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/ s? TRENCH Published wet kly at the National Camp? =*?cR^ National Hn ^jP^g Koom 5M. Polll ftftttfltftttrgj JOHN STEWA Chairman of Advisory Board Camp and location g# ffj Camp Beauregard. Alexandria. I.a New Oi H ' . . H :"'imp Bowie. Korl Worth. Texas Korl W g* it It B Camp Cody. Iteming. N Ilex El Past a '"amp Custer. Battle Creek. Mteh Battle i Bj W Ik W 9 Cnmp llevens. Ayer. Mass Boston . Camp I>lx. Wrlghtxtown. N. J Trenton B W K W 9 Camp l>odge. I?es Moines. Iowa I>es Mu a ^ I Camp Boniphun. Kort Sill. Okln Oklahoi Bugyg^ camp Krem.nt. I'alo Alto. Cal San Kr IBlliiiaWtthn Camp^Kunaton. Kort Klley. Kan Topi ka jbtj|'IffpHFrttel '""P Cordon. Atlanta, tl.i Atlanta |- c ?mp Kearny/Yinda Viata. I'al. Jj^*" ? i'amp M.N..lr"*Admlral" kid WmI? . Ituek. Ark. . K ka in JbA0 K-lly Kiel,I and tamp Stanley ! ) A" ftMl H '"?'?P rptun. Yaphank. U I.. N. Y New Y< ifl LAUGH, BLAST Some of the kill-joys who come toj 1 visit the camps as if they were visiting 11 a menagerie seem to think there is a - something sinfully shameful in the ? jokes of the boys. According to thejl *>- shocked appearance of these *vorthies, [ the moment a man puts on a uniform,| | he ought to be as solemn as on in- j i ' k spection: and as for a joke, what right I has a man who is going to scent pow-j der to let himself smile. There's a 1 funeral ahead, they argue: prepare forji II jfft, it now. i J We of the camps should like for a, I M ^ " few of these mortals to spend a few i < I days in any camp and not laugh?not i ||j because there is anything peculiarly ji ll| /j amusing about sentry-go in the snow, |s Ml / but because if you do not laugh youjt ?L I are aPl 10 ^or8et how. This "grim j I f; 1/iPi business of war," as they call it in,. C-t'M Congress, is like any other business, j If you look at one side of it all the; time, you grow stale. If you keep j t \\j thinking about the "crosses on the I i 8^ST% BUTTONS AND BRAVERY \ If you swear under your breath as t y?u *?et rcady *or inspection, and if j s '/J&mRf* vou ask y?ur Pal what a soldier's pol- < vSlsh has tQ do *"s hghting punch, r be so pood as to remember how Brit- t ish buttons contributed to British11 l bravery. f -* ^1 What have buttons to do with i More than you think. t ygjj For on that desperate'retreat from t Mons. when the British had to fight t and fall back and fight to the last' r breath of the stoutest old Tommy, the! >y?\$ &? officers said, "What's the use of mak-, t >nS the poor devils polish their but-! t tons and burnish their equipment?!] TjjBfljj^H They get little enough rest; give them t ?3^p^B what they earn." ! s jBHsrs^B So they told the boys that the rou-j r tine was suspended until further or- 1 ders and that they need not polish;' ffmrC their buttons any more. Tommy is It Ul^' '*'te every other soldier, and when his if / 'iB)>'? captain told him he might leave this! off. Tommy reasoned that shoes were t tatno morc important than buttons, or, c I Eyjffr equipment than shoes, or face than! i I -*\ equipment. So he let his beard grow t HB and his equipment get dull. He did i s lwT not fight with the mud on his boots jv ^ISnrff or give a thought to those blasted jv V S buttons of his. Naturally enough, it f ?? J "CONSCIENTIOUS KJKCTOK" i vi S A good story is told by Sir Auck?vM i land Geddes concerning an interfer- J ing public house loafer and a C'ana- \ dian soldier who bore on his shoul-| \ 1 der straps the initials "C. E.." which c I stand for Canadian Engineer. t M1U4WM 'I'he soldier, his face u study in \ m?iilfiiU"9 one. ill rated wrathfulness. had the I (f j civilian by the scruff of tbe neck audi t was apparentlf^just on the point ofj\ llfc'lfcjk KivinK him a liirashing when a be- 1 g lated policeman j>ut in an appear- e 11ckk ??? < i( | "Now. then, what's all this about?"| demanded the co stable. ^rnintnrm "What's it about?" replied the ("a-1 HfMHIlllfM nadiau. Riving the wretched loafen (,111 "till/HIg an extra shake to emphasize hisj( ^ words. "Why. he called me a con-1 AM'UAHKTK A'.LV SI'KAKING a K is said to be the most important J ?32S3 letter in the Russian alphabet, but 4 Jays seem to have predominated late- " ly and this probably accounts for the inability of the Russians to C. f TRENCH A & CAMP i and Cantonments for the soldiers of the id quarter* Izer Building It City KT BRI AN of Co-operat Inn Publishers Newspaper Publisher leans Times Picayuhe I>. 1>. 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A. of tho YOU, LAUGH! till," you get as morbid as though you jelonged to the grave-diggers' detail, ind after you have been morbid long inough, you either go crazy or become Hardened. ^ Viewed from the other side, the jood humor of the men is a positive, isset to the army. There never was jut one victorious army that never smiled, and that army was Cromwell's. Every other body of fighting men that won a place in history knew how to mile, how to laugh and how to make He very best of the hardships that ame. What helps the army helps the Tien who make it up. AH- things beng even, the man who knows how to imile is a better soldier than the man vhose face is like crepe on a door k TV.. lint inlrvc ic c?Mnm i mess that sulks. And what is the reason for all this? Just the plain common-sense maxim hat the man who finds life worth livng will fight harder to live. r; POLISH AND PUNCH was not many days before Tommy rcicmbled a hobo so closely that he :ould not have identified himself in a nirror. And when one Tommy saw he earmarks of the "bum" on his pal, te decided that something had hap>ened to him and that his pal had lost lis