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^ No ii-aubV / -*op3c(r ^g| (J jj' J0m^ ? v^L-2i ) And he'H beM3"ed a -? V**1 ^ ?- a *>4 ?c | ^V)Ch^o^|< n* o^e *Officers Should Stimulate Enthusiasm of Their Men "The first condition in order to stimulate thq interest of the men Is the enthusiasm of the officers," says Major H. *k Nelly. Adjutant 34th - Division, National Guard, in an official bulletin dated at Camp Cody, N.M. "Inspiration is contagious, and if the commanding officer has it, it will gradually be communicated to all in Sir- . his organisation. Then the purpose * of each drill must be made perfectly clear to each man. American soldiers have not yet acquired the hAbit of doing things simply for the purpose stv: of doing them. The war value of each exercise should be clearly set forth in meetings with the non-commissioned officers, and these instruct- 1 Hr*/ ed to explain It to the men. The writer, for example, knows nothing more tedious than constant repetition of the trigger squeeze exercise as a thing j<- for its own sake. Done day after day liltf' for an hour or more> 11 ls enough to drive even a dull man insane. But it is the only way to learn to shoot accurately. And looked at from this angle it is a means of the very sort of . ' efficiency most needed in trench and *xkO- . " open fighting. The same is true of bomb throwing,-gun laying, fuse aetr ting, trench digging, patroling, and all the thousand and one little things iaSfc we are instructed to do day after day. If the officer will see to it that he enters into the supervision of the . frv. <1 rills in the same spirit in which he wished the . men to carry them out, much of the dreariness will disappear, jggfcr. What we learn to do now under simulated battle conditions are the same , things we shall have to do later when bullets are flying. If we can keep our interest to learn to do them well now, we shall be-so much the safer and more efficient when we do them in front of the enemy." . FRENCH HONOR WILSON ifjs!?. A statue of President Wilsfln is to j I- IKA ->"KIU on.,?n IT, ?hn I7*6> , DB piutcu >11 J-""'? ... town of Aix-les-Bains, France. Money with which to purchase the statue was contributed by French men and wom' en of all classes. Considerable money was donated by American soldiers isBregfe,-:-. using ^Aix-les-Bains as a rest camp jg&v:?.;... . after seeing-service in the trenches. [?er mm. , h'.w+o sw?f U JsZtr*fW Iv f F Jk?^''ce * I'm*-' uncf VJilhouT) rr ffflfjUj >B- Z.KkE.?? TRENCH LINGO Here is some trench lingo translated: AMMO?Ammunition BAM'?Battalion BULLY BEEF ? Canned corn beef-; called "Tinned Willie" in the U. S. Army. CHAR?Tea (derived from the East Indian Language) CLICK?To die. To be clicked means to be killed. CHAT?Officers' term for vermin which the men call COOTIE. -DIXIE?An oblong iron box of five gallon capacity and used on field kitchens for iriaking coffee, soup, etc. FAG?Cockney English for cigarette. GRAYBACK ? A German soldier. Applied because the Hun wears a field gray uniform. GROUSING? Complaining and kicking. KIP?To sleep. FLOP and DOSS mean the same. MILLS?A hand grenade resembling a lemon in size and shape. NAPPER?The head. STOKES?An eleven-pound bomb hurled by mortar or by hand. TIN HAT?Steel helmet to protect the head from shrapnel. ZERO?A military term indicating the time at which any contemplated move is to be started. The time before and after is reckoned as plus or minus zero. l is D C A M f ^ BECOMES1 BAto rottrneJ 15 all !?? +" if Hie ^awe *9>&S she in cjtitkL .Monday's W?H \><z. I for . II Government Takes Charge I Of Air Around Reservations "For the protection of the Army! and Navy," President Wilson issued a proclamation forbidding any but licensed aviators to fly the air over or near anv military or naval camp, can tonment, fort or station. The licenses! I will be granted by a joint board of thei I Army and Navy, but it is not expected j j many will be issued. The President's proclamation con-' I tained this paragraph: "In case any! aircraft shall disregard this proclamation or the terms of the license, it j shall be the right and duty of the military or naval forces to treat the! aircraft as hostile and to fire upon it I or to otherwise destroy it, notwith-J standing the resultant danger to human life." KILLED 30 HUNS A Bronx. N. Y.. school boy, tbir-j teen years old, claims to have killed thirty Germans on the French front by bayonetting or shooting them. He is unusually large for his years and when he told a Canadian recruiting officer he was eighteen he was accept-1 ed and shipped "Over There." When; be was wounded at the front and sent! to a hospital behind the lines, hisj motheF was notified by cable and immediately informed the British au thorities that the boy was only thirteen years old. Upon recovering the veteran of several battles who says he counted thirty Germans that he had killed was sent back to the United States and has resumed his studies in school. AS HONEST SERGEANT Recently a non-commissioned