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IbW” /J I IrLfl I aO&fc 'V zrlllr BATHING BEACH SOON TO OPEN FOR SOLDIERS Lake mond Bathing Beach Operated by War Camp Com munity Service to be Ready July 13th—Free to Men In Uniforms Bath House to Accommodate ,‘s Five Hundred Men The soldiers’ bathing beach at Lake Aumond will be completed and ready for use by the men from Camp Hancock Sat urday, July 13th. The beach is operated by the War Camp Community Service and is free to all men in uniform. During the past month a large amount of work has been done so as to make this the largest and best bathing place in and around Augusta. A thousand foot ditch has been dbg so as to bring clear, fresh water from the stream directly into the Jake, and an i>oo ft underground dtv.inage system has been installed to drain the low land above the lake so as to eliminate the swamp and breeding place for mos quitoes. A bath house accommodating 500 men at a time has been erected. The lake is located directly north of the lower end of Pennsylvania avenue, i A number of paths run through the woods to the lake, al! of which are marked with posters showing the direction to the lake. I It may be easily reached by taking the I road going north directly back of the postoffice, near Division Headquarters, which is followed to the first turn to the left, leading directly to the lake. It may also be reached by proceeding directly out Walton Way out Augusta. There will be no charges for the privi leges at the lake. The War Camp Com munity Service desires to provide the fa cilities for the men in uniform. A can teen will be operated where soft drinks, tobacco, etc., may be bought at the usual prices. Towels and bathing suits may be secured from the canteen, and valu ables will be checked free of charge. A charge of 5c will b- made for the use of the towels and bathing suits will be. sold for 50c, which is actual cost All men having bathing suits are urged to bring them and also to bring their own towels. Ts the supply of suds and towels will be limited at. the beach. No suits will b p rented as It has been found that the cost of bringing them to town for sterilization will make it necessary to charge 15 nr 20c bought for 40c, to have their own suits. Men using the lake will be required to wear trunks only, no shirts being re quired. There is no doubt but that thousands of men from Camp Hancock will take ad vantage of ihe opport • to ? that the efforts of the war <’amp Cbah munity Service in providing this feature for their recreation and entertainment will be greatly appreciated by the men from the camp. ___ Before “Army Fights on Its Stomach,” Teeth Must Be Good “A Clean Tooth Will Not De cay” Can be Proved by the “Three Times a Day Habit.” Average Man Spends Less Than Thirty Seconds at a Time on His Teeth. The object of this little article is to make our patients, "the men in uniform.” realize that what we do for them is for the efficiency of 'he army that will bring the enemies of humanity to their knees. One of the generals of history has said that "An army fights on its stomach” and truer words were never spoken. W<* of the dental and medical professions will know that no man can be at his best if his teeth are bad so I fee! sure that. I do not put it too strongly when I say that the Dental Corps < f the army holds a very important position in the training and developing of the.individual man who goes to make up our army. Many of our patients on their first visit to the dental infirmaries have the inher ited dread of the dental chair that has been handed down through generations and in the army dental chair the fear is greater as the new soldier seems to feel that the dental officer is here to make his hardships only harder. Those who have been and are being treated every day, I know I'm safe in say ing. are learning that the army dentist is doing his work in the true spirit of service to both humanity and country. Now I want to tell the soldier how he can help himself and the dental surgeon as well. In the past few years I have made it a point to observe men while they are cleaning their teeth and I have gone so far as to use a stop-watch for three years finding by that method to Bleeping car wash rooms and other public places of that kind that the average man spends ress — 3" earP'g fnr nia teeth. Think of it. only a half a minute on the tools that handle all the nourishment that enters our bodies. If you and I spent only as much time in the care of our hands and faces as we do on our teeth we would not be fit to appear' in the com pany formations or in public in any way. We. of the dental corps know this only too well for all of our working hours are spent looking "Down in the mouth" and at times it takes a lot of nerve to keep at our work. I want to cake this opportunity to ask the man who is to be our patient to do his part in our work by taking REAL care of his teeth after each meal. The fol lowing illustration