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' 11 - i Drawn by Oscar E. Lefebrc, 5th Ci :t*f Hancoc WHERE RANK I Anyone with unsteady nerves who suddenly stumbles on the spectacle ot a general of the United States army lunching lnformally with a messenger boy is likely to become a shock victim. The blow Is far worse, however, when the unprepared observer sees another general patiently awaltIng his turn while a second messenger : boy reaches a decision on the relative merits of apple pie and chocolate ice cream. And yet this little incident in the day's work Is a common sight In , at least one spot in Washington, the be. home ot the Government and a city where the question of rank Is a subject tor unemjing discussion. The spot In question Is a little cafes' teria located In the rear ot the build53 Ino- nwnnled h* the Quartermaster Corps ot the army. It Is a decidedly unpretentious restaurant. The walls are decorated jvith steam-pipes, the V tables have never known the touch of a cloth covering, and "the dishes are useful, but thoroughly unornamental. Waiters or waitresses are utterly unknown. Each patron takes his turn in line, armed with a tray, and passes down the aisle. That steady procession includes officers of every rank, civilian employees, stenographers", clerks, messengers and visitors who represent every rank of p ~ life in the National Capital. Bveryjgc." ... one gets exactly the same kind of food and pays exactly the same price for It Credit is absolutely unknown. V Brigadier General R. E. Wood, the V Quartermaster General of the United States Army, is compelled to pay cash for his midday meal the moment he completes the filling of his tray. iS And he considers himself lucky, it he doesn't have to eratt several minutes, . tray in hand, while some pretty little stenographer solves the colossal problem of computing her indebtedness TANK BOOKIE SAYS HE HE WRITES HIS GIRL T "Last week I went and Joined I Tanks, the Bergeant gave a look at n Wfr I didn't understand Just then why hi Lieut, came strolling by with blazes t the gnards!' he bellowed ont?It si |$V:' 'Go, take these dubs-down to the m< ft a dash of pepper, brimstone, brine, a ply write this, Mabel dear, to show treat 'em roagh from first to last, a S& sometimes when the going's good we go crank a tank and harry forth alon goes the tree, bang goes the mine pine, bat do we stop ber? I guess To The Kaiser ^ U.VHA* ( rmfatiy, C. M. G., 0. T. S., Camp k, Go. ISJORGOTTEN v to the cafeteria and Juggles nickels and pennies until she and the cashier agree on the liquidation of the debt. It is an interesting fact, Incidentally, that the younger girls who work for the Quartermaster Corps manage to pnt out of commission each day about twice as much as the average officer of high rank. The heads of departments usually race through a very simple and remarkably light meal and hurry back to their desks. The prepossessing young women who take their dictation bestow more serious thought on their Ice cream, cake md other typically nourishing articles of the average feminine diet, meanwhile exchanging enough harmless office gossip to fill an average newspaper. The Quartermaster Corps cafeteria is absolutely unaffected by the question of rank. If a second lieutenant happens to reach a. stock of sandwiches two seconds before Qeneral "T? - J UVs? AeeJ e# A no rt n r w\ ouior TV UUU, IUC UCau VI uio Corps most stand patiently In line nntll the youngster has made his selection. If a messenger boy finds a vacant place at one of the tables, he occupies it nntll he has destroyed the last crumb on his tray, no matter how many colonels or majors happen to be Btanding around looking (or, a vacant pot to rest their collection of dishes and food. That is why the Quartermaster Corps makes the claim that Its heavily patronised cafeteria is the most democratic Institution In the Nation's Capital. Its uniformed patrons are exceedingly punctilious about the details of military etiquette when they appear on the streets of Washington, but they disregard rank absolutely 1 when they enter- the tray-brigade ' drive that Is launched every noon at the rear of the hard-working department that clothes and equips the men in France who are making the 1 American colors a conspicuous symbol 1 on the firing line. I TREATS 'EM ROUGH," HAT HE'S HOT STUFF! ;he Tanks along with serera] other a and then he turned away to cost. i looked down upon ns men on til a hooting from