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Page 4 |H TRENCH AND CAMP Lynn W. Bloom, Editor. Published at the National Canton|i| luff ments for the soldiers of the United RH III States, under the auspices of the NaJfij H| n tional War Work Council of the Y. M. f|U Bl R C. A. of the United Slates. IM UK B CAMP GREENE EDITION. HQ M I Published every Monday at Camp Qfl HQ I Greene. N. C.. by the Army Y. M. C. Oil llll BO w't^ the co-operation of The nJ I) jy Charlotte Observer, Charlotte. N. C. Business office at Y. M. C. A. Administration Building No. 101. Phone 9100. * "-"Honi-d received I ."News ana curic?Hu?uv..? at all Y. M. C. A. buildings on Camp (Jreene reservations when properly News stories, personals, anecdotes, poems, jokes, cartoons and clippings are wanted. Contributions should he delivered or mailed to the"* Editor's office or submitted to a member of the staff before noon Saturday of each mailim; subscriptions. Three months 25 Six Months 50 One year $1.00 Advertising rates upon application at the Business Office of The Charlotte Observer. A free subscription to The Christian Science Monitor. an international daily newspaper, is offered to any officer or man who would enjoy reading this world-known exponent of clean journalism. Address. Christian Science War Relief and Camp Welfare Committee. Camp (Jreene. N. C. TelWith this issue. Trench and Camp at Camp (Jreene conies to life again. Everywhere in making the rounds the past week the announcement of the intention of the War Work Council of its intention to resume the- camp paper seemed to be received with much enthusiasm. We hope those who are anxious to see camp doings in print : ? ?a !> ?? that this will not oe aisappoun.ru ??.. ...... yClI LLI^fl paper will be considered a part of the life that is the lot of the soldier and BrninifB that everything possible will be done to make it a much anticipated mes senger every week. Owing to the Ml In DJSuU small number of troops a: the camp aJtWm during the summer the paper was ^ 1 K suspended as a matter of economy flj RL9 and expediency because to publish it was a waste of time and money. Since fl ml th?? camp has aguirt taken on real I H Oil activities there is plenty to talk about. feJJ| Mf There is no better way of telling the ifl folks back home about the camp than through the columns of this paper H and we arc anxious to get interesting items that will not only appeal to the Ifl 1 JJP men inside the camp hut friends and yd relative-: who are not here. Leave j# yll your items with the secretaries of the wJrTI respective organizations represented A if U H or address Ujeni direct to Trench and |T| U || t'Hiup Editor. signing your name, and ul ui MB they will he cheerfully received. Don't you soldiers wonder what the slacker back home is going to do when li? faces you upon your return? Do you suppose he will have nerve mjjnPft enough to say. "Well. .old boy. I air glad to see you back." Not only the v oh9! soldier has a sneer for the slacker ^^ *1 Ui-' "ommiini!v at home has be \ come so thinned of ihe ranks of the good men that the presence of ablebodied men who ought to be in the army is the biggest attraction in tlie J world and they ,will sooner or later I be shamed into' the service. They yjKVK^I ought to be and the general public v. \f Jrjfs I wonders what they are doing running I loose anyway. it B Trench and Camp wants all men in I *| the camp who have had some newspi F rW^ paper experience to show their colr ^1 ll wrs" You have ,lone il by enlisting iA I under l"n<le Sam's banner and now iri order to help make things more livel.v about you. come across and make /[il yourself known by either dropping a note at any of the "Y" buildings 01 [ I . notifying the editor of the paper. Thh issue of Trench and Camp is probably ?L new to most of the men in the camp (A So many are raw recruits and they ! have not gotten permanently located 11 Uy| and while they are new in the service ZBM this paper wants them to feel at hc.nu jt I because it is published for the soldier.' and their families back home. It is the only paper giving all the news of Camp (Jreene and when you have ^ finished reading it. get an envelop* from one of the "Y" huts, wrap i around the paper and send it lionn one-cent stamp on the wrapper. In || m| Soldiers, when you write home. giv* I II II the number of your company wltl which you are conected and instruc I I II your relatives and friends to als< H || || place the company number on you: address. In that way your mail wil |H Bf he more certain of delivery, or send i to the "Y" nearest your company. Those who have the privilege of as | | jft sociating with the soldiers . of thi MU 1 camp are convinced that ^they ari surely a set of fine men, enthusiast!