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“Brownies” to Click Football With Sailors Saturday
On Your Marks For War Work Drive
Welfare Organizations
Work Harmoniously
For Benefit of Soldier
No Duplication of Effort—Large Sum Needed
For Meeting Tremendous Demands Over
seas As Weil As in Training Camps
This s the second of a series of articles upon the United War Work
Campaign. Its publication is authorized by all seven organizations.
Editor.
By FRANK PARKER STOCKBR.DGE.
“We go with him every step of the way” is the motto of the six wel
fare organizations whose work with and for the soldiers and sailors ex
tends overseas. The War Camp Community Service alone confines its
work to the United States. In the nature of things, its sphere of useful
ness stops at the Atlantic seaboard; but every one of the other great ci
vilian agencies that have combined in the United War Work Campaign
has developed its overseas work to keep pace with the rapid growth of
the A. E.F.. and it is primarily for the further extension and develop
ment of the work over there that the great $170,500,000 is being asked of
the American public.
In last week’s Trench and Camp I
told only of the work of the Y. M. C.
A., Y. \V. C. A., the War Camp Com
munity Service, the National Catholic
War Council, the Jewish Welfare
board, the American Library Asso- ;
elation ;|nd The Salvation Army on this ,
side. Very few. ev. n of men in the ser
vice, realize that when they get over
izations working with them wherev«
they go, in some oases even up to the '
first Hi e trenches.
Only men who are dlsqullifled for
military service are sunt overseas as
workers in these organizations, but
many of them take all the risks the
soldier takes. 1
Many Casualties Among Workers.
There have been something like a
score of Y. M. C. A. secretaries, sev- !
oral of the K. <f (secretaries, and ’ (
even some of the the Salvation Army !
workers killed in the liattles of the f ,
last few months, so close to the firing,
line do they press in their efforts to j
be of service to the fighting men. | ,
And it is a service -genuine ser- |
vice for the tired, hungry and wound- i ;
ed soldier to find close at hand wher- (
ever he may go. Salvation Army las
sies frying doughnuts, K. of C. sec- |
retaries with cigars and cigarettes, a (
Y. M. C. A. cat eon with chocolates i
and hot coffer, or any or all of the (
other efforts and provisions for his (
welfare which it is the duty of these
and th? other organizations to su>-
ply. I can only sketch here with thp
greatest brevity the bare outlines ,
what each of these organizations I
doing overseas.
At an average rate of 100 a month,
the Y. M. C. A. is building in France i
huts of various kinds. A great deal
of building has had to be done this
SECRETARY BAKER ENDORSES DRIVE
October 18, 1918.
Dr. John R. Mott,
Director General,
United War Work Campaign,
New York City.
OC* ■ Dear Mr. Mott,
J On my return from Europe I am
more than pleased to learn of
the successful progress which
V° u have made in projecting the
plan of the United War Work
Secretary Baker Campaign. I have received most
<C) u n & gratifying reports of the splen
did spirit of co-operation on
the part of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, National Catholic War Council
(Knights of Columbus), Jewish Welfare Board,
and other agencies.
The proposal to extend the campaign to
all of the military training camps, large
and small, meets with my hearty approval.
In fact, it would be a serious mistake not to
afford the officers and enlisted men this
opportunity to join with their fellow citi
zens in this great patriotic endeavor on
behalf of their comrades in arms.
I am confident you will meet with the
hearty co-operation of all the Commanding
Officers in furthering your plan.
Very sincerely,
NEWTON D. BAKER,
Secretary of War.
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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CAMP HANCOCK, THE
MACHINE GUN TRAINING CENTER OF THE U. S. ARMY
VOL. 2.
summer because nearly a hundred
huts were destroyed when the Ger
mans made their drive beginning the
latter part of Match, 1918. The Y.
M. C. A. follows the army and will
soon l»e I ullding anew in the recon
qffuered territory In France and Bel
gium.
In general, the hut is a long, low
frame building, with a big general
room, having a stage at one end and
a canteen at the other. The Y. M.
C. A. has gone into the theatrical and
ih» moving picture business oh a
large scale.
Entertain Our Troops.
Twenty-five companies of players
and 100 actors, singers and enter
tainers travel on the “Y” circuit all
the time. Fifteen miles of motion
picture films are sent to France every
week. The average weekly atten
dance at the movie shows in th? Am
erican camps Is 2,500,000. Admission
Is free.
The usefulness of the canteen in a
Y. M. A. hut is shown by the fact
that in scores of towns and villages
where our soldiers are billeted there
are no stores except possibly a wine
shop.
