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I f '. I INTERESTING LETTER FROM BUGLEtjHARRY WAKEFIELD j TO OLD MIHD CO., FOURTH RE- J ICRttlT CAMP. ' To, all *iy dear old buddies, shake hands, 11L wait, give It to him. he's savin* fa. f fc. Greettgs: Have been so dlng. blasted busy that 1 cannot write to |1 ow of you Individually, bo here's T a letteofor all. ' j'-^V ' I A Swell Tour. , " - 1 had a sleePer to Wash- i f in*ton/ much different from the way ! bane ddwn. Remember, 31 hours j OB a loft smoking car seat! Oh, big; bj>y, tney threw me on an upper berth ; JUKI i slept from 10 p. m. till 7:15,' a. nv, you know, old Luke! Well, i' . after I reported at fourth camp head- | quarters I enjoyed a beautiful drive, [ one hour to Charlotte by a sweet j 2team! We arrived the same day I ?e started. aiy last Iew hours in 1 Cfafitlotte will always be a pleasant | memory indeed. Bad to say, could i i neither read nor write, as dear old I V Base 92 had put belladonn in my J V glims and I was as wide open as dear | \ Broadway, so I retired early and! had a fine night's rest. ^My private train arrived at 7:30 Jiad I slipped Into a little lunch room j E 9|k ^ouS>ht a cor.ple of things for I breakfast. Well. I got 20 cents change , . from a $1 bill. I ''jfctthence I wandered for four hours | seeking the army medical museum, found it, and thfi C. O. told me 1 I -to got a room. Oh! how easily he j wiiA. It, but? I Lonesome Luke in Search of a Home. I I ?Many weary miles did I tramp that I k| ? ! ,'jflay looking for a room I could not ? at laat my P?or leSR Save away, j ! airtl my eyes were nearly blind, so I j Letters From A in Dearest John: i I saw it in the paper. On the rlgwtt page, prldefully isolated from > Ike column, under black headlines, f ^Tour name jumped out; the rest was ! 'only jumbled words. I read It again v and the words began to fit together. 8o 1 read It once more to be sure, ) went to Junior. ?*He lay quiet, comically wide-eyed, gravely thoughtful. Our conversation was something like this: "Junior, dear?" 5^. An-goo!" "Muvver has something to tell you! Utten carefully because this is one of your life's big moments! Always! you will look back to It with reverence. When you are old you will try 10 recall It, and of course you won't ? Mteeed, but trying will make you I kappy. t -It's before you are old I want you I 10 remember most, though. You'll 1 always find It lurking In the back of , your mind or down round the center 1 of your heart. J will do all sorts of Interesting \ 'or yoU- ^ y?ur chIn ? 1'eo your jfision will be above sordldness and 'other things which keep close to earth. It will tie wings to your aspirations so you will desire the best, and it will bring confidence so you may not be afraid to ride as) piration. "But It's yours for always, dear, to have and to hold. Do you under^"**Ah-goo!* "Yes, of course. Then I'll tell you at once. It's about someone you don't know very well?yet. Favver. Pride of him is for you to carry In your heart forever, j , can't tell you the whole story now. You wouldn't remember it anyway. But it began Over There, whan Favver waded a river, with death roaring all around, and led his men into a city. Yon see it was so < : w 7 i Tour name jumped out; the rest was only jumbled words brave that a great man gave him a decoration?the Distinguished ServIce Cross, it ia called. Besides, they have made him Captain. Is it quite elear?" "Ah-goo!" I Thus the announcement of your honors to our son, John dearest. 1 have come to think in terms of Junior; perhaps because he is so like yoh. There Is no need to say how ffroud I am. h*S|We had a* little celebration the L&ffht the news came; it happened also to be ypur birthday?rtM you HUNDREDS OF TONS OF JAM FOR U. S. SOLDIERS .1 Tons of Jam will be fed the American soldiers during the next few months as a result of saving an immense crop of evergreen blackerries } throughout western Oregon. These berries, because of their large seeds, and the fact that they grow abunI dantly in a sparsely settled country, ] have for years gone to waste, but . this year the Government contracted with various parties to pick and preI serve the fruit for the soldiers. One ( contractor has an order for 400 tons | jatii, auu luoia mt o uucis aimusi 1 as large. il i how hk knew i A private passed an officer without i nlpting and was stopped and asked: I | | *Why didn't you salute me?" v/. V Private? ! did not see you were a I second lieutenant. 