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MI88 Margaret Wilson, the President's
talented and charming daughter,
has captivated all the audiences
, of soldiers before whom she has sung,
Sgi? . and there Is every reason for believL-*
, fng that she will be accorded" an
equally enthusiastic. reception at_ all
S the other camps and cantonments In
* which she Is soon to appear.
i Miss Wilson recently announced
her Intention of going -to France to
l_ ? sing to the American soldiers there.
f Miss JVilson is making a tour
the camps and cantonments to sing
P". t for the soldiers under the auspices
* of the Y. M. C. A. She Is paying her
jj own expenses. Before starting on the
tour shd gave several concerts in
large cities to raise money with which
to make the trip as far South as
Texas and as far West as Colorado.
She has been giving all the money
taken in at her concerts to charity or
to war work, but she wanted to make
the tour of the camps at her own exV?
, pense as a contribution to war work
more personal than the mere handing
over of money.
Her first concert was given at Fort
v... - Totten, near Whitestone Landing,
Long Island, New York."
5 "I'm awfully glad to see you," she
said, smiling down into the faces of
500 enlisted men. This Is the first
J?." 1 audience I've ever had composed enj
tirely of men, and I like it. I never
i had any . doubt of "what sort of sol
diers you would be over in France,
EpT v . ; but now that I have seen you, I feel
i surer than ever that you and your
&L . brethren in the other camps will
make the best fighters 'Over There.' "
i Deafening applause greeted this
statement and the soldiers made the
- i rafters of the Y. M. C. A. auditorium
?=?? j ring when she sang plantation meloi
dies and French love songs. They
' joined her in the singing of "Over
There" and "The Star Spangled Banner."
At, camps and cantonments
. * where dhe subsequently appeared she
~ was tendered a similar ovation.
t Miss Wilson's tentative Itinerary
-- calls for her appearance at Camp
Doniphan, Ft" 8111, Oklahoma, * on
C April 1; Camp Bowie, .Ft .Worth,
Texas, April 3; Camp MacArthnr,
Waco, Texas, April 7 and 8; Camp
Travis and other camps near San
Antonio, from April 14 to April 19.
THE NEXT
By H. ADDII
He still was a young man, but he
looked haggard and old in the clear
light of his sun-flooded living-room.
All about him were evidences of
wealth and culture. His roving, rest_
less gaze swept swiftly over the
' books and art treasures with which
. the room was filled.
A moment more and an expression
of infinite sadness came Into his eyes.
He was looking now at the figure of
a small boy, his only child, who stood
at a window watching some spring
birds flitting among the branches of
a nearby tree.
The boy, as though sensing that his
father's gaze had focussed on him,
- turned uneasily toward tne aesa ai
' which his lather was seated. His
face was strangely impassive, flat,
dull, almost wooden.
"It's all right. Jack, it's all right,"
the father forced a smile. But beneath
the desk his hands trembled.
- He knew it was not all right, and
6L: that it never would be all right.
Staring up at him, from the mahogany
surface of the desk, was a
j? ' sheet of typewritten paper. It had
come to him a scant hour earlier, and
was the report of a famous specialist
in children's diseases. It begins:
"I regret to have to inform you
that your son is subnormal mentally.
For various reasons I fear it will be
impossible to effect any appreciable
improvement in his mental condi'
. tion." Then
followed sundry medical
phrases, which brought back to the
sorrowing father a vivid memoryQ
v picture of an episode of ten years
before.
He was not married at tbat time.
Like many another young man he had
been "seeing life" in a wild, undisciplined
fashion. And one day he
Mfc., , had found it necessary to consult a
doctor.
The doctor was brutally frank with
HSr*. him.
"You have contracted syphilis,"
he told him. "You will have to pay
a heavy price for the way you have
been living. Look to it that you
; cause no innocent person to suffer.
"Until /on Mye been cured by rigoro^
treatment?and that wiU not
?~? TRENCH A
U.& Soldiers To Work
Gardens h France
"Lift up those clod hoppers of
yours, you big farmer. Whaddeya
think you're doing, plowing a field?"
Thin type of agricultural rebuke by
exacting drill sergeants will be out
of order among American soldiers in
Prance this spring and summer and
for all the other springs and summers
it may be necessary to keep the
boys In khaki "Over There." The
man who shows an aptitude for handling
the hoe or the plow will be
quite as valuable as the sharpshooter
and expert marksman, for the United
States is going into the gardening
business behind the lines overseas.
"While the government will continue
to send beef, pork, other meats,
the ingredients for making bread,
jams and a great variety of other
edibles across the ocean to the boys,
they will be required .to raise their
own "sass" or green vegetables. It
is Impracticable to send these perishables
overseas. And then again, the
soldiers will have lots of spare time
while Waiting for orders to serve
their hitch In the trenches. -This
time can profitably be spent in gardening.
/
Last year the French army established
garden patches in the training
areas, and in the more quiet spots
back of the lines and raised enough
vegetables to supply 200,000 men
during the season.
