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L FIRST CALL RE^ I -T- wkmhoM mm | 51 jjj .-SICK CALL rOH-OH-^ (bbino! ?3* ( DOCTORj | ?^y "^P|6 "Jawbone" Older soldiers take issue with a roan who signed himself "Old Soldier" to a newspaper article attempting to explain the origin of the use of the word "Jawbone" for credit in the Army. According to the "Old Soldier's" version, "Jawbone" originated about twenty years ago in Manila, where a Chinese storekeeper, who exhibited a sign bearing the Spanish word, "Jab6n," meaning soap, S extended credit to American soldiers. The soldiers, he says, ? ?- ? rhln.. uiougiil jnuun v-'"mu's name. When they g<?t merchandise from him on credit they \ referred to the deal as getting it I "on jabdn," which they mispronounced as "jawbone." Sounds interesting, but it does not stack up with the stories of Civil War veterans who tell the following version: Outside the camps during the War Between the States there were sutlers whd sold all the articles v < now found at regimental canteens, and a few that are not found there. When soldiers did not have the money with which to pay for their purchases they'said: "I'll square this with you on pay day." In other words they worked their "jawbones" to talk and "stand off" the sutlers. The word "jawbone" , has been used In (he Army as slang I for credit or "on tick" since the Civil War. Some writers think it originated with the American troops sent to the Mexican border in 1916 and others still more benighted believe it was coined by the men now in the training camps throughout the country. SCOTCH ECONOMY An English, an Irish and a Scottish ? soldier were returning to camp after a drill. They were footsore and tired, and a kindly farmer on his way home from market gave them a lift on the road. The soldiers were very grateful and wished to reward the farmer for his kindness. Said the Englishman: "Let's stand him a drink!" "Sure," said Pat, "that is agin the law. Let's give him him some backy!" * "Hoot, ma laddies! " interjected the Scot. "Don't be extravagant. Lefs shake hands with the mon and wish hi o o-iilH nlrht " OX WRONG TRACK After two months at camp, Private Nelson got his leave at last and made what he conceived to be the best use of his holiday by getting married. On the journey back at the station he gave the gate man his marriage certificate in mistake for his return railway ticket. The official studied it carefully and then said: "Yes, my boy, you've got a ticket for a long, wearisome journey, but not on this road." MAIL IT TO MOTHER Soldier, your mother would like to read Trench and Camp, which prints the news about you and your camfc. Mall it to her today, Hfiii I ??i?? ' ; fElLLE MESS T^Mr''gl=^r " _ 1 V.MI I Ancient Greeks Practice When They Sent "I Although the word camouflage has. been added to' French slang since the war started, the art or science of faking," pretending or deceiving in warfare, which the word describes, is by no means new. ' " ? Camouflage is as old as the fighting Instinct. One of the earliest and most notable instances of the employment of camouflage to fool the enemy was when the Greeks sent that huge wooden horse into Troy, since which time it has been regarded as the better | part of discretion to "Beware of the Geeks bearing gifts." Lieut. H. Ledyard Towle, of the Seventy-first Infantry, New York National Guard, and instructor of the first camouflage school to be opened in the United States, tells of the following remarkable cases of camouflage in the present war: Fronch troops establish listening posts and lookouts in No Man's Land by digging tunnels from their own trenches out to a dead body lying on the field and attaching a periscope to the boot of the fallen soldier. At night French soldiers set up a barbed wire fence in plain view of the Germans, expecting it to be shelled the next morning. It is promptly shelled, but one or two of the posts supporting the wire remain standing. The next night?tunnels are run out to the standing posts and periscopes attached to them. ' To prevent being seen under the light of star shells.sent up by both sides every night, French, British and ECOL IS FRENCH It will do very well for the pit, is to acquaint the soldiers in the A week Trench and Camp will start every National Guard and National country. It is important that every A There" have some knowledge regards it as its duty to the sol them in learning French by the lutcoiMo lirno The course' of lessons which and Camp was prepared by the 1 the Modern Language Associatior made up of twenty-five of the 1 schools, colleges and universities t The lessons are so simple them.' You cannot fail to learn lessons which will appear each ^ If you are already studying will be valuable to you. WATOH FOR THE If you read that, you will eai Copy the lessons if possible. T words, their pronunciation and become a more valuable soldier before learning to # PARLER 1 ND CAMP ' tlfCADZU*3?"} ~1 ^ S J f v/5 orr \ * ^MC / tfS rmr 0*00*0/^ Y S- TAPS -1 ! p ff rriT- -if*' -If .mi w *iir sfi' ii.11t/ d Camouflage ,oaded" Horse To Troy American soldiers wear hoods and cloaks of the color of the earth and streak their faces with grease paint. Green and brown goggles are worn to prevent the whites of the soldiers' eyes from showing. Near Amiens French troops had to use an open road three miles in length. There was no other way to their objective point. German aviators would have seen them on the open road and the poilus would have been shelled. At night a stretch of canvas three miles in length and painted to represent an open road, was propped up over the entire highway and under this canopy the soldiers marched nearer to the German lines. A fake line of trenches was painted by French artists and' placed behind the real ditches occupied by the pollus. The Germans shelled the fake trenches and then dashed toward them to catch the French soldiers in their dugonts. En route to the fake trenches, however, the Huns