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^ "THE BARRACKS WHEEZE" By PRIVATE CHET SHAFER I (310th Sanitary Train, Camp Caster, Battle Creek, Mich.) There are Soldiers Thishycre Exercises Then, too, there are thooe who re>mind one of that distinctions village ^J in Colorado?Boulder. *' The new sergeant of a certain regiment had called for attention. I "ivli^ i Clearing his throat he shouted: I "AH you men that haven't had much practice better fall out because I'm going to give an intricate tie squared his shoulders and let Fours?Round About!" OITSIDE of a dynamite & salesman who carries 8am2 ,','ks and an aviator who ^-# ^ can't KEEP Ol'T OF THE "TRADE winds,** A SOLDIER HAS ABOUT fv\n the WEAKEST clutch OF all ; | \ on this EXISTENCE. ,The undertakers of France are a kind lot. it is said. They carry joy and happiness with them wherever they go and y Sometimes, Proctor says, he would * . rather bo back home distributing calIt was a poor artist, he says, who ^ .AlS^v\l designed the compliments of a miliWJBfcJ tarj season. # FIFTY-FIFTY IS THE ARMY IS 'tea? THE DIFFERENCE BET WEES ATZ TEST I OS ASD PARADE REST. when you see one come in with la roe spectacles " vtonmsk and a brow that sets back mtSMkl OFF HIS fACE LIKE A RURAL CHURCH AT A CROSSROADS? WHO CAN PARSE PUYALLUP IN SIX COUNTS?WHO HAS HUNTED SUBTRAHENDS FOR AjfegHH SIX SUCCESSIVE SEASONS? YJi^W ^ WHO OWNS EIGHT DIPIiOMAS, lm F R A M K I)?WHO POSSESSES W3 y SIX SCHOLARSHIP MEDALS? AND ( AN RECITE MUCH FROM HYPERION AND KING BRADY Kl/3jX ] WITHOUT LOOKING?YOU CAN V yZ/i MAKE UP YOUR MIND THAT L ^J5 THE TOP-CUTTER IS IN LINE FOR ANOTHER VERY KFFIH C1ENT ADDITION TO HIS FATIGUE SQUAD. After you've trudged 16 miles in a day and then removed your full pack from your back, you wonder I why the same system isn't used for ? training the aviation cadets. 9| iff f/ Many of us Who ?ant f'ut jn o" P^Sslfir Always crash Thru the underbrush Handy Guess. It Ls a simple matter to conceitRpXj trate when the bird in the next bank IflvuFA afk* you to participate in a box from B&K4 the old home town. rflEfH? I.N VARIABLY THAT GETS YOU RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE RESUV flS Once there was a hard-boiled egg who 3r f Mw >? utw 'H)urcd twice in the same place? A boxing xvtth a friend and at measles tX*& iH'pec,iOH rOKTSar' YES. THERE ARE FIVE BASIC A- _ ' SOUNDS IN FRENCH: "UNO ?W# "FH'AAT." "PUSNFF," "OWRKGG" KWJj AND "NNNNNNN." , SEND ALL REQUESTS FOB INQAgar J formation by registered (Hi LETTER. w where they are A man under the influence of liquor boarded a street car in a large city and asked a girl conductor what she jfe ) {A meant by taking a good man's job. W/ "The good men are all in uniform," Y Baid the girl. v- The Twins?I'-Boats and Wastefulness?are a menace to the Allies. i' . -M - . \ ' 'i " C Army Spo THE NIGHT . . Leam I LESSON XI The French vowel soundsv English French n Sound example example c a father la ^ b met lait b 6 fate cafd ti ee beet oui o softer donnez oh go eau oo boot vous 8 uh fe(r)n de (lips as for oo, d 1< tongue as for ee) ah franc g a a(ngry) cinq uh un Oh bon In the last four, the "nasal" vowels, the breath comes out through nose and mouth at the same time. g The French have one consonant sound that is rather rare in English, the buzzing sound of si in the word vision. The sound will be represent- v ed by zh. It occurs three times in the name of the great French Gen- a eral. Joseph Jacques Joffre, pro- i nounced zhohzef zhak zhofr. 8 Pronounce r with a distinct trill / by matting tne tip or tne tongue vi- ( bAte just behind the upper teeth. n Telephone operators pronounce the e word "three" much like this. n (MY, YOUR. OUR) n Mon (mo) capitaine, my captain; d mon oeil, mon uhy, my eye; ma com- P pagnie (kopanyee), my company; ^ mes camarades, md kamarad, my * comrades; mes amis, m6z amce, my ? friends. Notre homme, notr om, our c man; nos hommes, nohz om, our t: men; nos journaux, noh zhoornoh, 11 our newspapers. Votre train, votr a tra, your train; vos chauffeurs, voh shohfuhr, your firemen, chauffeurs; ii vos allumettes, vohz alumfct, your t I matches. r Why Nurses Ai Some time ago a correspondent J raised the question