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CAMP HANCOCK. Augusta. Ox
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MOUNT GUN.
Newspaper accounts carry the news
‘that Izzet Pasha has been appointed
the premier of Turkey. What we want
to know is Izzot human? y
You can't boat these South t'arulln i
Iglrls. that’s all. Two Issues ago we
printed a message in verse, which we
.. answered. Right off the bat Clara
Louise (yep, that's her name! comes
back with the following outburst, cn
.•losed under special deliverj
When next he called, upon his lap
Rhe took her usual seat,
AH fitted out In overprices
And mackintosh complete.
kA nd all went well, until of love
She vainly tried to speak;
! The shock it whs ton much (or him.
His heart began to leak.
IBut even then the loving fair
Loved on without a stop,
itlntil he developed drops-y
And down she slid—ker-plop.
t And, Clara Louise, how could you?
| And worst of all she dared us to arts
! war it. Sneaking up behind the Muse
with a stealthy snuck, we perpetrated
(the following atrocity. Our plea I* self-
Mefenae:
Alas! that such a thing should be -
Catastrophe’s the word.
That she got soaking wet, of course.
Can only be Inferred.
For though her back was covered
With a mackintosh of gum.
And rubber covered both her feet,
It all went on the bum.
t*The reason Is (for truth will out.
Though for it 1 get pelted),
hTh* love ’twixt these two was so warm.
The rubber all got melted.
fe ‘.£, v . L’ENVOI.
IA sloppy tale this surely is,
. To this you must agree;
IBut added to his other ills.
He had a floating kidney.
But where was all this water from?
I hear you rlae and yell.
iMy friends, ’twufc from an overflow
In his Eustachean Canal.
THAT ixOLIr 7U. NO PH
kAUGUSTA?
Americans have always had a fond
n«ss for viaiting Germany, From the
i’ Iprsssnt outlook the Sausage Slingers
are going to see a great influx of Amer
ican tourists this winter.
A popular song says that "We Won t
Want the Bacon; All We Want Is a
Piece of the Rhine." It looks as if the
Allies are Hungary enough to enjoy a
little Turkey and will furnish their
own Greece.
In some parts of the country there
is a movement to change any names
that arc of German origin Wl. n they
give Limberger cheese a new name,
mav we suggest that they give it n
new odor? The present one is decid
edly pro-German.’
SOME OF OUR CHEESE EX
PERTS WANT TO RETAIN THIS
CHEESE, SAYING THAT IT BUILDS
YOU UP PHYSICALLY. MAYBE IT
DOES. BUT IT CERTAINLY RUINS
YOU SOCIALLY.
When you start panning the jitney
drivers, just remember that they have
their ups end downs, too. If you don t
believe it, ride out the Wrightsboro!
road some night.
Buck Private got a pack of Fatimas
th® other afternoon, but claims they
mutt have been very young, as ho
heard them calling their motlieis.
When asked what they said he replied
that they called out. Omar.
A Fair young thing visited the Ord
nance recently and asked why there
were so many machinists and where
they would he placed. Iler escort
promptly replied that he thought they
'■ would be sent to the Toul sector.
Tho unselfishness of ths American
people is shown when it is remembered
that most of the Fourth Liberty Loan
will go to Germany.
YEP. THEY’RE GOING To SHOOT
IT OVER.
SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSURANCJ.
The business of insuring our soldiers
and sailors Is scarcely a year old. and
ye*- we have written more than $30,000-
,000.900 of Insurance, insuring approxi
mately three and a half million of sol
diers and sailors. This gigantic business,
employing 10,0'0 Individuals and doing a
greater business than the largest insur
ance company of the world, has all been
organised In less than IS months. Os
I late the bureau has been doing mbre
' than a billion dollar a week business; (he
total for the month of August will ap
proxiamte $5.000.000,0» in new Insurance
i On one day 92,263 pieces of mail came to
L the bureau.
