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TRENCH Publtahrd weekly at thr National Car I United Stat<? ___ National I H Bom 5M. T HHSBa k*wj JOHN ST El 8 Camp K>Hy " If*" ECamp I'plon. Yaphank, I_ I.. X. Y New Bgt|iMgaB Camp Wh.ol.-r, Mat on. Ua Maco J ft'" | April 6 is a red letter day in the ' calendar of the world. It is the anniversary of the formal entrance ol the United States into the world war. The entrance of this nation not only guaranteed victory but marked an Jf' epoch. For America had nothing to gA /. gain. She had much in money, in KB material and in precious lives to lose. These she was as certain to lose as sVjMjC* i it is certain that the Winter follows xML the Fall But if she had not offered A them on the altar of Liberty she would ' have lost her self-respect. Yet no nation, so completely detached from warfare, had ever been ready to pay such a price. Her people rallied in a tremendous response that obliterated the lines of North and Sooth, and merged 'the East and the West. wOnVUBGll AinAni'i'e fircf pr.if trsin thrnn?K K*r proferred sacrifice was her ability to think nationally. One nation, indiUf?W visible, she took her rightful place at |9.?9 J the head of the council of free peo* strcam ?* men' ?ower ?* the nation's manhood, soon began to V /<%Y, pour across the seas. Some became j impatient and said more men, still t more, should go at once. They demanded that untrained men be sent. It was not a mighty host that was needed but the encouragement of the promise that France should be suc' >5*^ cored by her great sister Republic. Through the lines of the fighting ) forces on that Western front there } J m. went a thrill when the first of the kn /y American troops crossed the water. 9b /apT^,. It was a thrill that heartened the ^9/^8 Allies for the terrible days to come. It was a thrill that evidenced recogniAflvzL l'on lhe war's new phase. American industries became mobilized. Men began to disappear from O civilian pursuits. When next they 8 were seen they were in uniform and erect and proud. They were looking far into the future, into terrible but glorious days. The pinch of war began to be felt in our homes. But the sacrifices America was called upon to make she made cheerfully. We were asked to give .of our savings.?and we gave! Oh, how we j?ave! The world expected that America would do things on a large scale. But the Liberty Loans and the tax ^ b ^ levies showed that the world had MM fcjSw failed to comprehend completely the O ^11 ' WATCH > I Ask any American officer just back Pfrom the front what struck him most, and he will always mention the precautions taken against spies. Every ash tray, every little paste board under a beer glass, every compartment in I every railroad coach bears the same | sign: "Mefiez-vous, les omeilles enneI mies vous ecoutent," which is to say: I "Spakin' Irish": "Watch your step, I they're listening." Well may the traveler, or hotel gs guest, be he soldier or civilian, take ) |H care, for one word may betray a troop movement, or give a clue that will destroy the widest and most carefully laid plans. And no one knows who the spies ?????J are. Right now the French are try WATCH Y< - * TRENCH J & CAMP npe and Cantonments for the soldiers of the Uedemtcn: olttner Boltdlac fork City R'ABT BKYAN rd of Co spending Publisher* N pw^ptpf r Publisher Orleans Tlaaea Picayune D. D. Moore Worth Star Telegram Amon C. Carter aso Herald." H. D. Slater le Creek Enquirer-News A. L. Miller >n Globe Charles H. Taylor. Jr. ton Tin*os James Kerney Moines KeglstA1 Gardner Cowles huma City Oklahoman E. K. Oaylord Francisco Bulletin R. A. Crothers ka State Journal Frank P. MacLennan tta Constitution Clark Howell Chicago Dally News Victor F. I.awson lotte Observer W. P. Sullivan ista Herald Bowdro Phlnlsy nbla State W. V. Ball tonvllle Times-Union W. A. Elliott Angeles Times Harry Chandler mond News Deader John Stewart Bryan ma Tribune P. a Baker ton Post Oough J. Palmer > Morning News Charles E. Marsh Ingham (Ala.)- News K. P. Glass l, D. C.. Evening Star Fleming New bo Id nsas Democrat Elmer E. Clarke nrllle Dally News B. H. Peace Orleans Item James M. Thomson gomery Advertiser C. H. Allen it llle Courier Journal Bruce Haldeman Antonio Light Charles S. Dlehl York World Don C. Selt* n Telegraph : P. T. Anderson itlonal War Work Council, Y. M. C. A. of ths above named publishers and papcra RIL 6 : I genius of America. Whatever she en, i tered upon she would accomplish. . The spirit of the founders of the cotm! ?rv wae nnfr rlearl All that we have and are we have pledged. And all that we have and are we shall give t if needs be. The past year has carried America's ' voice in unmistakable terms to her enemies' hearts. We are prompted at such a time to ponder the situation. Three questipns constantly assert themselves. What is being accomplished? What is the outlook? How long will the war last? Critics of the war policies of America have an ulterior purpose. They are agents of the most pernicious and potent propaganda the world has ever