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'< | ^ OUR OWN RINC r\ well al 1 of ha /y l\ * from wat 1 hare sa f v>\ moshun pickchures /pl at our cnmpanny of my be coming i Barlmorne or chal 'f\ n \) ) 11181 are snposed tt V- W V f/?^ hofnsr I toll * ?1 wlllimj thVt' t' singing and j&zzini got twogether sen soldger was both i member of this ai singer or jazzer In a gunn he is abba In Bam campanny is 1 untill it has hs prlntlt menyous a both a Feed and fund & then the fu well al our c fund so as that we out of It seemd to with the akting s was 1st talk of haveing this 1 doped It 1 was to offer myself to the caws so i red me can you give me an hour or to i c'ai least it ucet to go big with the foax at he he ced j^at Is your ack i ced its no ack i If its lltlel enuff mebbe we can squeeze 1 # harmonlcker the one we uced to play wit front portch with the girls. he ced Its too bad we dldent know 3 reggymeni band yon might of-lead it i < late now your -band is too set in its welgl well he ced 1 think we can use you in tt own we will put you on as the small toi natcheral 1 ced that woodent be akting it bye this time. their was a play they had all print: the country stoar & in it 1 was one of thi the stoar after this girl only it wasent a maid up as a girl, well al i and her I n in love on the levall only their was a bu trying to get me in dutch hut it wasent trying to kweer me with Aggie well bele i cood play & was auposed to finely win tb & * well al the nite of the show we had a big sum eggzitement as the 1st acks become i 1 stoar was about to go on. i got a big h | al & everything went fine if it hadent b r phil broomall wore & the guy that sti ' harmonicker into my pocklt we was on tl 1 sum sob tufT on the harmonicker well c harmonicker i felt sumthing their that -1. wasent the harmonicker but a banana wi t rppif7pd if wasent no harmonicker. w< { rot the biggest laff of the hole show. tJ J me the next biggest 1 wag wen i stept < I hollered get offen my skurt i ced it isent I ho ced that maiks no diffronts get off w you know me ai. ' , ' after the show everybody laffed agi I In the show but Taft Will Make To Soldiers In FORMER PRESIDENT SCHEDU AND ADDRESS SELECTS .? . Y. M. C. A. AVI W} Under the auspices of the Y..M. C. m< A.. William Howard Taft, formerjWt w''' President of the United States, will K: on nf tha National!!?. VlO.l ? : Army cantonments and make one or R/ more addresses to the soldiers quar- M< Sr?' tered ln themThe addresses will be delivered in the Y. M. C. A. auditoriums in the In' ' various cantonments, which will accommodate about 3,500 officers and l?; . men. In many instances the former Si!;- chief executive of the Nation will "g'v make two speeches, while in some of C the larger camps he will deliver three o/IHroaaoa jfV The Y. M. C. A. considers itself fortunate In obtaining the consent of a man of Mr. Taft's prominence to make a series of addresses to the selective men. Mr. Taft is not only a .J' former ruler of the Nation but a ' ? man who enjoys an immense popularity. More than this, however, he is ' an eloquent and forceful speaker, he has an intense admiration for the soldiers now in training and he knows how to deliver a message to thom it P-nan without savine that he will be accorded a warm reception by the soldiers. Mr. Taft has no set program of speeches to deliver. He will choose his topics at will, but, Judging from the addresses he has already made to " soldiers, he probably will devote most \l of his time explaining how the United States was forced Into war with Germany. He draws a most scathing Indictment against Germany for fiolat- sp ing practically every principle of In- ca ternatlonal law, and he Is supremely ni| confident that the American fighting of i Soldier-Actor 1 i W. LARDNER id my chants of bean an akter and iw of aktlng on the stage ft In the i ft after wat 1 pulld the other nite show their shoodent be no doubt ^s good as dlgless halrbanx or jno rley chaplins or any Of the others > be good. oq al how 1 broke into the anting bis army Is the greatest akting, g;-banding army that has ever been ts the days of giddeon wen every a soldger and a trumpiter. every rmy ig both a soldger & akter 01 addishun of beeing abbul to carrj 1 to carry a tune or a leading pari show or sumthing. no cumpannj id a cumpanny show & a Feed with nd a cumpany fund witch means a show becaus the show gets the nd gets the Feed, umpanny was wanting moar of a cood have Feeds & the only weigh be a show & thats wear i cum in tuff you know me al. wen theii out that the only patriotick thing to the guy in chardge how a bout 1 put on sum pretty good stuff at me Aggie & sister Min & the rest ts a littel musicull number he ced t in i ced hear it is & pull out mj th the catarrh & mandle in on the rou played this wen we got up the :ed of coarse i mite of but its tot foar me to do ennything with it le show but not as an ack of youi vn boob all you have to do is acli wood it he cejl no but we will let it tin al & everything it was callc" s country fellas that hung a round girl but phll broomall a corporal! tean phil was suposed to be the 1 ntch that hung a round this stoai mutch use. like that stiff Slackei ev me al I was in the kind of pari is girl by playing the harmonicker ; crowd of several 100 & their wai learer & nearer over & the countn and wen i cairn out you know m( en for the sknrts this girl i mem ak sumthing in the