from the district board, he
may be discharged by the division com
mander. Other than above stated, a. com
manding officer or division commander
has no authority to discharge a man on
the ground that lie should have been ex
empted by tlie local board. (Ops. J. A. G.
324.72, Nov. 22, 1917).
CORRECTING ENLISTMENT RULINGS
The decisions of loe.-il boards upon
claims for examptions. including those
based upon alienage, are conclusive.
Where a man has been erroneously cer
tified for service through error of law or
nonculpable ignorance of the registrant,
his case may be reopened by the local
board upon request of the adjutant gen
eral of the stale, either cn his own mo
tion or on motion of the military author
ities or of the local board. Compiled
ruling of Provost Marshal General No.
12. M. (Ops. J. A. G. 014.311, Nov. 3,
1917.)
REGISTRATION OF SLACKERS.
A person who willfully refuses to pre
sent himself for registration or to submit
thereto, as provided in the selective draft
act, should be immediately registered
ATTENTION NEWSPAPER
MEN NOW IN KHAKI
Feeling that in the ordnance corps
now stationed at Camp Hancock there
must be a number of former members
of the Fourth Estate three or four who
know each other have determined to
hold a meeting, to which all other
newspaper and magazine writers are
invited.
Recently, the Keystone Division held
a similar meeting, and a score of the
newspaper men from Pennsylvania
met—men who had not previously
known each other, and to whom the
friendship of the dthers at once be
came a thing worth while.
Let all these men meet at Y 79 —our
own hut now, on next Thursday night
—the day after the issue of Trench
and Camp is distributed. The meet
ing will be held at 8 o’clock —the kind
of time we stand reveille by, not the
kind me used to observe when going
down to the newspaper shop in the
mornings. Ask the secretary at the
desk where the newspaper club is
meelln*-
April 17.
and thereafter prosecuted for his mis
demeanor. It would defeat the purpose
of the aet were the involuntary registra
tion postponed until after service of the
sentence imposed for the commission of
the misdemeanor. Ops. J. A. G. 324.71,
Nov. 10, 1917).
ARMY NURSE CORPS.
Field service is a term of which the
military mind has a fairly accurate con
ception. although it is not easily defined,
Going to the professional books and the
field-service regulations and the drill
regulations, the term will be found to
have reference not only to actual ser
vice in campaign or ?n action, of the
application of tacticad principles to as
sumed situations with respect to an im
aginary, outlined, or represented enemy
or a particular objective. As applied to
the Nurse Corps, it means nothing more,
than the discharge of duties usually and
ordinarily connected with and discharged
by a nurse in a base hospital, which, as
its name implies, is a. hospital organized
for actual and practical service with an
army in the Held. Accordingly, nurses in
service at the base hospital of a canton
ment or camp of the National Army are
in field service and are not entitled to
commutation of quarters, of heat or
light, or of subsistence. (Ops. J. A. G.
246.84. No. 7, 1917, citing Ops. J. A. G„
6-121.4. July 6, 1911, and 24. Comp. Dec.,
106.)
ELIGIBILITY OF WOMEN.
The statutes governing enlistment in
the army do not authorize the enlistment
of women. Consequently women may not
be enlisted in the ordnance Department.
(Ops. J. A. G. 342., Nov. 14, 1917.)
INDUCTION INTO SERVICE.
A drafted man was on October 6. as
signed to a specified company, on Octo
ber 13 was reported physically fit. on Oc
tober 25 was rejected as physically unfit.-
and in the evening of October 25 died.
Held, That his induction into the mili
tary service was complete before October
25. and that the rejection on October 25
did not, under the circumstances, op
erate as a discharge. (Ops. J. A. G. 220.46.
Nov. 20, 1917.)
MEDICAL ENLISTED RESERVE
CORPS.
Only citizens of the United States or
persons who have declared their inten
tions to become citizens of the United
States arc eligible for enlistment in the
Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps. Jap
anese and Chinese subjects and citizens
of the Philippine Islands are, therefore,
ineligible. (Ops. J. A. G. 312.18, Nov.
24. ’1917.)
COMMUTATION OF QUARTERS.
Money received as commutation for
quarters, heat, and light is income within
the meaning of the income tax law. (Ops.
J. A. G. 012.22. Nov. 19. 1917.)
DAYLIGHT SAVING IN
SPA INLAND CANADA
The American ambassador at Madrid
reports that the time in Spain was ad
vanced one hour on April 15th.
Canada started April 14, on daylight
saving in compliance with the law pass
ed by the dominion parliament. Official
timepieces in virtually every city, town
and village, were advanced an hour and
citizens scarcely noticed the change.
STATUE OF HUN
FREDERICK GONE
Washington, D. C.—The bronze statue
of Frederick the Great which has orna
mented the western facade of the war
college building on »he banks of the Po
tomac here, was removed in sections to
day and packed away for safekeeping.
It is understood the statue was re
moved at the instance of President Wil
son. who had taken notice of the bitter
criticisms expressed in congress and
elsewhere over permitting the statue to
remain.
The statue which is of heroic size, was
a personal gift of the German emperor,
William 11, of the American nation dur
ing President Roosevelt’s administration.
Officials feared that the statue might
defaced or destroyed.
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