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What President Wilson Thinks of Our American Soldier
Executive’s Eye Easily
Caught by Newspaper
Story ot Sacrifices
For the Nation
Daily Correspondence From White House Repeatedly Punc
tuated With Simple Notes Showing How President’s
Heart Beats For Families That Give and Grieve
By JOSEPH P. TUMULTY
Secretary to the President
Written Especially for Trench and Camp
4411 T HEN I look at you, I feel as if I also
Yl and we all were enlisted men. Not
enlisted in your particular branch of
the service, but enlisted to serve the
country, no matter what may come, even
though we may sacrifice our lives in the ardu
ous endeavor.”
These words, spoken by the President a
few months before the beginning of the war,
express as well as anything he has since said
his attitude toward the men in khaki. His con
ception of the duty which every American
owes the nation is thoroughly known, but there
was special significance and very deep sincer
ity in this thought of himself and other mem
bers of the Government as the companions of
the soldiers in the ranks.
His private writings and his public utter
ances continually convey this idea of closest
partnership between the men who are actually
fighting for their country and those, less for
tunate, in this country who can only back up
the Americans in France who are carrying this
country’s flag to the banks of the Rhine.
There are very few days during which the President
does not give his personal attention to matters of government
detail that directly affect the welfare of the men in the
Army. And there is no day that finds him too busy to turn
from affairs of State to make an exhaustive study of evi
dence in the case of a private soldier who has come under a
court martial sentence. The newspapers record innumer
able instances of executive rulings on these court findings,
many of which are explanations of leniency to young sol
diers, but the great mapority of the cases in which President
Wilson devotes the exceedingly limited time at his own
disposal are never known to the public.
The big correspondence that goes out of the White
House each day is repeatedly punctuated by simple notes,
dictated by the President, and mailed to the mother of a
boy at the front. His eye is easily caught by a newspaper
story of some family, or individual, that has made a special
sacrifice for the nation. Here, for example, is a typical
letter, which the head of the Nation wrote when he read
that six sons of a Nebraska man had enlisted to fight for the
American flag:
“My dear Mr. McShane:
“May I not turn away from the duties of the day
for a moment to express my admiration for the action
of your six sons in enlisting in the service of the coun
try? They are making, -usd through them you are mak
ing a very noble contribution to the fine story of patriot
ism and loyalty which hi 3 always run through the
pages of American history.
“Cordially and sincerely yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.”
Mr. J. H. McShane, 1906 Chicago St., Omaha, Neb.”
It is significant that the President replies
with the utmost simplicity and entire lack of
formality to the many personal letters which
parents address to him as the Commander-in-
Chief of the United States Army. Here is a
letter that came to him from a West Virginia
mother, who took it for granted that he was
just as much interested in her fine soldier boys
as she:
“Dear Mr. Wilson:
Perhaps you will think me presumptuous to write
a letter to you, but we are all one thing—loyal Ameri
cans. . I simply wish to let you know what one West
Virginia woman has done for our country. I have sent
two stalwart, strong, healthy boys to the front. Per
haps you have already met them. While it hurts me
very much to bid them goodbye, yet I know that our
country needs them and I must not mind a few more
pangs. They have both written a lot of letters and sent
me their pictures in uniform, of which I am justly
proud. I enclose one to you. If you have the time,
Mr. President, and want to see a healthy man, go to Co.
D, 6th Regiment, just arrived in Washington, D. C.,
from Columbus, Ohio, and ask for Fred and Louis
Meyer, Ambulance Corps. And don’t forget, please,
(Continued on page nine). %
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THE SOLDIERS’ NEWSPAPER OF CAMP HANCOCK, THE
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VOL. 2.
Machine Gunners Graduate With “Click"
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Nine men and two officers of American infantry regiments lined up for decoration. L<'ft to right: Lieutenant
Harry Yagle; Second Lieutenant M. M. Komcorouski; Private Harry Shell y. Sergeant Prank S. Koyanok, Ser
geant James K. Krum, Corporal O. C. Shavinger, Corporal Whitson, Private K. Wovedo, Private Wilkins', Priv
ate W. I l '. Lucky and Private C. W. Keane. (Readers of this newspaper wh 0 wish a photographic copy of this pic
ture may obtain it by sending ten cents to the Division of Pictures, Comm ittee on Public Information Washing
ton, D. C. Enclose this clipping.)
