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Einother Ca margest An BY CHAPIN I of the Camp Lewis ] Hery mnch Interested f the different camps Ha written V the reI Df Trench and Camp. I they have kept on itlmecy with dictlon sources ot informa glowing words and they hare likewise, H-mlBSion, drawn libr -wrmily upon their fertile imagine I UQDB, nas impressed me wun a ihuation existing here at Camp Lewis which does not exist elsewhere ap *rent,y and which I most of course The fact is simply this: the superlative which other editors hare dreamed of and hoped for, Is an actual fact in Camp Lewis. This IS the best camp In the country, and I believe that by simply keeping my cgaeppHng Irons closely hooked onto the facts, I will have a story so f.elosely resembling fiction that It will r Camp Lewis is the largest permaVnt army mobilisation cantonment 'J??the United States. It contains 76,^.wO seres, Is 18 miles long and 12 irllas wide. * VFhe citizens of Tacoma and Pierce mnty?the camp proper is located Jteen miles from Tacoma?voted K'Jv VOOO.OOO in bonds to acquire a tract 7^0,000 acres and donated It to the i|uR>vernment for a site for the camp. ;T With barracks arranged In the ^ferm of a horse shoe with each arm Ranked by giant pines, and headquarters at the head of the shoe looking down the long drill grounds and across to beautiful Mount TacomaRanler 75 miles to the Bast. No more ideal location for a camp could |be-imagined, not even by a Trench : and Camp editor. 4 . Here more than 50.000 officers and "men of the new National Army are i In fraininv in tiba ttiAfr narf In tho hgreat war game "Orer There." fc There are nearly 2,000 buildings lis the cantonment, -built at a coat of ! mpproiimately $7,000,000, and retiring 04,000,000 feet of lumber in j> Wr constraction. There " are 26 mllaa of' graded : jwta In the cantonment and nearly I miles of paved roada. The camp I jasts 61 miles of sewer and water YMpe. Pared road leads from camp | to Tncorns, with frequent bus service :,Al*o a good bus line operating inside I the cantonment. It would he idle for me to say that flr . ? \Mll}Valtcr McGcc, a prominent New p|*ork clubman, forty-five years old, made attempt to get into the servtice. .Failing in that because of his age, and desirous of doing something, he has a job as a dock laborer and is helpmo load the boats for France.?News 0*0. PS; BY DAMON RUNYON ^here's a chair in a clnbroom corner That's shaped to the shape o' Mc? .. ' Goo Aa easy chair that's stuffed with hair, I-' WItli a place lor a glass near cne Ijgjhfe knee. Bat be Isn't there in that easy chair '(Which, of course, is plain to see). "They do not serre who sit and wait," Said he; "that's me?McGee!" Touch <>' gray in his foretop? "A soldier I'll be," said he. "Plenty of room in the doughboys For the likes o' me, McGee." ' Teach o' gray in his foretop? Creaky o' back and knee. I Tat on your duds," said the sawbones; }? "Bejected?W. McGee!" !; W ?nrUF- PRUSSIAN POWER ( : / MAY BEND US HERE | , * OR BREAK US THERE, BUT THEY FIGHT AGAINST Starup IDEALS OF FREEDOM JUSTICE. THESE. EN- | "FORCED BY THE WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE BY TWENTY-ONE NATIONS. ARE STRONGER THAN ALL THE BATTERIES OF KRUPP, ALL THE AIRCRAFT OF ZEPPELIN. ALL THE STRATEGY OP HIN{ DENBERG. AND MORE IN|mNCIBLE THAN ALL THE SfFON TIRPITZ." ? SECRETARY imp Claiming To d Best In The U.S." D> FOSTER Edition of Trench and Camp Camp Lewis is a healthy camp if the records do not show It, bnt the health records do show it. I imagine that that has something to do with the fact that at the present time new draft men are being sent here all the way from Minnesota. At the present time I do not think Uncle Sam is giving thoee hardy Northerners a pleasure ride to the Spnnd. Major General H. A. Greene, commanding the 91st Division, stationed t fj?mn T^tbHh. hint hapn mnrfl than a leader of his men in camp. He has been a leader for higher living in the entire Northwest and this section of the country l? the better for having numbered him as a citizen for nearly a year. He has stood for better things in camp and has demanded better things in the towns to which the soldiers go when away from camp. This 91st Division has been called the Wild West Division, but it should not be understood that the men are wild. In this connection I wonld like to say that up in the Remount Depot where the "wildest" of this Wild West country are stationed, there has not been a man in the guardhouse, or a court martial since the camp wag opened late last summer. These Wild Westerners know how to behave. In that remount depot there