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gpggj TRENCH T A[> Published weekly at tha National Camp: = $?'l United States. ; )< _=: National Hea fife . Boom 5W. Pull New Yoi ::^V- JOHN STEW J Chairman of Advisory Board ) MB 1 Camp and Location 1 Camp Beauregard. Alexandria. I .a Now O 1/ >'>nip Howie Fort Worth. Tom rori *i J' Camp Cody. Iteming. N Mr* Kl P" vamp Cuat?r. Battle Creek. Mich w *Sj i'amp Dodge. Be* Molnc*. Iowa I>e* Mi 'amp Doniphan. Fort Sill. Okla V i'amp Fun*ton. Fort Riley. Kan Topeka i'amp Grant. Roekford. Ill The Ch Camp Hancock. AugusU, Ga ^ *""mti Camp K^wn'y." Linda Vial a Cal R,"hiJ,' A?\ Camp Lewi*. American Lake*. Wash..Tacomi Camp Logan. Houston. Texas HouMo / Camp McClellan. Annlston. Ala Blrmln VW/ Camp Meade. Admiral. Md . . Wash. F\f Camp I'ike. Little Rock. Ark Arkans Camp Sevier. Greenville. & C Green* "0 ' Camp Shelby. Hattlesburg. m'*!*1 i. Camp TTavls.'San' Antonio. Texaa... A, Kelly Field and Camp Stanley . ? .. ^ ^ J *mp Wheeler. *Maeon! Ga..' Macon *, fl Cnited States, with the eo-opcratlop of the at * . Distributed free to the soldiers In the . ^=7-^/: GERMANY'S GA ' C~ In the words of Colonel Starbottle.j A ^ . of Kentucky, "Germany has whittled j (y> *"r" I; Russia down to a wishbone." Poland, i which Germany seized and now holds,! r - ^ ft 's *^,804 square miles. Next to Po-! ~ In land, on the north, lies Lithuania and! x. II' the Baltic provinces, the scene of out-! xs HI raSes l^at ?re even worse than those ^SSbRLv in Belgium and Poland. This terri/ im ;ory 's square miles. f M That means, in terms of our states. Affoi -hat Germany has done what would be the same as if she had organized ufffl Maine and Massahcusetts into a sepfh K arate government and then seized all ' fl rf New York and two-thirds of Penn?-\ sylvania for herself. Ok'&fB) This's not all, for the Ukraine, that fH great granaiy of Southwest Russia,! ^ M inluding Volhynia, has been recog-l ?llTw\ nized as a separate republic, which isj AWr\ 3S Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, FRANCE. THE MOTHER OF Wiu/rjfS One hundred and forty years agO| yjaawrj p'rench soldiers crossed the sea toi make this land of ours safe for democracy was> t^an'cs largely to themj that we secured our independence. We; MKr rnight perhaps have turned the trick! W7 )%& without them, but we needed their; help sorely and they gave it in the [ generous spirit in which the French-! ^t man knows how to give?asking noth-j 'nS an(* ga'n'ng nothing except the' - C/satisfaction of striking a good blow inl a \ a righteous cause. In the same gener-l 4fcT-|g ous spirit our American soldiers arej fighting in France. Through them at last we have a chance to repay an old; I debt of gratitude to the French peo-j 'pie. For the cause of France and the; cause of democracy are one today, asj they were in the days of Washington| Ever since then France has been one! WtUrfit {he foremost champions of the dem-j ><Bjyjg rratic spirit in Europe. Lafayette arpied back the sword which he had; :sed so well in America to strike down j despotism in his own land. He put WMgrmV' himself at the head of a French Revo-J iUtion, and sought to win for France what he had helped to win for Amer v| 'ated by the fact that he had learned mJXSTl n America not only that despotism Vwlm(:'r could be overthrown but also that dePM'jf .nocracy could be made to work. The " J. programme of the French Revolutionists was indeed much like our own, and JlL,---? their Declaration of Rights embodied 1** X :he same principles of government by the people which were set forth in v-, cur Declaration of Independence. fv, ir i-1 While much which the revolution-. It sts France ^id was bad and much! Lidyvh?l which they builded perished, the ideals Wypfflnv of liberty, equality and fraternity! &jrr y&i which they proclaimed have ever since! 