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^ Published weekly at the National Camp National Ha Boom 5*?. Pol 1 HHS9 JOHN STEW. Chairman of Advisory Boar T Camp and Location Bit * I Camp Beauregard. Alexandria. La.....New O I Camp Bowie, Fort Worth. Texas Fort V gjj* + jr Camp Cody. Demlag. N. Mcx El Paa Camp Cuater. Battle Creek. Mich Battlo H** * Camp Devena. Ayer. Mass Boaton I Camp I>lx. Wrlghtstown. N. J .Trentol E h if I Camp Dodge. Des Moines. Iowa iDes Mi I i x x I Camp Doniphan. Fort Sill. Okla Oklahc V TiimiiW Fremont. Palo Alto. Cal Fan Fr BiPllUHftilSffl Camp Funaton. Fort Riley. Kan Topeka C i W 111!frwl , K,nP Ourdon, Atlanta. Oa Atlanti Camp Grant. Roekford. Ill The CI I I Camp Greene. Charlotte. N. C Charlol I Camp Hancock. Augusta, Ga August [ <Y I Camp Jackson. Columbia. S. C Coluir.t rj J Camp Johnston. Jacksonville. Fla Jacksoi |i Camp Lee. Petersburg. Va Klchmi Camp Lewis. American I-akrs. Wash. .Tacomi j-~1 Camp Logan. Houston. Texas Housto 311 i 1 Camp McClellan. Annlston. Ala Blrmln .1 1 ? Camp Meade. Admiral. Md Wash . BFT? '' Fort Oglethorpe. Oa Chattai jJ f, m Camp Pike. Little Rock. Ark Arkans ML.Hl rH l'?mP Seller. Greenville. S. C Charlei TtPi. t Camp Shelby. Haltlesburg. MLas New Oi IMT Camp Sheridan. Montgomery. Ala Montgc <_ Camp Zachary Taylor. Louisville. Ky..Loulsvl 1 rn Camp Travis. Han Antonio. Texas... Ic_n ?. 4B4 ?? Kelly Field and Camp Stanley J IMIM Camp Cpton. Vaphank. L L. N. Y New T m9:3 Camp Wheeler. Macon. Oa Macon yja|flf 4R--2 Published under the auspices of the Xatli iw ft '''fk United States, with the co-operation of the at m distributed Tree to tho soldiers In the t l\\ifjR3k J subscription rates on application. Ut REMEMBER T Sinking of the British steamer Tuscania, used as a transport for American troops, will prove by far the worst day's work in the whole infer?al Pr?gram of German frightfulness. ? it win Dc one ot tne greatest Boomerangs of the war. "Remember The Tuscania," is destined to take its place as a battle slogan, just as "Remember the Maine" did. "Remember The Tuscania" will fire and inspire the American soldiers as they go over the top with bayonets fixed and jaws set to make the world safe for democracy-" and to avenge the deaths of their brethren in arms on the Tuscania. The torpedoing of the Tuscania. reckoned as one of the fortunes of war. brought home to many lethargic Americans the grim fatt that this country is at war and aroused the whole nation. There is more determination than ever to beat the German militarists to their knees. There probably was great joy in Berlin when news was received of the sinking of the transport, even as the piti THE N( Long before Waterloo Europe found that the backbone of the army was the "non-com." And what Wellington proved Kipling described. Take any story you choose about the British army, from Kipling's pen. and you will see that in defeat or victory, on march, in cantonment, in trench, I or in attack, it is the "non-com" that makes or mars the success of the movement. "Woe to that regiment." Kipling, "whose sergeants are ' rim not ?n tbe j?b " I Today what Kipling told his readers LS bccome the common knowledge of the world. Two years ago not one man in a hundred knew or cared any[ftp* thing about the duties of a sergeant. \tLiToday 2,000,000 families in this coun|f | JP Iy try have sons in the Srmy and those sons are either sergeants or they are 'officers or privates. Around the sCrgeant evolves the life of the company, 11 K<jv\ and from the sergeants hav? come ! miJ some of the greatest generals. I Ml The brilliant and ill-fated Hector ' It J *ore was a British general. So (A ITPffl was General Sir William Robertson. B "ItSi the British chief of staff, and so will ? Vj L-&1 be that unknown general who is now ml OlI wearing his sergeant's chevrons in M l? America or "Over There." And Gen8 n eral Pershing knows it too. He has A written clearly and decisively to say ?-Tr- that the American officers must be ml5f up to his responsibility. A German writer recently sneered HHHj at Mr. Baker's statement that there! were now 110,000 officers in America! ffrfnmTmM by saying ^that anybody could sew { I + Tfr epaulettes on a soldier, but it took | years of training to make an officer. SHOULD STIt'K TO BOOKS * "To the extent that men in college are physically or otherwise dis PmfflfMroi ure tou young to meet the require|fflllllllllll8B merits of the War Department, it seems quite clear that in the present bk state of the emergency their major j'a^N (fmm usefulness lies in their remaining in college." wrote Secretary Baker to - the undergraduates at Yale University. The War Department is especially anxious not to disturb the eduirational systems of the country, said t Mr. Baker, in advising the students below draft age to stick at theirj books. " ' & CAMP s and Cantonments for th? soldiers of the UQWrttn Itxer Build ln? rk CKy VKT BRYAN _ d Of Ce-epentlat Publishers Newspaper Publisher rleana Times Picayune D- D. Moore 1'orth 8tar Telegram Kmon C.