Confessions C
' (This Is the eighth of s series of
pidM from Us driliaii pursuits by
) > H ta a frank, oatspofcee record of his
V' which, perhaps, hare been shared by
IV in training. These diary entries ar
; Wational Army as a trnthfnl portraya
? fnto soldiers of "the finest army Ms
1*--Tha writer is Ted Wallaee, a htxnryt
has no settled coarietioas, except sciib
purging process of war into a rod-bio
September 9.
With the sound of Taps I fell fast
asleep, and I did not awake this
A ?uu?uiu? Iiuui a utwru uit> UU( ic
again. There was a lot of grumbling
tn -in the squad tent; but I must say that
X 1 welcomed the call. I felt so in>H)
Tlgorated by my exercise yesterday
,acd so Interested In what the day
! would bring forth that I looked for?!,
Ward to It eagerly,
life We went through our setting up
||^ -exercises today?and did It without
I any commands. It was fine .work, the
[,^ ~Wrst Lieutenant said. Then we ran
up and down the company streets and
... never stopped until we entered the
j- mess hall.
Army life is not much as it is pic i
tured. There is a great deal of care
i ' gfr.je~ry ; " 7,'
ji We went through our setting-up
BBfr exercises today.
V
Is the preparation of meals. though
? byroad the comic papers you would
think there was none. And the
scrupulous cleanliness of which I
have written before impresses you
every day. Our tables are made of
i. rough boards and the tongned joints
?\ hare been planed away so that there
Is a space between the boards. This
Is to prevent an accumulation of particles
of food between boards. When
"?i tbe study of the care of tbe men bas
I . jed to little things like that it Is a
[ Sign that it has reached a high degree
b, 'of efficiency.
It was a good hard day today. We
' bad our periods of drill and our times
H pf play. I find it is hot very tiring.
$ 7 Also I find that I am feeling better
than I ever did in my life. We have
absolutely no cares. Everything is
provided and we arc just being put
JTlnto the finest possible physical conjJSs&on.
,
ia?'- It is amazing how many details
jii0nt?r into an officer's knowledge of
..gSfeilitary work. If these training
jjR&taps turned out really effective men
. In a few months, all honor to tl^e system,
I say.
1 even the matter of folding
your kit. The officers demand absov
"lute precision in this.' A man grows
iff rebellious and says they are fussy.
"But once in a while, for an object les;
^r-ion, the officers let these men who
^Complain have their own way, so I
am told, and then the men. through
discomforts, learn that there was a'
| reason for the officers' insistence. We
! hare not gone on any hikes yet; but
I am told the kit gets very heavy.
ISSfeavy marching order, they call it,
.; When you carry all your equipment.
A rifle was taken apart for us today
,j and we learned something of its
mechanism.
' The Captain did the lecturing on
the rifle. "This is the soldier's best
friend," he said, patting the gnn as
J If he were fond of it. "It is not only
$UNES OF WHITE POSTS
M Ain.WOUNDED SOLDIERS
Unci of heavy wooden posts,
: painted white to render them conspicuous,
are placed across No Man's
Land and through communication
trenches of the Allied battlefront to
aid wounded soldiers in getting to
the dressing stations- hack of their
Unas. The posts are set by members
of the Engineer Corps at distances
which enable a man who is wounded
bat able to walk to swing himself
along from ope post to next. By this
tntr*"* thousands of wounded soldiers
have made their way to safety with"7
Of A Conscript
diary entries written by a 3??IT DMU
the operation of the adecdm draft
other America* men now overseas m
e i memewl'tl to the ooldien at tb
I at the |?iimw at converting Chilian
r called to the colors by any nation.'
loving yonng man, who, at the ontae
ih ones, and who is transformed by tb
oded patriot)
a life taker but a life saver; and it i
your lire?the Ufe of each one of yoi
that Jt will try to save."
I wondered the other morning wh:
a Lieutenant reprimanded a man a
severely because there was a tin:
spot of daat in the barrel of the rifle
1 foond oat today. It doom Dot mat
ter what Is Insisted upon, yon com
tfl lMrn sooner nr lnfpr that tK^r# t
a reason why the officers are so par
ticoi&r.