1 Second Lieutenant?^-How do you know I am a second lieutenant? Private?Because you stopped me. SfrM -Judge W . , the force of habit Veteran?When I get out of the army I'm never going near a big city. m 1 Recruit?why? ' I Veteran?Because if a traffic cop should blow h's whistle, I would instinctively st??i t to police up the tract.-t?Judge. _L^? put up tor the night at the Service Club. Red Circle Community, at Pennsylvania avenue und Seventh street, and had a floe bed, thick mat- ; tress, sheets, pillow, blankets and a bath, all for 35 cents. "Yer gotta hand it to 'em," n kind friend whispered in my dainty tube-like hearing aperture, that a room could be caught | on F street and I hurried and nabbed | it before anyone could grab if afore i me. My work is wonderfully interesting, movies and slides, and I labor in a nice little town overlooking all Washington and it's only six flights of stairs to run over four dr six times a day. I got a sweater and sox from Red Cross here, and . found sweet names in each. Oh! baby! I wrote to 'em, one on Saturday, 'tother on Surfday, and had a swellofa time; yea! leave it to your old bugler. By the way, I got promoted from bugler to private. Our weather is warm and I , llko the city and the girls, bless 'em \ all. All the Presbyterian churches j have been lining us poor unsuspecting ; future generals into 'em by asking i for 100 men 011 a Sunday evening, and 1 after you are full of chicken, potato I salad, ice cream and coffee and such. I B. U. tl-ful angels to wait upon you. 1 why. how can a guy refuse to attend I evening services? (And they never 1 hurt me a bit!) Special mention must] be made of the Church of the Cove- | nant. 18th and N, N. W., Washington. I D. C. They have an "All State* } Klub" every Friday evening and such a good time is had by every one that goes. Oh! kid! liberty! I can sail into I my Joint at any hour I feel like, but j during the week we do do an awful! lot of night work. My day is like this: 7:15 a. m.. drill to 8, eat till 9. work to 12, lunch, back at 1, labor to 3, back at 6 1-2 to 9 or 11. So you see I how soft it is. (Did you ever get i overpaid $10? I did). I wear the Caduceus now, so that makes me a ! -g i Soldier's Wife remember? We hope the box we sent ; reached you in time. Annie put all1 her skill into the birthday cake. 11 fear it may not have withstood the ] voyage, but It was packed with lovI Ing care and assistance of the entire i neighborhood. She made another cake, an exact! I duplicate, which adorned our birth- j j day table. Betty lighted the candles and Ruth blew them out and It all was very holiday-like. Betty Insisted upon having your place laid, which 1 thought made you all the more absent, but It pleased them. They will return to school in another week. Betty will enter the third grade, though she is only seven, and I am a little anxious about her. When Favver wnded a river She concentrates so completely thati it seems to wear her out. Do you think It would bo better to keep her at home this half year. Ruth will enter first grade a little under age, but 1 am not afraid of overstudy for her. You should see her; tanned dark brown and perfectly round. And such excellent lungs and vocal chords! She uses them every minute. I have visited the Auxiliary once. The work is spreading and you'd hardly believe such an amount could be done there. We have rented more room and are buying twice the amount of stock we bought two months ago. Also we've opened another branch. Wo have, a new member, once dietitian at a Chicago hospital. I happened to think of a plan for having her work out menus, balanced and nourishing, but saying of wheat and such things needed by Undo Sam's iiicyuono auiu?U. 1 lUUUgUl WD LUU1U 'have the menus printed and distribute them. from the Auxiliary, chanj ging often for variety