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Hancock Soldiers Going Over
The Top on $50,000 Pledge To
The United War Work Fund
Great Enthusiasm Is Being Displayed From All Quarters and
Many Sums Are Already Handed in. Spirit Shown Leaves
Little Doubt That Pledge Will Be Easily Met
The soldiers’ War Fund drive in Camp Hancock is going
over strong.
For the first day with less than one-third of the organiza
tions heard from more than 4,000 were raised. All the organ
izations are responding to the appeal enthusiastically and re
sults promise to show that the camp is on the job and will
oversubscribe the $50,000 limit set as the quota for the Ma
chine Gun Center.
Most of the camp has not yet been heard from but judg
ing by the encouraging reports of the few units that have given
an account of their collections, all the organizations are hust
ling and the campaign has started with a rush that promises
big things.
Everywhere there is ready response to help the victorious
boys “over there” who have made America’s triumph possi
ble. There will be no slacking up of providing entertainment
and cheer for the soldiers over seas, if Camp Hancock can
help it. All over camp there is a feeling that everyone simply
must show appreciation for the courage and bravery of our
troops.
When the final results of the drive are tabulated it is ex
pected that Camp Hancock will outdo itself in generosity and
will prove one of the most liberal donors to the great cause of
making the lives of the heroes over seas full of cheer in the
days which must now' elapse before the signing of peace.
A high class, big 1 time vaudeville
f! ow and a monster field day are two
of the big events to be staged this week
for tie Camp Hancock War Fund
drive to raise $50,000 by the soldiers.
B >:h of these affairs will be gala
events. The vaudeville show at which
Broadway headliners will appear will
b<- . t ’eat that Augustins and soldiers
of th?. camp will long remember. The
talent uncovered at Camp Hancock
numbers professional actors who were
hilled as stars. The show will be a
great hit and will rival any vaudeville
performance ever produced in Au
gusta.
The title of the show itself promises
big things. It is called The Machine
Gun Click Revue. The famous Emma
Gee click and pep and snap will be
there. There will be plenty of spice
and dash for the performers are nut
to “do their bit" for the great war
drive campaign. Machine gunners
have the punch, and a show by these
wizards of speed is sure to be as the
circus people say: The Graetest Show
on Earth
Straight from Broadway.
Here is ’he secret underlying the
great success of this performance.
Straight from New York where their
names twinkled in bright electric lights
on gay Broadway come these favorites
of the sage. If a booking agent want
ed to bi’l r shoy he could not select a
more varied, more interesting or more
entertaining galaxy of stars than this
banner production hosts of.
And it is all fr Augusta and for the
big war drive for the boys “over there."
The show will be produced exclusively
by soldier boys from Camp Hancock.
Each of the boys in khaki have a rep
utation for fun provoking that has
earned them an enviable reputation in
the vaudeville world.
Just to mention the names of these
stellar performers is enough. All of
them are missed on the vaudeville
stage where formerly they drew round
and round of applause. And here they
are ready to cavort upon the stage in
Augusta. It is a rare privilege to be
able to present them.
Bill Bailey and Other Stars.
Everyone has heard of “Bill" Bailey,
of the famous team of Bailey and Co
wan known from coast to coast as the
banjo king. He can do more things
with a banjo than a monkey with his
tail. And funny'. Well, Bailey is in a
class by himself and the plunk, plunk,
plunk of his musical banjo has made
him a headliner for many a bill. Yes.
“Bill" will be there with his banjo and
smile.
All that is necessary is to mention
Al Raymond. He knows so many of
those comedy songs that he generally
keeps his audience laughing from the
minute he steps on to the stage until he
has to leave to let the show 7 go on.
Did you ever hear him sing—well, you
ought to haer it, that's all.
Then there is the Liberty Four. That
quartet is the pride nf the camp. Talk
about harmony. There is Casey and
Bolger and handman and Bailey, and
they sure can warble. When you
hear them yiu will know that music
has its charms.
Frank “Jazz" Welsh on Bill.
The K. P. and the Vampire is the ‘
title of a delightful skit which Eli
Siegal and Frank Welsh are to ap
pear. K. P. isn’t funny but it takes
this team to find the sunny side even
with such a serious army matter as
drilling pots and pans Mm, mm, she
is some vampire, believe me!
Do you know anthing about magic?
Sergeant Anderson with his mistifying
tricks and fancy stunts will sure keep
you guessing. He can do a whole lot
of things with a pack of cards, besides
playing poker.