suddenly and unexpectedly encountered the French soldiers in the real trenches and were annihilated. The Germans make diabolical use of camouflage. After an engagement they shell Red Cross workers attempting to gather up the bodies of French soldiers. At night the Germans attach high explosive bombs to the bodies. When French soldiers creep UP under cover of darkness to recover the bodies, the bombs are exploded by I the lifting of the arms or legs Qf the fallen poilus and the rescuing party is blown to atoms. JTEZ FOR LISTEN. rpose of this announcement, which merican Army that beginning next a'series of lessons in French in [ Army cantonment throughout the merican soldier who goes "Over of French. Trench and Camp diers and the country to assist simplest method in the shortest start in the next issue of Trench ?T n*nunn/> Cnf ;? -/ i i of America. This committee is nost eminent French scholars in hroughout the United States. that any child can understand French if you read these short fveek. French, this course, nevertheless, FIRST LESSON. gjerly look forward to the others, his will help you remember the meaning, and you will thereby to your country than you were -RANCAIS " " FRENCH HOSPITALITY CAPTIVATES IT. S. SOLDIERS Some Idea of the warmth and hospitality with which American soldiers ] , are received by the people of France VsyflBSr may be gotten from the following letter written by a lieutenant now "Over ? There" to a friend at home: arT "You have doubtless seen cartoons f ML, showing a man wearing a small lump ^ | of coal In place of a diamond shirt stud, or putting an egg in a safe deposit vault. I have lived to see such T'"\'Areaey* conditions In reality. At one place I ^^aaKB5g| was billeted, with a woman over sev enty years old, there was a little lump of coal which reposed on a shelf in * * * j ' front of the stove. She burned twigs and looked at the coal to keep warm. _ J One day she dug down behind some papers in a cupboard and pulled out r|i j an egg. which she Bhowed me with all l.ljJ the pride in possessing a diamond ytuLUpU/) necklace. She said she was saving njtlmfiMmX It for some day when she was sick. "She was a dear, sweet old lady. L and insisted On folding our pajamas when we packed to leave, saying she was our 'mamma.' "The women of France are wonderful to us?and I refer now to the real women. You can't always speak tHeir language, but iney* ran read in KeaMjae your eyes that you are hungry and ggjragjwra tired and I'll wager there isn't a cottage in ail France where an American <0r'f ? wouldn't be welcome to a meal and V bed. Often they haven't much to >,/> foffer, but it is yours for the asking. In the part of the country where we are now there are almost no hotels '/ ' and we are entirely dependent on the /ClL, \Y hospitality of the inhabitants. , ClS-/1 "There are no men in France, out- \~&f? side of the army, unless you happen to be near a manufacturing centre >// In the country it is all women and X \j>children and the village priest. They M are all in mourning, almost without exception. In one house where 1 lived the woman had lost seventeen in the war, counting cousins and nephews. I "At present we are taking our HHP J meals at the village bakery. We set- -rtfu tied down there before the regiment lyfeMi arrived and have continued since, as ^El] our stay here is only temporary, and they haven't yet located an officers' y overcoats and gloves unnecessary at -. meals. We are well cared for, though we eat many strange things some- fjjjf " ^ L times and say nothing. U.^ I "The woman who runs the place Is KM Jbrisk and smart. Her husband is . employed guarding German prisoners. She bakes splendid bread in the form of huge doughnuts, with a great hole i in the centre, through which the arm ie slipped for convenience in carrying, mttl/'fiti. While we are eating breakfast the flVhSMpi whole village passes in review to get '/ ! 'j^sJK their morning bread and we get all ' ? the town gossip, 'bon jouring" back * and forth with greatest abandon.'" AMERICAN BOYS TO RAISE $1,000,000 FOR SOLDIERS One hundred thousand American boys throughout the United Slates BHRS : a million dollars lo help the Y. M. 'SE A. pay for some extra comforts for p.* . ?j American soldiers and sailors at home and overseas. All of the boys arc in their teens, Each of them has pledged to work un| til he has earned at least $10. They /^ib. 1 I will accept any honorable work, .s?SS-*- I Their task means some aching backs, mr - I tired bodies and personal sacrifices. - \ but they are determined to "see it The gameness of the youngsters is illustrated by the case of Samuel Brlent, a fourteen-year-old Texan. For several weeks he tried in vain to get Hw'Afl employment in his home town to earn his pledged $10. A Y. M. ('. A. secretary heard of a job of milking two Bja^p Sjfl cows at 5:30 o'clock every morning. Samuel Brlent had never milked a cow in his life, and 5:30 A.M. was the Wf jl /i 7/ middle of the night to him. but he y J v *'J took the job and got away with it in fine style. He has earned considerable more than his promised $10. This 8 same spirit is being shown by boys ^ throughout the country, and thr prob- '' abilities are that they will earn more like two million dollars than one. HIS OWN FATHER-IN-LAW all ejaaiei 11 uisiik.l e>k?i|hiun n> x board certified for military service a HSS' thirty-year-old man who became his I own father-in-law. His wife died i L-Jt before the United States entered the 4 (/ ? |i*j war and when the selective service ' I J| law went into effect he had no one 1*^1 dependent upon him. He married his mother-in-law a month after reRistering on June 5. The members of the district board thought the young man had gone to extremes in marrying his- mother-in-law to escape the draft. Tljey finally ruled that any man brave enough to attempt to live (^ ^7 J"*<4 with his mother-in-law need havo no fear of the trenches. ?P
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