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JOHN STEW
. . Chairman of Advisory Boari
Camp and location
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B Camp Devens. Ayor. Max P.ostol
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B Camp Gordon. Atlanta. On Atlanl
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MMUflnmnB Camp Johnston. Jacksonville. Fla Jacks*
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Cainp I.ewls. American lake, Wash... .Tacoir
^<2^9 I'imp Pike. Little Ruck. Ark ....Arkan
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IM WHEN IT S OVE?*OVER
THERE"
When it's over, as it will be some
- ?day soon, what will it all mean to the
. boys who won the victory? Nobody
1 .an prophesy anything with certainty
J exceot this: that t^e war will influ-i
!snce and control our national life for
a generation and the men who lead
the nation in peace will be those who1
rZ have shown leadership in war.
JC-ri ft kas always been so, for war is
J* : :>:ic of the oldest traits, as it is one
of the severest tests of men. War
winnows the chaff from the grain, and
/ ? after the winnowing the sure instinct
f vfl of the people chooses the men whom
TAT-j war has revealed.
Let no man think that because the
course of his peaceful schooling in
| Wl factory or college has been interrupted
| "fl that his education will suffer. Far
WM from it, for war is the hardest as it
\J is the best school for initiative, for
^r'sc> l^e characteristics that mark the !
men of commanding genius. No diploma
that any faculty can give means
-- -la-Wjl as mucj1 as the citation in despatches!
* ^ K or the shoulder straps won at the risk
sz^^yClJ of life. For war does not make?it
jj only discloses. War does not create |
?it only educates. War is a revealer. I
J The naked soul of man revealed ty!
war in all of its majesty and power
y^J v| is often as much of a surprise to the
'"dividual as to the multitude.
When General Grant was selling
(wood in Missouri neither he nor his
riends imagined that he had stern
qualities by which he would win the
'?&' CT war and be made twice the President
tbe ^n'tcc* States.
r flP was war recor(* tbat 8ave
J Rutherford B. Hayes the nomination
/vIMy and afterwards the Presidency. Andi
XS' ?' so it goes?Garfield. Arthur, Harrison,
McKinley. and every President from
I \ Lincoln to McKinley, except Cleve;j
-*\ land, was a man who had been tried
| MR ] and tested by war.
' In the South no less than the North
was l^'s tr'bute p3'^ to tr'a' by bat"
tlc" A*tcr Appomattox the Southern
\ ? I zf brigadiers ruled the South for a gen~~
kJ yr cration, not because of gratitude, but
M li? because their native and acquired gifts
d IB leadership could not be obscured or
l_ ilR sidetracked.
Here in our training camps and
??LJfc "Over There" in the trenches are boys
r i" the uniform of privates who will
RMBWI1II be national heroes before peace is
* illfffL'Ifflffw made- Here are young lieutenants
whose training will mark them out for
ffl | senators and governors and Presidents,
perchance. Here are thousands
$*4* 1 anc* thousands of men in whose hearts
| burn that spark of the divine fire that
Eg A I separates the pure gold from the comS
H mon clay. They may not recognize
in themselves the possession of that
L...... m.B great gift but the light is there all the
same and when shot and shell have
i>(f|"itlTltftt? ripped open the dark lantern of com
monplace circumstance, or dull surroundings.
then these lads will shine
' ! forth as the day?and in their light
and leading their fellow citizens will
All will not come back better, it is
<2p56SiS2 true, but enough men will come back
' shining and ennobled to give to this
Nation an impulse and an example
that, like that of Washington here
or Joffre in France, will last forever.
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M'OTKEHW Ai
js njiiJ Cantonments for the sotdtcrs of .the
padqiiarter*
lltzer Building
>rk City
AKT RKYAX I
1 of Co-operating Publishers
Newspaper Publisher
Creek Enquirer-News A. I* Miller I
1 Globe Charles H- Taylor. Jr. |
>n Times James Kerney
a State Journal Frank P. MacLennan
a Constitution Clark Howell
hlcago Dally News Victor F. I.awson
bla State W. W. Ball
uivllle Times-Union W. A. Elliott 1
10ml News I.oaiier John Stewart Bryan |
ib Tribune F. S. Baker
ngton tl>. C. i Evening Stnr.Fleming Ncwbold
ntonlo i.ik''t Charlea & Dlehl 1
fork World Do., C. Setts 1
Vorlh'si?TTvl'sram Amon C. Carter
Herald H. D. Slater ,
m=~=MM
ornery" Advertiser!"...!!!. .??!'??'! .C. H. Allen
tonal War Work Council. Y. M. C. A. of the 1
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salutes necessary .
