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ft ss=q -J -7HE BARRACKS WHEEZE~ By PRIVATE CHKT 8HAFER JKEtfEQr (310th Sanitary Train, Gamp Ctaster, 7*^ ^7? Battle Creek, Mich.) ?"7?X~^4/r'*\ *"99esi a 1* tk* army H' I // Difference Mtu., That exists jUkffr nj/A, Between The work-day Line-up | * And the VW*h Prn I **-3 SOME SOLDIERS ARK SO FAST THEY COULD RUN ALL DAY' AND , NEVER SET FOOT OFF A CIGAR-! ETTK PAPER. On every fire pail are the letters: jlplpl ^ V. S Q M C." J ^ A powerful lot of letters m case of an emergency. And tlut's no Br RUMOR, EITHER. / AS A RULE. WHEN A MAN BE/ GINS TO FIGURE THAT HE'S A REAL KING. HE TRUDGES INTO HIS CASTLE SOME MORNING TO FIND HIS SCEPTRE SPIKED, HIS //?D . PURPLE ROBE FADED. HIS A It M CROWN MISSING AND ALL THE Ml If M SHELLAC SCRATCHED OFF THE PANELS OF THE THRONE. Has effectually stamped chit the Cuckoo who wore Around a 14 neck and ^arsaf>ar fj oaaj All alone. 'jjj BOILS ARK ALMOST AS AMC8ING AS SWEDISH CALISTHENICS.! He went to ike base suffering from ?^ mumps. When he returned he had sufHHR3H3E9 fcred from parotitis. Ra.s masks the nurses wear | &// ^ ,n mumps ward at the base are ^ vj clever contraptions. BUT THEY 'FREQUENTLY LEAD 71 '^SOSUl AWFUL DISAPPOINT. fti STILL, THEY HAVE TO TAKE THEM OFF WHEN THEY EAT. According to the section deleted' MAKES IT ALL THE MORE /M&_ I Catholic Soldier Confesses I Through French Interpreter E on the religious work of the Y. M. C. ? 1 A. in France. M It is overdone, it is underdone, it isn't done at all; It is narrow, it is SSN\S$NK\j^1x< bigoted, it is too generously broad; it is stiff, it is highty-tighty. it isn't m3ti churchlike; there is no singing worth ^ v&A I speaking of. and why don't you have g. something besides hymns? And any one of these opinions can be defended, I ?rst the ctiaracter of the Person I voicing it. and second, by reference ^ rJjMj/jfe to the place visited by the critic. Iiff But here's a little incident that f/i r happened the other day which tells /AT ^-C the whole story of the religious work ?f the Y M A' in ir'ranCe: Y/|BE An American lad with nerves shat\1?S| tered by what he had seen at the front, was going out of his mind. **a(i **ad exPerience before, and was ir. an agony of anticipation. He was a Catholic, and, as such, v?JC f most anxious to confess. He could not speak French and the only available priest could not speak English. ImW Jtr "Is there anyone here who can A )| spoak French?" Inquired the priest. IL3' 41 The Y. M. C. A. woman running the . . VI hotel knew the language. So the " nJ/rrYir I t^rce retired into a quiet room, and Irtfcfl the American soldier confessed his UmlI f^J9l 8lns- through a Protestant woman to Ip^na EWj|| a Catholic priest, in a Y M. C. A. 1 ^ut in France. Wr>X I GOVT PIGEONS PROTECTED V <11 The Congress of United States \ has enacted & law which makes it I !jS| punishable by a fine or imprisonwh? 1 %Tr ment- or i>?th. to entrap, capture, shoot, kill, possess or in any way detain homing pigeons owned by the United States. Pigeons owned by the Government bear bands with the let-j ?J ters "U. S. A." or "U. S. N." and ?. serial number. \ : * R E W CwF -?l M4JW There's a $10, bill, commonly among soldiers, in the Nationa Camp," Room 504 Pulitzer BniMi title for this picture, drawn by Pri Depot Brigade, Camp Upton, Lon is limited to soldiers in the ti throughout the country. The "best title" means the shortest, or the most humorous, sheet of paper bearing the soldie regimental designation, together ^ tonment. There is no limit to the numl All titles should be sent to Room City, by noon July 1, the day on Let's go! Learn LESSON XIV The French vowel sounds: English French Sound example example a father la b met lait 6 fate cafd ee beet oul o softer donnez oh go eau oo boot vous uh fe(r)n de (lips as for oo, dQ tongue as for ee) ah franc 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. 