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^ ^ "THE BARRACKS WHEEZE"\ E==* =b BJ PRIVATE CHET SHAKER " L ?V?.' ^ (810th Sanitary Train, Camp Custer, : YTV J ^ Battle Creek, Mich.) Can't get so Very jar r7 m'l'tary cycles I ^ y?u f?9 along Looking As if you Had an d Too nwet a note vSm'jtC} NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE A GENERAL ORDER. L-'' Ana even a company wurr Rct.i along pretty well. / ?\ After you've been out on the range firing all day- ? y y-/n<i you've hiked three miles back .. through the unsettled dust? After you've had a nice, warm. congenial shower? V /inj you've established friendly relaVLj%?jj[ tions with the night mess? After you've washed your mess-kit And you've borrowed a match and touched off a dry cigaret? Then, Elmer, ^ umhr You've reached the crest of your - ?^2! (ra jectory. rC \ *- CAN YOU IMAGINE A SATA 7 URDAY INSPECTION BY THE fr, 'r HIGH COMMAND BACK IN tz THE DAYS WHEN THE 50L-=L^_J= DIERS WORE SUITS OF r=F ARMORr ?/ "Fall in with breastplates and ^KHBr/ shields." r < iM AND THIS YKAR, HAD THE Mi Ql'KKN OP THE MAY BEEN IN f**Yn THK 4KMT. THERE WOULD HAVE Wffi BBK\~ NO NECESSITY FOR THE JflK USUAL ADJURATION TO MOTHER. I* *J the candid and unbiased opinion W&fM of some that if any more monkeying is o/ S done with the time of day the bugler will be able to consolidate "Taps" and fyj/fey) the new order for retiring makes insomniacs out of al.l. the chickens. wKever tell Of a soldier's yS&Jjjkfifl He wore his r r^T C it's clothes re He fore XXYj^k Hc got \W%&L " THIK ARMY HAS TURNED OUT A GOOD CROP OF "ONCE GREATS." ? .4 "day" in the army is just about 'as encompasnng as it could be. It extends from the first note of reveille to the last note of retreat. Col. James A. Moss, the author oi Jftjjjym Moss' Manual and several other best sellers, gets credit for one in Section *rt*c'e Hr says: "Whew twe m&ZArk soldiers get into a row a good phui is to set them at work scrubbing the YwSyffi barracks windows, one on the outside and ono on the inside, making them clean the same pane at the sanw JpgHT time. They are thus constantly look' into each other's face and before the second window is cleaned thej Ml W^' probably be laughing at each Army mules are obtained by threi zsSer^T methods: hX; Outright purchase. Selective draft. ^ V?lun'ary enlistment. J^ fsf" j When a man begins to figure thai he is versatile he can get a good line ?g on his 9tatus by surveying the gov JWjP crnment signs which list the varioui trades and occupations open to &l &)f i u. omers. bk\- -? Many able-bodied men who once de dared that a dollar was made round si rf i it would roll now make voluntary allot K yy merits. tyjm A MEAL IN THE ARMY RE F| MINDS ONE OF THE INCIDENT AT t ft TABLE IN A DUTCH COMMUNITY F f B IN YORK COUNTY, I^KNNSYLVA H J I THE VISITOR, IN ALL COUR TEOU8NES8, ASKED: I I "CAN I PASS YOU ANYTHING?* .AND THE NATIVE, THROWlN< ^ I A LIP OVER AN OUT-SIZE CUT OJ * ' * MEAT. REPLIED: "OH, NO, I CAN REACH." TBEfrCtf^ Army Spi * \sjti THE -W A Learn LESSON XV (NUMBER WORDS) We have studied the number worth from 1 to 200 and (heir pronuncia tion. Then come: deux cent trois 20! deux cent vingt cinq 221 deux cent soixante dix 27< deux cent quatre vingt dix 291 trois cents 30* trois cent cinquante 351 trois cent aoixante seize 37( cinq cent quatre vingt onze 59: neuf cents 90' mille (meel) 1.00' mille deux cents 1,20' mille neuf cent dix huit 1,911 dix neuf cent dix huit 1911 deux mille cinq cents 2,60' dix mille 10,00' cent mille 100,00' un million (uh meelyoh) 1,000,00' deux millions de francs Z,UUU,VW iraxic Note the two ways of saying 1*18 as in English. We nsaally say en di nenf cent qnatorze, ah dees nnh sSl katorz. in 1914; lea Allemards on commencd la gnerre (g6r) en di nenf cent quatorxe, the Germans be gan the war in 1914, Note also the use of "de" afte "million." NEW WORDS French Pronunciation Meanin, le mois mwa montl un an uhn ah a yea la guerre g?r wa une arm?e armd arm la battaille batay battl fls font foh make, d attaquer atak? attac avancer avahsd advanc battre batr bea battu batii beate durer ddrd lai k cdt6 de a kohtd duh besid( alongsid EXERCISE II y a sept jours dans une semain* Onal lo nromlRr iour de la g( ' maine? C'est dlmanche (deemahsh ; Apr?s dlmanche nous avons lunc i (luhdee), mardl (mardee), mercre<! (m&rkruhdee), jeudi (zhuhdee), vei i dredi (vahdruhdee), samedi (san ' dee). Quatre semalnes font un moil Un mols a de (from) vlngt huit ; trente et un JouH. Doure mols for : un an. Volci les noma des moLs; ? French Pronnnciation Mean in r janrier xhahvyG Januar i f^vrier f6vreey6 Februai mars mars Marc Allies' Railroads Require If the war lasts for another tw , years. 