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vm vf ' As Much As You i | To Pity Him Whe S?" | J (Before beginning this article the ri upon which to jump and give three rouj about a menagerie, but such is not the ci at Camp Kearny.) j&r' (Edlto It was California that elected WilL con. It was California that produced Hoover. Knowing these facts, Uncle jgK^ - Sam has decided that it's now up to California and the neighboring West tmC y- ern States to lick the kaiser. And IB|203!.-: the West is coolly and quietly getting *5?|jp$ji ready to do the job. Unmi here in sunny Southern Call Vfornia, where the sea zephyrs softly ?$C cool the fevered brows of the Fighttr?;' ing Fortieth, where the sun shines all the year round, where ,tbe oranges jSpS.'-- grow and the birdies sing, where coyotes yap the horny-handed western 1?fljjt-' warriors into the arms of Morpheus wjRj,. and where wildcats slink across the moonlit patches of sage-clad mesa? down here in the paradise of AmerW& lea, here at Camp Kearny, the fronagfc tiersmen of the West are getting [?&'. ready to start on their biggest pio' neertng expedition. They are getting 3r-'.- ready for their drive on to Berlin. Kloqnent Facts p ; We in the West don't need to use ffe'.. superlatives in telling of our bloodgs' curdling ferocity. Websterian oratory is not a Western product. And |kC.. the flowery vaporizings of our friends in some of the other camps would constitute a guard-house offense out here among the modest and brawny?j& armed sons of the Golden West. We must modestly base our claims on facts and let it go at that. However, .if these same facts don i snow uw Camp Kearny includes on its roster the finest blood in the land we're y- . ready to resign our job as editor of 5; the best Trench and Camp edition in te". the country. We don't call our paper ; the best as a matter of boasting. It {5-V is an assertion of fact. To begin with, we hare the best climate of any cantonment in the country. This much is conceded. It has been conceded by the Minnesota i Investigating Commission which reIfi&f pently made a tour of all the camps ST of the country and reported to the i*1' governor of Minnesota that Camp K Kearny offered better climatic condl i tions for training than any camp in E the country. c ' We don't hare much history to " brag about We in the West don't j|v go much on precedent as everybody 'knows, and we don't have any Chicamaugua tombstones to brag about V either. When a fellow gets shot or Sfe 'cot up out here we just let him lay until the buzsards carry him off. |?!- . Tombstones clutter up the prairie and m> In times like these we have to Hooverize on grave space. "Yon Said It"?MEN Bp- But after all, It isn't either climate toh'..- or history that makd a camp. It's wfr men, and we have 'em. From Colof&V' rado come the Rocky Mountain RangThey are a bunch of hard-boiled, jjough-riding he-devils. Originally . cavalry, th&y hava racantlv hoax v May Loathe The Kai m This Western Bun ader would do well to draw up a chair, col ring cheers for the West. At times the ret ise. From start to finish Mr. IVork writes TPi DAun n-nnif r Camp Kearny edition of Trench and < turned into doughboys. But infantry drill haa tamed none of their wildeyed ferocity and "Wild-Cat" Beacon, their leader, saya that when Kaiser Bill hears them come marching up Wilhelm Straaae he will get the chills and will be so badly scared that his whiskers will turn pink. "Wild-Cat" isn't a braggart either. From wild and wooly Montana comes "Montana Kid," the champion broncho-buster of the West and hence, "or course, of the United States. "Montana" has never been thrown; he has served with the Texas Rangers in Mexico and has had every bone in his body broken. In his odd moments the cowboy paints pictures and he has sold some of his pieces of art for as large a sum a* three hundred dollars. He belongs "Rarin' to. Go" "The Arizona Coyotes" make up the One Hundred Fifty-eighth Infantry. They have been in service since May, 1916, and are getting restless for the journey "Over There." They are hardy veterans and during their long stay on the Mexican border they had many skirmishes with the Greasers. A troop of fall-blooded Indians ; from New Mexico are enlisted in one of the infantry regiments. Five