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?Ifcormous Supplies Sent To
Overseas Post Exchanges
?%3Ebe post exchanges for the Araerl9k
soldiers in Prance are being
MRVftsd with enormous quantities of
applies. Here are some of -the quantities
of merchandise shipped early
this month:
SggHvemillion bottles of pop, 2,108,000
TMonda of sugar, 1,198,400 pounds of
- 212,000 cans of fruit, 75 tons of
?WTee, 2,500,000 packages of chewing
'tftnit 321,600 cans of condensed milk,
?f?,000. packages of crackers, 54,000
^Htjoks of shaving soap, 54,000 tubes of
fcj&mnotber recent shipment included
?lft000,000 sheets of paper and 5,000,000
. -envelopes for the free use of the sol1-4Hera,
and two hundred moving picture
machines, one hundred talking machines,
2,500 phonograph records,
.^JMO.OOO worth of athletic equipment
; and 2(10,000 Testaments.
HOW IT SOUNDS
TO CIVILIANS
. By observing the methods of pro
-Bouncing commands laid down here,
one may readily become almost as un
Intelligible as the most military grad:
natfe of Plattsburgh. Experience in
-^he-New York Subway is invaluable:
-Ppmmand. Pronounced.
SqdRdB right Squaw-grighk! i
; Squads left' Haw!?wefflgk! I
front into line.
'f>:_ CQighthJkl qwzsyyzz ogvhgk!!?ungk 1
*;*IaefJr-turn Gweldji?bnrnph!
Onirlgbt into line,
Punsk ri injonk wine!I
march,
grownkd w ??mhhurk! I
r^po =the rear march,
To huh heuh?hark]
j,'y?npany halt Klumfunty?squalti
ISplE . HOOVE RI ZING
c/?>iilLlneriean packers are said to make
.use o/ "all the pig but the squeal,"
ftgrcticAt that they haven't a great deal
sdnlf oovro - "TI7o co vt
g&artiang. If I peel apples 1 save
the -peeling for jelly. The potato
peelings, the most nutritions part ol
the potato, are oared by using them
in soup, and if we bare too much the)
Camp Pike Men Belie
Soon After They
By GEORGE
It would be the most foolish thing ln>
the world for anyone to attempt tol
draw a comparison between some
other army cantonment and C^mp
Pike. It can't be done.
It is interesting to me, and so much |
so that I am sure it will be of interest
to you, to know that there are right
now close to 40,000 soldiers and officers
at Camp Pike who compose as
conscientious, patriotic, "get-thekaiBer"
a bunch as can be found in any
training camp anywhere. You know,
I'd tell the world I'm proud' of them.
When they step out (doesn't mako a
bit.of difference whether it is for
"pep" into their every movement. If
the soldiers in every camp in the
United States are as well trained and
as enthusiastic as are the men at
Camp Piko, this war isn't going to
last as long as we thought it would.
, It doesn't make one bit of difference
where the men are from, they are all
; anxious to get to the firing line just as
sooiTas Uncle Sam can send them. 9
oamp LUtdlcu on mil
The 3.000 acres of land covered by
the camp are right up on a great bill,
making drainage and sewer conditions
just about what they should be. You
keep climbing and climbing, gradually
and when you come to the top of the
long grade you look out over one of
! the prettiest sights you'd ever .want
to see. There are rows and rows of
barracks buildings. It takes more
than 1,700 buildings to take care of
! the soldiers of Camp Pike. They are
comfortable and they are clean?al*
ways. "Wipe your feet," is the warnIng
given you if you are about to enter
a building with muddy shoes. The
boys are ready for "inspection" at any
> time. And, what's more, they are
proud of "it And you can't blame
1 them. There are some 1,000 acres of
floor space that the men, individually,
are proud of. Why, they often drop
their clothes on the floor and then
wear them right out to inspection,
brushing, not being necessary. _
If you want to walk over the 30
miles of roads In the cantonment you
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Arrive "Over There'
M. SMITH.
will sec ' some interesting things.
| You'll see regular Arc stations and on
the Btreet corners you'l I find fire
alarm boxes. You will be simply
amazed when you come to the base
hospital. And if you could go through
it, some of your Ideas, or ones that you
have accepted, about army cantpnment
hospitals would be revised to a very
great degree.
The finest kind of water runs
through the 32 miles of water mains
In the camp. AViien tne waier ana uic i
30 miles of sewers were being put In,
it was necessary in many places to go
as deep as 23 feet.
Sixteen-Mile Clothes Line
If it were possible to stretch out the
weekly clothes line into one long line,
you wouldn't care anything about taking
a little jaunt from one end to the
other. If you really insisted, though,
you would enjoy a sixteen-mile tramp.
I might say just a word about "eats."
To-day I have eaten my portion of the
twelve tons of excellent bread that is
consumed daily. There were a few
other things on the menu that I might
mention. We had meat, potatoes, corn,
gravey, fruit salad, coffee, ice cream
and cookies. The Ice cream and cookies
were "extras" for to-day, but the
rest of the meal is just an ordinary
menu for dinner. And, too, you would
be surprised to know how often we
have the "extras." Always, you get
all you want to eat, and alwayB, it Is
wholesome and well cooked. I have
yet to hear a soldier at Camp Pike
complain about his food.