The only place whore the men can
buy tobacco, candy, chewing gum,
safety razors and other necessities is
the Y M. C. A. Between July, 1917,
and August, 1918, there was shipped
overseas 1,959,156 cans of fruit,
2,557,481 packages of tobacco, 848,-
785,802 cigarettes, 32,358,700 cigars,
10,227,735 pounds of sugar and 551,-
crage month the Y. M. C. A. gives
away 100,000,000 sheers of paper, and
every day 2,500,00 letters are written
from Y. M. C. A. huts on Red Triangle
stationery.
What the Y. M. C. A. is to the fight
ing men in camp and trench the Y.
With the Co-operation of the Augusta Herald, Augusta, Ga.
COLLARS SMALLER
NOW IN BERLIN.
i With the American Army in
i France. —The following adver
| tisement appears in a. copy of a.
! Berlin newspaper taken from a
j captured German:
i “Many persons whose necks
! have become thinner by reason
I of privations caused by the war
I may remedy this inconvenience
| by changing their collars at the
| rate of twenty-five pfennigs for
j each collar exchanged.”
Nothing as yet has been heard |
i from Berlin hat makers.
I I
o o
SV. C. A. is to the army of nurses, the
women of the telephone wires in the
Signal Corps, the hundreds of army
setnographers, and the women in the
various branches of civilian work in
France.
In Paris the Y. W. C. A. has taken
over the Hotel Petrograd, in the Rue
Caumartin, and has made it into a.
women’s hotel. Here, for a moderate
charge, the women workers overseas
may live in an atmosphere of home.
In Tours another women’s hotel is
in operation under the management
of the Y. SV. C. A. Sixteen huts for
American nurses, who otherwise would
have no club -rooms, fifteen for
w omen workers in mini l ions factories
stand to the credit of the organiza
tion. “Our business is to back up the
women, who are backing up the men.”
is the slogan of the Y. W. C. A., and
they are doing it in France as well as
In the United States.
The Great Work of the K. of C.
The Knights of Columbus is the
agency through which the National
Catholic War Council does welfare
work for the men of the American
Army and Navy, both in France and
Italy. The K. of C. is an organiza
tion 430,000 strong, and its war work
began during the Spanish-American
war, when returning veterans at Mon
tauk Point were given aid and com
fort.
When the American Army was mo
bilized on the Mexican border the K.
of C. extended its work, erecting a.
row of service huts in New Mexico,
Arizona and Texas. As soon as the
United States entered the world war
the K. of C. volunteered its services,
chaplains and secretaries were ap
pointed and a general appeal for
funds was issued.
The great sum of $11,241,529 was quick
ly raised, and by September Ist, 1918, 300
secretaries had been sent to France, 450
more were In training and 200 were in re
serve. It is expected that 1,000 workers
Continued on page eight
Dope on the Camp’s
Drive For War Work
o —O
The goal for the Camp is $50,-
I 000, which will mean an average
I of about $2 for each man.
I
The drive will last one week
and will start on Monday, Nov.
• 11th, ending on Monday, Nov.
[ 18th.
Every company will have a
I campaign officer.
Each organization will be ad-
• dressed by campaign speakers. 1
To men who desire to con- I
tribute a certain amount and 1
have not the cash, pledge cards •
I will be issued, on which they ’
1 will pledge a sum of money (not ■
to exceed $2), payment of which I
1 will be made to their command- I
Ing officer. Although the war
' department has approved the ■
•' men making allotments to the I
i drive, and the sum being deduct- I
- ed from their pay, this camp has |
decided not to use this method. I
I I
No competition between groups. |
companies or other organlza- 1
tlons will be allowed, and no spe- I
cified quotas to be made for any 1
I organization. Every individual '
is to be allowed to contribute ac- i
j cording to his own means and
I conscience. No man is to be
urged to contribute.
A newspaper will be published
I ' dally, which will show the prog
ress being made. This paper is 1
to be posted on company bulle- I
tin boards and other conspicu- I
ous places.
To assist tn reaching and go- '
I Ing “over the top’’ of the goal, I
1 a football game and two or three '
vaudeville shows will be staged, I
proceeds of which will go to- |
wards this fund.
I I
I The drive is to be handled en
tirely by members of this com
i man!
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NOVEMBER 6, 1918.
HANCOCKFIXES
550,000 GOAL IN
WELFARE DRIVE
Soldiers Behind Movement to
Raise That Sum For War
Workers
COMMITTEE MEETS
TO PLAN CAMPAIGN
Officers Representing Every
Organization in Camp at
Gathering to Talk Plans.