'V/2 1}4 been the political watchwords of the French people. In these words, morec-'i it- over, they not only defined their own J position but they set up a standard to which the growing liberal spirit in Eu' rope at large could rally. France led * W'' / continental Europe in the march toy *- v wards democracy. The other couna trics morc or lcss fcadily followed. France had no sooner established her own democracy than she had to face BKK ^ B the combined armies of Prussia and P B Austria. The despots who ruled those Mv ? pjj lands rightly feared that unless free? fl doro were stamped out in France it ROOKIES' MISTAKE j I Newly drafted men arriving at J . I some of the ramps mistook the brig<. ?? adier generals' flags on the front of automobiles for service flags. & CAMP ' f i and Cantonments for the soldiers of the tdquarters: tier Building 9 k City 1KT BRYAN of Co-operating Publishers S'ewspaper Publisher rleana Times Picayune D. 1). Moore ,'orth Star Telegram Amon C. Carter 0 Herald H. D. Slater Creek Enquirer-News.... A. U Miller Globe Charles H. Taylor, Jr. 1 Times Jamea Kerney jlnes Register Oardner Cowlea ma City Oklahoman E. K. Baylord hooga (Tenn.) Times... H. C. Adler State Journal Frank P. MacLennan i Conrtttution Clark Howell ileago Dally News Victor F. Dawson :te Observer W P. Sullivan a Herald.' Bowdre Phlnlry .la State W. W. Rail ivllle Times-Union W. A. EllloU igele* Times Harry Chandler ind N-ws Deader John Stewart Bryan i Tribune F- 8. Baker n post Oough J. Palmer Morning News Charles E. Marsh gham (Ala) News E. P. Glass 1> <\ Evening Star.-Fleming Newbold as Democrat Elmer E. Clarke lllc Dallv News / B. H. Peaee rleans Item , .... James M. Thomson imer> Advertiser C. H. Allen lie Courier Journal Bruce Haldeman itonlo Light Charles S. Dlehf ork World Don C. Selti Telegraph F. T. Anderson onnl War Work Council. T. M. C. A. of the National Csn.ps an J Cantonment! Civilian INS IN RUSSIA West Virginia and half of Kentucky, had been set up as a separate govern ment here in the United States. But this does not take into account Bessarabian Russia, with its 92,069 square miles. This slice of fertile territory is equal to the other half of Kentucky, half of Tenness^, and all of Worth Carolina. The Turks, too, have not been idle. Their little pickings of 16,932 s.quare miles seem insignificant beside these great depredations. But the government of Kars and the dstficts of Karabagh and Batum which the Turks took mean more loss to Russia than we would suffer if Mexico controlled the mountain passes and the Rio Grande crossings on the Mexican border. In the face of such colossal losses, there is only one thing for the Allies to do. and that is to beat Germany and destroy Prussianism! EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY urnuM nrecentlv arouse their own downtrodden subjects. But their enslaved soldiery was no match for. the free soldiers of France. The armies i of the Revolution, fighting over the same fields where France fights tpday, drove back the Germans, delivered France and presently carried their standards deep into the country of the ] enemy. To the oppressed peoples of Austria and Prussia they came not as foes but as deliverers. For their victories meant the overthrow of the old cruel autocracies and the establishment of a new political order based upon the sovereignty of the people. Unfortunately the uniform success] of the French armies led them by degrees to forget the principles for which I they foi/ght, and to attach undue im-l portance to military glory and conquest for its own sake. It was that! fact principally which enabled that] greatest of military adventurers. Na-1 poleon Bonaparte, to turn the valor of | the French to his own purposes. Thej armies of democracy became convert-1 ed into the armies of the emperor and their aims became rather imperialistic | than democratic. In consequence they lost the moral advantage of their earlier fighting, and aroused among their opponents a national spirit which proved in the end too strong for them. It was true that where Napoleon conquered, his government was far more liberal than the government he over-! threw, but it was equally true that the | German and the Scaniard did not wish to be made into Frenchmen even on such terms. The consequence was that Napoleon was finally crushed. For all his genius and all his efficiency he had lost sight of the fundamental fact that the only stable foundation for government is the consent of the- governed. Yet he did much for France. He gave her an administrative system which has survived to the present day. He gave her a code of laws which combined adnfirably the principle of public order with the