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r np rwv To 1 rammg fBgfl. .V By THOMAS (Editor of the Camp McClellan Bffj'.* After nosing its way through the gentle slope of Alabama hills the train rumbles into Anniston. Then, after the general clamor heard KV . around most any small city train station, regarding the almost pathetic cry of cabbies begging you to patron5 ~ *ze them, you walk a few blocks and grab a jitney to Camp McClellan. A nice little six miles of beautiful scenery is then slowly?maybe slowly B v . " the jitney driver feela at his leisure?jogs past, and you arrive safei ly, perhaps safely, I should say, and then you ride around a bit through rows and rows of mess shacks, tents and guards and everything else military until you arrive at your destination. Let us say that you have arrived In the cantonment just as the sun has | drifted beyond the distant hills?just as retreat is sounding and tbt flag is slowly gilding down the high white pole up~at Division Headquarters. The bands are playing the "Star Sjjangled Banner," and the bugles are heard everywhere. Soldiers are standing at attention. I think that it is ^ - the most wonderful part of the day, the most inspiring moment of the soldier's Hfe?the culmination of the dhy's labors, its trials, its joys, its mishaps apd its sorrows?it is the jfc-. . supreme moment of the day here at Camp McClellan. Inspiring Night Mess, then comes night. The warm, pacifying night. The kind here in the hills of Alabama that stirs the heartEl' - string*- and makes the blood tingle with patriotism. You go t<r rest contented, to dream of home and the folks back yonder, and how you wish that they could be here with you and see it all?just for one day, be in the greatest camp on God's green earth. Eg*~ You sigh with resignation and turn over. Then, suddenly right near you, then all round from everywhere, over gj; the hills and from the valleys comes the blast of bugles?Taps! HjcL " ? The nearest ceases, the next, the next and so on until the last sound of the final call gradually dies. Faintly, faintly ancLJtis gone, just as an echo from the flrat. ?' We go to sleep wondering at the akif " beauty of creation. At uawn we are awaxeneu Dy uie Igo? ./ first blast of bugles?reveille. A new day begins. Every day at McClellan Isgffc'- is a new day, a great day and a day of marvelous achievements. Again you see the oganization come out in all Its splendor.- Such -a spectacular body of met), all equipped to the highest mark of efficiency., A View of Camp We journey to the top' of a distant wgf " hill which afTords a perfect view ofi gS^- the entire camp -In all its activities. It is a tiresome trip to the peak of the Infant mountain, but once at the sum rait we are thankful that we spent the' energy to make the cliiAb, for one sweeping view of all that la below is worth a dozen more difficult- ones. Isfc.-- To our left and down a little we see the battlefield. It reminds you of the 'N ^ ! re Added At Camp McClellan ? A. RIPLEY l edition of Trench and Camp)* | stories you have read and the pictures you have drawn in mind of the con nici -uver mere.There are the trenches, and "No I Man's Land." V{e can even defect. without the aid of bur glasses the brown snake-like figures of.the reconnoitering party. Over to the right with our glasses to o^r eyes we can make out the artillery ready for action. Then drawing our eyes across the valley to the southeast we watch the working of the signal corps. Ah, they are working fast! Something is up! Let us keep an eye on the trenches and artillery, for the "boys are about to go "over the top." Our eyes travel back to Man's Land"; back to where we were watching the brown bodies worming their way across the vast expanse, and they look so tiny, just like we have seen people on the streets far below when we looked over the top of a high building in our cities. They are work ing their way in and out and around the shell craters. In some of the holes we make .out the uftmistakable lines of the machine gun, though it Is partly hidden from view by mud, weeds and Other camouflage. Realistic Battle Practice For a momenb our eyes leave the activities below us and we scan the camp beyond. The rows and rows of buildings and tents are almost beyond oomprehension. You rub your eyes to make sure, but there it Is all before you. Along a road towards the front-line trenches moves cavalry, and behind the line of horsemen sweeping forward we see a massive supply train coming up from the roar. And still more; away to the right we see new troops coming! Reinforcements! It is all so real! So true and like war, and every man trained to an expert in his task. The artillery is hammering away. The machine gunners are at work. We hear the incessant putter, putter, putter of the guns. Just as we are about to iook away iney go over me top. Scampering across "No Man's Land" just as though they were under fire, the khaki-clad hordes go, and'with a business-like ruSh take the enemy trench. Ah, yes, it is all make-believe, yet so real, and we can picturize it all Just as though it were true and the battlefield was "over yonder." We scramble down the hillside and trudge back into camp. The day is