Commenting on the bill recently j
introduced by Congressman Clark, of (
Florida, providing that no enlisted (
| men. eitner private or uuu-vuui, u?
| required to salute any officer below
j the grade of brigadier general not *
connected with his own organization. ,
the Army and Navy Journal has the
i following to say:
"Nothing could be more destruc'
tive to the discipline and efficiency of
our armies. If it became a law such .
a proposal would open the door for ]
lack of that respect to superiors in 1
command that is the very foundation J
of all military discipline. If enlisted ,
men are relieved from the necessity ]
of showing proper respect to officers
.of a regiment other than their own, J
I they would not rdspect their own offl- ,
cere and would soon become inatten- ]
[tive and slouchy. it is often almost 1
impossible for a man to know 1
whether an officer is of his own regi- '
nient and therefore entitled to a
salute under Mr. Clark's plan. Endless
confusion and disrespect to superiors
would naturally follow. Such
a bill shows lack of knowledge of the
foundation of military discipline and
gives evidence of the socialistic spirit
that animates the Soldiers' and
Workmen's Committees which have
destroyed the discipline of the Russian
army. It is to be hoped that
such a dangerous proposal will be
promptly killed." i
GERMAN SOLDIERS' WIVES
i TREATED AS MERE BRUTES
The following story, translated,.,
from the Bremer Buerger-Zeitung, a
German newspaper, indicates the fuel
conditions and also shows how the
women folk of the soldiers are treated:
"A soldier's wife, who had gathered
wood in the common forest of
Waldkirch. near Freiburg, in Breisgau.
was sentenced for the offense in
the following terms:
" 'Mrs. Clara Ganter. on June 13.
1917. has removed from the common
forest of Waldkirch. Sec. I 23, one
faggot of dry fir twigs of the value
of 10 pfennig. .In punishment there
01 sne is senieuceu iu a uuc ui ? i
mark and one day's imprisonment.' i
"The husband of the culprit has|
been for thre# years at the front, she i
herself has four small children to
support in the direst poverty. Similar
reports of punishment should be
reported in greater numbers. Our
bureaucracy understands how to employ
this period of shortage of wood
and coal on a large scale for the
benefit of the treasury."
WILLING
The recruits were being sworn in.
Everything went swimmingly until
the question was asked one of
them:
"Have you ever been in prison?"
"No, sir," was the reply. "I've
never been in jail, but I don't mind
doing a few days if you think it is
necessary."
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5 THE SEEMC
THE Service Ba/! Not a showy d(
but a plain, unimposing badge oi
And the man who wears it is
integer. He has been where a scorchl
the glory of campaigning like Mextcai
felt the deprivations, the sacrifices, thi
Not serving self, but serving a gi
we know, which we are now setting f
The life or the Service Bar Man
Pause. He has undergone testing, n<
ahead, but testing, nevertheless.
The Service Bar Man, De ne ueut
as a tower of encouragement and stii
fledged and untried. He reminds us tl
men to serve a mean or petty purpos<
righteous cause.
The badge he wears symbolizes
carried forward on America's standar
United States do not fail, once committ
They say to us, "Go! Perform yo
jo Go!"
America tc
Attention! American Boy! Patriot!
Lover of your Country! Ready and
;ager to answer her call! Willing to
jour out your blood upon the Altar of
Freedom, as did your sires of old.
I, America, am proud of you.
Soldier Boy, Sailor Boy, Boy in
Blue or Boy'in Brown, you are inexpressibly
dear to me. My heart yearns
jver the Boy whom I must give to the
*reat cause of Freedom.
Ah Liberty, how we love you^ How
we have fought for you?yea died for
rou?and never known defeat!
The Spirit of '76 still lives. Freeiom
is our birthright.
,i~J rUnll tUa C/imc nf Columbia
be slaves, "
While the Earth bears its plants, and
the Sea rolls its waves."
Freedom, upon whose altars the
lacrificial blood of ages has been
poured, must now be won for all the
World, and upon you, American Boy,
:he Nations wait with bated breath,
fou are the pivot upon which hangs
:he fate ot America and all libertyoving
peoples.
It was our beloved Garfield who
mid, "A Nation is not worthy to be
javed. If in the hour of its fate, it will
aot gather up all its. Jewels of Manhood
and Life, and go down into the
ponflict, however bloody or doubtful,
-eftolved on measureless rilin or complete
success."
You will not hesitate, American
Boy, for "Freedom we must have;
Freedom we must maintain."
