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SEND THIS PAPER HOME w :? A' o - -' MA j] b r ]|vV.ini > 1/s XV M- a' agg 101 VOL. 1. MEMORIAL DAY WILL BE OBSERVED IN CAMP WITH CEREMONY Fitting Program Has Been Ar ranged. Col. Oliver Edwards Will Have Personal Charge. President’s Proclamation to be Read by Major Brandtt In compliance witji the request of the President of the United States acting at the special suggestion of Congress, tnat the people of the nation join in a day of prayer on Thursday May 30th, Memorial Day, Colonel Oliver Edwards, Com mander at Camp Hancock has arranged a fitting program for proper celebration of the occasion Beginning promptly at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning the soldi ers in camp will be assembled at the reservoir known as the Bowl, and Major Alfred Brandt, General Staff Corps will read to the assembld troops the procla mation of President Wilson. Following is the program as outlined today at headquarters: 1. Song, “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” led by Robert El Clark, Y. M. C. A, Camp Musical Director. Onward. Christian soldiers! Marching as to war, - With the cross of Jesus, Going on before, Christ the Royal Master, Ecads against the foe; Forward into battle, See His banners go. Chorus. Onward, Christian soldiers! Marching’as to war, With the cross of Jesus, Going on before. Onward then, ye faithful, - Join our happy throng. Blend with ours your voices In the triumph-song: Glory, praise, and honor, Unto Christ the King: This, thro' countless ages, Men and angels sing. 2. Reading of the President’s Procla mation by Major Alfred Brandt, General Staff Corps. A Proclamation IVhereas, The Congress of the United States, on the second day of April last, passed the following resolution: “Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That it be ing a duty peculiarly incumbent in a time of war humbly and devoutly to acknowl edge our dependence on Almighty God and to implore His aid and protection, the President, of the United States be, and is hereby, respectfully requested to recom mend a day of public humiliation, prayer and fasting, to be observed by the people of the United States with religious so lemnity and the offering of fervent sup plications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause, His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restoration of an honorable and lasting peace to the na tions of the earth;” And Whereas, It has always been the reverent habit of the people of the United States to turn in humble appeal to Al mighty God for His guidance in the af fairs of their common life; Now, therefore. I Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of Amer ica, do hereby proclaim Thursday, the thirtieth of May, a day already freighted with sacred and stimulating memories, a day of public humiliati<vi, prayer, and fasting, and do exhort my fellow-citizens of all faiths and creeds to assemble on that day in their several places of wor ship and there, as well as in their homes, to pray Almighty God that He may for give our sins and shortcomings as a people and purify our hearts to see and love the truth, to accept and defend all things that are just and right, and to purpose only those righteous acts and judgments which are in conformity with Tils will; beseeching Him that He will give victory to our armies as they fight for freedom, wisdom to those who take counsel on our behalf in these days of dark struggle and perplexity, and stead fastness to our people to make sacrifice to the utmost in support of what is just and true, bringing us at last the peace in wthich men’s hearts can be at rest because it is founded upon mercy, justice and good-will. In Witness Whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed, Done in the Dstrict of Columbia tris •leventh day of May. in the year of our Continued cn pages S and 9 Memorial Day Number TRENCH<CAMP fl. ARMY 5 WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE THE AUGUSTA HERALD NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL AUGUSTA, GA. qt OF THE Y. M. C. A. OF THE U. S. r*. *- ■ ■ - ' ll ■ ■ ■■■■ - r i -- - n -r 1 I --1 THE FLAG GOES BY HATS off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky; Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines. Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by, Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great, Fought to make and to save the State; Weary marches and sinking ships; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty and years of :ace; March of a strong land’s swift increase; Equal justice, right and law. Stately honor and reverened awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong Towards her people from foreign wrong; Pride and glory and honor —all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blabe of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off! The flag is passing by! —Henry Halcomb Bennett. CAMP HANCOCK MARCHING TO VICTORY FL * ’ • , ' v • ■ , , . .....: A. ■ >. , . <' ■ . . T / » i > . > i ■ Sr JwSiL 4,1*; Wi® ! .MV- ~'v (,< < I?.id 1 # IKr H’. A A ■ &_sHL MAY 29, I 918«. HEROES DEM IN FRANCE TO BI HONORED ON MMMI Oil French Soldiers Will Partici pate in Decorating Graves of All Americans Fallen in the Great Struggle The American dead sleeping in the soil of Fra. ce will receive the homage of the American army on Memorial Day, accord ing to the Associated Press. Many of those who have given their lives for their country are buried in graves over which shells and bullets are flying, close to the spots where they fell, but, whereever they are resting, their comrades will bear them in mind and pay tribute to their mgm ory. To many Americans now® fighting in France Memorial Day has heretofore, when they were at home, meant only a holiday tn a vague may they appre ciated the meaning of the decoration of on£ cent postage graves by the survivors of the Civil War iayg, but now they regard Memorial Da.' in a different light, for it means honoring t'ne memory of men they have known, bunked with and fought with. French to Participate. Throughout all the zones in which there are American soldiers preparations have been made for ceremonies in which the French will participate in nearly all cases. At one place is a row of mounds under which lie sons of New York. Men of the same regiment will gather there to re place the faded American flags with new ones and deposit wreaths of fresh flowers and other decorations which will with stand time and weather. Similar ceremonies will take place at the graves of men from lowa, Illinois, Michigan. Maryland and other states who have been killed in action or have died from wounds. In the same localities road side graves of French soldiers, buried where ’hey fell in the earlier days of thg war, will be decorated by Americans. Continutd on pages S and 9 I 1 nd 8 J i|y | i i| w M. IB i felsl I f J It Tm Sil KSBjSg. ■ sRMW® ilLw 10 1 ,M<S i > TeQgwY II I i I w MA 4 i wd Wil |lgi ti ! m No. 34 I