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TRENCHAND CAMP
CAMP HANCOCK. Augusta. Ga.
W. J. Aiken. Editor.
Publahed with the co-operaton of THE
HERALD PUBLISHING CO.
Augusta, Ga.
ISSUED UV23V" ! .*WN':»OAY.
Vol. No. I—September 11th, 1918—No. 49.
Entered ss second-class matter. Feb.
Uth. 1918, at the post office at Augustu.
Georgia, under the Act of March 3, 13.9.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Trench and Camp will he mailed to
any address In the United State*
at the following rates:
Three months 80 centa.
Six months H-# 0 -
ASSOCIATE AND CONTRIBUTING
EDITORS
R. P. Bliss, Sergeant Cy Hecker.
Private Geo. K. Henken, A. J. Kelly,
Henry Leussen. C. F. Martin. Sergeant
J. A. Quinn, Barton Richards, Meyer
W. Welsgal, Frank A. Wood.
ssssss $ $
$ Conservation and $
$ Reclamation Work $
$ at Camp Hancock $
ssssss $ $
BY iCY HECKER.
By adopting the British methods the
United States government is saying thou
sands of dollars on reclaimed articles.
We find Great Britain realized the ne
cessity of reclaiming clothing early in the
; war. During the first year of the war
Worn and discarded clothing and ord
nance was thrown to one side and later
piled in heaps and burned. This waste
ful practice has been changed and all
waste clothing, raga and scraps are be
ing shipped to reclamation depots.
. During one period of six months Paris
depot alone salvaged 1,555,800 blankets,
: 202,000 blouses, 120,000 shirts, the profit
■to the government was $5,233,540. There
I are numerous articles that are being re
claimed at the present time.
When clothing is beyond repair it is
ueed for patches and the rags are being
need in the making of felts and shoddies.
If part of 'the cloth is still serviceable
the garment may be ripped to pieces and
the good parts used with portions nf the
garment to a new piece of clothing. In
this fashion the tail of the British issue
shirt is used to form the lower flap of the
I gas mask.
Another systfem of reclamation is grad
ually being put into working basis, and
that is the salvaging of auto parts. It
is one of the principle features of the
• British salvage system. This is carried
,on in immense modern factories located
;at base depot The work which requires
'skilled mechanics is performed by Ger
■man prisoners chosen especially for this
; purpose. At one of these shops $25.0 a
;worth of spare parts were salvaged eve’.
.• week. This assures great significance
■ when the immense need of these parts -s
tconsidered, also the scarcity of steel and
the difficulty of securing them.
’ Reclamation necessarily involves varl
'oua functions of repair. There are in
; numerable items of property, which after
:fair wear and tear are thought to be of
no further value, and are accordingly
!relegated to the scrap pile or discarded,
iln a majority of cases, property thus
.carded, can by the application of scien
’tific methods of repair be utilized in fur
ther service.
Consequently a thorough study and in
jSight into different ways of repairing
worn out property is essential to under
stand properly the work of the reclama
tion division.
l? z repair, wz/nean. ‘fixing over.” re-
M stf* or ,r <irU cr wor,ls - Placing Into
Soil he ..<1 and worn out prop-
T? fnr the invaluable
2 reclamation division
! wedKoav significance, and the
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minutes ff
- , it-. th* use of the
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Kam ■ in ecmimer
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A maxlrrH. ’
ciaimen property will a
in a minimum amount of a « uabw<
By al’ men In army service keeping \
thought constantly in mind, they will\ j
serving as custodians, not <>n!\ for fWe
government's property, but also of its
money. The earnest co-operation of all
army ogmps and cantonments over the
country along the line of reclamation will
effect an enormous saving of property
and money to the government.
This in turn will automatically reduce
the government appropriation:', which
■from time to time are made necessary,
and this again in turn will react on the
taxpayers and lessen the burden of war
taxation.
The importance of army repair work
in contributing to the above is therefore
apnapent.
Repair shops are under the direction of
the reclamation officer It is preferable
for the government to operate its own re
pair nhops.
HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS.
The effort to separate Liberty Bond
holders not familiar with stock and bond
values from their Liberty Bonds has tak
en a new turn. The manipulators in
stead of offering to buy the bonds at
Inadequate prices offer in exchange for
them the stocks and bonds of various
wildcat orpor<.tlon«. whose face value is
large but whose actual value is little or
nohttng.
The safest inv stment in the world
a Liberty Bond. For a patriotic Amer
ican, Liberty Bonds arc the best invest-
Tpent in the world. It is nnt only a wise
A , ithing to hold them it is a patriotic thing
to do. The soldier that takes a trench and
then voluntarily gives it up is not to be
compared with on who takes a trench and
holds it against the enemy An American
who buys a Liberty Bond and then sells
it is not so good an American as one
who buys x bond and holds it This does
not apply, however, to one who sells his
bond because of real necessity, there is
legitimate trading in Liberty Bonds which
the Treasury recognizes.
It was a wise and patriotic old col
ored American who refused to sell his
SIOO Liberty Bond for 59«. because he
would not give up the United States'
promise this bond) to nay his SIOO with
interest for the United States' promise
(currency) to pay him $96. and who re
fused tn sell same bond for $lO2. because,
he s .$. that the $lO2 must be counter
feit or else the would-be purchaser would
not be willing to give it for only SIOO. It
Is safe to sav that there are no sold
bricks or wildcat securities among that
American’s assets.
OUR BANK SAVINGS SAFE UNLESS
GERMANY WINS.
There seems to have been a very in
sidious propaganda carried on. obviously
by secret agents of Germany, to the
affect that savings b_nks deposits are to
he confiscated It is difficult to believe
ihat any person in America would credit
luch a report far an instant Secretary
McAdoo that the absurdity of these
statements is manifest, but in order to
allay the fears of a fe wwho might be
alarmed hy such reports, he repeats nffi
sially that these rumors are wholly base
eas.
There is but one thing that will in
•e least put in danger of confiscation
' savings of the Americn people,
ther deposited in savings banks or
“ banks or invested in Liberty Bonds
y other investments, and that one
as a German victory. It is not the
*-n Government that our people
—-fear, but the German Government,
the American soldiers fighting as
n France and the American peo-
L'ting their Government as they
nerica. the American people,
tv. their rights and their sav-
ed States instead of cormscat
tngering the savings and other
, its people is .defending them
vith all the irresistible might
ncible Republic.
FRIOTIC ADVERTISER.
wing is copied from an ad
os sale of farm lands in an
‘but Liberty Bonds) can
'•tment in a good farm. '
tiser recognizes the great
I Liberty Bond is the best
the world for a good Amer-
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THE NAVY’S SPLEN
Men of army units setting foot in
Prance for the first time this week win
have learned to appreciate more fully
the co-operative relationship which.
the Navy bears to them.
Prom the time they left embarka
tion points to the minute they disem
barked in France, it was the Navy
which became their constant, unweary
ing guardian. The transport which
bore them, the conwoyers—-destroyers
md cruisers—which protected them,
were all part of the Navy—America’s
maritime answer to Kaiserism. While
Infantrymen, artillerymen and avia
tors brave death in French territory,
jnen of the Navy will be facing peril.
>n the deep, to insure that they are
fed and clothed, and reinforced by a
never-ending stream of more and more
troops. And the Navy does this gladly,
proudly, in the freezing watches of the
tea, in gales born of cyclonic fury and
A GOOD-.SOLDIER IS CAUTIOUS
t A British soldier, whfle home on»
flcave told some of his friends abon!
|tis work. He described how he was,
stationed at a secret, camouflaged ar
tillery observation post on a high tree
jm a high hill, which had a command
ing view of the surrounding country.
He told the names of the Flemish vil
lages he could see and the length of:
the German lines in plain view.
Two days after he returned to Flan
ders and was back at this post, it was
subjected to a violent bombardment
by the enemy, so that it was rendered
untenable, and constantly thereafter
the Germans kept the position under
fire.