It has been said that "Freedom
may come in robes of Peace, or after
iges of conflict and war, but come it
will, and abide it will, so long as the
principles by which it was acquired
ire held sacred."
And so, American Boy. Sailor Boy
jr Soldier Boy, mine by birth or mine
t?y adoption, white or black, still mine
?I give you to the cause, never for
i moment doubting the outcome,
though feeling "That even in a rightsous
cause force is a terrible thing,"
and War inexcusable except as a
means to peace.
Peace for all time must now be purchased,
and paid for, by you?my
Boy?by You. This is my time of renunciation,
but I glory in the strength
and manhood of my Son, even though
every fibre of my being cries out
TO Ml
"Do you know that your so
That you seem ta be fib)
None other can pain me as
None other can praise m
"Remember, the world will
If shadow or shame eve
'Like mother, like son' is a ,
The world will judge lar
"Re this then your task, if t
To force this proud wori
Be sure it will say when its
She reaps as she sowed,
TO PROTECT SOLDIERS* "WADS"
A bill has been introduced in Congress
providing for the fining and imprisoning
of merchants who overcharge
officers or enlisted men in the
American armies for goods or mer
chandlse.
SEND IT HOME
Write to mother and the home
folks every chance you get. Follow
up your letter with a copy of Trench
and Camp, which will be appreciated
by the family,
NT TYPES
K BAR MAN
scoratlon which glitters and sparkles,
t Having Been There Before,
not a showy, glittering human parade
ng sun wilts the spirits and dries up
a sun sucks the water pool. He has
a hardships?of serving!
-eat pulsing fife which is bigger than
orth to serve with our lives,
has already been merged in a Great **
>t as severe as the furnaces of trial
qpant or division commander, stands
nulus to those of us who are newly
liat Our Country has never called her
i, or champion an unworthy and unrighteousness,
justice and truth as
il. His Bars tell us that men of the
ed to a task.
ur highest service! Fail, you cannot,
?
1
> Her Sons
against the lust for power that dominates
the world?^-despised monarch,
who cares neither for God nor Man
but for himself alone.
"The words pf his mouth were
smoother than butter, but War was
in his heart" and War he shall have,
till the last round of ammunition is
gone or World Peace declared.
Thus I send you. Boy fl'f Minp, to
dangers I know not?but this 1
know: i,
ntt InuA nil .cen or in the air.
God,.watches o'er you everywhere.
American Boy, it Is not ambition
that makes me say with pride, this Is
my Son. No; it is something better,
higher, holler. It is the same great
love that makes you loyal to your Nation
and your Flag.
From the inmost recestf of your V
heart you are inspired by'the love of
your Country, your Home; your Lib- ^
erty, and you will fight for these with
no thought but to win.
"For God gave us Liberty, '- '. isfe
And God will give uf Peace."
Hitherto you have been gay and
joyous, light-hearted, frep?a boy \: j
lightly regarding your prp<;Ious heritage
of Freedom and Liberty. But W.
when you see them threatened you s
are suddenly a man, with pll a man's
vitality, all a man's resourcefulness. ' i
Talents long dormant now spring to ,
your bidding. The fire of.Patriotism j
burns within your soul, interwoven
with every ligament of your heart is
the American love of fair play, and . j
under the "Stars and Stripes," true to
the traditions of your beloved country
you will march without flinching
"even into the jaws of Dea^h." Amer- jA:
lean Boy, it is our destiny to fight for Ijg
freedom. We cannot live to ourselves a:)
alone. Bach Nation must touch and q
bless or curse the Nations about them. ' .3
America must be a blessing in this "
greaj; conflict for Liberty.
American Boy, defender of my honor,
I count on your devotion! You .
will not fail me in my hour of need.
Keep step, march on in the strength ..M
of a righteous cause, shouting our
good, old battle cry of Freedom. March
on! America waits for vie
iu? j ;
Isabel Naysmith Newmyer.
Bellcvue, Pa.
{ SON
ul is of my soul such part,
e and core of my heart;
you, son, can do;
\e or please me as you.
be quick with its blame,
r darken your name,
saying so true,
nelv /if mother bv vou.
I I
ask it shall he,
Id to do homage to me. I
verdict you've won,
this man was her son." t
p.
THE WEAKER SEX
The weaker sex
Is that portion
Of the human race .< -,&j
Who goes downtown J
la zero weather
In a half masted lace waist <
And pumps
buy a muffler ^
And woollen socks j *
For her husband . i
So he can go to work, e.