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Newspaper Page Text< J Illi f wiJ n 5 e \ ■ i IU |i ' SOLDIERS OF LIBERH WELCOMED TO Nlflffl RECREATION CENTERS Organizations Conducting Welfare and Recreation Rooms Ex tend Cordial Welcome to Camp Hancock Soldiers SOLDIERS OF LIBERTY WE SALUTE YOU. It is now the tenth month since our quiet city has been transformed oy the coming and going of soldiers, and the occupations incident thereto. We were almost dazed at the thought of their coming. We looked on "utn Dated breath as the camp grew up like Jonah’s gourd, and as by the. myriad Amer - cans in khaki poured in. But we have caught our breath. Vie' have reason ably readjusted ourselves. We have found the men from a distance of the same mold as our own boys. They, with rare except . an j intellectual proud of them. They have contributed to ‘ he rtmn HanVocVas a mother life of our city. So it has arisen that we cherish Camp Hancock as a motner prayed to w .|»r.a ». strove for peace to the very rim of ruin. AY e still . an ,i for the But this is no ordinary conflict. It is America for her > • - a reatn day sake of humanity. We crave the reign of the of Peace we dream day and night of international brotherhood. Therefore we are in this war every true Augustan—body, mind, and spirit. We are in it with all that He have for a well-defined purpose, and to a righteous finish. soldiers of Hence, soldiers of our beloved land, we welcome you lou are soldiers of humanity. You hold civilization tn tne hollow of jour hand All living for. you represent. Aye, and there are things deal . choice It was you stand! American principles are worth dying for. We had no choice it was fight or become abject slaves to the most ruthless ‘.'fq devastated ished women, mutilated men. murdered children, burned ci thes and rtevasttated countries. You. young men of America, as the incarnate Magna Charts ot human rights, are called out against the accursed Hum May the our Revolutionary Fathers keep you clean m body. 1 • ... the iovous words able in spirit. Mav you leap to your magnificent task w ith the joyous woros of Sir Gallahad thrilling your soul. “My strength is as the strength of ten Because my heart is pure." , , . „„ wp wish We greet you with all goo.l will. We shall ende ®' J. loaned them Thly are other cities to ..tat our Augusta whom we ha ve loaned them I hey are most dear to us. We wish so to act that your father and motnei, sweet T streets and our stores, our narks and our clubs, our' homes and our churches, our hearts and our hands all for your noblest living and your mpst efficient training. > Aueusta an( j Rng ln return we shall not be disappointed. You will Augusta anu img land''France'and Italy enemy and friend of all lands how the cleanest and bpavoQt Mid bpqt of all atres can overthrow the benst of Berlin, ano raise Old Glorv on high amidst the cheers and the songs and the laughter, of a gra e ful, applauding world. Augusta War Camp Community Service. JEWISH WELFARE BOARD EXTENDS WELCOME. Tho Towish Welfare Board extends a hearty invitation to be th . ewns i and soldJXs to vFsit their hall at No. 853 Broad Street, over Lipot s Caf There is'a with piano and victrola; reading P ‘« - - ( ’a»nt f in ’■’"■WlvSnX SghVTdlncl U° given? Sunday afternoons and nights can be erected and furnished. The local Jewish (ominun.t is v av v nrd terested in the Welfare Board work for the men in the Aim? and ant diem It an especial privilege to be of assistance in any manner to their co-religionists at Camp Hancock. . -a,,- Turin and Mr Cohm? 0 Srm- g” ntlenien^can^'be'foimd at Y/ M. C. A. Build- BhSj to look UP either or both of these gentlemen and get acquainted without delay, in their stay in this community may WELCOME TO ALL SOLDIERS. The attention of the new men in Camp Hancock is called to the fact that the St Matthew’s and Holy Trinity Lutheran Churches of-5 u SP:Sta w ith the as distance of the National Lutheran Commission for Soldiers and Sailors VVel- fare are maintaining for the comfort and pleasure of all Lutheran men in camp md anv other;? who desire to enjoy them a suite of three large rooms on he second floor of the Herald Building in the heart of Augusta, overlooking the Confederate Monument where the men in uniform regardless of their reltg i^u'i'faith will ahv'£?/s bewelcome to a real "home like” place when in the CitV The floors are carpeted, the windows are curtained, the walls are hung with Pictures there are comfortable.