B "THE BARRACKS WHEEZE"
liy PRIVATE CHKT SHAKER
9 ( Aviation Corps, Somewhere in Texas)
A 1,1. WINTKlt I.O\(i A SQIAI)
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fzpZT?# o\h'xs i oh rr.in.ixu.
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t'y, ' WIicii they pettishly requested Ku'
f *' ;^>r Kinuld:) to "ean" the noise after
* ' tlie lights were out he plaeed the
* \ blame on the woof of his blankets.
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!s there anyone else present who
wishes a bottle of this tonic?
VlfiL, IT'S ALMOST TIMK TO POST AX/
OTHKIt I.IST OK HOISKS?THOSK
W ilt) AISK <'ONTIXI'AI.LV SAVING
T ?"WKLL. THAT'S NOT THK WAY
* UK Oil) IT ON THK BORDKK."
On his way out from mess Kus
1 fashionable?he bad just finished
a slumming tour.
\yf%- J. And Webster, in his day. despite
^ his lark of tools, didn't skid very
* "'u,h
^?wjjsgs| ./A')' II .IV vor Kli.-W IT ^
Aitrn^ There will be special wards in the
ififc iSFi s,a,e as>Iuius latcr on for i-hoSP who
lost their marbles trying to figure
/JUl out the thickness of their blankets.
TIIK WHIST WATCH
Out of the first million men utilized
for the national arm)' almost as many
sions. The pieces, with phosphoresent
dials, wont heavy on furloughs.
In camp they were about as useless
_rri aH a ma(' ('"K- With the recognition
of the infallibility of the bugle and
the top-sergeant's whistle thousands
of the tickers were sold after the first
|SHKj|2gfl week for anything from a split on a
P/3ljBe?"i box from home to six-bits 'till payday.
L jfivQBuS* Many excuses have boon offered for
"ie wrist watch but the most reasonIWJWJ*
able, coming from a high authority,
W&W ('re^'f8 it with creating the necessity
viy for a seond hole in the left wristlet.
fjr&flww if Wrist watches were not use<l at
zA Valley l-'orge. At that time the sol,
:liers were fighting for liberty instead
WOl'l-D KI.KVATK MISKTAN'S
A bill has been introduced in Con
11*01. yWf | gress by senator numnauu nunru
would create the position of bandmaster
for chief musicians in the
jflRIcavalry, infantry, artillery and EnMi
\ WtM ifl gineers' Corps, who would have the
rank of second lieutenant and receive
- - 1 the same benefit in respect to. pay,
emolument and retirement arising
front longevity.
IMHBI.K l.KAVK NECESSARY
Officer: Now. Smith, you had twenty-four
hours' leave to see your wife
and child. You have been away forty-eight.
What have you got to say
?J for yourself?
Smith: Rut it was twins, sir.?
Judge.
LEFT A
Lear
You will find it a mighty c?h
can "parlor francais" a little?ant
a Frenchman moans when lie "pa
Suppose you are in a sector
I French troops in a hig offensive; s
| message from a French officer;
wounded "poilu"; suppose you're
| letod in u French house; suppose
| imormaunn iroin peasants or lomi
! make the difference between dclaj
j cicncy, between comfort and disi
i even between life and deatli, bet we
.Moreover, you are going to
' ae<|uainted with one of the finest n
| whose mind is alive and keen, a i
meat; and you ean't get really at
I with their men and read their papt
There are thousands and tli
! French right now. General I'ersl
| across. There are hundreds of c
I There"?when they get there thej
! are just about, seventy-five thousai
i training camps at home. In sot
I quired of large groups of officers
The V. M. ('. A. maintains c!
I expects to develop this work more i
I French classes in your camp, and
| larly, by all means do so.
But if you can't, here's the i
! begins a special series of French
I attend the classes. These lessons
I mainly in giving you the particul,
j portant for you to know, showing ;
I what they mean, and combining t
j teach yon all the French there is,
' here goes fiy
LE
WORDS AND PHKASKS
THE words and phrases are gn
iirst in their real French spi
ing; then in a special spell:
j that shows how they are to be p
nounced; then the English meani
| is given.
