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| TRENCH Eg* * jfr g '?ni' ?limine. N. M.-x El IV ' 'a in|> ."( hii-l.'ii. jVrksoiiv'lliV. l'i?.J:ukK< j. ?".* ?? Krariii'v. IJmla Vista. I'al.... A Mat-Arthur. Wn?'-n. Texan '.Waro Li THE BEGINNINC Tl|._^*y America is now at grips with the Hun. The preliminary period of training behind the lines has been oassed. A sector of the greatest battlefront the world ever saw or ever will see is now held by American soldiers. In some places the American line is /X only sixty feet from the German line, fia The American soldiers have been and j* will continue to be under steady fire. It is no secret that Germany regards S America as her most dangercus enemy J* lnc* t^1"t l^c ^uns realize they must IB <"ajconcentrate their energies on the j > - khaki-clad defenders of democracy. HI % Alreadv the Germans have learned Jffl i~& that America's soldiers are determined |U / Jn to sell their lives at the dearest price \m f fla and must be attacked with superior r^TlM The whole civilized world will vatch this American sector, destined IrJ^M IS 'l !S to ro"' Pcr'iaPs slowly but t|L"w I \tV nevertheless surely, forward until the MfiH jl war lores of Germany are beaten to M ^ their knees. The eyes of America. particularly, will be focussed on this jWtj&L sector from which are to be expected n ? '^e usua' casualty lists, compensated for with heroic achievement and the teady advance of democracy upon an autocracy ambitious to spread its -.limy tentacles over the face of the | ON "SEN It is a thoughtful life, is this of ourl Army and Navy, even if sometimes I our officers gently suggest we are not| "using our heads." It takes thought: l? master even rudiments of drill,| rn0re thought to operate machine guns or to hurl grenades and still | 'SSEMi more tncugnt to master tne vitai an self-protection. Some of us arej 'jfiB.ZjjM doing more real and useful thinking in | he Army han ever we did before we |fl|K*2r'^9 put on the khaki or olive drab. j F/ii/vl there is one time when a man's] If ft 1 houghts are of a type different from si WMy' 1 ihose of drill or barrack. Every solu ~'cr an(* every sa'i?r knows that time; t is "sentry-go." when a man has only ll himself with whom to commune II Hirthrough hours that seem interminjf MS' \1 able. We must think while on sentryf iWll cuty, for there is nothing else to do I 1 except to walk post and keep alert. sk B ifw And suc^ thoughts as come up then? u thoughts of home, thoughts of the =.Vi f=^ sweet-remembered past, thoughts of ? w 15 kaleidoscopic present, thoughts of ?M li? the eventful future. To some of us, H IS '.he coming of the relief-guard is like riy-jjr awakening from a nightmare. To ?-~/"y~ orhers it is as the benediction at the 24 er.d of a whole-souled service. But unpleasant as it may be to some njgsSj^U and disagreeable as it appears to all, these hours we spent on post, those IpcggBB^I solemn night hours can be among the En ! ence?just because they are so lonely.! ik A A | When a real man cannot see anyone j ?j] ^ ^ | rise in the dark, he often sees himself 1 ,5,(" ^ UOKITY WILLING : j^iitinniiUTT? Statistics compiled by Provost Marshal General Crowder show that i . ?.il|ji|f4igg out of tj,c i.o57,:>63 men certified for service on the first draft, 639.054 'V\ were ready, willing and anxious to serve their country and made no iixnx <laim whatsoever to exemption. The - willing men composed 60.44 per cent. ] of the total. The other 418,309 men, forming 39.56 per cent, of the total 1 ~ r number certified, failed to appear or filed unsuccessful claims to exemption. - - ..i."; TRENCH i & CAMP rndquart crs lifxrr Kuildin; irk City ART BRYAN I of Co-operutinc Publisher* Newspaper Publisher IrlMnt Times Picayune I*. i>- Moore Vorth Star Telegrnm Amnion C. Carter so Herald H. D. Slater Creek Enquirer-.News A. L. Miller . Utuhc Charloa H. Taylor. Jr. in Times James Kerney [oinra Register Gardner Cowries i.ina City uklahontan E. K. Gaylord ranelseo Bulletin It. A. Crother* a Slat.- Journal Frank I*. Mael.ennan ? i'.institution Clark Howell hleago l?all.v New* Vlelor F. Ijiwton tie Observer \V. R Sullivan la Herald Bowdre Phlnlay Ida State XV. XV. Ball nivitle-Times L'nlon \V. A. Elliott nge'.-s Times Harry Chandler ind N.-ws l.eader John Stewart Bryan Yril.une F. S. Baker >u I'ost 1 lough J. Palmer Mornine News ...Charles E. Mareh tghani (A'a.i News I4. P. Glass , l> C . Evening Star Fleming Newbold ?u* l>eni<..