The United States army has embarked
upon a similar enterprise. A
captain, son of a former professor in
botany in the University of Chicago,
has been appointed head of the American
Army Garden Service. He has
purchased thousands of vegetable
sprouts from the owners of French
hothouses and is recruiting a force
of gardeners from the ranks on a
basis of' ten raea with agricultural
experience out of every 10,000 American
soldiers "Over There." An officer
will be designated at each camp
who will be responsible for the production
of vegetables. When one
unit moves another will take Its place
and continue the gardening.
If. you like highbrow vegetables,
such as artichoke, cauliflower, romaine,
okra, asparagus, etc., you'll
have to pack a few seeds or sprouts
over the pond with you, for they are
not on the army menn.
GENERATION
iGTON" BRUCE
think of marrying. For your wife
would be in danger, and so would any
children she might have."
Recklessly he had disregarded this
advice. Seemingly recovering quickly,
be had entirely ceased treatment
within a few nfonths. Then he had
marriecL There had been a child.
He looked again at the squat, unshapely,
wooden-fSced boy in the window,
and groaned inwardly. There
flashed into his mind, with new and
bitter force, a sentence from the
Bible:
"I the Lord thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation."
A mental crippling for life! That
was the fate hi3 vicious pleasurehunting
had brought upon the son
unborn in those wild days.
Jnst as. this father penalized the
next generation, so may you penalize
it>throngh lustful indiscretion in the
ypars of your youth. The hereditary
effects of syphilis are dire indeed.
"Of children under fifteen years
constituting social problems." I quote
a Massachusetts authority, "the congenital
syphilitica constitute the more
serious problems.
"Among them there are more cases
of backwardness in school, there is
more feeble-mindendness, there aremore
defects In the mental processes,
there are more delinquencies, there
Are more defects in vision, hearing,
and speech."
And. says a physician of the famous
Mayo Clinic in Minnesota:
"Hereditarily syphilitic children
are flUed with the spirochetes, the
germs of the disease. They are in
every tissue and organ; the child Is
literally riddled with them."
You are perhaps willing to "take
chances" as regards your own health.
Yon are Intent on "having your
fling," be the consequences to you
what they may.
But think of the possible consequences
to the woman you will
marry. Think of the consequences to
the children she may bring into the
world.
Think of these things, and take the
one safe course. Steer clear of those
who would lure you to forget the
teachings of morality.
NO CAMr
Camp Travis Chah
And Let World (
By W. V
(Editor Camp Travis edit
It is to langh! With the government
and newspapers and all the big
bugs howling-for the conservation of
white paper, the attempts of certain
well-meaning fellows in other socalled
camps and cantonments to justify
a flood of written gab make a
fellow in a regular camp feel like
gum& uui uiiu mriug a. ? u.wuw
to kick him just for the sheer joy of
being jtlive.
For these fellows down here are
from Texas, I gad suh, they're from
Texas! Maybe Irvin Cobb or Shakespeare
or somebody else from Michigan
or N'Yawk did come down here
and say we had "more cows and less
milk, more rivers and less water,
more sunshine and less need of it,
and one could see further and see
less than any other place on the
globe." Maybe they did. But one
Noah Webster says "creek" is commonly
pronounced "crick." There's
no accounting for what a Yankee will
say.
Water Unnecessary
Maybe we haven't had any rain in
two years, and maybe our cows are
all bulls, and maybe the sun does
shine on the unjust as well as the
just, and maybe a caff docs have to
walk nine miles through grass up to
his knees to get his breakfast, but
what is this thing we are in, anyway?
Is it war? or ping-pong? or tiddlcdiwinks?
What's the use for water
if the air is so pure one never wants
a drink' Whnt's the use for COWS
when our own Uncle Sam will caddie
us up and call us sweet things and
beg us to raise more bulls?
Suppose our trees do get up and
walk around over the landscape at
night and have to be coaxed back
into the ground next morning? Suppose
they do? Camps and trees don't
go together, noway, and all the
woodBmen have to do to clear a piece
of Texas ground is to stay up late on
a windy evening and fill the holes so
the trees can't find thpir way back
home. Even the elements serve us.
Bill Taft (and certainjy you'll take
his word) came down here and gave
us the double "o." He said our soldiers
were months and months ahead
of any in the camps visited by him.
and he had seen many?even Yaphank
and Custer and Oglethorpe.
Only four days during the winter did
the boys lay off from their drill, and
then merely to kid themselves into
believing it was real winter time. A
man with winter underwear in Texas
Projectiles ITscd to Send
Despatches Through Barrage
Projectiles are now being used for
the transmission of urgent orders to
troops in the front line trenches and
also for sending important information
to the rear in France. This new
scheme of communication was adopted
because of the destruction of telephone
wires and laying down of curtains
of fire throngh which dispatch
bearers could not ride.
The officers in the front line
trenches frequently come into possession
of valuable information
which should be rnshed to headquarters.
Barrage fire, however, frequently
separates the men in the
trenches from headquarters. It frequently
happened that the.eommanding
officer at headquarters wanted to
communicate with officers In the
trenches, but was unable to do so
because no human being could live in
the barrage fire and telephone wires
were out of commission.
