I yyH - TRENCH Published weekly at the National Camj iT?^W^^ P C l? 11 ed Plates. e* A Room & ?. PUi _/i\yS New Ye ^ /2" i JOHN STEW iyy (?X OliIrmjtn of Advisory Bonn / 7? Camp and I-ocatlon fm 7 ' Camp Beauregard. Alexandria. La New C in Camp Howie. Kort Worth. Texas. ... Kort 1 I / / Carlstrom Aviation Kleld. Arcadia. Kla Taaapi LI X Camp I'ody. Iteming. N. M?X Si I'x I | Caiup Oualer. llatllc Creek. Mich Battle Camp r?evena. Aycr. Mum BoaUtt Camp I tlx. Wrlghtatown. N J Trentc Camp Itoniphan. Kort Sill. Oklx OklahI _ Camp Korreet. Chickamauga. Ga Chain Ag camp Fremont. Palo Alto, Cal San K Camp Funston, Kort Riley. Kan Topck : ' amp Gordon. Atlanta. Ga Atlaat } flWCTWIj > amp Grant, ltorkford. Ill The C ? ('amp Greene. . "Harlotte N C Chark ' Camp Hancock. Augusta. Ga Augn> c? j Camp Jackson. Columbia. S. C CoJam '"amp .lohn-l..o Jacksonville. Fla -Jacks* Jvs- r camp Kearn**. Linda Vista. Cal Los A Ctmp Loc Petersburg. Vk Riehm ^ Cjmp I.cwis. Tacoma. Wash Tacom Camp IMke. Little Rock,* Ark Arkan Camp Shelby. Hatttcsburic. Mm* New l r If^lir E? Camp Sheridan. Montgomery. Ala Montr Camp T.achary Tayior. Louisville, Ky..Louisv IKelly Kleld and Camp Stanley j San A D# Blr" mfe Camp Upton. Yaphank, 1.. l.# N. Y....New 1 W Mb ><1? Camp Wheoler. .Macon. CJa Macon I* Published under the auspices of the Nat i United State*. with the co-operation of the i THE COUNTRY'S GLO ^ Publisher of the I Lit tie Crc We who grew up from the edge of the Civil War grew up in the belief that the glory of the country was in | There had been days of old when " ? knights were bold, but they were the | I v - old days. As for the present, it was as shy on glorified opportunity as it i - was on hostile Indians. It was finished,, trimmed and enclosed in a whitewashed fence of settled peace and we of the "seventies" andj "eighties" watched the Decoration Day parades go by! ^shpsrttMJto We know better now. The glory of the country is now, anc* ^crea^ter- Boys who were playing marbles in tne street a little wnnc ago are in a greater adventure now than men ever took part in before; and they p?i are coming back to a bigger work of Hi , planning and building and developing ' 'l!// ant* governing than the controlling hx&wmlu powers of a country's citizenship ever 'IcwEvlVffl''' ^ bc*oreAunt" A\V\\y>51 The reason we who stay at home Avr.JjuH . are confident is not because of the consciousness of an adequate strength within ourselves, for we know the job ls to? hig for that?the war job and '1 tbc ^ob a^ter tbe war. Our confidence is part of the tremendous thrill we get \\ from the fellows in khaki?officers and vu \f men. 'i We have known they would have A'M 7^? courage. No one ever doubted the M?V American soldier would have that. We e kaise Whenever success crowns German / c^ort?lhc Kaiser did it. / \w'5 J^\v' As the great battle on the Western m? ' front was launched and the pressure ' of the overwhelming numerical superD*!^jV. riority cf the Prussian hordes forced |the Allies to give ground?the Kaiser I ~rl The newspapers of the Empire I s,*rrc^ by thc ^rst signs of success? ' m ^ 1 or. to put it less poetically but more truthfuI!y. prodded by German b3y?\ 'Vf| onets?gave glewing accounts cf the \$X&jA Kaiser's battle. Ixv* ^ar was pictured as / \ stan^'n8 on an elevation?far removed \ j|A from the scene of battle, of course? and studying the movements in close / detail, through a powerful glass. Also vUp/f ^e was pictured as weeping crocodile ( /mn tears and exclaiming with an agony of j }-' ''^jgd woe in his voice, "What have I not *%Bm done to prevent all this?' h Then the tide of battle turned. The ! 'vEt/jfj' newspapers still called it the Kaiser's ? %r/V Iffljjlli battle, ^ut they looked about for some X '?"#//7,1 one iu uiaiuc I?-?i v.iwo^>.t6 iiPiHCJr The mad War Lord was quick to ? */r recognize the turn in the tide of batM l'e- cvcn though he did not venture ^ : v' ' far forward. "I must not lose." he ?,j exclaimed, and. calling two or three generals emphasized his resolve. "I must not lose. I cannot lose. I will J r-'?make a new attack?send some new rYf divisions." w\ CP*k A DAY OF RE * ' Prcs'dent Wilson's proclamation urges upon the people of the United I { States the observance of Memorial 3- ySk Day "with religious solemnity." The President comes from the South His mind has spanned the years to those first observances of this day. Then it was a holy day. not a TRENCH > & CAMP , >s and Cantonments (or the soldiers of the ledgaorters Utxer Bulldla* rk City ART BRYAN I of (*-o-o{>?t?tlns; Pnblhhen ewspaper Pibltohfr )rlean* Times Picayune D. D. 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A. of the ibovc named publishers and papers. RY IS IN THEIR EYES MILLKK ek (Mich.) Knquirer-News I didn't know that in the mass they i would each have such character?we I hadn't reasoned quite that far. Character they have. ]f/e of the cantonment cities who know them as near neighbors and daily companions know that. Our joy is in the certainty that not alone will they finish the job "Over There" ?with the help that all of us who stand by expect to give them?but that they will come back to properly do the work which is waiting for them over here. * They who save the Nation must return to guide the Nation. >? Innk fhsm over. officers and I i men, and thank God for the certainty that both jobs will be well and safely done?done by American gentlemen. ! An army that had muscle and nerve | might drive the Kaiser back. But j the army that makes America safe, i I now and hereafter, must have ideals, j must be clean, must have strength of j mind and soul as well as of body. For this army must live for the I flag, hereafter, as well as fight for it now. I To those of us who see the army at close hand there comes, a hundred times a day. the assurance that this j army will "do!" We thought the glory of the country was in the