It IS a greet work, an intricate work, a
I work that every American aproves of.
[. More than 90 per cent of the members
E of our military and naval forces and in
st sured, and this insurance has strengthen
ed the morale of our fighting men and
brought comfort and courage to their de-
I pendents at home. In addition to the in-
, surance there are added soldier and sailor
family allotments and Government allow
ances to dependents, the disbursement of
allotments and allowances already total
ing more than $110,000,000.
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New fighting methods as well as
fresh fighting men have gone to the
western front under the American col
ors. The Germans were given a taste
of these methods when the Canadians
went overseas to join their British
comrades, but our men fr >m the
United States have introduced ideas
of modern warfare that differ even
from those put into practice by the
soldiers of the Dominion. Absolute
confidence in the superiority of weap
ons with which we soldiers are thor
oughly familiar is one of the charac
teristics that have made the soldiers
under General Pershing’s command a
superb military organisation.
A large number of the American
troops that got into the thick of the
fighting when the last German offen
sive was converted into a defeat were
made up of seasoned regiments.
Many of these men had gained valu
able experience in the old regular
army, in the national guard, or in the
marines. They handled their rifles
and automatic pistols in actual battle
as coolly as if on the range. They
kept their heads and made their am
munition count. Again and again,
according to the testimony of corre
spondents, they stopped German
rushes by the precision and steadiness
of their firing. And the feature of
this defensive work that particularly
impressed their French Allies on
either side was the fact that they used
long-range sights on their rifles and
began dropping individuals in the
enemy ranks at distances that amazed
the observers. Throughout the fight
ing, they gave a remarkable demon
stration of individual fighting skill
controlled, but not curtailed, by per
fect discipline.
It is this combination in the Ameri
can fighting man that puzzles the Ger
mans. They had been told that Amer
ica is a nation of sordid money-giab'
bers and that men drawn from banks,
stores, factories and shops could not
be transformed into soldiers in time
to effect the decisive battles bn the
western front this year. It is quite
possible that the members of the Ger
man general staff were entirely honest
in this belief. Their opinions are
based on actual experiences in the
training of their own men for military
service. It does not seem to have oc
curred to them that a nation as highly
intelligent as the United States and, a
people as naturally adaptable as
Americans can take up any business,
even the business of war, in a fraction
of the time required by the Teutons.
The proof that this is true was fur
nished when the German military ma
chine struck a snag last month. Al
though, as we have said, a large num-
THE GREAT ADVENTURE
The men who sail on the American
transports today embark on the great
est, most unselfish and most glorious
adventure of all history. For thou
sands of years to come men will
eagerly read and talk of the great en
terprise in which Americans of today
are privileged to participate. For
thousands of years to come, men
worthy of the name will envy those
who are permitted to fight for Amer
ica’s splendid ideals in the epic strug
gle of all time.
From the great countries of Europe,
which have served as the cradle for
Erasing the Hooj-Priuts of the Turk
Washington. D. C- -The magnificent vic- |,
tories of the British forces under General |
Allenby in the Holy Land gives timely ■
interest to a war geography bulletin is
sued today by the National Geographic
Society. The bulletin, which is based on
a communication to the Society from
William 11. Hall, says:
"Where Turkey joins to Egypt is Tai- '
estine. No spot on earth in all the world ■
bears such memories for so many and i
mivma variety of peoples as the rugged
mountain slopes, narrow valleys, and half
desert wastes of Judea and Galilee. Beer
sheba. Hebron, Bethlehem. Nazareth. Je
rusalem—the mere mention of these
names tells the stiry of Abraham and
Moses and Pa vid. of tho prophets of Israel
and of the Son of Man.
"Kings and priests and people come
from the north and the south, from the
cast and the wpst, ami ’bring the glory of
the nations’ to do homage to the memo
ries that cluster about these sacred
shrines.