Wb have formed a baseball teas
and have sent a challenge to the nez
company^ I have not played for man
years; bat the trath of the matter i
that I begin to feel like a boy again
I want to play.
As I come to think about it. I hav
neglected the people at home,
ought to write to father and to Mary
Somehow I don't Quite know how V
write to father. I realize that I hav
lost my resentment; that I am mak
ing the most of the situation; bu
back in my head I have an idea tba
I may be sorry for anything luke
warm I write. I have a feeling tha
some new impulses are stirring fn me
The notes of the bugle affect nr
strangely and I catch myself occa
sicnally longing for the time whei
we shall .start overseas. At times
think it is my haste to have it at
over, or at any rate to find oat jus
where it is all going to lead to. Bu
there is an urge within me that can
not be accounted for in that way. I
is the something that sent my fathe
off to war. It is the something in hln
that could not understand the othe
thing in me, the thing that woul<
have held me back.
1 am an American in spite of my
self.
There are others in the camp tha
feel'as I do. I can tell it in the!
altered bearing.
ai UUU1C wan tci j imcuuiu t%ui
it did seem to me that it might har
gone on.
"This is the soldier's best friend."
I reconcile myself with the though
that Allan Seeger felt this, too.
read his poem today. It is the som
of a real singer, but ir ends with i
feeling that I hare had.
"God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed tit silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep
Pulse high to pulse, and breath to breath
Where hushed awakenings are dear.
But I've a rendezvous with Death
7lt midnight in some flaming town,
When spring trips north again this year
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous
The Government has ordered us U
go through with this thing. Am
whatever else may be sai'1 " me, !
am not a coward. I may o beei
something of a shirker?perhaps
was?but I am no coward.
ALLIES GET BY-PRODUCTS
FROM WORN-OUT SHOE
The care with watch the snoes o
European soldiers are repaired agali
and again has undoubtedly been t
great lesson to the i ?e America!
who clings to mt wai
habits. However, a bat
worn out after repeated .mendingi
would be considered worthless by i
.Yankee. Not so the thrifty. Frend
and English. From one ton of worn
oat shoes, shout 560 pairs, they hari
been able to obtain various prodM
valued at-tj& or about 15 cents pei
pair.
A N D C AM P
- "Politics is adjoaraed."? Preside
* "Don't look for the end of the *
<_ l.eonard Wood.
"Mot ? Il iaL- in 4Kio arnia* nf
0 without qualification."? Ozt
"We will not be content with mer
try to push throogh."? An j
respondent.
" "The wicked Bee when no man p
when some one is hot on thei
Dr. Parkhurst applying to prest
"The yellow peril is the yellow sti
Appeal.
"When you 'give until it hurts' it
than it hurts you."? The Nc
"In the course of our dashing atts
the American occupants oi
touched by our preparatory
fought hopelessly outnumbi
bring in as prisoners two
Herman Katsch, war corrcs
'Zeitung.
"If it takes ten years and 20,000,(
German Empire off the map.
ard Taft. "
Camp Beauregard
To Deliver The
BY IIARTLKl
Former Editor of the Camp Beanregs
1 a U. 8.
e Camp Beauregard, the best of them
all! Located in the Sunny Southland
where there were all tnc aavuntages
through the winter, yet high enough
to get good cooling breexes, Burrounded
by immense woods of pine.
Beau regard ?Ji as been as healthy as
the -average camp. Wc had oar full
share of the epidemics which always
follow the influx of troops from other
camps. Perhaps our meningitis actuation
was as serious a period as a
camp could go through. Beauregard
weathered that storm with a minimum
of losses, thanks to the wonderfully
efficient medical staff and sanitary
officers with which we are
blessed. We lost some of our best
men during those dark days, but it
welded the camp together in a way
that nothing short of life in the
trenches could do.
Seasoned Soldiers
Beauregard is a National Guard
' Camp. It was at the beginning comt
posed of men who had gone through
I the rigors of life on the Mexican bor%
der- and knew more than a little
x about soldiering. Men from Louisiana.
Mississippi and Arkansas who
had seen service with the Guard in
the Philippines, in the Spanish-Amert
ican War, with their recent expefi'
ences on the border were in trim for
' the "big show" when they came to
Beauregard to get down to preparation
for Over There.