Sergeant Frank Smith is the cele
brated Brazilian Nut. He doesn't know
what the war is about and doesn’t
care, just as long as he can do bunk
fatigue. So he is happy and nutty and
has a string 01 army yarns that will
keep the crowd roaring.
The camp also boasts of a McCor
mack and a Caruso Jim Buckley is
the Irish tenor and Corporal Alberini
is the Italian songbird. You said it,
80, they can sing.
TRENCHTand£CAMP
THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CAMP THE
MACHINE GUN TRAINING CENTER OF THE U. S."ARMY
VOL. 2.
Camp's Own Pawerewski.
Leonard Joseph, our own Paderew
ski. will tickle the ivories and what he
can’t do to a piano is a shame. Also
there is Abe Sandow. the well-known
wrestler, who will perform wondrous
! acrobatic stunts.
Rut that isn’t all. The bill con
tains a whole lot of others. We know
you won’t miss it.
It was intended at first to present
the show at the Liberty Theater in
camp, hut owing to the numerous re
quests from prominent citizens and
friends of the soldiers in Augusat, it
was derided to present the great per
formance in Augusta. The date has
not been 'decided upon but will be an
nounced soon. Because of the quaran
antine, which may be lifted, the com
mittee has not been able to make defi
nite arrangements.
It is expected that the ban will be
taken off so that all the soldiers in
camp will get a chance to see the
show.
A half holiday and big doings are in
store at camp when the field day is
held. It will be a monster affair as
the entire camp will participate and
the events promise to be exciting.
A football game will be staged and
the rugged, powerful Camp Hancock
■ eleven will be seen in action. The ep
i ponents have not as yet been selected,
but the contest will be spirited.
Machine Gun Drill, Too.
It is planned to hold a big machine
gun exhibition drill, and there will be
so much action that it will look as of
a mimic battle is being staged. In
addition there wi’l be a cavalry drill,
and fancy riding and nervy stunts will
be witnessed.
What promises to develop real fun
is the pushball contest to be held be
tween various units.
The monster field day will be held
at Warren Park. Music will be fur
nished by the combined bands of the
camp. Six bands will units and the
hundreds of pieces will blaze forth a
great volume of song as this big band
will play favorite selections.
Camp Hancock is certainlj r out to
make th* war fund drive a big his
toric event. The camp campaign
committee consists cf:
Brigadier General Oliver Edwards,
chairman.
Lieut. A. A. MlHman, campaign exe
cutive and personal representative of
General Edwards.
Ralph A. Tracy, Y. M. C. A. cam
paign manager.
Major J. L. Scott, treasurer.
Vincent Armstrong, K. of C.
Gilbert Harris, J. W. B.
O. C. Davis, A, L. A.
Paul I. Neergard, W. C. C. S.
C. O. Pardo, Y. M. C. A.
Allied L eaders Boost United IVar Fund Drive i
United States
‘"rfie United War Work Campaign
of these societies is merely another
indication of that unity of spirit as
a nation that is making it possible
for us to win the war. That spirit
and the place which the work of
these agencies has made for itself
in the hearts of ail of us gives mo
confidence to believe that the united
campaign will be crowned with abun
dant success.”
WOODROW WILSON.
“Millions For Morale”
With the Co-operation of the Auguste Herald, Augusta, Ga.
FRITZISGHEFF
CAME, SANG ANO
CAPTIVATED
Takes Hancock By Storm. Goes
Over the Top at Zero Hour on
Wednesday and Sweeps
Everything Before Her.
Thousands Hear the Gifted
Artist
Famous Broadway Prima
Donna Adds to Her Long List
of Accomplishments
Light Opera Star of First Mag
nitude the First Woman to
Fire on Largest Machine Gun
Range in the World. Qualifies
As Expert, Says. General
Edwards
About dusk on last Wednesday eve
ning Fritzi Scherc, long-heralded and
eagerly awaited opera star, floated
majestically into Camp Hancock, and
began hv fou'
tories by captivating the hearts of
Group No. 3 through the wealth of her
voice and personality. It was her in
itial conquest and the concert that she
afforded to the enlisted men here won
her the whole-hearted admiration and
gratitude of her soldier audience. To
many it was the first appearance of
Miss SchefT, to others who saw her
several years ago in “Modiste” It wa»
a delightful renaissance of olden days,!
a memory of gay New York brought
back once more. To those who had
heard the prima donna before it was 1
evident that her voice had lost none'
of its early charm; it still held its
clear notes, its richness and sweet
ness of old. Indeed, there came flashes
at times of a new tenderness and
strength, qualities that only the war
and the wealth of the last four years
could have brought forth.
