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BUILDING 75
Diversity of entertainment is one of
„ie strong comparative points or u.e ac
tivities of the green huts. Os the variety
of program, credit for the big feature—
the one surpassing event belongs to
Mesdarnes Maurice Walton, C. J. Fargo,
H. C. Eve and Misses Belle Fargo, Anna
Eve, Belle and Eliabeth Harper. After
a previous announcement of their inten
tion they came out Saturday afternoon
bringing cakes and cookies like mother
used to make and punch sufficient to
serve five hundred men. Business be
came very brisk shortly after the formal
Invitation was extended to the men by
Mrs. Eve, so much bo that after about
half an hour the extreme hospitality of
the hostess was made manlfe.st by pro
vision being made to continue the good
work after servin gthis large number.
Cars were sent to their homes for more
food and drink, and to provide one of
the ingredients for the punch the cooks
of Supply Co. 108 were ready to help*
They were repaid forthwith by a dem
onstration given by Mrs. Eve in making
tea in a mess shack, same to be meas
ured carefully one teaspoonful to the cup
and not allowed to boil. The result of
this diversion was that some 700 to 800
enjoyed this genuine hospitality.
Program for the Week Beginning Wed
nesday, May Bth.
Wednesday, 8:15, Musical Comedy Min
strellette, “A Stop at Keystone Yacht
Club,” given by members of the Haver
sack Theatre Company of the 28th Di
vision tinder direction of Sergt. M. Bopp.
Music directed by Joe Ballard.
Thursday, 4:00 to (1:00, sewing and
mending by Augusta ladies; 8:00 p. m.,
mid-week religious service.
Friday. 8:00 p. m., movies: "France in
Arms" (five reels).
Saturday. 8:00 p. m., "musical program,
including Hawaiian music, solos and
quartet numbers and readings given by
members of 107th F. A. under direction
of Jas. R. Diehl and Ridenbach.
Sunday, 8:00 p. m„ special Mothers’
Day service. Ladies from Augusta par
ticipating; flowers given to all attending
Monday, to bo announced.
Tuesday, 8 p. m., movies: "World To
day.” (f.'vo reels).
BUILDING23I
The outstanding feature of the past
week at 231 wan the. concert on Sunday
night to a crowded house, given by the
Orpheus Four. Many of our boys had
heard them before and were eager to
hear them again. A goodly number of
the nurses from the Bane Hospital took
advantage of the opportunity afforded
and were present to enjoy the concert.
Any time the Orpheus Four can come to
Building 231, they will receive a warm
welcome.
At the mid-week service Chaplain
Bassler spoke, and the largo atteaance
at this service is a personal compliment
to the chaplain, who Is very much liked
by the boys who frequent this building.
The Sing Song Tuesday evening before
the movies, conducted by Camp Song Di
rector Clark, was a howling success. How
they did sing.
For the next few ways the following
schedule is planned.
Wednesday, 8:00 p. tn.. Athletic Night.
Good boxing and wrestling. Tommy
O’Toole will nut on the program.
Thursday. 3 p. m., committee of Au
gusta Indies will sew for the soldiers:
8:00 p. m.. Dr. W. J. Reid of Pittsburgh
will speak.
Friday. 7:45 p. m., sing song; 8:00 p
m.. motion pictures, "Fair Barbarian”
(five reels).
Saturday. 8:00 p. m., illustrated lecture
on "Rondon” by G. B. Landis.
Sunday, 9:00 a. m.. regimental service
103rd Ammunition Train, by Chaplain
Bassler; 11:00 a. m., Bible classes; 8:00
p. m.. Mothers’ Day. Special program,
assisted by ladies’ committee of Augusta.
BUILDING 232
Ev r s'ree the Second Provisional Ord
nance regiment moved V n the Penn
sylvania avenue camp hi; Wednesday a
large part of the time of the staff at 232
has been spent in getting acquainted with
the men and officers of that regiment.
And a most enjoyable process It has
been, for there is qo doubt that this
regiment is unique in the remarkably
high grade of its personnel, including a
very largo proportion of college men and
professional and mechanical experts.
Next Sunday the Mothers' Day Idea
will be featured at the regular services,
with the possibility of a special after
noon concert. At the evening service
Dr. Thomas, of Denver, will be the
speaker. The regular motion picture
programs will be run on Wednesday and
Saturday evenings, featuring "France tn
Arms” and "The Fair Barbarian.” re
spectively. Friday evening s, program will
be supplied by vocal, instrumental and
comedian talent from the Second regi
ment. On Tuesday. May 14. Professor
Irvine’s quartette, from Augusta, will
provide r»> evening concert.
