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f^JHXro TCIJSIN WAR pj^fieoi the antral of the British Ks? petitionary Force in Beaglam ta Ofe | 'late summer of 1914 down to tha prespT^fcnt time the motorcycle hoc steadily |C gained in importance in different ^branches of the mHttary service. Its > DM has not bean restricted to the Allied armies, The beat authorities |fej placS the number ot motorcycle employed by the. armies of the Central K. Powers at the time of the Battle of Itv the Marne at 18,009. The British had S v- . bt least 40,000 In service In the spring - 1916, while the French had about 11,000.?The Italian forces up to the present have 10,000, according to re|Pv ?. cent estimates. K ** It has heea figured that more than Mfc 750.00# motorcycles have beat ta wee ifSt* for mflttazr Purposes by the beOlgHrr srent powers since July. 1914. TMs ST does not lactate those at praaeat In I"'" > the United States Army service. for * - prior to oar entrance la tiie Greet ? War the Americas Army did not have Bfcja?n than perhaps ISt maehtaae fa WFremont It A "Rea K Literally And Fti BY EL WOOD l^K:. (Editor of the Camp F rem on Somewhere In Fremont Camp Fremont Is the most ideally $j&^16eatod cantonment in the world: we X.'.'admit that much. One reason for our ffirT bold assertion is the fact that the camp la In California, the paramount ke state In the Union for clfanate and a lew other things, including Native 3 - Son. of which, by the way, we hare v?pr a few. We believe Camp Fremont far urpasoes all the other camps on the : Pacific shores, of which there are two, v: hp virtue of Its Ideal location in we central portion of the Bear State. While the eastern cantonments were 2Sf^S"*3S?* neigh bom to the north werW"waBer fag- about 1a sticky mi. ?A 7* SraSBfib whOe our senIhw triends were .westing fa the h tailing eya where M mrrj a drop of rafa-faBs. Gamp Fro. aoat enjoyed beanUfel spring weather. - 'Storing nrer la the only malady which f K oartenaty a?ecU Fremontitos. and no our Chaplains are kept busy and not - r<-!nrjpar medical corps. - Everything IM / So macfc for the climate; M* s W - wi. ^ nun tolled, wtwty platoa, or treetae rairie welcome the boys as they en* T"-ter Camp Fremont. Their tents ere muail "neath the green live oaks and they look ont upon foothills and fer' fUepasture land. Stamford University, the heat in the West, la the near ridn'"?*? vtiii* Ken Jose and Palo Alto, two ?f the towns the sotdler boys tove, are daw by. Now that Honorable Puttie is thor> ougWy introduced to the climate and atorml surroundings of this City of the m-vi Kiad. wp wflf say a few ^ V stottebbowt its peopva ?Ws Regular v- irr?r fcofcU a kad of Regular sen, far Uacle Sam'a Regmlars are ??ar. feared here. Here are no Rookies, no / tVmderfeet to the hfe B??e of war, but here are men who hare oeea aer-riee under the Starry Flag, men who *s*> fooght and fought well to times . ,, MIL Faces tanned by their leas stays la the Sun Baked Philippines, or along the Mexican Border, where Greasers and Cactas are the chief articles of scenery, these boys present a grim appearance as they manourer on the MU grounds. Like the Crusaders oi W aid who weet amt after the Holy Grail, these bora in eager to go "Over "t There" after Kalaer Bill's Spiked Hel'.Mt There are loar reglsseats of them here, mad asne fair day when they "take overlie "certain sector" in^T the Freach An the Huns woat : hera to sead ntt scoots to locate tfca . Aaairwi TWyH keow where the &MM aae aright think we are all hoaatM. are shall immnsla aone of < . ' ?or Caatta. The sraelaet tad neat gainful of theee la the fact Oat we have no aree iwatfcm in training THE OOKM &W?amBHWfl?VCKMHKHKH>Oa? NH(WI at yomr burnished spurs, i mBohm lac him. He's anothe H so Into his presence at the fas jam Mint to m a super-being seel by tffelj? and crowned with auQu wood nam with kind, humorous eyes f Up? Utile dask. Hta throne it a ufS? of taring be? walked in. T formidable, do? ? It ****** to be* He taftn in the Ml, deep role. language Is ttroet. Ha doesn't tempo order. For ha kaon his bnafaess, si of uneasy authority. This Common Colon ri leads bees counts of basic manhood. He's com* the right. What a uotihaat he'd m War Gods In the German anfly! C France a coaple of eaxioads of equips wi*a behind the lines, while the boy and hardship? IKa re?*"* to f>et his full size 1 an anflawerad speech. When they bodied American Ideal?ol true demo fc.*? will they follow him? 1 this Omnia OtL?v who is of them, I Regular" Camp raratively Speaking O. B'AYERLE - t Edltionor I rencri ano vamp; tag in a modest way about his camp, related the tact that all the men came from the same town. Sadly we most confess the fact that Fremont men cannot boast any common city, town or state as their own. They hail from all over the forty-eight states, including New Jersey, and they all hail theli own state as the best In the bloom ing Union. Bat when it comes to actual representation, the star that stands for Kentucky on oar National Brablem should be made Into a moon, with all the other stars grouped around it Kentucky blue-blood flows through the rein* of Fremonters, like the Mississippi Hirer throagh the Middle West A oeitala peninsnla is California is divided Into [two puts, the one it Casap Fremont and the other Mat Meade Park wan a way station en the 8oafhern Pactee. Mow M ia a growing metropolis. All the trains atop here now, and they are glad to. Mo matter where you are oa said, aforementlonen. Pen., yon are aware