Newspapers / Trench and Camp (Charlotte, … / June 18, 1918, edition 1 / Page 6
Part of Trench and Camp (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
. "THE BARRACKS WHEEZE"! k?'^UsH BY PRIVATE OHET 8HAFER (310th Sanitary Train ('amp Custer, BSpPHHIl Rattle Creek, Mich.) WXgf |WN J/orr ffajn MwJ vkvr Eliminate I'll ii\ / The cuff-link lit 'V'>\ 1 Frovi the list In II I O/ Christmas <7i/fj / / ; It rcnil have U <A\ Rendered Lf ' The wale population .1 valuable Seniie. Ix)(n of follows who uso<l to spend thoir time working over the pay ball ^^aflHWpr^ j|, the village poolroom are now doing guard duty and wishing they had saved their silver and married Myrtle. 2f sz Most of the boys will need an ?- ^-4 9ntirely new set of money when they return to the old tasks of grubbing out around the spirea bush and giving Rover his weekly bath for fleas. Everything will be different then. Mother won't wear an apron after SHE'LL PIT ON HER FATIGUE ft ust'd to be a simple matter to edge out of anything you didn't care for. Any old alibi "could do. Hut nozo?you can't back up. and a legitimate excuse counts just the same as six tricks on a nine bid. _ __ The inveterate Rambler in Michi^ Ran considers that he has had a Rood rv,^^ run of luck when he wins four ba^ " nana splits. ' os the four-day hikes the ,<*?- ('AMI'S are pitched ix coxl 'ex l ext spots for sec i ring pater a xi) feed for the horses axd mules. xy '*,*ie so" niRhts under the mellow moons of the first summer in the 1 ;irmy should be something to look forward to. I THE CLASS IN "WHAT I WAS ??DOING A YEAR AGO AT THIS |||j.||^p5f/ I TIMK" WILL NOW RECITB. when you dash into the wbtoavjfl mess hall with a regular miw'isliv appetite; sttwldwrr and when you note with ^masiffir extreme satisfaction that ' mnm v\ the big platter will start amv\ at your end of the table; * and you glimpse a lot of good food all dished up and ready to run the gauntlet; av* tom and the supply sergeant stands up at a safe distance and harangues for a half \vbt hour on the subject of re yuoljpt turning the extra blanISN T IT DISGUSTING? /THK FIRST PROMOTION, OS/ \1\S #\v CAR, IS TO THK HANK OF ACT^ tC' 1>(i PRIVATE? FIKST CLASS. 31m Yes, indc d. I'm your comrade. jr^Vs** KI<K YOUR FEET OUT FROM IX U.VDER YOU. when the War wni End wl 'fhof hy waijt mason Alv You ask me when the war will end. A\V and sadly I reply. "I fear it will not! a stop, my friend, till pigs begin to fly." A flippant answer, you will say, to . come from ray fat tongue; but every hour of every day I hear that question sprung. I am no seer in spangled robe, no wizard full of gall, who looks into k crystal globe and tells what will befall. No prophet's mantle came my way the mystic's power to lend, and so I really cannot say just when the war will end. Oh, I can see . as far ahead as any common swain, i 'Sr. and when the morning sky is red II ? know there will be rain; and I can tell J .1 by sundry signs when there'll be, snow and sleet?along such cheap! forecasting lines I simply can't be! ^ beat. But when you to my lair ascend, along my stairway steep, and, RA C ask me when the war will end.l "Search me," I say. and weep. In politics I can perdict the votes cast, more ? or less; George Harvey's flaunting: plumes are picked when I begin to ' guess. And once I won a full-size cheese, as good as cheeses are, by I guessing just how many peas were in i&r , a grocer's jar. All guessing contests rtgl| I attend, in this and other lands, but ask me w^en the war end and I throw up my hands.?(Copyright, 1918, by George Matthew Adams.) - V : TRENCH A NAM AS HAS BEEN REMARKED IN ' TRENCH A There's a $10 bill, commonly i among soldiers, in the National Camp," Room 504 Pulitzer Buildii title for this picture, drawn by Pri Depot Brigade, Camp Upton, Loni is limited to soldiers in the ta throughout the country. The "best title" means the 1 shortest, or the most humorous. sheet of paper bearing the soldier regimental designation, together v tonment. There is no limit to the numl All titles should be sent to Room i City, by noon July 1, the day on wl Let's go! Medical Corps No How To Fi Not only is the American army in the field living true to the natiort's traditions in personal bravery, but its medical units are evidencing the same initiative in research. "Trench Fever" has been the scourge of the Allied armies; but the surgeons of the Red Cross and army have succeeded in determining the cause of the disease. In medicine it is an axiom that when the cause of a disease is known, the campaign^ against it is more than half won. So the American troops are to be scientifically and therefore effectively guarded against the fever. Dr. Alexander I-ambert, President of the New York State Medical Society, who has