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD
Religious services will henceforth be
conducted every Friday evening at 7
o’clock sit the, chapel of the Second Regi
ment Ordnance. Chaplain Dolan has been
kind enough to offer this board the use of
the chanel at any time, that it so de
sires. It is located on Pennsylvania ave
nue. a few buildings east of regimental
headquarters. After each service on Fri
day there will be an informal meeting of
those present, to discuss the various pol
icies of the board, and the methods by
which the Augusta Branch of thre Welfare
Board can best co-operate with the men
in camp, tn entertaining them. All men
are invited 'to these meetings and the
ideas and opinions of al! are desired.
Within two weeks, there will be fully
organized a system of regimental and
company "Keymen.” The “Keymen ’ will
meet at regular intervals and will form
the executive board for our work in the
camp All men who are willing to de
vote a prt of their spare time in this way
are urged to get into touch with Al Luchs
at Y M. C. A. No. 76 as soon as possible.
An organization will be formed as soon as
arrngements can bo made. The entire
ikENCH and camp
plan will be discussed at a meeting which
wilt be held at the chapel on Friday
evening, May 10th, at 7' o’clock. All rrien
who are interested are asked to be pres
ent.
The Home Hospitality Committee of
the board Is now completely organibed
within a week, the various familes of Au
gusta will be ready to entertain the
men In their homes. The strictest co
operation on the part of the men is neces
sary in order that this plan meet with
the highest degree of success. A. number
of men who desire this sort of entertain
ment have already registered with the
office. But by far the greater number
of men have not yet handed in their names.
It is requested- that this be done at the
earliest possible time. The men are re
quested to come tn, Mr. Luch's office in
Y. M. C. A. No'. 76 and give their names
and their company address. If he is not
in the office at the time register on a pad
on the desk. The committee with the co
operation of the board plans to accommo
date over a hundred men weekly. All
names should be in the hands of Mr.
Duchs by Sunday, May 12th, at t ie latest.
The J. W. B. Hal! located at 853 Broad
street Is vour home and you are invited to
spend your time while in the city at the
hall. Amusements and games of all kinds
are being provided, and within two weeks
the hall will be fitted up in the best of
style. There will be something doing
there every evening. On Wednesday
evening there will be a dance, and on
Sunday evening at 8:30 the board plans to
hold a concert for the men. All are cor
dially invited to attend. Any suggestions
which the men have for amusements and
entertainment will be received gladly and
considered.
Any of the men who have relatives in
the city should inform the board, and we
will look out for their housing and enter
tainment. There is a committee being
formed for this purpose at the present
time. The men are asked to call upon the
representatives of the board at any time
I for anything that they need. Tjiey are
here to serve you so do not hesitate to
call upon them at any time,
RELIGIOUS CENSUS
AT CAMP HANCOCK
Thirty-Three Different Creeds
Represented. Catholics Lead,
Methodists Second.
The religious census es Camp Hancock
at Augusta, shows that there are nearly
twice as many Catholics among the
< hurch-goers there gs of any other one
denomination.
The Methodists have the next largest
number, with the Presbyterians a Mose
third and the Lutherans fourth, Episco
palians fifth and Baptist sixth. There is
but one professed infidel but there are 17
who stated ’they are atheists. Camp Han
cock is, or at the time the census was
taken, was composed chiefly of the
Pennsylvania National Guardsmen. A
detail of the figurs is given below:
Athe sts 17 Methodist 4689
Baptists .. ..1589 Moravian 24
Catholicß2l2 Norman 12
Christian .... 203 Non-Sectarian 1
Church of God 93 Presbyterian ..4347
Church of Orthodox .... 9
Brethren ... 597 Quakers 21
Christian Reformed 1107
Science 36 Reformed 1107
Dunl r aKr t,Onal J l4 7 ' DaT Advent -
Dlsclples . 9 Spiritualist . 13
Episcopal ~ ..166* Unitarians .... 37
Evangelical.... 346 Zion Evange
1-ree Thinker.. 4 listical 1
Hebrews .. •■417 Swendenborg-
Lutherans ....2837 fans 2
Menonite 20 Universalist .. 1
Friends 9 Salvation Army 8
Infidels 1
And Croations, Annunciation B. V. M.,
Holy Rollers, Lithuanian, Mohamedan,
Pentecost, Communistic, Sionists.