The Thirty-ninth Division had a
' running start over the National Army
divisions and the Thirty-ninth made
the very best use of that start. There
? has been little child's play in the
J building up of this army here. From
1 the very beginning emphasis Das been
j placed upon the kind of training that
would fit the men of this division for
the tasks awaiting them in France.
The physical training brought into
prominence the forms of sport which
j developed team work and reached
every man in the ranks. The obsta
i cle course nere was one 01 me utbi
i to be established anywhere in the
x country. This course consists of performances
to bring into play every
1 muscle of the body and co-ordinate
r them so they would come in handy
1 -<J?eo men got into the trenches and
a went over the top.
The hardening up prdbess included
l]a lengthy stay on the target range
i fifteen miles from camp over roads
- which could not have been better
I imitations of those in muddy Flan*
dors if they had been imported. The
r conditions under which each brigade
separately lived for weeks on the
Sm|
nt Wilson. -J a
rar til! it comes."?Major-General 1 Jsd
German camouflage but a victory
?ly holding our positions?we wiU ,r%
imcrican general to a Collier's cor- *fg?jSS(s5!m
ursueth,' but they go much faster
ir trail."? A very old paraphrase by b
nt-day Germany. "
reak."?The Memphis Commercial
. is going to hurt the enemy more
w York World. ^ISfe.
ick to the north of Renneres Wood
a position whioh had been uny
fire refused to surrender and
red to the last. We could only
men who were overpowered."? A ^"IpSSji
pondent of the Koelnisehe Folks ///JjftOTri
BOO men, we are going to wipe the j 7*<
"?Former President William How- (J./jjl //
Expects Its Men
: Goods Over There
i. HARTMAX ^
ml Kd^tion of Trench and Camp, now
range were carbon copies of the life
Innoeaintod with Pep
Deauregard ha3 one of the flnest |
military vaults ui auy unuimu ox ?|y ? .
the Army. Major General H. C.
Hodges was in France during the Wf
early days of the mobilization of the H *
division. When he got back, full of
the sights of the "real thing" and
deeply impressed with the urgent
need of men trained to the highest yMBfoVfiF? A
power of,efficiency, he put that pep
into the officers and men of Beauregard
which has made them "firstclass
fighting men." v^SjH
The vision of our Commander that /jgHj
men "must he bom again" to tecome
genuine soldiers has been caught by h^4k38SWct
the entire camp. Officers and men ^BtttCzSKcfi
alike are training with their eyes and ^?v
guns aimed at Prussian brutality and J>?\ j
barbarity, with their hearts feeling \
the curse which Ihe Hun has brought I
upon civilization. There is a deter*
mination upon the part of every man -y)
in camp that what the German nation \J
has perpetrated upon poor Belgium
and France she shall never again be
! able to duplicate. Soldiers who fight
for principle have their heart in the
struggle and make fiercer, sorer f %y|
fighters than the hircTff" minions of a bpl
hateful Hun demagogue. America iffir f >gB
will swing the world's scales in favor ^
of right and justice because her fighting
men believe in the things they arc
fighting for.
Beauregard is not boastful of any
superfluous advantages over other
camps. There are many comforts of S
life which other divisions have that
| are not found here. But Uncle Sam wrrreinf^
has furnished everything necessary to f ,
turn out A Number One Soldiers. It L A *
may be that some of the obstacles to g- y*- /
comfort have made the struggle |H>
harder, but it has made the product IV j?
all the more sturdy. All minor and BfL j
frivolous details laid aside, Beaure- /JT
gard will show up among the best jg j&C
when its men get into action and the
reports of their successes come in. tJ/R^
The measure of a camp is its met. ^j
The Boys of Beauregard will stand
comparison wxiu uic in uuuw > ??. _. u,^-?
any other camp. When the whistle '"Aa
blows for action the Thirty-ninth is vA AflSJjcQfl
ready to "HOP TO IT." J
THKY WANT THE NKWS
The mothers and other relatives of Bfci$lfc?3SdKI
soldiers in training in ctfmps and cantonmenu
are anxious to learn every- Q
thing they can about camp life. Send
them Trench and Camp every week.
"Why Waste Anything? Docs ft
Make Yoh Hiprlerr
iV'** " ? v ' ?,?*