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j|g TRENCH Room 504, Pu imsa tUWIfWHUMUa JOHN STKW ?4 4 X I Chairman of Advisory Hour S H C'nnip und l.?x*ittion W- - O i ni. Cu*t.r. Itnttl.. iT.,k. Mi.h Haul. I#* * | :35 i-?'l ".-w./ti'-.t I? " ic-K m v'i'lll' !. 'IV'.- U ,!, :'* . >*| -.? ? > A-lnnr;.:. >!.l Wa-h | xS C v Kz' "i!i:|. ii,Mur<i:.iiil. ,\!<-xaii.l.i:>. I.a XV w ^ AMERICANS NEAR -|S ?.*, ' Official announcement of the pres:nce of American troops on the RhineV:, Marne canal places our men closer to the German frontier than almost any other of the allied troops. One good . 1 1 " push. in some places, will put us on i he soil of the Boche. ,3k Another very interesting facfconnected with the location of our troops iy< is their proximity to the town of St. Die This lies close to the frontier, T? --p and is a quaint old place, nestled un-V der the Vosges Mountains. Centuries is <^riI St. Die was famous for its univer.'f| t. sity and the university was famous for 11 a great teacher of geography, Wald eemiiller by name, cl t This Waldseemuller was tremenll' -Ie the "real" At firs*. camouflage was the clumsy s'mijlatlon of nature. Boughs ol trees, ' w ihe thatch of houses and the beams of \g lLis Icserted buildings were used to shelter i* j?uns- ?ut soon the fields were swept I ?m! 30 clean that every tree became susl MB ? picious and every wreck of a house I .ySB^L^ was bombarded by artillery and jglSna.*1' bombed by aviators. Then came the camouflage that made the word familiar with a new and ' ^l, finely-descriptive word. Sign-painters .. ' }_ 1; and house-daubers were called to paint & canvas in the colors of earth. As this proved successful, scenic artists were fjvCT mobilized and the work thoroughly orI ganized until, finally, it became prac , , i ticable for an artillery officer to pro' cure any camouflage he might desire 71\ *> "^1 upon few hours' notice. s ca^ec^ ^or counter-efforts, as fr/y*iBg|BSl interesting and as ingenious as the camouflage itself. How was an aviaor to tell whether the ground below ;,.im was a deserted field or was canvas ind framework concealing hundreds \wV&i,1 ! guns? How could the artillerist * f?* #v know when he was wasting shell on ^ Efty 1 mound of earth or was shattering ' ? ?uns l^at ^ad ^ecn l"e death of thouf.rs of ' j sar.ds? Something could be learned, } K-VgffY of course, by careful ground observalj esir ' .ion and by the ceaseless scrutiny of i/ B8' "*\ .he front. Gradually, however, the f reH. armies have come to rely for the pen! I ?*! ctration of camouflage on the work Jk of the aviators and of the mathemaD ti.ians who study the shell traject_A\ L4 ones. As the system is now developed, all I VI I ,jl armies nave trained aviaiuis wnu I M IS up legularly with convoying battleJ fcft planes to take pictures of the enemy I positions. Their negatives, developed, I"?3* enlarged and printed, are gone over [ ' microscopically by men whose profiPftjWIMjfll cicncy in reading photographs is posiMWUW.toS tively uncanny. We know it sounds briNnfftfBa unbelievable but here is an example bM~". . ot what numerous British map readP, ers can do with these photographs * s4 A H An av'ator may come back with a pictPil 3 ure taken at 20.000 feet. On the print I the map readers know there is a hidH [ den battery. They search for it vainly ivj'A* I At length they see on the print, bj A DRKAM OF ; "The last great war has been j fought, and the nations may now look i - forvvard to uninterrupted peace." "n. This was the hope and the belief i' '^V?r?SnS proclaimed from many pulpits in i Kngland 102 years ago, January 18, i?- lsio. when Great Britain, by royal proclamation, celebrated a general thanksgiving day, following the end of Ike Napoleonic wars. \ TRENCH t & CAMP ps and Cantonments for the soliliera of the lesdij unrterx litxer Building ork City ART BRYAN d of Co-operating Publishers Newspaper Publisher i* Creek Enquirer-News *.A. I*. Miller n Globe Charles H. Taylor. Jr. 0:1 Times James Kcrney Joine* Register Gardner Covrles la Stat" Journal Frank P. MacI.ennan ta Coiistltuti. il Clark Howell hleaRo l?all> News Victor F. 1-awson lbla State W. W. Ball onvllle Time Colon W. A. Elliott iioiul News header John Stewart Bryan iia Trlbun- K. S. Baker !r;ion i L>. C. ( Kw-nlng Star. Fii;niihK Newbold . IVm-ral E'lje r B. Clarke i.-ill,. <"uuri.-r-Journ.il Hruce KalUenmn intone. I.irthl Charles 8. Hlehl York Woritl Hon O. SelU . an* TIiik * Plrayune " Moore Worth Star Teh-gram Anion (". Carter .so Hera .1 H. IX Slater i':n ?ili'alioman. B. K. tlayiord "rati. I- llulletln It- A. Crothors otto Observer W. I*. Sullivan -t* Herald Bowdre Phlnlay iny-Vs Tin.- s Harry Chandler n I'e.-l ttouifh J. Palmer Mel r.li.g N >'? Charles K. Marsh ighain (Ala i News P. P- til a as aneeita .T.