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TRENCH AND CAMP
CAMP HANCOCK. Augusta, Go.
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GEO. B. LANDIS, Editor.
W. J. Aiken, Associate Editor.
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Vol. I—May 1, 1918.—N0. 30.
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From the Office of The Augusta Herald
The American Spirit
Henry J. Allen, editor of the Wich
ita (Kans.) Eagle, devoted admirer of
r.oosevelt, Woman’s Suffrage and Billy
Sunday, returned from France after
having just escaped a U-Boat, medi
itates as follows:
"I’ve been thinking about this U-boat
business; how it would be if we had
the Germans’ job. I have been trying
to think if there is any one in Wich
ita who could go out and run a U-boat
the way these Germans run U-boats,
and I’ve been trying to lmag|ne him
sitting on the front porch 'of the
Country Club or down at the Elks Club
talking about it; telling how he lured
the captain of a ship by his distress
signals to ccme to the rescue of a
sinking ship and then destroyed the
rescuer, and I've been trying to figure
out how the fellows sitting around him
would take it. They’d get up and
leavfe. He’d be outcast as unspeak
able, and no brag or bluff or blare of
Victory would gloss over hie act. We
simply don’t think the German way.
We have a loyalty to humanity deeper
than our patriotism. There are cer
•*. tain things self-respecting men can't
do and live in Wichita. But there
seems to be no restrictions in Ger
many.”
Making An Army
Arthur Hunt Chute, late of the First
Canadian division, tells of the early
experiences of a little Cockney ser
geant, in training the famous “First
Canadians,” afterwards the flower of
the glorious Canadian army
Finally, all seemed to be wrapped in
slumber- except myself and the little
cockney sergeant, who had come to
and was moaning as though in pain.
I approached him and inquired if 1
could do anything to put him at ease.
"Aw, it ain’t the rough 'anding that’s
a-botheri’ o’ me, but oh. my Gawd, I
was a-wonderin’ ’ow I’d ever make sol
jers out o’ this mob from ’elL It fair
makes me groan, it does, to think o'
what's ahead. I tell ye I’ve ’ad the
’andlin’ o’ rough stuff in me day. I’ve
’ammered the fear o’ dooty into toughs
from Mile End Road, and I’ve seen the
sweepin’s o’ ’e’d made into an army,
and where there is ’ope I sees it, but
Gawd bli' me, there’s no ’hope for these
Canadians, Ye cawn’t make an barmy
ou tof them. No. sea I, it cawn’t be
done,”
1776 1918
The descendants of the compatriots of
Washington and Paul Jones are fighting
once again side by side with the de
scendants of the compatriots of Lafayette
and Rochambeau. The time an oppor
tunity have come for a nation to pay a
great national need and America is pay
ing France the debt she long has owed.
In the Revolutionary War for the free
dom of America the French fought on
American soil under the command of an
American. Today in the war for the free
dom of France and for the preservation
of liberty to America, and indeed to all
the world, Americans fight on French soil
under the supreme command of a French-
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man., The honors are even and the
honors are great.
No true American who knows the his
tory of his country and loves the honor of
his country but thrills at the Jhought of
the American army in France. The in
vincible Americans will turn the tide of
war; they will bring- to France and her
allies a victory for liberty such as France
assisted us to win, and repay with in
terest a debt to liberty and to France
long owing and honorably acknowledged.
GENERAL U. S. GRANT
Memorial Day In Augusta, April 26. —
Last Friday, with the parade of the
United Confederate Veterans in which
marched an elderly lady, whom the Au
gusta papers declared to be a "unre
constructed rebel,” reminds us that
April 27th was the birthday of General
Grant, who had some little share in
making possible a reunited country and
whoso attitude on reconstruction was
extremely favorable to the people of the
South.
