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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!
Demobilization Daily
Gaining Impetus at
Camp Hancock
Transported ion Congestion Relieved After the
Holiday Rush Will Help Speed Up
Troop Movements
Up to date 7,942 officers and enlisted
men have been demobilized from
Camp Hancock. Or this number 4.425
enlisted men have been transferred to
other c-imps for discharge, being ac
oornpanied by 41 officers.
From the camp directly, 2,223 enlist
ed men hav. received their honorable
discharges, among these being soldiers
released under special applications for
immediate discharges, and also those
who live within the 350 mile radius of
the machine gun center.
The total number of officers who
have received their discharges from
the army numbers 1.243. During the
holidays, the number of officers re
!e :s“d’were ery few, as special orders
from Washington in view of the rail
road congestion stated that n.> officers
should bo discharged durin.,’ the holi
day 1« rid. ( nly those whose appli
cations laid tone through before that
time were released.
But now ■ itb th. holidays drawing
to a close, the demobilization of the
officers will be resumed on th- former i
scale. . !
Impetus to the demobilization of the i
enlisted men was given by orders from
Wa.'liington stating that everything ;
pc slide should be done to hasten the 1
discharge of as man., men as consist- i
ent during the holidays, releasing to s
their homes the greatest number of >
soldiers for Christmas and New Years. 1
Tins hastened the process of demob- j
lization i'll over the country and de- i
spite the inadequacy of the railroads 1
heavllv taxed at this time because of i
■HIM
is sptiKts n
ÜBEWTMEII
t
Makes Powerful and Brilliant
Address on Subject: “The ';
Strenqth of a Country” H;
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ORDNANCE BAND
FURNISHES MUSIC;*
f
Dr. Cobern Tells of New
Wonders Found in Research
ing Old Egypt
Bishop Frederick Del.and Lcete, D. D.,
LL. Ik. V lib- speaker at th- Y. M. C.
A. theater meeting Sunday afternoon. He
mad powerful addr.ss on “Strength
of a Country ’ H- pointed out That the ,
str-myth of Am- rica was not* chiefly its
territory, nth rwis Russia would b- the
strongest << •ntry in the world. It was
not its Lara- population, otherwise weak
China would b< stronc-st of all. It was
not its army, for in that < ase Germany
would be th-- mightiest nation, whereas,
it had crumbled to pi-ces suddenly, prov
ing its inherent weakness. The str ngth
of .America waji to b- seen first in its
idealism. It believed in the. great un
seen fore . Truth ;.nd Honor. Justice. No
war was ever fought by th- United States
except in self-defense or for the. protec
tion of w dur rations. Th- ideal of
peace was deeply imbedded in the Ameri
can thought.
Second, the strength of America is to
he seer in its emphasis upon manhood.
The individual counts h<-re as nowhere
else in the world. It ?s not the machine
in which each man is a cog. as in Ger
many. that counts most, neither is it birth
or caste or wealth, -but individual man
hood that is supremely honored.
Third, there is a deep sense of religious
value to be found among the American
people. Even Th- soldi ,-rs when they
speak most roughly have underneath their
random words a deep sens of the fact
that there is a law of goodness which is
eternal, and that the law of retribution
and moral compensation is as inviola
ble as the law of gravitation.
The band of the c trdnance Training
camp gave a remarkable fine preliminary
concert and Dr. Cob-rn. the camp relig
ious director, led a twenty minute Bible
class at the close of the meeting, in which
he told the story of how he had found
in Egypt a city made with bricks, some*'
of which contained straw, some stubbie
and some neither stubble nor straw.
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' GERMAN FORTRESS TO EE
OCCUPIED BY AMERICANS.
The Gorman fortress of Ehren- '
I hreitstein. often exiled the Gibraltar
! of the Rhine, just across the river
■ from Coblenz, is bung prepared for j
occupancy by the American troops.
Until December 9th, the day after j
the American advance guard ar- '
rived in Cob az, the fortress was !
occupied by several regiments of !
Germans. Since then the fortress '■
has bu n ch-aned throughout by :
Gern n soldiers assisted by scores
of v. y-n.
Th rtr- ss and the grounds oc
i cupy more than 100 acres on a rock
I prwinbnto . . which is 400 feet above
! the riv > h night on th- fort- ;
I ress s’:?- the Germans build a •
i great bonfire of the rubbish accu- ;
I mu la ted by the day’s cleaning of th% '
I barracks and various other build- i
I ings, some of which were erected
I hundreds of years ago.
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TRENCH and CAMP
THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CAMP HANCOCK, THE '
MACHINE GUN TRAINING CENTER OF THE U. S. ARMY
VOL. 2.