of the Indians play on the regimental band and are known as good musi: clans. When Private Bear Tooth and Corporal Soak-'em-on-the-Snout get to talking about what they are going to do to the Kaiser they look as ferocious as their grand dad, "Sitting Bull." "The California Griszlies" make up DO YOU KNOW? That Trench and Camp is unique In the history of Journalism and warfare because It is the first paper ever printed exclusively in with thousands of miles separating tho various units of that army? Copies of this paper will be more valuable at some later day than they are even today. Save your copies by mailing them home regularly. In the columns of Trench and Camp will be preserved a vast deal of information about the personnel, atmosphere, spirit, determination. military activity, human life and humor of the camps and cantonments throughout the country and these columns will be read with avidity by returning soldiers and future generations. These thoughts should not only prompt every soldier to preserve each and every copy of Trench and Camp, but should inspire him to write stories, poems and jokes and draw pictures for "the soldiers' own paper." iser, You'll Have ch Gets After Him ' or stove so as to have something handy ider may think he is reading an article exclusively about the soldiers in training "amp) one of the crack artillery regiments of the Fortieth Division. They are a distinguished lot and include in their numoer ceieDriues or every iuu auu shape. There are artists, poets, prizefighters and athletes. Stewart Edward White, the novehst, is a major in the regiment and the Jovial Peter B. Kyne, of Cappy Hicks fame, is the captain of Battery A. Both Major White and Captain Kyne are excellent judges of newspapers. They apprecfate the merit of the Camp Kearny edition of Trench and Camp. They have promised to write for the paper. Mary Has a Good Eye The One Hundred Forty-third Field Artillery contains such a hatfdBome lot of men that little Mary Pickford has officially adopted them and comes to visit them once a month. She eats chow right alongside the biggest, brawniest huskies in me regiment." rreu luuwituuu, me regimental chaplain, is thb champion Pentathlon athlete of the world. He won most of his laurels at Stockholm in 1912. Camp Kearny claims the only Mormon regiment in the country and ~tn the One Hundred Forty-fifth Field Artillery are sixty-five direct descendants of Brigham Young. We have other celebrities?nearly thirty thousand of them. Even the Camp Kearny mascots possess a certain air of distinction which is not common to the ordinary run of army mascots. For instance, "there is Hiram, the burro mascot of the One Hundred Fifty-ninth Supply Company, who chews tobacco and spits blood. There is Jo-Jo, the monkey of the One Hundred Sixtieth, who shaves every morning and likes to eat soup. And then there is "Peggy," cub bear mascot of the One Hundred Fortyfourth Field Artillery, who deserted in a sensational fashion recently and is now up for court martial. Geographically Speaking Our general?Major General Fred erick 8. Strong?is a man among men and he personifies admirably the spirit of the division now in training here at Camp Kearny. General Strong is tall as the California redwoods, as straight as a New Mexico pine tree. His hair Is white as the snow-topped Rockies of Colorado, his countenance is as rugged as the Grfind Canyon of Arizona; and he carries with him an atmosphere of quiet, silent strength ? the spirit which men imbue from the deserts of Utah. General Strong is a man. He is a warrior. He is a fit commander for the Fighting Fortieth. We of the West have little more to say. From our kingly general down to the merest buck private In the rear rank, we are out to hog-tie the Kaiser's nanny. When it comes to scrapping, watch us. We are there like a million. We are the snorting, rip-tailed, roaring. Fighting Fortieth. We are from thA Wast. what it costs to mm\ equip one soldier j|||0 A detail which throws interesting WOgSS* light on the war's colossal cost is found in the statement that our Gov- 3 ernment spends approximately J156 in equipping every Infantryman for service in Prance. A little calculatlon will show what it will cost to prepare a million or a million and a awgrA | half men for the front. The equip- wjpwft A ment expenditures for the foot sol- Kgy7 jj\ dier are classified under three heads: ttvl <JLu Clothing, eating utensils and fighting Kr' equipment. Under the latter group the rifle the cost of which is figured at $19.50, is the most expensive^ N item. ThiB amount varies from time M to time. The gas mask, which also " 'Im In nri mmpwhaf is esti- B' mated at $12, and 100 cartridges at $5. The total coBt of the clothing Is \:Vm?