been serving as chief surgeon of the Red Cross in France, in discussing trench fever, said: "Last October the Red Cross founded a research committee composed of the best medical and surgical men in the American army in France. It included a great many of the active surgeons and medical men in the reaoar/'h oorna and nlan through the | hearty and unqualified cooperation of | the chief surgeon. Gen. Bradley, it also included the entire Medical Corps of the Regular Army then In France. "Gen. Ireland, who is now chief surgeon in France, was on the committee. He was a young medical officer in Cuba when the yellow fever research work was being conducted by Gen. Gorgas. "A curious fever has been prevalent in Flanders and northern France, affecting the English army more than the French, oddly enough, and which has seriously crippled a very considerable percentage of the active forces of the English army in the last three years. "The English have been working for two or three years on it. The disease was not transmitted to any ani ?"il nrHlnarv animate n f thp 1 n h oratory). Nothing had been found in the blood, and yet it was believed that some living organism was in the blood of the patient at the time of the fever and could be transmitted through the blood. Various ordinary laboratory animals were tried, but without success. Even monkeys were tried, but these monkeys are still well and healthy today, not having taken the disease. "It then became evident that American volunteers would be called who would submit themselves to this infection. The precedent in the army of the work in yellow fever under Walter Reed and Carroll and Gen. Gorgas in Cuba was still remembered in the army and the same men who had done this work turned to the general staff at headquarters, among NP CAMP e rr - * ^ TWO PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF ND CAMP lenominated as a "ten-case-note" Headquarters', of "Trench and ng, New YOrk City, for the best vate Ben Weilwood, Company 13, g Island, N. Y. The competition lining camps and cantonments most suitable, the cleverest, the All titles should be written on a 's name, rank and company and vith the name of his camp or canler of titles a soldier can submit. 504 Pulitzer Building, New York lich the competition closes. w Knows ght Trench Fever whose colonels there-were some who had been young lientenanta in Cuba under Gen. Wood. And a short consultation brought about the necessary orders and the volunteers were forthcoming. Sixty-odd volunteers were needed?100 men offered their services. That was all that was asked? a unit of 100 men coming forward as one man. "They took men suffering from the disease, withdrew their blood and injected it into these volunteers. And these men after five or sixteen days came down with the disease. Their blood was taken and put in other volunteers and again these developed the disease. That proved the transmission from patient to patient by the blood. "It was believed that the carrier was the ordinary body louse. Now, it was necessary to obtain both body lice from the trenches that might have had the disease and have them bite the patients and then bite other patients, which was done. And it was also necessary to get lice and transport them to Flanders from somewhere where the Trench Fever was not prevalent and infect these domesticated fresh and unsuspecting lice with the disease and then have them bite some patient and transmit it to him. "AH this was done and done successfully, and it needs the enthusiasm nf tho a/Montlfio oxnort tn en and rarrv lice from London to France and have them cooped up in cells attached to the arm and leg and well fed and well kept in little cells and taken off clothes that were infected. They had to be put upon the patients' arm in cellular boxes strapped down with adhesive plaster, where* they could stay right there for a week or so and where the man could get at it sufficiently to Bcratch normally, as he otherwise might in real life. "Some-of the lice had to be placed on other patients; and all the patients had to live under the same conditions. And all the details necessary to prove beyond a peradventure of doubt that lice really carried the dis caso and that the disease was in.Jhe blood of the patient had to be observed with infinite care. "Now, how can we stop the disease? 