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E. ' ",T JNihllsh-d wooktr at the National Camp
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Room 564, ?*nt
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I ^ l~ JOHN STKW.
I ' W > Chairman of Advisory Board
Jr ' amp Jl'nwlc. *Vort Worth. Texas Fort V
.-amp Cody, n.nylnr. N Mri HI Par
3^1 fr?f Camp I i.'Vi'ns. Ayer. Mass Roston
Camp fix. Wrichtstown. V J ^'""m
Camp (jrant. *Ro< Itford*. Ill Tho I '1
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?Cp! -m!" v'..i'h:! n k.* I - "l?'n. ' Y !XfW V
. |?v^~ ' - l-ji.:ish-?t uii.t-r the auspices of tho^Xatl
WHY ARE
F i f Nations or men at war have reali
, things at stake?real things, like food, |
-'/V ? shelter, safety! Professors may arguej
over theories, but men fight for things.)
,r? We are fighting for the dearest pos-j
N 1 sessions of mankind. A man's cattle I
N. A] have always been protected from rav-j
ishing wolves and marauding robbers,,
yrvgp'' but all the cattle on a thousand hills j
/ ya are not worth a little child. To pro-'
iff' -ect their children Belgium's men laidj
A/A down their lives, and our children's
lives arc now in peril.
Jifci The freedom of the seas is an old)
' j and dearly loved right of nations, but)
J]s it is not as old, as important, nor as;
gjaj) faithfully guarded as life itself. In-j
Tg tcrnational treaties were supposed to
JE be honorable and sacred, but they,
Iw. were not.as honorable as motherhood,!
iImEA nor as sacrc<* as chastity. Look atj
AflLtl V Poland and Lithuania, where thou-|
sands of young women and girls were
'fffllajCk herded together by the Germans intoj
If foul stockades for the foulest pur-,
Look at Belgium, where neither,'
|youth nor age, neither sex nor condi-'
L 'ion, were spared in Germany's brutal
march to success.
R&v From the waters of the Irish chanBy
\obf?- nel the voices of drowning babes
'l/'s
THE S
11 Sometimes a great truth loses its l'
-repressiveness because of an unfortujti'nF
i nate. even awkward presentation.
For instance: Officers frequently
tell their men that a soldier is a good
-, y. soldier because he salutes properly.;
?s. They mean that a good soldier salutes!
'"roperly because he is a good soldier. [
//fttffilwThat is something quite different.;
$hkSThe salute docs not make the soldier:
flffiCtAY/yss. the soldier makes the salute.
Properly executed, the salute re-j
WjbMj fleets discipline and devotion. Care-lessly
given, it reflects lack of disci-]
pline and lack of devotion.
Mgfeafy The salute should be automatic, but'
7/ never mechanical. It is the individual!
YMfr# expression of an individual's part in!
a great military?more than that, aj
great patriotic?undertaking.
.The soldier sees the commissioned|
rmL^fyr-n officer, sees in him the authority of I
Tthe nation, the authority to command.
' Thc so'dicr brings himself to the sa-j
1 J' lute and. without words, says more,
yffS. eloquently than he could in words,'
"You are chosen to lead; I will obey.":
The officer recognizes the soldier by !
\-sj returning the salute and says, without.
? a word. "I realize my responsibilities!
fC i* i '1 and will endeavor to fulfill them." |
|h '. ^esj Day in and day out. this exchange
ifo ySb~J ?f greetings goes on whenever officers
-stfrMT ' n<f enlisted men meet. Day in and!
^rV4/l Something Different
[f'i\ - ? f
/,y/ky- \\> shall go on with the entertainer-tnent."
said a colonel of an American
I regiment a moment after the "lights!
^ W' 9 out" order had been obeyed. "We can'
A / have an air raid any night, but it isn't j
K- Kfo J often th-21 we have a chance to hear
Mr- S6th,'rn "
j^tb So Kdward If. Sothern. great AmeriHk
- En ran actor, resumed his recitation from
Rflt r h Hamlet before American soldiers gath
HL f H cred in a large building back of the!
f W lines "Over There." Upon resuming!
j _ -j he called the attention of his kliaki-1
! I (lad audience to the fact that at the j
I moment the Germans begun to rain!