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 represented by zh. It occurs three times In the name of the great French General Joseph Jacques Joffre, pronounced zhohzef zhak zhofr. Pronounce r with a distinct trill by making the tip of the tongue vibrate just behind the upper teeth. Telephone operators pronounce the word "three" much like this. 81-200 quatre vingt an katr va uh 81 quatre vingt deux katr va duh 82 quatre vingt troia katr va trwa 83 quatre vingt dix katr vi dees 90 quatre vingt onze katr va ohz 91 quatre vingt doure katr va doos 9^2 quatre vingt quinze katr va kaz 95 quatre vingt dix sept katr va dees s?t 97 quatre vingt dix neuf katr va dees nuhf 99 cent Bah 100 cent un sah Oh 101 cent deux sah duh 102 cent vingt et un sah vat 6 uh 121 cent trente rrnq sah traht sak 135 cent quarante sah karaht 140 cent quarante neuf sah karaht nuhf 149 cent cinquante sah sakaht 150 cent soixante dix Rah swasaht dees 170 cent soixante quinxe ?h ?ws?aht Irii 175 cent quatre vingts sah katruh va 180 cent quatre vingt dix sah katrnh va dees 190 cent quatre vingt dix huit Bah katruh va deea weet 198 deux cents duh sa 200 Observe that the numbers 90-99 are formed by adding 11-19 to 80. Compare the formation of 70-79 in lesson 13. MAIL IT TODAY Get the habit of sending all your copies of "Trench and Camp" to the home folks. Better than that, make it a duty to send this paper home every week. Your mother and other relatives will appreciate it. HP CAMP denominated as a "ten-case-note" I Headquarters of "Trench and ing, New York City, for the best ivate Ben Wellwood, Company 13, g Island, N. Y. The competition aining camps and cantonments most suitable, the cleverest, the All titles should be written on a r*8 name, rank and company and vith the name of his camp or canker of titles a soldier can submit. 504 Pulitzer Buildng, New York which the competition close French IL Y A (KEL EE A) OR Y A-T-IL? (EE A TEELT) II y a, pronounced eel ee a or eel ee ya, means there is, there are, as il y a deux cent cinquknte homines dans ma compagnie, there are 250 men in my company; il y a nne cigarette dans la paqnet, there is one cigarette in the package. We also translate voilh k" la " "tVtoro aro " hn 1 Iho meaning is different. When we say voilA mon capitaine, we point him out by a gesture of the hand or a motion of the head; voilk = C7. When we say 11 y a des soldats dans le train, we are not pointing them out; we merely say they are there. But voilh des soldats is equal to cr des spldats. Is there? are there? is y a-t-Il? ee a teel or ee ya teel. NEW WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS French Pronunciation Meaning une escouade eskwad squad le jour zhoor day la nuit nwee night le matin mata morning le solr swar evening la semaine sm&n week la partie partee part le ddjeuner ddzhuhnd lunch dejeuner d6zhuhn? to lunch travailler travay6 to work cesser (de) s6sd to stop commencer (fc) komahs^ to begin dormir dormeer to sleep je dors zhuzh dor I sleep nous dormons noo dorznoh we sleep ie sals zhuh sd I know hier yfcr yesterday aujourd'hul ohzhoordwee today demain duhma tomorrow combien de? kohbya dnh how many? how much? aprfcs aprfe after EXERCISE Prononnce aloud and translate: Combien d'hommes y a-t-il dans votre compagnle? II y a deux cent cinquante hommes dans ma compagnle. II y a sept hommes et un corpornl dans une escouade. Y a-t-il des lieutenants dans une compagnie? Oui, 11 y a deux lieutenants et un capitaine dans une compagnie. Combien de Jours y a-t-il dans une semalne? II ya sept jours dans une semaine. "Un jour a ylngt quatre heures. II a deux parties, le jour et la nun. L& jour, nous uaYamuuo, la nuit nous dormons. J'al commence k travalller hler k sept heures do matin. A midi et demi j'al ddjeund. J'ai mangd des oeafa (oh) avec des pommes de terre et du pain. Aprfc le ddjeuner j'ai fnmd one pipe at j'ai recommence (began again) k travalller. J'ai cessd de travalller k cinq henres et demie et j'ai dine k sept heures du soir. Je va.is dejeuner aujourd'hui a midi. A quelle henre j allez vous commencer k travalller I demain? Demain? Je no sais pas. CHAINS PROTECT EYES Some of the soldiers "Over There" are now wearing steel helmets with a fringe of chain hanging down over j the nose to protect their eyes from flying bits of shrapnel and splinters 'of wood and stone. - U. S. MUNITION PLANT TO BE BIGQKB THAN KBUPP'g j? Well-informed Englishmen tm -jl appreciated the vast resources and J almost Illimitable possibilities of this ? country. Bnt the average English- : v, man has had so conception