The Army Y. M. C. A. is very much
alive in tnis canionmem. ouiuiers
here say they wouldn't know what to
do If the green hut* were not here.
When the fouj* new buildings for the
exclusive use of officers are finished
there will be sixteen "Y" buildings for
the use of the officers and men at
Camp Pike. One of these is an auditorium
seating 3.000 and which cost
$10,000. In addition to the Camp Pike
buildings there Is one "Y" hut at Fort
Root* and one at I^raake, the new
aviation field. There are seventy sec
retarte* here.
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Germany's Method f/^^P
Of Keeping the Peace
Many persona are still asking what
itarted this war, anyway? Some an- Wr
iwer one thing and some another.
The way does not matter." If it had
int started the way it did Germany xmhT
vould have found another way to start ye*
It reminds me of two of Aesop's fa- lljhv
>les of the wolf.
A wolf was drinking from a stream, JdM
vhen he noticed a lamb a short dlsance
away, also drinking. The wolf
nuddy the water so I cannot drink?"
To this the Iamb replifed, "I cannot
nuddy your water, as the stream runs * '1
iown from you to me." Then the J
wolf said, "Well, a year ago when I
was drinking here you muddied it." w.
3ut the lamb said, "How can that be,
leeing I am not a year old yet" jwmmfMi
Never mind, I am going to cat you uUSh&m'
myw&y," replied the wolf, as he [flKBHHK
leized the lamb. fmfjSv'"In
the other fable, a wolf asked a
amb to smell his breath and tell him
low It was. The lamb did so and said
lis breath smelled awful. This made
the wolf mad. and he ate the lamb.
The yolf then asked a gdkt the same
juestion and the goat said his breath JcZ
was sweet as new mown hay. To this
the wolf cried that the goat was a gSS-Jf1?*
base flatterer and he ate him at once, ' J%k
Then the wolf asked the fox, and the
fox, thinking he would be a diplomat, '
inswered that he had such a bad cold ? .////
that he could not smell. ' 'y./fy
"Then you are of no use to any ' /ft '
body." said the wolf, and he ate the , j
ftArSt,
If a nation, with a base purpose in
view, like Germany, wants to start a
war and it cannot find one excuse it ^\/iy
will find another. No one is safe from x\isuch
a wolf, no matter what answer j w
they give or how innocent they are of ffife. A la
intending harm. Spp'iLMyl
That is the reason why America
must sec to it that Germany is licked KHK |
so completely that no other nation will RjU I
ever follow the Prussian example of
forcing war on people who do not want MV7jg|
to fight.?Charles F. Jones.
THE BIRDMAN
"The bird-man gay ascends each day to
hand Dame Chance a trouncing;
with carol gay he wends his way from l
cloud to cloud a-bouncing; it moat be 1 t|V, I ..
great to aviate, 'mid storm-clouds gay- KM f
ly whisking, to loop the loop with Joyous
whoop, one's epidermis risking; 1
witbout a care he skims the air and
flitteth like a swallow; lie climbs on
high toward the sky. 'mid fleecy clouds
to wallow; ho madly snips ana tiyows J/bJ
hack-flips amid the gusty breezes. In
heat or cold the bird-man bold each 11
chance for glory seizes. \\*hat though ' r.
he breaks his neck or takes a fall from *
heights appalling? He risks his bun
to strafe the Hun nor fears his motor's 'i
stalling. Mis crank-shaft breaks, a f
dive he takes; it causes him no worry,
he volplanes down with angry frown /VglBSK
nor gets into a flurry; by spiral dives Inj^^n
he often tries to fool some vexing Her- EWjHBwj
man; his cuticle of grit is full, he
smiteth oft the (lermau. Machine-gun D9iB
fire and danger dire he meets and
never shivers; he gayly laughs and J*?"** .tfj
photographs a few more forts and j?- 1
rivers. He skimmcth through the rj
ether blue nor hcedcth countless dan *9wtStrZt
gers; he bath no qnalm. his nerve is ^
calm, for fear and he are strangers ?'
No care is his, lie is a whiz, he llirtetli
with disaster: with quiet air ho risks ?
his hair to prove he's Fritz's master -?
In heat or cold the bird-man bold each > . - ^
chance for glory seizes, he madiy skipi ^T~and
throws back flips amid the gusty ^5*
breezes!"?Ralph J. Hutchinson in .
"Stars and Stripes."
HAVE YOU HEARD IT? )gg
Have you heard that
The socks you knit for the Hod MaT-jW
Cross are sent to France, raveled an-J HPvj?.?*?
made Into something useful? j J-./\ i
The sweater that you knitted for '['1(1
your soldier boy or friend did not 9 f $
reach him, but was seen on ail officer? *VA
The men do not receive the packages
that are sent to them?
The United States is completing only
one airplane each day? \
The men in the army black the offi- II
cers' boots and mend their socks? MR 1
The soldiers who are ill in the can BSlU
tonments do not receive proper rned WHln |
ical attention? HU \
"The men do not get enough to cat? ||^ g
The men are Improperly ciotnear
Many transports have been sunk and i
thousands of lives lost that we have \ ~f?
heard nothing about?
If you have you have been' listening V
to a. pro-German 'LIAR.?Memphis
News-Scimetar.
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