"In Syria was the one green spot of
Turkey the Lebanon Mountains. In 1860
because of massacres, the European Pow -
ers insisted that these mountains be made
autonomous. And since that date this
little district has been a living demonstra
tion of what good government will pro
duce and of what the people of the land
are capable of becoming. ,
"The steep mountain sides have been
terraced to a height of 4.000 feel and
planted to olives, tigs, and vines. Taxes
have been low. safety to person and prop
erty secured, good roads built and kept
in repair. The people have constructed
more comfortable homes and have sent
their sons to schools and college.
"The story of tho achievements of the
Lebanon and its sons during these sixty
years of autonomy would be a thrilling
narrative in itself. Now that autonomy
has been taken away. the Labanon is
prostrate in famine.
"Practically the wohle Turkish Empire
is of the same surface configuration—
high mountain ranges along the sea-coast
with elevated plain and plateau in the
interior. These inner plains are gener
ally fertile, being constantly renewed by J
soil washed fro mt he surrounding moun
tains. Where rain is sufficient, of where
watW can be obtained for irrigation, they
produce fine crops of grain.
"In ancient times the mountains were
everywhere covered with forests. The
cedars of Lebanon not only furnished
limber for the building of Solomon’s Tem
ple in Jerusalem, but the kings of Egypt
WHEN AMERICA FIGHTS
ber of the Americans engaged in the
recent battles were members of sea
soned regiments, a very high percent
age of the men from the United
States who rolled back Germany's
best shock troops were graduates of
the training camps. They were un
drilled civilians only last summer.
Nevertheless, they stood shoulder to
shoulder with their more experienced
fellow-Americans and fought with
equal coolness and irresistible bravery.
The experiences of the last fifteen
months prove that the average man in
j this country becomes a scientifically
j trained and thoroughly disciplined
I scldier within a year.
The American does not depend on
discipline and training as blindly as
the German. He obeys his officers
with equal military promptness, but
his brain is working even during the
most mechanical execution of an or
der. Consequently, when he finds him
self isolated in action he thinks swiftly
and shifts for himself. In a similar
emergency a typical German soldier
would grope about for some authority
to tell him what to do. A captured
German transfers his prompt obe
dience to the first Allied officer he
meets. A captured American merely
awaits an opportunity to catch his
captors off their guard and effect an
ingenious escape. It is this quality of
initiative, coupled with entire self
confidence, that enables an American
to out-think and out-fight a German.
We men in khaki are the product of a
people who have led independent lives
and worked out their own destinies.
Our enemy is a victim of a system that
tells him he must never think for him
self, but regard himself as a contempt
ible atom in a system of graduated
bullying dominated by an “All-High
est” who, after four yeats of disillu
sionment, still regards himself as a
glittering example of “Divine Right.”
Cromwell’s -oklicrs, according to
Macauley, were unbeatable because
“they moved into battle with the pre
cision of machines and the fury of
fanatics.” History will record a simi
lar verdict on the fighting qualities of
the Americans in the present war.
They are moving against the enemy
with a perfection of discipline that
surpasses the German training of forty
years, and they are delivering sledge
hammer blows against the Teuton
armies with the contained fury of a
good-natured man who has been
goaded into a life-and-death struggle
by the wanton insults of a swaggering
bully. Germany has committed many
blunders since the spring of 1914.
Her crowning mistake, however, was
her idiotic theory that she could afford
to despise a nation that prizes peace
but has never lost a war.
the civilization to which we belong,,
brave, valiant and adventurous spirits,
hungry for freedom and liberty, have
sailed across the ocean to this clean 1
and fresh America, the very name of
which has slowly come to mean so<
much to all the world. America has
taken them, given them happiness,
freedom, riches and contentment in
the fullest possible measure.
Now their descendants return across
the ocean to destroy the bestial thing;
which is the eternal foe of all the
ideals America represents; return
across the ocean to bring to oppressed
[annually floated large rafts of logs from
i the Syrian coast to supply the demands
of the cities of the Nile. This constant
demand from foreign lands, together with
the lack of any : ystem of reforestation,
has practically denuded the mountains of
the whole land.