known,?propaganda that has given s new meaning to the adage "ue pen is mightier than the sword." Friends of this country, friends of liberty and righteousness will co-operate, not criticise. As much as possibly can he accomplished is being accomplished. Failures are due not to error but to \ the obstructionists whose carping criticism compels constant delays in order that policies may be defended. Thinking nationally, as we have begun to think, we have attained a momentum that could not have been attained if we had emphasized sectional ism. Dut uic mucous ncau 01 inc uinstructing propaganda must be hit whenever it asserts itself and the utmost support given to the government. The outlook? As we believe in a just God; as we believe in the justice of our cause, we must believe nothing but ultimate victory. If at times the forces against us seem more numerous than those that are with us, let us open our eyes and behold the mighty hosts. The ufll to achieve is a tremendous factor in this war. Sometimes power that is entrusted to us seems wholly disproportionate to the desired result; but we go on from day to day gaining new strength. So with this struggle. We are growing stronger. Our enemies are growing weaker. We must cultivate a courageous calm and a fine fortitude. We must be prepared for terrible days to come and great sacrifices. But as we 1 pay and as we sacrifice we shall find I ourselves being knit closer, together. I The individual will suffer and the na: tion will be strengthened. How long will the war last? ! On- the anniyersary of our formal ! entrance into the conflict we say J solemnly that it must last, it SHALL I last until Prussianism is banished foreven from the earth. fOCR STKP . ing a senator on the charge of treason. Their former prime minister, Joseph Caillaux, a man who held the same position as Lloyd George in England, is being tried and is under grave suspicion. Where such exalted personages are guilty of spying, it is small wonder if obscure waiters, or street car conductors, snouia dc parrs in tne great German spy machine. In America we have and are still being spied on. We have thought because we had nothing to conceal that all others were honest too. We shall learn better before we are through with this war?and meanwhile, here in camp, and there in the trenches? on train, or transport?at all times, everywhere? OUR STEP I , "-- -VA \ND CAMP gSfcdHKHWS&iMH^^ I CANTONMl THE WI< JKhxhkhkhMHKHKHMHKHIHKHMHIHKH! AND the distinctive thins about tl but a WIgwagger?or rather, e your semaphore, and all that? referred-to O. D. does not??but he k Ways and Means besides. Heliograpl more dear to the heart of the Wigw modern warfare,- flag-waving is not sport in all places and at all times. I This signal corps forms the nerve mits the messages which are life and field instrument. His is an invisible 1 man tne seen, "irincipaiiiies auu i makes Natnre an ally by using her other things. When the army lies i I overseas, the signalman, the Wigwag You'll remember that on the plaii lariat in a circle about his camp fire, back scorpions and rattlesnakes when Signalman?the Wigwagger. The Ka Ikj stopped by the fine hairs of commu1 tive lariat. France The Promoter By CONYB After the Napoleonic wars the powers of Europe were faced by much the same problems as will face them after the present war. Most of all, they wanted peace, and peace upon such terms as gave some promise of permanence. With thaf end in view a congress of diplomatists met at Vienna in 1814. Unfortunately their idea of a stable peace lay in the restoration of the state of things which had existed in Europe before the French Revolution. National Spirit Ignored They deliberately ignored the liberal spirit which the Erench Revolution had aroused not only in France but in Europe at large. They deliberately ignored also the national spirit which had played so large a part in Napoleon's overthrow. In defiance of the one they restored the old despots to the old thrones without any reference to the wishes of their ' subjects. In defiance of the other they handed Belgium over to Holland, Norway to Sweden, Poland td Russia and Prussia, and cut up Italy and Germany, whose national consciousness had been aroused by Napoleon, into crazy-quilts of small states. The Europe which they designed was nothing more than the worn-out Europe of ages past, when autocrats monopolized political power and peoples were regarded merely as chattels for barter and exchange. Such dn arrangement could not stand, and the history of the nineteenth centur? proved that it conld not stand, precisely because it took no account of the living forces at work in the world. The national spirit proved in the end to be stronger than the powers conspiring for it3 oppression. So the Belgians and the Norwegians claimed their independence, and took it, in the very teeth of the diplomatists. So the Italians and the Germans asserted their right to national unity, and tore up the patch-work map which the autocrats had made of them. So the Poles and the Bohemians and the South