With $50,000 as their goal in the Unit
ed War Wol*k drive, a meeting of the
Camp Campaign Committee was held at
headqdqrtcrs. Machine Ghn Training Cen
ter. Monday. Lieut. A. A. Millman, rep
resenting General Oliver Edwards, who
is the chairman of the Corn pa Commit
tee, presided.
The officers representing the various
groups in the Main Training Depot, who
will co-operate with the. committee to
stimulate interest in the drive, were in
attendance.
Plans were outlined for a campaign
which will aid the camp to go over the
top with the quota allotted the camp
Speakers will be used in calling to the
soldiers' attention the wonderful work of
the allied Welfare boards at t his and
other camps.
Lieutenant Millman briefly outlined
the manner in which he expects the co
operation of each group In accordance
with the desires of General Edwards.
In order to perfect, the organization,
with a view towards making a special
effort to reach every man in camp, the
meeting was adjourned mtil Wednesday,
the 6th. when It wfH be held at the
]M. A. t'Tffdfng "“"at 4 p‘ fit.' ,
Those present were as follows:
Mr. Ralph A. Tracy, Y. M. c 11.; Lieut, i
A. A Millman, campaign executive;
Lieut. A. Lipman. Ordnance; Lieut. E. ;
R. Cochrun, Dev. Battalian; Lieut. L. D.
Miller, Sixth Group; Lieut. F. G. Nelson. ’
Fifth Group. Lieut. W. P. Chalk. 433 d
Labor Battalion; Lieut A. Fry, Second
Group; Lieut. J. H. Sakow, Machine (Jun
School; Lieut. W. A. Jenkins, Third
Group; Lieut. H. H. Gilbert, Bakers’ and
Cooks’ School; Lieut. W. L. Theilk. Spe
cialists’ School; Capt. F. Halstead, Quar
termaster Corps; Lieutenant Seymour. M.
G’.T.C. Hq- Co.; Lieuteant Roduguez.
Main Training Depot; Lieut. J. J. Casey,
Seventh Group; Lieut. O. F. Lowery,
Fourth Group; Lieut. I'. W, Glass, Camp
Signal Officer; Corp. George K. Henken,
representing Camp Publicity officer.
Machine Gunners
Ballots In
National Election
Election day was observed through
out Camp Hancock Tuesday, in order
to afford officers and enlisted men,
who are qualified voters of the states
New York, lowa, Wisconsin, Pennsyl
vania and Kansas, an opportunity to
cast their ballots for the candidates of
their choice from those states.
Necessary election boards were ap
pointed at the various polling places
selected and were open at 9 a. in. until
12 noon. The polling places were
opened and closed by the commis
sioner.
The following places were used as
polling places for the States men'lon
i*d *
New York voters at Y. M. C. A.
building 77.
Pennsylvania voters at K. of C.
building. I
Wisconsin voters at Jewish Wel
fare building.
Kansas voters at Y. M. C. A. build
ing 78.
In view of the fact that most of the
officers and men hall from the above
mentioned states an extraordinarily
large vote was cast by the Machine
Gun soldiers.
HEADQUARTERS STAFF,
MAIN TRAINING DEP3T,
NON-COMS PROMOTED
Col. Wickham Signs Warrants
Appointing and Promoting
Several Men
HERTZEL IS BN. SGT. MAJOR
Sergeant James Fletcher Suc
ceeds Sergeant Rose As Mar
shall Major Domo,
Colonel Wickham, commanding of- |
finer of the Main Depot, last week |
signed warrants promoting and ap- I
pointing non-eommißsloned officers on I
his staff.
Corporal Harry R. Hertzel was pro
moted to battalion sergeant major;
Corporal Erwin A. Piepenbrlng to ser
geant, and Private Louis J. Stehr was ;
made a corporal.
The following promotions were also
mr«ie In the enlisted personnel of the
Headquarters Company, Main Train- ,
ng Depot: •
Private First Class Marshall G. |
Haines to corporal.
Sergeant James Fletcher was ap-
Contlnued on page four
Under the Auspices of the Army Y. M. C. A.
21 MINE GUN
OFFICERS ARRIVE
FROM OVERSEAS
Americans Back From France
to Teach Use of Weapon at
School Here
RECOUNT EXPERIENCES
AT STAFF CONFERENCE
Tell of Developments In Use
of Browning Gun on the
Western Front.
Twenty-three officers direct from over
seas service have reported to the Machine
Gun Training Center- and have been as
signed to the permanent personnel un
der training at the Machine Gune School.
All of these officers have seen and have
taken Jart In advanced machine gun
fighting, and are to be used as Instruc
tors at the school.
