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ga__ l| II ni 'tfPffjfilhi P?* 'V^r III 1. Hr*|5 ^/l .Colored Soldiers Will "C; Do Their Full Share j^Jh- presenting a stand of colors to the 367th Regiment, colored. Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York, ' l^fOn behalf of the Union League Club, I commit to your keeping the SMat sacred trust ever committed to maQp-the flag of the United States of AmejHca. I charge you by all that is ?? HofonH thla hannur with all 1he strength and power thjt God has gi mi you; but in doing so I feel and fetor already that you will never peritoit it to be dishonored, to shame youruwlves or shame those who hs^ve given % to you to-day. Your country will jBrm$n*4o be true to yourselves, true to-the land of "your birth, true to the record of those other soldiers of your 'foe whose valorous deeds have fcepoght glory to these Stars and i(vflS#jFjames Moss, commanding the Mfdment, responded as follows: the colored men of this comWUUmI will protect and honor this flag is something that goes .without saying. ^ffirBfc'ine say to ypri to-#&y that when this *ar is all over t?re Is going to be another presentation Ofrxolors here beside' the clubhouse. Mark you well what l'say to you in this presence today, fdr I am an officer-with eighteen l;ttjU,^?*P?r'?nc? colored soldiers, mmmnndpii them in two cam palgnig; these men are going to prei pent Ton men in the Union League SSk ?ith colors on their return from The colore they will present you we want you to hang upon your where they can tell with silent ftbqnence jn an the years to come a ftory of yalor and unutterable patriotHm 44'which all Americans, including our 12,000,000 of black citizens, can .with a thrill of pride and satis SSSaotto of the 367th Regiment is ipyft Through." i Passing the Buck Wjfrt^a clever Utile game that hat T&4 Aeon undying fame; fc In the Army, it't developed to per-. Anything you want to know, -go and to So-and-so, TOHKii'H steer you in the right direction May "talk to Mr. White," Mr. Hj White will say "all right;' And he'll send you in to talk to Mr. . Hopper. ' it v* J/r. Hopper will look vrite, and then sSk'\1close hit hySr $ And. say,' "perhaps you'd better talk ^ to Topper." than when Topper you do reach, he has gone down to the beach, And he won't be back until a week 'Jrotn Monday. Then the clerk will quickly add, "perhaps you better had Qoiin and have a talk with Mr. Mp ^Sunday." iBfe wQl send you into Black, Mr. Black Wll? WW# J To Jtfr. tio-aud-HO, with whom von - V *?* Btarted. Oh, it's a dandy, handy game, every R TRENCH A N DREAMS COME ' pffif M is I! ~ bS|: tbist *iFW St J/l 60 M ** ' / *Ao / PSro | A tff SCHEDULE.'? P" r?N$v?1 l ?, "f- O'6",a UiiSt*^ I 41K4 ft 508Bfa The Kaiser As Th< BY GEORGE L. MOC Long Island, N. Y. Wild Will of Pottsdam has assumed no role In all his checkered and multicolored existence more unbecoming than one brought to light recently. He has disguised himself as everything from Sultan of Turkey to Saviour or the World. Now he's discovered playInc the nnrt of Prince of Peace. A drawing from the Kaiser's own hand?not the withered one?published in Review of Reviews In December, 1896, has been republished. The title Is "On Guard Before The Temple of Peace." In the armor of a gallant knight, the HohensoUern Humbug is shown standing on the steps .of the Temple of Peace. Within, are all good Junkers placidly plying the pacific arts. Attempting to storm an entrance to the Temple are the demons of war, militaristic devils. The picture is a revelation of Teutonic perversion. Copies of it should be struck off and given to every American doughboy, to wear pasted on his tin hat when hs charges over the top. The German habit of "self-kidding,'' I self-delusion. Is well illustrated. Nothr ing in the whole diet of lies fed to the German people until their whole think in? is a tissue of untruth, ls'so absurd as this Peace Porridge. The Hun war party has told the German people they are defenders of world peace, that wicked, bullying Belgium forced the taking up of arms in defense of the Fatherland. An the German people have believed this black falsehood, with thousands of others. American arms will pierce the clouds of deception