• Once more to cover the mountains and
I hills with pine and cedar and oak would
■ a simple tas kit carried on systemat
ically. 'rhe chief enemy today- of re
-1 forestation by nature is the herds of
goats, which every spring roam over the
whole country and devour every green
thing. The little seedling trees suffer es
pecially.
"Tho population of the Ottoman Em
pire. not including Arabia, is about 18.-
000,000, or was before the war In giving
statistics on any subjjcct regarding Tur
key one approximate terms, for
only be given, as no
thorough census is taken or other statis
tics systematically gathered Among the
various races this total was distributed as
follows:
Turks. 7,000.000; Syrian and Arabs. 4.-
500.000; Kurds. 2.000.000; Armenians 2-
000,000; Greeks, 1,500.000; Jews. 500.000;
other races. 500.000,
"All of these peoples can trace their
history back to the period when fable
and legend blend with the beginnings of
historic tacts And all. except the Turks
ha\e inhabited, from time immemorial,
| the districts in which they are nowfound.
"These races represent the three great
monotheistic religions, which have also
originated within the boundaries of the
Turkish Empire. About two-thirds of the
entre population are Mohamedan, but of
different sects. The Christians, also.' are
divided into mans sects. representing
nearly all the great divisions of the
church.
"The Christian races are the most pro
gressive part of the population; they have
been most responsive to education and
have made some progress is establishing
schools ot their own. The Turks are
the most backward of all: vet under
proper encouragement and facilities they
are capable of good progress. In com
i petition with Greeks.' Armenians, and Sy
rians, however they invariable fall be
hind.
"It should be noted that of 48 Grand
\ iziers who have risen to prominence
within the past four centuries, those
whose names would be in history’s ‘Who’s
Who.’ only 12 have been Turks; all the
others were either of Greek or Armen
ian origin. ’
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peoples in the old world the liberty'
and freedom, the freshness of soul and
the cleanness of mind our great coun
try has given to all who have come
' under her unsullied flag.
Just as we can close our eyes and
> see the American colors carried by
l brave, honest and determined men
from every corner of the whole vast
; expanse of America; can see it flown
! by great fleets of warships and trans-:
ports across the sea; can see it borne
along the roads of France and Flan-;
ders to the frontiers of civilization, so
men of all future time will close their I
eyes and see the American flag car
ried bravely and triumphantly across
the pages of history: will see it come
as a symbol of great, human aspira
tions to bring freedom and peace to ;
an harrassed world.
Think how men will be stirred, how
they will thrill and be uplifted, when
they read of America’s Crusade! They
will conjure it all up from the begin
ning, will see it unfold before them as
some marvelous and inspiring pageant.
They will see America going steadily
along on her career of peace. They
will see the Great War begin, and!
America’s shocked and horrified i
amazement. They will see the years
1915 and 1916; the valiant fight offered
by the Allies; the incomprehensible
horrors and atrocities committed by
Germany; the slowly developing de
termination of America.
They will see a great nation, stand
ing squarely back of the great Presi
dent, wbo so marvelously voices the
thoughts of all the nations, slowly
strip for action. They will see the
cities and towns and villages, the
KEEP FIT TO FIGHT
Marshal Foch has spent his whole
lifetime in perfecting the strategy
which is winning the war.
An unusually intelligent man—con
centrating to the utmost for a few
months—might possibly learn from
Marshal Foch the moat important
points in that strategy.
But the knowledge would be abso
lutely valueless to him unless he pos
sessed the other thing which it has
taken Marshal Foch his whole life
time to perfect—the thing which is the
most important, part of every soldier's
equipment; the thing without which
all the rest is of no value.
That is poise—the ability to keep
your head no matter how tremendous
the excitement about you; the ability
td keep utterly calm, cool and col
lected; the ability to keep always
clearly in mind the big ideas into
which all the details must be properly
fitted.