of saluting the J Red Cross nurses. lie had observed . E the conditions in many camps and j cantonments and nowhere had he seen the courtesy of the salute ex- t tended to the young women of the J base hospital. Therefore he suggest- j lea coat ma camp De me urei iu auupi I the practice. c All of which, of course, will prompt J a number of men who are new to the t army to ask, "Well, why not?" Because of the stress upon the t word courtesy an impression seems i to have been created that the salute i is nothing more than an exchange of greetings, the junior saluting first, t it is much more than that. It enters c into the military scheme. It is a I military courtesy. The Junior meet- t ing the senior says in effect as he t ' salutes, "I will obey." * Now, carry that thought to its log- 1 ical conclusion. France may have 1 had her Joan of Arc, but this coun- i . try is not yet ready to entrust the > leadership of her military forces to a ? Red Cross nurse. _ t The status of the nurses is very t clearly defined, and those that have c , enlisted in the nursing corps are t I hannv that the situation is as it is. t They resent the efforts of 'sentimen- t ' talists to place them on pedestals * when their sole object in being in the d military service is to render service. Association with the nurses will teach that there is nothing more abhorrent to them than the sickeningly I sentimental song about being "in j lore with a beautiful nurse." The 1 rta No. 2 t -J -y. f " I -7 |2=~D ATTACK 7rench Observe that the form of these fords depends upon whether the arae of the thing possessed is muuline or feminine, singular or plural, tote especially the pronunciation efore words like ami, homme, oeil, hat begin with vowels. NEW WORDS Find the 4 new words in the p&raraphs above, la locomotive, lokomoteev, engine. le m&ranicien, m^kaneesya, enfneer le voyage, v way ash, trip, voyage fatigu6, fatigd, tired malade, malad, ill soaffrant, boofrah, nnwell grand, grande, gr&h, grahd, large, reat en retard, ah ruhtar, late fait, f&, done, made comment allez-vous, komaht aid 00, how are you. Bonjour, raon ami. Comment llez-vous? Trda bien (well), merci. Ct vous? (and how are you?) Je uis malade (souffrant) aujourd'hui. ivez-vous en tend u le train? Est-ce is that?) v'otre train? Oui, la locoaotive est petite, n'est-ce pas? Oui, lie (it) n'est pas grande, mais elle aarche vite. Le chauffeur et le adcanicien sont Amdricains. lis sont e Baltimore. Est-ce que votre cojnagnie a fait le voyage en deuxidme? Ion. ma compagnie est dans les volar ee de trolsteme. Mes camaradee ont trds fatigues. Od sont vos offiiers. Nos officiers sont dans les voiares de deuxidmc. Voici un de mes leutenants: Bonjour, mon lieutennt. In addressing commissioned officers q French we use "mon" before the Itle: bonjour, mon capitaine; an evoir, ihon lieutenant. re Not Saluted oung women who comprise the lursing corps have given up their lome ties just as the men in the army lave, and they have merged their ives in the life of the army. The finest tribute that can be paid o the nurses is to respect their womanhood and thG authority that is heirs when they are ministering to latients. Except in the wards and when in :barge of the sick they have no auhority; at such times as mentioned heir authority is the deputised auhority of the surgeon. The nurses have enlisted. Miliary honors are tributes to rank, vhich is the symbol of authority in natters military. It would please the nurses better han anything else if the great body >f enlisted men, instead of renderng inappropriate salutes would ecognize the fact 'that the nurses, oo. have enlisted and that they can ender the largest possible service by >eing permitted to share thq military Ife on the same terms with the men vhom they seek to serve. When yon see a play that tells of lome woman, the victim of unrelated love, who immediately entera ipon a nursing career and, in a beaming uniform attracts the attenion and admiration of a lot of senimental soldiers, you may be sure hat the woman in question is a stage lurse and the soldiers are stage solders. TWELVE BILLION FIRST' TEAR The total estimated expense of the Jnited States Government