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m TRENCH AND CAMP Theodore Par trick, Jr., Editor. Published weekly at the National j Cantonments for the soldiers of the j United States, under the auspices of J the National War Work Council of; - the Y. M. C. A. of the United States, with the co-operation of the leading I newspapers of the United States, nam- J ed as Advisory Board. r*\n? fiRFRVE EDITION. H Sin Rat Published every Monday at Carup N Mil llT Oreene. X. C., by the Army Y. M. C. A., with the co-operation of The. Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, K. C. i Business office at Y. M. C. A. Ad- j ministration Building No. 101. News and corresj>ondence received jfeSMLSjB at all Y. M. C. A. buildings on Camp Vl: 1 Oi-eeiie reservations when properly 1 uZ/laiBl 1 he Interior La tie addressed to ITesiV KU HI If dent Wilson in which he suggests j w K 11 plans for the providing of opportuni- | rWH 'ies for the soldiers after the war to ' J sll tBP? establish themselves in farm homes on ' Si rw Mi S public lands, sveins extremely timely j Jrariill -sljles ll,at t0 lhe ?reat "u*nber| wB II of returning soldiers land will offer j the great and fundamental oppor- | Hi tuiiity. The experience of war points j [J out the le.ison that our service men.; m aUhSLlR because of army life, with its opexi- | ?ess and activity. w;;i largely seek I H m^JI out-of-doors vocations and occupa- ! tw^jin >_Jr^ The question therefore arises. "What j ; w land '-.in be made available for our! i * s??lJiers for farm lan^rs?" * ?"** a! He goes on to show how. at the. H W l|Tfl dose of the Civil War. we were fortu- i 1I {| {[' I W nate in that the public domains in the,' ItfWMj I West offered opportunities to the home i returning soldier. Now. however. we*l do not have the bountiful domains of : VNl the sixties and seventies. While this, gf Vyl is true, we do have ::i;ili%ns of acres ' 1 [ of undeveloped land that can be made j II LI av-ilab.^ for this use. We have the! If y | a: id lands in the \\>t. rut over lands! /jTM ::t the Northwest. Kake Stales and,' f^j| South: and also swamp lands in the; middle West and t;outh. which can j i?e mad-- available through proper J it 's this need of proper develop-' Pm m 1MkI meiii. which is no: a matter of ai I W moment's notice, that has led Secre- j I frfll D| tary Lane to project iiis plans now. j H fl It is pointed out how any plan for j i*l In aw^wM rh<? development of :und will have to fi?f fic> or cheap land ijj^the lTnited ! State.; has passed. "i'he new eondi- j lions of developing lanzi must be met j :n advance, security must In a degree I displace speculation. Some of the de-j feels in our old system of "recla- j i mution" have been described by Dr. | lllwood Mead in these words: "Science should have gone hand in I h.?nd with the settlement of the arid', and seini-arid country, and all that J science c >uld give would have been J utilized, lirst. in the creations of the conditions of settlement, and then in} tiding the settled in difficult tasks. | "Because no tiling was done these' lierioe hut uninformed souls were bedeviled by the winds, cold, and insect |kP^^B9R pests. They wasted their efforts, lost) VURCj rheir hopes and ambitions, and ai KSN tragic percentage left, impovershied' &J and embittered. fOES "The tragic part of this history is' fJKl that nearly all of this suffering and V vdQ '*>ss ,*ou!'^ bave been avoided under a. carefully thought out plan of develop- j \ nieiit " j Secretary Dane then goes on iu ^i*c 'he virtues of the present development ! Sucn?ss of I>evcfn|mient Plan. A plan of land development, where-J l?y land is developed in large areas. ' V?Wj subdivided into individual farms, then i ^yiL sold to actual bona fide farmers on a | u long-time payment basis, ha* been in i jV W force, not only in the I'nited States t ^ p II under the reclamation act. but also in ! J ii many other countries for several years. 