principle of private liberty, and furnished the pattern for most of the legal systems of modern Europe. He gave her also a splendid tradition of military prowess, and proved to her what she is proving again today, that the French soldier is as fine a fighting man as there is in the world. CONYERS READ. SEND IT HOME There is an ever-increasing demand for Trench and (;amp. Save your copies by sending them home. Your relatives will enjoy this paper. THE MOUNT1 <HKHS^wkhkhkh?HKKKHKHKH?HKH; HE Is not a Common Orderly. Eve: savors of Something Greater. T Men. and there are Those Who : The Mounted Orderly is the sup used in the American army. When 1 an ordinary person, for nothing is so a horseman 'unmounted. He has a 1 and bandy-legged as he might be, tha | He looks into a Country-hot Visible 1 things thet are withheld from those w mounted. That means all of paradise And when he swings astride his underneath him, what gold of the In chauffeur can appreciate his feeling, compare. The Mounted Orderly, too, sees<l nothing to his valet and even a col< Orderly/ He- absorbs the importance j DOaimfUl Ul t*uiuucio auu guuv.u.vj .. badge he would change for no other, up the earth-crawling walkers who I having. Would the Mounted Orderl; readily than the far-famed leopard | And he couldn't if he would. ' CAMP MEADE C ANYTHING A MC By EDWIN I (Editor of the Camp Meade < If anyone posing as'a prophet a year ago had predicted that "Som&where, in Maryland" there would spring up a city from nowhere, which would rank second to the municipality bearing the name of Lord Baltimore, surpassing the long list of cities already scattered across the fair expanse of the state named in honor of Queen Mary, he might have been hunted down by the department of public safety and sentenced to internment for life on some lone island at [the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Monument to Constructing Genius Nevertheless, here is Camp Meade, half way between Washington and ! Baltimore, planned and built with the munication and highway facilities and constructed along the latest and most approved engineering and mechanical lines. It stands as a tribute to the best cfTort of human brain and brawn in city building. Here is laid out a municipality covering an area five miles wide and seven miles long upon a reservation with a few more miles to spare. With [sewerage lines using miles of piping and masonry in construction, with 'concrete streets covering nearly sixty [miles if placed end to end, acres of woodland and thousands of feet of timber being cut and cleared, is proof evident of the American's bustle when he gets down to business on a big job. Railroad construction, bringing in three railroad lines, over forty miles of newly laid tracks and yards hand ling hundreds of cars of traffic daily, is a small thing today compared to what a gigantic task it would have been considered by the pioneers on the plains in the early days of Union Pacific construction. And then a little country postoflicc. Admiral, which only about 999 people ever heard of. sudder'y being changed into a busy hive of activity by moving i its location into the camp and larger quarters, necessitating the services of fortv postal clerks and handling 75,000 pieces of first-class matter daily, hAcidpq son to ftOO nieces of Darcel post packages, money orders, special delivery letters and registered mail. But a fire department of a half a dozen engines and numerous other pieces of apparatus? How ludicrous it might have seemed a few months ago. Yet here it is, ready and doing service. Twenty-five Hello Girls Is.there a telephone in camp? Well, the second largest exchange in the state, with real truly girly telephone operators, is right in the heart of the city. While it has but twenty-five operators on the switchboards, it handles daily the second largest number of calls, ranking next to BaltiFUKK POSTAGE FOR SOLDIERS i Captain A. C. Townsend. Quartermaster's Reserve Corps, serving as mail censor for the American troops going to France is anxious that every soldier remember that as soon as he steps aboard the outgoing transport his mail need bear no stamps. All letters and cards sent by soldiers to their relatives and friends after reaching the transport or arriving "Over There" will Be handled free of cost to the man in khaki. Captain Townsend says this is not generally understood and that ninety per cent of the mail dropped into bags at his embarkation port by soldiers bor? unnecessary postage. NT TYPES I JD ORDERLY rything about him, manner and habits. 