With trie Co-operation of the Augusta Herald, Augusta. Ga.
the extra holiday transportation, thou
sands of men were transferred to ether
camps where their discharge was
handled as. expeditiously as possible.
All of the candidates at the Central
Officers’ Training Schools were re
leased before Christmas, this meaning
that, more 4, 00 men were discharged
directly from camp in schedule time.
Following the release of these men
the demob'Ezation of the groups of.
enlisted men was hastened, and with
Washington providing transportation,
as many troops as there were trains
for, were sent out.
Daily hundreds of men are leaving
camp, some being transferred to |
points near their homes whore they I
will bo finally released, and others get- i
ting their discharges at the camp and j
furnished transportation to their!
homes within 350 miles of Augusta. !
Because of the holiday season, and
the straining of all available transpor- |
’at ion facilities for demobilization, the I
railroads have been tied up. Thousands
of troops are be ng moved all over the
country and in addition to this, there
is the rush of special holiday traffic.
Rut with the end of the holidays,
and a return of the railroads to some
thing nearer normal conditions, de
mobilization will automatically be
speeded up. At Camp Hancock, things
are moving smoothly, and as much of
the work depends upon the railroads,
just as soon as adequate transportation
is supplied, non will be returned to
their homes at an increasing greater
rate.
Allen J. Tindall Soon
to Leave For Home
One of the Camp Hancock soldiers who
is scheduled for an early discharge is
Allen J. Tyndall of Rochester, New York.
Mr. Tindall entered the army on June
15th.. 1918 going first to the technical
school at Potsdam. N Y.. for special
training. From there he was transferred
to c ;i mp Hancock In the Ordnance and
after serving in that branch for several
month? was transferred to the Special
ists School No. z in the Machine Gun
service. Later in Septemb r Mr. Tindall
who has had considerable •‘xpericeme
in the theater business in civil life was
assigned as spc< ial assistant to Mr. G H.
Thomas, manager of the Lb-rt.y Theater.
During his military career and especial
ly at the Lb rty Theater, where he came
in contact with hundreds of p-ople daily.
Mr. Tindall with his obliging disposition
and pleasant manner made a host of
friends, whose good wishes accompany
him. <
A Fond Farewell to—the Army !: : : : By Jos. Horwitz
’ ONE -T U H -THREE- 1 ] f I WONDER ] / OO’I ' —s
BWwMEwwir four-r-rt -keep / who he I x | i’m scared: i
v IN STEF’ vou: H THINKS HE’S 1 / k )
HUUL 0 WRIM EVFRyPOPy Iwi —— WX— —J TALKING TO! ( O / ( WHAT
OUT! -Jfc, ' ' } \ • ) ' A STRANGE
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N MAW 2.7T!i AT 2 A.M. I ARRIVED p.J A.FTER WALKING SEVERAL MILES FROM THE DEPOT C?)
UN-HERALDED IN AUGUSTA AS ONE OF- i ARRIVED AT CAMP HANCOCK
UNCLE SAMS "SELECTED’ MEN '
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Z - < r >. GOOD BYE Jt--
. , SHUT VER I I DO the V/ORKi ’~- EVERYBODY! ’'■>
A- TRAPS-I'M AND HE GETS r PHEW* HEV! -ITS a SMALL <T. -
v /> 'rW COMINT THE CREDIT! r* HOV/ DO YUH WORLD AND " .
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?EK ““! E .;= FF « CARPENTWS GARBAGE CAN <»L'>
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CARTOONIST AXnD MONO I LEAVE CAMP HANCOCK -
® —J AUGUSTA AND THE SOUTH WITH FOND
n HAVE SERVED FAiTHFULLy IN THE ABOVE PICTURED MEMORIES PLUS THE BELIEF THAT MV
Lx t-IZAVL op SOUO | ER y . S TAY WAS NOTIN VAiN
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At Parting Ways (An Anticipation)
By Thos. Elmore Lucey
—•——.... i
Thei'e is a land that is peopled with
plodders and creeping things, soul
deadened beings, with eyes that leer
and insensate ones who never know a
smile. Clouds hover over that country
and ever and anon the forked light
nings play upon itse jagged crests,
while chill winds shriek through the
gaunt, leafless limbs with ghoulish
laughter, and only the flapping of con
dor wings lend their sinister accom
paniment..
There is no sun there, no stars
twinkle an eerie welcome to the tired
out wayfarer, and ever and forever the
sullen bells toll out a requiem for the
unending procession o. choking ones
who drift downward and downward
among the thoiny hedges and the cess
pools.
