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y??I TRENCH PublishcJ weekly ?? th?> National Cam F^~? ?^T-~. National M I Tr^-TTr^; Room M, P* J=.:^ * _1 JOHN STEW j I fej Chairman of AUvlaorjr Boar ?' wrirtwoJ?i"s:" j :::::::: :tJZ gp gg :::::gJ I'.kt. LiUlv Kor'k. Ark. Arkar *?h?ry 'r?>'?r Kr I-OUI-S :- : wh^Vr'Sac^ Ga':.N'..T::::Sro, t'necJ Stitrt. with the co-oprratlon of the " . ,^r, DISCIPLINE IN THI ^^7r'"z Marshal Joffre, with the reticence so A ' .'rc<|iicntly characteristic of great milivO j -.ary commanders. spoke very seldom v.hllo on his tour of this country. It Vchc. \--| was not alone berause of his inability " fr I .o speak our language that he was so >^; I eldoni heard; but because he is a fkl I n an of action. ay?j When he spoke his words were Jm v.cerly heard. It was felt that he would not speak unless the occasion ffUf! I'.'U'.aiiled some word from him and Jftj ;:il? *> he had something to say. He iff -oiotd one epigram that will be ask \ ^ W.. iI i11, him no Innv an hio nn.no <:.a 1 endure ai?i?l the hero of the M Marno is not likely to pass soon from 3^. the memory of man. This was the ilraKv epigram: German soldiers are disciplined by force; our soldiers by faith. /jjmwmM In lhat single sentence he spoke giFflrwe volumes; Ills message compensated M ^or l',e niauy lo"S and sometimes awkAmerica is coming to know just what the marshal meant by the disXfY irjL iplino of faith. The Prussian Kaiser to whom might is right and wh?se gos \^Jf pel is that of the sword, could not peCf Vggk. comprehend this discipline. America :s a fiRhting force will be negligible, KtyVr the Kaiser told his counsellors and his pc l roups, "for discipline in a democracy k'C r is impossible and without discipline fc/there can be no military efficiency." aMiarr For many months it might have gt\yf - teemed that the Kaiser was right. The instant click achieved bv force was -r Qr not attained by the French or British troops- not. by the admission of their y own officers, until months, even years 'JPxkKkZ' after the outbreak of hostilities. To learn the lesson of discipline cost miliior.s in money and thousands of huit took Germany forty years to build up her mighty military machine. tttjmanjr In less than eight months we have 4 built up a shipbuilding machine which, ^\ when it g' ts into full swing, will defeat the military machine of Germany.' (Mg^F T Tliis statement by Chairman Hurley M if the I'nited States Shipping Board shows what America can do when the ' MlfPH ? people of the nation set themselves ' o''If I'if to a task. Future generations will ' ' marvel at the speed with which a \ ' peace loving people took up the work of participating in the world war. a war at whose outbreak few. if any nersons. thought would involve the JfE* j fjg Not only in the building of ships flJL hut in the manufacture of supplies and ijffljrfifcrL equipment for soldiers, the United Y?/0&tQtL States has undertaken its task on a lap/dKr most prodigious scale. Already the pro XtjLffiljg./*. duction of war materials in this coun X try has been more than treble th? j? | iV production of Kngland and France it W J a similar period. Expansion and en fc-^r^) largement continues. Within a shorl r time the American war machine wili fr'f make the Oerman war machine look t'ff ' a inin'ature or a t?yTWENTY SHKKP NKKDKI) It has been estimated that the woo HB~ ?. H from twenty sheep is needed to sup^ BfiC ''' uai1' American soldier for a year This means about 160 pounds o: Rk I wool. The garments worn by the sol j JjSfr ?'7{ diers calling for wool are. overcoat heavy underwear, two olive-tfrat shirts, four blankets, two pairs oi gloves, six pairs of light and foui * .pairs of heavy socks. & CAMP pa and Cantonments for tha soldiers -of the . Mdqaartan: iliUer Buildln* ark City ART BE VAN d of Co-ope ratln* Publishers X.nvpaper Publisher Orleans Times Picayune ' !> f>- Moore Worth Star Telegram Amon C. C*rt? ISO Herald n- I>" Slater . e Creek Enquirer-News A. U Miller n ci?be Charles H. Taylor. Jr. on Times Kerney dolnes :terlster Gardner Cowlcs rama City Oklnhoman K. K. Gaylord nfu\ra (Tins I Times H. G. Adlar i*rani't*co Bulletin R. A. Crothers la State Journal Frank P. VacLennan ta Constitution Clark Howell 'hlragn Pally N'twi Victor F. Lawson uitp Observer W. P. Sullivan <ta Herald Bowdre Phlnlay ibia Slate W. W. Ball onville Times-Union W. A. KUlatt tngelcs Times Harry Chandler nond News Leader John Stewart Bryan na Tribune F.