Published weekly at the National Cam B 2*-^-? Room1nVl"M? W~r\//^ ? SIP* Hi \?L*' J JOHN 8TKW ^ Ml Ckdmu of Adelaary Boar #7 Camp mad I-oration '.f~Wg J < Camp Beauregard. Alexandria. La New St " . Kwb. Tacoraa. Wash Taror Camp I?can. Houston. Teaaa Houst Camp Mr Arthur. Waco. Texas Waco ^ Camp McClellan. Aaniston. Ala Hirml TuffifyvZ / Kort McPheraoa and Camp Jeaup. 1 A Atlanta. Oa. i A"*" ' \rH0V/ a? Camp Meade. Admiral. Md Wash K*c Camp Pike. Little Rock. Ark Arkai # * Camp Sevier. Grecneville. S. C Green I f J Camp Shelby. Hattlesbur*. Miss Near I Mm Jr a Camp Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala Monti D Jr^ Jf/ Camp Zachary Taylor. I,ouisville. Ky.Louis BwgJs Camp Travla. San Antonio, Texas.... I- . Kg' Kelly Field and Camp Stanley ) Camp Cpton. Taphank. L. I., N. T New r M Mi Camp Wheeler. Macon. Ga Macoi Charleston Naval Station Charl V Paris Island IH C.) Marine Station... .Charl J 1 Buffalo Military District, embracing j Buffa| Published under the auspices of the Nat mL United States, with the co-oparalion of the i K~[r WHEN AMEf (luJj ^ New fighting methods as well as lyTAirRR fresh fighting men have gone to the western front under the American colors. The Germans were given a taste of these methods when the Canadians went overseas to join their British comrades, but our men from the United States have introduced ideas | moc*ern warfare that differ even - iflf soldiers of the Dominion. Absolute l"'^- "*?2i confidence in the superiority of weapM&' ?ons wbich we soldiers are thorou^hly familiar is one of the charactenstics that have made the soldiers under General Pershing's command a t-W- . superb military organization.. A large number of the American troops that got into the thick of the 7%!,% yy/szL fighting when the last German offen%-vl s'vc was converted into a defeat were made up of seasoned regiments. Many of these men had gained valu* 9 able experience in the old regular n y army, in the national guard, or in the marines. They handled their rifles /A and automatic pistols in actual battle Mm as coolly as if on the range. They kept their heads and made their am2 munition count. Again and again, according to the testimony of correspondents, they stopped German I rushes by the precision and steadiness rxt tk?ir Crinor An/4 f#>atnr? rtf this defensive work that particularly impressed their French Allies on either side was the fact that they used /jHrns long-range sights on their rifles and ~ began dropping individuals in the .7* ^SHH- enemy ranks at distances that amazed the observers. Throughout the fight-W; m sj ing, they gave a remarkable demonjji ' "^k " stration of individual fighting skill ^ 8 controlled, but not curtailed, by perSelmiWFtwBTr ^CCt discipline. 1 It is this combination in the Ameri0311 fighting man that puzzles the Germans" They had been told that Amerll?R? *ca ls a nat*on ?* sordid money-grabvl \BTmJ ^crs an<* t*Lat men drawn from banks, w stores, factories and shops could not y transformed >nt0 soldiers in time i mSfJaji t0 eficct ^e decisive battles on the L__ wKf/Aly? western front this year. It is quite ^ possible that the members of the GerSL T^liWfk ' man general staff were entirely honest MJC in this belief. Their opinions are based on actual experiences in the O/ mR training of their own men for military ^ sit? service. It does not seem to have oc currea to tncm inat a nauon as nigruy HKI intelligent as the United States and a people as naturally adaptable as Americans can take up any business, ir C (Jf / even the business of war, in a fraction ShElI of the time required by the Teutons. ? j?2 The proof that this is true was fur/jfcffiy 1 riished when the German military machine struck a snag last month. Although, as we have said, a large num' 1\tgpWy2rl THE GREAT KrZr j IyjM The men who sail on the American BjaLXa transports today embark on the greatfflFj r CwfM est, mo6t unselfish and most glorious KP\4 adventure of all history. For thouA 2?