-rat Elmer E. Clarke st?n. S t\. News and Courier.. R. C. Slegllng Tleuns Item...... ..James SI. Thomson i mi-ry Adveitiser C. II. Allen ille Courier Journal Bruee Ilaldemun n I onto l.lslit Charles S. Olehl "ork World Hotf C. Sella Telegraph P. T. Anderson on a I War Work Counell. T. SI. C. A. of the hove named publishers and papers. National Camps and Cantonments. Civilian I OF THE END America is now to bear the brunt of the world's greatest war. Her soldiers have been pronounced fit to take their dIsccs beside the veterans of the French and British armies. Her mothers, fathers, wives and children' are resigned to the fates of war, knowing that America must pay no less a price for her safety and security than has France or Great Britain. The great hour has come. The doom cf autocracy was sealed when! America entered the war and its death) knell sounded when a sector of thej battlefront was turned over to her) stalwart sons. President Wilson has said: "The culminating crisis of the struggle has come, and the achievements of this, year on the one side or the other must) determine the issue." No American doubts for a moment whit the determination of the issae will be. Like President Wilson, thc| whole country places a justifiable and :">m?5ciir>ahl? r?lianp# iinnn and ran fidence in Americasoldiers^ whoi carry with them the tradition that their forefathers never knew dei at on J the field of battle. This tradition is safe in the keeping of the American soldier of today, whose name shall I ring down the corridors of time as! "the liberator of the human race." [TRY GO" in the light. He finds himself cogitating of things that appear at other times to be vague and distant, even unmanly. He thinks of his own smallness in the great w.orld that swims and swings above him. He thinks how little of that world he really knows and, for that matter, of how little the world really knows him. And in his mind there came?who can deny it? questionings about life and death and about the God Who ordains the course of every man?even as He shapes the orbit of the stars that semaphore their messages from afar. We learn some strange, new lessons in the dark and, reach, in the shadows, some conclusions after which we vainly groped even in the high noon of thoughtless peace. And it is on "sentry-go" that the victories of the war are won, because those victories, after all, are the triumph of the will and the spirit over I the world and the flesh. What is to make this army of ours the decisive factor in this war? We know the answer?morale. And what is to give; us that morale? The courage of the, individual. And what is to fix thej courage of the individual? A solemn.: personal adjustment of the great things of life, and the small, deep1 down within the heart of the fighting! man. You may call it a sense of duty,j if you will. You may call it abandon. You may call it fatalism. In reality, it is decision. And that every man must reach for himself?alone. WOltliD'S KIGGEST REGIMENT j regiment in the world. It is to bo composed of 6.000 "lumberjacks." whose duty it will be to cut and get out timber from the French forests for use in construction work and bridge building. Only men not subject to the draft will be accepted for enlistment. The absence of flavoring in mess puddings is no sign that the extract business has been listed as an non \ND CAMP EZZEZZZ! Philosophers who piped in ros the egg or the chicken?" might is about us, upon the cantonmen You curse reveille. Ah. yea?bu for whom there "ain't no sich-thing'-' which his Job entails? Thinking of t when the universe was a swirling clu deep. And the Bugler, unlike the univ him up. He isn't even allowed an s guard. And the guard is human Bugler! It is more horrible to contem I had there been no one around when th waiting in the wings for the Call Boy I And. too. if you wish to push the discu | Suns, who wakes the guard! All this concerns the Bugler ant there is Taps. Think what it would mark the long day s closing. 11 mi dreamless bed before?but enough of 1 The Bugler cannot be approximat) His duty is not to approximate Retre Assembly and mix it with First Call, letting the Lips Call Where They May ; arise with his silver trump to greet th but not the music! Of a certitude, the Bugler has coi ination to the limit on The Bxtent of J become so important in his own eyes I unless he sounds the signal. U.S. A. NOW Ut. TONS OF GEi Arguing the impossibility of America's placing an army in France, the military censor in Germany said last summer: "In order to bring a division over from America, 75,000 tons must make the trip (across the Atlantic) [ twice. Therefore, from the mere lack of space the transportation of such a body of troops within a certain fixed I time limit is impossible." Believing this, as they undoubtedly did, coming from such a high source, the poor, deluded people of Germany are due to receive a great shock when I thev learn that the United States has in ft.