500,000 men will be require , to operate American Army railroads i . France, while twice that number wi 4 be needed to serve the combine j Allied forces. To exert their fn strength, the Allies must hare tran faAllUioa ton (ImM OTMt I than the largest railway system in tl " United States, Realising this, alma 1 the first American units sent abros Included railroad executives, enginee: and builders, while manufacturers a over the country are now busy c - standardized equipment for our lines r France. Uncle Sam has shoulder* I his full share of the burden. On British military railroads b hind the western front may be se< - cars and engines once operated c roads in England, Canada, Austral ' and South Africa, for, to meet tl i emergency, rails and equipment we ? picked up bodily, loaded on ships ai sent to the war zone. One hundrt thousand Chinese were also import* vrts No. 5 iTKR OTRK" French i avrll avreel April mai m6 May join rhwa June 1 Julllet xhdyb July I aoOL oo August , septembre sbptshbr September : octobre oktobr October ' norembre novabbr November ' dbcembre dea&hbr December ' Lea Allem&qds ont commence Is ' guerre en dix neat cent qoatorxe, an t mola d'aoflt. lis ont attaqnd la ? France arec une arm be de trols tr.Il' lions d'hommea. lis ont avancS sur Paris. Hals le gdabral Joffre a battu . lenrs armdea i la batnille de la Marn x J La guerre a durd quatre ana. : L'Amdrique (lamdreek) est entrde * (entered) dana la guerre en dlx nonf : cent dlx sept. Anjourd'hui noa aol: data ae battent (fight) h cftte dea soldats francals et anglais. ? Vlre (veer) la France! -Vlv% l'An?' - * wi 1'Tt.il.l viu I'tmX 5?CICI 1 ? . XfV / !?? ? ? ' ? - ? B riqae! * Here ends the fifteenth and last J lesson in the coarse of French lessons 1 which Trench and Camp began in its 1 issue of March 25. These lessons were h started with the idea and purpose of helping American soldiers In trainr Ing over here to learn the rudiments of the language which is spoken "Over There." If one American solJ dier has learned something of the " French language from these lessons, r then the publishing of them has been r worth while. y If you, Mr. Soldier, ha*e followed e and studied these lessons, and be? come interested in the French lan* guage, as you should for your coun try's sake, as well as for your own, remember this: Fifteen lessons can n not teach you the French language, A but they can give you a good start 5? toward acquiring a "working vocabe ulary." Also remember that the way to learn French is to speak it at 3. every possible opportunity. i- A sergeant in the American Ex) peditionary Forces in France made li this comment on the French lanli guage: "These people over here i- know how to write their language, i- but they don't know how to proi. nounce it." Pronunciation is the k thing. It is learned by practice only, it Practice, practice, practice, and then ?practice some more. Next week Trench and Camp will g publish an article telling the Amery lean soldiers who have studied these y fifteen lessons how to make the best h use of them. In France 1,000,000 Workers 'O Standard gauge lines run from the id porta to the great base depots and in from these to within perhaps ten miles 11 of the front. Here they connect with id narrow gauge roads, similar to those II o?ed In construction work, over which s- donkey engines haul the supplies five ?r miles closer to the fighfrng line, te From this point branch out a netst work of lighter tracks, thirty inches id wide, which wind through the cotors munication trenches and as near