are the best riders and ropers in the world, but those days are temporarily laid aside, and they are making the finest kind of soldiers. Every station in life is represented in Camp Lewis just as in every camp, but as the nation has ever looked to the West for big men, so big men from these respective stations are found in Camp Lewis. Here the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., Red Cross. K. of'C.. Jewish Welfare Board and eleven other organizations for the benefit of soldiers, work, hand in hand, keeping ever before them the one great purpose behind it all. "the winning of the war." In this great cantonment, which facts show to be the largest and best In the country, Trench and Camp has the extreme pleasure of circulating 22,000 copies every Sunday morning. With the thousands of men In this great camp, whether it be in any one of the Association's eleven buildings, on a train bearing new men to camp or a train bearing trained men leaving for their big job, at the trenches, on the range or off on a long hike, men of the Y. M. C. A. are with the men of the army. GEE Tonch o' gray in his foretop? "Go?!" said W. McGee, "Maybe, by gosh, there's a Job awash For the middle-aged likes o* me." "Keep en your duds," growled the doctor; "Too old to go to sea; Stand aside for a younger ma- ? Reiected?W. McGee!" Creaked too mncli for the army? Too old to go to sea. Said he: "I swear there's a Job somewhere For the likes o' me?McGee! I can wallop a dock to a frazzle, Aa good as the next man?me!" "Take off your coat!" snarled a foreman? "Accepted?W. McGee!" There's a chair in a club room corner That fitted him to a T; There's an empty glass that the waiters pass Which belonged to W. McGee. Touch o' gray to his foretop, But easy o' back and knee? "HI, lend a hand!" yells the foreman, grand? "Coming, boas! Me-?McGee!" ?New York American. BREAKS BOND SALE RECORD Chaplain Bart L. Stephens, of the U. & S. Illinois, has made a record in selling Liberty Bonds. His sales on the ship total orer $80,000. The captain of the ship appointed him In charge of the sales of the bonds of the Third Liberty Loan, and with his nsnal vigor he sold more than the captain thought would be possible. Daring the second Liberty Loan, bonds to the amount of 83,800 were sold, and the officer who had that sale In charge offered to bet the chaplain that the 83,(00 mark woald not be reached In the sales of the Third Liberty Loan. We have not heard of any ship selling more than 3(0,000 worth of bonds sold on the Illinois. It is possible that this ship holds the record for the Navy. _ S'vi ' ; Vr- . ' ." ? - "Go in and win"? General Ma graduates. "We will"?Tke reply of the W "Don't get discouraged about i hammering."? Lieut. Conin ditionary Forces. "The war can be loet in America and ill-considered or unjust labor of the country may m ident Wilson's warning to An "Our doughboys alone of all tro They have already introdu warfare."?An American Gt "The way the Americans have most amazing features of tl New York "World" represen "What the American forces in 1 is almost incredible."? The "Get that bridge of ships aero sible."?Judge William 11. A "The spirit of the British and th where there is a determins ' ' ? A * A LJ iiqc or American iruupo ?ci Clemeticeau. "There is only one business for Bernard M. Baruch. "With strong will and irresistibl tinne absolutely to dominal French Official Statement. French Literatw by. e. pre French literature reflects in its owi way the great classical qualities c clearness, order, good taste and gooi sense. "What is not clear is no French," it has been said, and th French genius also pays much atten tion to harmony of arrangement, pro portion and elegance. As for gooi taste and good sense, these qualitie are demanded and supplied by nearl; all. the best writers of the great cen turies. Obscurity, affectation am mere eccentricity have usually beei laughed out or court in rranee. A more specific mark of moden French literature is its hospitality o sociability. The country has been i kind of "intellectual clearing-house,1 4n that it has at various periods re ceived ideas and impulses from Italj England and other countries, trans formed them to meet its nations needs and often sent them out agali better dressed. The French write is also a sociable creature; his book are like his talk, showing a desire t< please, to be polite, to feel his audi ence. The English writer is oftei more individualistic; his concern i: mainly to express himself, and whei he is a Byron he does not love hi: audience. Perhaps that is why th< English excel in poetry and thi French in