stead of th< le last ack & i was suposed to pul il as i reacht in my pockit for th< shoodent never have ben their 1 tch 1 pulld outen the pockit befoai ell it was worth It al the bannani neir was plenty of them too belee< )n the girls i mene phils skurt hi yourn It belongs to the custoomei ell i got off but it got a big laugl en wen 1 cairn out not as the guj your friend PRIVATE JIM. tjpccLfico \ Many Camps LED TO TOUR COUNTRY rE SERVICE MEN IN )ITORIUMS m wiilwin the the war to make thi >rld safe for democracy. ' Ex-President , Taft has afr'cad oken to the soldiers at Camp Up a, Yaphank, N. Y., Camp Grant ?ckford, 111., and Camp Dodge, De lines, Iowa. Tentative Itinerary His tentative schedule for appear S at the other National Arm; mps is as follows: January 24, Camp Devens, Ayei Mass. January 23, Camp Dix, Wrights town, N. J. January 26, Camp Lee, Peters burg, Va. January 28-29, Camp Jackson Columbia, S. C. January 30-31, Camp Gordon Atlanta. Ga. February 1-2, Camp Pike, LittI Rock, Ark. February 3-4-5, Camp Travil San Antonio, Texas. February 6-7-8, Camp Funston Fort Riley, Kan. February 9-10, Camp Zachar. Taylor, Louisville, Ky. . February 13-14, Camp Mead* Admiral, Md. February 15-16, Camp Sherman Chillicothe, Ohio. February 17-18, Camp Custei Battle Creek, Mich. Mr. Taft will also deliver addresse Hampton. Va., Baltimore, th eat Lakes Naval Training 8tatioc licago. Bowling- Green, Ky., am !w Haven, Conn. In the instances in which he is t eak on more than one day in ; ntonment, Mr. Taft will spend th ght or nights in camp"as the gues the commanding officer. - NP CAMP Major Generals Back Frc Necessity For Discip All of the major generals commanding National Army cantonments and National Guard camps who have i been to Belgium and France and re, turned are laying particular emphasis i and stress on three things: i Discipline, The School of the Soldier, Accuracy of rifle Are. What they saw In the trenches and i elsewhere along the battle front In the Western theatre of war convinced them that these three things will win the war, and without these three things wars cannot bp won. As a ; result of their observations of actual war conditions they have issued orders th$t discipline be strengthened i all alpng the line and that as much i time as possible be devoted to drilling men in the school of the soldier . and to practice on the rifle range. The first order issued by a majori general upon his return from France tho wAnrlne ofl ; leather puttees and short sheepskin ; overcoats by non-coms and privates t because these articles are not regu. lation and the wearing of them con1 stitutes a breach of discipline, r "The war will be won by disciplini ed lighting soldiers and not by devices or material things," said this i major-general. "The history of war, fare shows this. What is going on . abroad confirms it. The intelligence, ; loyalty and individual skill of our J men are valuable assets. I "But they are assets which cannot be effectively used in battle unless I they are welded into a harmonious I and dependable whole through the 1 solidifying influence of discipline." > "There Is enough war Over There ^ for everybody," he continued, "and a continuation of the training period I here under the favorable climatic conditions of the country will prove mos\ J -valuable. A soldier has been defined , as a man who has an insatiable de, sire to go somewhere else, and who, I upon getting there, immediately re5 establishes and continues the desire." [ Major Edward Olmstead, Assistant r.hiof of Staff. 27th Division, caused I to be published to the men of the r New York National Guard, now traint ing at Camp Wadsworth. Spartanr burg, S. C., a letter he received from ; an officer in the Service of the "r United States who had been visiting , the battlefrdnts in France and Belglum. . Following are some of the most interesting and instructive portions of -the letter: "Much attention has been paid to the method of relief and comfort of the men Hot meals were served three times a day and the men themselves are required to keep neatly dressed. So far as possible they reLqulre men to keep their shoes cleaned, their buttons polished and so forth. It was said (his helped to f keep up the morale. The British officers informed me they attempted to have their men shave every day. "The officers' messes were excellent. They made an attempt to dress for din.ier. In the matter of dress, 3 I was greatly embarrassed in this re ml' ?'I'h no niir nldpot OJJCV.I. >? C wuuo nitu ? y clothes and on arrival found that . both British and French officers made a great point of looking as spick and s span as possible all the time. When entertaining at dinner they wore white collars and cuffs. Celuloid collars and cuffs were much in vogue, because the laundry problem is a dify ficult one, particularly so far as starched linen is concerned. , "Take plenty of matches and tobacco. Soap is at a premium, so take h plenty of that. You can send parcel post packages home and have such packages sent to you. "The Post Office Department sells lf money orders. The rate of exchange is greater for government checks u than for gold or paper money. Any bank will cash a government check e as will the quartermaster and Bome pf the postal stations. You can prob,t ably arrange for a personal checking account in Paris with the Guaranty ,t Trust Company of New York, but these personal checks in France