of the fact that Fremont Is located hero. Too cast for the Hie oT yon. brother, mistake W swaggering, mm teaned in dividual coming down the street di sul tea natty. wetlAttlag uniform ] Regular Gay. and he knows "bow to execute a salute with ail the aaap and I the West Pointer. Athletics??brother. Freznoat eats it three tftmoa a day. We tare tie eham pionship baseball aggregaHoa of the United States Army. It's the same bunch of Hankies that put a kick into the Chink's queue, when they copped the champ of the Orient, and now they are working oa son** of the nines in the rlcinity with sack soccea3 that they probably vfil be found among the Majors nest season We bars a Ramoaat Depot ant here, too. That's the same kind of a camp, you know, only it's where tbqy keep horses and mules instead. Tm* about William Hart and Douglas Fairbanks, and all that; why, we hare that oat here eiery day. the pobllc from miles croud the catatry make weakly pfl irtMtai to !>?iih on Sundays to see Uiuse oU ex-cow-punch era break tar Torn itateta Jta oB Uw nap. Health conditions, did yon say, brother? Without (he sUghtoat exag gmatfcu. we can say that tWs is the caap west of tin North Sea. The Case Hospital moved away ho cause the attract complained of havfag nothing to dot There la a Ms Base "rt"'1 located a ouapto of miles tram the camp, which is bnflt large r-r-g*- to aecommodato tboasands ol 1th Bttie wed aow, though, ii 11 isoat by men who were injured try la* to learn to ride-Jitneys or the new side-buggies. The hospital le then mostly tor men who get sick la other Wd, nU. w an dear som out oi Ink talttac about Camp Fromrat, M nMWMrdt W1M you could *U crane oat here where eeerytMnx h ao tea. We saw do fed aorry tor 70s ML 80 low. Yours truly. FREMONTKR. P. S?We torgot to say that Cams n iWipt has the bait edition oC-Tmmdi good Ixiead of sank mp CAMP ^TTYPES^"1' >H COLONEL | c ihiniag swagger stick and vanity lair t r of the plain, blunt mem When you I t end -dL the regimental headquarters, t ed upon a raised platform surrounded t ?rity. Instead, you see a stocky, snub- j . He is smoking a pipe at his unpre- a lowly, -wooden chair. His boots show a he eagle on his coat doesn't look bo ?ag there, by inherent right. ? 3 of a simon-pure 'male human. His rise. He gives an order?and it is an H doesn't iiwd the artificial trap Pines 1 use he has won the light cm ten fan i up through the ranks, and be knows ake, set up beside the Little Shining an yon picture hhn logging about in Bent, and drinking in case and comfort s in his regiment are enduring danger when he stands before them to make ee him, It's like riskmlng a great, emcraey. They roar and cheer and fling they hesitate to give their all for by them and for them? They win not. WATCH JUNK ? If the war does not end on June 28, 1918, there will be a sadly s?r, prised old woman in South Prance. Rbe sarii that is the dav on which the conflict in all quarters will cease and e when the beginning or the beating of < swords into plowshares will begin. This seeress says khe gets her dope from a book in which Edward VII and Napoleon III had great faith, t When Premier.Clemenceaa of France t is asked when the war will end he 1 usually replies, "Next Thursday, ten 1 minutes past three." Either he or i the seeress is wrong, far June 28 I comes on Friday. i | ^ men '< '"' - y - v |?9 J BRAKY ASSOCIATION IS ftJfflHM HELPING TO WIN THE WAR Three-fourths of the books taken |Vl3Ww mt of the camp libraries by soldiers m\H re of the non-fiction kind, according 0 records kept by the American LImj Aaeoclation. The soldiers In LV Jfe be camps t and cantonments spend K^/! J* i heir leisure boors reading serious and J jlyjAAi nformative volumes and there is also j I JWy 1 great demand for college text-books JjJ JS5uP*y ind books on technical subjects. jja&Ti / Barton E. Stevenson, at Camp Sher Mmf, 1 j nan, recently said: mt'Mt "Camp Library Service has been es- K JU a I abHshed for joat one purpose, that s to help win the war. and there are I >y helping to maintain the morale of iW.f 11 he men by providing them with in- W V?B ere*ting and entertaining reading mater to help tide over the momentB IprTmJjk >1 loneliness and depression which yyl'^flI ujme to everyone; second, by helping Ik. A o educate them as to the Cannes and rarposes of the war and make them eallxe that they are not fighting France's fight, England's fight, or ** ? :* Italy's fight, but America's fight?that t is not Belgium, or France or Kng Kqaftfl and that Germany is seeking to deitroy, but the ideals and principles P* vhich form the very foundation stones )f this Republic; and third, by provid- W/j^/jhUML ng the men with special technical yftwaflH moks along their several lines, and fnJfffPj/m\ 10 making them better and more eltlrient soldiers." tv (f'Jfl SAVE FOOD Specific orders have been issued by mttfjfwv he War Department that American i/fflf/jP' roops going to France shall conserve v///'/' I ood while making the trip across on /// I transports. The same wheatless. ( \ I neatless days as are observed in the United States will prevail aboard the great war- j B8 ie sweetmeat. JCT -tbe benefit, tbe J Sgij easure. tbe economy , fMSj f a 5c Pickafe of , RIG LEY'S , lj|l| has made If the fa- | " "i jrite "sweet ration" | r r tbe Allied armies, i ' j lead It to War friend j I tbe front: , ffs fbe handiest, i o I >Mest-lMti0* re- ? resbmeot be ceo p TO. gjlpi EW IT AFTER ^y|& iUERY MEAL lavor LastsBj |j|jp
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