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Pfflk ?THE BARRACKS WHERZBT tev By PRIVATE CHET SHARER Hg (Aviation Corpe, Somewhere In Art o sour ! "I HOPE MY FOLKS WILL IIE ABLE TO MAKE SOUP LIKE THIS WHEN I GET RACK HOME," REMARKED A SOLDIER AS HE SLUSHED THROUGH A KITFUL. ' "THEY WILL. ALRIGHT," ADVISED THE (XM)K, "JUST AS LONG .AS THEY KEEP UP THEIR WATER THIS SAME SOLDIER LATER A HI'IS ED THE COOK THAT IE HE A'AX OCT OE EOOD HE COCLD GET SOME CHAIN OU-T OE THE MILITARY ESSAYS 'MWjBJjmm The Salute jw/y/mtfti The salute is nothing to be '/gHsmam sneezed ut. It is a courtesy to all commissioned officers and is anV/fr~ *^Rjj other valid reason for the right jfcv f'JE arm. It ts |?*rt of a liberal eduW* < ^ cation. It is learned in a jiffy and remembered for life. For a sol(lier out on pass it is entertaining vtffl/'fr' and it makes it absolutely neces , sary that an officer be in perfect //' physical trim before he starts on a M trudge down the main highway. Sometimes soldiers are prone to turn down opportunities to salute. %l)nce they are caught and get a week on kitchen police they get I the hang of it nicely. The salute! is adjustable to tit ail statures. Asj yet there is no war tax on it, m Officers always salute officers,! privates salute officers, but privates! f " do not salute privates. And it is a i , good thing because there Would be! ?fV.lktk] no I'm? left for the chorse. S Second helpings in the army arc as scanty as straphangers in Tottenviile, snapped the corporal in charge of the The rookie teas frightened. Ambrose declared that he had been in the army six months a'ready and his nearest approach to a battle wasI an encounter with a rough stretch of Statisticians, and dern good statistici-1 ens, too, statisticians with class, mind ye, I haz e computed, or slatistischcd, that I tary life, that is shorter-lived than a "Hold that pivot." The military life, at table, is just one big gulp after another. ' Must last r J.onycr + than a J 'throat lozenge /Mb V>-rvfc - .Ny/iJ [t itut then, shivering wouldn't be half bad if it w ere put on a coin pet i3 five basis. ^85 the folks expected israel _ f,; to brim; home the bacon, alter he had been in camp 11^7 i a If elk he wrote HOME and rs(lf7 said he'd have TO disap1 sk poist THEM. it h as pretty well salted down. l^^ru I#ots of them are wondering if Mrs. .Moss helptnl her husband on his man Shifty- Kitchen police and '.lie worb of the Mimmlflfi 'ear roc Its orderly will turn / ut a fine crop WiWjtj; / husbands. m I! | "IT'S MIGHTY HARD TO SPEND iW/fA t> A SI.KKPLKSS NIGHT IN A TREK\\?//fl? LESS COUNTRY, RESTLESS DUElllllnr iSii THE WHEATLKSS HOURS JUST BEFORE DAWN AND THL dK?C? MEATLESS MOMENTS JUST AFvP*~~ TEE, TO ARISE HATLESS ANT JfF CO AT I. ESS, SPEND A IIAIRLES> I MOMENT WITH A COMB, AND GC 1 OUT, SPEECHLESS WITH DISGUST t Si TO ACCOST AN ARTLESS (XX)H AND LEARN THAT IT IS A ^EATLESS DAY. " fJenerieeR HotvvYfc' ^ AT ATTCMnON WTH A ?oe Hhert DO ~THA "OBseeurr EYE emu N' * O? HE^eiri'" JTUnr ? Drawn by Sergt. Ray F. Parkins, AVIATORS ARE MOST EAGER FOR TESTAMENTS Within the past few months the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. has purchased 1,700 New Testaments for distribution among United States fighting men. An order was recently given for 500.000 New Testaments for the soldiers in this country. Although the New Testaments are I distributed generally throughout all the camps and cantonments, the greatest-demand for them comes from men in the aviation branch of the . service. j P. F. Jerome, director of the Ma\ terial Bureau, Equipment and Sup| plies Division of the National War Work Council, says it is almost im| possible to keep enough New Testaments on hand to meet the demand j from soldiers. I "New Testaments are greatly in ' demand all over the country for our army men," he said. "They are not for souvenirs. They are waterproof covered, for daily use in all kinds of weather. They are for serious reading by men engaged in preparation for a serious business." ADMIRATION FROM CANADA In a note to Secretary of State Lansing the people of Canada expressed their sympathy with the American people over the loss of the lives of 204 American soldiers on the Tnscania. The Canadians also expressed their admiration for the courageous spirit in which the people of the United States received the news of this misfortune and their inflexible resolve to continue to send troops .overseas in support of the triumph on which depend the peace and liberty of the world. CRUELTY Her son had enlisted, and she was a proud old woman as she harangued a knot of friends on the village street. "Jarge always done 'is duty by me, 'e did, an' now 'e's doin' 'is duty by iking an' countn'," she said. "I feel I -i?k* '1 oni*ru frtv ?Kom Oiirm'finq to think of 'im goin' into battle with "is rifle in 'is 'and and 'It's a long way to Tipperary' on 'is lips." "Poor Germans, indeed!" exclaimed one of the audience. "Pity's wasted 'on 'em! P'r'aps yon "aven't 'Card of their cruelties?" "P'r'aps I 'aven't," agreed the old lady. "An' p'r'aps you 'aven't heard Jarge sing."