prose; and the classics virtues mentioned above find theii natural place in prose, though somi of the greatest romantic poets?Hug< and Musset?have been Frenchmen There are five chief periods o: French literature; the Middle Ages the Renaissance, the classical age o: T o..ln v I i7 tha aiirhiAonth flBTltnn and nineteenth century. The MiddU Ages are renowned (or the nation* epic, of which the best example is th< "Song of Roland," for the poetry ol the troubadours and the stories aboui King Arthur and his Round Table The Renaissance, or revival of an cient art and learning, came whet the "medieval Inspiration seemed ex ha us ted; the great novelist Rabelab and the essayist Montaigne reflect tin creative and critical life of th< Renaissance; there are also the poeti and dramatists of the sixteenth cen lory, who revive the classical forms But the great period of truly Frenct classicism la the following century with its roll of illustrious names; It the drama, Corneille, Racine and Mollbre; in prose, Boesuet aj preacher, Madame de Sdvignd as letter-writer, Pascal as the great FTenet philosopher; and such critics and moralists as Bolleau, La Bruybre and La Rochefoucauld. The age of Loufc UK-v-*vv-' 7'"^y fv ' ~ 'y-"J ^pppjpp*' 23 Bill rch, Chief of Staff, to the West Point J a est Pointers. is. We can stand any amount of jsby Dawson, of the Canadian Expei as well as on the fields of France, ified interruptions of the essential ake it impossible to win it."?Preslerican Labor. -,f J ope can hit the mark at 600 yards. 1 ced a new element into European neral to Charles H. Grasty. developed as fighters is one of the lie war."?British Staff Officer to a Prance have accomplished thus far ss the Atlantic as quickly as pos e r rcncu is uio^aiuvcuh, ohu v.j 4 / H/W ition to hold on until the swelling T MPajfffj Ips turn the tide of war."?Premier J America and Americans?war."? e activity the American troops con- Iflr ,Jn|, te the adversaries they oppose."? JwjtLA-e and Journalism I JTON DAJtGAN IfcLjflflPM q XIV attained an excellence of comf bined unity and weight scarcely seen , since, and therefore these writers M| have become "classics" in a double I t sense. e Modern thought begins with the . eighteenth century, which though in- ^^ 3 ferior in the drama and in poetry is strong in practical philosophy and re- , \ * TU. ~\a v?n?fo tr, kino ond 8 church largely crumbled in this age, .. and if ita scepticism seems excessive, ^ yet the names of Voltaire, of the more constructive Montesquieu, and Jm i of Diderot are names that have their a weight. The novel flourished in |WyJ/m Image's "Gil Bias" and in the hands n of Rousseau, who. by his restoration WmA r of individual feeling, prepared the I fc way for nineteenth century roman" ticism. That movement, further fori warded by Chateaubriand, reaches r ) its climax in the poetry, fiction and ( \ i- drama of Hugo and his school. Bal- *v 1 zac makes the transition to realism a which has largely dominated recent "O r generations; it is represented in s drama by Augicr and Dumas fils; in 3 the novel by Flaubert. Maupassant. - Zola; by the Parnassian school of a poetry and by scholars like Taine. s Toward the end of the century a more l individual and wilful note appears in s the work of men like Anatole France, ? Rostand, Verlaine. l i French journalism practically be 1 gan in the eighteenth century, with r various literary gazettes, flourished ? mightily under the Revolution, was t Dartlv sunDressed by Napoleon, and I has since taken on modern Jmpor- Bgfl tance. The French go in less for 11, lustra ted magazines than we do, but , '* f their "heavy" reviews, such as the r /TF> r "Revue dea Deauz Mondes," are ex- 1^ / ) cellent. Their newspapers are fc (r/%^ 1 smaller, and contain leas "news" but R JT ) more discussion and information, I\ M\ r There are serious political papers, of pk / J I t tho type of "Le Temps" and the .*3 'M . "Journal des Ddbats," literary sheets - like the "Figaro," and semi-Ameri- /JjdV i canited popular products like the jfiK "Matin" and the "Petit Journal." I Any of these will make good read; ing matter, according to taste. And ? in th? soldier who wants to diD into 'Ifrh -v> i the long-continued, inexhaustible stream of French literature, the . novels of Daudet and the best of Bali zac and of Maupassant may be hearts If you derive any pleasure from B&arafcgySEfrfl * reading Trench and Camp, why not I 1^1 i send the paper home to your rela- I I tivea when you have finished reading feJjgSS t it? They will enjoy it as much as BH3*Sae6fifl| I you do.
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