* I|||HUbb over their work, good natured and a optimistic as they can be eren thougl things go wrong at times. r'-'-gv? - -.-SZZxSZS* TRENCH I COLONEL L. W. KENNON. When the sad news of the death of the commanding officer of Camp Greene was received last Monday I morning it was hardly believable, j Only a few days previous he had left | the camp on a short furlough well and hearty and in the highest of spirits. His sudden call into the Great Beyond caused a wave of sympathetic sorrow to pass over the camp where he has been the head for several months and where his associates and friends learned to love him. To meet I wo* n?vai?fnrmt his snlendid military bearing as well as his affaj ble disposition. Having given practij caliy his entire life to military pursuits, his knowledge of that service was althost faultless and he died a true, loyal American patriot to the last moment of his life, lending ^very effort toward the conquering of the Hun. In honor of its commander all social activities for the week were suspended and proper military honors observed for the passing of one of its great men, while the men of all ranks paused to drop a sympathetic tear upon the bier of one they loved. With the arrival of so many new men in camp it might be well to call attention to these boys that Camp Greene soldiers have set a pace "over there" which is hard to beat. In the recent encounter with the Huns the crack regiment composed mostly of Minnesota boys who finished their training here were thfe ones to clean up a whole brigade of Germans at Chateau-Thierry, getting every man and coming .out themselves without losing an American soldier. Folks at home as Well as the soldiers of the camp do not hardly real[ ize what this military movement would mean to them if it were not I for the work of the Y. M. C. A., the I K. of C.. Jewish Welfare and other | kindred organizations. The soldier i knows it more than any one else and I I it is simply filling a. place witn a 111I tie ray of home life which he ravenj ouslv craves. j By spring the American army alone will equal th^t of the Hun army. I which ought to settle the difference | right now for every Yankee has made up his mind that he is going right on I to Berlin when he gets started. It isn't a question of- whether or not it will be done but a question of how soon those American fighters will be turned loose. Last week General March made the statement that 1.600.000 men had em- j barked for all ports and that as high as 285.000 had gone across in one month. That sounds like business is I picking up. doesn't it? Trench and Camp cannot be bought by the American soldier. It is free; and published solely for the best interest's of those boys who are a part i of Camp Greene, therefore you are | not urged to keep your subscription ! paid up but to take something free. The old saying that the American boys always bring home the bacon ! i has been changed to "We have got to havft ihn Rhine." , Have you written that letter home? . If not send them a eopy of this paper, lit costs you but one penny for the [ I postage only. We haven't seen any change in the , American spirit but the longer it is . allowed to boil the stronger is the determination and expression of the men to get them a Hun. KITCHEN POLICE. (From The Splker, France.) Kitchen police is all "kitchen" and 1 no "police." The only thing about an i M. P. that would be useful in connec tion with kitchen police would be his club with which potatoes could be mashed in a steel helmet. One of the duties of kitchen police is to hold spuds in custody and keep suspicious eggs under surveillance. Kitchen policemen do not wear stars until after the have risen to the rank of brigadier general. One good thing about the establishment run by the kitchen police is that its menu consists of considerably more than bread and water. The K. P.'s should be commended on the fact that they never demand your bread ticket. Kitchen police are not the kind of police that break up poker games, but they make an "awful cleaning" once I I in a while when luck is coming their I wav. , The German prisoners of war were not arrested by the kitchen police. A buck private peeling: spuds in his k undershirt is the kitchen police's ' equivalent for a plain clothes man. . The motto of the kitcheiT police force is "Try to bring: home the ba' con. never spill the beans, and always j know which side your bread is but] tered on." t The cooks are getting wise to a certain person who comes for seconds, " thirds, etc., and at his fifth cup of 3 coffee one morning they asked him if 2 he didn't like coffee pretty well, and b the poor