Machine Gun Officers and Men,
Don’t Let Life Insurance Lapse
Policies Taken Out in Civil Life
Protected By Uncle Sam If
You Make Application to
Camp Insurance Officer
PAY OVERDUE PREMIUMS
YEAR AFTER WAR ENDS
Insurance Will Remain in
Force Even If You Can’t
Keep Up Your Payments
Now, But You Must Fill Out
Blank to Get This Protection
Did you carry life Insurance in civil
life? Keep it—the government, wiil help
you to do so. The same reasons which
made the insurance a good investment in
civil life make it a good investment to
day. Sound business judgment caused
you to take out your policy. The same
sound judgment counsels you to keep it
in force.
Supposing you gave up a good income
to get into service. That’s all right
Uncle Sam is your benefactor in more
ways than one. He says that all you
need to do is notify the company which
insured you, and then you will have a
full year after you leave the service to
meet the premiums which accrue while
you are wearing the olive drab.
You Must Let Uncle Sam Know.
Hut—and here is the important point
YOU have got. to do the notifying The
government doesn’t know whether you
carried insurance—nor how much nor
what company wrote the policy—but the
government does want to protect you. So
you must use a. special notification form
to let the company know you want the
policy to remain in force.
The law is dry as dust, so here are
the facts all summarized for your benefit.
Don’t put off making the notification.
Just get the necessary duplicate forms
No. 718 from your personnel officer right
away.
To the liberal allotment and allowance
features, War Risk Insurance and Com
pensation made available by Uncle Sam
for his boys in the service- is added one
more item to hearten the fighting forces.
It deels with the life insurance of per
sons in the active military service—and
seeks in certain cases to relieve such per
sons, during their periods of service from
payment of the premiums on insurance
contracted in civil life. The provision in
the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief
Act sets forth:
One Year After War to Pay.
“That no policy which has not lapsed
for the non-payment of premium before
(Continued on page seven.)
“PEP!"
By Lieut. Frank F. Wilcke
Dop you aspire to be a good machine gunner? Os course you do.
Every really live American does; and you admit that you are a live Ameri
can, don’t you? Sure thing; and - well, nobody’d better say otherwise, had
they? Os course not. But! lisn’t it a fact that you are not clear as to the
course to pursue to make you a good machine gunner?
You are studying right along and learning everything you can about
the mechanism of the machine gun. But the elementary drill, the “mount
gun’’ and dismount gun,” is beginning to bore you. You know how to do it,
—know just what to do when “Fall Out One" is given—but you don’t see
why you should be drilled In that every day.
Fact is, you are losing interest in your work; it is getting monotonous.
It makes you feel like the fellow who says: “I don't know what’s the matter
with me today, I seem to be all in." Yet, when you stop to consider it you
are forced to accept it as nothing more than he resignation of the spirit to
the physical. The physical would make a beast of us; the spiriftual lift us
up. “The letter killeth. but the spirit giveth life."
A word has lately come into our vocabulary expressing everything that
is life, everything that vitalizes action. That word' is “PEP.” Let us con
sider it.
(Continued on Page Two)
BUY BONDS
OCTOBER 16, 1918.
DO NOT CANCEL YOUR
WAR RISK INSURANCE
Reports have been current that
' many enlisted men wt, dropping
’ their War Risk Insurance, be
’ cause their beneficiaries have
' failed to receive insurance cer
■ tificates, and they arc therefore
under the impression that they
1 are paying for protection which
they are not receiving.
This is entirely erroneous.
I Government insurance is effec- I
tive from the day the soldier fills I
I out the application, if he has i
i paid the premium.
The Bureau of War Risk In-
I surance is sending out as rapidly
as possible all certificates, but
I owing to the unprecedented rush
! of business, delay has been
[ caused.
Soldiers who drop their insur
[ ance are assuming a risk for
their families and themselves,
which will cause the loss of such
benefits as the government al
lows under the War Risk Insur
ance plan.
If you have made application,
i and have paid the premiums the
insurance is still in force, wheth
| er or not your beneficiaries or
relatives have received a certifi- |
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PENNA. SOLDIERS TO
VOTE AT HANCOCK
The soldif\rs residing in the state of
Pennsylvania will be given the oppor
tunity to vote in the forthcoming elec
tion of that state.