There is no music there, for the
harps of the orchestras have long since
been silenced in the babble of toothless
ones and viragos who totter upon the
‘■’.s "f this land of 1 ttle faith.
■, the soft cadettee of virgin
r and the melody of a baby’s
cooing t.re never known there, for .Sen
timent has long since been burned
upon the altar of a dogma that is as
I old as the law of the Jungle and the
i fiat of tooth and fang.
j The paths are strewn with the dead
i ‘ lo " es t’f blasted dreams, wre< Red ideal
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■ Christmas Dinner De Luxe
For the Bakers and Cooks
No Equal Written In Books
On Christmas Day th men at the
Hooks’ and Bakers’ School sat down to
a. dinner that was not surpassed any
where. The mess hall was tastefully
decorated with pine, holly and poin
setti and presented an attractive hol
iday appearance.
If Alexander the Great had been
the greatest mess sergeant or the
greatest, cook in the world and had
bepv so th’rt-frrratc e -to have haft a
hand in the preparation of the cooks
and bakers' x’hristmas feast he might
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ENLISTED MEN TO USE “Y“
FREE AFTER DISCHARGE.
Enlisted men who have become
I used to the Y. M. C. A. in the can
■’ tonmepts and in France, are to have
I its privileges extended to them free
! for tiiree months after their return,
i This announcement was made to
i day b\ I'J. Graham Wilson, secre
tary of th.- West Sid-- V. M. C. A
■ ,'!IS w. st Fifty-seventh street, New
' York <'ily.
< ent-ai Branch. 55 Hanson place,
i Brooklyn, authorizes a similar an- .
i nounc.-m. nt, and it is «-xp. r-ted j 1
1 that as soon as th- management I j
can act all of th- branches in New ;
! York boroughs will follow suit. A i
' rrrmnmeiid;.ti >n has gone out to all |
! of the branches in the country to |
i extend free privileges.
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JANUARY 1, 1919.
1 of youth and far-visioned songs of
sages who whispered hopes of Broth-
’ erhood to Come.
1 And out of the mists we hear through
’ the eternal midnight the clank of the
fetters and the moan of the shackles
• as the blinded ones stagger on to a
> doom that is deathless.
i —.
But, wait! Methink I see another
Land, and a Spirit calling to the plod
ding ones: “I am the Way.''
i For centuries He has called, while
puny men toppled into the abyss, un-
. heeding. They did not know and they
. would not listen. And the Iron Hand
; led them ever downward.
I There is a Temple there, whence the
Spirit calls, and out of it issue the
songs of content., the prattle of happy
' children and the glad sighs of mothers
who have given their first born that
‘ Liberty might not perish from earth.
‘ And just beyond the gates of the
Temple is the Shlekjnah of peace that.
i passeth understanding, telling of a
i Night when Shepherds watched, of
Wise Men offering fine incense and of
I angels choirs singing Glory in the
: highest, on earth, peace, good-will to
i men."
And, so, the old order changeth, the
new earth emergvth. and the Kingdom
I of Heaven is at hand. As 12 months
wel| have looked upon the menu and
sig| jd, sighed deep and long, for m the
universe of cookery he would have
seen there no more worlds to conquer.
Anyone who reads the following
menu will agree with the conclusion
Alexander would undoubtedly have
reached and at the same time these
who ate of the toothsome viands will
congratulate Mess Sergeant 1;L D.
Smith and his assistant, Isodor Meyer,
and all the cooks and efficient K. P.’s
who are responsible for the great suc
cess of the dinner.
Head this menu and save It. to be
occasions when you need to stimulate
your appetite:
Oyster Cocktail
Cream of Celery Soup
Celery Olives
Lobster Salad
Baked Harn Southern Style
French Sifted Peas
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Roast Young Turkey, Oyster Dressing
Mashed Potatoes Cranberry Sauce
Gold and Silver Layer Cake
Mince Fie
Grape Juice
Assorted Cakes and Nuts
< 'igars and Cigarettes
!’ I of tears, and heart aches, and blood,
• and anguish, and
i i *' —airy navies grappling in the central
? blue.”
5
i are swallowed up in Love and Good
Will.
We have reached the dividing ways
’ and the starting point toward the Bet
ter land. Will you go with us and help
. the Master Builder lay the cornerstone
of the new structure, or will you plod
on with the soul-deadened ones, be
j loved ?
The Better Land is before us. The
, darkness passeth. The morning breaks.
, The New Day dawns! Pass, old year,
and age, and cycle and condition!
. “The Parliament of Man, the Federa
t tion of the World.”