-R Baker on roe I Gouah J. Palmer Morning News Charlea E. Marsh nKham (Ala.) News Victor H. Hanson . .. P. C.. Evening Star Fleming Newbold isas Democrat Elmer K. Clarke vllle Daily News B. H. Peace Jrlrans Item. James M. Thomson , [ornery Advertiser C. H. Allen ' vllle Courier Journal Bruce Haldeman intoalo Light ? Charles a Dlehl Tork World Don C. Belts i Telegraph P. T. Anderson tioaal War Work Council. T. M. C A. of the ibove named publishers and papers I AMERICAN ARMY i man lives?gold that perhaps could be spared, as Lieut Col. George Applin of the 14th Hussars stated, but blood that no nation could afford. I mho nwfiil imnoratlves of the war ' were heard. Men began to submerge I themselves in the larger life of the ' nations. Previously they had ofTered to die if needs be; now they came to j live as the nation might ordain, submitting themselves to the collective j will. This was the needed response to the dictates of the highest human im! pulse, love of country. Discipline came bo have a new meaning. Hidden values became disclosed, j Then came a change. The discipline of faith as contrasted with the dis cipline of force became a fact. ' Again in the words of Col. Applin, 1 "we began to click exactly on time. | We showed the Germans what disj cipline meant We taught the teachers. Germany once had the finest I fighting machine in the world. I use | the past tense advisedly. It HAD. Today the French and British surpass the Germans and when we meet them I we beat them." [ America, too. will achieve this disi cipline of faitb. It is even now achiev] ing it; but the task is far from accomplishment yet. The time will come when the click of America will be so I well timed that it will synchronize : with that of her Allies and produce I but a single sound. | Some of our troops have achieved it already. Witness the splendid recora from (he sectors held by our men. All of our troops must achieve it. To the great tasks before us we must sacrifice ease, ambition, associations and personal Inclinations all that wo have and are. Then and then only can America function in that perfect discipline of faith. ACHINES I America entered the war to bring I it to a successful close, and to insure a permanent peace in the future. With j her boundless resources, thousands of I factories, and millions of skilled men ! and women. America Intends manu- j i facturing the materials of war on aJ . to reach. It Is not going to take anyi thing like forty years for America to i produce more war materials than Ger11 many ever thought could be manuJ factored. This manufacturing is go; ing to continue so long as the materials . are needed to carry but the job of bringing "The Mad Dog of Europe" to ! j bay. Before this war" is many months . [ older, ^riters are going to discard 11 that pet expression "with characteristic German thoroughness and effi. i oieney" and adopt in its stead "with -'characteristic American thoroughness I and efficiency." You could put Germany in Texas 11 and Texas would never know it was | there?it would take up so little space. 11 Before this war is over the whole GerI ( man war plant will look like a small ;1 tool house in comparison to the Amer| lean war plant. NOT WATCHMEN I The War Department has refused to - furnish soldiers to guard private man. ufacturing plants in which munitions [ and equipment for the Army are be ing made. "The soldier in training . who has offered his life for the dei fense of his country should not sacri> flee his effectiveness by performing pot lice duty In the protection of property back of the line," said the depart' ment's reply to the manufacturer#. ND CAMP = THE MILITARY BLOOD Is the life fluid of the Amer- ! lean army. But a secondary liquid : crowding it close is gasoline? i lymph to the military body. Dissect the roar of victory in modern warfare i md you will lay bear the healthy pound i of a motor. Bread, - beef, bean, i "blesses" and bullets?sinews and i symbols of struggle?all depend to the i greatest extent on gas?impelled ve- ' hides for ultimate power. As do all throbbing things, the might i of military motors, too, is dependent i Man is the prop against which this t strengin in weakness leans, i ueso mu- i itary motor men, the brawny, stalwart chaps who guide the destinies of the countless lorries, trucks, ambulances, despatch cycles and plain flivvers, make an Interesting human segment of the cantonment life. Their hands are rough. There la little silk In their manners or speech, but they aro a Great Lot May this be a puny tribute to the place they have had In bringing organization and order out of crashing, whirling chaos! The Old-Timer whose memory can unroll to cantonment formative days knows the giant's part borne by these motor men in building the camps. The New-Timer realizes their present portion-seeing them in the jolting jaunts Secretary McAdoo Urg Liberty Bonds And E Secretary of Treasury McAc entire nation to