////i\ slightly over $100, the biggest items |nW^rj being $18.75 for three wool blankets, $14.92 for one overcoat, $15.20 for two wool service coats, and $10.20 for two pairs of shoes. In all, there 3^Zf|l[m are 23 different kinds of articles listed under clothing. In the eating- j| utensil group are included food to be aMfcjfciM carried in the haversack during field i i jj service, a mess kit and cover, can- I teen cup, knife, fork, spoon, meat II I I can, haversack, first-aid kit. and a I II H pouch costing approximately $7.70. || II j Why "Horizon Blue" Is Used | For French PoiliLs' Uniforms l|| | I W I American khaki is good. But 9k\ yjm "horizon bine," the color which the French use for their uniforms, is p said to-be better still. Against certain backgrounds it is altogether in- |iV^rrfiliMmW visible from a distance. The reason ||/fnl|lfllnMH for this is that it Is the color of dis- Hjj|' tance. An artist painting a landscape puts his objects "back" by KraE^BI] washing them over with a mixture of white and blue, the horizon blue. This makes it appear as if there were air between the objects aud our eyes, so that the objects themselves appear The uniforms of horizon blue make the wearers appear, if not actually a part of the landscape, at least consld- 9 erably further away than they arc. And since a man is recognized by his fl shape rather than by his color, the H blending of his clothes with the color nVjuMVvV of the horizon helps his "camouflage" FOOLING THE HUNS (HmH According to exchanged prisoners Hb W/M who have been restored to their (r/,uk friends after enduring the hardships Z/Z/JA of capitivity in Germany, one of fhe F dodges of the Huns was to get to W^Zy&7M know, if possible, what the occupatlons of their prisoners formerly were, that they might set them to ?nn/l nf tho fatherland. Hut the prisoners were up to their tricks and gave them the most extraordinary trades ever heard of. One W ? said he was a "treacle bender," an- * other a "jvatchinaker's striker," a third a "milestone inspector" and a ml ( Ii|r fourth a "bladder blower," says a Ml I lliU London exchange. The Germans 1 IS were completely mystified, for they U have no sense of humor. N .*5 Some curious trades and occupa- 11 l'w_^ tions can be found in the vacant sit- lj I uatiocs columns of the-daily paper. / "Conaol operators" are not. as one I 11 might imagine them, something on J the Stock Exchange, but operators in ( leather on a boot bench. 1 mJT A "common hanger," which I I I [J sounds wildly anarchistic, is merely III II I |^ an artist in wallpaper. A "budget I I Lgr I trimmer" is no expert in finance, but jff works in the coachmaking trade. vJff /?/ PRISONER NUMBER ONE rbrjr 4 Harnby Boyle, an old soldier and Mjf til marine, who went through the Sit- yr/Jw.jM ting Bull campaign and served /Jfllf).If through the Spanish-American War without receiving a scratch, was the ^sT.//'j first official American prisoner of /y war captured by the Germans. He ^-\\V\ /Ay was captured when an American yes- \f//\ sel, on which he was serving as a member of the crew, was sunk. In the German prison camp where he yMNjjg&j is now confined, he is known as "Prisoner Number One." All the other American prisoners in the camps in Germany have numbers. jJJmAJfflfM GOOD USE FOR RAD METAL jJHBp The War. Department is being Mroy urged to remove the bronze statuo jQByyy. J of Frederick the Great, now standing wjngj//A in front of the Army War College in KUBk/AR Washington, and cast it into bullets KB to be shot at German soldiers by SHARE YOUR PLEASURE If you are not sending Trench and I Camp home to your mother and other H relatives, you are not sharing with flHHHHH them whatever pleasure you derive from reading this paper. Mail it
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