I tlonnez-moi. uone mwa, give.me
de l'eau. duh 1 oh. some water
du lait. dii le, some milk
du caf6. dii kaf6. some coffee
de la soupe, duh la soop, some sc
des pommes de terre, d6 pom d
tor. some potatoes
s'il vous plait, s ee voo pie, pie
monsieur, muhsyuh. sir
merci. mersee, thank you
voulez-vous? voole voo? do ]
1 want?
oui. wee. yes
In the special spellings that sh
' how words are to be pronounced:
' a sounds like a in English fath
I 6 sounds like e in English met
; e sounds like a in English fate
ee sounds like ee fn English beet,
In making { , e. and ee, draw b;
1 the corners of your lips.
o sounds like o in English softer,
oh sounds like o in English go.
oo sounds like oo in English boot,
uh sounds like e in English fern, wl
tho r la not nrnnounced.
MUD CAUSES BAD WOUN
Discovery has been made by a r
jor in the Medical Department, U.
A., just returned from France I
mud can and frequently does ca
serious wounds on soldiers' bodies,
bullet striking the ground may thr
, up a splash of mud with sufficient
, locity to penetrate the skin. 1
soil of France and Belgium is so hi
ly fertilized that a dangerous woi
often rpsiilts.
TEN MILES GAINED
According to the annual report
! the British Aeronautical Engineer
Society, the speed of British so
airplanes was increased ten miles
hour by the substitution of
"stream line" wires for the ordin;
'circular wireB formerly used.
and camp
T THE POST
t
' a?ii**oe'
??s23i-'
r^rSSa*.
G-in
French
hI thins when you get to France, if you
I what's more, if you can make out what
r!o francais" at you.
next-to French .troops, or are close to
upposc you have to take a quick order or
suppose you have a chance to help a
wounded yourself; suppose you are bilyou're
sent to make purchases, or to get
speople; your knowledge of French yniglit
and speed, between blundering and efliromfpft,
between suffering and relief?
en defeat und victory.
have the opportunity in France to get
lutions on the face of the earth?a nation
lation of line feeling and heroic achlevequaintcd
with them unless you can tulk
rs.
lousands of men in the army studying
>ing himself studied French on the way
Lasses in rrencn tieninu me lines uver,
r realize how much they need It- There j
ad men enrolled In French classes In the
ne cantonments work In French is ream!
of men.
lasses In French in every big camp, and
ind raore. "Find out about the Y. M. C. A."
if you can arrange to attend them regulext
best thing: Trench and Camp today
lessons, intended for the men who can't
are to be very simple. They will consist
ar words and phrases that are most impou
how they are pronouticed, telling you
hem in practical sentences. They won't
but they will give you a good sturt. And
SSON 1
I In making o, oh, oo, arid uh, stick
ren out your lips.
?U_ The letter ii indicates a sound quite
j"ngI different from any English sound. It
r01 is made with the lips in the same poing
sition as for oo and the tongue in the
? same position as for ee. To practice
this sound, get the lips rounded as for
whistling, and then, holding them
firmly in that position, try to say ec.
Notice that French words are not
spelled consistently; and notice in
particular that many letters that appear
in the spelling of the French
word, especially final consonants, are
ase not pronounced at all.
Notice that the expression for
"some" is different before different
0 | nouns.
EXERCISE
ow| 1. Try to understand these senteni
ces. and then pronounce them carei
fully, according to the pronunciations
'indicated above: Voulcz-vous de
er Jl'eau? Ooi, monsieur. Donnez-moi
j des pommes de terre, s'll voui plait.
Merci, monsieur. -Donnez-moi du!
! cafe, s'il vous plait. Voulez-vous de |
la soupe? Merci. vouiez-vois au
irk lait, monsieur? Oul. merci.
2. Say in French: Will you have
some coffee? Yes, thank you. Give
me some potatoes, please. Do you
want any soup? No, thank you. Give
me some water, please,
len Cut this lesson out and keep it, and
watch for Lesson 2 next week!
DS OFFER HAIR FOR BELTING
na- Having heard that German women
S. were cutting off their hair and giving
hat it to the Kaiser to make belting- for
use machinery in his munition factories,
A a Pennsylvania mother and daughter
ow made a similar offer to the War i)eve
partment. The patriotic offer of the
rhe "crowning glory" was declined with
gh- thanks and the explanation that the
ind United States government is not quite
that hard up yet.
SPKNDING BILLIONS
of A statement recently issued by Seeing
retary of Treasury McAdoo showed
out that in the six months prior to Janan
uary 1 the military establishment of
flat the country had spent $1,700,000,000
ary and that by June 30 this year $8,790,000,000
will have been spent.