back up Americ Liberty Bonds. His appeal to tht "One million eight hundred tl are now serving in the Army a Thousands of them are already fighting and dying to save the lil stay at home and to secure democ sian brutality and military despot crates the soil of noble France. "Who can think of their he Who can contemplate their trial and struggles without setting al his soul? Who can look upon the khaki jacket of the soldier withon hearts that beat beneath?heart death as the price they pay to sav 'We must support our gallanf make them swift victors in their do it if we at home do our duty wit that animates our men in the tr perform?and we should be eager lend our money, every available d< Government, in order that our ga all they need to save America. "No true patriot will fail to b CHINESE EXPECTEDI Forty battalions of Chinese Engineers, about 40,000 officers and men, are expected on the French front within the next few weeks if sufficient transports can be provided. The Chinese Engineers are said to be anxious to see actual service and arrangements for their appearance back of the lines have been completed by the French and Chinese general staffs. BIRTH OF "OLD GLORY" William Driver, a Salem, Mass., sea captain, is said to have first applied "Old Glory" to the Stars and Stripes. In December, 1831, when he was about to set sail from Salem on the brig Charles Doggett, bound for the South Sea Islands, he was presented by friends with a handsome flag. When the colors were hoisted to the halyards Captain Driver exclaimed: "There is Old Glory!" IHM.MKRS SKKDKI) In No Man's Land dimmers have to be placed over the illuminated figures on the dials of watches to prevent betraying the wearer's presence. Johnny- cm / MOTOR MAN ?hkhkhkhwhkhwhkhKHKHCH?^^ from warehouse to supply company, from freight term inns to quartermaster. The Bame truck and truckman who brought lumber for the huge nest at barracks known as The Camp now deliver the bacon, the bread, the sblrth, box, underwear, coal?to feed, clothe and warm the troops In training. And their work doesn't end on this side of the Rroad Expanse. Yonder where the roads are torn with shell-holes and the boche artillery plays fiendish pranks of moving supply caravans, they must push on. Stores and itrength? "ffij Loveliness of form, grace and soft taflnamanli dr.n't nprrh nn the tables ' t>f tho Truck Company No. ? hangrat The language is pungent like petrol. Tlje fellowship is rough, but say, how about the Big Things?The -4.aW Heart? Rise and shout that the heart jt the Motor Truck Man is There? ind again There. When it comes to the essential manhood that counts? he's got it And the pale-eyed, blink* ing reformer who shrivels at his cus toms?let him pause. For the voice of the Big Spirit speaks from the lives -.?& and work of these chunks of sturdy manhood that guide the Canp motors. ~ Jj! [t is the spirit that pushes through? and delivers I es Nation To Buy <acl( Up Fighting Men loo is urging the people of the a's fighting men by purchasing ^Jl ! nation is as foMows: tousand of America's brave sons nd Navy of the United States. ^JFi upon the battlefields of France berties and rights of those who racy and freedom against Prusism. Their blood already conseroic sacrifice without emotion?. 3 and sufferings, their dangers >laze the fires of patriotism in ; blue jacket of the sailor or the t admiration for the Indomitable ~J l| s that may soon be stilled in e civilization? t sailors and soldiers. We must fight with the Kaiser. We can ,h the same quality of patriotism enches. The least duty we can and happy to perform it?is to )llar we have or can save, to our I llant sons may be supplied with '1 ' m I uy United States Liberty Bonds. W. G. McADOO." | "IN AND OUT" The courageous spirit In which American soldiers "Over There" have, received their wounds is illustrated by the case of a Yank whose right arm was splintered by a shell. Asked If the wound were serious, ne replied: Jig I "Nope. I'm Just in and out. I'll be back in the trenches in a week." Another American soldier suffering from a severe wound which rendered him Incapable of walking, apologized to the stretcher bearers for his "I'm sorry I'm so heavy," he said. 1 ' "This thing doesn't hurt very much. I think I can walk out if one of yon will'just steer me around the turns." NOT PROHIBITED Announcement has been made by the War Department that there is no regulation prohibiting Army officers from carrying life saving suits on board ship with them when they start "Over There." The weight of the suit, however, must be figured in the baggage weight allowance for offlcera id above a trench'--!
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