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(Editor of the Camp McClellan
Bffj'.* After nosing its way through the
gentle slope of Alabama hills the
train rumbles into Anniston. Then,
after the general clamor heard
KV . around most any small city train station,
regarding the almost pathetic
cry of cabbies begging you to patron5
~ *ze them, you walk a few blocks and
grab a jitney to Camp McClellan.
A nice little six miles of beautiful
scenery is then slowly?maybe slowly
B v . " the jitney driver feela at his leisure?jogs
past, and you arrive safei
ly, perhaps safely, I should say, and
then you ride around a bit through
rows and rows of mess shacks, tents
and guards and everything else military
until you arrive at your destination.
Let us say that you have arrived
In the cantonment just as the sun has
| drifted beyond the distant hills?just
as retreat is sounding and tbt flag is
slowly gilding down the high white
pole up~at Division Headquarters.
The bands are playing the "Star
Sjjangled Banner," and the bugles are
heard everywhere. Soldiers are standing
at attention. I think that it is
^ - the most wonderful part of the day,
the most inspiring moment of the
soldier's Hfe?the culmination of the
dhy's labors, its trials, its joys, its
mishaps apd its sorrows?it is the
jfc-. . supreme moment of the day here at
Camp McClellan.
Inspiring Night
Mess, then comes night. The warm,
pacifying night. The kind here in the
hills of Alabama that stirs the heartEl'
- string*- and makes the blood tingle
with patriotism. You go t<r rest contented,
to dream of home and the
folks back yonder, and how you wish
that they could be here with you and
see it all?just for one day, be in the
greatest camp on God's green earth.
Eg*~ You sigh with resignation and turn
over. Then, suddenly right near you,
then all round from everywhere, over
gj; the hills and from the valleys comes
the blast of bugles?Taps!
HjcL " ? The nearest ceases, the next, the
next and so on until the last sound of
the final call gradually dies. Faintly,
faintly ancLJtis gone, just as an echo
from the flrat.
?' We go to sleep wondering at the
akif " beauty of creation.
At uawn we are awaxeneu Dy uie
Igo? ./ first blast of bugles?reveille. A new
day begins. Every day at McClellan
Isgffc'- is a new day, a great day and a day
of marvelous achievements.
Again you see the oganization
come out in all Its splendor.- Such -a
spectacular body of met), all equipped
to the highest mark of efficiency.,
A View of Camp
We journey to the top' of a distant
wgf " hill which afTords a perfect view ofi
gS^- the entire camp -In all its activities.
It is a tiresome trip to the peak of the
Infant mountain, but once at the sum
rait we are thankful that we spent the'
energy to make the cliiAb, for one
sweeping view of all that la below is
worth a dozen more difficult- ones.
Isfc.-- To our left and down a little we see
the battlefield. It reminds you of the
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At Camp McClellan
? A. RIPLEY
l edition of Trench and Camp)*
| stories you have read and the pictures
you have drawn in mind of the con
nici -uver mere.There
are the trenches, and "No I
Man's Land." V{e can even defect.
without the aid of bur glasses the
brown snake-like figures of.the reconnoitering
party. Over to the right
with our glasses to o^r eyes we can
make out the artillery ready for action.
Then drawing our eyes across
the valley to the southeast we watch
the working of the signal corps. Ah,
they are working fast! Something is
up! Let us keep an eye on the
trenches and artillery, for the "boys
are about to go "over the top."
Our eyes travel back to Man's
Land"; back to where we were watching
the brown bodies worming their
way across the vast expanse, and they
look so tiny, just like we have seen
people on the streets far below when
we looked over the top of a high
building in our cities. They are work
ing their way in and out and around
the shell craters. In some of the
holes we make .out the uftmistakable
lines of the machine gun, though it Is
partly hidden from view by mud,
weeds and Other camouflage.
Realistic Battle Practice
For a momenb our eyes leave the
activities below us and we scan the
camp beyond. The rows and rows
of buildings and tents are almost beyond
oomprehension. You rub your
eyes to make sure, but there it Is all
before you. Along a road towards
the front-line trenches moves cavalry,
and behind the line of horsemen
sweeping forward we see a massive
supply train coming up from the
roar. And still more; away to the
right we see new troops coming! Reinforcements!