punch. Consequently, when Tomny had to sustain the next charge of he Germans, he argued there was no ise standing if the other man intended o run. He beat him to it?and that neant threatened disaster. At length the amazed officers saw he connection between button and j >ravery. They traced Back the changed. jsychology of Tommy and they de-i ermined that no Tommy thereafter ihould ever lose heart because his ness-mates looked like cut-throats, i 3ack to polishing his buttons went rommy and back with the polish on| he buttons came Tommy's old-time >unch. That is why he is polishing still, no natter whether he is in billets or lodging German grenades. And that s why Tommy's cousin is polishing, oo. A uniform does not make a oldier and polished buttons do not vin a bar or a medal; but the soldier vho looks fit feels fit, and when he eels fit he is fit to fight! WOULD SUIT KXl'LOKKK Hearing that Captain Rolad! Vmundsen, the polar explorer, had 'isited the American sector on the western battlefront in Europe, many tf the soldiers in training camps in I his country remarked that "lie would have felt more at home here." n one of the camps in Wisconsin the emperature recorded one morning vas forty-two degrees below zero, n other words, the mercury shrivelled up like the Kaiser's hopes of lermanizing the world. "THE BEST MEANS" Writing to the editor of Trench and "amp a soldier at Camp Sevier said: "Trench and Camp keeps us posted ?n all the live, snappy, up-to-date lews of the camp, as well as war news n general, besides abounding in imusement and entertainment. It Is also the best means of letting he folks back home know what we ire doing." Do you know anything the home oiks would like better? ? CANTONMl THE ] NOT Member of Parliament, thou the other things which humorou of the initials make it?but Milit Wearers of the plum-colorec where would "us boys" (including all be without you! Minions of the law i order raised to its highest coefficient! on you, upright, stern-visaged and uni ing post, afoot or mounted! M. P.. among those other above-i nations, might be the Men with a Past flower of city police forces, from Dai Chi. They have faced the striking riol and solid blue, in many a port and clii burglarious second-story man and thi ventional light overcoat. Their quarr three-year-olds to murderers. And sc but they too were Men with a Past section. Now they're in the Army of Free visitors and keeping back the crowd watching tbe trains for "tea", smuggle ber of soldiers under their watchful ca more serious lines are light. He stan of Law-and-Order imbuing the Army. WANTED MONEY DIRECT A Russian peasant in a German I prison camp, having heard that ap[ peals for assistance were being answered, decided to write a letter and ask for money with which to buy rood and clothing. Not knowing to whom else to appeal, he wrote a letter to God, asking for one hundred marks. His letter attracted attention at the censor's office and was referred to the War Ministry. The officers there collected twenty-five marks and sent them to the Russian prisoner. thinking they had thereby done a good turn. The prisoner, however, was not well satisfied, as was aphia rpntv tn which he thanked God for the twenty-five marfjs but cautioned Him to send futare money direct rather than through the War Ministry, saying that\the rascally officials there had kept ieventy-five marks and had sent him only twenty-five. COLLEGE MEN DOING BIT Only six of the seventy-three Harvard students who won their "H" in athletics last year are still in the university. The other sixty-seven are in the war. More than fifty Yale professors and instructors are now engaged in war service. a on a airv A ATrv I A bKAl^lU AliU Ul FR*NK itt rifuD Alrimucr 5AMO CAMP L06AH % HOuSrOH -Tt*AS The First ( gh mayhap as powerful, nor any of 8 and semi-humorous interpretations Ary Police. I, black-collared Robes of Distinction, soldiers under the age of ninety-six) sprouting up in the midst of law and Wheels within wheels! Blesslng9 elenting, wherever you may be holdmentioned humorous and s.-h. desigThey include some of the pick and . T>' v.v. J i..sin<r V V and 1 10 Deeruuuna, ni\,iuu<i>D ... ;ers with their night sticks, side arms se. They have winged the bounding, b feather-fingered "dip" in the cony has been everything from runaway me have been clerks and farmers? in their particular block of quarter dom. It's everything from directing I at a regimental boxing match, to jrs. And, considering the vast num; ire, the duties of the M. P. along the ds as a friendly and efficient symbol TOMMIE SIZES UP SAMM1E 'E'd rawther 'ave 'is coffee than 'is beer, 'E cown't tyke any pleasure drinkin' tea, 'E calls "The Lunnon Times," in langwidge queer. Official organ?of a cemetery. 'E speaks in such a blootnin' funny aye? 'E talks of buddies, side-kicks, mutts and geeks. ' But 'c can 'old 'is end up any dye, And every blinker listens when 'e speaks. So 'ere's to you, Sammic IVammie, if you'll let me call you so. It seems jolly strange to 'car you call p kippv blink a bo. But no matter zcot yer langzindge, and no matter wot you do, _ Hi daresay we 'are some faitins zcot . seem bloomin' strange to you. ?Detroit Saturday Night. TENTS PREFERRED The bitter, cold, winter weather has caused a great many civilians to ji ' express sympathy for "the poor boys living out in the llelds in tents." Soldiers old and new. insist that they are more comfortable in tents, properly put up, protected and heated, than they would be in cantonments or barracks. m .ORIOUS FEELING '/ " J a 1 ' M Stripes
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