1 down bombs he was reciting the line,!
"Oh. what a rash and bloody deed is!
this."
& CAMP
a and Cantonment* for the noldlera of the
adqoarter*:
I tier Build la*
rfc Ot j
%RT BRYAN
I of Co-oj>e rating rnblUhem
Newspaper Publisher
it-leans Times Picayune D. 1>. Moore
forth Star Telegram Amon C. Carter
,o Herald H. I> Slater
Creek Knquirer-News A- ' MUler
-Globe Charle# H. Taylor. Jr.
n Times James Kernejr
olnes H?{lllirr wrunvi v.o?.j<r?
ma City Oklahoman K. K. (Jay)ord
nooga (T< nn.) Times H. 0. Adler
anclsoo llulletin R. A. Crothcrs
i Slate Journal Wank P. Maelx-nnan
a Constitution Tlark Howell
.ib-ago Dally News Victor F. I.nwson
tte Observer \V. P. Sullivan
:a H'-ral? Bowdre Phlnlzy
:>ia Stale W. W. Ball
nville Times Cnlon W. A. Elllotl
ngeles Times Harry Chandler
end News Header John Stewart-Bryan
a Tribune F. S. Baker
n Post Cough J. Palmer
Morning News Charles K. Marsh
igham (Ala.) News E. P. Glass
I>. C . Evening Star Fleming Newbold
las Democrat Eluier E. Clarke
-111o Dally News B. H. Peace
cleans Item James M. Thomson
niery Advertiser C. 11. Allen
ille Courier Journal Bruce Haldeman
ntonio I.ight Charles S. Dlclil
ork World Don C. Soitz
Telegraph P. T. Anderson
onal War Work Council. Y. M. C. A. of the
>ovc named publishers and papers.
WE HERE?
cried to America, but from the soil of
Belgium the crucified children cried to
Heaven.
And what the Germans did in Belgium
and Poland they praised the
Turks for doing in Armenia, and the
Bulgarians for doing in Serbia.
Those atrocious outraecs on hu
manity sprung from the heart of a
nation that knew, not God, for the
Germans have dethroned the God of
Love and set up in His place the
Devil of Lust. They have crushed all
noble sentiments in the heart so that
nothing might interfere with the cold
calculation of the brain. They have
set up an empire on the soil of others,
and they will establish unbreakable
control over the soul of man unless
America takes up all that Russia laid
down, and then adds her own ideals
and strength.
To win this war is to make womanhood
safe, to give childhood the promise
of old age, and to insure old age
a peaceful eventide. It is to cast out
the demon of cruelty and to re-establish
the kingdom of honor and kindliness
and civilization among men.
To lose this war is to lose all that
mankind has won in the struggle of
the ages, and
WIN WE MUST!
ALUTE
day out there should be this reconsecrating
of one's self to the cause
under wHose banner all are serving.
The salute should be solemn, cere
: ? ?_ ;?
a magnificent thing! Why? Because
it implies so much.
In stress of action, the instant salute
calls one to self-control. For
while it becomes automatic, it summons
the one who is rendering it to
an attitude at attention. In that attitude
orders can be comprehended.
Every muscle, every fibre of one's being
comes into play in the properly
rendered salute.
The good soldier reverences the
flag. He does not pass Old Glory
with head bowed and a covert glance.
He does not pass by the Stars and
Stripes seeking to evade the reverence
due. His head is erect; his chin
drawn in; his shoulders squared, and
proudly his whole being proclaims his
thought, "That is my flag."
When he passes a commissioned officer,
he salutes proudly, because the
officer to him is more than , his commander,
the man who must be obeyed.
He salutes not only the man in authority.
but the source of that author
ity?ana mat auuiomy is mc uuucu
States of America, which the flag symbolizes.
IX) VOL' KNOW THESE?
How arc you on army abbreviations.
now that you have been in the
service for (fill in the number
of months on the dotted line) ?