With that in view the camp authorities
are making preparaions to see that all
qualified votej« of Pennsylvania now in
the service at the Machine Gun Training
(’enter, shall vote.
A memorandum has been issued re
questing the commanders of all organi
zations at (.’amp Hancock to submit a
report showing the number of such quali
fied voters of Pennsylvania, in their re
spective companies to the Camp .Person
nel Officer.
BUY~UBERTY BONDS
W. CIS. SUPPLIES
SOLDIER NEEDS
IN COMMUNITY
Organization in Augusta Has
Successful Year. Emblem the
Red Circle. Valuable Addition
to Welfare Work Under Com
mission on Training Camp
Activities. Many Phases of
the Work
SOLDIERS’ CLUB FILLS
POPULAR DEMAND
In Augusta, the service was organized
in November and December last year by
Frank Wood and experienced play
ground and recreation worker, who has
continued to serve as executive secretary
to the present time. A committee com
posed <>f Augusta men and women was
constituted with W. H. Barrett as chair
man. with numerous sub-committees on
al) phases of community work, enter
tainment. church coo-peration. commer
cial relations, etc.
A National Organisation.
W. <' S. is a national organization
under the Commission on Training Camp
Activities with offices at No. one Madison
Avenu.e New York. It is exactly what its
name indicated, a service for war camp
communities, and is now organized in
some 275 cities and towns located near
training cantps. Tts emblem is the Red
Circle (rs. Red Triangle. Red Cross) en
closing a blue field with the outline of
a Roman camp in white. The circle sym
bolizes hospitality, and the motto of W.
C. S. “Surround the camps with hos
pitality.’’
War Camp Communit, Service in
Augusta.
A Soldiers’ Club for soldiers, sailors
and marines, a bathing beach equipped
exclusively for men in uniform, a. com
munitv hospitality organization with sub
committees In every ward of the city to
stimulate and supervi e home and
church and fraternal entertainment of
Uncle Sam’s men. an information bureau
with three branches supplying informa
tion to soldiers .and their visiting friends
and relatives, a commercial relations
service which adjusts friction and mis
understandings between the men 1n uni
form and the business men of Augusta, i
a church co-operation committee which |
enables Camp Hancock men to find their l
church homes, Sunday recreation, con
certs and teas, home and community en
tertainment in towns neighboring Augus
ta —surround the camp with hospitality—
that is a nutshell statement of W. C. C. S.
The Soldiers’ Club Part of the Work.
The Soldiers’ Club, at 629 Broad street,
is one of the tangible results of presence
of the W.C.C.S. with its shower baths,
pool and billiard tables, canteen, writing
tables, and hospitable atmosphere, ft has
become a favorite haunt of the men while
in town. Saturday afternoon and Thurs
day evening concerts, teas and dances
have been an additional attraction. The
attedance has averaged eight tn ten
thousand weekly during the summer.
The plans for the club for the near fu
ture include a Library and a parlor with
the club hostess. Mrs. W. W. Frye, in
charge. where visiting relatives and
and friends may arrange interviews
their boys. Sleeping accommodations for
300 men will also be provided.
Bathing Beach for Soldiers.
One of the most unique facilities pro
vided near any inland camp by the W.C.
C.S. is the Soldiers’ Bathing Beach at
Lake Aumond, covering an area of about
ten acres and accommodating almost any
number of men. The equipment con
ists of a bath-house, with lockers and
canteen, a diving tower and raft and
springboards. Though opened late in
the season, the lake at once became a
popular resort for the men on hot days,
whole companies making it the object of
their cross-country hikes. As many as
5,000 men have been m the water at one
time. Plans have been made for doub
ling the facilities next summer, and ad-
(Continued on page seven.)
AUGUSTA OOMS
MIMES ANO
MW SMOKES
City Proves Its Reputation For
Generosity and Hospitality.
Gives Tobacco. Books and
Candy Abundantly. Patrioti
cally Furnishes Flags
SOLDIERS APPRECIATE THE
KINDNESS
Welfare Organizations Com
bined Under Direction of Au
gusta Committee Perform
Excellent Service. Render Aid
to Relatives of Soldiers.