I ' . ' - 1
Changes in Insignia - 4
Of U. S. Officers Urged
To Prevent Confusion
Suggestion has been made by a nu^SS
jor in one of the United States EngfttfB
Ineers commands now in Prance th&jf&fi
the insignia of the commissioned
flcer3 from second lieutenant to cOXr^
onel be slightly changed to prevefltjil
confusion in the minds of French and
British soldiers.
The second lieutenants with their ^
gold shoulder bars and brown b^ald,
on their sleeves are primarily respon-"*^
sible for the major making the sug- fe
gestioh. Writing home the major^g
3aid:
"A lot of second lieutenants arrived
yesterday from the United;;^
States with a_single gold bar on theiib-^'
shoulders and khaki colored braid on
their overcoat sleeves. It makes them
more distinguished in appearance
than first lieutenants and greatly impresses
the French, who, in common .
with the rest'of the world, think ?;old
is superior to silver. We Jiavo the
same thing in the gold leaf for a
major and a silver leaf of the same
pattern for a lieutenant colonel." ,
The major suggests that the second lieutenants'
gold bar be eliminated ^
and that officers of that rank be given
a single silver bar. First lieutenants ^
could be designated by two silver
bars; captains could be given the
ver leaf, the majors could retain the
gold leaf, the lieutenant colonel could
be designated by the silver eagle, ,
while a gold eagle could be uesd by ^
colonels.
"Our rvrtem Hops not seem to be
rational and is entirely arbitrary,"
says this major. "In every other V.:
army "In the world a single device?Hvf
braid, star, pip, etc.?indicates a second
lieutenant, two a first lieutenant; .
three a captain, etc. Officers and civilians
are continually having us ex-.
plain our system, which calls for much
memorizing without any mnemonic .:*
aid. Also on the sleeves of our overcoats
we are one behind other armies. ..
Since we arc acting with armies hav- &
ing a definite system we should con*, d
form.* One braid for a second lle$o|
tenant, two for a first lieutenant^?,1
three for a captain, four for a major,-Sj
five for a lieutenant colonel, six for a; %
colonel. The change would beeasy^i
to make and would not cost much, As Y
it is our first lieutenants are thought /
to be second lieutenants, our captains ^
to be first lieutenants, our majors-to7 ;
bo captains, etc."
The present gold and silver phOttfjjfipt
der strap designation for officers andvh
chevron system for non-commlssion?d> officers
in the United States Army
was adopted in 1847. Originally
tenant colonels wore two leaves to
differentiate them from majors.
It has been suggested that if the. '
United States creates the rank of 9ela:.
marshal during the war the insignia
would have to be a sun, similar tO/~
that worn by Marshal Joffre on the..:
front of his coat, as four stars are
now being used to indicate the rank"
of general. \'
AMERICAN^ WOUNDED
GET BEST OF CARE <1
""" "? >
misfortune to be wounded in FranfW''
will suffer from lack of care, as reports
show that the 'medical branch'
of our army is splendidly equipped-forits
work. Indeed, an injured man '*
i will probably receive better attention A
than he could secure at home, tofmany
specialists of national reputar
tion, besides some of the best women
nurses are serving as volunteers in* .
the military hospitals.
A careful system for handling the
disabled has'been worked out. If
soldier receives a wound in the:y
trenches it is dressed at once from the
first-aid kit, which every man carries.' '
Stretcher bearers or his comrades',
then assist him to the first-aid drees-;
ing station, usually a dugout and of-_
ten within a hundred yards of thS
ugnting line, a nammocic strptcner.
has been devised for use in narrow;:
winding trenches.
The medical officer .at the first-aid"
station gives the -wound a more care*
ful dressing, ibjects anti-tetanus serum
and telephones for an ambulance.
The latter comes as close to the front
as is possible, always a dangeroufr
service, as German flyers regard bran
ambulances and hospitals as fair taf*.
gets for their bombs.
The wounded man is taken to tlMfc
field hospital, four or Ave miles to thjk'
rear, and his injury is inspected."- If !
an operation is imperative, it is peN
formed; but if the patient is strobm.'
enough, he is made comfortable and:
sent without delay to an evacuation^
hospital, eight or ten miles from the
front, and where American womiB:
nurses are on duty. If It is possQR&
every wounded soldier will be niiMiB!
the care of a woman nurse, hfa plage
of comparative quiet and safety, Witt*
in twenty-four hours after his injury
id received.