'De-louse' the army*! And that is a huge job. It means two or three huge bathing establishments with disinfecting plants with each corps, and taking your boys when they come from the trench back for repose every ten days, 'de-louse' the clothes, clean until every louse is gotten out of the clothes by steam and heat. It means that they must have clean underclothing and bathing and all the little hairs on their body shaved off. Shave off the hairs where the nits are found. And it means if this is done yon can get rid of the Ilea." I WAR DEPARTMENT KEEPS CLOSE ACCOUNT OF U. S. W PRISONERS IN GERMANY J 1 > The following statement is authorized by tile War Department: -v ' Relatives of American soldieyswho are prisoners of war are being promptly informed of their status and movements so far as it Is pos- ' ; eg sible to obtain the facts. This task V-? is being performed by the Prisoners .. g of War Section of the miscellaneons division of the Adjutant General's ' office in the War Department with the cooperation of the Red Cross. ...Up to date this section has forwarded information to relatives of about. 300 ' imprisoned Americans. nearly 200 of these being civilians, including members of ship crews who were interned in Germany^at the-out- break of the war. While considerably more than 1001 American soldiers have been reported by Gen. persmng g as missing, only about this number '-ja have been located In prison camps. ^ No reports have been received rela- Vj tive to the whereabouts of 183 Amer- leans claimed by the Germans to have J been captured in a recent engagement. Some of these probably have been included in the lists of the missing. First News in jfbont a Week As a rule, reports of the location, of V prisoners have reached the Prisoners" of War Section of the War Department through the Red Cross within a week or ten days after their capture. Usually the first reports give the tem- ;-.*S porary camp to which the prisoners are taken. Often the prisoners are moved to a second and sometimes a third camp. In each case the word / ' usually comes through without much delay. N % Under the system adopted telegrams are sent to relatives first when 'jMjfe the men are reported to Gen. Pershing >' ?$& as missing. These telegrams are sent J by the statistical division of the Ad- . jutant General's Office, which also C'.Jj handles casualties. The next telegrams are sent to relatives when in- jjSB formation arrives relative to their whereabouts in prison camps. These telegrams go frdm the Prisoners of 1&J War Section. ' ' Simultaneously circular letters are 1 sent to relatives of the Prisoners of War Section informing them how f they may communicate with the captured soldiers./ As later information { arrives regarding tne tranaier or pn?y oners from one camp to'another tela* >' grams are sent promptly to the rela^ ( tives. ' It is a surprise to many to learn how easily it is possible for relatives :/0 to communicate with prisoners. Pria- rty? oners of war are entitled to receive and send letters, money orders, and valuables, as well as parcels by post W.x not exceeding 11 pounds in weight, Wten intended for international mail these are free from all postal duties. Addressing of Mail The mail should be addressed to the prisoner, giving his rank, full name, and the name of the prison Ki camp, if known, followed by "Prisoner of War Mail, via New York." The ijj name and address of the sender must vTlfl be given on the upper left-hand cor- g ner, and in the case of parcel-post packages the relationship of the sender to the prisoner also must be clearly stated. The reason for this is that only one package may be sent per month, and if a greater number is 1 sent, the one apparently from the -priHonwr a ucii ui kiu la loiwaiucu, and the others held in New York pending communication with the, ^ sender, with whose consent such excess packages may be forwarded to some other prisoner who in that particular month has received no pack- -? age from any source. 8nbject to Strict Censorship Letters are subject to a careful censorship and arc not permitted to contain anything of a military nature or to relate to any commercial transaction. No leather goods may be forwarded and no periodicals except those published prior to the beginning of the war. Articles which may be sent include sweaters, towels, underwear, socks, handkerchiefs, gloves, needles and thread, shirts, shoe laces, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, toilet ar- '3S tides, including brushes, soap, tooth paste, and shaving materials, hard 1 candy, crackers or biscuits, pens, pencils and pocket knives. LONG DISTANCE PHOTOGRAPHY According to American army offi- H cers just returned from There," photographs taken in aero- H planes from 5,000 to 10,000 feet np in the air can be read accurately by flfl generals planning a battle. This is made possible by the use of a new I and powerful lens with which the J cameras are equipped. Shoes worn ont by abase In America wiMserer walk the streets of Ber, M
Trench and Camp (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 18, 1918, edition 1
6
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75