ofli?.aa miotukpn hv a new recruit on sentry duty, who saluted him. The non-commissioned officer, ignorant that his colonel was nearby, returned the salute. Next morning he was ordered to report to the colonel, where he was asked why he returned the salute when he. the,"non-com," knew he was notentitled to it. "Sir," he answered, "I always re-| turn everything I am not entitled to." The colonel dismissed him. _______ BBBPiipwWSp Taps Will Soon Blow . WM On Govt. Insurance It is getting along toward April 12. which means that the final respite ^ siveu delinquent American- soldiers to insure their lives with the govern- >Jj ment Is about to expire. No government lias ever been as generous to its soldiers as the United | fv States. A precedent was established )jl>yifrV when the American government do- PjfflM' / tided to insure the lives of its fight- MjHr/ i't , ing men --men whom private Inmir- u'Ht dff-H ant e companies would not touch with I |U 'n n Although a soldier may not liavr ?SK| anything in the world but the thirty per he is drawing from Uncle Sam. b' I W A H can immediately create an estate of H HhH $10,000 by taking out a policy with the government. This $10,000 is or other relatives in ease he does noi conic back. If he returns totally disabled it is payable to him. ?' Only a small percentage of the soldiers in the training camps failed to take out insurance before February 1 J. the original time limit set by th< government, but there are still souk ft?. men who have failed to avail themselves of the government's generosity. '/fflTliJl]gBrr It is better to rejoice than regret. H-' If you haven't insured your life for all you can afford- which ought to be all the government will allow you hayen't been as square to the <?'JgjA folks hack home as von could have *> *"*? "v? been. If you don't want to take a *jTr tormenting thought like that ".Ouo 'ty^Upy''miles across the ocean with \ou. IN- f//W/)///' ol.'RK HKFORH APRIL 12. ' Domino Shortage Averted , When U. S. Cork Hobs I'p to SjLt Pinch Hit for German Wood 9jf? Once again American ingenuity n;h&fUDJH come to the rescue of American !<>! 'jSAwISd diers about to be deprived of amuse- Cof/ ,s~ merit. A threatened shortage in ilomi- .] noes has been promptly met and all v q a the indications are that.the jh.doo t- ^ sets needed for soldier:; in khaki at * f , home and "Over Ther?" will be sup- - , , plied at the desired time. creased demand for dominoes by the HErSH devotees of "Muggins." and to the R fhet that the sets used in America formcrly came from Germany, whose ex- "TM ports to this country have not been WT 1 very extensive for some three years E When the threatened shortage was I? jfNfl reported in the camps, the Y. M. ('. A. I sent out an S O S for help. A prompt answer came from the employes of Rn&BKB the Armstrong Cork Company, I.ancaster. Pa., who volunteered to stay MffBH . after hours to make dominoes for the BRImI soldiers. The domonocs are being made of scrap cork < arpet. donated by the company, which also had a special Rflf < machine made to stamp out the WT M blocks from double nothing to double ?/tL S six. The new cork dominoes are bettor than the old wooden ones from SgfiCiMB Germany, according to soldiers who ??h3Eu This Is the second tragedy avcrp-d in the amusement world. It. was only s'Tvfffa. a few weeks ago that a checker short- 1 i JVwftk age occurred ow ing to the fact that : \ J jl/71 rut off. This situation was met by ^ '/ f the use of old-fashioned, cheeked lin- f oleum and oil doth. ' TAKKS fll.HMJK OF C.WTKK.VS . + At the request of (Jeneral I'ersh- ^ } ing, the V. M. ('. A. has taken charge * of all the American canteens in J/j i V France anil has sent Herbert L. Pratt. ? / feY vice-president of the Standard Oil Company "Over There" to reorganize ?r? the canteen sorvire. Prices will be fixed so as to be the same at all the canteens and everything soldiers want 1 to buy will be placed on sale. Alex ^?3 ; N.-McFayden. of Detroit, general superintendent of a chain of 165 five ami (vDf j ten cent stores will be director general of canteens in France. Sales Xrv amounting to $4,000,000 were made at the 350 Y. M. ('. A. canteens in ber. Several hundred additional can- T/JjJ teens will be provided. DON'T CARRY OI F THK SHII*. ^SMrlo Souvenir gatherers among the American troops already sent to France have done so much damage to the transports that orders have been i/cSj/lae issued by the War Department to W jkMltHn commanding officers to see that the vSJnjlj'i, practice is discontinued. Not content A\\Wf//lq with carving their names in conspire- yWArfjf i| ous places, thus defacing the wood k\UAr/ff {j work, soldiers are said tp have pock- \yMlfjl-?eted all the napkins, knives, forks. they could lay their hands on as son vcnirs of their journey across the At- SwfvhirS 1 lantic. " ? SKX1> THKM HO.Ml-: j Send all your copies of Trench and !('amp to the home folks. They will appreciate them as well as you. ? mA
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