-: troop transporting service today 260,000 tons% of shipping formerly controlled by'Germans and that the sixteen vessels represented in this | tonnage have made one or more safe land unmolested trips across the Atlantic. freighted with thousands of , American soldiers and immense quan lines OI military ?uppiio? ivi ! fighting men of the United States and her allies. It will be an even greater shock to them when they realize these are the same sixteen German vessels they were led to believe had been wrecked beyond repair and put out of commission permanently in American harbors on the day the United States entered the war. The surprise and dismay of the German people will be in proportion to the thrill of pride which stirred every loyal American heart when announcement was made by the Navy Department that this great armada had safely reached French ports. The restoration of these sixteen vessels, among them the Vaterland, now the Leviathan. 54.284 tons, and placing | them in the transport service, consti| tutes one of the most thrilling chaptors of the war and is another inspir ' i ug evidence of the splendid co-operI ction between the Army and Navy. The old and new names of the restored ships, together with their tonI tinge, follows: Leviathan. formerly Vaterland, ; 34.284 tons; America, formerly | Anierika. 22.622; George Washington. name unchanged, 25,570; Mount .i STfTiS?001 lUGIiER ly peace days on "Which arrived first, VP well train all their wits, now that war t mystery: Who wakes the bugler?- || t ho.w about the lonely, solitary figure ? Have you considered the problems iim carries the mind back to the days 1 108, when void was on the face of the ,'jt 'erse, has no Nebular Theory to bolster j | Harm clock. His only harbor is the ; ^ What if he should forget the iplate than what would have happened |s ie Stars and the Suns and Earths were _ '] to warn them when their act was due. . i ission back and back beyond Stars and 1 His responsibility to Reveille. But , ' mean to have no Taps with which to f 3 Bugler should slip, and go to his V horrendous conjecture! 3. . Of course, he can. but he shouldn't. * ' ft jat. . Nor can he veer, while blowing ( His duty is to Hew To The Line, not And think of the panic if he should e dawn, and could think of the words ^ mpensations. He can dilate his imag- - . rji His Power. lie can. with Chanticleer, as to think the sun.itself cannot rise -I J UNG 260,000 RMAN SHIPPING Vernon, formerly Kronprinzessin Ce- , \ cile, 19,503; Agamemnon, formerly Kaiser Wilhelm II, 19,361; President Lincoln, name unchanged, 18,168; President Grant, name unchanged, 18,072; Aeolus, formerly Grosser ^ I Kurfurst. 13,102; Mercury, formerly " ;;ff\ Rarbarossa. 10.984; Pocahontas, for- Kg mcrly, Princess Irene. 10,893; Huron, formerly Frederick der Grosse, 10,- IV. 771; Antigone, formerly Neckar, W 9.835; Madewaska. formerly Koenlg <1/ William II, 9,410; Baron Von Stuben. , V formerly Kronprinz Wilhelm, 4,?33; Baron DeKalb. formerly Prinz Eltel . | Friedrich. 4,650, ahd Powhattan, formerly Hamburg, 4.472. Enormous rewards were offered by the Gernian government for the sink- Tr ing of these- vessels on their first trip. ">1 I but the transports were so carefully and thoroughly convoyed that they f successfully ran the submarine gauntlet. ' FATEFUL 1018 end, should hear the song of peace ascend. The Prussian hosts still face their [a.e, and through their warlike motions go, and would convince us. if. 'yg,. j they could, that they're in shape to saw much wood. But all their fighting men who made of war a pastime 'i&X > and a trade are dead, or shy of legs |-or lamps, or fenced in foreign prison camps. No longer does the Teuton ~ f find in war a solace to his mind; of ' \\ such rude games he's had enough: he'd rather play at blind man's buff. 3 I The Prussian armies are composed or dotards who for years have dozed be- "w g fore their fires, so old and weak that walking made their hinges creak; and boys who have .been drawn irom V 1 schools to drill around with deadly 8 tools. The hacks and has-beens of 2 the land bear arms at Kaiser Bill's command. To face them go our stalwart sons, who'll climb the frames of war-worn Huns, and show the world how Yankee snap can draw new lines upon the map. When once our 2 boys have got their stride in battle on the other side I don't see how f Bill's weary crew can help but throw j up hands?do you??J Copyright, i by'George Matthew A Jams.). | ~ > ' - 4 - - f WHY TRAMPS |jg?| DON'T JOIN Sgl THE ARMY f *;> /
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