snd let the light in. German Kultur would bathe Wild Bill and Hindenburg and the rest of the gang in the white light of pacific good will. German histories of this war will tell how the pig-headed world, blind to the superiorities of The Only Kultur, forced tho Fatherland Into a war; how French women and children jumped on Prussian bayonets, and Canadians wilfully nailed themselves to barns, and Belgian children got in the way of trench" knives and had their ' hands cut off. If the Gerifian point of view is not chanced after this war, it is not diffi cult to imagine a Hun "gymnasium"! pupil along about 1980 writing an ] essay something like this: I SMITHS "ALL THERE" | The allotment and allowance files of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department show | that there are more than 100,000 Smiths listed. It takes 110 card index trays and a good-sized squad of filing experts to keep track of all the nation's fighting men who answer to the name of Smith. There are 15,000 Wilsdn, 15,000 Millers, 1,000 John Browns, 1,200 John Johnsons and -362 John J. O'Briens. First place in the alphabetical card catalog system is held by Clayton Aloysius Aab. ANOTHER CAMP FUNSTON The late General Frederick Funston's name has been given to another camp. The original Camp Funrton was established at Fort Riley, Kansas, his native state. The second-one is at Luneta Lili, near Manila, PhilljA pine Islands, where "Fighting Freddto" saw distinguished service. [*. tbjHifcirt' rw.-f?<A , ami* /-^A Umtl ikff*. I r??<. a CjV jX*^ /o?<f fln?'i< 4 e Prince Of Peace )RE, CAMP UPTON Wilbelm, the Goo4, the Peaceful, was the greatest of all our wonderful heroes; who ever attempted to carry our great peaceful Kultur into the uttermost parts of the earth. His fail ure was iragic. ne wan iryius ?nu all his might and an army of several million peace-loving boys, to keep peace in the world, but a wicked little nation called Belgium invaded our fair land and we were forced to raise bur arms in defense of our helpless women and children. It was hard for the peaceful Wilhelm to .do this because he always loved peace and hated war and did all he could to keep the rest of the wicked world from striking it mi' with their Bharp swords and terrible guns. He could never convince the rest of the world that he loved peace. Some of the crazy people in the world then were foolish enough to travel in boats on our oceans and they even went near some of our lovely submarines that were out for a nouuay, and the submarines happened to be letting some torpedoes off for fun and the foolish vessels ran right into them. But Wllhelm, The Good, would not hurt anyone. The reason so many men were killed in the war that Our Great King had forced upon him was that they would insist on stepping on bombs that some of our dear soldiers had been playing with. And the foolish pigs of women would lose their heads and throw themselves at the bayonets our soldiers had to carry in self defense. And, of course, they, would get hurt. And foolish men In the uniforms of other nations would hurl themselves in the paths of our machine guns' fire and commit suicide. But Wllhelm was always for peace. Five times during the war he tried to make bis kind of peace, but the poor, simple-minded countries that made war against us didn't have sense enough to accept his generous terms and insisted on forcing their own kind of peace. Wilhelm didn't want anything but the whole world, believing that German Kuitur snouia De everywhere to shed its light of peace and good will. He already had Heaven when the war was forced on us. He would have gotten the whole earth, but for the interference of those who forced democracy upon us. GERMAN PROPAGANDA BARRED Orders have been Issued by the WAr Department that all camp and cantonment commanders prevent the placing of copies of a book entitled, "The Book of Truth and Facta," in camp libraries. The book was written by Fritz von Frantxius and before the dia cover; woo uiauo *- ? a German propaganda scheme it was freely distributed among American military organizations in training camps. HIS ADVICE "Why didn't you salute me?" demanded a colonel of a careless soldier. "I didn't see you and I would't have known