Dinner Party by Third Group Officers.
Following close on the concert came
a party in honor of Miss Scheff, which
was tendered her hy the officers. En
tertainment was afforded by certain of
the soldier talent who enlivend the
meal with music, clever bits of mono
logue, and diverse of camp
life. Fritzi sang as the closing event
of the evening, one of her songs being
an exclusive, unpublished gem written
for her by her former director, August
E. Kleinecke, a lyric entitled, “Take
Me Back to Golden Loveland.” On
Thursday night at the Third Group
bandstand the officers of .the camp
were treated to a second cencert by
.Miss Scheff, quite as delightful and
welcome as that of the evening before.
Friday saw out lady banqueted at the
Machine Gun Shool, and from there
she carried joy to the Base Hospital
where she sang for the boys. Her
final appearance was at Augusta be
fore the great monument on Broad
Street, where a great crowd of civil
ian and soldier people gathered to
hear her on Saturday evening. Lieut.
H. F. Thompson, who has acted as
host during her stay, made a short
speech of presentation and for the first
time in six years Augustans were
treated to a sight and hearing of the
Broadway idol. It was in 1912 thav
she and her husband appeared last in
“The Love Wager.” And where is
friend husband now!
Husband a Machine Gunner in Frrnce.
Somewhere on the Western front
(Continued on Page Seven.)
France
‘Their work has in no small de
gree supported the morale of our
armies, and thus have gloriously as
sociated themselves in the common
work that shall bring about our vic
tory. I desire to Join my most sin
cere wishes for the unqualified suc
cess of the financial campaign,
which you are newly commencing,
with the view to the development
and support of your work.”
Q. CLEMENCEAU.
NOVEMBER 13, 1918
Pershing Commends “Y”
By Cable From France, August 21, 1918.
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GENERAL PERSHING.
"A sense of obligation for the varied
and useful service rendered to the
army Ih France by the Y. M. C. A.
prompts me to join In the appeal for
Its further financial support. I have
The Great “Servant of the Army”
Faces a Task Greater Than Ever
Thomas Elmore Lucey, Famous Humorist and Chautauqua
Lecturer, Now at Camp Hancock, Sets Forth the Rea
sons Why the United W ar Work Campaign Must
Meet With Entire Success.
For about two thousand years the
world ha,s been groping through a.
desert seeking the ministry of real
service, and finding it not. While we
followed the mirage, a world war came,
to give us our lesson in service.
Maybe I have not yet caught the
vision, myself. Ln»t I believe that a tour
of several thousand miles through the
central, southern and southeastern de
partments, visiting over a hundred Y.
M. C. A. buildings, lias given me the
nucleus, anyway. The world will to
morrow be better acquainted with this
ovenwork word, “Service.”
I*fcr a little over a year T have
watched the mind of the American boy
In khaki in the making. His leather
puteed commanding officer may have
been on the job making a real, red
blooded physical man of him and, in
deed, the evolution has been marvel
ous— but it has been my particular
province to study him from the angle
of the mon outside. I have come to
him from the home where the anxious
furrowed face of his mother looked up
at me in the Chautauqua tent, and I
Italy
"To hava given these institutions
so great a development is worthy of
the American people who thus illus
trate again that in their genius a
a sense of the ideal is admirably
combined with an essentially prac
tical mind.”
KING VICTOR EMANUEL.
Under* the Auspices of the Army Y. M. C. A.
opportunity to observe its operations,
measure the quality of its person
nel and mark its beneficial influence
upon our troops, and 1 WISH UNRE
SERVEDLY TO COMMEND ITS
WORK FOR THE ARMY."—Pershing.
have heard him inquire with all his
boyish zest as to the welfare of.- that
same mother, as 1 brought him the
greetings of the old home back there.
1 have seen him bending over the desk,
pouring out his heart in ink on the Red
Triangle stationery. I have helped
him as ho laboriously tried to spell out
tile letters in one of the first messages
he ever sent to his best girl, I have
heard his big, ringing laugh out titers
among the thousands thronging the big
"Y" auditorium. I have seen him clear
eyed and pink-cheeked, swinging
through the mazes of regimental pa
rade- and, ah, too often have I seen
him "standing with reluctant feet," j
while tiie Fainted One, reeking with
the breath of velvety vice, coiled her
serpentine, slimy fingers about his
neck.