the ill first trenches as the enemy's artillery m will permit. Over these tiny push In cars carry ammunition and food, bring>d ing back the wounded on. their return trips. o- Services on the* e miniature railin roads is perilous. The artillery prepm aration for a great attack aims not ia only to destroy the trenches, but the le transport lines behind them. Somere times as many men are employed in id operating and repairing these manMi power railroads as are needed to hold id. the front line. r ^JAy Rutting The Knock Into Innocalation By "ACTING CORP." WM. J. GOFP (SM Cta, IBM Depot Brigade, (hop Vptae, IM? Uat. N. T.) ' v . fm Army life la joat on* denied Imooeoletion after another. The average J aoldier la aa full of holea aa a porous plaster. They aren't ballet holes, but - ? are apertures through which all aorta of anti-bugs are Introduced Into his ..'-?8 system. Bach soldler.ls Issued t billion bugs, for whose' up-keep he Is held nsnanslble. They hike hither or tktther through hit system. They. 1 drill on hit spinal column and hold sham battles on his cerebrum. He Spends halt his time getting lnnocu la ted, and the rest ot it getting lnnoculated, then the rest recovering^ ~ from the inoculations. Here Is the schedule of a typical^ day In training camp" when the doctors are in an -tnnocnlating mood: 6 A. M. Reveille. 8:15. Report to Dr. Jabb tor lnnoeulatlon against sleeping sickness. A:hO. Breakfast and lnnoeulatlon?hidlgeettou is the thing this time. 7:00. Brill. -? 7:11. Report to Dr. Poke for v\5| innoculatkm against baldness. 8:00. AH men mast be innoo nlated in the left shoulder blade j against Tasmantaa eplxooty, in cane the army goes to Tasmania. 0:01. Report to Dr. Jabber to have 7,785300 anti-prtckly heat germs infected in thertght funny 'bone. 11:07. Second innoeulatiou against tut feet and warts. . - .;rJS 12: CO. Mesa. Men will be inx-ulatod with one plate of stew an 1 four cable laches of bread pudding. 1:00 P. M. Report to afcarest doctor to he iaaoewiaced with .-my gcima be happens to have around. fox-Mte or sqelirei-blte report to Dr. Kaeedto for ianoealstton. ."11 2:80. Drffl (If able). <i 9:66. AikletypectfoabyDr. / Slasher. 3:38. Bring your calTM to Dr. 2 * Punch?innoculation for frost- # " ' 4:00. Special Innoculation by ' Z Dr. MmM. All nken sufeHng from alimony, pip, cauliflower . ears, free verse, persistent sneezing or aversion to work, must report for prophylactic treatment. 5:00. Metro. Kach man win be issued one pill, the equivalent of one plate of beans, one mug of tea and one piece of bread. He .may take it internally or use it for ammunition. 6-9. All men must stay in their tents, as the doctors may think up a new innoculation, and may want someone to practice on. 9:16. All men who are still conscious will be innoculated against insomnia and male-kick. _ ~ " '? 10:00. Taps (for sorrirors). N. B. The only thing they : Si; don't innocoLate yon against in the army is lnnocnlation. THUS SAYETH THE ROOKIE FROM SQUAD 4-11-44. All Infantrymen Armed on Sailing for France, Ordnance Bureau Says The following statement is authorized by the Acting Chief of Ordnance: The Army Ordnance Department has thus far met every demand imposed by the new program for overseas shipment of American troops. Despite the great acceleration in the sending of American forces to France no infantryman goes aboard ship without a United States model 1917 rifle (modified Enfield), bayonet, belt, haversack, pack carrier, bandoleers, bayonet scabbard, and fall men equipment. Tonnage is today a limiting factor in the shipment of ordnance -JB 'material overseas, especially because of the present necessity of increasing the transport of infan- < try regiments. French 75 mm. and 455 mm. and sufficient supplies of artillery?American heavy railway artillery?are already in France to meet the present demand. Sufficient machine guns are also immediately available for American forces In France. $69,000,000 A MONTH Monthly disbursements by the Ord* . ~ nance Department of the Army were - $59,090,090 during the first year of
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