Have you ever thought of the tens
of thousands of facts which are
brought to the Allied Generalisimo
every day? Have you ever thought
how difficult it must be to keep the
CHAFF — FROM WILD OATS
By I’RSUS, Camp Shelby
THEY say nobody
I.OVKS a fat man—
BUT a fat man is a
SOUL-mate for a movie
VAMPIRE, if yon compare
HIM with that
UVmvmUAL eallod the
SANITARY Inspector!
A brief for the
SANITARY Inspector!
DAY in and out he
TROTS, sniffing for
STRANGE odors, getting
CTiOSE-UPS of things
UNMENTIONABLE, writing
NOTES, skinning ail who
WILL not maintain tilings
IN a sanitary manner.
HE is as popular as
CLOWNS at a funeral;
THE more efficient he is
THE more his friends
AVERT their faced —h«
COULDN’T borrow a
TKN-apot if his
LIFE '.lepenndex! on it!
IN rain and under hot
SUN, he trudges along, and
PERSPIRATION crawls over and
DOWN military channels.
EVER faithful, he te
EVER cursed.
AND there comes a
GREAT day, when the
SUPER-crltic wires Ills
IMPENDING arrival for
INSPECTION. Brooms friction,
AND mops are worn down to
, HAN DI JIS. The Sanitary Inspector
CURRENT E VENTS
By Chaplain Harris G, Beck
, AT HOME
The 4th Liberty Loan was oversub
scribed last Saturday. 1
The army death-rate is 2.8 per thous
and. The death-rate for tho civilians of <
tho corresponding ages is 6.7 per thous
and.
18th —It was announced by Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield that an average of 8
millions gallons of gas was saved each (
Sunday during the observance of ease
less Sundays. How much gas is 8 millions 1
gallons? Enough to run a Ford around
ihe earth 6.100 time, at tho rate of 20 '
miles to the gallon Or enough to run
a large Vrmy truck for 32.000 days in its
regular line of duty.
18th—A war salvage commisson of sev
en members is provided by a bill which
passed the House yesterday. The duties
of this Commission will be to make a
survey of all Government property after 1
the war and determine what shall be
done With it. Who wants a job on this
Commission? The salary provided by the
bill is SIO,OOO per year.
19th —Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
Board, states that the month of Septem
ber broke all previous records in the de
liveries of ships from the U. S. ship
building yards. Thru the month there
were 74 vessels built and delivered to
the shipping Board.
20th—From the reports of Brig.-Gen
eral Wood. Acting Quartermaster Gener
al of the Army, some interesting facts
may be gathered. The reports indicate
just what it costs to maintain a soldier
"over seas" ana in the United States. We
will state it briefly; it costs our govern
ment $423.37 A year for each soldier over
seas; and 327.78 for each soldier in this
country.
20th—The Food Administration made
some figures talk for his department. He
shows that each soldier eats his own
weight of food every 37 days. The aver
age weight of our soldiers is about 160
pounds. A soldier eats 4.3 lbs of food
each day. There are now 2 millions sol
diers in France. So it becomes necessary
to send 159,100 tons of food to France
every 37 days.
21st—Fewer soft drinks for the soldiers
in the Camps is the new order from the
War Department. Soda pop will not be
so pentiful in Army Canteens as here
tofore. The Food Administrator has or
dered that onlyq 50 per cent as much
sugar can be used for soft drinks for the
coming year as in 1918. Oh well, Bacchus
is willing.
21st —Tho United States today grant
ed additional loans to our Allies as fol
lows:
$200,000,000 to Italy and $100,000,000 to
France. The total amount of money the
U. S. has now loaned to the Allies is >7,-
520,467,000.
crowded streets and the quiet country
lanes, from which brave men, laying
aside the old interests of peace, take
up the ways of war, determined that
Prussianism shall no longer be per
mitted to exist. They will see soldiers
arise as by magic; see them trained
and sent to the embarkation ports.