We do well to recall in a general way
the events of General Grant’s life. He
was born in 1822 in the small town of
Point Pleasant, Ohio. His father was a
tanner but operated a small farm on
which the boy Grant worked in the sum
mer and at add times. Ills father, with
a father’s ambition, desired for young
Hiram Ulysses a better education than he
himself had secured, and through his in
fluence made it possible for the boy to
go to West Point. The congressman who
made the appointment changed the boy's
name from Hiram Ulysses to Ulysses
Simpson, the later being his mother’s
maiden name. This change of name was
not desired by Grant but seems never
theless to have been a good omen of his
future endeavors for the United States.
Grant served through the Mexican
War and was made captain for bravery
in action at Chapultapee. After the war
was over, he conducted business in a
small way, entirely unknown outside his
litlte town until in 1861 he organized a
company of volunteers at Galena, Ills.,
at the call of President Lincoln when
Civil War began and shortly after be
came Colonel of the twenty-first Illinois
Volunteer Infantry. In August of the
same year he was made Brigadier-
General and given command of the forces
alohg the Mississippi, where early in ’62
he compelled the surrender of Fort
Donaldson by his positive message to
the Confederate Commander, "no terms
other than unconditional and immediate
surrender can be accepted. I propose to
move Immediately on your works.”
Then following Shiloh, Lika and Vicks
burg, he became Major- General, and
fought the campaign about Chattanooga,
including Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, and Chicamaugh.
In 1865 Congress revived the grade of
Lieutenant-General and commissioned
General Grant in this grade. He took
command of the army of the Potomac
and began at once the final campaign
against Richmond. It was a campaign
of attrition, slow but of continuous pro
gress. Tho criticisms of some led to his
famous saying, “I will fight it out on this
line if it takes all summer.” This, it
did, put with the retreat of the Confed
erate armies in* the spring of 65, General
Grant was able to surround them and
compel the surrender of General Lee at
Appotmatox Court House, Virginia.
The magnanimity of General Grant on
this occasion shows the essential spirit of
the m’an. His encouragement to the es
tabl shment of the old brotherhood
breken by unfortunate internecine
strife, his recommendation that the Con
federal soldiers should take their horses
with them in order chat they might im
med’uieiy tip their fields and his cor-.liial
par ing with General Lee, who was also
a tvesi Pointer, all made a profound
impression upon the people of the entire
country, Noith and South.
The popu arity of General Grant as a
sjldim ms positively reflected in the
attitude of the voters of the country who
twee elected him president of the United
States. A: the close of his second term,
he made a tcur of the world as the rep
resentative ol this great reunited coun
try visiting all civilized lands, and was
leceived with the highest honors by rul
ers and prominent citizens of every gov
ernment. On this trip, cordial relations
were established with many governments,
which previously had been indifferent to
the United States.
Congress by special act continued
General Grant on the retired list as gen
era! with full pay. This enabled him to
weather a severe financial storm occa
sioned by the loss of funds through a
partner in whom he had fully confided.
No stain or criticism attached to the
name or dulled the fame of General
Grant in his military policies, his political
life or his flnancal dealngs. Upon his
death in 1885, his body was laid with high
ho.nors In a magnificent granite tomb in
Riverside Park overlooking the Hudson.
Thousands daily visit this tomb and gain
new inspiration for sacrificial citizen
ship at a shrine containing the remains
of one of the most glorious patriots in
the annals of the great republic of the
West.
U._ . O. B. L.
GERMAN KULTUR NAILED
German propaganda was almost suc
cessful in producing in America an
overwhelming admiration for what the
paternal Prussian autocracy had done
for the welfare of the German working
classes. But what are the facts? G.
A. Myers, the well known research ex
pert tells us:
That women and children have al
ways worked like beasts of burden on
the farms and in the cities of Hun
land.
That sweat shops and wretched ten
ements abound.
That the people suffer from lack of
food and fuel.
That they labor for stretches of
hours unparalleled in other countries
for starvation waget.