-nn . Times H. C. Ailler estnn (S C I New * and Courier. K. C. Sh-gllng Orleans Item James M. Thomson joinery Advertiser O. H. Allen i Telegraph I'. T. Anderson tlenaI War Work Council. Y. M. C. A. of the il>ove named publishers and papers. National ("snips and Cantonments. Civilian "HOME" IN FRANCE | dously interested in the story of the ; new continent reputed to have been j discovered by Columbus, for he was | preparing a map, on which he wished the new continent to appear. It hap| pened that while he was writing the geography that bears his name, he rej ceived a letter stating that the conti1 nent had certainly been reached by 1 Amerigo Vespucci, whereupon Wald| seemiiller proposed that the new world i take its name from Vespucci, i The word "America" was accordI ingly set in type for the first time close I to the line on which our boys are j fighting. ! It is almost like being beside the cradle of the country! CAMOUFLAGE | the aid of powerful magnifying glasses, infinitely small tracks. These lead in ! a definite direction. By following the course of these tracks, trained men figure that horses from the battery have been led to water, and they know i that where the tracks end, elsewhere ! than by the watercourse, a battery | may be concealed.. They report. Guns j are trained accordingly. The next day's photographs may show a ruined battery. It seems a fairy tale, does I it not, that the tracks of horses will | show on a photograph taken from an aeroplane which is itself a scarcely j discernible spot in the heavens? ' But there were thousands of instances where neither horse tracks nor !any other evidence of camouflage could 1 could be seen. Then it was that the British and French devised a trick I which may now be described, inas1 much as it has been discovered by the i Germans. It occurred to a clever aviator that perhaps the Germans might be painting their camouflage with the i naked eye and might not be using ef! fects that would withstand a color screen. Accordingly some of the aviator? made observations with different i color screens before their lenses and were delighted to find that, in accord1 ancc with laws familiar to all photog| raphers. the yellows or the greens j had been "filtered out." The result I showed plainly where the German I guns were hidden and led to an eyeopening bombardment. It was some I days before the Germans found out what was happening and why their faithful camouflage had suddenly beII come so useless. But when they dis| covered the reason, the Germans very promptly countered by a device as simple as that the British were em'ploying: where an artist desired to ! get a general yellow effect on camouflage, he merely put on yellow glasses. : The color that then appeared yellow ' to him was hideous to the naked eye, camera. This accounts for the curi' ous futurist color effects seen in photographs of camouflaged tanks. Now both sides paint and photograph through color screens, and 3 new method of camouflage will havt r to be developed. PKAC'K IN 1810 i After the smoke of Waterloo rolled back it revealed a continent given over to desolation. Although England had suffered less than the other nations involved in the long struggle, i she had by no means escaped un, scathed. For twenty years Greal I Britain had supplied the financial ! sinews of war for her allies, in.addi: tion to active participation in battles on land and sea. IA Vvf r ./ LN6 CAMP John W. Jewell Wi As He Lived?S It is seldom that an entire citj and an entire ^ounty suspend their governmental activities to join with a sorrowing citizenship in paying honor to the memory of a man only twenty-six years old. Qi.fh hrnvever. was the unusual tribute accorded by the officials of Springfield. Missouri, to John W. Jewell, editor of the Camp Funston edition of Trench and Camp, who was slain, together with three other men. ' by Captain l.cwis R. Whisler. ! Springfieid mourns him as the first of her sons to moot a tragic death in the nation's military service either at home or abroad. A large American Hag was draped around the casket | containing his body and when the grave nan ciuseu u.w ?.?. ~~ blem of the country ho loved and served was placed on top of it. Hundreds of telegrams were received by his bereaved family from persons "in all parts of the United States. Many expressed the thought that though Mr. Jewell was classed as a civilian in hi? position of editor of Trench and Camp, his life was sacrificed in a duty that was as patriotic as service in any other branch of the Array or Navy and that he was a martyr to his country's cause just as much as if he had been on the firing line in France. His death cast a pall of gloom over his native city, Springfield, and resolutions of sympathy and condolence, ringing with admiration of the brilliant young man, were adopted by the Bar Association and the City Commissioners. The following eulogy was pronounced bv one of the ministers who officiated at the funeral: | "John Jewell was the.finest young j man I ever knew. It was a privilege to have been his friend. It was the i highest things in life that appealed to him. He was the height of God's creation?a man. It was the love that John bore to his friendSuand all that was worth while in life that begot the love and esteem that all his friends had for him. He has not lived in vain." "Johnny." as he was affectionately known to his associates, died as he had lived?serving his friends. On the day of his death he had been at Camp Funston superintending the distribution of Trench and Camp among the soldiers. At nightfall he rode in his motor car to the bank at Camp Funston to take the officials and employees there to their sleeping quarters. The temperature was 22 degrees below zero and "Johnny" want ed to save them the long, cold walk.; It was while he was waiting in the! bank for the employees to finish their work that the maniac entered the building and struck him down. Mr. Jewell was born in Carrollton. Missouri, on August 12, 1891, and went to Springfield with his parents when a baby. He graduated from the Western Military Academy at Upper Alton, 111., and afterwards attended the University of Missouri, specializing in the course of journalism. He chose the newspaper profession that he might follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, J. B. Jewell, who at his death was editor of the Springfield Leader. Mr. Jewell was serving as associate editor of the Leader, with his father, when he was called to take up the labors of editor of the Camp Funston edition of Trench and Camp. He was married in April. 