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Uggrl THE WAR
iHjW I am a believer in T H I
^JgwRlJ PLANNED running through &1
VRJI time. That things don't "just hap
pen." That a life appears at It
\ tfiPjKu time for a reason?to fulfill ITS
\ purpose. And that there are ni
. -^ W-J accidents of destiny.
And that you were born at tht
particular minute of the world'i
evolving that you were because yot
V|f^\ were meant to best fit in at youi
KHkO: particular time. History is but a
VyWI proving of the fitness of happenings.
Yi/jgx This war had to come. But it will
jT end?because IT MUST, It is all
IV W in the plan of the world.
*i I* I if? Victor Hugo in writing of the fall
J'Ik of Napoleon laid no fault at the feet
A ^ of the great Corsican. He simply
stated that the world had become
y unsteadily weighted by his power
IjJV and that God had to step in. Well,
11 God did.
j I k So now our hearts must bitterly
I |4 bleed with the heart of the whole
1 world. But we must remember that
( out of it all is sure to come a "new
B IH birth of freedom" of such quality
^BJI that the world has never known.
W?Events must face their time. Just
j at the hour when we thought that
|^*5B brotherhood had somehow come
around, it drew its sword. And this
nsame sword must be sheathed. But
not until after the Bcathing plan of
the Watcher of the world has been
WIPVM wrought
UBsksA So it is that In faith we fight on.
,tfy inn urn And we are unafraid. The end is
flfl 1 H 111 be,n& Justified right now. This war
(HI (I |] I D must go on until the great heart
III I U IIaI of tbe wor,d bas found its balance.
101 01 01 And then 1)6406?the P?*0? ?f
III I 11 Bill Understanding among men
0[| II nil lCopyri?ht by 0*orc? M*Xth?w A. ill mi)
1 IJ 11 A PASSING TRUTH
In 11 HI It>8 Qneer- but il'8 so.
Men are fashioned this way:
CJTXS If yon pay as you go
riViwi They will want you to atay.
Perfectly Safe
KRESM STRIKER?"DON'T BE AFR.1
I AND CAMP By BUSHNELL
SUBMARINES
(Continued from page 5)
four hours between midnight and
daybreak.
Then there were a number of spe1
cial watch details, the most trying
on the nerves and muscles of the
I nntHiop frnm tha Inlonrl Kain* rfntw
1 In one or the other of the two
* "crow's nests." A "crow's nest" Is
that small Swiss Family Robinson
> affair up in the masts where looki
outs are kept upon the broad surl
face of the soa. Transports keep a
constant watch on duty in these airy
perches, consisting of an officer and
two men for each perch. The duty
periods are two hours o,n and four
hours off, requiring the services of
twenty-four men and eight commissioned
officers. It was amazing
to observe the agility of the soldiers
I ter a few hours' practice going up
and coming down the rope ladders;
they made the sailors gasp, some
of the soldiers having once been
ironworkers on skyscrapers.
Ck??? Watch Kept
Some thirty-two men were used
in a special deck watch, there being
two in each watch box, four in the
eyes of the ship on its prow and
four away aft with the sailor gun
crews. All these fixed watch posts
are connected with the bridge by
telephone wires, there being three
men on the bridge to take their reports
and transmit them to the
naral officers. An officer of the deck
bosses the special watches, bat has
nothing to do with the "crow's
neat" posts ap in the mainmast and
the foremast
Under ssch detailed overlapping
observation of the horison for suspicious
objects It was hard to conceive
of a surprise attack being
made upon a troopship; it simply
took tho scare of danger and
crumpled it in the minds of the
soldiers.
To keep the men lit a half-hour
of each day and often a longer period
was devoted to physical exercise.
Under dlrnftin?
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LID, CAPTAIN, UK WONT BITS YOU."
the men were pat through "rigorous
body drills. Oae wu the regular
field artillery drill exercise with
the familiar introduction: "First
exercise, raise, head, up down."
The other was the more complicated
West Point method derised by
where all the arms and trunk movements
were given in detail by oomm&nd.
The exercises finished, the
men were taken upon doable quick
runs around the decks, the combined
fall of their feet sounding
like the roar of artillery in action.
Nothing Left to Chance
Mothers anxious over the welfare
of their boys who have joined the
United States Army ought to realise
that wherever trained human intelligence
conld devise a plan of
either salvage or prevention the
element of danger was reduced.
Nothing was left to .chance. All
hazard was forecasted. Soldiers
were drilled over and over again
to meet what might happen until the
"road oat" had assumod the character
of a disciplined evolution.
Thus panic and disorganized efforts
to escape the perils Incident to the
overseas crossing were evaporated
In preparedness.
I have In mind the boat drills on
all of the American troopships. Although
precedent is set high in the
sky against the sinking of a prop
erly convoyed transport, L a., the
movement of Canadian troops overseas
without the loss of a single
ship, nevertheless oar War Department
proceeded upon the theory
that some day, perhaps, a troopship
at oars might be torpedoed. Hence
the everlasting boat drill; an erelation
of life apon oar transport, repeated
by day and by night until It
had become as familiar to the men
as the manual of arms.
THE CHEERING TIME
It's a pretty good world,
Ef you take It dat way
And kmow when and when not
To holler "Hooray!"
am '" ^ ^
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Y. M. C. A. Doing Its Bit
For Soldiers "Ortr There"
Many American soldiers who nay vJjfj S
they could not Imagine what Held
service would be without the T. M.
C. A. buildings and their comforts
and conveniences are wondering
whether tbey will have the same
facilities "Over There" as In the - t5tt*S
cantonments.
The Y. M. C. A. is on the job
"Over There" as well as over here, '5T*
and this is what Rt. Hon. Darid
Lloyd George thinks of It:
"Few organizations hare done so
much in caring for the comfort and
well-being of our soldiers as your
associations.
"They give invaluable help to the ..^jH
army, and have Immeasurably light- 'X[II
ened the hardships which have to /suB3j
be endured by our troops.
"In recognizing the excellent
work that has already been done, .
I should like to wish yoa success in >
that which you still propose to undertake."
EAST SIDERS TAKE
KAISER INTO CAMP
Many novelties were Intrniln-'O^
into the parades of the selective
service men throughout the country ''ufa!
on their way to railroad stations to V-'-Jm*
entrain for their camps, bot the
boys from one of the East Side districts
in New York seemed to hare V-OSHIa
capped the climax.
Well op toward the head of the yj8H
East Stders' column was presented
the spectacle of Uncle Sam taking ' >j??]
the Kaiser, heavily shackled, into 'vjj
camp.
One of the selective service men |
was costumed as Undo Sam and " >/.
the other dressed as the Kaiser,
spiked helmet, high boots and alL I
Uncle 8am walked slightly in ad- I
vanca of the Kaiser, no as to strain "
the heavy, glittering handcuffs and
make thorn visible to tho Ihisisali /" ' J
of spocteton who laaghed and . .';-rJ
cheered. I