I They will aee the transports move out
| bearing the crusaders who go to risk
I all. with no hope of gain and no selfish
I motive. They will see the hard strug-
I gle, the triumphant end. They will
i see the transports bearing back to a
I nevz, ennobled, exalted America the
I valiant spirits who participated in the
| fight. They will see the years of
i happy peace that follow. They will
see America’s young men slowly
I growing old, ever more and more
I proud of their participation in the
great struggle, ever more and more
honored by the rising generation,
looking back always to the unbeliev
ably splendid days of their fortunate
and wonderful youth.
The very names of the boats that
bear us over the ocean, back to the
lands from which our ancestors came,
! will be remembered. Every name of
i every transport will figure in the
I poetry, the literature, the art, the his
j tory of the future. Generation after
generation will remember and think
of these experiences we are under
going today. Let us determine to see
the adventure as they will see it. Let
us understand the great privilege
which is ours. Let us be infinitely
glad and happy that we are living in
such epic times and have, been granted
the honor of participating in the great,
est adventure of history.
tug program clear with all these de
tails coming every moment to con
fuse? Have you ever thought that
one of the greatest of Marshal Foch’s
duties is to be able to sleep after th®
tremendous mental activity of the
day? Have you ever thought what
might happen to the world if Marshal
Foch could not sleep, if he ever had
“nerves.” if he were not always abso
lutely “fit,” if he were to make th®
mistake that Ludendorff is hoping he
may make?
All the strategy would be valueless
without the poise and fitness.
To be “fit”—that is the essence of
the soldier’s job. That is the acid
test of his manhood and of his ability
to play a man’s part in this war which
demands all that every man has of
manhood.
The lives of a company or of a regi
ment—at any time—depend upon the
fitness, the poise, the calm steady
nerves and quick thought of any sol
dier in the ranks. And no soldier ever
has those things unless he deliberately
builds them up in himself. It sounds
preachy, but it is a fact nevertheless.
DOG-trots here and there,
/IWAITING resultjr with a
PALUD face.
j THE, landscape looks
( PEAN as a hound's tooth—
. I-NTIL a last-minute sandstorm
DEPOSITS three inches of
DIRT on everyihsnij'
THE Super-critic rides up in
•AN auto. He steps out and
; GREETS the Colonel; the Col let
HANDS him a good cigar and
HOLDS a lighted match.
IN the excitement the match
BERNS the Colonel's hand—and
HE tosses it urway!
UNFORTUNATE act!
THE Super-critic turns
APOPLECTIC, seises the burr 1
- STUB of the match for evident j,
TRIES to speak—but sobs, and
! EAPS into his auto seat,
THERE to write: ”Sanitation
I ‘'OF camp rrery bad."
. AFTER this, the Colonel skins
I THE Sanitary Inspector and the
INSPECTOR goes home tw Squt
Camp,
KICKS his dog off the porch, and
BUYS his mother-in-lcwj a
ONE-I^AY ticket to her home, up
NORTH. He cams no cross
BUT the cross he bears. No
WONDER that lus nose is
PERPETUALLY brittle!
HIS conscience is his
ONLY source of compliment,
A brief for the
SANITARY Inspector—he
IS hu man.
OVER THERE
“U. S.” means Unconditional Surrend
er.
The Huns are in the 13th week of
continuous defeat.
"Austria did it." That’s about what we
expected to hear from Berlin.
18th-—Bulgaria today notified all the
Germans and Austrians to leave Bul
garian* territory within thirty davs. She
considers this a part of her Fall house
cleaning.
18th—The Teutons arc "taking high and
are evacuating the territory of Serbia,
Albania and Montenegro.
19th —The Belgium Coast is entirely
freed from the Hun today. Now the Bel
gium flag floats along all her coast-front
again.
