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| ^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
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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.
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>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.
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BECOMES1 BAto
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if Hie ^awe
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in
cjtitkL .Monday's W?H \><z.
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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.
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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.
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