~ Carter o Herald <M- *> SI*1" Creek Enaulrer-News A. U Miller Globe Charles II. Taylor. Jr. a Times James Kerney >iom Register Gardner Cowlee ma City OkJaboman B. K. Oaylord anrtsco Bulletin R- A. Crothers , Slate Journal Frank P Macl-ennan k Constitution Clark Howell ilcagn Pally News Victor F. Lawson lie Observer W. P. Sullivan a Herald Bowdre Pblnlsy ,t? State W W. Ball nvllle Times-Union . W. A. Elliott kgeles Times Harry Cbandler >nd News Leader Jobn Stewart Bryan i Tribune P- & Baker n Post Gough J. Palmer Morning News Charles E Marsh gham (Ala I News F. P. Olass D C.. Evening Star Fleming Newbold itooga (Tenn.) Times H. C. Adler as Democrat .. Elmer E. Clarke iton. S. C.. News and Courier. .R. C. Stegllng rleans Item./ James M. Thomson mery Adveitlser C. H. Allen lie Courier Journal Bruce Haldeman itonlo Light Charles S. Dlehl ork World Don C. Belt* Telegraph P. T. Anderson anal War Work Council. T. M. C. A. of the >ove named publishers and papera HE TUSCANIA ful cries of the helpless mbthers and babies who went down with the Lusitania was music to German ears. But "They Shall Pay." it tnere were any soldiers in tne camps and cantonments whose whole hearts, minds and spirits were not in this war, the torpedoing of the Tuscania has removed all of their misgivings and their eagerness to get to the avenging battle line has been multiplied a hundred-fold. Many of the soldiers on the Tuscania had never been to sea before, but they knew how to die at sea. They behaved like brave men. There was no panic. Above the shouting of orders, the hissing of steam and the surging of the sea there rose from the lips of the American soldiers the inspiring strains of "The Star Spangled Banner"?the last message from men being ushered into the Great Beyond to their brother soldiers. They knew and the world knows that the men who follow "The Star Spangled Banner" will .exact full atonement for the Tuscania. "Remember The Tuscania." 5N-COM" This illuminating remark carried neither information nor novelty to the American War Department. Every act of that department has been to show that in this war officers will only be appointed by merit and hold their places by service. Every day officers are demoted and every day they are promoted, never in the world was there ?ucb a chance for American soldiers ^f real ability as this war offers. The men of natural genius and, above all, of unflagging application are sure' to rise from the ranks to positions 01 commano, ana evciy senator and Representative in Congress will not be able to keep his rank fori that officer, be he second lieutenant or! general, who is unable to care for his men in camp, to lead them in the field,, and to see to it that all the officers under him discharge their duties with intelligence and rmlitary precision. One of the greatest single geniuses of the Civil War was Nathan Bedford Forrest. His record and his achieve-! ments demonstrate his extraordinary natural genius for military affairs, but the world remembers best Grant and Lee, two men who cultivated their i powers with unremitting energy and who brought to bear on their tasks inj r_ Ll? TV,. r.?nt aciangauic i ??*. and Lee of this war have not yet been discovered, but they will emerge, and this much we may say of them, they will certainly come from that body of men who work all the time, and if they are not "non corns" when they begin they will Have the highest admiration for the "non- corns" when they end. SALUTARY CRITICISM General Pershing's criticism of the deficiencies of some of the American officers rent to France "from colonels down and including some general officers." has had a salutary effect on the commissioned personnel in the training camps at home. As a result of General Pershing's pointed remarks, officers of many ranks have buckled down, determined to become 100 per cent proficient in "the handling of units in open warfare, including principles of reconnoisance, outposts, advance guard, solution of practical problems and formation of attack." I / ? THE NEW. <H>tKHKHKH55KHKHK?KH;HKHKKHKHJ THE New Army has Its tfew Chap! is nothing about him to class blood in his veins, undiluted bj milk, and water. The blood is red? not sluggishly and phlegmatically. T ing is a heart. The heart is big, ha just a fleet of plus derelicts who fly on it. He likes men, and he likes the he does not do muph judging or cond That's the New Chaplain's segre men, not by detaching himself from 1 live and helping them "as they are." off lofty way but talks and reasons w he has a level head in which is a sani And he's possessed of two things "Holy Joes." These two things are, believe.in fighting?for right. He up in a white robe of chalky pacifit wears the "whole armor." And the For this New Chaplain is not g guns drum "Over There" and the fir will be with His Boys. He has the cc spirit. And he'll help?when the w passes up ana aown me irencn. If You Notice A SI Camp Custer He (It used to be "See Rome and Die "See Camp Custer and Live." Battle Crt of health resorts and the home of brea Mr. Osbom tells something of the splem phere and spirit of the camp in which t BY BUM (Editor of Camp Coster ?c Somewhere in Michigan. There are many things of note in this little