The fact that the post was so often
shelled attracted the attention of, a
war correspondent, who wrote back to
his paper that somehow the Germtms
had discovered its existence. Some
one v ho had heard the soldier tell of
’“*■ Dost informed army headquarters
> LoradcX. An investigation was or
jered and it was found that the sol
dier had been killed by the first bom
bardment.
The same story might be written of.
some American soldier. We love to
talk. It is a national Weakness to im
part information “that is not in the
newspapers.” Vie love to get and give
“inside dope.” When we go home on
Dave our families expect us to tell
them all kinds of stories that are never
printed. One story they hear from us
is worth ten about our camp they
have read in their newspaper.
We like to tell them “inside stuff.”
It is impressive. It shows that jwe,
too, are “on the inside.” Wc must
be close to “those higher up.” Talk
tag .big is one of America’s besetting
sins. Always living in a free country,
always accustomed to discussing freely
governmental affairs and politics, it
has never occurred to us to hold our
tongue. Secret diplomacy and the spy
systems of the old world have always
THE TRUE PACIFIST—HE FIGHTS
There are two kinds of men. One
kind lies down before trouble. The
other stands up and fights it. The
work of the world is done by the men
who fight. The farmer fights the cold
in winter and the encroachment of the
weed in summer. The miner fights the
obstinacy of the rock. The sailor
fights the elements. AU work means
Our Weekly Fable In Slang
By BARTON RICHARDS
You know you have to hand this man
Solomon a little credit. You know the
one I mean, that one that had »o many
wives. The chap that gets credit for be
ing so wise. Now don’t start to argue
that having a lot of wives shows any
wisdom, for that's another story as old
Ruddy Kipling says. The facts of the
case, attornicaly speaking are that he
made a rep in his day tor being a wise
gink.
And I guess he was at that. At least
he pulled a lot of stuff that sounds good
now. and some of it was so deep that a
man has to have a young alphabet hung
to his name to grab off the meaning.
Fr instance that one he pulled about
the lilies Now at first glance you might
think he was boosting the game of lilies,
and was rather strong for “toil not" ar
was rather strong for he “toil not“ ar
gument. Perish the thought. What Sol
mean was that even some of these folks
that seem useless, ought to be consider
Standards have changed some in the
last year and a half, or at least since
Uncle Sam threw his stetson into the
ring. The lad that used to wear bow
neckties and pink silk pajamas, is now
wearing trench nobs ana chewing s.iap.
aml some of those hard boiled egss that
used to stand around the corner with a
six and seven eighth kellev pulled over
their eye have developed chilled pedal
extremities and a severe case of dand
ruff. Which of course exempts them.
Last weeks paper carried an account of
how Corporal Smithers of the Umpty
Steenth Regiment was decorated for
bravery. All he did it seems was to
slip over into the German side of the
lines one night and drag over some Hun
whom they wanted to question. In doing
so about 8 Huns started to argue and in
the. excitement miiher’s 45 went off
and after the fuss was over, the Uar was
over seven of them.
Two years ago Smithers was a perfect
gentleman. I almost said a perfect lady.
Talk about toiling not. AH the toiling he
did was by proxy. He had a valet to lay
out his clothes in the morning and a
chauffeur to give him his daily exercise
in a closed car. Talk about the lilies of
DID CO-OPERATION
matched by mountain-high waves.
It is her mission, one which is being
accomplished in a manner which sol
diers themselves are most quick to ap
preciate.
Until, a soldier goes to sea he never
quite realizes the importance of the
sailor. But befw e be is long aboard
ship be is his chief admirer. The
splendid spirit of co-operation between
American soldiers and sailors is inspir
ipg—it becomes of momentous import
When we consider that soon a host of
•several million men will be preparing
for free passage to Berlin.
The Navy must take them to France
in safety. Nobody doubts that the
Navy will do so. The spirit which
dominates Pershing’s men burned in
the breast of John Paul Jones and
flares to-day in the hearts of the
heroes of Daniels and Sims.