wifi clearly, I think, show why it is necessary. Our food would not be very tasty eaten from "mess equip ment" that had not been washed since last used. We wash that equipment af ter each meal as a matter of course, yet the vast majority of us will use "nature's mess equipment" over and over again with little or no cleaning. Stop and think men of what the condition of such mouths and teeth must be with so little care. Another thing that the "Three times a day habit" will do is to remove the necessity of visiting the dentist for “* clean tooth will not decay." The dentist does not take keen delight th "pulling” teeth, he does it only be cause of necessity due • to years of neg lect co the part of the patient. Let me ’ •■'<£,that all who read these words starj| AT \ONCE to take te BEST of th4»ir teeth and if you do they will serve » you faithfully and long. It X s far more pleasant for the dental surgeon to work for and help the soldier w'do shows that he has his own health and comfort at heart enough to do his part? Sp'en. the Dental Corps is a part of the /military organization for your interest so ? K’s up to you to show your appreciation j by doing your level best to help us by I helj?;ng yourselves. 1 we hope we will have opportunity in a j (Continued on page seven.) SEND THIS PAPER HOME. = CAMP HANCOCK ==--== CENT POSTAGE | TRENCH AND CAMP WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF PUBLISHED BY THE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE THE AUGUSTA HERALD | 90 I ARMY YM C A ’ NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL I AUGUSTA, GA. [ '/TKTw' ______OF THE Y. CA * Op THE U. S. VOL. 1. GEORGIA BARBECUE ENJOYED BY SMI Down Along the Old Savannah Road Soldiers of Sigma Nu Hold Miniature National Con vention. Exercise the Fish Before the Dinner. Augusta Alumni the Hosts On two trucks, nicely bedded with straw, crawled 30 boys from camp and city and started for Carmichael’s Fishing Club for one of those famous Georgia bar becues. The ride out the famous Old Savannah Road with a stiff breeze a blow ing. at once relieved our minds from the intense heal of the afternoon, and when v. e arrived at Carmichael’s the coolness of that delightful spot charmed us at once. First crack out of the box. some one wanted to exercise the fish/ in the pond and so the necessary fishing tackle was unearthed and out on the pond in the old flat boat went the ambitious Izak Wal ton’s. However, the fishing as far as catching anything went .was not a suc cess, but Brother Bales attempted some I aquatic stunts that was voted highly successful. Sitting on a cracker box he leaned too far to one side ami backed off | into the water, getting slightly moist for the rest of the afternoon. He hung him self up to dry and appeared O, K. for • dinner. j But it was the dinner that got the boys. A genuine barbecue. We had heard of those famous dinners before landing in this state but an opport unity to enjoy one never had presented itself. But through the generosity and hospitality of the Augusta Alumni of Sigma Nu. the boys at camp were given the chance "f their lifetime. I cannot describe that meal, but oh, boy, she was a jim dandy. Fat—say, we cast reflections on the mess sergeant of every company represented. Everything was good, new to our palates, and abundant. Hon Samuel F. Darlington acted as the official toastmaster. Speeches were not indulged as the diners were too full for utterance, but several stunts were pulled off that got the boys. In the first place there was a nice, ice cold keg of•• Queen" on tap —the Augusta Beverage Co.’s fam ous drink Around that keg many of the I bar-flies hung. The novelty of the flow ing bo—l~ the drink that exhllirates but does not intoxicate—attracted everyone. Then the waiters continually replenished the mugs with the “liquid food’ so that no one suffered from a parching thirst. A census was taken of tfte men present and from the thirty men who were at the dinner. 23 different chapters were repre sented, the mon hailing from 19 different states. It looked like a national conven tion. Top soon w* had to >ave for >■ ntp. We c.oula have stayed then* forever, it seemed But ba<?-. to camp we had to go. S-- with long ‘HI Rickety" for the Au gusta Sigs, we boarded the trucks and (Continued on Page Seven.) Gen. Pershing Cables Appreciation of the War Insurance Bureau More Than Two Million Men Insured. Many Applications Received Daily. Indicates ; High Level of Morale Washington. The following cablegram from General Pershing to Secretary Mc- Adoo was made public by the Secretary today: “All ranks of the American Expedition ary Forces appreciate deeply the gener ous measure the Government has taken to provide Insurance for their families, in proof of which more than 90 per cent of men have taken out insurance. To wisely provision for their loved ones heartens our men anti strengthens the bonds that unite the Army and people in our strong determination to triumph