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filjEnP > A- II '■ '-4S- s§»? •■'9 Wo6j>wwAa&lson w® ;%j£ffia| WW' FOR THE RIGHTS OF AMERICA CCMTRUCT LET IB PAVE CAMP BBIBS II ONCE Huge Contract Awarded to Ely Construction Co. Will Involve Cost of Five Hundred Thous and Dollars. Work Will Begin Immediately. Headquarters of the Company to Move Here From Charlotte ASPHALTIC CONCRETE TO BE USED The Ely Construction Company, whose forces are now paving important J thoroughfares of Augusta, have been I awarded the contract for the paving of 1 the roads withis Camp Hancock, which work will involve an expenditure of about $500,000. Work is to begin imme diateiy. . . There are twelve or fourteen of these I roads in the camp, including about five S' miles of country roads—Wheeless and Wrightsboro—-and there will be about slx- H teen miles of paving. The country roads are 30 feet wide, while the government roads are 20 feet. Asphaltic concrete— like the paving being placed on Augusta’s » street—will be used It will take about 225.000 square yards of this material for paving the roads, within the camp. The foundation will be nine inches of gravel, B of which about 60,000 cul.v yards will be required. The county is in co-operation with the government on the paving, and is to con tribute gravel from the county pit near the Augusta abbatofr. The county will put the gravel aboard cars, and the gov ernment will transport the cars to the camp. The county will also prepare the gravel foundations for the county roads ■within the camp, using convict labor. The foundation on other than the county roads will be prepared by the contractor. The Ely Company have removed their headquarters from Charlotte to Augusta. Walter S. Ely, president of the company, is now here, and others of the organiza tion have arrived and are arriving. The company now has a $25,000 outfit in Au gusta and this is to be duplicated at an early date. PEACH STONES IN DEMAND Peach stones, nutshells and fruit pits of various sorts are in urgent demand for the manufacture of gas masks for the American army. They are converted into carbon of a quality not otherwise obtainable and which is absolutely necessary in the making of the life-saving masks. |- - THE QUESTION. “Shall the military power of any nation or any group of nations be suffered to determine the fortunes of peoples over whom they have no right to rule except the right of force? “Shall strong nations be free to wrong weak nations and make them subject to their purpose and interests? “Shall peoples be ruled and dominated even in their own international affairs by arbitrary and irresponsible force, or by their own will and choice? “Shall there be a common standard of right and privileges for all peoples and nations, or shall the strong do as they will and the weak suffer without redress? “Shall the assertion of right be haphazard and by casual alliance, or shall there be a common concert to oblige the observance of common rights? “No man, no group of men chose these to be the issues of the struggle. They ARE THE ISSUES OF IT.” —Woodrow Wilson. AND THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD VHC.w>HrtLH<ms3r. WVUB»MM«TX>«» - ' ' * /»»/ j Jwcttwai/' Cjpvttjr- -S/ «vzSߣ-' - \ '' y f ■Y* > 1r ? ~ f u '(*&*'■-LO-- ‘•’T.&&' -£&j& ■^> r -^- 1 y —■ ,/&nzrr-t*&* l '''' > f****y ! f c /^n^rfx^a^'../zaA^/ifu, fimOc f&t- tf'jeZ*' &KXlfjZ&' ’ *, SEND THIS PAPER HOME. CAMP HANCOCK '". = — ONE CENT POSTAGE TRENCH AND CAMP WITH the CO-OPERATION OF PUBLISHED BY THE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE I THE AUGUSTA HERALD Qty ARMY YM C A \SU NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL AUGUSTA. GA. ZWW\\ Xl.l VIVI 1.1. • IYI • V7• At OF THE V. M. C. A. OF THE U. S. VOL. 1. WARE WORKERS MEETTODISOUSS PROBLEMS Planned to Hold Regular Fort nightly Meetings Under the Leadership of Captain J. N. Ashmore. Representatives of All Organizations Present. Meeting Addressed by Major L. A. Kunzig. Manager G. H. Thomas of Liberty Theatre Chosen Secretary Next Meeting Friday, October 4th, at 10 O’clock Under th© chairmanship of Captain J. N. Ashmore all the welfare organizations represented in army work met in a des ignated building adjacent to main head quarters and effected an organized coun sel or round table for the purpose of discussing mutual problems and of in creasing the efficiency of the general work. After the meeting was opened by Maj. L. A. Kunzig, acting chief of staff, who represented Brig.