The fame of Farragut and Dewey is
safe in their keeping.
been so far away from us that we
have thought of the possible
heed of silence. The people of France
—and now of England —know that the
war is not to be discussed like business
affairs or election campaigns. They
have learned in the main to keep their
mouths shut.
Perhaps the hardest military lesson
we soldiers can Meara is to keep our
mouths SHUT. It’s a great tempta
tion to answer any question put to us
by a civilian when we know the an
swer. It takes real moral courage to
say, “I don’t know,” when we DO
know. BUT WE MUST. Once we
'Start, once we say, *1 don't know,”
when .we do know, we will find it eas
ier the next time, and we will prob
ably end by making a better impres
sion as to our worth by our exhibits
.of discretion than by our f ormer-indis
cretions. By other mefy s thexivilians
are being educated not to talk so
ienuch, and they will spot the soldier
full of talk as a tyro.
Don’t talk. Don’t tell about your
work, the number of men in your
camp, the progress in your training,
the likelihood of going Over There.
If you do, you may never get there.
Facts’ that may seem unimportant to
you may be just the missing link to a
long chain that our enemy spies have ?
bee- in vain trying to link together. :
Beware of the man who asks you;
questions. Beware of the stranger who I
‘Heads you on.” You are in the pres
ence of the enemy. He is everywhere, 1
constantly listening. He is right in
your camp. Your job is to catch him
if you can, and not to let yourself rise
to his bait.
Big talkers, men who show that they
cannot be trusted with confidential in
formation, will never rise in the army.
Their randy mouths blow any warrant
or commission, that might have been
theirs, out of the tent or the barracks.
A good soldier k<aps his mouth shut i
and his ears and eyes open.
overcoming resistance, passive or ac
tive.
The soldier fights the active resis
tance of the men who seek to curtail
his liberty, to ravage his country and
to take the lives of himself and his
countryman.
There is a greu'p cf me;:, callsd Paci
fists, who abhor fighting to such an ex.
the held. They were amateurs along side
of Smithers. The only time he saw the
sun rise was the morning after the club
met.
His complexion had any girl on the
block lasheff to the mast with a. hole in
the boat, and his manners were 108 per
cent perfect. He knew just what fork to
use for his soup and whether the finger
bowl was to dring out of or bathe in.
On the other hand, while seven a. m.,
might mean starlingtime for the machine
shop men, to Smithers it merely meant
: even o’clock, when he heard it. in col
lege the girls went wild over his com
piexkh.. and the fellows were wild to
color it a little more, with a dark shade
of purple. About 3 days after he arriv
ed they nicknamed him Lib . for he swore
not neither did he chew. To smoking
he was a teetotal stranger and I.is fav
orite poem, was “Lips that touch liquor
shall never touch mine."
And then the fuss with Rill Hohen
zollern started and the touch guys start
ed to casually mention that their feet
hurt, and they thought they wore taking
rheumatism. A bunch of them took out
a copy of the Exemption Blues at the
court house and got the- preacher to tie
the knot
Friend Smithers didn't seem to take
much stock in the whole affair and neigh
bors were laying bets as to how he would
dodge the draft. He showed them. One
pleasant afternoon he stopped in at the
Recruiting office and after a few little
questions the Recruiting officer gave him
a slip entitling him to a ride to the
nearest camp.
The first week or two Smithers was for
changing the rules of the army. No
valet, no chauffeur, no old time carou
sals at night. It was tough Julia, awful
tough. Rut thet only lasted for a
few short weeks He soon developed a
taste for the well known army bean in
quantities ranging from 2 to three plates
full. And then one day he was seen with
a large bump on the jaw. No it wasn’t
toothache, it was plug.
So it sometimes pays to consider the
lilies even if they are in human form-
This particular lily Is still a flower, but
Instead of a domesticated lily, he is a
tiger'~Hly with the emphasis on the tiger.
zMoral: You can’t always tell.
TRENCH AND CAMP
tent that they would never tin a hu
man being, no matter hew anxious
that human being was to kill the Paci
fist and rob him of all that he holds
dear. We have no quarrel with the
Pacifist on the score of hating war.