But, please, God, 1 have seen no such
picture as this last one inside a train
ing camp, or within the circle of the
Y. M. C A. That is one branch of
"service” that Uncle Sam is not dis
pensing to the boy in khaki.
(Continued, -on Page '.w0.1
Great Britain
3 “It gives me the greatest of pleas
ure to testify that the work has been
f conducted upon the broadest lines ofi
service, not merely to the gallant
- -oidiers of the army of the great
Republic of the West, but to all they
i could assist The high quality ofi
character of those conducting this'
'!wr. rk needs no praise, but I affirm
| that in ray opinion it would have i
■ | been impossible to have afforded the
that inspiration and succor
they need—aad which they so rich
ly deserve, without your efforts."
A. LLOYD GEORGE,
Martial Tramp of Khaki
Clad Thrills Civilians
In Victory Parade
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| ESSAY CONTEST CLOSES '
NOV. 15. |
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“What the United States Means |
I to Me,” must be in the hands of |
the Contest Editor of Trench J
| and Camp on or before Friday, ]
i November 15. The J. W. 8., K. j
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appointed one judge to decide !
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MR RISK BUREAU
WRITE THIRTY-SIX
BILLION TO OHL
Incomparably the Largest Life
Insurance Company in the
World. Growing Greater
Daily
FOUR MILLION APPLICA
TIONS RECEIVED
New Men Almost Without Ex
ception Are Taking Full Al
lowance of SID,OCO. Average
Over SB,OOO
..Washington, D. C.—ln the month of
October, the Bureau of War Risk In
surance of the Treasury Department
mailed 957,240 checks, of which 934,157
were for allotments and allowances,
6,074 for compensation, and 17,0009 for
government insurance.
To date the bureau has sent out 7,-
486,434 checks, representing a total dis
bursement of $230,000,000.
More than 15,600 death claims, rep
resenting $118,000,000 of insurance and
24 disability claims, representing $142,-
500 of insurance, have been paid to
date
The insurance written on the lives
of soldiers and sailors by the Bureau
of War Risk Insurance is now close to
thirty-six billion dollars Up to Octo
ber 31st, about four million applica
tions, representing $35,736,000,000 of in
surance, has been received.
Almost two billion dollars of new
insurance was written during October.
This is a marked decrease from the
figures for recent months, and was
caused by the epidemic of influenza,
which retarded the movement of men
to camps. Nevertheless the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance received during
October more than six times as much
insurance as the largest commercial
life insurance company in the world
wro*e during the entire year of 1917.
With the resumption of steady en
trainments the flow of new insurance
is now letitrning to its normal rate of
approximately one billion dollars a
week.
The average amount of insurance
applied for per man is mounting rap
idly. Almost without exception new
men joining the colors are taking the
full SIO,OOO of Uncle Sam’s insurance.
The average amount is now $8,743.
According to the best available esti
mates the army and navy are now al
most 95 per cent insured.
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance
has received to date about 4,000,000
applications for government insurance,
and 4,000,000 applications for allot
ments and allowance, and has received
an answered in addition more than
3,500,000 letters.
The bureau has grown to be the
largest single bureau in the| govern
ment, comprising the largest health
and accident insurance company, the
largest disbursing organization, and
incomparably the largest life insurance
company in the World.
To keep up unbroken stream of
government checks to the relatives of
soldiers and sailors, many sections of
the bureau are working night and day,
and the disbursing office has three
working shifts, which keep check-writ
ing and check signing machinery in
operation twenty-four hours a day.
COM WY HOUSES
BUILT BY W. C. C. S.
The War Camp Community Service
has built or helped to build six com
munity houses, of which the one at
Camp Sheridan, OMo, is perhaps the (
most pretentious. This structure was
erected in exactly 21 days and the re- i
suit is one of the finest buildings of
its kind ever put in any community.
Similar projects are contemplated 1
in many other camp cities and the W.
C. C. A. plans to utilize a portion of '
the funds from the United War Work
Campaign to carry out its program.
No. 6.
Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards
Leads Great Parade at Head
of 3,500 Soldiers in Augusta.
Five Military Bands Play’
Stirring Music J
Various Organizations With
Appropriate Floats in Line of
Parade. All War Work Or
ganizations Represented -i;
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Led by Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards,
3,500 soldiere from Camp Hancock
marched in tlie great victory parade
down Broad Street, Augusta, Monday :
night.