19th—General March announces that in
the past four days the Germans have
surrendered 800 square miles of territory
to the allies.
19th —Kaiser Wilhelm had a dream. He
dreamt the 4th Liberty Loan in the U. S.
was a failure. Dreams always go to the
contrary when upon money matters and
Jove- affairs.
19th—Authentic advices from Zurich
state that there was another panic on
the Berlin Bourse a few days ago Mara
time securities dropped .-25 per cent.
Chemical products issues fell from 10 to
20 per cent.
20th —Official announcements state that
the American Red Cross has opened four
hospitals in Italy. They are stationed at
Milan, at Rome, at Genoa and at Florence
They are at the service of any Americans
in Italy who are engaged in war work.
20th—Germany sends word officially
that the U-boats have been ordered to
sink no more passenger vessels. At the
same time a report comes thru Spain that
tho German Admiralty has ordered all the
submarines to return immediately to their
bases.
21st—Germany sends a new peace note
The note declares that Germany has
adopted a new parliamentary form of
Government subject to the will of the
people. This not also protests against the
charges of "illegal and Inhumane ac
tions" conducted by the German land and
sea forces. The thing that interests
America is that. Germany shows that she
is not yet ready to surrender. *
21st —Emperor Charles of Austria has
sent a manifsto to Hungary announcing
their independence according to a re
port from Amsterdam. This manifesto
will permit Hungary to maintain her own
army and diplomatic corps.
AFTER LINCOLN !
By Joseph K. Colton
Macnine Gun Training Center
(This verse was written in February of
this year on the anniversary of Lincoln's
birth and was published in various news
papers, originally in Massachusetts. It
is taken from a book of verses published
during the summer by the writer.)
A world of freemen —that was Lincoln's
dream,
A league of brotherhood upon the earth,
Shoulder to shoulder each to prove his
worth
And have his bit of land beside Life’s
stream;
No potentates to rob or wreck men’s
hearts,
No scourging whips—but fellowship and
love.
With gentle trust and faith in Him
above
Welding the universe and aty its parts.
A world of freemen —that was Lincoln’s
dream.
And some day, think you will it come
to pass?
1 When some one like him stands from
out the mass
I Tn make the multitude a striving team.
! To pull away from sordid schemes of
strife,
; Forgetting self and crushing fierce desire,
| Their souls re-kindled by a heavenly fire,
. To find the way unto the joyous life?
A world of freemen! —that was Lincoln’s
prayer.
J Then look >;ou now beyond the stormy
seas.
To where an army, hearkening to the
pleas
Os ravished countries, keeps its vigils
| there;
i Slowly but surely will that drcam come
I true!
; Although the earth be running red with
blood.
In time, no earthly force may stay the
flood
! Os men of purpose with a vision new’.
THINGS~THAT CANNOT
BE SENT SOLDIERS
AS CHRISTMAS GIFTS i
The /Xmerican Red Cross which has
’ been delegated by the government to take j
care of Christmas packages, has issued
the following list of articles which are not
mailable.
I. All spirituous, vinous, malted, fcF’
; mented or other intoxicating liquors.
i 2. All kinds of poison and all articles
; and compositions containing poison.
! Explosives of all kinds.
s 4. Inflammable materials. including
I friction matches
' '. Infernal machines and mechanical, i
I chemical or other devices of compositions ’
■ which may ignite or explode.
Note: —Under this classification would
come cigarette lighters, etc.
I 6. Liquids or liquefiable articles, fra- |
Igile articles and other admissable matter
j when not packed in accordance with the
j requirements of the Postal Laws and |
Regulations.
| 7. All other articles which may kill,
or in any wise hurt, harm or injure an
| other, or damage or deface or othermise
I injure the mails or other properfty.
1 Every package intended for the boys ;
j must be handled bf the Red Cross and 1
lean only be sent in the special box is
. sued by them. These boxes are only pro
; -arable by persons presenting the label
•nailed them by the boy in France.