and to include products of the Reasons. I She was eager to carry out the Idea i and It has been a success from the beginning. Members report how much less they eat and how much better 'they feel. I've an idea nearly everyone eats too much, anyway. Dear, you are going to be in for unlimited local hero worship when you return. I almost can see your dismay! After facing the Boche guns, though, I'm sure you'll meet philosophically Mrs. Borden's receptions and the Candlers' attempts at Ionization. Besides, I'll help. Betty and Ruth send love, and Junior looks so wise that I'm sure he is sending some interesting message. All of my love, dear. HOPE. American Gas Masks Are Far Sperior to German The tVar Department has made public an interesting statement regarding the American-made gas mask and its efficiency on the battlefield, where it has withstood with the most excellent results the efforts of tho Germans to overcome Its effectiveness. General Pershing's men have been unsuccessfully bombarded with musj tard shells and every effort made to drench the American advanced positions with deadly fumes, but the valjuable work done by the Gas Defense, ! Division of the Chemical Warfare ; Service has blocked the enemy's ef' forts. Hy actual teats the American-made gas mask gives twenty times the projection afforded by the German gas mask. There la not a slnglo case on record of an American soldier falling j ! victim to a gas attack when pro- ' tected by the mask that la now being ! manufactured in the United States j Jon a quantity basis. j Two boys in a PYench hospital had each lost an arm, one his right and the other his left. Klsie Janis cnnic I along one day to give an entertainment and the boys arranged to sit together so they oonld clap each other's 'hand. How's that for "reclamation"? ( $$:/ . * $> ", - -%? ORIGIN Ali 19 OFFICER J Ix?rt to right?Lieutenants Hieutzi Schwlngcr, Van Natui, Edwards, Ilarti doctor. I >J. D., MOVIE DOCTOR. j Rest Regards to Lieuts. Cunningham | and Dohcrty. Wakefield, the little blonde orphan, 1 received from Jack Hustler, the big brute of Camp Greene, an epistle and news as follows, for my old tent mates un rourin company street: Geo, Von Suskil, biggest hardware dealer in Passaic. N. J., transferred camp near Atlanta, Ga. Billy Moles, world's best mail clerk, transferred to I labor battalion, Camp Greene. Adam Nowmiller in Mays Landing, N. J., I doing flne as a chandelier player (he i always was fulla brafcs). Jack Hust- ' ler is a keen-eyed plumber In Q. M. C.. Camp Greene, and then he ran outa news. ' Dear Editor of Trench and Camp, send me Ave copies of this letter when printed, as I have a bad case of | swell head and wish to boast of hav- 1 "As soldiers it is our duty to can mistice until we receive insti General Leonard Wood. "The patriots of America must no until the Hun has been brc power to menace the peace c Secretary of the Uncondition "Th n Hun nflnaf V? r? .4 n tered the war."?Corporal tionary Force. "What we want to do is to catch \ so we can give them another M. Alexander, commanding "Marshal Foch has inspired eve him an infinite debt."?Pre] Generalissimo of the Allied"^ "Knock imperialism on the head, get through."?Field Marsh the American soldiers. "I am happy to send you my waj cess of these operations."?J Pershing on the operations i rTriANKSGIVING i i \ <?$ 1 I See/7?5 to /r/eyou/?e^PuH-/n Pi A-> f i r S ?? ( , \ Goes 5 youc/oot-^r^ I Hnow Lv/? c?t- tinre b) ; ^S0A$li I I ? ?i '! l-V - ' TRENCH AND CAMI i OF 354TII LABOR BATTALION,CA> nan, Spring, arc, Meanangcr, rockett, Hi nan, Lamb, Anadalo, Brandos and Ande l ing my name In pfint. I i WniMn^x- I ' WW HOUIIIIilUU iiuvco. ' Hey! boy, you oughta see the lady j | police here. Oooooh! One on Seventh and O streets is a sweet dream, i 1 feel at home around the streets I here. They are torn up and you smell gas. and I feel as if I were in dear old I New York. At corners .where street cars stop I they have platforms two car lengths I long. Very thoughtful of 'em as i streets are so wide you grow whiskers crossing 'em. Uniforms of every ?