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JOHN STKWit
Chairman of Advisory Boartl1
Camp and location
."anip Beauregard} Alexandria. I.a New O
Camp Itowle. Fort Worth. Texas Fort V
"a Aip Cody. Iteming. N. Mex ....El Pas
Camp Cdster. Battle Creek. Mich Battle
Camp I'evens. Aver. Mass Boston
Camp I'ix. Wrlghtstown. N J- Trentoi
Camp T'oilge. I'es Moines. Iowa I>es Mi
Camp I'oniphan. Fort Sill. I'kla Oklaho
Camp Forrest. ChlekaniaUK't. On Chattu
Camp Fremont. Palo Alto. Cat San F
Camp Funston. Fort Riley. Kan Topoka
Camp Gordon. Atlanta. Ua Atlanti
Camp Grant. Roekford. Ill The CI
Camp Greene. Charlotte. N. C Charlol
Camp Haneoek. Augusta. Ga . August
Camp .laekson. Columbia. S. C Columt
American I.akc*. Wash. .Taromi
f Camp McCIHIun. Annislon. Ala Hlnpln
'"in'" Ruck. Ark Arkan*
^ Camp Shelby. Halllcsbure, Miss New O
'amp Za.hary Taylor. I.oulsvlllc. Ky..I,oulsvl
mra^J Jrv; " s,"". T-w?... I San A.
. __ Kelly hielj and (amp Stanley j
Camp Cpton. Yaphank. I.. I . N. Y. . . . New Y
Camp Wheeler. Macon. (.la Macon
?** ' * ^ I'ublKheJ under (he auMplcea of I he Natli
?r I'lstrlbuleJ free lo ihe soldiers In the J
%?" ' / '"AMERICA
AROUSE1
/' | In one camp in Texas the statis-;
lical officer found seventy-two vari-j
eties of religious belief?but all under
one flag.
The old. old Monothe'ism of the j
. .<55^ Jew and the mysticism of the Buddhist.
both products of the ancient;
, 3r East, were represented. Orthodox:
/k Greeks and Catholic Greeks; faithsI
JW 3S wiaciy spreaa in mis iaiia as mc i
Roman Catholic, the Methodist or the;
Baptist, and faiths whose tenets are;
'Wfmt \ not generally known and whose memAffSfty
bcrship is small and scattered, werej
not without their followers and adher-j
? ?/ 5 Who would think, for example, that!
' ^ ;n our Army there were Mahomedans,'
? Theosophists and Holy Rollers? Yet;
--^T?*c* sucb there are?all drilling under the;
/tfy&Sl same sergeant, all wearing the samej
/wSHmKr khaki, all enlisted for the same cause.!
YftTcjijfJ. For this war has brought together un-|
^er battle cry ?* treedom men of;
tnXffflKKpn many tongues-and creeds. Old tribal(
differences of speech or race have!
been forgotten in the common danger)
to life and honor and womanhood and;
iXtlBF^ freedom. Sectional lines have been)
Hfjk-W J wiped out; old antipathies have been:
\S\ Hu'Cted and new forces have beenj
/A called into being. Those forces are the'
united determination of all the people i
J of this land to free their children and:
S . '.heir children's children from thef
jSli it nightmare cf Prussianism.
AS ARE MEN. SC
Ask the average man to name the:
hree mcst memorable battles of his-,
? tory. including those of the present
war. and the chances are that he will
answer Waterloo, Gettysburg and
Verdun.
These arc not the most important
xfadj.'t battles of history. Others have been!
more immediately decisive. Others'
h.3ve been equally spectacular, j
%/k??5?jI Others, perhaps, have had greater.
^effects upon mankind. But tnese
-hree, or others like them, are a parti
of every man because they rcpre- j
sented. in different ways and in dif-j
ferent ages, the height of human endeavor.
To have withstood the on-j
mmL^ slaught of the Old Guard at Water-'
'??* or to have scared in that charge;]
, BBBgyM :o have swept up Cemetery Ridgej
w'1^ P'c'cett or to have hurled him'
back with Hancock; to have stood!
^L-MP n those frozen trenches at Verdun
and to have bidden defiance to the
AMIsaB"" worst that the Hun could do?these
%aHLxfjjf acts ca"cd for a valor that stirs the
&Snheart of every man who reads. We
WHw T>* may reason, coldly, that it took as
mWwa i much courage to fight at Leipzic as
5c|Jit Waterloo. We may argue that
rw'S. Vicksfcurg was as heroic a struggle
"s Gettysburg, and that the Virginia:
V L&jJr -' campaign of 1864 was perhaps more
I rfc'fi?important than either. We may say.
I^Vb' > ;n all truth, that the allied defence of
j>V7 the Yperlec line in the winter of
prj1914-15 called for the same valor that
inspired the French in the great batCfljmHF,
tie for the fortress of the Meuse.
Hn|^W~J] But. somehow, with all our reasonVWrf
ing, we feel that the supreme devo;n
tion showed by the participants in
'he battles of Waterloo, Gettysburg
_ Kl'LTl'R
n nfij K stands for killing.
Wy' 1 stands for l'-boals.
p I. stands for lies.