1 A It has proved a distinct success. In I Denmark Ireland. New Zealand, and ' HHHU I the Australian commonwealth it has; rill Y I completely changed the land situation. f|P I I One of the new features of this plan is that holders are aided in impro\hng I If I Ifr I and cultivating the farm. In a word. ! I lit AH I there is organized community develop | H| inent. Its beneficial results have been | N HI well described by the Canadian commission which was appointed to in- | llflH - vestigate its results In New Zealand .1 11^-- fW in these woras: rV3*2T^Zl * * * ,he farmers have built ! better houses or remodeled their old . ones., brought a larger acreage of land 9 under cultivation that would other- { wise be lying idle: have bought and : kept better livestock and have bought and urged more labor-saving machin- j ery on the farms and in the houses. j mCaKm They keep more sheep and ! Iitfi it * pig* and have so largely increased the revenue from their farms that they are able to meet the payments on the mortgages and to adopt a H | higher standard of hving, and a better I B one Throughout the -country a higher and better civilization is gradually being evolved; the young men and } women who are growing up are happy Q U and contented to remain at home on the farm and find ample time and 5 Kfl fljfl opportunity for recreation and enter-j tuinmcnt than can he obtained in the I It may be said that this country out.t. j, ~ side of Alaska has no frontier today. Of course, Alaska will still offer opportunity for a pioneer life. And, of course, Alaska likewise has yet unknown remarkable agricultural possibilities. but unless we make possible the development of this' land .by the men who desire tHeir life in that field, we will lose a great national opportunity. This is an immediate duty. It will be too late ro plan for these things when the war is over. Our thought now should be given to the problem. And 1 therefore desire to bring to.your mind the wisdom of immediately supplying the interior cepartment with j a sufficient fund with which to make the necessary surveys and studies. We J snoDia Know uy toe nine nir war mua j not merely how much arid land can be i irrigated, nor how much swamp land reclaimed, uor where the grazing land j is and how many cattle ix will support nor how much cut-over land can be | cleared, but we shbuid know with deriniteness where it is practicable to begin new irrigation projects, what the character of the land is, what the nature of the improvements needed will be, and .what ir.e coat' will be. We should know also, not in a general way, but with particularity, what definite areas of swamp and may be reclaimed. and how they can be drained, what the cost of the drainage will be. what crops they will raise. We should j! have in mind specific areas of grazing b lands, with a knowlecge of the cattU^* which are best adapted to thein. offlj the practieabality or supporting aw family upon them. rrj. too, with oui^ cut-over lands. We should know what j it would cost to pull or "blow-out" j stumps and to put the lands into con- | dition for a farm home. Secretary Lane goes on to state that '.his plan does not contemplate any-,, thing like charity to the soldier. He is not to be given a bounty. He is not j to be made to feel that he Is a depen- i1 dent. On the contrary, be is to con tinue in a sense in- the service of the ; government. Instead of destroying; our enemies, he is to develop our ( resources. , We agree with Secretary Lane that I ( a small sum of money pui into uic j hands of men of thought and ex- j j perience and vision will give us a | program which will make us feel en- I < tirely confident that we are not to ! be submerged.' industrially or other-!, wise, by labor which we will not be J1 able to absorb, or that we would be j j in a condition where we would show J, a lack of respect for those who return f ] as heroes, but who will be without j t means of iminediate self-support. < May this work be heartily endorsed j as all such work which tends to the J \ increasing of the future happiness of ! j our peopfe. and may the work of j i planning be entrusted to competent 1 hands. I ] ?W.J. M. WAR DEPARTMENT WOULD ? RENEW RANGE CONTRACT; i i 1 * " Telegraphs