Thousands of civilians were in line i
but it was tiie martial tramp of the
soldiers as they swung down the main :
thoroughfare with the snap and pre- I
cision of the machine gun click which
will linger long in the memory of the '
persons who witnessed the historic !
procession.
In a colmn of platoons the soldiers
swung past through a gauntlet of
cheering thousands. Proud of the vic
tory gained by their brothers in arms
over seas, the soldiers swept through
the city in a long stream of khaki
bringing to Augustans the spirit and
strength of the American forces which
had routed the enemy.
Long will Augustans cherish a pic
ture of that marching host, parading
in honor of America's triumph. As
. th- :l. i) soldiers swung steadily- past
the r< viewing stand, the crowd were
, by t } '- • i
my g ? sou,
Unitert "Rates had
, vice, and of which thes>j men were
only a small pars.
Forty soldier« wearing service
stripes telling of their recent stay
I overseas, formed part of the mounted
guard wheih headed the long parade.
Brig. Gen. Edwards bearing a weather
worn Old Glory. The flag was the
one presented by Admiral G. U. Mel
ville to B. C. Johns of Augusta, and
was the one which fluttered in the
breeze all during the‘Sapnish-Ameri
can war.
Accompanying Brig. Gen. Edwards
was his staff, and following came the
men of the Machine Gun Center. Five
military bands playing stirring martial
tunes led the various detachments.
The staff consisted of the following
officers: Lieut. Col. Alfred Brandt,
chief of staff; Lieut. Col. E. P. Pierson,
acting chief of operations section; Maj.
Harry S. Barton, camp adjutant; Maj.
James L. Scott, assistant camp adju
tant; Maj. Horace Chamberlain, camp
judge advocate; Maj. Lewis N. Con
ger; Camp Inspector, Maj. Peter Tulp;
camp personnel officer, Maj. Alexander
Fitz-llugh, Maj. C. S. Warshauer,
camp sub-depot quartermaster, and M.
P. O’Connell, the camp censor and
Lieuts. F. W. Ernest, C. J. Ancker, H.
F. Peto, G. E. C. Garnett, C. A. Bror
strum, R. B. Seymour, E. B. Roberts,
P. W. Glass and James A. Davis.
Following the general and his staff
were th° Main Training Depot soldiers,
commanded by Colonel Frank Wick
ham. Commanding officer of the Main
Training Depot. Lieut Stanley F.
Brewster, the adjutant, Captain C.
Copelin, the staff rifle expert and dem
onstrator; Lieut. Karl Griffith, the
personnel adjutant; Lieut. John Mor
ris, offlcver in charge of operations,
and Lieut. Edward F. Rodriguez, the
commanding officer of Headquarters
Company, M. T. D.
The men were formed in pla
toons. The following is the forma
tion:
Band from First Group, Major R. M.
Douglas, commanding 1,000 men.
Band from Second Group, Major
Wyley L. Dixon, commanding 1,000
men.
Band from Third Graup, Major H.
G. I’Hied commanding 1,000 men.
Band from Seventh Group, Major Je
rome R. Johnston commanding 500
men.
Fife and Drum Corps.
Headquarters Co., mounted detach
ment and the Headquarters Co., M. G.
T. C. Band.
A small band of Confederate Veter- .
ans led by Sergeant Berry Benson was
next in line. Sergeant Benson in ad
dition to the Stars and Stripes carried
a batle-scarred Confederate banner.
Varolus Red Cross organizations.
Girl Scouts, the Council of National
Defense, students of Richmond Acad
emy and Tubman High School, Wo
men’s Club, Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution and Daughters of th©
Vonfederacy followed.
Floats of the seven organizations
united in the War Fund Drive also
were in the parade, representing the
Y. M. C. A., K. of C.. J. W. 8., Y. W.
C. A., W. C. C. S., and the Salvation
Army.
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Fear Envelope Shortage
M ith the Y. M. C. A. using 20,000.000
envelopes a year and the folks at home
writing mail bags full of letters to the
boys over there, an envelope shortage is
feared by manufacturers, who realize •
that foreign importations of envelopes
are eliminated during the war.
Nevertheless the “Y" will continue to
supply envelopes and paper to the sol
diers and the United War Work campaign
will provide funds for this phase of toe
Red Triangle s war service.
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