I T Stands for treachery.
r stands for unfaithfulness.
I II stands for ruthlessness.
THIS I'Al'KK HOME TOIUY
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iKT BRYAN |
K>f Co-operating Publisher*
Newspaper Publisher
rleans Tlinea Picayune D. D. Moore
forth Star Telegram Amon C. Carter
0 Herald ?. 1>. siaicri
Creek Enquirer-News A. L. Miller 1
Globe Charles H. Taylor. Jr.
1 Times James Kerney
In'rs Register... Gardner Cowles 1
ma City Oklahoma!) E. K. Gay lord
owm (T-nn ? Times H. C. Adler .
raorlseo Bulletin... .. .R. A. Crothera
jtlate Journal Frank P. MarLennan ?
i Constitution Clark Howell ?
ili ago Daily News Victor F. Uawsnn
:te Observer W. P. Sullivan
a Herald.. Bowdro Phlnlzy I
la State W. W. Ball "J
nvllle Times.Union W A. Elliott .
igeies Times Harry Chandler
>nd New* Deader Jobn Stewart Bryan
? Tribune ..P. 8. Baker ,
n Post (lough J Palmer
Morning News . Cbarles E Marsh '
gfcam (Ala News E. P. Glass '
I' Evening Star Fleming Ncwbold .
as Democrat Elmer B. Clarke
it on. S C. News and Courier.. R. C. Singling 1
rleans Item James M Thomson I
mery Advertiser C. H Allen
llln Courier Journal Bruce Haldeman
itonlo Light Charles S. Dlehl '
ock World Don C. Scltx .
Telegraph P. T. Anderson
;>nal War Work Council, T. M. C. A. of the '
>ove named publishers and papers.
National Camps and Cantonments. Civilian ;
n TR INVINCIBLE
That liberation may be long in coming!
It has already been painful beyond
all power of words to express
or imagination to foresee. But nei- 1
ther time nor terror can prevent the
final accomplishment of the purposes j
of this nation. Before this Srar broke,
on uk we knew we were a nation made
up of many races; we knew old differ-1
ences of purpose and of politics divi- j1
ded some citizens from dtners, but we '<
did not know how trivial were our dis- 1
agreements and how deep and abiding ,
was our unity. We stand today silent <
before the demonstration 6f the depth),
and intensity of the spiritual purpose i,
of this nation. Without boasting and ,
without excitement we begin to see
the strength of our owp souls and in J
that strength is the assurance of vie-1 (
tory. ,
"A well-fed German is a dangerous i
Cerman," said the onlookers as Germany
fought for the Ukraine storehouses
and granaries. Now Germany i
has that food, but she also has to facej ,
the inflexible determination of Amer-,i
ica. and sooner or later Germany?j
whether well fed or hungry?will learni
that "An aroused and united America'
is invincible."
That is the story told by the relig-1
ious census in a Texas camp and by|
the heart-searching census of every
true American everywhere.
> ARE SOLDIERS
and Verdun lift them, in a measure,
above the tallest and the bravest in;
the battles of ether days. They were
asked to make the final sacrifice and
they made it!
Is not that, after all, the real test
of a man. whether in business, in a
profession, or in an army? And is
not the vital difference in men to be
seen just heq(f One man starts enthusiastically,
pushes on aggressively
and, at the first repulse, abandons
everything. . Another, of sterner stuff,
pushes on, "over obstacles and in the
face of hardship, until ,he comes to
the point where tne wait is long or,
the night is dark or the barrier seen*
too high. Then he turns back. Aj
third presses on until all those about i
him say the task is hopeless, and he,
too, yields. The fourth man pushes
on after his comrades have fallen
back in. the race, after the hopeful j
have told htm the struggle is futile;
and even after he himself, perhaps,
has lost hope. He keeps going be-j
cause he is going and because he J
will not stop. And this fourth is the
man who climbs. Cemeterjr Ridge, or;
falls under the shadow of the British
hollowsquares at Waterloo, or comes,
back victorious from the bloody j
l-'roidc Terre of Verdun. He, likewise. I
is the man who, in peace-times, is)
bound to succeed.
You may not be brighter, or more:
alert, or a more finished soldier than;
the man beside you. It may be that'
you Seem less skillful than he. But;
I when the test comes, you are stronger j
or weaKcr man nc jusmn
as you hold on longer or give up
quicker than does he. The will is the
1 way to victory.
HIS PREDICTION
| According to a Hoboken astrologer,
("the, great war may end in a peculiar
| and unexpected manner in April,
: 1918." He reads it in the stars. He
adds that if next month does not witness
the end of the great conflict the
' war is due to continue until January,
1920.
I
THE^SAPIENT SUPPLY SERGEANT \
THERE may have lived In tbe good old antediluvian age when the; ' ?flB
custom %as to kill all tailors, a person wiser and withal more melancholy
than the Supply Sergeant. It is doubtful, though, whether in %?.
nodern times there has been a living being more completely possessed T
with mel. than the S. S. There was a lad in one of William Shakespeare's >.
jooks who claimed that he "could suck melancholy from an egg," or
lomething of that sort. - But that youth is long dead, and the supply :
lergeant doesn't get eggs In his issue. /
Yea, melancholy is the middle name of all members of \he supply -<vd|
lan. If there are those of the craft who know it not, their habitual
lisposition is just as effective. They are resigned to fate and have sur
>assed melancholy.