- rockers and couches, a piano and iiiusu •ind many other things that will make the men know that there has been a. woman around "fixing things up” as only a woman can to make the place 100 - *' ke There are on file the latest newspapers from every section of the country, besides magazines and books and church papers. These are later distributed in camp and in the base hospital. The rooms are in charge of a matron whoni the me.i of’the 28th Division have christened "The Soldiers’ Mother who will be glad to visit with the boys afeany time they call. The church stationery of the National Lutheran < ommissiou is provided free for the use of any who call, as are also the telephone and shoe polish, clothes brushes, etc. Any man in uniform is welcome to any and every ac commodation. Come and make yourself at home. . , . Rev Alvin E Bell, the camp pas'or for the Lutheran Church assigned to this camp indefinitely by the National Lutheran Commtssmn has h's office in these rooms and will be glad to have any of the boys of camp visit him at any time, lie is from Toledo, Ohio and has left his parish theie for at least a year to serve as camp pastor. . The rooms are open also to any of the relatives or friends fiom back home who mav be here in Augusta visiting men in camp. The Lutheran Church is proud of its service flag vvhuh hangs from the * window of its headquarters at 437 Fifth Avenue. New York City. bearing these letters and figures in stars "N. L. C. 195.000” which means that some /months ago there were 195.000 Lutheran men in the service, of the country on land and sea and in the air. For their welfare the National Lutheran Com mission for Soldiers' and Sailors’ Welfare some months ago set out to raise $750 000 and so enthusiastically was the work supported that they went over the top by' nearly doubling the quota set for the first year s work, the total re ceived to date amounting to over $1,318,000. • _ . Lutheran Soldiers Social Rooms. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HALL. M hen th" Knights ot Columbus decided to take up the w irk of placing rec reation tui.i.-.rgs at the camps and cantonments here and in France, they de cided on as their slogan "Everybody Welcome." and from all I can learn and read this has been carried out. particularly so in our city. When the Penn slvvania troops reached our city in August last, before the recreation build ings were readv for occupancy our council at once opened up our Chib Rooms for the soldier boys, where ample writing facilities, magazines. Pennsylvania papers library, piano and victrola were placed at their disposal. Our hall is open from 9 a in . to 11 p. m. every day. and some six thousand soldiers have registered Every Wednesday night an entertainment is arranged by local and carnn talent where we have vocal and instrumental music, recitations, con cluding with dancing. Members of the council and their wives act as chap erones and our admission is the "khaki uniform and a pleasant smile.” Every Sunday afternoon six of our members visit the Base Hospital where we dis tribute cigars, cigarettes and chewing gum so you see we are endeavoring to carry out the slogan of our order “Everybody Welcome." and this is done irrespective of creed or nationality, and this same broad spirit will be found wherever a K. of C. Building is located, not only here but in France. To the officers and soldier boys now at Camp Hancock we extend an invi tation to visit our hall, 942 Broad Street when in the city, where our Mr. Cos grove will give vou the glad hand and endeavor to make your visit pleasant. ’ Patk. H. Rice. Grand Knight: Patrick YY'alsh Council 677. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ROOMS. The Mother Church, the First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston. Mass., has established a Christian Science War Relief and Camp Welfare Committee, the activities of which are to relieve suffering of all kinds and to contribute to the spiritual welfare and comfort of all men in the army and navy who care to avail themselves of the privileges extended to them through this committee. All officers and enlisted men are most cordially invited to visit the reading and writing rooms which are being maintained by this committee at 317 Herald Building. ■ Christian Science services are being conducted at present at Y. M. C. A. hut 232 Sunday mornings at 10 a. m.and YVednesday evenings at 8:30. Paul Stinchfieid. C. S.. ot StocktomCalifornia has been appointed Camp Welfare Worker by the Mother Church. Free subscriptions to all Christian Science publications are given to those who desire them also a free gift ot the Christian Science text book. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, in vest pocket size is gladly given to any man in the service upon his request for it. 1 Christian Science Camp Welfare. GREETINGS FROM LOCAL “Y” The Augusta ~Y " ext-nds a cordial and hearty welcome to every soldier Page 16 TRENCH AND CAMP Lutheran Communion Service Sunday morning, June 16th, at 8:30 o'clock, there will be a Lutheran Pre paratory and Holy Communion Ser vice with brief sermon, conducted by the Camp Pastor, Rev. Alvin E. Bell, of Toledo, Ohio, at Y. M. C. A. Build ing No. 78, on Pennsylvania Avenue. A cordial welcome is extended to all officers and men to join in worship at this service. The attention of the new officers serving with the colors. Your uniform is a membership card which entitles you to all the privileges of the Association. Our rooms, writing materials, games, gymnsium. siiower baths, swimming pool, laundry accommodations, telephone, and every other facility and possession of the local “Y” are gladly placed at your disposal. You know the “Y” follows the flag, and its general aim today is to be an efficient ally of the fighting forces, of this country. Give us the opportunity and pleasure of serving you. You will find the “Y” building on tie northeast corner of Greene and Campbell, Streets. The doors will always be open to you, and inside you will find a sincere and friendly greeting. Get the "Y” habit over here, so that its welcome "over there” will include the additional charm of meeting an old friend in a far distant country. James M. Hull, Jr.. President. Young Men's Christian Association. The Catholic women of Augusta extend a welcome to every boy at Camp Hancock; we want to know them personally. YVe chapcron dances each week at the K. of C. Halls in Augusta and at the Camp. Each Thursday morning we mend all the clothes brought to the K. of C. Buildings at Camp. Our committees call on the sick regularly at the Base Hospital, and we see that you are brought-into our homes, when we meet you in the churches of our city. \ If you come to an early Mass in the city, you will find the young ladies in each parish serving a light breakfast, without charge, at the parish hall. We are here to help you in every possible way, and if you wili let us know what you need, we will serve you as gladly as we served and helped the bovs of the Twenty-eighth Division. MRS. J. P. MULHERIN, President Catholic Woman’s Club. EXAMINATION IN COMPANY ONE Private Butts Writes a Letter to His Friend Muggs on the Mental Examination By Sergeant H. Friedm-in, Ist Co. M. G. T.‘ C. Mr. Huggs, Boner Eskwire: Deer Muggsy: Weer iurnin a lot hear in this army, and we got the best kum pany and the best drillers in the armey. Y’ou see weer the furst kumpany, so they pikked everything fer the best for us. Yesturday we had a nientel egsamina shun. I thort at furst they wur gonner egsamin our heads, and sura fellers need it bekaus wen we have skwads rite they get everything balled up. But your only a siviliun. so yer don’t no what skwads rite is. Well, they marched us about tree miles and maid us set on the floor and gaiv us pensils ( I kopped mine) and books, and we had too rite like the eg saniinashuner sed. First, we had two marke sirkles and 3 korner things they kail triungels sum thing like this. The egsaminashuner wud say: "Put a kross in the sirkle in the skware in the triungel nekst two the sirkle in the skware outside the line or sumthing like it. and we dun so. They they asked us fool kweschuns like, "Wuz Chrlstofer Columbus the furst President” and everyone nose that Abraham Lin coln wuz the furst President, and all old Didn’t Get a Letter— Now He’s Feeling Better—Gets Them By the Score; Claims He W ants' No More. (By Hendrix.) A man does not have to be lonely or ever feel the sting of neglect while in the army. Take the case of W. M. Colby of Third Provisional Company as an example. Colby hails from Detroit. He had been in Camp Hancock fo’r several weeks and was beginning to feel deserted. It seems that he has traveled a great portion of his life, consequently has not lived in