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f p6;irHK*cw ' /" *"\ \ Kr 3;i6i ST (ACE You \ V'SYeqB^S V^BSoaY/ ? ItesiGM FOR H Ab OF A TP-'HAte -ote-l uOOfcK HARfcefc,. -WW .?=As5?e .(ki eeKrt^G / .A ?IH6 CARPer^^. ? ? Courtesy of the Ne French Fried. In that period of cultivated leianre Then two gentlemen orderlies are exercising a couple of mounts from the regimental stables, an opportunity Is given to practice soldier French. Slowing down from an uneasy trot, Jacques remarks to Guttl _ aume?Jack to Bill, In Anglo-Saxon: "Onillanme, ce serxhon da 1'aykoorte la on coushotig!" HFlo, ' "Where d'ya get the Gwlllaum jECU "Don't yon aarolr no francaiae. US Oulllaume eat francaiae poor HQ." "Make It BUI, then. Jo am jut getting started on la francalse." ?' ' v "That n'est pass change the aerBih ; xhon. lllie une disease of le brain." "Why? Keskece fait to too!" "Je should dire too are weak on la Ijtk francaiae?'Keske-ce fait to too'? j ; " manvay talk. Onlllaame. You're rot"ten! Yon mean *Ke has he did a "Sore, of course, Traimont! Well, K what has he did a molf" igg ' "Ne pass moi quand too dlte 'It? .quand too say it it's too, but when I nay M Jfs mol." "Why, he made mol take out ce hsa& ehaval?Ktenday your jombea, too Ebleesay piece de resistance?Get Dp!" Bunw of administering to the discouraged beast with the "U. S. C." brand, digs In the ribs, slap* on the necks with the reins and words of one ay liable in fried French. They trot in a broken formation. Jacques' posting Is a failure and his close-saddle is painful. He shoots: . "Arretei! yon bloody choral with the cap a pied ribs! Lsuy Ca! Keetay Still the short, uneasy motion of the trotting hone. Ooillanme comes up in the rear. "Whoa!" he bellows In the cosrse tone of the professional teamster. Forefeet rigid, as steel, the choral of Jacques Is at a full and sudden stop. The rider loses his stirrups and his self-control, likewise his temper. "Bill, you're a boob!" "That Bounds better!" grins the nngalUdxed youth. Dse gngllsh on these animals. That French stuff o* yours'd make any horse wild. "Hals le serxhon!" "Nerer . mind the sarge ? talk American and yonll get along." "Thassalrlght, but we're s'posed to one the signs anyway?and not talk." "Sure, In the boll ring?but 'not when we get 'em alone. C'm 'long mere, you norse:" a mg m tne ufV . lmal's abdomen, for emphasis. Ghdll>55, ' name's mount come* along. Jack |jr . alts disconsolately. Finally: j*' J'OU up here, yon low-down, goodfr-, for-nothlng, spavined, ring-boned PV -piece of worthlene meat. Olt UP!" . Hie movement begins. THL TEST I V Suspected Traveler?I tall yon I am fig.' kn American. ' 'k - ?^onch Sergeant?Sing, the words ^ of "The Star^Spangled^aaner." ITLE GAME CALLE ^ J$y t ^ \ . MMrft TMlWVc\ V ru_ coLoteT wr ?\ SPtfcfc /\sAlA*"f- THI-StS \ w York Evening Mail Soldiers Prefer Mu k Their Camp ShoW8 without plot and running to. j ltrely lilts, scintillating repartee, girls and chic cootumes?in a word, mosi cjlI comedy?la what the American aoldler in camp prefers. He also likes vaudeville, and he is partial to drama; but on the whole, mirth and melody hold the moat appeal for him. The soldier's preference in the matter of theatricals has been discovered by the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities In comparing attendance figures at the camp Liberty Theatres. Where musical comedy or vaudeville has been the attraction a packed house has been the rule. Drama draws well, too, bat there la pot the demand for it, the soldiers apparently preferring lighter entertainment after the gruelling day's training for the grim business of war. . To date theatres have been completed by the Training Camp Commission in twenty-seven camps and Ave more are under construction. Fifteen of the established theatres are located in the National Army cantonments while the remainder are situated in the National Guard camps. In all of them, standard theatrical 'attractions and vandevllle are being presented by companies and players nmslxed and boohed' under the direction of the War Department Commission. Since the theatre* were established, it has been fonnd necessary to deriate somewhat from the original scale of admission prices of 10, 15, 20 and 25 cents, Raymond B. Fosdlck, Chairman of the Training Camp Commission, said in outlining the progress of the theatrical activities in the camp*. Twenty-Are cents is now the prevailing price with an additional 25 cents being charged for some reserved seats. "There Is a general desire for reserred.seats among the soldiers," Br. Foodlck asserted, "and in many camps they will not attend the theatres unless they can get them. The men also are discriminating In their entertainment and the Commission has fonnd it impossible to please them with the shows it was able to < provide at the old scale of prices. They demand high-grade attractions, even- if they are compelled to pay i more to see them." . lfr Fosdlck- it has i beea extremely difficult to cater to the diversified testes of the soldiers In selecting the Liberty shows. The show that la a success In one camp may be a frost in another only thirtyAre miles away, he said, aa the men from the metropolitan districts demand an entirely different type of show than what pleases the boys from the (armteg regions. Tfse Training CsniD cnTml*Tl"" haa declared war on petty profiteers D "SWAT THE . / ipYoo uer Me A I kMoui YouR \ BGBLIM AM>R6SS AS jjlpf^\ CLL sexih y^g?