THE BARRACKS WHEEZE" ~ By PRIVATE CHKT SHAKER (310th Sanitary Train, Gamp Coster, j ?! Battle Creek, Mich.) ti( Surastika pin W ^ /i /o/ r>/ Once upon a time It never ^ j| Unbounded Sl_5 I 'nlitmli'd *S~ r\ Friendship That Is held for the Caduceus. The present si'licnic of ornamenUtion is certainly well worke J out. flip J AND.AFTEhT.H-.ir KRi.RTHA ' W?'- 3 AVD Of ( '/.' <0 f't" C.f/'TURED BY Mil.I.' I i.iliilT OF fJ METAL. Kfc The class in Ptn ciojjy ?m recit/e direction of the Toong Women's iristian Association, are being erectI at these camps to house actresses id actors who are playing at the Iberty Theatres, and who, because ot ie distance, are unable to journey and trom the nearest city. Actual work on actors' Hostess oases has been started at Camps Ix, Devens and Upton, according to statement issued by the War Detriment's Commission on Training amp Activities. These camps are so tuated that It would be practically J 1 possible for actors and actresses aylng at the Liberty Theatres for ie amusement of the soldiers to avel back and forth dally to the ties nearest the camps. The Hostess Houses will be under ^ rlct military discipline. Unmarried tresses and married actresses and eir actor husbands will be accomodated. Major-General J. Franklin ell, Commander of Camp Upton, Is king a personal interest In the erec- i on of the actors' Hostess House m is camp. Every day he visits the - -vlj te and makes suggestions to the car- / inters who are erecting the house. ? Thomas Page Smith Appointed Thomas Page Smith, of Boston, has oB sen appointed District Director for /' le War Department's Commission on ! raining Camp Activities, In charge ' the north-central district. Mr. . nlth will make his headquarters in ilcago. Mr. Smith's territory will comprise llitary camps in all States north of entueky, and from the District of ilumbla to Utah. He will have ipervlsion over all training camp tlvities. Including club life, the ostess House of the Y. W. C. A., nights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare jard and the camp libraries of the " ,3j merlcan Library Association, as well i the work of the War Camp Cornunity Service in towns adjacent to :e training camps. Mr. Smith will ire jurisdiction over approximately I camps in his district. \ SOLDIER'S PHILOSOPHY j By PRIVATE A. I. OOVKLL wltary Corps, Camp Jackson, 8. C. > , . Soldier boy, as you go about perrming your strenuous dally tasks, coding over yonr lot, losing weight id losing strength, worrying about la thtnir and that Inst trv a little '"{ trospection. You will find a sooth- ' g tonic in the summary of your 'Vm atus as compared with what fate is decreed to others like you. You have taken an oath to do and e, if need be, for your country. You . tve thus willed over to the governent that which is dearest to you? 'e itself. Bearing this in mind, all else is sy. "Where there is life there is >pe." You still have your life, so - JwSB >n't lose hope. Do you think you -vjjS e being worked to death? What it if you are prepared for death? Ta ou say you hate to be the goat when !?? comoa to "K. P." duty. It is easier . [J2| lan shoveling coal in Hades. Are >u getting gray worrying about the rhyou left behind? Thank God that 74jB e has given her to you. He is larding over her in your absence -CTj id you are still hers. Thousands of '*? """'lira Kara hn? Ola mom. - y of their brave soldier boys who e no longer theirs. Do you think you are not receive g-a squafre deal from those who sur- ; >und you? If your life be spared Jjji >u, time will heal this wound and ;3g| 1 others. And if you are destined -ffiafl follow the thousands of your com- "m?| ides into a hero's grave, then why ->ajP orry about insignificant thingsT* Are you going over the top? Then j your damndest. Anything worth )ing at all is worth doing well. If 'v: >u walk through this fire of Hell unirmed and unscathed, then nothing . ill give you more satisfaction in ;ars to come than the thought of ivlng put in your all for the cause : Democracy. If you have lost an arm, be thankil that you still have another. If Jft >u've lost your sight, remember that ilton produced his greatest works ter ne nau lost nis vision, xryouTZ3?i e doomed to die in the performance ' your duty, then remember that lousands of others as good as yon ive made the same sacrifice and that >ur name will be inscribed together ['jflgj ith the others as brave as you on the : J 'eatest monument that any nation any people ever carved. -;'M And should God in His infinite wis- . " V >m see fit to spare your life and re- "ffigl irn yon to the beloved ones at home, id yon embrace yonr old sweetheart , id join her in a happy onion of mat- 2381 mony, then start life anew and/reember that "Sweet arer the usee of drersity." _