you if I had seen you," replied the private. "I'm the colonel of your regiment. "Is that so? Well, I'd hold on to that Job if I were you. Its pretty soft from all I've seen of it around this camp." 4;, ?..' ??, Transport Post-Card Same As Cable from France The Old Y. M. Bloke follows 'em right along?to France, Baluchistan, Kokorao, or Deadeye, Neb. Soldiers I making the Big Crossing find the Bird with the Red Triangle on board the 3h8T transport ready to do everything from : :J* giving a lecture on "Why Soldiers % jw Should Not Overeat" to running ashore Efea for a pack of Meccas and a slab of ^ chocolate. The War Work Council, Jflgl which directs all the association's sol- 4 Tgaflfisj dier work, has Instituted a regular &%&&& transport service and a couple of sec- |BSaB&%il retaries make the trip with each outfit ^HH|pK9 A feature of the service which the boys find convenient is the Going Away '- pfUlZlI Post-Card. A form postal card is given every man and on it is printed "The ship on which I sailed has arrived ir,, safely overseas," with a place for the FL signature. These cards are signed by | the men before the transport sails and |U||uGBb& given to the postmaster at the port of BBBHW embarkation, somewhere in America. When the ship does arrive in France, the news is cabled to (he postmaster. who then sends the cards to the per- ^ sons to whom they are addressed. & ? . French Fried Wga&. They are coming, the American hosts with home-made recipes for the >yffKk^SSt langue francalse tucked in their belts. >.*W Advances are being reported along the whole French front The dough yW boy and the mud-crusher and the rest arc shooting brass-jacketed sentences |V from their rCady-rendering of Paris chatter and it is sure an entente cor- vo/X diale will be eternally consummated \Tyf tKa cnlHslo rto hmVO FrnnCP. 1/Y A couple of Blue Hat Cords on the life )<5\ week-end train to town were overheard MEfe iio In practice: "Alife voo a town?" HjK^II "Vraimount! Where pongsay voo j jc was alleying." HHH I "Well, don't get fraise. Dunnie mov oon butt!" "Keskc mean voo?oon cigarette, oon "Oui, oon butt en Americaine. Fag est la angglaze langue. Noose "are parleying en le langue francaise." "C'est droit. Icl Is oon cigarette." "Mercy. Maintnont avez voo uon ] I Inset?" A'tffcjr "Whaddymean?alumet?" jgM *tQ f] "Don't voo connez alumet?match, of ^5^ course." ' ' Whaddye want moi do faire?fumay la cigarette poor voo?" "Non, gimme un alemet et noose will jTWji't be toot o. k." kwBrf/Jfjje "Tray bein. Ici voter alumot. Who allie voo going a la vll de sec?votrc IJ l-flrM mere?'* ' ' rJ& "Non, ma mere lives a couple of * millo kilomeaters away de here." "Oh, tres mowvay. J'alley to see "Good. Maize I'm on mon way de see oon fern." fy^BBgL "Oui. oon beaut!" SbSfiSeMP Business of placing the blue cords In closer relation and hurried consul- 8Wj tation, all in English. Finally. JPP'M "Ce will be grand?do see oon dame vpf. * J " after j'ai vu ma mere!" "Voo will aitnee ce one!" "What? Aimee?" "Like, I mean. Kile oon classy dame. | -_s-? "Grand ? charmoose ? hot stuff' |<*r" Chanty like oon wasseau!'" fcn,,,, - ^ "Wasseau? Whaddye mean? WasTHE ECLIPSE TO ORDER. On thcevening before a solar eclipse the colonel of a German regiment of JgH infantry sent for all tlie sergeants and said to them: Bpy ,yL a "There will be an eclipse of the sun W [II /I f* tomorrow. The regiment will meet on I it/ ' the parade ground in undress. I will come and explain the eclipse before I drill. If the sky la cloudy the men 17, will meet in the drill shed, as usual." Whereupon the ranking sergeant I C/\ I drew up the following order of the 1^*4 H "To-morrow morning, by order of ,HQ \ the colonel, there will be an eclipse of | the sun. The regiment will assemble BHbJ f< on the parade ground, where the j colonel will come and superintend the eclipse in person. If the sky is cloudy . 4a ^3 the eclipse will take place in the drill /?/ j|n| HIS QUANDARY A private In one of the camps was asked if he would like to be pro"It all depends on what you mean by promotion," he replied. "I don't think I know enough to be a sergeant, but I know too much to be a second lieutenant." -
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