\&2p \\oU RIGHT BATTIK16' a*?"" \ PftACTI.Ce. ? sical Comedies i Liberty Theatres who have beeo victimizing soldiers and sailors in war camp commanities. Many complaints of overcharging have been made bv men in uniform to the Commission and steps have been taken to stjunp out the practice. Through the War Camp Community Service, special committees of city officials and leading merchants are being organised in the camp centers to protect the<soldiers from unscrupulous and unpatriothTdealersI Where profiteering is reported pressure will be brought to bear upon the offending dealers in an effort to hare the money refunded. In the cases of overcharging that have come to the attention of the Training Camp Commission, the guilty parties for the most part have been dealers from the outside who have be'en attracted to the camp centers by the prospect of getting rich quick on the*- soldier trade. It is against their kind that the Commission's action is being directed. In round figures, 118,000 soldiers in the military training camps participated in .organized basketball alone last season, according to compilations made from the reports of camp athletic directors to Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, member of the Commission ( in charge of camp athletics. This fig ure, Dr. Kaycrort says, does not apply to the rank and file who have played informally and who would bring the number much nearer 150,000, which means that more men have taken part in competitive basketball this year than ever before. Dr. Raycrort has been struck by the widespread popularity of basketball in the campe. 'The choice of educative and competitive games for the soldiers in training," he declared, is based primarily on their relationship to military activities. The idea is paramount, but it does not necessarily minimise the recreational qualities. "Basketball is such a game. Although limited in team organisation, this fact alone makes it exceptionally Intensive. It Is a game tnat requlres.l keen co-ordination of the physical and mental. Distance mnst be gauged to a nicety and every effort most be correctly timed. Such a training enables a soldier to retain and exercise his wits and inventive faculties under the most trying circumstances, .and the consequent body lAinishment he receives creates in him a disregard for casual injuries. In short, it is a magnificent course in 'hardening'. "Outside of these advantages, the simple equipment required for basketball makes it an ideal camp game," Dr. Raycroft asserts, "as it may be played In the open as w_ell as under cover. In certain camps," he says, "the courts have been strung with arc lights and matches played outdoors JSER"?By Goldberg MM ( xo<j graq him flwJ?39 ?< i amfc. i'll takjg \ ffitvf'-jb ? \ car6 of .-we ) i/("^ i'll AT LAST we HAvie wiWyPm blSCOVI R?b> A VAJAy TO .//t di j&U MAtef A neSSOJGGR. Aj/'lfo How to Pronounce Names -j(jj| nf FrMirh Tnwntj Fivnrinff in Battle of Picardy pjSnflH American soldiers going "Over Jm There" svlli have to learn the pronnn- v 4 i elation of these and other French towns. Might as well begtn pr^ctic- * , # J A man Bapaume Uip^mr H H I*tr?a N?oyoa* ChMlnei Shoof B _ |l^unbral <*mb-r?y ? LMiUrny .. I a? * rny fe wH Coraplcrnp Comp-ym Klownnn IT" MMtidtdier ...7/.!j!.... Mon-aai-ym I A-fl ('hMiny i Hou-o I OrrlBen Or-yael-yn H Panny^nr-Mati . ... 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The use of the French language ^ has been forbidden first in business. R@gA then in the schools and finally in the Mi homes in Alsace. Railroads havo V. been forbidden in Alsace save for ?2mMB those lines that would be contributory to the great German east and rljjjjflfrr west lines that would carry all the commerce of Alsace to Germany. She has been refused inland waterways, a canal system that would let her commerce reach the sea. But she was told that she could build a \u(Wi//'f canal with Alsatian money on the J German side of the Rhine that would \YWf##f fj be German property and would carry Ubyfjff German, not Alsatian, commerce" to 1 This is the tyranny o'f German au- /JBjkxfF' tocracy in conquered Alsace. It is what America could expect from a Jr ,'h victorious German autocracy. There is only one way to assure the freedom . of America from the oppression of ' German autocracy. It is to conquer Germany. i
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