of our -At wealth, oar nataral reeoarcee or even oar strength in man power. To him va the vast reaches of the continent hare been beyond comprehension. He haa thought of the American people as being something quite dlf- > ferent from the English. To him the cowboy haa been typical. He has been surprised, as our distinguished statesmen and scholars hare spoken In England, to note their perfection of speech and to appreciate their freedom from the breeslness of the so-called wild westerner, who exists only on the movie stage and in highly colored novels. *-? '? ' *---" 3 AB Ameni.au uw|h> b?v r through the streets of London he has watched {or their coming as (or the visit of an alien race. He has been almost startled to find that there Is little difference between the Englishman and his American cousin. It came as a shock to many of the English people to learn that America had become the banker nation and that this country opened flood-gates a of gold. Well-informed Englishmen witnessed the awakening of the man in their streets with a good deal of ' relish. American tourists have been ac- i customed to talking In such large terms that the every-day Englishman discounted almost everything that was credited to this country. But now the panorama of American * /yi achievement is being unfolded before i the eyes of the Englishman. Noth! will startle him now, and he is ! beginning to speak in superlatives of I'tr efforts just as the boastfnl Amer'ccn used to speak in the days when ' > was trying to Impress his British JS rosin. The name of Kropp has stood for the ultimate in monitions and ordnance manufacturing, although the Frenchman has pointed with pride to the Crensot works. .'CaSSI Bnt even the Englishman is beginning to glimpse the possibilities of this country as a competitor to Krupp. j And the Englishman, more even than f. the native American, has displayed an eager Interest in the announcement of the great construction plant, to be larger even than the Bethlehem 'SUM Steel Works, that is to be erected ~ jjg near Pittsburgh, Pa., under the direc- ' tion of the Government. It is expected that $4,000,000,000 ? at least will be expended on this plant '" for construction alone. The work f will not be finished until 1920 and 7 will be done under the supervision of officers of the Steel Corporation, who will serve without pay. The Government recently announced the location of the proposed plant, and plans for its construction are now being made. Judge E. H. Gary, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation, in discussing the project, ' '/ said: ~ f. "The work will be in the imme- / diate charge of a committee consisting of a vice-president and the comptroller of the corporation and eight others designated from the officers (presidents or vice-presidents) of the various manufacturing subsidiary companies, and all selected because of their education, experience and peculiar fitness. This committee will keep in touch with the building and operating organisation which is being formed, and with the officers of the Steel Corporation and with the war uep&runem. The work will be done at Govern- ;.v'gSjgj ment expense. How to Change Beneficiary Under War Risk Insurance The following regulation has been issued relative to changes in the beneficiaries under the war risk insurance: "Every change of beneficiary shall be made In writing and shall be y!| signed by the Insured and be wit- frgjM nessed by at least one person. No change of beneficiary shall be valid unless and until it Is recorded In the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. A change of beneficiary shall, whenever practicable, be made upon blanks pre- '.jSH scnoea Dy me bureau. "A change of beneficiary may be made by last will and testament. Payments of Instalments of Insurance >'sfi shall be made to the beneficiaries last of record in the Bureau until the Bureau receives notice of such change. /jgHH In the absence of any beneficiary <>f record, payments shall be made '-ftps according to the laws of Intestacy, as provided in Article IV, until the Bar . reau receives notice that a beneficiary was designated by last will and tea* tamestt." J
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