We are fighting to destroy the great
est cause of war in the world to-day,
the Prussian military autocracy. We
soldiers are doing more to stop war
than the Pacifist. We are standing up
to trouble. He is lying down in front
of it. He is like the farmer who hates
trouble and lets his cattle starve in
winter and the weeds grow in summer.
The Pacifist in this country who
opposes our cause is the man who
holds up his hands and quits. War
is too disagreeable.
No man can assume his conduct is
correct unless it would be just for his
fellow men to act in the same manner.
If all Americans were such Pacifists
we would have allowed Germany to
triumph. We would have opposed re
sistance, and the result would have
been German domination—the tri
umph of militarism. The result of
the Pacifist’s li <: of conduct would be
just opposite to his wishes. We all
Ships Os The Transport Service
By EARL BALDWIN THOMAS
Dark gray against the harbor sky they ride their mooring chains—
The transport ships—of frenzied trips across the ocean lanes—!
Red is the smoke-gashed glare which flits above the great black stacks,
But redder yet the rage that storms as the ships pound down their tracks.
Hark, then, to men who strain the leash and wait the word to start, i
The ships are going down to sea—the mad destroyers dart—
The seaplanes blaze their angry way—the Blimps burst into sight,
The rockets sing their sizzling song as day melts into night:
A giant hoet, avenging ghost« of shattered dream and hope,
'■They slip across the sullen tides and mount the furr< tved slope,
The dismal wails of lashing gales are silent in their ears—
With dripping breasts they plough the crests—the Mission of the Years?
Playing Baseball Before Battle
Helps Make A Soldier Fight
"Our soldiers in France are the
finest sportsmen in the world. Their
sportsmanship is manifested in every
thing they do. What Is more, the
sports our men are playing overseas,
such as baseball, football and soccer
and boring and wrestling, are making
(them better fighters. ”
This statement is made by Ray
mond B. Fosdick, Chairman of the
'War Department Commission on
Training Camp Activities, who re
turned recently from the American
front in France, where he made a two
months' study of the relief and recre
ational work being carried on among
our expeditionary forces.
“Sports probably are the most pop
ular form of diversion among our
troops overseas," said Mr. Fosdick.
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U. S. ARMY OVER 90
PER CENT INSURED
Washington. D. C.—More than thirty
billion dollars of government insurance
has been written to date to protect Anv
erica's fighting forces and their families.
Secretary McAdoo announced today.
Approximately 3.400,000 insurance ap
plications have been received by the Bu
reau of War Risk Insurance of the Treas
ury Department up to the close of busi
ness tonight. An unprecedented rush
of business in the last fortnight has i
eclipsed the bilhon-dollar-a-week record.
The total for the month of August will
be approximately five billion dollars in
new insurance applications.
Unofficial estimates indicate that the:
United States army is substantially more I
than ninety per cent insured.
New men joining the colors are almost
without exception availing themselves of <
the maximum insurance protection per- '
mitted by law. SIO,OOO. in the opinion of
army officers this is strengthening- rhe
morale of the nation's army to a very
considerable degree
More than 2.000.000 insurance certif - {
cates have been mailed to date. Thev !
are being dispatched at a steadily in
creasing rate. Persons who have been
named as beneficiaries under the War'
Risk Insurance but have not as yet re- i
ceived their insurance certificates are I
again reminded that these certificates
are not essential to make the insurance
protection effective
In addition to handling the greatest in
surance organization in the world, the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the
Treasury Department has charge of
[hate war, but we hate slavery worse.
No red-blooded American wants to
be a slave. Our country was bom
because our forefathers would not
brook interference with their concep
tion of liberty. We fought for four
long years over the question of per
mitting the enslavement of the negro.
The Pacifist who refuses to fight to
day is un-American to the core.
It is a poor man who will nqt under
go hardship to preserve his home, bis
country and his ideal of liberty. It 's
a blind man who cannot see that if he
does not fight to-day, no matter how
much he hates war, he is the passive
assistant of the Kaiser. That is no
position for a Pacifist or an American.