in our most righteous cause." "PERSHING." A record-breaking rush of applications in the last seven days, which brought in more than one billion dollars of in surant will probably increase the per centage of American soldiers insured to 95. The total amount of insurance on the books of the Bureau of War-Risk In surance up to the close of business June 28th was $21,565,699,000. This represents 2,570,455 applications. The average amount applied for, which is steadily increasing is now $8,387. Many American battalions and regi ments botih oversea? and m —tire —rhritrd-- States have "one hundred per cent in surance records." In some units every officer and man is insured for the full SIO,OOO. Commanding Officers are particularly proud of these records for they feel that the morals of their men is thus raised to the highest possible level. "Government Insurance is an element of victory"—said one Majdr-General as. his Division started overseas. "The Army and Navy have rolled up the’r sleeves", writes a Captain in the American Army, who has just arrived in France, “insured their lives and said, ‘now we’re ready’. This seems to mean that these men are grimly determined to fight to the finish - and no one has a doubt as to whose finish. If this is the feeling among the rank and file of the Army and Navy, the sneer of the Im perial German Empire when the Amer ican forces are mentioned will disappear as quickly as it did a few years ago in connection with the British Army. "More than two million men insured, their families provided for in all even tualities, —thi sis a line that the Ber lin papers will not cony smilingly; partic ularly when it is added that many mil lions of new insurance are being applied for daily by the men in our Army and Navy." First Casual Gives A Dinner Dance On the eve of the 2nd of July the ser geants of the First Casual Co. gave a dance for the prettiest girls of Augusta. ' of which Corporal Thomas McNamara was the Hon cf the evening. They gave a wonderful pork supper which the fair maidens of Augusta enjoyed very much. The famous K K. chaser, better known as Sergt. Condit, s the head waiter of the affair, so evervthing was in fine shape. On next Tuesday evening the boys have decided to run a smoker. AMERICA’S THREE GENERALS —— _ S’ i MWife I W’WMfwSir TuZ r . \ «“ —.. Notice the four stars on the shou Ider of each of these mon r> They are the only men in the American army since the Civil War who'hiv/V Blisa and Pershing, represent the rank of full general, and the men are throe of th.entlfo.l to wear these -Mrs. They «ther four being Washington. Grant. Sherman and Sheridau This Is nAt i’i'nm In a h ° ■ 7° n ,l,le - ,h ’ Uon has had three full generals at oil e time. ui, is the first limo in America’s history that the na- Smartness and Precision Founded Upon Simple Efficiency Make “Pep” In First Company Machine Gun Officers’ Training School Centralized School In C ompliance With War Department Orders —Eight Hundred Men In Training First Company the Initial Or ganization of the Hancock Training School ROSTER OF THE COMPANY That inalterable determination that has so splendidly characterized the in tensive training of American soldiers in the present emergency is perhaps no where more beautifully exemplified than in the ranks of the First Company at the Machine Gun Officers’ Training School at Camp Hancock, where more than a hundred and twenty-five embryo officers are being subjected to the tests that may determine their fitness for en trance into the commissioned ranks of the army. Representing as they do the finished product from the non-commis sioned personnel of crack National Guard units, these men are making a name for themselves. "Pep" has been and will continue to be their accepted keynote. Smartness and precision, founded upon simple efficiency, are the dominating fac* tors through which these men hope to make their organization .0 well regu lated and thoroughly disciplined as to set , an example for the entire school. The organization of a centralized of ficers’ training school for the machine gun branch of th'- service is in compli ance with War Department orders and is done in order that the greatest stress may be laid in this vastly important, field. Upwards of eight hundred men are In training under command of TA. Col. Wade H. Westmoreland. It is the sup position that the initial course of in struction will not extend over a period of two months as the candidates, the name that applies to the students .al ready had had a month’s training in in fantry before being transferred to this school. As one class graduates, others will be brought here to undertake the work. True to its designation, the First Com pany was the first organization effected and set into operation at Augusta’s new training school. First NLieutent I>. V. McGinnis has been placed In command and his experience as an officer in the regular army admirably adapts him for this work Prior to being transferred