These orders were made by the gov-
• iment because of the scarcity of ship
!tg facilities. No boy in France will be
■gotten unless his people at home lose
'• slip he sends them for on no condi
will a duplicate slip be issued.
\ll packages must be in the office of
local Chapter of the Red Cross not
iter than Novem' r 15.
ILL-ADVISORY.
Bureau of Information.
(By A. Einson.)
Dear Editor: Now that Germany «
is willing to accept peace it looks a.i j
;f this war is nearing the finish. I am
m ambitious young man, with a little I
.mney ,to invest, in some safe, sane I
".d substantial business after the war I
settled and I am released from the
nny. Nindly advise me of a good
;>!an. Yours.
WANNA MAKE A DOLLAR.
My Dear Wanna Make a Dollar: Buy
t small farm and raise canary birds. I
• 'anary meat is sweet and tender nd l|
in serve as a chicken substitute. The |
birds eat polly seeds. You can plant I
that on your farm at little expense. As I
i trim for ladies’ hats nothing is bet- I
i er. The feathers of inferior grade
tan be used for pillow and mattress
stuffings. This is a unique plan be
cause when the boys return from
Over There they will need pillows and
mattresses on a large scale. Go to it.
Good luck to you. Yours. Editor.
i —-- -
G r i n-A i d s
; After being with the family for a
number of years Mary Jane suddenly
announced to her mistress the news
of her approaching marriage, and it
was received with great consterna
tion.
“I hope,” said the mistress, “that
you have given the matter very serious
consideration."
“Oh. yes, indeed 1 have, ma'am,' I
said the girl very earnestly. “I ve been
to two fortune tellers and a clairvoy
ant, and dreamed on a lock of his hair
and been to one of these asterologers,
and they all says go ahead. I ain't
one to marry reckless like, ma'am.*'—
Tit-Bits.
It was at a technical class for young
students. The usual lecturer being
absent, his place had been taken by a
substitute. At the end of his discourse
he told the boys he would be pleased
to answer any questions.
There was only one response to the
invitation.
“If you please, sir. can you tell us
wlwn the other lecturer will be back?”
The valor and candid simplicity of our (
Indian Babu is proverbial. A story goes i
of one anent the German east campaign |
who, in the words of a contefnporary, ■
was about the most laconic, competent,
deadly earnest station master and marks
man combined that ever lived. A regi-*
ment of men like him would end the
war. for this is the wire he sent:
“One hundred Germans attacking • 11
tion. Send immediattly one rifle aiiu
100 rounds of ammunition.'”
A soldier of the Seventh Illinois, ac
cording to Major Brady, was limping
around Camp Wilson, clown in Texas,
with his ankle heavily swathed in band
ages. nA elderly lady visitor, wshng
to be sympathetc, remarked:
“My poor felow, and you were hurt in
the leg!"
•'No, ma'am,’’ the soldier boy replied.
"I was kicked in the head by a mule,
but the bandages slipt.”
Captain; “Have you ehanged the guard
yet ?“
The Newchum Junior: “No. sir: tfic old
guard was doing the job so well, sir, j
I thought I'd let ’em stay on, sir. ’
Jenkins: Yes, I gave it to that man I
straight, I can tell you. He is twice as i
big as 1 am, too. but I just told him
exactly what I thougnt of him, and I
called him all the names in the directory,
and a lot of others as well.
Studds: And didn’t he try to hit you.
Jenkins?
Jenkins —No, he didn't. And when he
t*d to answer me back I just, hung up
the telephone receiver and walked away.
—London Tit-Bits.
o Lo
A-M-E-R-l-C-A
A—Action.
M—Mutuality.
; . —Energy.
■ -Resourcefulness.
I—lnitiative.
C—Comradeship.
A—Aspiration.
6 —o
Wednesday, Oct. 23.
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a pleasant gift in re
turn for that box of
cigars or that surpass
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