?Tit-Bits MM fau Aabchih* GOOD r _ o rtTHBi sight But? C K*e' up' Fiee V/k Company H, 189th Infantry, Cami THE CALL Have you heard your comrades calling From the country oversea? Where the best of them are falling That the worst of us be free. There are many empty places In the ranks that we must fill; There are silent pleading faces? Can't you hear them calling still? There are countless thousands dying So that some of us can live, And it's no use you denying ? That it's not your place to give. For that call rings out?ypu hear it And it echoes in your heart. Will you heed the call or fear it? ' Sonny! will you do your part? When the coming ye^rs are numbered, Will your children, yet unborn, Learn you shirked the call?or slumbered? Will you face their silent scorn? Or. with proud eyes lit wfth glory, Unashamed,/with head unbent As you tell life's biggest story, Will you say "Thank God, I went?"] In the dawn of freedom breaking "-Through the war-night of the world, Nobl^ hearts, with faith unshaking, Keep our battle flag unfurled. Will you help to keep it flying? uuaru me oiu weu, wnue auu Blue? Send your answer, sonny, crying, "1 am coming over, too!" ?H. Varley in the Kansas City Star. "WORLD'S BEST ARMY" America's army of drafted men will make the best soldiers in the world, according to former President William Howard Taft, who recently completed a tour of nine of the National Army cantonments. President Taft says the dnafted men are already good soldiers and will soon prove the peer of any fighting men ^>ow engaged in the war. He declares his observations in the cantonments convinced him that the soldiers are in fine physical condition, well-honsed and are enthusiastic over this mission. WOULD NOTIFY RELATIVES A bill has been introduced in Congress providing that relatives at home I be informed of the illness of their I sons, husbands, fathers or brothers in the army. _ o f> 11 Ar' - ,/3j -Ac v?to<; V?v. "N\> h-Dnsn ID get ft tro , Mem b?s' P hBoy ! wHEN 16' _: -38 pir fiesT Cflu- An'tha >" AufEflpr GarY BUG., > Doniphan, Fort Sill, Oklahoma RED CROSS GETS LICENSE to "trade with enemy" . The American Red Cross has been granted a license by the War Trade Board to "trade with the enemy." This is how it came about: The privilege of sending letters, food and - $ money to American prisoners of war in Germany has been granted exclusively to the Red Cross by the German Government. uermany ucuuaus a iciuiu iui vu>o privilege. She asks the Red Cross to act as the medium .through which ^ German fathers and mothers can send a "word from home" or a remembrance to sons confined in American V-(*!g88 prison camps, and to a minor extent to her prisoners in French and British cqmps. This, in a sense, constitutes "trading "with the enemy." Thus it was neceBsary to get the sanction of the War Trade Board for the underta- ?~wK0 king. This has just be secured, and, ? the license issued. It gives the Atnlerican Red Cross a blanket author ization for communication with prisoners of war. over the entire world? enemy, allied and neutral. TO PAY FOR DAMAGES Congress has been asked by the War Department to enact legislation . providing for the reimbursement of French citizens for*damages resulting from operations of American troops. A-S'jgg In sending to Congress the draft of a bill drawn for this purpose, Secretary Baker said General Pershing reported that "inability to pay claims ..33SB for injuries due to accidents caused by Government motor vehicles and . " other causes results in much hardship and injustice to the French people and seriously injures the reputation of the American Army in France :Pj OFFICERS MUST "STAY PUT". A policy of disapproving all appllcations for transfers of officers has been adopted by the War Department. While appreciating that some officers would prefer a different branch of the service or a change of scene, the De- . partment believed the needs of the Nation should supersede those of ln? dividuals. To approve the transfers, it was pointed out, would mean a . -~'^s9gN great deal of clerical work. In addition, transfers would result in a sur- . plus of officers where they were least ? needed and a shortage where they -',rS "'^SsA are most needed. '
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