-Gen. Edwards, and stated the general plan of the gathering, Captain J. N. Ashmore, who has been ap pointed chairman, called in turn upon the representatives of the various or ganizations present for a brief sttaement of their work. It is the plan to have each department from the different or ganizations submit reports of their activi ties at the regular meetings. Mr. G. H. Thomas, manager of the Lib erty theater, was chosen secretary and it was decided to hold regular meetings every two weeks with the first formal meeting to be held on Friday morning, October 10th, at 10 o’clock. Gas Masks to Troops Before Embarking Publication of the following circular from the office of the Adjutant Gen eral is authorized by the War Depart ment: Gas masks will be issued to all com batant troops, including to tai per sonnel of division, prior to embarka tion. Issue will be made at embarka tion camps, and masks must not have been used in training. Troops will be directed to exercise greatest care in handling them to prevent damage dur ing voyage. HYMEN FEASTERS IKE MERRY KT BRIDAj. DINNER Fun and Frolic Follow Wed ding Ceremony. Two Popular Young People, Sergeant Les ter Cusick and Miss Janet Mabel Pitz, Married by Chap lain Tucker Novel Entertainment and Unique Banquet Furnish En joyment On Tuesday evening, September 25th, the Headquarters Company of the Main Training Depot, entertained for the first time. Occasion being bridal din ner in honor of one of their popular sergeants who lately joined the ranks of the benedicts. The wedding of Miss Janet Mabel Pitz, the daughter of the late Frederick Pitz, the designer of lire apparatus now being used throughout the United States, and Sergeant Les ter Cusick, who was an assistant chief of supplies at one of the largest naval supply bases, before entering the uni formed service, took place at the Ad ministration Building of the Y. M. C. A. The marriage was solemnized by Chap lain 11. M. Tucker, of the Second Group Main Training Depot. The ceremony was a very quiet affair, but the after math at tHb Company Mess Hall was an evening long to be remembered. The sergeant’s company mates surely did feature the bride and groom. Due to the unique arrangement of their mess hall, which is conveniently divided into dining hall at one end, and a recreation room at the other, the committee in charge of arrange ments were able to furnish their guests a pleasant evening without the usual inconvenience of waiting between the dinner and the dance. The dinner then was served in the company grill and after the guests partook of sump tuous turkey feed with all its trim mings and then some, they retired to the ball room. The decorations throughout were a tasteful arrange ment of pines, with a clever inter twining of wild field flowers gathered from the nearby fields and woods. To add a brighter effect and a little local color, red, white and blue bunting was artistically draped around the room, and the allied colors were much in evi dence. The table decorations were particularly attractive and novel, nu merous camouflaged vases of flowers suspended from the ceiling greeted one upon entering the room, and as a last touch electric lights were pleasangly dimmed by the use of colored shades. The bride proved a very interesting and charming young lady and seemed at ease during the evening’s excite ment, finding time to say a word of appreciation to all the sergeant’s friends for the lovely time she was having. The groom was a little ner vous, he was overheard to say to an Augusta young lady who eagerly in quired, “Where’s the bride?” “Wait a minute until I bring the bridegroom over,” meaning his wife, but as the evenin'g passed he became his sedate self again. There was a bevy of fair ones from near and far, the Augusta belles were more nuremous, but none fairer than those from Aiken, S. C. One of the pleasant surprises of the evening was the discovery of the latent home talent, Private Haines, who entertained with several songs, and rendered that beau tiful ballad, “Belgian Rose,” in a very pleasing way. John Geerly ably ac companied by Joe Donnelly, both of the Personnel Detachment, also ren dered several popular songs, followed by Eddie Powers, as./sted by Joe Mo ran at the piano, who had all the guests laughing while singing his character songs. Private Maratta, the I Lilian music lover, entertained with Neapoli tan Street songs. He was forced to give several encores and finally had to stop, giving as his reason that he (Continued on Pago Seven.) OCTOBER 2, 1918. If You Want Us To Go On, Now is Your Chance To Help. The seven organizations that are trying to keep things cheerful for the men that are winning the war have united in a great campaign for funds with which to carry on their work. Every man in uniform has come into contact with one or more of them: some of you have with all of them. They are the Y. ML C. A., Y. W. C. A., National Catho lic War Council (Knights of Columbus), Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community Service, American Library Association, and Salvation Army. The date of the campaign as fixed by President Wilson is November 11-18 and the amount for which the seven ask is $170,600,000. It is an en irmous amount of money, but it is not one cent less bian they need if they are to keep up with the army and navy. And they will get it, too. That is, if the folks back home realize as I what these seven organizations mean to you. You men in uniform can make this campaign a success. If every one of you, in your letters will tell the folks back home to