'sffiB here are Great Men. there are Greater Ride Horses. erlatlre form of the word Orderly as le is afoot be might be mistaken tor lowly and inept,-amon& objects, than ook in his eye, though, knbck-kaeed j':J( it is above the Things of This World. ;o the lay unequestrian eye. He sees Hj 'ho walk. He dreams, afoot, of being and adjoining suburbs to a horseman, mount and feels the good McClellan cas could buy from him his job. No The pedestrian hasn t feelings which # reat Men Close-up. The king may be >nel has no terrors for the Mounted of his contacts, until he is the emin horse. His red sleeve band is a It means distinction, power to pass clutter the earth, everything worth V? r change his ladge? Not any more . ' would change his well known spots. AN DUPLICATE )DERN CITY HAS l. GONTRCM edition of Trench and Camp)* more. Miles and miles of wiro3 have "''-'M been run and strung through the streets of the city. And spun on poles, like a spider web of mammoth size, are the telegraph wires also ; & keeping in close touch with the rest of the world. And such buildings! With the finest of plumbing and sanitary arrangetmnm n . .ftjfeJ mammoth power plant, many heated -25$ by hot-water systems, with plenty of hot and cold water showers, in addition to the roomy barracks and Inviting mess halls, it is beyond the con- ?? ception of -the average civilian to appreciate the splendid way in which I the transients' in this new city are housed and cared for. Standing out shoulders high above the rest of the buildings is located on , the crest of a hill about the centre of camp the observatory, tower, marKing the headquarters of Maj. Gen. Kuhn, . commander of the Seventy-ninth Division. Topping ofT the tower is the ?? staff from which Old Glory floats vi gracefully on the breeze. It might be stated here than Gen. Kuhn recently returned from France where he was sent early in December by the War Department to study first hand the problems of the modern war game. During his absence Brig. > Gen. W. J. Nicholson was acting division commander. Fifteen Recreational Buildings The religious and recreative needs ' of the soldiers are cared for by: the Y. M. C. A. ana me Knigms 01 uu- ^ lumbus. Including the big auditorium, which seats 3.500, the former .; ^ organization has twelve buildings in operation, with a staff of seventy '?? men, while the latter has three build- . ??S ings. Each unit or regiment has its own hospital, and medical and dental staff. In addition a large base hospital, with an organization of over 400 including 150 Red Cross nurses, takes care of the (needs of the men who are suffering from any serious illness. Flanking the busy beehive on either _ side are the rows of large warehouses where the Quartermaster Corps has I food, clothing and all other supplies for the population of 40,000 men. And for the sake of cleanliness we must not overlook the laundering establishment. Here is a big building which handles over 500,000 pieces of laundry. It has 300 employes in (service. It takes care of as much work as most all the laundries of the National Capital combined, or the three or four largest in Baltimore. ; j Yes, Camp Meade is a marked example of the efficiency and consideration of the War Department, particularly under such conditions and circumstances as are involved in Such a I great emergency as the present one. AIlMORKD AUTO HAS FAILED No more armored automobiles 05 machine gun motorcycles will be made * . ? for the American Army because they '? j would be of little use on the Euro-* Tjjn pean front, whfcre the fighting is done -"^j over ground criss-crossed with trenches and pitted with shell holes, it is now understood. Only the tank can operate over ' such a surface. Despatch bearers on motor-cycles rendered good service, during the Pershing campaign in Mexico and much had been expected of the armored automobile, but-neith- , er has proved of great value In . : 1 '
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