each eye?'What, ho! ire was some tremendous shout? em and Oil them full of cossedness, - photo of the Rlrer Rhine'?I simyou that we're hot staff here. We herever that the battle's cast, and * grind onr teeth on kindling wood, g the woods up In the north. Snap right underneath the tank's steel not?for-we're the toughest birds < . v; .... . V . i WHEN IS THE V Front speech by Abraham Lincoln at < June 16, War, at the best, is terrible, and and in its duration, is one of the mot ness, totally in many localities, and destroyed property and rained homes and taxation unprecedented, at leoai mourning to almost every home, unl "heavens are hung in black." * It is a pertinent question, often frm one to the other, when is the tvai uk 'real jn tius qucniiun as anj vmvi day, a month, or year, when it is to ei of seeing the time come without our fa disappointment because the time bad cepted this war for an object, a wort END WHEN THAT OBJECT IS ATI IT NEVER WILL END UNTIL THAI campaign, General Grant is reported I on this line if it takes all summer.** it was begun or accepted upon the Urn ity over the whole national domain, far as my knowledge enables me to e on this if it takes three years more. My friends, I did not know but tl few words before I got away from her? just here. I have never been in the ] gard to the war, but I am Almost tei hazard it, it is tills: That Grant is and General Hancock, and the brave < position from whence be will never taken; and I have but one single pro] can best put it in the form of an intei General'Grant and the noble officers i facilitated in their work by a sudden tance, will you give them to me? A* res!") Then I say. Stand ready, I I thank you, gentlemen. SOLDIERS' NEXT OF viti curan n cron IN AUf tfilWUr uu*'" "? CHANGES IN ADDRESS The War Department authorizes the following statement from the acting Adjutant General: Owing to the fact that persons designated by soldiers to receive advice In the event of their death. Injury, capture, etc., fall, In very many cases to notify the Adjutant General's office promptly of changes In their addresses, that office Is experiencing considerable difficulty in obtaining delivery of some of its casualty telegrama, The telegram Is. of course, sent in every case to the address appearing on the soldier's record, and if the party named has in the meantime moved elsewhere (t is returned as unleliverable. The Adjutant General's office finds it Impracticable in most :ase8 to locate the addressee wbo thus Falls to receive the desired notification. It therefore devolves upon every person who knows that be has been iesignated by some soldier to receive t mms?m rtf (his nature to notlfv the _ Adjutant General Immediately when- J aver he changes his address. Care s should be taken, whenever a commanication on this subject is adiressed to the Adjutant General, to . state the soldier's full name, bis rank, t uid the designation of the organization in which he is serving. His r serial number should also be given, If it is known. . The person who Is primarily interested in this matter is, of course, the . one who has been designated by the soldier for the purpose of receiving , notice of any casualty which may occur in his case, and that person justly . can not complain on accpunt of not having received the desired notice if * he has himself been at fault by . neglecting to keep in touch with the . military authorities at Washington. J All correspondence on this subject should be addressed to the Adjutant Qeneral, Washington, D. C. P. C. HARRIS, Acting The Adjutant General. 1 A POETS PRAISE Gabriele D'Annunzlo, the Italian] ? * ??? *K? fnllnwinff mpa. I r ITl&lOr-pUOl, oouuo luo iwuv > WVsage, Inspired by the launching of I the American cargo ship Flare, to the i United States Government: a "Italy's soul, her whole soul, is i vibrating beyond the ocean, for the i ;reat redeeming people as a covenant i and promise are inscribing on the c prow of a powerful ship the name of ;he glorious river which communica- i ted the splendor of victory to all the i raters of the Adriatic. The flagstaff t >f the Star Spangled Banner is to-day c i sacred thing, ltka unto the tree from 1 rhlch hung the Saviour of the world, i from across the ocean let the war t :ry which resounded in the hostile t ikies of Vienna-be echoed back loud .nd strong. In the name of our Union i ill aviators, all sailors, all soldiers of 1 Italy, all victors of the Piave, with trms uplifted, repeat