Some of the officers related personal
experiences aAI observations at. the
front, and told of Interesting and Import
ant progress In the tactics of machine
guns to the staff officers of the Machine
Gun Training Center at the last weekly
staff conference.
Tn addition to their experience with ma
chine gun battallans. these officers also
received a course of instruction in the
English and French types of the weapon,
and are fitted to make the course at, the
school, the last word in machine gun
nery.
The -ffiners w.hp -ipf-f.ed li.vc
.the machine gun orgahlwtfrms with
I which the saw servlet overseas, fol
| low:
I Major Arthur L. McCoy. 90th Division
i M.ipor Joseph Connelly, 308th Battal-
I lon.
Capt. Bon. H. Tyler. H3lh Battalion. ,
Capt. Frank E. Haskell, 15th Battalion, ,
sth Division.
Capt. John 1.. Chapman. 110th Bat- -
tallon, 29th Division.
Capt John It. Lister. 313 rd Battalion. ■
Capt. James F. Hillman. 321st Battalion. ,
Capt George M. Hunt. 339tb Battalion, ,
88th Division. ,
Capt. Charles C. Stanchfield. 102nd
Battalion. 2fith Division.
Capt. Fulton Mandeville. 327th Battal
ion, 84th Division. ~ <
Lieut. Clyde E. Llnduff, 136th Bat- ,
tallon, 37th Division. ;
Lieut. Shelton R. Martin, 304th Bat
talion, 77th Division.
Lieut. Theodore B. Beson, 313th Bat
talion. 77th Division.
Lieut. Jean E. Nelson. 31th Division.
Lieut. Ralph W. Shepherd, 10th Bat
talion. 4th Division.
Lieut. Clarence R. Christman, 2nd Bat
talion, Ist Division.
Lieut. Frank M. Fitpatrlck, 132nd Bat
talion. m
Lieut. Fred Frueger. 128th Battalion.
Lieut Boaz Watkins. 340th Battalion.
Lieut. Lyn Houghtallng, 123rd Battal
ion, 32nd Division.
Lieut. Janies M. Etheridge. Jr.. 306th
Battalion, 37th Division.
0. C. DAVIS TAKES CHARGE
OF CAMP LIBRARY
The A. L. A. Library will be in charge
of Mr. Orlando C. Davis during the next
six months. Mr. Davis comes from Wal
tham, Mass., where he Is librarian of the
Public Library.
ESSAY CONTEST
CLOSES NOV. 15.
The essay contest on
the subject, “What the
United States Means to
Me,” will close cn Novem
ber 15. All essays must
be in the hands of the
Contest Editor of Trench
and Camp cn or before
that date. The prize win
ners will be announced in
the Trench and Camp of
November 20. The J. W. I
8., the K. of C., and the
Army Y. M. C. A. each ,
will appoint one judge to '
decide upon the merits of
the various essays submit- i
ted.
All essays, whether ‘
prize winners or not, will, i,
if they merit publication,
be printed in Trench and (
j Camp.
Get busy now and
hand in your essay. Write
your name and address on
a separate sheet of paper.
Do not sign your essay.
Articles limited to 500
I words. The prizes are
$15.00, SIO.OO and $5.00.
“WHOA-BOYS” TO MEET
“WAVE-COMBERS’* IN
GRIDIRON CONTEST
Captain Ashmore Preparing to Handle Enormous Crowd.
Coach Berry Getting Eleven in Readiness
For Hard Game
The 1918 football season of Augusta
will be officially ushered in next Satur
day afternoon at Warren Park, when the
Army and Navy football game of the
South takes place between the Machine
Gun gridiron warriors of Camp Hancock,
and the pride of the Southern Naval
forces from Charleston Naval Station.
Now that the splendid victory of the
machine gunners over the doughboys of
Goddon is a thing of the past. Coach
Berry will devote aH his attention this
week in preparing the Hancock eleven
for the game with Charleston.
Charleston Wt|l Furntsh Strong Opposi
tion.
There is no doubt that the Bluejackets
from <'harleston will furnish the strong
est kind of opposition when they line
up against the Blue and Red sterling
eleven. The Navy team is composed of
seasoned football players from the
gridirons of nearly a dozen colleges,
whose names are very well known to
those who have followed inter-collegiate
sports for the past three years. Ac
cording to reports received fropi Walter
D. Powell, thletic director in the Char
leston district, the team Is one of the
best that has ever represented the navy
in the South.