Here are a few: M.G.B.; A.L.A.:
A.W.o.l..: K.I'.; C.O.; M.I\; O.D.;
I.C'd: Q.M.: GO.; S.C.D.; B.C.;
F.S.B.; T.M.B.; F.A.; F.H.; C.G.;
T.B.: S.T.: A.T.; O.T.S.; M.O. Do you
know any' more?
CANNING THE RATTLE
On night patrol duty between the
American and German lines the
Yanks are now wearing knitted woolen
helmets instead of "tin hats." It
was found that the steel helmets
made a rattle when they came in contact
with barbed wire and this noise
brought a fusillade from the enemy.
'
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THE ER3TWHIL
W?HKHK?hkhkhkkhkhkh?0<H?J
! f-l^HEY are In every camp, these c
I bat now lift one ten-ton hiking sh
-* silk and fine linen was once laid
j but now they have to personally preen
I den variety doughboy. And inspectloi
had not one time been so lapped in lux
; ready for the laundryman was done b
l their comrades, and the world, that gi
| money struck from them, they are mei
i when a limitless pocketbook tempts a 1
I man.
| There are no supermen in the Ai
: millionaire is helping reduce every a
| position, to the level of a common a
I brotherhood he is "dependent upon elen
props that coin can cop. If he i? a g
' easily, and with uncanny intuition,
j would be if he were penniless, they g
' if he sidesteps the disagreeable detail
i man is a hero to his valet, and no r
mates, although the fellow in the cot r
I him, as a waiter.
This fellow ia helping to make th
periment in democracy. He's invalua'
ratizing the democrats; with him it all
France And The
By CONYI
The foreign policy of France during
the past fifty years has been directed
mainly towards the purpose of selfpreservation
in the face of persistent
German hostility.
Ever since Prussia established her
domination over Germany by the defeat
of Austria in 1866, Prussia has
taken the attitude that France was
I an enemy to be watched and, if possible,
to be crushed. It was that attitude
which brought on the FrancoPrussian
War of 1870. For although
the imperial aspirations of the French
emperor. Napoleon III, no doubt prepared
the way for war, it was Bismarck
whose cunning actually provoked
it .
People's Protest Ignored
The result is well known, France
was thoroughly thrashed, forced to
pay an enormous indemnity and to
?1 ?? ?- *V? l/u? /if turn nf har mnot
j loyal provinces, Alsace and Lorraine.
I It was to no purpose that the prov-j
) lnces, almost to a man, protested
i against separation from France. PrusI
sia took them by right of conquest.
She had no more concern then than
she has now with the rights of peoples.
Having defeated France, it was Bismarck's
main purpose after 1871 to
keep her weak and isolated. To that
end he joined forces with Russia and
Austria in 1873. A few years later,
when Russia withdrew from this combination.
he formed a triple alliance
with Austria and Italy. So far as
(lermany was concerned, this alliance
was directed mainly against France.
Bismarck also managed to keep alive
old differences between France and
England. So France for nearly twenty
years, thanks to (Jerman machinations,
was left without a friend in
Europe.
Meanwhile she had been recovering
T-aniriiv from I he disasters of 1870. In
three years she paid off her war indemnity.
reorganized her array and
fortified her new frontiers. The Germans
began to think, in 1875, that she
had better be thrashed again before
she had got back her full strength.
They probably would have made the
effort had it not been for vigorfluaj>rotests
from Russia.
Russia in fact leaned with increasing
friendliness towards the French
as time revealed the fact that GerA
MILITARY ESSAY
Rl'GIiERS
The bane of civil life was the
|>estiferous tomcat on the back
fence. Now we have, instead, the
bugler. We used to heaTe shoes at
the cat and go back to sleep. Now
we swallow iiaru uuu ruiui??
goose pimples. There would be
I good money in a moderate-priced
exterminator for buglers. It would
; have a ready sale.
Once there was a soldier who invented
a brick for hurling at buI
glers. The patents are impending.