&tlon except the conquered one are seen here and | It's Interesting to see how they return your salute. Youghter see the mus- I cle on my right arm from saluting. Thank heavens, street cars cost only five cents and a paper is one cent. Yes, my dear, I assure you, one cent. Our capltol is a wonderful sight at IS ry on without reference to fcn ar uctions to the contrary."?Major it relax their efforts for an instant mght to his knees and shorn of if the world."?Myles F. Bradley, &1 Surrender Club, jm the day the United States cnSteven Allen, American ExDedi \ * ip with those beggars (Germans) ? Licking."?Major General Robert ' the 77th Division Over There. j ryone with courage and we owe J nier Clemenceau'B tribute to the < trmies. 1 C Do it now. God with you, you'll ' &\ Haig of the British Army* to { rmest congratulations on the sue- ' larshal Foch's message to General af the American First Army. ; roRONE ortMi ( e c h a i b J 15 ' . 1 t < [ imi/* ' ^ ' > LTAIN J. K. WASHBURN, COMMA lrley, Dcm, lloffmelstcr, Kahn, Ho rr, rson. light when they play searchlights on t, and on that Monday, the 11th of November ? Wow! Wow! Wowl Vushlngton sure did make a noise. 1 ar.not attempt to describe It; doubtess you have read ft In the beat pa>er In Dixie. The Charlotte Observer. I swear It took me 4ft minutes to ro3s Pennsylvania avenue, so many kutos, people and noise making drives, dy dear, 1 was simply bee-wll-dered. incie are quite a low null nere, >laced In little parks at the intersections of^he busy streets?Y. M. C. A., v. of C., Jewish welfare rooms, also a lumber of Red Circlo service clubs. Street cars are nearly all middle loor type. 1 believe, at present, D. C. las more autoa than any city on ,'arth. The street lights are a work if art, copper and beautifully made, ^oads of bicycles are seen, also men >n roller 6kates. A great number of imall parks and a quantity .of statues ilso. Took a trip out to Chevy Chase, ind say, that is a beautiful spot, espeiially now. The woods are so pretty ind such beautiful bridges and vialucts, they have our deep ravines and ovely country homes, large lawns and nore grass than I ever saw In my ife. As you pass through side streets ou can see grate fires burning in the venings. as it becomes Just a bit ihilly 'here after sundown. I would like to tell you of the wonlerful reconstruction work being lone here at a hospital Just outside he city, but do not understand it all veil enough to describe it rightly. They are fitting wounded men for heir life work and it's so interesting >ne could write of it for hours. At night searchlights are thrown tn traffic policemen, because streets ire so wide that center is dark, and hey may be disgraced by having a *ord run over them. I was enjoying myself the other xight when a sweet young dream sez: 'You'd be a fine dawer but for two hings: Sez I, "What?" Sea she, 'Your feet." f you thinjc it's easy to write this letter fust sit down and do one better. 3randy. gin and whiskey. To fool with thom la risky. heard that they would harm me, That's why I Joined the army. One thing I miss greatly is our >unch getting together and singing, living In a room 1b losing all the rlendly fellowship and good old lowling times we had. My best rerards to Mrs. Pirney and Miss Ash at lostess house (they have food :ream and coffee there, boys), and ilso to my friends at all the huts, fine lecretarles, all of 'em. and real men. Sspecial regards, to No. IDS and my >ld bugle corps; Treat 'em iSnb. low's that tooter Holland of Eighth lompany, you old, brlcktop. Write to ne, boys. I can't answer you all. but jromlse to write to Trench and Camp is soon as possible. We have something to be thankful or on 11. 28. 1918. WAKEFIELD. 805 F St. 8. W.