get behind this campaign they will make it the greatest successs which American has ever seen. Will you do it? Can we count on you to boost from now until November 11? We know we can. Help these organizations to get the money they need for every dollar of it means more comfort and en tertainment and service to you. MEASURE IB SIBP SPREAD Bf INFLUENZA Camp Hancock, Inkeeplng with Its ex cellent health record has been ulngularly fortunate In being, until the last day of two, practically free from the dlaease known as Spanish Influenza which has been going through the entire countr, but with the entry of soma now troopa a number of cases began to dove:"W'. J h “ cases Increased to such an extent that .1 was deemed advisable tn Issue the follow *,g orders 0.1 Sunday as a precautionary measure to prevent further spread of '’Headquarters Machine Cun Training Center C’amp Hancock. Auauata. Georgia. September 23, 1»1». Memorandum No. 134. I. SUBJECT: INFLUENZA, The following measures will be taken to prevent the spread of Influenza in th i S C WITiITN THE ORGANIZATIONS. (a) careful Inspections during the night will bo made by the Officer of thn I >ay or by a special Inspector tn each organization to sea that tent doors are left wide open at all tunes and tent caps at all times, except when It Is actually raining, and to see that men Bleep head and feet alternating. (b) All tents will be furled and all bedding will be aired dally, (weather per m't c t ) nR Men will Not enter ANY TENT OTHER THAN THEIR OWN. (d) Men will bo property Instructed, so that all will know (1) that the disease is carried on the breath, (2) that it 1m transmitted by talking, sneezing. nr coughing <he germs Into tho air so that they mav be inhaled bv others: (3) That, all should try to avoid coughing, sneez ing. or cleaning the throat near others and even talking “into the faces” of oth ers; (4) that the spreading «»f miorunlo droplets of spray by coughing, sneeslntf the throat should bo prevented by placing a handkerchief over the nose and mouth; (5) that handkerchiefs and hands should be carefully washed at frequent intervals: (6) that the larger amount and the more freqffuently the ' .footed breath of an other is breathed, tho severer will be the disease when developed. (e) ALL floors will ba oiled In man ner prescribed for tent floors in Special Regulations, M. G. T. C. No. 2 (Sanitary), to keep down dust. (f) Daily inspection of every tent will be made by a Medical Officer to check sanitary conditions and to discover men indisposed, but not on sick report. (g) Second sick call will be held at 1:00 p. m., if organizations becomes heavily infected with the disease. 11. OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATIONS (a) All Y. M. (’. A.. K. of C., Jewish Welfare, Christian Science buildings, Li braries, Theaters, and other in-door gath erings places in camp will be. closed until further orders. (b) All Officers and rnen of this com mand are prohibited from entering any movie or other theater, or circus, in the extra-catonment zone, or entering any street ear which is already filled to nor mal seating capacity. This will be en forced by the Military Police. By command of Brig. Gen. EDWARDS. L. A. KUNZIG, Major, Inf., IJ. S. A. Acting Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL; FRANK W. ERNEST, JR. Ist. Lieut., A. G. I)., U. S. A., Ass't to Adjutant. Delivery of Letters With Allotment Checks Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, Washington, Aug. 29, 1918. Postmasters will note that allotment and allowance checks mailed from thn Bureau of War Risk Insurance now bear the following indorsement: “Postmaster: This letter must be delivered to addressee through regu lar channels. If addressee has moved or died, return to sender with state ment of facts.” The word “moved” in this indorse ment does not preclude delivery in case of a change of street address in the same city, nor in case of a tempo rary absence from the delivery of the postoffice of address. In every in stance of permanent removal from the delivery of the office or address, the letter should be indorsed ‘removed,” with the new address if known and re turned, under additional cover, to the Bureeau of War Risk Insurance. In the event of death of the addres see, the letter should be indorsed “de ceased,” with date es death, if known, and returned without additional cover. J. C. KOONS. First Assistant Postmaster General. Draft Ruling on Student Army Corps Young men not qualified by educa tion to enter college, but who desire to take advantage of part of the govern ment’s student army training plan, may apply only to their draft boards for induction into the vocational units of the student army training corps. Men thus applying must be 18 years of age and must possess a grammar school education or its equivalent. WRITEANESSAY I AND WIN A PRIZE Subject—What United States Means to Me. Contest Closes October 30th. First Prize, sls, Second Prize $lO, Third Prize $5. Three Judges Will Decide. Read Rules Carefully