This soldier has already won his
monument.? A bugler makes a
wrist watch about as necessary as
a sluive during quarantine. Buglers
are buglers. There is no other
defnition. The world will never
be completely happy until the last
one has been cornered and shipped
to the Smithsonian institution.
O. 8.
loe after another on a long hike. That*
out by Jymea, the family serving mian,
i their common khaki just like any gari
is just as terrible to them as if they
ury that even getting shirts and collars
y some hired hand. They are showing
rcn *??,> t a chance, with the shackles of
> (t'o ha) an nnav tnalf tn he one.
fellow into thinking he's a sort of gupor my,
though?Just men. The erstwfcllo
Ueged superman?from money, power,
nd yet divine manhood. In the 0."D. f
lental qualities and not on the artificial
ood fellow, bis mates learn that he iM,
If he's temperamentally a snob sflld p
et next to that, too. If he uses a pull,
a?they're next to him in no time. No
ich man is awe-inspiring to his bunklext
his may have once taken tips from
e new American Army'the perfect exble.
Without him, it would be democso
is democratising the aristocrats.
: German Menace
ERS READ
I manv and Austria were untrustworthy
friends. Prance on her part courted
Russian favor by advancing large
loans to the Russian government The
outcome was that in 1891, Russia and
France signed a treaty of alliance *
which at once rescued France from v
her isolation and created a combina- ;
tion of powers sufficiently strong i6 |
prevent the domination of Europe by i
Germany and her two allies.
Triple Entente Defensive J
Between 1891 and 1904 these two }
groups of powers divided pretty equals j
ly between them the fighting strength '
of Europe. Unfortunately for FranOtit T
however, the defeat of Russia In her r
war with Japan in 1904-5 destroyed ?
this balance of power and enabled'T
Germany to assume at once an aggreo- v
sire policy. ^ k
Had it not been for England * /;"
might have been more successful QHNk'j she
was. But England, realising the
magnitude of the German menace, no#^
stepped forward, settled her ontfltaa^'k
ing quarrels with France by tE^iXK^k
adjusted old differences with Unsaid and
in 1907 had definitely aligned ber
self in a Triple Entente against
many's Triple Alliance. _
The pin-pose of this new combination
was frankly defensive. It was
signed primarily to discourage Garmany
from her-dreams of conquest.^.;I
i-j r ? -??? i? oon'nH Its turn
But in 1914 Germany felt herajtflsj
strong enough to measure BWOfWftB
with it.
The Immediate occasion of the prOIPAV
ent war was Germany's support Of- g
Austria's attempt to brow-beat Serbia;
When Russia undertook to defend SilnHs
bia's interests, Germany declared wiKff
on Russia.
Struck France First
With France. Germany had no Qoajrap*^
rel at all. and France, in spite of mairafc k
just grievances, certainly gave her
cause for quarrel. But she struck
at Franco, fearing that France wonld^.';
support Russia; and she struck
France through Belgium becauiHGK?
France, supposing that Belgium's netfa's.v
trallty would be respected, was weal^JSf
est along her Belgium frontier.
p rance men nau no cnoiue uui io
take up arms to defend her own pwr|B|
pie and her own fair land. Her dausfltjflr
was just If ever a cause was. That la MTf
why it commended itself to justice- Hf|
loving America.
I That Is why we made it our own. J@5
: "J
FRENCH BOY LIKES Gt'ARDHOISE
For a breach of discipline a French
boy-driver had to be locked up in the *??
guard-bouse overnight by. the American
military authorities. The bays-ipi
came out next morning looking very
pleased. They asked him why he was
so happy. He said he liked the Amer1
lean Army Hotel, the food and bedwere
good, the helpers attentive. He
thought he had been entertained an
a guest in some new sort of military* S&j
hotel.
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of Trench and Camp you will see thMpfy
"Army News for Army Men and Thefts ..
Home Folks." You get the papfflBfc'
first, read it and send it to the hxaawHE?folks.
Do you get the Idea? PHF-u
mail will be gathered up and ehl'WK'
the post office soon. Address tlxia
paper to the home folks now. ...