Latta Papers for:-1 New Lease on Rifle Range Are J j Placed in Mails. The war department telegraphed ' E. D. Latta. Sr., yesterday informing him that the legal papers for a renewal of the government's lease on the rifle range of Camp Greene, Io- ' cated near the Catawba river, had , been placed in the mails and should ' l>e received by him without delay. ! Mr. Latta said last night. The lease; on this property has not been renew- | ed. it was stated .but the statements : oT the owner indicated his willingness ! to do so. This announced desire on the part ! ?r war nnrtmcnf and the re- ! newai of the water contract between j' the war department and- the city of i' Charlotte for another year were r-!' yarded by the parties concerned as [' "encouraging" indications of the war!' department's intentions toward the 1 camp here. j' The paving work at the camp continues. with satisfactory progress be- ing made. Unconfirmed reports which j have been circulated several days are : to the effect that the war department j 1 intends to authorize more paving work at the camp. It was understood about ; 10.000 bags of cement have been ordered shipped to the camp. Tlie Soldier's Chancfes. Creat as the danger and large as the j losses in the aggregate, the individual j 1 soldier has plenty of chances of com- I ing out of the war unscathed, or at j least not badly injured. Based on the^ mortality statistics of j the allied armies, a* soldier's chances I are as follows:' Twenty-nine chances of coming home to one chance of being killed. Forty-nine chances of recovering < from wounds to one chance of dying from them. One chance in 500 of losing a limb. Will live five years longer because J of physical training, is freer from disease in the army than in civil life, an dhas better medical care at the front than at home. In other wars from 10-' to 15 men died from disease to 1 from bullets; < in this war 1 man dies from disease to every 10 from bullets. For those of our fighting men who 1 dp not escape scathless. the government under the soldier and sailor in- ? surance law gives protection to the wounded and their dependents and to J the families and dependents of those who make the supreme sacrifice for their country. :?? - F PROGRAM GIVEN BY CHARLOTTE SINGERS Presenting a program that wa varied and excellently chosen, a part: )f talented entertainers delighted J arge audience of soldiers at the bas< hospital "Y" building one evening. Thi itorma of applause which each'num >er of the program evoked gave evi lence of a wi deappreciation on th< part of the audience. ' - * The majority of musicians weri from Charlotte, though some of th< nost applauded numbers on the pro frani were those given by Privati lack Fosterfi who is known in cam] is "Soldier Harry Lauder." The lis Hunter Marshall, Jr., and Theodori E'artrick, Jr., Misses Ella Mosely, Luc] Dliver, Boyer and Private Poster. Mis Dliver played the accompaniments. The musical numbe were inter ;persed by readings by Miss Boyer ivho.se work was genuinely enjoyed b: he audience. Foster's costume waj )ne of the features of the evening ft is an exact duplicate of the om :hat Harry Lauders wears in his mos comical mood; that it is one that Fos :er himself rigged up. Foster is j ;ypicaf Scot, with the burr in his voic< that marks him as genuine. After th rendering of the set program then ivas community singing by the mei present. The program was as follows; Solo, "Lov$ is the Wind"?Mrs. Mar (hall. Piano solo, "Two Larks"?Mrs Part rick. Violin solo, oncnia m ley. Solos. "She's the Lass for Me," "Tl Nfice to Get Up in tl^e Moirning," "Ros; Posy".?Private Foster, Reading, "The Boy Who 8aid *G< 3n* "?Miss Boyer. Solo, "I Hear a Thrush at Eve' ?Mrs. Marshall. Reading, "The Optimist"?Mia Boyer. Violin solo, "Hawaiian Dreams"? Miss Mosely. f Duet. "Rosafy"?Mrs. Marshall am Miss Oliver. Trio, "The End of a Perfect Day"? Mrs. Marshall and Misses Oliver am Mosely. ?