( \Vnshington, D. C. THROUGH THE . LOOKING (jLASS "Eckter" Jack Gllck. motorcyclist lite at headquarters, has been disharged from the base hospital, where le was writing a new play, and hie ppearance on headquarters campus irought out a hearty welcome, for ack has promised to make most of is "hams" before the adjutant general lecldes to permit us to become the tigh livers every Philidelphian of us iras "befo' de war." Someone, we don't know exactly /ho, has suggested that Sergeant .ortscher's name be placed on the irlority list for discharges. It is lOinted out that Chawies \a n iderable item of expense to the govrnraent, what with his sumptuous reiasts and his hardness on army lothes. Sergt. Lortscher is a somtambullst. minus the first syllable, ind through force of habit (he runs ip nnd down the company street to educe; he peregrinates after all reneral order abiding men are rolled lp in their blankets. ffergt. Maxwell Mc.Arthur has reurned to headquarters after a 60-day eave of absence. Sergt. McArthur vas one of the firs: enlisted men at ;amp headquarters to do personnol irork and has made a host of friends, vho were warm in their welcome to dm on his return to duty. Sergt. Joe Nelson Kirshenblalt and Vaudeville Jaek" Glick want to osablish a great dividp between the .mateurlst and the professional in heatricals. Someone has said that he base hospital harbors one or two mngers-on of the footlights and-that hese men. whoever they be. are neanderlng as the theatrical reprelentatives of Camp Greene. The two irofessionals from camp headquarters tre very anxious to show Charlotte ind neighboring cities that stage proluctions are really worthy of menion when associated with such names is Belasco. Ziegfleld. Glick, Shubert, s'e'.son and Selwyn. And they are or he opinion that rival engagements at iny of the Charlotte theatres during he same week wnuld K.uuutu?o ?f the desired show-down. One lust toast, 'ere we part must go o Capt. Davis' football team. The amp personnel office squad comprises ts speedy a lot of real football play>rs as ever wore moleskin in on army lutflt. More percentage to camp loadquarters! The Personnel outfit wants to know, tonest and truly, if its marching was eally as good as all the girls in Charotte say It was on the big Monday light occasion. And now they are foing to teach us singing. Too bad >ur uniforms don't fit as well around he knees as some of the officers', itherwiso we would all be fit to step 'rom tho army into the chorus at ths lew York Hippodrome without change >f costume. Sergeant-major Schafer has not ieen so busy getting out special orlers that he forgot to Issue this transI ^ --vl'. ? f ?Photo by tho Moons. JTDINO. Captain Washburn; Lien tenants fer: HEADQUARTERS AMERICAN EX. FORCE8 "Special Orders, No. 315. November 11, 1918. EXTRACT 1. In compliance with peace terms, the President of the United States, dated November 11, 1918, (Pershing division), the following named Hun hogs are transferred from the castle on the Rhine to Castle de Hell and will report to their superior, the devil, for assignment to duty: 1% Kaiser Wilhelm 3. The "Clown Prince." The boys of the U. S. afmy will furnish the transportation in double quick time. If rations are necessary, bayonet punch and liquid lead will be served. The travel directed is necessary In the military service. By order of the U. S. A. (Fighting Personnel) U. 8. A. Ever since Sergt. Love came back from northern climates, he has been wearing the long face and pensive eyebrows. The reasons suggested are a hasty wooing, a hastier turn-down, of even1 an abbreviated honeymoon. : Anyway, it was not an engagement or a wedding ring that he lost the night of his return. Anonymous A1 has turned in this ode, which we think is good stuff: TRANSFERRED. Goodbye Dear?You were a friend, You proved it from the start. Fain would I keep you all the time, But all good friends must part. My first impressions when we met You were a Joke.?Unwise, But often since you proved to be A blessing in disguise. When others failed I turned to you, My final?last resort; Where you weren't meant, you fitted u?, To comfort and support. . . Since then I've slept in sweet content. My head reclined on thee. No substitute e'er played a part. None better could there be. But orders came?that we must part And orders,?orders are! My overalls now All your place. Farewell?mosquito bar. AROUND THE BASE HOSPITAL. Thursday of last week an Interesting volley ball game was presented between the white and colored convalescents of the base hospital, under the direction of Ffeyalpal Director Bergman. The teami are known as the White