Amongst those who will journey here
with the Charleston aggregation, for their
gvidtpn Gash with the machine gunners
’?re «;.<„r;jni; rhs.*'?rs /i, O.t-
ter nf’Uni verity of i’it fsb’-’-g, «>r;ter,
Grossette, Furman University, guard;
Sterett, University of Washington, guard;
J’rochnau of Minnesota, tackle, Segar,
University of South Carolina, tackle; Bar
den, University of North Carolina and :
Wheeler, University of South Dakota, <
ends; Sherfy, Washington. D. C., quarter- |
back; Byrd of Chicago University, Ful- i
ton Brothers, Presbyterian College of (
South Carolina, halfbacks; Swope, Dick
inson College, and Eiber of Carnegie
Tech, Pittsburg, fullbacks; reserve line
man. Flaherty. Dean Academy, Massa- ,
chusetts.
Captain Ashmore to Handle All ,
Arrangements. i.
Captain James N. Ashmore, the camp j
athletic director. Is personally super vis- .
Ing all the arrangements for the big open- f
Ing clash of the Machine Gun Training
Center's eleven on the gridiron, and he
r?" '*T- -'r'liioi:
SECRETARY DANIEL’S ENDORSEMENT
OtUbre 17, -ISII,
Dr, John R-. Mott,
Dirootor General,
United War Wofii Campaign,
Now York City,
D§ar Mfs Mott, ' !
Your plan to onliat th§ oo=
operation of all tho offioore
Jra|k and Sen in bui’ vßri©U§ naval
/fn st^iiofi§ §ur snips in
Asarioan waters in the United
Secretary Daniels War Work G&ffipaign i§ in keeping
(C) tKdmS' 1 & With the r§al ASeficah spirit Os
the hour, and I wish most §m=
phatically to endorse it.
Anyone who has seen what I have of th§
invaluable service rendered by the Young
Men's Christian Association, Young Women r s
Christian Association, Catholic War Cdun=
oil, the Jewish Welfare Board, the AmOfican
Library Association, the Salvation Army and
the Camp Community Service, must be proud
Os these manifestations of unselfish intdr=
Ost of the American people in our boys ’of
our large and ever-growing Navy. I would
find it difficult to over-state my sense of
appreciation of what their varied arid pra6=
tioai ministry to the body, mind arid spirit
Os our fighting forces mearis in the accom
plishment of the great pufpdsd feSfore us in
in this war,
Your plan is such as I am sur§ will
| the hearty sympathy and co-operation of
§very one of our able Commanding Officers
and the 5,660,600 splendid young nieh in the?
service.- Their interest will b§ heightened,-
because all of us in the Navy realize that
this movement is on behalf their ships
m&tee On th® other si-dht
Sin§erdi-y yotirs,
" IOSEPhUS BANIELS,
Secretary of the Navjfr
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w
’I IHvlFJrz
No. 5.
is making; preparations to handle one of
the biggest throngs that, has ever wit
nessed a football contest In the South.
Both the officers and enlisted men in
eamp, nd the people of Augusta are
very proud of the wonderful eleven which
is representing them on the gridiron this
year, and there is no doubt that, they will
turn out In droves to witness the open
ing football game at Warren Park, on
Saturday afternoon. The prices are very
moderate, for a big football game of this
type. Admission for soldiers, 50c; civil
la ns, $1.00; grandstand, soldier, $1.00;
civilians, $1.50. Tickets are now on sale
nt Jowltt'g Stationery Store, Sl6 Broad
street, Howard's Drug Store, corner
Broad and Sth street, and the Albion ho
tel The camp surgeon has put his
stamp of approval upon the game, which
further assures a tremendous crowd.
Worsey and Ruetz Out for Rest of
Season.
While the machine gunners scared a
splendid victory over Gordon in la/t Sat
urday’s encounter, they suffered by the
injuries inflicted upon some ft their
players. “Babe” Reutz, the 2oG-pound
guard will probably be out for the rest
of the season with a broken foot, while
“Woozy" Worsey, will be unable to don
his football togs for another six weeks,
as he is laid up with a broken collar
! hone. "Prank" Mayer, wh«* Unee was
only Indian y " r " ; '
fnothnH, whose ankle was twist /ill
pro' hlj be back on the field in a couple
of days. However, Coach Berry has
plenty of reserve material to fill the po
sitions of these men, until they return,
especially with Foster, the former Pitts
burg phenom and “Fred” Mills, the for
mer University of West Virginia Bear
cat. i
Entire Team Show Splendid Form
Against Gordon.
Every player on the Machine Gun
Training Center's football team was
thrown in the limelight on Saturday.
The backfield men, put up a splendid
article of football throughout the entire
sixty minutes of play. At quarterback
and at the helm of the machine Berry
guided the team with cool precision, us-
Contii.ued on page three