the cry: s Ewiva! Ewiva! l'ltalia!" BOS Napoleon said: ' "An army fights 1 >n its belly." Waste of food over ( here will mean shorter rations Over rhere. a fAR TO END? y ^ < 1 i sanitary fair in Philadelphia, Pa., | g & /J this war of ours, in its magnitude **>'/ it terrible. It has deranged busi- >&? partially in all localities. It lias . ^<*3 i; it has produced a national debt v C* '\f^Sk t in tills country; it has carried 91 it can almost be said that the * * * * j/-Jtr^ H asked In the mind privately, and W"' -id r to end? Surely I feel as deep an /tT- X / can; but I do not wish to name a J\ {_ Hrfl M' . J nd. I do not wish to run any risk V-jyj eljng ready for the end, for fear of I come and not the end. We aohr oh fact. AND THE WAR WILfi I iT^SJ - ' PAINED. ' UNDER GOD. I HOPE 1 VJF1 r TLME. Speaking of the present yiWil; S', to have said, "I am going through 7 ^-3] This war has taken three years; rj 31 ' j f of restoring the national authorand for the American people, as peak, I say \vc are going through I ikt I might be called upon to say a ? (V^l \ but I did not know it was coming liabit of making predictions in reuipted to make one. If 1 were to this evening, with General Meade ' jfficers and soldiers with him, in a : ' be dislodged until Richmond U n Kwltion to put now, and perhaps I rrogative. If I shall discover that ind men under him can be greatly pouring forward of men and assise you ready to march? (Cries of ' * ^ Tor I am watching for the chance. | ABSOLUTELY UNAFRAID" tj|||l A new story of the American fightng man's reckless disregard for dan- //Jlfl"ftflFr 1 ;er which it is one of the greatest If ffilffcy/j iroblems of their officers to curb was ecently told in Paris by Wilbur M. J, \ 4 'C:\ J3 iVilson, a Baptist clergyman from MJZ|\ NT ' . Colorado, who went all the way from . Chateau Thierry to FIsmes with a j 3ennsyirania regiment. W jB ] "With my own eyes." said Mr. Wil- IB-AT%" ^J-^3 on. "I have seen American boys steal r/GjEi ?ut from the trenches to a frog pond {/ /I n No Man's Land, calmly remove vlAI A? fitM heir uniforms and dive into the-cool m, f. -a raters with German snipers not a inndVcd yards away In their trenches. ^ me American boy appears 10 oe ?u wlutely unafraid. The greater the inmber of casualties in his own unit, CWEjSSi he greater is bis resolve to make the EjaSE Germans pay the price. His morale *y- g ncreases noticeably every time a I omrade falls with German bullets in I lis body." W ^bi!^ GERMAN VORACITY ' . .jmCJI \i pHElSfl Read how Graf von Rood, a memer of the Prussian House of Lords, iropoaes to "grant" peace to the en- ^ wtsk! J mies of Germany, according to a tatement of his published in the JQ Goerlitzer Nachrichten": (1) Belgium annexed; the Firm yMA sh part of Belgium to be made au- I onomous. (2) The roast of Flandere and of I France as far as Calais annexed. (3) Longwy, Brley (iron!), Vcr- f f lun. Toul and Belfort annexed. | f \ (4) England to cede to Germany 5 \ ler fleet, several naval stations; to S3 eturn Egypt to Turkey and Gibraltar ?v, " ili o Spain. (5) Serbia and Montenegro to be llvlded between Austria and Bui- . :-? (6) War indemnity of 36 billion lollars. That is all: but that war efore the surprises of the seronV iarne and the second Somme. Save your bayonet thrnsts for the luns; cots and tents are not HunB. WATEB CAGE BALL POPULAR With increasing interest being nanifested in cage ball, one of the MM atest additions to the long list.ol V/flfrMraJSttO* ports played in the training camps frH ithletlc directors of the War Depart ^ nent Commission on Training Camp jjr?%2f\- ^ Activities have devised a number c ^ tew games ID wmcu me rcguiiuu |? / / W| *L j age ball Is used.? Ik f Water cage ball is one of the mosi .cw * opular of these games. As played fj n the swimming pools In the various raining camps, a score or more men an participate. There Is really no imlt to the nnmber of men who may lay water cage ball. The roles of 7j/\ yjjWgj he game are simple and resemble jV "Sjsvlml hose governing water polo. I . Giant volley ball, as played with a iWcyjSH egolatlon cage ball, la another ex- 1yKwMa| disrating exercise. It Is simply ordi- j ary volley ball on a magnified scale. MgXrSQQUB tny number of men participating MISTAKEN IDENTITY "Parlei-vous francals?" asked a f * [. U. C. A. worker of a colored Yank I ??t| "No, sir," came the reply, "I'm Jest KBni i stevedore."
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