By looking into the life of the S. S., reasons can be found which |
explain fully his indigo disposition. For experience has. proven to him .
;hat the only philosophy is "bedamnedlfyondo^ndbedamiiedifyoudon't"? if ]
" " * *?1? -1-? 1- Ton<niili> hut isn't.
Allien (io. luxe an ruuuiau wuiu iuu?
If he yields to the entreaties of the men in >the company, the Bupply ]
jfflcer hops his bowed and beaten frame. If he Btands pat with the supply
jfflcer he is outlawed by all those, erying for new leggins, socks and shoes.
The Supply Safge is the olive drab Solomon. If Old Sol and the S. S.(
irrive at the same eternal port, they will tfndoubtedly have a great' line
jf stories to swap, and Sarge is booked to . make-Sol seem like a pacifist
irying to argue v?ith a bunch of dough-boy Hun-getters, when it comes to .$<|'
trfsdom. He is the Sapient Sarge as well as the Supply Sarge. Sapient is ^
i bird closely related to the old-owl. 1 ':i?5
Wisdom and melancholy are both his. They lie down with him and
rise with his rising. Which is predominant depends on the cook's last ^
issue, and the Q. M.
For a good meal may get a pair of kicks for the most lowly, and a
rull supply room, after the last visit of the gray wagon, can cover a .
multitude of shins.
As all do, the S. Sarge has his dreams. Qne of them is of heaven. :
[t is a place where there arc nq worn-out O. D.'s and stacks of soldier ^
A-earables piled as high as the infinite ether allows! ' ^
. . . ?
Civilian Army of 100,000 Now Turning Out
Ordnance Supplies in Stupendous Quantities
Made up of almost 100,000 persons, 000 and the daily production of cap- -irj
vearing no uniforms, there is anj'r'dges 10,000,000.
'I A statement recently issued by the * J
irmy at work night and day in the or(JnaVce bureau of the War Depart- $9
Jnited States performing one of the ment showed that the United States vfj
,nost important labors of the war. now has almost 1,500,000 rifles and ./
rhese 80,00t> men and more than 10,- intends spending $400,000,000 for " -j^j
J00 women, whose work is supervised rifles.
ind inspected by 200 army officers, Ten months after the United States
ire making rifles and cartridges for entered the war 700,000 rifles had
American soldiers. They aVe at work been manufactured here, with the I
in two eovernmen.t and three private weekly average output steadily in- \;/
plants manufacturing rifles, and one I creasing. This is the greatest acnieve
government and hine private plants ment'by any country in the world durmaking
rifle,cartridges. ing a similiar period. It is four times
At present they are turning out as many rifles as the British had
more than 7 2,000 rifles a week, and made after being in the war ten fijw,
more than 7,300,000 rifle cartridges months, and double the numbdr Great _
i day. In a short time the weekly Britain.was able to manufacture after*.
putput of rifle^ will be close to 100,- be.ing in the war two and a lialf years. ; -j'
fsj Acro;sTopYou.
KliWkv MQTHEl!lf3la(8pl -l
I'm going across for you. Mother, "
I'm going across for you?
You never thought when I was a hid
. hid played at soldiers, too.
And drew my little tin saber out
That L would ever a soldier be .
So far away from you. - - A^ngS
Hut I'm going across for you. Mother.
I'm going across for you.
I'm noina- across for xou. Mother. II
I'm going across for you? fflHg
The (iermans talk of their T'atherUnid, Hi?
/ love my Tat her, too,
, Hut Motherland it is to me
Whenever I think of you; ^
1'ou gave me' life, you gave vie heart,
And / give the in hnlli for you. 'tyjf
Tor I'm going ctcross for you. Mother, ?2h
1 I'm going across for vow,
Tin going across for you. Mother, " V^98|
I'm going across for you? ,^s||
To you the llun shall never come
To do what he can do.
I think of Helgium, I think of Trance,
Of submarine. Zeppelin-, loo.
Of the women and children who went to d.
With the Lusitania's crew. :jjgs5|
So I'm going across for you, Mother,
I'm going across for you.
I'm going across for you. Mother,
I'm going across for you?
And day and night I'll dream of home ''JxSjl
I 'ntil my dreams come true. A
nd in my heart 'neath the midday sun
And under the starlit dnv . ySSaj
There'll he an echo of your prayers,
Tor I'll he praying for you.
I'm going across for you, Mothep,
I'm going across for you.
I'm coming back to you, Mother, I'm
coming back to you? ,
And won't we laugh at my little tin swotd
And the things I used to do?
And your baby, just think, a veteran HXgwl
(With maybe a medal or two.). \ U ~-|
And the Prince of Peace, yes, Christ Ilimself ,
Will bless the earth anew.
And I'm coming back to you, Mother, ' jlj*?5ml
I'm coming back to you. - _