WEAR A FLOWER
FOR MOTHER
Mother’s Day, the day set apart by
congress as one on which homage is to
be paid to mothers living, and mothers
dead are to be commemorated, the sec
ond Sunday in May, falls this year on
May 12th.
When Miss Anna Jarvis, who, in 1908,
founded in Philadelphia an organization
now known as the Mothers' Day Interna
tional Association, it was not even re
motely anticipated that the object of the
association would receive the endorse
ment of the government as found in the
public resolution of the 63rd congress,
approved by the President of the United
States on May Bth, 1914, designating that
the second Sunday in May thereafter
should be known as “Mothers' Day.” and
directing that it should be the duty of
the President to request its observance
by issuing a proclamation calling upon
the government officials to display the
United States flag on all government
buildings, and the people to display the
flag at their homes or other suitable
places on this day, "as a public expres
i sion of our love and reverence for the
mothers of our country."
Governors of states and mayors of
cities also proclaimed the day. and now
it is very generally observed. This year
the day particularly appeals to us, for
thousands upon thousands of mothers
have given sons to swell the ranks of
those who are fighting in France in the
cause us civiiiation and for the honor
of home and country, therefore, those of
us whose family circles have not yet
been called upon to supply a son for
the cause, in paying homage to our living
mothers should feel that we are honor
ing motherhood—the true motherhood
that makes for pure home lives, good
citienship and good government.
One of the objects of the Mothers’ Day
International Association at the time of
its establishment was to induce every
one to wear a white carnation on Moth
ers’ Day. indeed that flower is still the
badge of the organiation. But the de
mand for white carnations on this day
soon became so enormous that growers
could not begin to meet it, with the re
sult that the public settled the matter
for themselves by wearing white flowers
in memory of the mother dead and col
ored flow«"-s in honor of the mother liv-
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The return enggement of the Orpheus
Four, who have been entertaining sol
diers throughout the entire Southeastern
Department, has been unqualifiedly suc
cessful. The khaki klad krowds at the
various entertainments proved their popu
larity. The soldiers followed the quartet
CENSUS REPORT SHOWS
CHURCH MEMBERS
Figures Compiled By Bureau of
Census Show Increase of 19.9
Per Cent in Ten Years
Washington, D. C.—During the ten
year period ended December 31, 1916,
the total church membership In the Unit
ed States increased from 35,068,058 to
42.044,874, or by 19.9 per cent.; the num
ber of churches, from 212,230 to 228,007,
or by 7.4 per cent; the number of minis
ters, from 164,830 to 191.722; or by 16.3
per cent; the number of Sunday School
scholars, from 15,337,811 to 20,569,831, ar
by 31.1 per cent; the number of Sunday
schools, from 192,722 to 207.789 or by 7.8
per cent; and the number of Sunday
School officers and teachers, from 1,746.-
074 to 2,049,293, or by 17.4 per cent.
These data, which constitute a few of the
significant facts developed by the Cen
sus Bureau’s recent inquiry relating to
religious bodies, are conatained in a
statement issued by Director Sam L.
Rogers and compiled under the supervi
sion of Mr. William C. Hunt, chief sta
tician for population. The statistics pre
sented are preliminary and subject »o
later revision, but are substantially cor
rect
The total number of denominations
covered by the statistics was 201, an in
crease of 13 over the number reported
for 1906, This increase is the net result
of the consolidation, or dropping out of
16 small denominations and the addition
of 29 small denominations, the latter com
prising some which were actually in ex
istence in 1906 but not then brought to
light and others resulting from consolida
tion of formerly independent churches,
reorganization within existing denomina
tions, etc.
Church Membership.
Os the 42.044,374 church members re
ported, 15,742.262, or 37.4 per cent., were
Roman Catholics; 250,340, or six-tenths of
1 per cent., were adherents of the East
ern Orthodox churches (mainly Greek
Church and Russian Church); 859,998, or
nine-tenths of 1 per cent., were mem
bers of Jewish congregations; and the re
mainder. 25,691,774, or 61.1 per cent.,
comprised the membership of the various
Protestant churches, together with that
of a few bodies, such as the Latter Day
Saints, the Spiritualists and others, not
unusually considered Us belonging to any
of the groups named.
In comparing the figures just given, it'
should be borne in mind that the Roman
Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox
churches include in their membership all
infants and the children who have been
baptized, whereas the Protestant
churches do not, as a rule, receive young
children as members: and that in the
case of some of the more orthodox
Jewish organizations only the male in
corporators of the institutions or those
who have bought shares or memberships
In them are treated as members. The
foregoing percentages, therefore. over
state theh relative strength us the Roman
Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
and understate that of the Jews.