over and with it cames "off duty" tithe. Then you sec some real sports a(t Camp McClellan, for there are real athletics at this camp. Boxing, wrestling. volley, ball, soccer, baseball, tennis, basketball, track meets and just everything that goes towards making the American soldier the healthiest in the world, and they are stye healthy at McClellan. Retreat again and then more sports for the evening until Taps, and the day ends. Such a wonderful day! Oh! say, if you want to see what is what sure ^enough, you had bptter come up, down or over to Camp McClellan. Sherman Was Right iND CAMP I Jim Makes Good With BY OUR OWN BIN <HKWWKHKHKHKHKKI ?HKHKHKHKHW twell al 1 of b of lately with h tbem hoarses onl hoarse when Its t tresembull It mut both of them hav? posses as the ho walking with bu not the kind of the kind of kickii it has hit you thi dont give you nc drive like 1 bf t a bout the armie al is in its feat as they isent no < am riteing a bou bad a lott to do so not becaus i sargipt saw me & seams to be the see jno al they w are the saim as make me joyn tl know me al. t this sargint ced i lookt as if i mil they is muydlls & hoarses becaus it ; cumpny for them, well al after sum sa complement as 1 of had hand iMo me ' sain a lott after what cap tens & lootin they of gave me cverythink in th the jenrill witch i dont think they is an me wa&~onlie a soldier so they wooden sents there aint none onlie i supose th well al they put me in with this ; ced was taik that straw & shaik it dowi sum si raw irom wear 11 was laying on witch is all dirt in side & no conkreat ! wear we workt oncet & sprecl the straw it sumthing went by my face i loookt i witch i found to be a muyell. they wl evan my face witch is hardly worth w told mc. well al after the hoof had w quiet a weighs off from the stabull & what have you ben doing throwing ha what, he ced hay. i hollered hay bac for. he ced you boob you have ben 1 shood of ben. straw well i ced you tol well what is'the di(fronts i ced & al lit diffronts & walked a way taking refudgt never be used in letters although it is I the stabulls in the armle. well alnhey ] witch menes not the dish of grub you places but a thing like a harrow only muyells hare, it wood be simpull it l your work but for sum reeson he is al going on*, this muyell that 1 tride to without notis but i returned after brush is overawls in addishun to the soldger p the 8arjlnt woodent lissun when i ce currayed butt ced you curray that inuyi is moar of that lagnwidge i was telling mey wont none or ineiii get jim sun * curray comb onto the end of it & stoo away from the muyell. .well 1 stood th sargint calm a long & toak 1 look, we it was in you witch do you mene ced- i m well al the sarjint thot so mutch of wh curraying he wants me to be a rorprall know me al. the pryvat for me every 1 am yr. PROPERTY HAGS - . ( " The Red Cross has arranged to furnish "property bags" for soldiers in J hospitals to keep their belongings to- ki gether. Members of the Red Cross fr have been instructed to make the! bags of bright colored, washable ma-l k, terials and twelve inches .wide by' Ul eighteen inches deep. [^ | m y< kl i ni hi /Hl5 , F FtL SC' NE3 ^ Hi pea) Aftnturr b0 O-- OAHO. CAMP LOCArt. . . TTXAV Vri by I? ' ei - i v TJteStableSa^gean^ G W. 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HBSVsB at i got out of that muyell by the I^BjII time, hopeing you are the saint ||V]I KRIKND JIM. WL W ORIGIN OF KHAKI With khaki to the right of them. laki to the left of them, khaki in ont of them and khaki all around ||)f ?jj iem. very few American soldiers 11 lVf/fl tow much about the origin of the 11 | iffj liform they wear or the meaning ot i ' 1 jflj le word used to describe its color". f, ' if fj Khaki is an Kast Indian word 4 fl . eaning. "dust color." The fast. ;llowish-fcrown dye used in making f tiaki clothing and equipment was ^ scovered by two (Englishmen whose ? imes have not been preserved in * ? story. They first extracted the dye om coal tar in 188.1 and it was im- lS. ediately used in the manufacture of */.^i gV othing and equipment for British > ildiers. The value of the1 neutral shade of liform was at onee appreciated by 3rd Roberts, who. in 1885. ordered iat all of the clothing worn by Brith soldiers sent to Egypt and the idan be of the khaki hue. Even the .nnon and their wheels, as well as iose of wagons, tents, mess kits. .nteens, etc.. were painted or dyed The American army adopted khaki , L om the British and in recent years lproved upon it by using olive drab MH e for woolen clothing. WANTKI) "SOFT" JOB A dashing lieutenant-colonel, exemller of the General StafT. was ap- hJ$/JW3 oached by a recently drafted man. "What might your name be? Do 3|\ ?#/?? iu belong to this bunch?" mwY//rfjg "I'm the colonel in charge." AWtf/// k _ "Wal.I see the balance of 'em busy VHIf III A ounH here, and I don't see you 4oin? luWlIfl r lythlng. Mow does a fellow go iout gittin' your Job?"?Every- mtJf/tm idy's Magazine. IK HE HAD ONLY WAITED ",r Tommy (looking upward from the ' enches as a flock of airplanes ooze ^ )?To think that I once paid 'arf ? crown at 'Endou to see only two of n!?Tattler. . ? ; 1
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