Infinite One. who doeth all things
’ well: Grant that* out of the tragedy of
f it all the bitterness, the curses and
• the moans - we who face the dawning
. of the Gr/ater Day. may gird ourselves
i for the grander and better task of a
service that is more than the puny con
> ception ot finite man, and thus become
victors ot the peace that, was preach
' ed from the shores of Galilee by the
i Son of God. in His Name, we plead,
» on this glad New Year morning. Amen!
FAREWELL LUNCHEON
TENDERED TO PRIVATE
MEYER W. WEISGAL
I
• Bidding farewell to Private Meyer W.
5 Weisgal, who left for New York Decem
ber :.’lih, a circle of intimate friends
tendered a banquet In his honor on the
( eve of his departure.
During his seven months stay at Camp
s Hancock, Mr. Weisgal made numerous
, tri* nds both among soldiers and civilians.
Pr »r to his enlist men!, h<- was the man
aging editor of The Maceabaean Maga
tdrie, the official .organ ot <he Zionist or
ganization of America in which magazint*
he intends to resume his journalistic . c
i tivity. Twenty-four years of age, he is
a journalist of promising future. While
at Hancock lie was associated editor of
Trench and (’amp and frequently con
tributed articles to this paper which
made delightful reading and in which he
exhibited fine ability in handling the pen
and in dealing with questions other than
of mere local value. When the fourth j
Liberty loan campaign was on he was
detailed by General Edwards at the re-I
quest of the New York Liberty loan
committee to assist in the publicity work
<>f the campaign. He was also active in
the War Work campaign and as secre
retary of the recent drive in camp for the
aid of the Jewish war sufferers, he hclp
ed to mala the campaign a success.
Among others prest nt at the dinner
were Mr. Solon Jay Rleser. head repre- ,
sent.-ifive of the Jewish Welfare Board. .
Rat bi Leon Spitz, camp rabbi, Lieut. E. j
Gamrin o fthe Medical (Turps, Air. E. .
Stern, J. W. B. field secretary. Sgt.-Maj. ,
M. S. Keller of the (’amp Personnel Os- !
fice. Corporal Morris Margulies, formerly]
New York chairman of the Palestine Res- i
toration Fund, who is an intimate friend i j
of Mr. Weisgal. .
Under the Auspices of €he Army Y. M. A.
Only American “Y” Man
In Germany During War
Has Sister In Augusta
Remarkable Story of Conrad Hoffman Permit
ted to Work With American and Al
lied Prisoners
Since the signing of the armistice
between Germany and the Allies, over
seas press despatches have frequently
carried accounts of the remarkable
work done during the war by Conrad
Hoffmann, the only American Y. M. (’.
A. man who was permitted to remain
in Germany after America ent« red the
the grea. world war. and it will b in
teresting to the men of Camp Hancoc k
to know that for nearly six months the
sister of “Con” Hoffmann has been en
gaged in religious and welfare, work in
Camp Hancock. She is the wife of Ser
geant Lewis P. Hanson, list t.’o., M. T.
D., and has been engaged through the
period of her stay in Augusta as secre
tary and hostess at the Lutheran Soldiers'
Social Center in Rooms 214-16 Herald
Building, Augusta as assistant to the
Lutheran (Tamp Pastor Bell
The letters Mrs. Hanson has received
from time to time from her brother,
written before signing of the. armistice,
have carried news of considerable inter
est not generally known to the public
concerning internal conditions in Ger
many, particularly in the prison camps
where Mr. Hoffmann was permitted to
ministers to the American and Allied
prisoners.
Prior to America’s entry into the war.
Secretary Hoffmann was al the htfad of
all American Y. M. A. work Among
allied prisoners; his staff of assistants
consisted of twelve other American sec
retaries and a large office force. .After
America's entrance into the war Mr.
Hoffmann was the only American Work
er permitted io remain and this only b -
cause of his having had personal direc
tion of all this prison work since Sept
ember 1915. His American assistants
were then replaced by Y. M. C. A.
secretaries from Sweden, Norway, and
Denmark. His position was one of the
most peculiarly delicate and difficult- of
all welfare workers during the war.
For mux;h of the period of America’s
participation 'in the war ne was not per
mitted by the Garman authorities to
personally visit the prison camps, mere
ly directing the work of the other sec
retaries, and at times it seemed that he
would be compelled to leave Germany.
He was anxious, however, to remain so
that he might do what he could to im
prove the lot of the prisoners, and in
] .August, 1918, was successful in obtaining
■ the privilege of visiting American prison
I qamps. Here we found our b >ys with
j “stiff upper lips” making the best of
things, and found that they were receiv
ing packages of food from the American
Red Cross, which was one of the things
he was largely instrumental in making
possible, and through this source they of
ten had b. tter food than he was able to
secure in Berlin, and sometimes had
things so distinctly American that his
’’mouth watered”. He escorted the first
one to b > released after the signing of the
armistice, into Switzdand. He is still in
Germany, doing everything in his power
to alleviate the hardships of American
and Allied prisoners.