to Camp Hancock. Lieutenant McGinnis served in the 10th U. S. Infantry and was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harri son Indiana. Other officers assigned to the’ First Company as instructors are First Lieutenant M. D. Roller and Sec ond Lieutenants Ralph Colvin, H. H. Crum, John A. <’arr, James J. Callahan, Benjamin P. Collins, Henry S. Campbell, Albert W. Walker, Raymond E. Orth and John A. Wagner, most, of whom are graduates from the Third Officers’ Training School. Tn the f?rst two weeks, the men have covered the School of the Soldier, Squad and Company, elementary work in Guard -4 pbyo' .T It r;i: ci ng, military court• esy anil the rudiments of rife T oilri s- - Martial Manual. This week advanced Instruction is being ttken un in the above subjects and in addition some preliminary tactical field work. Actual work with machine guns .includfrig the new Browning model, will begin, it is thought, in the course of another week, when the instruction will grow less mo notonous and more interesting. The personnel of the First Company consists of the contingents from three camps. Bowie, Sheridan and McClellan. The Bowie candidates came from Fort Forth. Texas; Sheridan from Montgom ery*. Alabama, and McClellan from An niston. Ala. In short order, however, the men blended themselves Into a single working machine and their previous des ignations havr become a thing of the past. They are altogether now for the F rst Company and thev boast of this with that old English click. Virtually all of the candidates will be given actual experience as instructors before the present school terminates. Placing confidence in the ability of many of the men who originally came from machine gun units, the commanding offi cer has designated several candidates who have received special instruction during the past two weeks under super vision of members of the British Military Mission .to instruct both men and offi cers at Camp Hancock in the mechanism an doperation of the new Browning ma chine gun, which in time will be used exclusively by the American Expedition ary Force in France. Those from the First Company detailed for this work are Candidates W. C. Blemle. W. O. Tlgin fritz. J. O. Bell. H. G. Hoyt. C. Meng, C. W. Nunn, C. Connor, G. D. Worley. •W. E. Kennemur, W. J. Hart. J. F. Fit terer. F. A. Raymer and F. J. Schiick. Men from the various companies quali fied in other subjects also will be detailed as instructors. Among those selected from this organization in the different schools are as follows: (Continued on Page Two) JULY 10, 1918. Development Battalion Near Base Hospital A battalion of men who arc being fitted for some form of military service is being develojpod between "Y" build ing No. 231 avid the Base Hospital. - is ma.de up of some very interesting soldiers. In ndjatent tents are found Turks from Constantinople and Greeks from Athens (Georgia not Greece). At mess may be found, reveling in the delights of the ever-recurring anny and navy bean, the sons of sunny Italy and the brawny types of Sweden while the presence of two Arabs, lends spice to the situation and an oriental flavor to the spaghetti. Many talented men are also to be found in this battalion and the men have been charmed with the singing of Private Inman, formerly with a New York concert company. RULES EXTENDED PROHIBITING SALE OR THE Glfi OF LIQUOR TO SOLDIERS AT CAMPS OR ELSEWHERE IN THE U.S. BAN IN PRIVATE HOMES May Not Be Served to Mem bers of Families or Bona Fide Guests in Uniform, As Hereto fore. Dry Zones Wherever 250 or More Men Are Station ed for More Than Thirty Days The commission on training camp ac tivities issues the following: Upon recommendation by representa tives of the. Attorm.. General, the Judge Advocate General of the Army, and fie- War Department commission on training ramp activities, President Wilson ami , Secretary Baker have made new regula tions, which prohibit, the furnishing of liquor to officers and im n of the army anywhere in the United State:', even with in private homes, it. was announced of ficially by the war department commis sion on training camp activities. Serving of liquor to soldiers who are members of the family or bona-fide guests in private homes outside the extra-cantonment zones has heretofore b< en permitted. New "ory—Regulations. The revised regulations also establish dry zones around every camp where as many as 250 men htfve been or shall be > tationed for more than 30 days. The old regulations provided such zones only around divisional camps, embarkation camps, officers’ training camps, ami a number of specified training camps for various staff corps. The new regulations, which supersede all former regulations except the regula tion of March 2. 