Elephant and Dark Horse. The game for the championship was fast and furious and witnessed by a number of excited spectators. Two tames were first played and each side had won and the game for the final honors was necessary. At first the colored team started the lead with the score 8 to 4, but finally their morale was broken and the white team went ahead with the scoro standing at 11 to 16, when it was seen that the white WRIG nerve-r pense, fa Hr discomforts W are more eas W if you have a f WRIG I to set your tee its long-iastin I savor* its soc I in PL ralmlnd t V The Flavo ^ ,L_ '? j/r '^1 bov? would be the winner. Tbf score was 21 to 12. The lineup of the teams ww: fpUffrai *arafr White Stephen' Dark Schoelles Brl'g^l B HottkAB 8k>vtok Ark wain G at '.in*;^ Taylor 8m 1th Franid^^H Lewie HVamoh ?! Norman <*" CharIeflp.|^^B$ Slovlck acted aa referee. The work of phyelcul development *B)^ under the direction, of Director Barf- lK man, with the nureee at the hoepttjtf* v M la Interesting. These classes meet every Thursday with 40 nurses regularly In the class and they go through. a the rapid Are and critical lnstruc- j Hon of the director. However, they r, do not stop with one day's exercise if a week, but every day these nurses g meet for their games of volley ball. Informal basketball, other military games and calistenlcs. This work Iff Is In charge ofjlflsa Parish, who is dlreotor of the nurses' home. While most of the sick and ailing ? who are convalescent have been sent away rrom me nospltai cured, a few -i are left to take the instruction of Physlcal Director Bergman, who had the pleasant duty of bringing them back .^Pj. to their former condition. These classes meet every day and It la ihter- c eating to watch them work. RED CROSS BUILDING DEDICATED The Red Cross building at the Base hospital was dedicated and formally turned over to the government Thursday afternoon, under very fitting drcumstances. Many officers and sev- Br eral hundred citlsens of Charlotte '*gB were present to witness the event. Colonel J. M. Phelps, southwestern dlreotor of the American Red Cross, represented the Red Cross organisation and officially turned the structure over to government use. Colonol A. C. Macomb accepted the building in behalf of the army and In turn turned it over to Lieutenant Colonel George A. Renn, commanding, officer of the U. 8. army base hospital^ Camp Greene. \ * 'JB During the afternoon the visitors from the city were conducted through the building and light refreshments JB were served. The dance in the evening was on# ?B of the most pleasant of the year at? . the hospital. Music for the event furnished by the headquarters orcheg^ . * tra, which was formerly connecteft with the fourth recruit camp. A dance will be held Thanksgi\bigf-vS night at the hospital Red Cross bu '1- 9 ing. The camp orchestra will nlsh the music and the committee in charge follows: Arrangements?Sergeants McN'ah, Francis Mills and Brill. Decoratlc-tfMfl^^HB ?Sergeants Kelley and Barth nd '.yfll Corporal Oswold. Floor-serges Frank and Rose and Corporal Dawior.-i*J Music?Sergeant Goldstein and Vrjvatea Raymond Myers and Neal. | i MA VP will i 1 I SWEETHEART I S Son or Brother In tralntnf > jpjHBk > "ftr camps In the America: ; ..'JaaBA < M[ Army or Nary f If so, mal ? > /^Tji him a packafe of ALLEN* S I oS FOOT "EASE, the antiseptl 5 ,i^8B ) { powder to be shaken lnt > the shoes and sprinkled 1 I \ \\j the toot-bath. The Anrtrl-Jji tfoBW > Uwv oan* British and French > Tf/f troops use Allen's Foot- I WTs&?asp& -I S freshens the fleet. It is the . M > greatest oomforter for tired, < aching, tender, swollen feet, S i.r. um and gives relief tooorns and ; bunions. ( The Plattaburg Camp Manual advises s men In training to snake Foot-Ease a ) in their shoos each morning. Ask (your dealer to-day for a 25c. box of s Allen's Foot?Ease, and for a 2c. stamp ) he will mall It for you. What remem< brance could be so ac'ceptablo ? leyI at, nolse^^^ll \ acking sus- J I tigue, thirst, 1 f > of all sorts 1 I sily combated 1 J th upon, with J J g, refreshing 1 % ~""\ ' . " ' : X h-?
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