1916, and his wife, who was his boon companion, shared his joy in serving his country and its soldiers by editing "the soldiers' own , paper." ! WOULD RELEASE MEN OVER 31 i Secretary of War Baker favors the discharge from draft liability of men . who toave passed the age of thirty1 one since registering last June. This , is not understood to include the men : over thirty-one already in uniform in cantonments. The War Depart raent does not approve of reducing the draft age so as to make youths under twenty-one liable to call. The i opinion is held that those below ; twenty-one are too immature for service. while the inclusion of men over thirty-one would materially interfere with the economic structure of the country as most of these men are married or settled in business. DANGEROUS GLASSES Officers and men in the United States fighting forces who wear eye : glasses have been warned against the I use of rims or frames made of inflam mable material, such as celluloid, as it might prove disastrous in the presence of fire or explosions. msmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmm i i i - ' nt To His Death erving His Friends 3n fHrmnriam John W. Jewell, of Springfield, Missouri, who was murdered at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas, on the evening of January 11, is the first member of the staff of Trench and Camp to die while in the discharge of ^ his duty. His death is a loss not only to Trench and Camp and the war work of the Y. M. C. A., but as well to the community in which he had already earned for himself the character of a man or lignt ana leauius. When the practicability of Trench and Camp was still in doubt, I received telegrams and letters from Dean Williams, of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, and from publishers and editors throughout the country commending John W. Jewell as a young man of extraordinary attainments and ability who desired to serve the country in the capacity of editor, if such a field were open to him. From the first of our negotiations, Mr. Jewell showed himself to be a man whose sole thought was to serve the country. He made no stipulation for salary or for convenience, except to say that he preferred to serve at Topeka, where his good friend, Mr. Frank P. Macl^ennan, was publishing Trench and Camp for Camp Funston. Beyond this he asked for nothing for himself save the opportunity to serve. I In a letter accepting, Mr. Jewell said: "It is with groat interest that I look rorwaru 141 my apiiuimuicm 00 *,MV. ?< the individuals who will give the young Americans a newspaper that they will enjoy. Being a young man myself may be very helpful in making decisions as to subject matter and style. At any rate, I can assure you there will be no lack of enthusiasm on my part." This enthusiasm he showed to the fullest degree, not only by the vigor with which he attacked his work, but i by the sagacity and large-mindednesR ' with which he viewed the whole movement to produce a paper for the/ soldiers that would interpret the lives of the soldiers to themselves and to their people at home. _ The week of his death Mr. Jewell had telegraphed asking for an appointment In the East for the purpose of discussing other improvements he had in mind Tor Trench and Camp at Camp Punston, and it was at the very time I was expecting notification of the date of his arrival that the news of his death came over the Asso- ^ I ciated Press wires. I feel as if 1 had lost a dear friend, | for this work on Trench and Camp has been a labor of love on the part of every one, and of all those who have work in this undertaking none has shown more sagacity, more enthusiasm, more effective desire to serve than John W. Jewell. The editors of Trench and Camp have been brought into close contact* ~.I?K whnla ornw Thov hnvn chronicled the doings of the men, they have tried-to make every man, no matter how lonely he was, feel at home in the army and cheerful about his work; they have used printer's ink to give team spirit with a rapidity that cannot be afTorded by drill and the uniform alone, and those who have seen the Topeka State Journal edition of Trench and Camp for Camp Funston will read, set down in plain words, the spirit that animated John W. Jewell, and has animated so many other editoffc for Trench and Camp. Where one million and a half men are gathered together in the trenches in France and in the camps in America perfecting themselves for the great and noble task of setting free the spirit of man to follow its own ideals, to be guided by its own conscience to fltrht. and. if need be. to die in order that mankind may hereafter live add love and labor in peace, the death of one man is not a great affair, when viewed in the larger aspect of the national life. In the midst of the sacrifices that have been made and are yet to be made for the cause of liberty, there remains the great consolation for the friends and family of Mr. Jewell, that at the hour of his country's need he gladly gave her all his talents, and served brilliantly in that department to which he was assigned, thereby giving a sbining example or a man wnose oniy thought was the public welfare, and who "Did his work, and held his peace, and had no fear lo die." That is the example, in life or death, of the spirit by whose power alone the Republic can endure. JOHN STEWART BRYAN.
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