in the first ear of war, without loans to the alies, was J12,067,278,?79.07, .. ^ THE SCRATCH ARMY Every great war bu 1U measure of stories of nnasnal aeMevmnent. from :| the Trojan Horse to Hohaoa's feat la .3 oar owa little war trith Spain, Mstory Is replete with romances of Imagination and daring. When the records of awards of the Victoria Cross come-to be read there <S probably will |je many soch Incidents. The details of some of them are concealed for the present, as, tor instance, that of the British naval commander who was jumped over seventy seniors and promoted to an advanced grade with an award of the Victoria Cross and a citation "con taining this statement, "when the record of his achievement Is made known It will be seen to have taken its place among the most daring feats in history." # For dash and "daring the performance of General Carey and |iia "scratch army" seems almost unparalleled. A portion of the British line was in grave danger in the present spring offensive. General Carey was on ? '<8? some duty from which he could be v relieved. 80 an order was issued to him to form an army and to buttress the line. On receiving the order he looked about him for troops. All the combat troops were engaged. But it was his duty as a well-trained soldier to carry the order to execution, not to question it. The first men he bsw were some Chinese coolies. They were not even trained fighting men?and they had no ammunition or guns. But General Carey drafted them. Then he went among the quartermaster men and among the pioneers and the engineers. Staff officers who had taken no part in the fighting were impressed into his service. The army grew like the proverbial snowball. General Carey imparted to them something of his own spirit. They aau a U15 auu UIUIV.UII juu, uui job bad to bo done. Tbls was the burden of his message. < vjjjjffl Eventually the "scratch army" took its place in the line. And they held the line." Individual deeds of great valor were performed and the - .nf| coolies particularly distinguished ;3jj5| themselves. So a new chapter was written in the story of achievement And what that "scratch army" did , sV2S| serves to Vmphaaixe the importaaoe : -twn of the will to do and the win to win. '.;yj If General' Carey had not been eon- 'flffl fldent of his own ability, he must have *S?UI failed. If he had not been trained to obey first and question after- ' wards, he would- have been powerless. . What he accomplished with his . "scratch , army" is being done on a minor scale day after day as the war progresses. There are hastily formed platoons that go into situations which promise certain death. Without the element rjffl of the will to do and the will to win, there could be nothing but failure. But the records are filled with constant repetitions of these words, "We attained our objective." GOOD LOGIC A riding master the other morning was taking his nsnal stroll around the exercise ground when he came across a recruit trying his best to get his horse to jump a fence. After watching him for some time, he went up to the man and exclaimed: "My good fellow, how do you expect to get a horse to go when you've only got one spur on?" ilie recruit, after looking at his boots, replied: -"l.yfeffl "Well, sir* if I can only get that side bf the horse to go, the other side is bound to keep up with him." U. S. AIRPLANE MARKINGS The Signal Corps authorizes the following: All airplanes manufactured in the United States for the Army and Navy will bear a red, white and bine bull's-eye of three concentric circles, similar to the insignia of allied planes, on the wings, and vertical red, white and blue stripes on the rudders. The specifications follow: Wings: Red circle with diam- - - -'njn eter approximately equal to chord (of wing), one blue circle with diameter two-thirds of chord, rest- J! i'vl ter white circle with diameter onethird of chord. Rodder: Vertical red, white and bine stripes, starting at rndThc shore markings were V^1 adopted by the Joint Army and . >$ Hary Technical Aircraft Board and. approved by the Secretary of War , ?>1 aad the Secretary of the Nary. -
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