past. And all at once, the crisis of all times, and?tramp! tramp! tramp! the boys are marching, and. the country's glory is in their eyes. R'S BATTLE n/>ur divisions wpre sent, and I slaughtered. Again the Kaiser called i the general officers. "I will attack i again?send more divisions," he said. His mental processes were much i like those of a New York City Editor' who, sending a reporter to interview) ! a famous man. learned that the rei porter had been very rudely ejected, i The reporter complained that he had been kicked down the steps. "Go back again," said the City Editor, "no one can intimidate ME!" The Kaiser's literal application of his statement, "I will attack" was to give the order, "Send some new di: visions." But the reinforcements were unavailing. And the Kaiser drawing his' mantle about him, like the villain of i the piece, said to his generals. "I am j going away; but I will return." Emissaries ran ahead and told the [ newspaper editors that they must stop i rallinc it the Kaiser's battle. The Kai ' scr had nothing to do with it. Whoever told them it was his battle, any, way? It is LudendorfF's battle, or I Hindenburg's. Now it is lese majeste, or something awful like that, to refer I to "the great drive" as the Kaiser's. Soon a minor engagement may go in I favor of the Prussians. The Kaiser | will be hurriedly summoned to exclaim, "I and Gott have done this." -CONSECRATION holiday. Families that had loved and lost made pilgrimages to the graves of those that had given their all to the best they knew and strewed them tenderly with flowers. In 1868. General John A. Logan. Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, set aside the thirtieth of May "for the purpose of ' ' I * . IND CAMP strewing with flowers or otherwise I decorating the graves of comrades."! So the North and the Sooth joined in the same form of observance. i New generations came. To them the day was a day of zest and recreation, a. day of sport and festivity. To them the President's proclamation is an educating force. It calls them to an understanding of the reasons for the observance. Surely they will do as he asks, and go to the churches "with offerings of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause, His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restoration of an honorable and lasting peace to the nations of the earth." Confessions C (This is the first of a series of < called from his civilian pursuits by tl is a frank, outspoken record of his < which, perhaps, have been shared by in training- These diary entries are tional Army as a truthful portrayal of soldiers of '*tbc finest army ever calfc writer is Ted Wallace, a luxury-kwrin no settled convictions, except selfish purging process of 'war into a red-blc August 1, 1917. There seems to be no doubt about it now. The draft will be put into operation. I am of draft age. I am in good health. I probably will be called. I do not want to go. There seems to be so much in life that the horrible idea of giving up everything to go to war repels me. Am I less patriotic than the average man of my age? Am I less of an American? I wonder! The night before last I heard Irvin Cobb tell of his experiences. He said the thing that stayed with him longest was the awful stench oat there, the stench of rotting human bodies. As 1 came away I could sense that stench, too. It has stayed with me ever since. To think of the awful nights of loneliness out there! to think of living in a vermin-infested trench with rotting bodies all about! I look at my home ana the things that 1 have bought. And I think of the day when 1 shall be called to give it up?for what? For the things that Cobb saw and smelled! Men have come back and told of the glory of war. What glory is there in it? Nothing but awful suffering, awful privation, and an awful separation from everything and everyone that is precious. What is the world coming to? We talked of the coming of peace; we placed a gTeat deal of stock in the Hague Conventions. We thought we were getting somewhere. And where are we? As a matter of fact, we are no further advanced than in the days of the Huns. Last night I came home, feeling miserable and blue. My little sister Fdith came running out as I reached Do you suppose it will still be going 011 when she is grown up? J home. She seemed so happy, so | umno so Diissiuuy l^noraui ui it an. Do you suppose it will still be going on when she is grown up'.' Thai thought makes you wonder whether life is worth living at all. I sometimes wonder whether it might not j be better for her if she did not live to grow up if the war still lasts. What would there he for anyone? It would be a case of using every resource, every energy for war. And what it war. anyway, but waste? A world organized only for waste would be a sorry place for anyone. But the law is inexorable. I havt to submit. I^ast night in my blu< mood I took stock of things. I have been working now for six years. ] have a good income for a man ol twenty-seven. I have no responsibil ities, no real cares. I have scarcelj known any unhappiness, excepf, ol course, when mother died.. I do noi fwWi '- . .- - . ' ' :;~ i .gS In far-off Prance and Flanders de- . J voted women M Prance and Belgium -fS will decorate the graves of sons of America who have died for their cause and oars.-' Here in America let the keynote be re-consecration, not recreation; re- 'XfB consecration of all that we have and ' -<5 are that righteousness may usher in a reign of peace; reconsecration of all that we have and are to insure that righteousness as a prelude to that peace. The North and the South have met. They join in a common observance, -J no longer sectional, nor even national; but presaging the parliament of man, the federation of the world. >/* A Conscript I ' iliary entries written by a young man ic operation of the selective draft. It