The canvass showed 9 denominations
which had a total membership of more
than 1,000,000 each and an aggregate of
32.468,732, or 77.2 per cent, of the entire
membership reported for all religious
bodies. These organizations, with their
membership, were as follows: Baptist,
Northern, 1,227,448; Baptist, Southern, 2,-
Ing. The custom has broadened now to
such an extent that besides wearing
flowers emblematic of the day, floral
gifts are presented to living mothers in
keeping with the sentiment in the pre
amble to the congressional resolution,
“We honor ourselves and the mothers of
America when we do anything to give
emphasis to the home as the fountain
head of the state.”
I from one bbilding to another. The pro-
I gram which was given is popular, varied
Sid well adapted to camp conditions. There
I is premise that after a short vacation the
Orpheus Four will again be permitted to
sing at Camp Hancock, and they are in
advance assured of a hearty reception.
42,044,374
IN THE UNITED STATES
711,591; Baptist, National (colored). 3,-
018,341; Disciples of Christ, 1,231,404;
Methodist Episcopal, 3,718.396: Methodist
Episcopal, South, 2,108.061; Presbyterian
in United States America. 1,613,056;
Protestant Episcopal, 1,098,173; Roman
Catholic, 15,742,262.
The aggregate membership of the sev
eral Baptist denominations (North, South
Colored, and 14 others) was 7,236.650; of
the various Methodist denominations
(Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episco
pal South,. Methodist Protestant. African
Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist
Episcopal Zion, Colored Methodist, Epis
copal, and 11 other Methodist denomina
tions, 5 of which are white and 6 are
colored), 7,165,986; of the Presbyterian
denominations (Presbyterian in U. S. A.,
Presbyterian in U. S„ United Presbyter
ian,'and seven others), 2.257,439; and of
the 21 Lutheran denominations, 2,463.265.
A DAILY CHAPTER '
IN THE LIFE OF THE
B. P. AND THE M. S.
There are many, oh, very many pe
culiar insects upon earth. The Buck
Private is troubled by the majority of
these. Flies pester him, gnats annoy
him and cooties attack him—eventually.
But in the eyes of the lowly B. P., the
most ignoble, insocty insect of them all
is the Mess Sergeant.
The M. S., to the B. P. is a sym
bolization of Nature's mistakes. He is,
to the B. P., what a bayonet is to a
Boche, what work is to the Southern ne
gro. The M. S. is the only one who, in
the estimation of the humble B. P. ranks
lower than a dog robber.
There ar 3 times when the B. P.
thinks the M. S. almost human, or at
least as nearly so as the ape. But such
instances are rare—holidays, usually, like
Xmas and Thanskgiving, when the B P.
gets a slice of pie with his mess. When
the B. P. looks, at said slice of pie, he
thinks what a shame to spoil the looks
of a whole pie by removing so tiny a
fragment.
At other times he wonders why peo
ple swat the fly, poison the rat, kill the
rattlesnake and yet allow a M. S. to live.
The thoughts of the B. P. usually wan
der along these lines shortly after he
has been served with beans thrice in suc
cession or else after he has wallowed,
waded, dived and swam through several
courses of soup. There are occasions
when he admires the clever brain of the
M. S., too. This cocurs when said M.
S., to avoid having the same bill of
fare, i. e., rice and beans, rice and beans,
at two consecutive messes—the B. P.
never eats -a meal but a mess—served
two essentially different courses, i. ie.,
beans and beans at noon, and rice and
ri<w in the evening.
Sometimes the B. P. speaks very nice
ly of the M. S. as though he ha;; forgiven
the M. S. for living. This happens how
ever, only when the B. P. is planning
to push the M.S. in front of an on-rushing
service truck, or contemplating enticing
him in the path of a flying cement bomb.
The reason the afore-mentioned B. P.
does not deliberately throw a bomb at
the head of the M. S. is because the C.
O. would make the B. P. pay forth»
broken bomb, were it to strike the M,
S. upon the cranium. So he takes it out
in hoping for the best.
And every night, when the tents are
dark and still and gloomy-like, when the
bugle sounds its soothing refrain of taps
the B. P. says two prayers: One that the
Bodies don’t get nim, the other that
they do get the M. S. And so endeth a
daily chapter In the book of the B. P. and
the M. S. By S. SOLOMON.