The new system of communication
consists of shooting a projectile from
a trench mortar. A box containing
written information or new orders is
placed in a cylinder about fifteen
inches in length and an inch and a
quarter in diameter. The cylinder
and message box are put into a grenade
thrower, which launches it like
headquarters or the front line
trenches.
HARMONICA OUSTS CKE
The War Department Commission
on Training Camp Activities Is organizing
a harmonica band in every
training camp and cantonment in the
United States. .The Idea suggested
itself because so many soldiers can
play the harmonica, which is highbrow
for mouth organ. Because of
the fact that it" can be stuck In the
pocket and carried so easily, the harmonica
has gotten the inside track
on the ukelele, banjo, violin, mandolin
and guitar, which are too cumbersome
to be carried around from place
to place. . _
lenges The World
Choose Its Weapons
ion of Trencli and Camp) K/Vl
is considered an eccentric, or a newlyarrived
Yankee too poor to buy B. ?T.
The deliciously warm current that ,| f&jmp "^Sa
radiates from milady's arm is not ah- jjji Jffw.'/
sorhed by sombre yards of cloth and ||p| jy/ *.
wasted on desert air. but rushes out ffiw
to meet you filtered through a single ufj ws
strand of most fragrant silk. And M -ft ;/?
the babies?it's a pleasure to hear I VLmJ*
them cry, for its not often that they
can find an excuse! wK T
Athletics? Camp Travis challenges I
choose lis own weapons. vAvi '
Music? When you get "Over Jfffj
There" keep your oar peeled for these ,
singing Texans. *
Highly Spiritualized V'2jSReligion?
That's where we come
strong, for it's easy to he good in
Texas. And this is not mere guff, I
for a recent census taken at the in- TxLzktMlf
stance of the War Department show- JOJax;
ed that out of U8,657 men only 018 gl
had no church connections. t'nele
Sam made these figures, and who's
going to call Cncle Sam a prcvari- '/fjtjaLHR
One cannot live through a Texas
sunset and not see the handiwork of <F'x33
Clod. Men'have lived and used buck- qJ* ? tB
ets on buckets of precious paints and then
died and gone on to their re- fwjyUfw'ward
without reproducing this won- '{wftfft/
derful spectacle. ''
The beauties of heaven come down
to the earth's edge and Kiss old Sol (
to sleep. All the colors of the rainhow
assemble and twine themselves
into pictures of gold and silver and 20/K
sapphire, and great cities and lands
of joy and honey glisten in the Western
sky as if to give the mortals beof
Crockett and Travis hover over the ^ ^ 4 ^ *
great cantonment and one can all but \ >'
hear them say. "W< II done, thou good * # ,
and faithful servants!" n % ,
Is It any wonder that to suggest a WffAlVk 1
division of Texas is but to start a Hftlll
fight? Is it any wonder that one can
travel hundreds and hundreds of H
miles and never see a graveyard? Is ^^^391
it any wonder that the bells never
ion in saaness, mu iiil men ?u?ci/, vl!
voices in song and praise? Is it any ts ^AJj
wonder that the men of this wonder- ^
ful camp are lilted and thrilled and * B
set on fire at the chance to lay down
their livc? that thftr c hildren and tjM&kSKA'
their children s children may have
their share in this life of freedom and
"THE NEW SPIRIT L^H
OF THE NE'V ARMY'" WL J
From Mukden to Mexico is a far
cry, and yet that cap. wide as it is.
which was spanned by the V. M. A. VulppH
own Mexican troubles on the border ls|fr.vCj|
two years ago. is only a small pai t K|
of the circl" that the V. M. ('. A. II I ' Ifrj
spans today. That circle stretches I ' ) ,|f IJ
around the entire globe. all across I . <J \j}
through Serbia. ?>a the Western front. ^ *
and across our own continent from ^
ocean to ocean, this great work of +
the Y. M. ('. A. is carried on. and fc
I rtfnt work tvnilies ihe driving force * V
of our army. y/. ^'
A splendid interpretation of this f >
spirit has been given by Joseph Ji
Odell, in a booh entitle<I "The New /?
Spirit of the New Army." This l>oo!< V-/
is one that should be read. nio.;t of
all. by the parents at home. It is t;
not possible for all the parents to go * ^gjl- V
to the front, or even go to the ramps. BgE'
but as far as may be. they will catch cv^JSj
the idealism of the officers and of the
men; they will hear through the
thick night tlie bugles lilow. and they
will feel the thrill of the spirit that
is making this colossal effort to J' f\
crush out the devilislincss of the
Not only does Dr. Odell speak in gjSfejBAKpJ
this book of what is being done in oar
camps foday, but he gives an extraordinarily
interesting light on the ac
tiviues or tne r. >1. u. a. in me
Russo-Japanese War, and the appeal
that this Christian organization made mln/u
to the Japanese nation and to its ?\lml Jim .
leading statesmen who at that time jVwflfll S ?
were not themselves followers of the yXJllll p
Christian faith. Vujf#/f *
Of one thing we may be sure that 'W/fT
out of this war will come a newer v
spirit for and a newer valuation of
Christianity than ever existed before
HAVE VOL'? - i vt
Good morning! Have you sent
Trench and Camp home? If not, why ^
not? If so, "continue the exercise."