It is all so real! So
true and like war, and every man
trained to an expert in his task.
The artillery is hammering away.
The machine gunners are at work. We
hear the incessant putter, putter, putter
of the guns. Just as we are about
to iook away iney go over me top.
Scampering across "No Man's Land"
just as though they were under fire,
the khaki-clad hordes go, and'with
a business-like ruSh take the enemy
trench. Ah, yes, it is all make-believe,
yet so real, and we can picturize
it all Just as though it were true and
the battlefield was "over yonder."
We scramble down the hillside and
trudge back into camp. The day is
over and with it cames "off duty"
tithe. Then you sec some real sports
a(t Camp McClellan, for there are real
athletics at this camp. Boxing, wrestling.
volley, ball, soccer, baseball,
tennis, basketball, track meets and
just everything that goes towards making
the American soldier the healthiest
in the world, and they are stye
healthy at McClellan.
Retreat again and then more sports
for the evening until Taps, and the
day ends. Such a wonderful day!
Oh! say, if you want to see what is
what sure ^enough, you had bptter
come up, down or over to Camp McClellan.
Sherman Was Right
iND CAMP
I Jim Makes Good With
BY OUR OWN BIN
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tbem hoarses onl
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tresembull It mut
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walking with bu
not the kind of
the kind of kickii
it has hit you thi
dont give you nc
drive like 1 bf t
a bout the armie
al is in its feat
as they isent no <
am riteing a bou
bad a lott to do
so not becaus i
sargipt saw me &
seams to be the
see jno al they w
are the saim as
make me joyn tl
know me al. t
this sargint ced i lookt as if i mil
they is muydlls & hoarses becaus it ;
cumpny for them, well al after sum sa
complement as 1 of had hand iMo me '
sain a lott after what cap tens & lootin
they of gave me cverythink in th
the jenrill witch i dont think they is an
me wa&~onlie a soldier so they wooden
sents there aint none onlie i supose th
well al they put me in with this ;
ced was taik that straw & shaik it dowi
sum si raw irom wear 11 was laying on
witch is all dirt in side & no conkreat !
wear we workt oncet & sprecl the straw
it sumthing went by my face i loookt i
witch i found to be a muyell. they wl
evan my face witch is hardly worth w
told mc. well al after the hoof had w
quiet a weighs off from the stabull &
what have you ben doing throwing ha
what, he ced hay. i hollered hay bac
for. he ced you boob you have ben 1
shood of ben. straw well i ced you tol
well what is'the di(fronts i ced & al lit
diffronts & walked a way taking refudgt
never be used in letters although it is I
the stabulls in the armle. well alnhey ]
witch menes not the dish of grub you
places but a thing like a harrow only
muyells hare, it wood be simpull it l
your work but for sum reeson he is al
going on*, this muyell that 1 tride to
without notis but i returned after brush
is overawls in addishun to the soldger p
the 8arjlnt woodent lissun when i ce
currayed butt ced you curray that inuyi
is moar of that lagnwidge i was telling
mey wont none or ineiii get jim sun *
curray comb onto the end of it & stoo
away from the muyell. .well 1 stood th
sargint calm a long & toak 1 look, we
it was in you witch do you mene ced- i m
well al the sarjint thot so mutch of wh
curraying he wants me to be a rorprall
know me al. the pryvat for me every
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PROPERTY HAGS - . (
" The Red Cross has arranged to furnish
"property bags" for soldiers in J
hospitals to keep their belongings to- ki
gether. Members of the Red Cross fr
have been instructed to make the!