1918, relating to the Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, are as follows: Text of Regulations. I—Around every military camp at. vMflftoh officers and enlisted men. not less than 250 in number, have been or shall be sta tioned for more than 30 consecutive days, there shall be for the purpose set forth in this regulation a zone 5 miles wide, ex cept that within the existing limits of an incorporated city or town within which the sale of alcoholic liquor shall not be prohibited by the state or local law, the zone shall not include any territory more than one-half mile from the nearest boundary of such camp Alcoholic liquor, including beer, ale, ami wine, either alone or with any other article, shall not, di rectly or Indirectly, be sold, bartered, given, served, or knowingly delivered by one person to . nother within any such zone, or sent, shlpoed, transmitted, car ried, or transported to any place within any such zone: Provided. That this regu lation shall not apply to the giving or serving of such liquor in a private home to members of the family or bona-fide guests, other than members of the mili tary forces, or to the sending, shipping, transmitting, carrying, or transporting of such liquor to a private home for use as aforesaid: Provided also. That this regu lation shall not apply to the sale or gift of such liquor by registered pharmacists to licensed physicians or medical offi- 1 (Continued on Pago Seven.) Orchestra Organized By Soldiers What promises to be a large and re markable fine orchestra has recently been organized by a group of enlisted men ■ who wanted some means nf keeping up the professional or amateur orchestral 1 work th§y used to do in civil life. Under the leadership of Private .Schwarz of the r Sixth Casual Company, Ordnance Train ing Camp, these men are meeting for rehearsal every Friday evening at Y. M. C. A. No. 77, ahd have made a big hit with the men who drop in to heap them. Any man In camp who has had experi ence jn reading and plav’ng orchestral music for any mstruA >’ ' J has bp 'a> I- rL aiiic.it with him. wdl ue a v.'elcome an dition :o the outfit and is invited to come around (o the next rehearsal. As soon as possible the manager will arrange to have tin* men furnish music, for some of the dances and social affairs In Augusta. University of Michigan Men, Fall In University of , Michigan men, why not have a I of M. dinner at one of the hotels? if interested, see B. Hoorkheimer, ’l7, at 3rd Co., sth P. O. I>. Bn. Ist Peg., mm no in *lO COMING FIST French Aviator, Just Back from United States, Tells of Pilots and Machines. “Day of Errors Over, Hopes About to be Realized.” , Paris, —Hopes founded on American aerial aid to the allies soon will ba re alized, jay. Captain Horteaux, the fam ous French aviator, who has just re r.urned from a visit to the United States, in a statement to the Associated Press. Both American pilots and American ma chines are coming over seas in large nubers. The captain’s statement follows: “We now have several thousand Amer ican pilots in France. They have arrived -rr<tfi ar ‘ they have only to put the finishing touches to the already sound Instruction. ",We have not sufficient chaser planes to mount all these pilots, but the machines are being manufactured more quickly than the pilots can complete their train ing. It. is certain that America alone, within a few months, will be able, to more than supply all its aviators with machines. "America still has something to learn in the construction of chaser planes, but progress Is being shown every day. The Liberty motor now is ready and machines fitted with it are being turned out rapidly. The American bombardment airplanes are of the finest quality and they are reach ing the front regularly. The day of errors in which we had our share is now over. The hopes which public opinion founded on American avia tors will be re.alized." BERLIN ON THE ASSASSINATION Amsterdam.—Official inquiry by the German government so far permits the assumption that the entente agents were implicated in the assassination of Ambassador Mirbach, according to a Berlin dispatch today. NO DANGER OF SUGAR FAMINE Washington.—Definite assurances that there is no danger of a sugar famine were given by the Food Administration to day and the food situation generally was declared to be better than at any time since America undertook the feeding of the allied world. THIRD HEAVY FIGURES IN FESTAL FETE Gallant Third Sustains Reputa tion for Encompassing a Full- Grown Meal and Appreciating Entertainment de Luxe—-Din ner Scores Winning Hit With Guests Old Dramatis Personae got an awful jolt the other day, when the old Home Guard trotted carckss of aforementioned Dramatis Personae out of its stable and showed its paces before the assembled members of aforementioned Home Guard. It might be well to here state for the benefit and information of the kind read er that the Home Guard is the gallant three Heavy Mobile Ordnance repair shop. Having explained the term Home Guard, 1 will, with your kind indulgence, pro ceed ot enlighten, inform and make known the mystery of ’this air Dramatis Person.’ The stage is now clear for me to tell my little tale of woe. You see time haging heavy on the hands of the Third Heavy, they decided that on the glorious Fourth they v. ii.i astonish the natives of the Home Guard and once more add luster to the fair riame of the organiaztlon. Therefore informing the cooks that a swell feed would help considerably in making the Dramatis Personae perform, a large sized menu was prepared con sisting of the usual delicacies so dear to the hearts of the khaki clad. Reader, to recite the menu we dare not, for w. fear friend Hoover might pay us a visit but we can assure you that even Mount Olympus would have groaned under th> burden of that dinher. Now Eddie and "Sergeant’’ Doc Red hustled around and did almost as much work that day as the K. P.’s. The result being that the meal was of unusual excellence. Nothing had been overlooked to make the mess a l;um dinger, even the bread was cut with mathematical precision. Thawl presided at the ice cream and in his accustomed charming manner served the boys boun tifully. He had all the grace of a so ciety matron at an afternoon tea pouring for her guests. us, TJhawl is some ice cream dispvC icr. I suppose, gentle reader, you arc won dering what this Dramatis Personae i might be. Just have a little, patience and we will get to it directly. The boys being served, the welbknown Neopolitan Chef, late follower «->f Gari baldi and other ' flradi by name, distribute Y K cigars. Think of it—-ten OB . D K 37 of ’he hoys saved the « * t*'« a *'!ptu>\isly sllj) onto the popular Clnco. Ono can never. tell . bout those third heavy lads. Girardi hod little difficulty in distributing cigars until he came to the sergeapt*B table and then, of course, the eagle eytt had to be summoned. Isn’t it funny how these ser geants can always smoke two cigars to the private’s one cigar. The tobacco habit must be fierce among sergeants. (W. C. T. U., please notice.) As the boys were lighting up, the screen doors slammed and in walked three peo ple, two ladies and a gentleman, closely followed by Lieutenant Sprackman and Captain Wooden. Folks, the. mystery is disclosed. The Dramatis Personae were two acts from the Modjeska, Lorinne and Kingdon Rose. Lofhine sang and so did Kingdon Rose. Lorinne made a big hit and Rose followed with a scream ing two-bagger. The songs were new and full of the snap that, makes you whistle when' it is all over. Rose told some funny stroles. Everybody laughed right at the crack of the bat but one or two of the men failed to catch the point at once. We fear for these men and trust that in the future they will not jeopardize the honor of the gallant, third for humor ous appreciation. Throughout the per formance Lieutenant Sprackman watched Captain Wooden lest the captain would pull off the coup d'etat of last week. The dinner made a hit with the guests. They punished the ice cream until the boys that were seated near the guests wondered where thy could put all of it away. Unquestionably the dinner helped the performers in making such an ap peal to tlie boys. After the dinner was properly digested the company gathered themselves to gether fnr the pilgrimage to Augusta and the big parade. Next Fourth of July we hope to have another big meal at Hancock. FIRST DETAILED ACCOUnFoFVOYAGE OF ■ THE VANGUARD OF THE A. E. F. TO FRANCE “Stars and Stripes” Tells First Complete Story of Voyage of Pershing and His Men. Wore Civilian Garb. Thrilling Secrecy In celebration the-anniversary of p the arrival of the vanguard of the < American Expeditionary Force in Liv- ( erpool the Stars and Stripes, official ■ newspaper of the A. E. F., printed in its issue of June 7th, the first detailed account of the staff s departure. "The voyage of the vanguard," says , the article, “was hedged with secrecy, and many of the facts and figures from the log of that voyhge are given here for the first time to mark the anni versary. The time has come when we may turn back and read the first chap ter in a history of the A. E. F." The article, which gives a picture of General Pershing’s staff departing in civilian clothes, some of the officers having borrowed war correspondents’ clothes in the emergency, reads in part as follows: “It was on May 28, 1917, that the general and his staff, with as little fuss and feathers ami as much secrecy as an excited and immensely curious country would permit, set sail from the harbor of New York. They were cross ing the sea to prepare the way, the ports, the camps, the bases, the system for the hundreds of thousands of troops that were to follow them within a year. The anniversary of that sailing was celebrated by the battle of Cantigny, for it was just a year to the day later than the A. E. F. made its first at tack in force. “For several days the lucky officers and men, picked for the party that was to accompany General Pershing, con verged on New York, so that the morn ing of May 28 saw them all assembled [on Governors Island. The orders for I secrecy had been strict. The