The true Pacifist to-day is the
American, soldier, who, in the words
of his Commander-in-Chief, seeks to
plant the peace of the world ‘‘upon the
tested foundaGms of political liberty,”
where it cannot be disrupted by “little
groups of ambitions men who are ac
customed to use their fellow men as
pawns and tools.”
The only way to end war is to de
feat the war lords in the only manner
that they understand—defeat.
i "The men play at every opportunity,
- and it seems that they instinctively
turn to athletics for their amusemept.
I have seen soldiers return to their
! rest billets after a "hard go" in the
, trenches and immediately begin to
- play baseball, football and soccer and
. engage in boxing and wrestling bouts,
tired though they were.
"Baseball is the most popular. One
i day I witnessed a game in the his
i toric Tuilleries Garden, in Paris be
■ tween American soldiers and sailors
i stationed there. The next day. up
i near the front lines, I saw troops who
were to make an attack on the fol
: lowing morning playing as long as
daylight permitted, and J am sure
each player fought just a little better!
• on the next day as a result of the di-i
version.”
THEIR GOD
Soldiers’ and Sailors' family allotments
and government allowances, and indem
nity compensation for death and dis
ability.
The bureau has sent forward to date
close to five and a half million govern
ment checks.
Checks are being -mailed at the rate of
approximately a million a month.
An Open Letter
To the Editor Trench and Camp,
Augusta. Georgia.
At the request of many placed in the
same prediement as myself, this letter is
addressed to you with the hope that
publication in your paper will give it the
necessary publicity to attract the proper
authorities.
Quite a number of our soldier laddies
have no dependents whatsoever or else
; have parents who are so placed as not to
be dependent upon an allotment.
I These- men in particular are the ones
’ who could be appealed to to become
• the main depositors were a savings bank
; established ar our Camp Post Office, or.
n the event that it is not practicable to
establish such a bank, to organize some
sort of institution to encourage the boqs
to lay by something.
The Y. M. C. A. has been flashing on
; ns screens various mottos as to the wis
dom of saving now for future independ
ence. yet the only thing the writer knows
• of that can, be readily purcashed in this
j camp are W. S. S. Many would Ike to
put some of their extras in savings bank
form so as to be easily accessible.
The banks of Augusta are too far from
camp to be of practical use to the men,
so that all indications point to a suc
cessful institution, were a savings bank
to be established in Camp Hancock.
KHAKI.
«
HANCOCK-A-DOODLES
MAKE IT SNAPPY.
Buck Privato tried to get some oys
ters the other evening down-town. He
was told that they didn’t have any.
Whaddyamean, no oysters? Why this
is September and there’s an “R” in it.
SHHH whispered his Buddy, don’t
forget this is not September, ’a Sep
tern bah!
A certain juuni? buck went to Aiken.
A vacation he thought he'd be takin’;
But the n.oney he spent.
Left his roll sadly bent.
And for cash to go back he is rakin'.
You know that all gone feeling in
the purse?
After you
Have stayed over
Time at HER house.
On Sunday night, and
Have said good-night, out-
In the hallway. 8 or 9
TIMES, and you
Sprint like Hanne
Kohleraainen to the
Corner see the
Last car tor an hour
Breezing AHEAD of you
About two blocks
And then you remember that
The Jitneys are observing
Gasless Sunday,
OhO-h-h-, Boy
Ain't IT
A grand and
GL-L-L-O-R-I-O-U-S
Feelin'!
The Girl who shot Lenine in Russia ;
and only wounded him, has been ex- !
ecuted. That’s an awful punishment
for being a poor shot.
COULD YOU say' THAT LEITNE
WAS O.ILY HALF SHOT?
Somebody has suggested that the
kaiser's favorite, song is “I Didn’t
Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier.”
A look at the picture of the crown
prince’s map reminds one or a drill
field on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Being entirely vacant.
BREAK OFF!
Aria Meditation
TO THE CHURCH~SCHOOL OF ART.