any one place long enough to establish firm and lasting friendships. In a letter tn a friend in Detroit seve ral days ago. Colby incidentally referred to his loneliness here. The friend to whom the letter was directed passed it to the Detroit News, which paper publish ed the'letter in full and with It an edi torial calling attention to the fact that NOTED MACHINE GUN FIGHTER OF BRITAIN SPEAKS AT HANCOCK Colonel R. . Appl.n, famous machine gun officer of Gr> at Britain, spoke to several thousand machine gunner: at Camp Hancock Friday morning. The The men w£re as edbled in the dry reservoir to hear the address. Colonel Applin is not only a famous fighter, but is an irator of ability. He was in command of British ma chine gun forces when Messines Ridge was captured, directing the fire of 265 machine guns. The colonel spoke to the officers at 7:30 Friday night at one of the Y.M.C. A. buildings and again addressed them at 9 o’clock yesterday morning. and men in Camp Hacock is called to the “homelike” Soldiers’ Social Rooms, maintained for them by the National Lutheran Commission for soldiers’ and sailors’ welfare and the local Lutheran Churches in Rooms 214, 215 and 216 in The Herald Bull ing, Augusta, where all soldiers, re gardless of religious faith, will find a most cordial welcome in the use of all of the accommodations provided. Kris did wuz diskover the Indians and by New York for twenty-four dollars wurth of beeds and got Barnum and Bailey to fix up Conej' Island fer us. But they don’t ask the kweschuns that way. If he wants- two say: It's a niso day if it don't rane tomorroe, he’d say nice rane if it its a day to don’t morroe. And I guess the egsaminashuner who maid up thees hear books must be in tho insain asiluni by this time. I dun prittv good, Muggs, and they gaiv me z anuther egsaminashun. Sum fellers only got but wun, but I gess they saw it wuz no use giving them another, so they marched them back. I' mfeeling pritty good. .Muggs, and the meets is beter than we had in Chong Lees plais, and I wuz in Auguster Saturday and we had anise time, and they have Moving Pitcher men watching us there. ..I no they're moving pitcher men becaus they got M. P. marked on the sleeves. It’s two bad yer got a bum hart, Muggs, or maybe yer mud be drafted and get in a kumpany, but it kan’t be as good like the furst kum pany. So long, Muggs. Yer frend, JOE BETTS. here was a Detroit man in the service suffering from inattention. Things began to happen. Papers, books, magazines, letters and postcards began pouring in to Colby. The city authori ties of Detroit took time off from their stern duties to write the Detroit Soldier The Red Cross sent him dainty things. The girls’ clubs sent cnocoiate. The young men sent cigarettes in limitless quantity. The unending stream still con tinues, much to the discomfiture of the local camp postal workers and to Colby himself—who, by the way. is no longer lonesome, because he hasn't time to be He is considering installing a mimeograph machine to answer his mail. All of which goes to prove that things aren't always as bad as they seem, and if a fellow will do a little kicking it will help a wonderful lot sometimes. DR. C. N.TYNDELLIN SERIES OF LECTURES Declaring that real, honest “American brand” religion must be used by soldiers planning to defeat the Hun, Dr. Charles Noyes Tyndell, noted religious worker and patriotic propagandist of Williamsport, Pa., delivered a series of lestcures at the Y huts last week. On Wednesday night be especially captivated a crowd of ord nance men who filled to its capacity Y. M. C. A. No. 79. His topic: “The Sign of the Cross,” gave but a faint hint of the powerful, sledge hammer address which followed. A com bination of Champ Clark, Billy Sunday and Bob Taylor could hardly be expect ed to combine religion, pep and eloquence in more palatable shape than did this apostle of the Keystone state. “I want you fellows to have the kind of religion that will make every American parent willing to leave his wife and daughter in your care,” he declared. ‘‘l offer no apology for talking religion to you, either,” he said, "and if you haven’t got the right feeling inside, no physical training will ever make you a man such as America must send out to face the kaiser.” Dr. Tyndell was given a warm recep tion after each meeting by audiences which found much to praise in his de l lightful direct evangelism. JUNE 12.