We have heard from German kultur
about the vaunted social insurance
laws, but Mr. Myers uncovers this part
of German deception. It seems that
the average invalidity pension in 1913
was less than one dollar per week. The
average old age pension was 76 cents
per week. The average widow’s pen
sion was 35 cents per week. Judge
these facts beside the cost of the main
tenance of one person, which, for the
barest subsistence is $l4O to $l5O per
annum.
Another point to be remembered is
that the whole scheme, poor as it is
from a financial standpoint was not
meant for the benefit of people but was
simply a sop thrown out by the gov
ernment. The German people seem to
have taken the bait. They have sold
their place in civilized society for that
which enslaves them to a master they
now so ardently support in his world
butcheries.
THESE ARE TIMES~|
When there is a call for men —men
by the millions—men who can f?ght—
men who are courageous and strong
men who are willing to offer their very
lives that righteous humanity may be
protected and preserved.
BUT—
There is also a call for men—and the
numbr must be far greater—who, with
out the lure of adventure, without the
compensation of military honors, with
out the attraction of the spectacular
and the romantic, can courageously give
God-speed to the departing loved ones,
can uncomplainingly deny themselves
the luxuries and some of the conveni
ences of life, can lay their gifts of
wealth upon the altars, and can give
themselves in patient, persistent, tire
some labor.
THESE ARE TIMES—
When the commercial, industrial, and
scientific enterprise of the nation are
diverted into channels that converge
at the scene of history’s greatest strug
gle, and when the travail of a modern
world demands the absorbed attention
and ministration of the individual of
humblest potentiality "as well as of the
master minds of the age.
BUT—
There must be no. slighting of those
enterprises of humanitarian, educa
tional, and religious purposes from
which as from a great dynamo goes
forth the impelling spirit in those fund
amental principles that make civiliza
tion worthy of all .this sacrifice, and
upon which rests the burden of preserv
ing those principles during the present
stress as well as projecting them uni
versally into the future,
THESE ARE TIMES—
When man robs his brother man of
his very life, when blood is as rain upon
the earth, when suffering of body and
mind is a common passion, when brute
force seems to prevail over righteous
effort and when voices are heard crying
"Where is God?”
BUT—
Never before have men given so lib
erally of their time and substance in
the service of. their fellows; never be
fore have men' had God come so deeply
Into their experience; never before have
men realized so keenly the comfort of
confidence in Him; never before have
men partaken so richly of His power
and His grace, and never before has the
world been so fully convinced that the
only final solution for its unrest, its
sorrows, its strife, its sin, may be found
in the message embodied two thousand
years ago in the humble Man of Gali
lee.
WHEN OUR CHAPLAIN
LEADS IN PRAYER
I have sat in stately churches,
Built of costly jvood and stone,
Listened to the mighty organs
Dealing forth in mellow tone;
Heard ministers whose eloquence
Made dome and arches ring;
Sat enraptured while I listened
To some noted choir sing.
But the holy benediction
Never rested on me there,
As when listening to our chaplain
As he prayed in open air.
For my soul is lifted upward
From the sordid things of earth.
And I seem to catch a vision
Os life and its true worth.
O, the soldier in the army
Is but a mixture quaint,
For some of him is sinner
And some of him is saint.
But the bigger, better portion
(I tell it to you square)
Comes right up to the surface
When our chaplain leads in prayer.
For he rouses all our manhood
And we’re anxious for the charice,
To join the Allied forces
Who are fighting now in France.
I know not what will be my lot
When on the other side,
For fate has many cards to play
And this old world is wide;
But if, when victory is won.
They leave me sleeping "over there ”
In heaven I’ll wake in answer
To Chaplain Bassler’s prayer.
K K F
Cn lft3d Am. Tr._ Camn
CURRENT EVENTS
—By—
Frederick B. Heitkamp
HOLLAND desires to observe strict
neutrality. Hovrever Germany- is mak
ing it very difficult for her to do so.