and Follow Closely At the suggestion of Mr. Gilbert Harris of the Jewish Welfare Board, a sugges tion which readily met the approval of Mr. V. J. Armstrong of the . of <’. and the Trench and Camp an essay contest will be conducted from this date clos- i ing on October 3U. The subject for the I to Me.” A prize of MS will be awarded to the author of the essay adjudged the best, $lO will be paid as a prize to the writer of the second best, and $5 will be the third prize, the prize money being pledged equally by the above mentioned. Three judges will decide the contest. The prize essays will be printed in Trench and Camp, as well as any other essay that merits publication. Here are the rules that govern the con test: Write plainly on one side of the paper only. Typewritten manuscript preferred. Essay is limited to five hundred words. Do not sign the article but place the name and company on a separate sheet of paper to be enclosed with the man uscript Mail Assays to Contest Editor of Trench and CM P. Camp Hancock, Ga. This Contest is open only to soldiers in Camp Hancock. Any number of manu scripts may be submitted by the same author. Any manuscript which has not been prepared according to these rules will not be considered. Get your essays in early. Conversation on Conservation PUBLICITY TEACHES TOMMIES TO SAVE SCRAP. The British government, in salvaging material on the battlefields, does not leave the work to those in the reclama tion service. Every soldier is expected to help in the collecting of waste and used materials, and a regular publicity campaign is run to bring home to Tommy the everlasting necessity of saving every scrap. “The big motor lorries.” says the Lon don Times, “clattering along the high ways of war are used as teachers of economy to the soldiers, just as ve hicular traffic at homo is now a valuable branch of publicity. Printed in large letters on many of the war wagons, one may read: ‘Waste not, want not,’ ‘Gather up the nails,’ and similar sound advice. Everywhere in the war zone are enorm ous dumps where old barbed wire, cor rugated iron pit props and such-like sal- THE ANSWER. “First, the impartial justice meted out must involve no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just. It must be a justice that plays no favorite and knows no standard but the equal rights of the several peoples con cerned. “Second, no special or separate interest of any single nation or group of nations can be made the basis of any part of the settlement which is not consistent with the common interests of all. “Third, there can be no league or alliance or special covenant and understanding without the general and common family of the league of nations. “Fourth, and more specifically, there can be no special selfish economic combinations within the league and no employment of any form of economic boycott or exclusion except as the power of economic penalty by exclusion from the markets of the world may be vested in the league of nations itself as a means of discipline and control. “Fifth, all international agreements and treaties of every kind must be made known in their entirety to the rest of the world.” —Woodrow Wilson. 'l' "> W 7 xW J llfc jwll gM No. 52. n SINGING CONTESTS TO BE HELD FOR GROUPS At Dates to Be Announced a Novel Feature Will Be Staged. Daily Contests Held Until All Groups Have Taken Part. Silver Cup Will Be Awarded Winner ID£A OF COMPETITIVE SINGING ANCIENT To stimulate interest in the mass singing which has been conducted for several months, a novel series of sing ing contents has been planned for the Main Training Depot. The idea is to have the various competing groups sing at designated times before com petent judges and the group making the best showing will be awarded a silver loving cup which shall be held by them until another group makes a Letter showing. It has been arranged to hold the contests daily, on the main drill field, situated directly back of the Liberty Theater on the Wrights boro Road directly after drill. The songs to be used in the competi tion will be the popular marching songs, such as “It’s a Long Way to Berlin, But We’ll Get There, Good Bye, Broadway, Good Morning Mister Zip, (Continucd on Page Seven). vage of the battlefields are sorted and stored for further use. At the approaches to all camps and depots, on telegraph posts and in many prominent positions, aer fixed little boxes, some labeled ‘Nails,’ others ‘Copper’ and baskets or canvas bags with the word ‘Rubber.’ nto these Tommy the economist puts such bits of metal and scraps of rubber as he finds by the wayside. Thus, in the great task of withstanding the aggression of the Hun, ‘every little helps,’ a rusty ; old nail may even be useful.’ THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT PAY FOR YOUR WASTE. THE PEOPLE AT HOME PAY IT IN LESS FOOD AND MORE MONEY GIVEN TO LIBERTY LOANS. LET US REMEMBER THIS WHEN WE DUMP FOOD TO THE HOGS WOULD YOU RATHER FEED THE HOGS THAN THE HOME FOLKS? IT’S UP TO YOU TO CONSERVE THAT THEY MAY HAVE MORE.