can ? only be cashed in person at the bank nn wblfh drawn. A eood financial , arrangement is to leave your P?7 ' vouchers, for say December and Jan, uary, with the depot Quartermaster at Washington, to be placed to your . credit, when due, with some bank or ' mailed direct to an individual, as you prefer, and cash February on the s other side, and so on in same ratio e as that. Put in a pay voucher for i. foreign service pay only each month * on the other side. In cashing your pay. vouchers in France, the quartero master will give you any number of a checks. There are banks in small e towns and they are glad to cash these t checks. "More attention is paid to training im France Emphasize ;||||| line and Accurate Fire J||lf In the School of the Soldier and 3 Squad than we have ever attempted, or I should say than we have attempted In recent years. Every man must have thorough and careful phy- |j| slcal training. The Instructor should be one who has had special training r? under some one trained carefully In j that system. vVI SJLyI "The French do not pay much attentlon to set-up. The British do ?jjl and so will we. Indifferent or in- jjm XvH competent instructors fail to bring (M out the disciplinary value of this class of instruction. Everything pos slble should be done to ueYe?up pyjmywi i agility and endurance. You can do f no better than to follow the course . laid down In 'Field Physlcial Train- vWaW/pi lng of the Soldier. War Department 1917.' The average company officer I will not do. He must be an espe- rt/II cially trained instructor. Classes C<r/||PflQ should be small, not more than UKttijyU I twenty to fifty at a time. j "Every &an must be a good rifleman, a good shot, know how to throw i | hand grenades, have some knowledge I I of the rifle grenade, know something I about the auto rifle, have individual I training in patroling, scouting and bo i forth. When soldiers are well trained | In the School of the Soldier, you can I adopt any formation such as the I French use with very little difficulty. ' 7. If well trained it will not take more /Jsjt than four or five days to be efficient ffjejCvx therein. I would not permit any man to be instructed in bayonet fighting, grenade throwing^uto rifles or phy- [fkTfffl BMi steal training except by a specially |U|n||||(|||Mmu trained instructor. No one man can mfl|l. Tffe be a specialist in all these things in MR A^JTfjS the short time we have to prepare. "The type and manner of saluting BBqfcaEjfrl is that used by our very best soldiers. PtfgifSMM So if you have any doubt in mind as to what the correct salute is, keep that In mind. I would insist that the men in the ranks, at ease or at rest, must always stand squarely on both feet, with legs apart, and never with WE^EyLM their hands in front of their bodies. If the man has a rifle in his hands let him hold that with one hand, and HhM|Q have the other one at his side or behind his back. Of course never with BgW| his hands in his pockets. W|l[wWp?g "Every platoon commander should know Intimately every man in his lllmjEKt JJj platoon. He' should be their father confessor. The captain must know M0m his men and should be appealed to in matters which the platoon com- ajy M/flk manders cannot adjust." W '//yjbI GERMAN PEACE FOR peace that's made in Germany the allies do not care; it would be cheap and verminy, not warranted to wear. The peace the kaiser'8 pondering, and planning with a gull, would surely fade in launder- "7 * ing, the colors all would run. This war! The world is hating it, but many dictating it, and handing out Ijj^l the bunk. The allies are much wiser ijjg dumb, and wielding sword and /ffTS creese, than arguing with kaiserdom jfgj about the terms of peace. When ot^ peace again is given us, and people know repose, and war's red dog. / | that's driven us, back to its kennel C*goes, that peace must be no platitude. V* no phrases neatly turned, of wide / and yielding latitude, to be ignored rjrft or spurned. No paper written gaud- I I ily, whose terms may be withstood. (nLi no fabric woven shoddily, or "some- (f&i thing just as good." When gentle ^ peace has come again, it must have /frA come to stay; no king shall make J'jf things bum again by starting up a a// ^ fray. The peace that comes from " Jy ,:? Germany would last till Kaiser Bill ,l| should once again determine he was W/d/1 ,//ji) /) Strono- ennnerh to kill.?Walt Mason. '77//JfllW./," (Copyright. 1317, by George Matthew A.larrm) jU MUST CURB CURIOSITY hi American soldiers "Over There" are being instructed to curb their curiosity and to forget all about souvenir gathering. The reason for this is that a number of British. French and Belgian soldiers have lost their fjtffi'yWl lives because their attention was attraded to a likely looking souvenir mmjmwlfo left in a trench or dugout by-fleeing Germans. [yMfey The discovery has been made that / , J the Huns leave watches, articles of faf //J k jewelry and other trinkets on the wj&L/J floor or walls of evacuated trenches and when touched these articles set off a death-dealing bomb. In one in- H stance a French soldier removed a I watch from the wall of a trench and thus set off a bomb which cost him his I life, together with that of a score of companions. An electric wire was at- H tached to the watch and when the timepiece was touched the explosion occurred immediately.
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