bags of bright colored, washable ma-l k,
terials and twelve inches .wide by' Ul
eighteen inches deep. [^
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y muyells witch is simmiliar to a '
standing still but be side that dont } Jtfmnf
ch eggzept for the 4 leggs w^tch .jJjVHP^
?. the leggs is used for diffront pur- J{
t the muyell has his for kicking JJ
kicking you do to the sargint but |r fly / fCfi
ig that makes a dentt in you when J vLaQA
e worst of the muyell bean that It H jBHmJ
> warning when it kicks but letts IiWm]
hese hear bocxers like i told you I JW A WI
havelng. all of a muyells branes H yMH
if it has some branes not feat BlV/XfW
lout about the feat part, well al i iJ
t hoarses and muyells "becaus i of '
with them durrlng the past wk or dt/ jL
want it to but becaus the stabull wfK
: want it me for his out fitt witch Tj:'wf-f *
weigh with all of them when they
ant me to come over to wear they
the masheen gunn guys tride to
tere masheen gunn cumpny. you
e be a valyuble man around wear ?,j|
looked as tho i wood maik good
rgints i of saw that was as good a ^a
wile i of ben in the armie witch is yjMQ,JKHB
lits have ced & everybuddy hay al. <wamM[
e armie all most now al eggzerpt
iy of as the 1 I had point it out to r _ sfl
t be no use of my bean offured it
itabull sarglnt & tbo 1st thing ho
II in the stabuU there, well 1 took '///ftV////'
the ground at'l side of the plaee - /'/,'
like we was ucet to in the garidge
a round but wile i was spredding
ap & it waa a hoof from a hoarse 1
III throw their feat at anything al*
aisting amunishun on the lootinit J?ll
ent by & evan befoar it did i was
wen i caim bark tbe sargint red
,y all over this place. ced hay VkKKWWM
k & ced what are you haying me jW"'
throwing hay around hear wftn it < r "
d me to. not hay he ced straw. \ ? ^
te all sdrgints he dident know the #
^ in sum lang^vidge witch sboodent i \
he onlie langwidge known a round V ? *
put me at work to curray a niuyell W^lkll
get in theshcar east injun eating HMll
smaller witch you rub over the B?IS
he muyell was in simpathie with ^B
I weighs in favor of sumthing eltft
i curray disniist me sevrall times
ing the mudd offen my close witch B ^ |
ants & coat witch is calld a blows. ?UEj
d the muyell dident want to be p /v 11
or they will be helto pay witch
you of. well you know me al & .j^^B '
so i got a long poal & tied the
d at the end of the stick farthest SQBtfwa
eir al curray ing the niuyell & the
II by gordge he ced i dident think
lyself or my new friend the muyell. HBSVsB
at i got out of that muyell by the I^BjII
time, hopeing you are the saint ||V]I
KRIKND JIM. WL W
ORIGIN OF KHAKI
With khaki to the right of them.
laki to the left of them, khaki in
ont of them and khaki all around ||)f ?jj
iem. very few American soldiers 11 lVf/fl
tow much about the origin of the 11 | iffj
liform they wear or the meaning ot i ' 1 jflj
le word used to describe its color". f, ' if fj
Khaki is an Kast Indian word 4 fl .
eaning. "dust color." The fast.
;llowish-fcrown dye used in making f
tiaki clothing and equipment was ^
scovered by two (Englishmen whose ?
imes have not been preserved in * ?
story. They first extracted the dye
om coal tar in 188.1 and it was im- lS.
ediately used in the manufacture of */.^i gV
othing and equipment for British >
ildiers.
The value of the1 neutral shade of
liform was at onee appreciated by
3rd Roberts, who. in 1885. ordered
iat all of the clothing worn by Brith
soldiers sent to Egypt and the
idan be of the khaki hue. Even the
.nnon and their wheels, as well as
iose of wagons, tents, mess kits.
.nteens, etc.. were painted or dyed
The American army adopted khaki , L
om the British and in recent years
lproved upon it by using olive drab MH
e for woolen clothing.
WANTKI) "SOFT" JOB
A dashing lieutenant-colonel, exemller
of the General StafT. was ap- hJ$/JW3
oached by a recently drafted man.
"What might your name be? Do 3|\ ?#/??
iu belong to this bunch?" mwY//rfjg
"I'm the colonel in charge." AWtf/// k _
"Wal.I see the balance of 'em busy VHIf III A
ounH here, and I don't see you 4oin? luWlIfl r
lythlng. Mow does a fellow go
iout gittin' your Job?"?Every- mtJf/tm
idy's Magazine.
IK HE HAD ONLY WAITED ",r
Tommy (looking upward from the '
enches as a flock of airplanes ooze ^
)?To think that I once paid 'arf ?
crown at 'Endou to see only two of
n!?Tattler.
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