Camp and City United in Close
Friendship
-TI},® 1 },® ‘l uest * on raised regarding the hos
pitality and generosity ot the people of
Augusta towards the soldiers at Caron
Hancock has hern settled Snallv They
,hat the5 ’ •*>««“ «n ever
ready willingness to cheer comfort and
aid to the limit of their eitent ad eve?y
opportunity offered. 1
Show , ine , nf P a ‘ ri °tlsm and loy
alt, has been displayed than during the
aenev W whi b When in the *n"u«-nza eme?!
Kencj which now exists, soldiers were
ke Pt supplied with smokes, magazines,
hv n< th eS and b^ oks - . !t has beenestimated
onr/Jlr 0 in charge of the s-e
--<uiing of these appreciated gifts that
more than 1.>0,000 cigarettes have been
secured, not counting the pipe and cig
arette tobacco and the cigars. Books and
I^o? a * Z1 ? eS v have been so generously con -
tributed that it is safe to state that ev-
2 n lhe Machine Gur.
Training ‘.enter h<« aby«danr? o f
reading matter on hand to supply each
soldier with every conceivable sort of
literature.
In addition to their giving freely of
these comforts, a noble, as well as pa
triotic deed was performed when the
voluntary contribution of flags to drape
the caskets of the unfortunate soldier
victims of influenza was secured from
the civilians, who promptly answered the
call for flags. Nothing more fitting or pa
triotic was ever undertaken bv civilians
in any city.
These acts have opened the hearts of
the soldiers to the extent of appreciat
ing that the people of Augusta are awake
and ready to aid and comfort in any
circumstance when called upon.
It was the people of Augusta who took
upon themselves the organized direction
of the matter of giving attention to rela
tives of men who are sick at Camp
Hancock, or relatives of men who died
there.
These relatives are met at the union
station and taken to the Soldiers Club.
From that point vehicles are at hand to
transport them to Camp Hancock and
back to the club; thence from the club
again to the station or to the
house, private residence or hotel to which
they may desire to be sent.
In co-operation which this work, there
were needed a number of automobiles
those in charge of the work not having
sufficient cars nt their disposal. Citi
zens who would co-operate bv putting
their automobiles for a stated hour or
so at the call of this movement were re
quested to give their addresses to Mr.
Josiah Clark, saying during what hours
of the day or night they could lend their
machines for this purpose. They re
sponded nobly, and it is safe tn say that
one of the most pleasant memories of
what was in many cases a sad errand
(Continued on page seven.)
Candidates Feast on Eve
of Receiving Commissi'
General Edwards, Lieutenant Colonel Westmoreland,
Officers and Prospective Second Lieutenants Gue
Captain Rice and Other Officers of the
Tenth Company D S
Captain Harry E. Rice, Jr., Command
ing the Tenth Company, Central Ma
chine Gun Officers’ Traing School, and
officers attached to the Company were
the hosts at a dinner and entertainment
tendered to the successful candidates, who
were yesterday commissioned Second
Lieutenants.
The guests of honor were Brigadier-
General Oliver Edwards, camp comman
der. Lieut. Colonel Wade H. Westmore
land, commanding the Central Machine
Gun Officers' Training School. Lieut. Col
onel W. R. Loughbrough, Major L. A.
Kunzig. Major Karl S. Bradford, Majjor
H. R. Rising and Captain Harry C. Will
son. adputant of the officers’ school.
Promptly at 6:00 p. m. the guests and
members of the Company filed in the
mess hall which was artistically and
beautifully decorated. The tables were
entirely covered with an assortment of
most delectable food especially secured
for the occasion.
Candidate Sam A. Neely, toastmaster,
after a splendid speech of welcome to
the guests, introduced General Edwards,
who immediately got the assemblage in
a good natured frame of mind when he
said that the medical authorities told
him that the best way to prevent influen
za was by eating good wholesome food,
and that he appreciated the opportunity
ward off the malady. The General took
the opportunity to compliment the suc
cessful candidates for their showing and
ability to withstand the severe tests re
quired, and said that he felt sure that
they would reflect credit on the army and
the officers who trained them, particularly
Lieut. Colonel Wade H. Westmoreland,
who made this officers’ school the success
that it is.
The next speaker was Lieut. Colonel
Wade H. Westmoreland, who relivered
a bright and snappy address on conduct
becoming officers, and offered sound and
sensible advice to the men about to be
commissioned.