Slavs and the Armenians and the Syrians await today the time of their delivernnro and until it comes a stable peace in Europe can hardly be assured. Liberalism Spreads Equally potent was the force of the liberal spirit. After the FrenchRevolution Europe proved to be an increasingly uncomfortable place for the old type of despot In spite of everything the congress of Vienna did to provide for him. Everywhere the people demanded and pretty nearly everywhere the people secured a KAIf.INO FOR FRANCE I Here's a song to you, my dear, Before I sail away? Tomorrow shall be yesterday And yesterday today. I never knew that I could pay For all that's in your face, For all that yon and I have known In many a fairy place. For Hay time on a sca-blown dune, For autumn on a hill, Where love would fill a yolden eup To sip or drain or spill. But here's a song to you, my dear, Before I sail way, To tell you that for yesterday Tomorrow I can pay. Lieut. John Tempi.e Graves, Jr. Fort Washington, Md. MAIL IT NOW Trench and Camp contains all the news of your camp. That's Just what the home folks want. Mail this paper to them today. . iWAGGER le Wigwagger is that he's ererytMjH verythlng in addition to. He l^WJ and what soldier who wears the oft-J i. 'l nows and practices a myriad intri^M*| i, telegraph, telephone, raaio?au b*., agger" than the flag-waving. the most healthful form of outdodfl : t Is better far to have the head doinuj 3 of the army. The Wigwagger triUW:jv-.;''.1 death. He ticks off destinies on" hj|j-y.;| i line of communication more petMjt towers of the air." The WlgwagfBg 3|| sound waves and her Bun rays, and ^ lown to sleep in those vast bivpnaiSB Trs ger serves as its cowboy rop6 lariat. -|j|j is the cattleman spread his hairy irajfc The fine hairs on the lariat tnrnad they tried to advance. That is^he' iser's rattlesnakes and scorpions will aication which bristle from his flguraOf Political Reform IRS READ larger share in their government.: Mkj some countries, liberalism won 3^ , complete victory, in some, like OgjJ." many and Austria, it made oniy'i ginning. But its strength is that no one can longer doubt 3l8j eventual triumph,-even in those eonn-J tries where it is least respected; event1 among the Austrians, the Turin, tile. wnsam France, on the whole, fared betievi at the congress of Vienna than of her neighbors. Her .political ftMpj; ; tiers were made in the main to'coUfcj form to the frontiers of her peopfef1 and her government, though fartrOBS) liheral in the modern sense 0L*SBi term, was less illiberal than^yiSW ; where. After all it was no* saftkto. try the patience of the Frehelb'ijlM far. They had but just shoWMgfljigjv selves masters of Europe in tteagj! of war. Yet the revolutionan^Siww in France was still too strong to bQ satisfied with compromise*: MjMM liberty and autocracy. In 18 3d-they got rid of one king who had gttomttted to push his despotic guesilUiAt too far. In'1848 they got rid of-w-, other one for the Same reason. Soma twenty-five years later they maod nij1 their minds to have ddhe with kin? altogether, and established a repoblie as popular and as liberal nature hs any government nniOt heaven. France the Deliverer Bnt once again, as in Revointm^ ary times, France was not - COmM] with merely setting her own house Ix order. In Europe everyWhertf^O^ pressed peoples could alwayscopal upon her sympathy and support. H was largely through French ah! th* Belgium realized her independ^ailO.ll 1831. It was thanks to France that Italy in 1859 was enable to take>Jiei first long stcn forward towardStWflf tlonal unlt7. It tvas France, Joined with England and Russia, whrf; do livered the Greeks from Turkish mie rule.' And it was the French pMW ? who were more than half disposed t make war upon Russia in 1863 id be " half of the Poles. . Wherever in Europe oppressed,bS tionalities called for delivetUM wherever liberalism wrestled -wttl autocracy, there the hand of TqH reached forth to encourage f, assist. Throughout the niMMM| century she was perhaps the forefttt$i champion in Europe of the peoples to determine their oif]?a|| > emmcnts. It is by no mere dyuic that she lights today her lateat^ftf . her greatest battle in that grea cause. Her history left her no ciipfM AUDACIOUS 1RJN "CLHa^j j A German officer masqueradlB?Si the nnlform of an American rMH . ?> was recently caught in a trench fiBl by members of the Rainbow Mvtogji The Hun's presence was dWOfSS when he bombed an American MUfi . who approached him. Telling of the incident, am Aaitir ' can soldier who witnessed'"ttuSH "I wish you could have seen the Tn8 after he had been bombed. YobtCMh would have believed he could teemM but he did and went ba<&' lottf; {! trenches. As for the GenriMnraBl never got back to his owd Iftte| What the rest of onr men did |&hij| was a shame. He was shortlyS8e? the deadest Germans thattflffiwriM FIVE MONTHS The first shipment of battleplanes for use on thplnpifl front left the United Sfatfea fill months ahead of the sched triad M
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