Ever since the taking over of the Dutch
shipping in our ports, and in the ports
of England, Gerir my has been incens
ed and has had feeling of unfriend
liness for that little country. The
matter now under discussion is the
transporting of sand and gravel over
the lines of Holland into German ter
ritory for military purposes. Holland
declines to allow the use of her rail
ways. Germany has sent certain de
mands which she will expect to be re
cognized, and which shall make Hol
land’s position very difficult. She
has nothing to gain by entering the
war and everything to loose.
CONSCRIPTION~in Ireland is not
meeting with the best of feeling. Pub
lic demonstrations voicing the protest
of certain elements in that country
have been frequent this past week.
Lloyd George is expecting that Ire
land will prove to be loyal and that
she will not fail to offer her share of
the man power now so urgently need
ed on the western front.
NO WAR will be declared as yet on
Turkey. President Wilson has asked
that he be not urged to do so. We
have tremendous economic and finan
iial interests in Turkey, there are many
of our citizens there and furthermore
the feeling of Tr rkey for the United
States is not as unfriendly as might
be supposed. In the later years after
the war it will be to our advantage
commercially to have retained her good
will, in so far as that is possible now
that we are at war with her allies.
..UNIFICATION of the essential in
dustries and departments necessary
for a more speedy carrying on of the
war has been achieved this past week
in the appointment of John D. Ryan
copper magnate and financier, to head
the aircraft construction. Thus far
it has been in the bands of the Signal
Corps and the results attained have
been anything but satisfactory. Fol
lowing the appointment of Mr. Schwab,
who was placed in charge of the ship
program, this is an indication of the
administration’s policy of centraliza
tion of authority and unification of
effort.
LLOYD GEORGE has commended
labor and its service thus far in the
war. Many of the skilled laborers
have been called to the colors and those
who have been left have, in spite of
the fact that they have been short
handed, very efficiently carried out the
prescribed programs. "No more let
it be said that labor has not contrib
uted its part.” Strikes have been very
few—-in fact less than one day out of
the entire year has been loss due to
strikes of any nature. Women have
responded with great interest and now
are working at lathes and machines
which were formerly manned by their
husbands. Their one motive is to
"work to help John in the trenches.”
EAGLES instead of Fords will now
be turned out by the large Ford fac
tories in Detroit. These Eagles are
boats designed as destroyers. The
production of the Ford cars will be cut
from 3,000 daily to 1,500 and one Eagle
a day is promised. This is an indi
cation of the adaptation of our indus
trial system to the needs which arise
when a nation enters war. What
Henry Ford has done is being done
daily all over the country and slowly
but effectively our industrial resources
are being brought to contribute di
rectly to the needs of the nation.
THE LIBERTY LOAN has not as
yet been as successful as had been
hoped. It is regretted that the nation
has not seen the need for a more
hearty response. While the quota will
undoubtedly be obtained it had been
hoped that it would be greatly over
subscribed. Germany is raising her
eighth loan with less effort and less
advertising than we are raising our
third.
THE OVERMAN BILL which will
give to President Wilson power to re
organize federal departments has been
passed by the senate and now goes to
the house, where it is sure of passing.
In securing this power President Wil
son will be having more authority than
has ever been delegated to any presi
dent since the creation of our federated
farm of government, and In this man
ner will he be able to effectively carry
out plans and policies which are not
possible under the present system.
TR Al N INGPARTxCELLENCE
(Special to Hancock Edition of Trench
and Camp. )
Camp Upton, L. I.—One of the com
panies of the 28th Division, known as the
Keystone Division, now at Camp Upton,
was drilling the other day, and was be
ing watched by a large crowd of Upton
ites. The excellence and snap of this
particular company excited favorable
comment among the onlookers and the
following conversation between two sol
diers was overheard
"Gee,” said the first, "those guys are
good.”
“They out to be,” said the second,
"them fellers are regulars.”
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