One of his last pieces of work has been
to personally direct the marking to the
graves of each of the American prisoners
who have died during their imprison-
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No. 13
ment His wife and child were with him
for over a year.but left Germany in Am
bassador Gerard’s party, because of the
shortage of proper food for the .little
on, ‘- and they are now in this country.
*’* s letters to his sister concerning
i i' political changes in Germany during
the months of September and October ol
Hus \« ar when old regime was making
a depseralu effort to ward off its inevi
able defeat arc peculiarly interesting bits
ot inside information whiich together
with his remarkable experiences of over
three years of prison work will make his
story upon his return one of the most
interesting to be told by any person in
the world, because of the uniqueness ot
his position. Secretary Hoffmann is a
graduate of the Lniversity of Wisconsin,
.‘ini later was a Professor of Bacteriology
at. that institution. He gave up this
position to enter definite Christian ser
vice, becoming the secretary of the Uni
versity of Kansas Y. M. C. A. and hold
ing that position for two vears, when
»m left for Europe in the “Flying Squa
dron in July, 1915, to enter war welfare
work under the Auspices of the American
Y. M. C. A.
JOSEPH HORWITL L
CAMP CARTOONIST,
LEAVES FOR HOME
Joseph Horwitz, whose farewell
toon upfH-oiH ;n this issue, left Camp
• ‘ii. -■ erday with .L hcnoMbk
discharge in t i.>» harrac' ” T r
In the non.ths that Joseph HurwiU
spent in the Machine Gun Tiuiii.ig
. ’.iter he made friends far and wide,
by his clever cartoons on camp life.
As a regular contributor to Trench
and Camp and to the Augusta dalles,
his work made him popular with the
soldiers in camp who came to look for
his funny sketches of the humorous
side of the army.
As a newspaper cartoonist on Phil
adelphia papers, Joseph Horwitz first
began his career. He soon became fa
mous for a comic series called “The
Pesky Pup.”
Later he turned his attention to the
motion picture field and became well
known as the animator of Bud Fisher’s
Mutt and Jeff, and others.
In addition, Joseph Horwitz has
modelled characters dolls on which he
has a copyright. He also is the au
thor of a children’s book of drawings
The Camp Hancock cartoons are tc
be incorporated into a book.
Scarlet Chevron For
Discharged Soldiers
The War Department authorizes the
following statement:
As a recognition of duties performed
in tho service of the country, the sec
i-tary of war has directed that each
:. : <>ldit r on being honorably discharged
L furnished with two scarlet chevrons
to be w. rn on the left sleeve, point up,
midway I-i ■. <n th elbow and the shoul
der. one on the coat mid one on the over
coat.
j Tlicse chevrons will serve to indicato
to the coni.try while the uniform is be
ing worn that the w-arer responded to
tiio demands of th.- country, performing
creditable s< rvicc in the army, and fi
nally received honorable discharge there
from.
Win? in-act i. aide these chevrons should
be sewn on the garments before dis
charge. If this cannot be done they will
b< presented to the soldier with his dis
charge papers.
The ( li vrons will be of the same size
and shape as now prescribed for war
s-rvic. chevrons. Immediate steps will
ih taken to provide them at al places
win i'- troops will be discharged and
they can l>. furnished to men already dis
charged who apply for same.
HOOVER T“LLS HUNS
TO “GO TO HELL.”
Washington, D. C.—-Food Ad
ministrator Hoover, in Europe
arranging relief for the peoples
of the war-devastated territor
ies, has refused in emphatic
terms to discuss German food
conditions with Baron von Der
Lancken and Dr. Rieth, who
sought a meeting with the food
administrator.
A mess ige from Paris said
two Gt rm; n officials, who
( were prominent in the German
administration of Belgium,
wired from Ben n to XW’.ter Ly
man Brown, director of the com
mission for relief in Belgiun at
'tottenlain, that they had been
appointed by the German gov
• ■ niucnt o negotiate with Mr.
Hoover for food supplier, and
that they desired Mr. Hoover
to advise them when and where
i he would meet them.
In answer to th request for a
cm. ~ !-nc-, Mr. Hoover sent this
message:
’ You can describe two and a
half : s of arrogance toward
« a ' . and cruelty to the
Belgians in any language you.
may st lect. and tell the pair
personally to g to hell with my
< ompiiments. Il’ 1 do have to
dca> with Germans, it will not be
with that pair.”
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