< BOOKS FOR FIGHTERS. The Camp Greene library, whicl jnder the active "management of Li orarian Johnston is proving of grea worth to the soldiers stationed a this camp, ^has recently received i large number of new books of spe cial value and interest. A partia list is as followsr Making the Most of One's Mindly dams. / Soldier Unafraid?Auguier. / Patenting and Promoting Inven Lions?Avram. Frontiers of Freedom?Baker. Uncivil War?Browne. Trotting and Pacing Horse ii America?Busbey. Germany in Defeat?De Souza. First Shot for Liberty?De Varila Generals of the British Army? Dodd. War Shock?Eder. Prophecy of the War?Einstein. Europe's Fateful Hour?Ferrero. Men Who Are Making AmericaForbes. Keeping Our Fighters Fit?Fosdick War Lords?Gardiner. Notes for Army Medical OfficersGoodwin. Life in a Tajik?Haigh. America #at War% Just Behind the Front in France? Uoggson. Life of General Joffre?-Kahn. American Spirit?Lane. Minstrel in France?Lauder. War and After?Lodge. Storage Battery Engineering?Lyn ion. Amrican government?Magruder. Taps;, a Book for the Boys ii Khaki?Mantle. Study in Troop Leading?Morrisoi XcMunson. World War and Road to Peace? McLeod. -7 Flying Poilu?Nadand. Fighting Fleets?Paine. Russia in Upheaval?Ross. TH1 KINO Of MACHINES f ^ eXPeCTW' I . Dere Mable?Streeter. s| Drink?Thompson. H > i Uncle Sam's Fact Book of the/ ri&lg World War. , I Sanitation for Medical OfflceifmM I . Vedder. I ^ j War Letters of Edmund Gentt Mi I 1 End of the War?WeyL 'I : Book of Verse of the Great War-^vjW $ Wheeler. 1 ~ ! Textbook of Military AeronauUca^^MMl " Woodhouse. i ? v JSp? 2 MRS. MALONE AND THE CENSOfOgW * (By Edgar Guest In New"* York " Herald.) J j When Mrs. Malone got a letter from * She started to read it aloud in her ("Dear Mary," it started, VI can't t#ll ?q5| I ? I you much. I I'm somewhere in France, and I'm ) M _ | ftghtin' the Dutch. " | I'm chokin' wid news that I'd liKe "totjjf'J ' | relate. I J. j But it's little a soldier's permitted' to 1 I] , I state. * Deyc mind Rer McPhee?well, he fell *JP in a ditch _ An' busted an arrm, but I can't tell fl ' ye which. _' ? ? "An' Paddy O'Hara was caught in a: ; '< IP flame An rescued by faith, I can't tell his name. -.JSE&r Last night I woke up wid a teirftl?3roB pain. \ v-vlHlH I thought for awhile it would Jrire me - '. Jfl insane. * Oh,, the sufTrin I had was most dread- 11 ful to bear! ' ^ II in sorry, my ucai, uui i can v icn / v where. . II The ?oetor he gave me a pill, but ->11 rl I find WMgm* It'* contrary to rules t' disclose here j >14 9 ' ' the kind. "I've been t* the dintist 'an had tooth out, I'm sorfy to leav* you shrouded rtraZp doubt, . ' But the best I can is that one bootitrv | , is gone. The sensorwont let me inform . ;J which one. 7 I met a young fellow who knows J ? right well. An^ye know him, too, but his name >1 I can't tell. He's Irish, red-headed, and there with V/1 ^ the blarney. ? - His folks once knew our folks back. l. home in Kllarney." r'+FSM ? 1 "By gorry," said Mrs. Malone, in flat. - , J "It's hard to make sinse out av writin' \ \ like that ' " But I'll give him as good as he send* that I will." E So she went right to work with her -^ " | ink well and quill, " An* she wrote, "I suppose ye're dead eager for news. You know when ye left we were buy- ^ 11 ing the shoes; ' * -M Well, the baby has come, on* we*rn>- 1 both doin' welL - It's a . Oh, that's somethin' they 1fl wont let .me tell." -SB'"! IIUGK PUSHBALL IN C.iMP. r Y. M. C. A. Athletic Director A. t| Bergman announces that a new puah**'.^. ball has been received by him and | " will be avialable for use of every unlt^f ? in camp. The game of pushball $ fast becoming the most popular spo* in the army camps. The ball itself \ is six feet in diameter when fully laritejj _ dated. It is expected that a great deal>." of physical benefit as well as pleasure will be derived from this game. The ' game is a hard one, in which " side tries to posh the huge, ball through a line of opponents to . goal. The ball cost about $**#. Several pushbal Iteams are being organized and it is proposed that & teara} a to represent each Unit will be - "One wastes the food on which he I One^starves." said old'man j fl
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