Other speakers were candidates Ray H.
Walker, Ashlea H. Beatty and L. W.
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No. 2.
"CLICK" OFFICERS
ANO TRAINED MEN
JOIN DIVISIONS
One Hundred and Fifty Second
Lieutenants Graduate. Many
Officers Commissioned in In
fantry and Cavalry Complete
Machine Gun Course. Enlisted
Men Receive Splendid Train
ing. All Thoroughly Equipped
America's new divisions are going t<*
have graduates of the Machine Gun
Training Center behind the Brownings
that will play a staccato accompani
ment to the swan song of the Hun. Of
ficers and men. the machine gunners
who will help boost the Boche back to
Berlin will have on them the unmistak
stamp of the “click!* that is a byword
in the ranks of the men who received
their training under Brigadier General
Oliver Edwards at the Augusta camp.
Nearly one hundred and fifty sec
ond lieutenants, graduates of the Cen
tral Machine Gun Training Schoo!,
where they received a thorough train
ing in both infantry -nd machine gun
tactics, were the latest to leave this
camp to go to new divisions. They
have been assigned to twelve different
camps, (and will form part of the
commissioned personnel of the machine
gun units in these camps.
A large number of field officers re
cently left this camp to take command
of machine gun battalions in the new
divisions, after completing the course
of study at the machine gun school,
which is also a part of the machine gun
training center These officers, who
originally were commissioned in the
infantry and nlar> were sent here to
take the training which would fit them
to command machine gun organiza
tions.
Enlist eo men to form nuclei for the
machine gun units in new divisions left
this camp some weeks ago, and with
the departure of the second lieutenants
who left this week, the units will be
sufficiently officered to be rapidly
whipped into shape during the latter
part of their training. All the offi
cers and men who left this camp, in
cluding non-commissioned officers,
had completed the courses of instruc
tion in machine gun work, and are
equipped to give the best possible ac
count of themselves and their guns
when they get over there.
The officers transferred this week
are:
For duty with the ninth division*
Camp Sheridan, Ala:
Second Lieuts, Edward J. MacFarlan,
E. R. Holt, Thomas T. Fiorille. Wilfred
Harris, T. C. Kyle, Albert F. Meinken.
Joseph B. Benson. Robert E. Ames,
John A. Graham, Horald S. Howard,
F. F. McGnrrahn.
For duty with the tenth division,
Camp Funston. Kansas.
Second Lieutenants Clair E. Par
nell, William R. Strow, Carl K. Wells,
Wm. H. Mclllroy, John R. Sampey,
Franklin V. Vernoy, Thomas N. Rybolt,
Frederick T. Thomas, Paul W. ZazzaH,
Edward P. 2’aterson and Gordon
Charlton.
For duty with the 11th division.
Camp Meade, Md.:
Second Lieutenants Glenn H. Hol
comb. B Revelle, C. T. McCarthy, R. V.
Shaw, Harold P. Ramsey, Lester L.
(Continued on page seven.)
Glover. The latter related
experiences in the Centra] 1- j
Officers’ Training School, am i
arriving there he thought tl
Westmoreland was the strict* z*
linarian he ever came in contaL __ f
but after a few’ weeks he felt like f
men now feel he was the best con i< \ f
in the camp and a “father” to thr
Following the dinner the gue
entertained by Casey. Handman
ger, Camp Hancock's leading J j
who have been named the kings
and melody and they proved it cc
ly.
O’Hara and Kay. a team of
comedians, entertained with droi
which was well received. Ray mu
Singletray rendered a variety of
and rag songs to the audience’s
and received a tremendous amo.
applause for their efforts.
The committees in charge of the I J B
were as follows: Candidate Franl H
Shirley. Chairman. Mess Committee.
V.’ Wilson. Lester E. Swinehart and F B
I>. Scot ford, Perorations. George F. C B
roll. Walter W. Ainsworth and W. B
Eastman: Entertainment. Leo Ray mon B
and Douglas D. Singletary.
The menu served follows: B
Grape Fruit
Baked Chicken
Creamed Mashed Potatoes
Oyster Dressing
Creamed Gravy Candied Sweet Potatoes
French Peas
Iced Celery Shrimp Salad
French Sweet Rolls
Mince Pie
Ice Cream
Coffee Mints
Cigars ~ Cigarette*