general No. 40. PHI m PSI til GATHER AROUND ' BANQUET BOARD Major Egbert Delivers Eloquent' Reminiscences 1- Good Dinner Thoroughly En joyed. Sister-In-Laws Also Present. Secretary Frazer Toastmaster. Kelly Back from I France Tells Experiences. . < President Woodrow Wilson in addl-j tion to being president of the Unitqji States, commander in chief of the ar-J my and navy, is a member of the Phi- i Kappa Psi fraternity, which in the ‘ minds of a hundred of the officers and j soldiers of Camp Hancock is not the I least of his distinctions. This said > one hundred are also members of that ' same fraternity. While the Phi Kap pa Psi fraternity is one of the great fraternities of American colleges and universities, and there have been scores of its membership among the men stationed from time to time at. Camp Hancock;-yet, in the hurly -burly and stress of camp life, they had not discovered each other until within ths past few weeks. Secretary Frazer of “Y" hut No. 77. i knowing there were quite a few col- 1 h ge men among the ordnance and oth- 1 er units served by his building, pre- I pared a register providing for sixty i signatures, which he placed on the f public counter for college men to sign : giving space for the name of their j alma mater and also their several fra ternities. His own name appearing among the ’ I’iii Psi’s,” it was not Jong until some i. <>f ills brethren found him out and a I “get-together meeting” planned. A few nights later some sixteen of "the fellows” were entertained at his | home on the Wrightsboro Road and ' that taste of fellowship gave them an i appetite for more of the same sort and a regular feed was suggested for the | I next gathering, which was held last ! > Wednesday evening. The Misses Parker, who have a spa -1 cious home at 2229 Walton Way, and j , who have for several seasons, enter tained many of the tourists that win i ter in Augusta, prepared ’ The ffpecfi ■ "''Y 11 ’ r . ,,e °‘.il • hou WSSlH®i l Z. j Woods. These 1 toasts of the evening and a mail'* very entertaining added much to the pleasure ga t hei i ng. Several songs written for r. the I ’bj Psi’s were sung— ing at the piano; and, T’hi Psi cheers and other college day featl made time pass swiftly by. Ind some of the fellows had to slip out . order not to be “A. W. O. L.” By the way, that boy Kelly, who hasw been "over there” fighting with theW French and who has been wounded and 1 awarded a medal of honor for bravery and been kissed on both cheeks by the French commander, was present and gave most interesting and inspiring reminiscences of his life in the midst of the Verdun activities. And then Major Egbert, late from the University of Pennsylvania and now at Headquarters Camp Surgeon’s office, gave the fellows some interest ing accounts of the doings of Old Phi Psi in the earlier days of its organiza tion. He grew eloquent and as he proceed ed with his humor and faternal greet ings he became more enthusiastic and grew younger and ended by being one of the most youthful fellows there. Wilson, Mann, Wymond, Morgan, Dix on, Dwyer, Ilett, Barber, Mulford and Carpenter responded to the occasion (Continued on Page Seven.) -"W ' 1 himself and most of vifs staff were vn comfortable, but unrecognizable in ci- y vilian clothes, and the enlisted men ' had been airily telling all inquiring friends that they were bound on re cruiting duty. "It is true that a faint suspicion must have dawned on those who may have been watching the Baltic’s pier when several pieces of baggage arriv ~cri-t-herc artleaddressed t<> vorinus officers ‘with the American Expedi tionary Forces —care of General Persh ing.* "The vanguard was composed of Gen. Pershing, 24 field officers, 30 line of ficers, 56 clerks, 4 interpreters and 67 enlisted men, 182 in all. Present too were Major M. H. H. Young and three other members of a special medical commission, and some newspaper cor respondents. “At noon they assembled at one of the little island piers, boarded the tug Thomas Patton and steamed off down the harbor to Gravesend Bay, where on a nasty, storm roughened sea and in the pouring rain the White Star liner Baltic was waiting for them. "The enlisted men, numbering few for once "compared with the officers, were a bit low in their minds at the prospect of having to sling all the bag gage for the party, so they were great ly cheered when the general sent word along that each man was to carry his own, and he set the example by seiz ing his own baggage when the time came to transfer from the tug to the waiting liner. "The voyage was no pleasure trip, / for work hogan immediately. All the waking hours of the clay and evening that were not given over to inocula tions, mess, boat drills and French les sons were devoted to the organizatk * of the A. E. F. Life aboard the Baltic that week was different from an) crossing the great lined had evei known. "Some of the officers will scarcelj look back to that week as one of un (Continued on page two.)