fish says,N"Sufe, that's why 9 I' mwilling to drin& so much water i in order to get a little." Sort of ran, eh??Caducous. ^ND CAMP FRIDAY THIRTEENTH LUCKY. Friday the thirteenth wasn't any Jinx for Gen. John J. Pershing and his men, but it happened to be one for the Kaiser, n aisu nappciicu *.w be a big: celebration in honor of the great American general's fifty-eighth birthday. Gen. John Joseph Pershing, a son of the state of Missouri, was born on September 13, 1860, in Linn county, ; Missouri. He attended school and received the degree of A. B. at the Missouri State Normal, at Kirksville, In I 1880, at the age of 20 years. He then |?went to the United States Military ! academy at West Point, where he | graduated in 1886, at the age of 26 years. He was also given the degree I of L. L. B. by the University of Nebraska in 1893, seven years after flnI ishing his work at West Point. I General Pershing was married to j Miss Frances Warren, daughter of | Senator Francis Warren of Cheyenne, I Wyo. In the great fire which swept j [the Presidio in San Francisco, in August. 1915, General Pershing had the ( misfortune to lose his wife and three of his four daughters, ten years after] his marriage in 1905. i His military -career began in 1886 when he was commissioned second lieutenant, sixth United States cavalry. Six years later, in 1892, he was made I first lieutenant, tenth cavalry, and in j 1898 was commissioned chief ordnance officer, being honorably discharged from volunteers in May, 1899. j In June. 1899. he was made, major a. a. g. He became captain in the I a?* ciotaa Aovalrv in Febru 11131 UllllCU X? _ _ ary. 1901. In August, 1901, he went to the fifteenth cavalry, and was made brigudier general in the United States army in September. 1906, and major general in September, 1916, during the times of the Mexican disturbances. He was created general In October, 1917. He was sent to France in May, 1917. General Pershing fought in the Apache Indian wars, and in the Philippines, for several years. He was also an attache representing the United States army with General Kuroki in the Russo-Japanese war, and was also on the general staff for a while. His military reeord is that of a conscientious and careful officer, and hjn record has always been one that has commanded the highest respect, and when it was found necessary to select am an to head the American Expeditionary Forces in France hlr selection was made with little hesitation shortly after the formal entry of the United States into the war in 1977. ' GAVE VALUABLE SERVICE. The Red Cross in this camp did some wonderful energetic work nmnnsr the 5.000 limited service men during the cold and rain of the past week. Many orf these men arrived In camp wearing sport shirts and l<uv shirts and without coats. Major Gardner the Red Cross field director, spent Saturday night and Sunday among these recruits and distributed 1,100 sweaters, as well as a lot of warm socks, doubfless saving many a boy from having to appear at sick call the next morning. The Caduceus thinks this good stuff. ?Cuduceus. ? Ordnance Sergeant Arin M. Peters was chosen .as democratic party committeeman for the county of Milwaukee at the primary-elections in the state of Wieconejn on September Caduoena. COOTIES NOT ALfc IN FIlANCR.fl The JLmerican army is a clean# I But there are some cooties in German cooties. Don't wait for 'em 10 bito?kill MJH 'em now. You can hcur 'em buzzing 'rounds W~ if you'll listen | They're out for blood. Don't l?t a/1 ! 'em get it! Kill 'em! /. W Report anything suspicious to yoar^ k I company commander. .t I | Taken from bulletin board. Signal kl Corps Training camp, Fort Leaven-* | worth, Kansas. CONGRATULATIONS. Trench and Camp desires 10 cuo* gratulate The Caduceus on its splen* mMx did issue of last week representlrf'BH the work of theJiase Hospital. It is MK full of news ana Ringer and wortl^j[| the good support which it received.*! The boys were busy selling the paper I Saturday in the camp and Charlot&'flHj YOU SAID IT, BOY, I THEY'RE "IDEAL" J They live up to their name in j| every way. All the fellow ] will tell you that when it J comes to leggings you can't' < {, IDEAL i CANVAS I LEGGINGS You can put them on easily?in j hurry. They fit comfortably afr.Krl : the time and always look They wear well, too, because the^v||f| are well made of good qti*Hty??R| ; O. D. Duck. I Sire No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. S I {|EI I Calf 13 in. 14 in. 15 in. 16 in. | (Pat. May 21. '08?Dec. 2T, '10?JjH j Get Them Wherever Good Legging* Are aJUJA I J If you can't bu/ them I near camp?write to Njj Loll for the Num ImU? I -Iff I
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