Over the dark blue rim of hills gathers
the purple sullen storm,
Westward above the yellow tents there
sinks the sun still glowing warm:
The shadows lengthen across the sand, a
blue against its green and white,
The breezes stir among the pines, the
twilight comes—and then—the night.
Adown the dull vermilion road the groups
of soldiers march aswing
Into the sleepy Southern town, for what
small joy the night will bring.
The thunder murmurs far tn the East,
the softened echo of some deep roar.
With floor.- purple and roofs of gold
the clouds at the zenith drift idly o'er.
Cobalt and purple, salmon and gold is
the Western sky at twilight .close,
And murmuring in the needled pines the
breeze of evening softly blows.
Bringing the comfort of its cool within
our sun-hot khaki tent.
Blowing the smoke of my cigar, its bluish
spirals eastward bent.
Sunset and twilight and end of day, the
locusts sing in the nearby oak:
Idly I list tn their evensong, blowing the
while great rings of smoke.
Lying at rest on my rough cot bed with
my thoughts at east from the guns
and maps,
TUI I sink at last in a long deep sleep
with the drowsy bugler sounding taps
Dear old friends of the days agone, 11
think of you oft at the close of day.
When the sky is violet, pink and gold, as
once on our palettes these colors lay;
Out frrfm the din of the roaring Loop to
the country‘s green and its peace and
hush. •
Canvas and oil and palette of paint, with
hesitant strokes- of the untaught
brush;
Think of the glorious days with you,
smoking and thinking at rest I lie.
While floored with purple and roofed with
aold the clouds of sunset go drifting
by. PVT. CLIFFORD C. DUNLAP,
Camp Hancock, Ga.. Headquarters Co.,
MG.T.C.
August IS, 1918.
G r i n-A i d s
Specialist—Your trouble, madam, is
an alarming dimunition and retarda
tion of the respiratory function. My
treatment will speedily accelerate both
inhalation and exhalation, thereby re
lieving the oxygen starvation from
which you now suffer. Because of
the resulting purification of the blood,
your circulation will be much improv
ed, and life will assume new charms
by reason of perfect metabolism.
Patient—l knew that other doctor
didn't understand my case. He told
me I must breathe more.—Life.
The youth with the lanky locks
sighed. His articles were returned
with annoying frequency, but he
sometimes managed to get them ac
cepted. On such rare occasions as
these, even, they were generally tucked |
away in some obscure cornef of the !
paper, greatly to the chagrin of the lit- ■
erary one. So he decided to write to
a friend about it and ask what maga- |
zine would give him the highest post- i
tion.
The answer was not long in coming.
It was this:
"A powder magazine, especially it I
you contribute a fiery article.” ii
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Speaking at a recent dinner Senatoi
Henry C. Lodge of Massachusetts re
ferred to technical automobile terms
and told the following story:
..One afternoon some time ago two
young girls were sitting on the veran
da knitting for the soldiers, when one
of them turned the conversation to ah
auto ride she had the evening before.
“Mr. Jones's ability in running an
automobile is simply wonderful," de
clared the pretty one. T never
dreamed that it was possible to go
quite so far without machinery."
“Go without machinery?” was the
wondering rejoinder of the other. “De
you mean to say that such a thing
happened?”
“Yes,” promptly replied the first.
“We must have gone at least twelve
miles before Mr. Jones discovered
that the engine was missing."
Simpson joined the army and learned to
aril’. One day he took part in a sham
battle. He heard the general sav before
the battle sarted: "Everything is to be
done the same as in actual warfare;” and
no sooner was the first, blank cartridge
fired than Simpson dropped his gun and
took to his heels.
“Hey. Simpson, where a.re vou running
to. there?" the general shouted as the re
cruit dashed by him.
"Why. sir." said Simpson. "I'm doing
the same as I would do in actual war
fare.”
Poets in the olden
Times used to live
Up in attics, but
Nowadays the attics
Os many poets are
Unoccupied.
—St. Louis Star.
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Eye Examinations Carefully
Made.
Prescriptions Filled and
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