old camp. PrWeipally, of course, mere is me oow u'?? the National Army commanded by Major General James Parker (at the time this is written). Then we have a lot of troops that are not in the 85th Division, the main unit being the 160th Depot Brigade. We have the deepest snow^he most fiendishly cold weather and some fine weather, the slushiest mud holes, the most efficient top sergeants and the best chow of any collection of soldiers in these here United States. Sworn to and subscribed this ,12th day of February, A. D., 1918. Amen. Camp" I*roud of Philosopher Also we have Chet Shafer. You know Chet. He is the guy that gets up that Barracks Wheeze stuff. Chet is the Joy of our collective lives for he can find a silver lining in the such as policing the reservation for a week or standing guard with the old mercury an even 30 below. Chet was not drafted. He.enlisted because he wanted to go to France. So far the nearest he has got to the land of Parlez Voos is peeling potatoes while I listening to an Irish mess sergeant I tty to swear in French just so he'll know how when he gets across. Also in this cantonment we sure do like a scrap. You know when Ring Lardner saw Lieut. Gene Schobinger . down at Camp Grant he reminded | the ex-Illinois star of how his headgear kept coming off at the CusterGrant game. "Yes." answered Schobinger. "and the next time 1 play that gang I'm going to wear a steel helmet." There will be a lot of steel helmets needed in France pretty soon and it won't bf the Allied soldiers that will create the demand either. Charley White is here teaching the boys to box. He says practically every man in camp is using the gloves-?and a good many times they get in such a hurry that there isn't time to dig up any gloves. "Fight" is our middle name and "Pep" our principal article of diet. llGttinir 'Km in Trim Major General Parker'B main sjttiWl Ej/VT* types i CHAPLAIN <KHKKHKHW<WKHKHKHKHKHWHHKHCi ,&j lain. It is a He-Man Chaplain. There Ify him in a third gender. There is r either of those Other famous fluids? -a deep, masculine red. It flows fast, he organ that keeps the blood circulatvlng room in it for all humanity, not the' distress signal with "Lord, L?rd m good or bad. If they are bad?and emning?he tries to help them, it?helping men. And he would help them, but by getting down where they He doesn't preach to them in a far ith them, kindly ana juaicu?u?u. * . . e, balanced mind. i which are not popularly attributed to strangely?fists. This New Chaplain knows that lolling around, all dolled ^ im will never change the world. He cross is on his service uniform, oing to be useless baggage when the e line glows crimson Just ahead. He mrage. He has the willing, sacrificing ord "over the top in the morning" hortage In "Pep" rs Cornered Market Today, according to Mr. Osborn, it is ^ ek is remembered by many as the location w , ikfast foods, but in the following article aia ooay OJ soiaiers imrc UIIU I lie ????? hey are training.) . t OSBORN ? ' Ution of Trench and Camp) hobby is the physical fitness of his ? men. Athletics ha?e been encouraged from every possible angle with the principal stress laid on those contests which will use every man in a unit. Pushball contests, cross coun tryruns, company relays and fifteen ana twenty mile hikes are included in the program as well as boxing and wrestling. The General believes that every man should begin jiow to put himself in condition so that when he goes over the top he will have at his command every possible ounce of strength, physical and mental vitality and nerve force that can accumulate through Aard, training. -S5|j The motto among the men here is^ 1 pretty well expressed in the phrase, \ "L.et s get reaay to ngni una nauen. I put the "like Hades" 011 not for It's I literary merit as a phra?e but be-* cause that is something Jike the way-" ^ the boys say it. Pink tea stuff gets lost in the shuffle here. If Gene-' yiwS Schobinger expected the Custer foot- \i ball players to handle him gently and speak softly to him?why Gene should revise his estimate of Army . football. Our sole and only purpose . is to get in shape to wallop the Kaiser and that has no appearance of being a "pink tea" stunt either. jjffljj All on the Job The Y. M. C. A. is here.in Camp . ? Custer to promote this Kaiser licking stuff. We are doing the very best we can to help in this proposition of % getting reddy for a big scrap. From ' Big Chief Parker (A. L.?not the General) clear down to the lowly and humble editor of Trench and Camp, we are aiding in this "Get ready to fight" stuff. We are trying to make Sammy the most goshawful, scrappiest soldier of which there are any. SPEEDING UP France, unprepared for war in 1914. is now making 300,000 shells a day where, she manufactured only 1,000 soon after the outbreak of'the war in 1914. Besides having enough :.'i guns for the^use of her own men, France has given 2,500 to her allies. J SWEKT REASONABLENESS "Wot do them Generals 'ave all the rj brass on their 'ats for?" "So as they shan't be took for orficers, er course."?The Sketch.
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