| sands of years to come men will aS&tr v. eagerly read and talk of the great eny terprise in which Americans of today 1 V3H are privileged to participate. Foi I ly thousands of years to come, men worthy of the name will envy those 1 who are pepnitted to fight for Amerf ^ ica's splendid ideals in the epic stnigi glc of all time. From the great countries of Europe, which have served as the cradle lot * ' ?k^ ' & CAMP ps and Cantonment* for the soldier* of the ( dqnrten Madison Aveiae ork CUy AIT BRYAN a of Co-ope rat in* Publishers Newspaper ' Fnbtlsbrr Orleans Times Picayune D. D. Moore Worth Star Tele*ram Amon _C. Carter a Times u. ?. araty so Herald H. D. Slater ? Creek Enqulrw-Newi A. L. Miller n Globe ChArles H. Taylor. Jr. on Time* James Kerney loraa City OkUhoman K. K. Gaylord anooga (Tenn.) Times Hr C. Adler Tanclsco Bulletin R. A. Crothers ;a State Journal Frank P. MacLennan ta ConstitutTbn Clark Howell rhk-ago Dally News Victor F. Lawson otte Observer .. W. B. Sullivan ?ta Herald Bowdre Phlnlsy ?bln State ? ? .W. W. Ball onrllle Times-Union W. A. Elliott ngrlrti Times Harry Chandler lond News Leader John Stewart Bryan na Tribune / F. 8. Baker on Post Gough J. Palmer Morning News Charles E. Marsh nghara (Ala.) News Victor H. Hansen ta Journal .....J. S. Cohen . (D. C.) Evening Star Fleming Newbold isas Democrat Elmer E. Clarke evllle Dally News B. H. Peace Orleans Item James M. Thomson ;ornery Advertiser C. H. Allen vllle Courier Journal Robert W. Blkgham intonlo Light Charles S. Dlehl fork World Don C. Belts t Telegraph W. T. Anderson eston News and Courisr R. C. Siegllng eston Post ,"T- R- Waring lo Evening News Edward H. Butler lonal War Work Council. Y. M. C. A. of the ibove named publishers and papers. tICA FIGHTS ber of the Americans engaged in the recent battles were members of seasoned regiments, a very high percentage of the men from the United States who rolled back Germany's Best snocK troops were grauuaics ui the training camps. They were undrilled civilians only last summer. Nevertheless, they stood shoulder to shoulder with their more experienced fellow-Americans and fought with equal coolness and irresistible bravery. The experiences of the last fifteen months prove that the average man in this country becomes a scientifically trained and thoroughly disciplined soldier within a year. The American does not depend on discipline and training as blmdly as the German. He obeys his officers with equal military promptness, but his brain is working even during the most mechanical execution of an order. Consequently, when he finds himself isolated in action he thinks swiftly and shifts for himself. In a similar emergency a typical German soldier would grope about for some authority to tell him what to do. A captured German transfers his prompt obedience to the first Allied officer he meets. A captured American merely awaits an opportunity to catch his captors off their guard and effect an ingenious escape. It is this quality of initiative, coupled with entire selfconfidence. that enables an American to oat-think and out-fight a German. We men in khaki are the product of a people who have led independent lives and worked out their own destinies. Our enemy is a victim of a system that I tells him he must never think for him| self, but regard himself as a contempt, ible atom in a system of graduated | bullying dominated by an "All-Highest" who, after four years of disillusionment, still regards himself a& a glittering example of "Divine Right." Cromwell's soldiers, according to Macauley, were unbeatable because "they moved into battle with the precision of machines and the fury of fanatics." History will record a simiI lar verdict on the fighting qualities of | the Americans in the present war. I They are moving against the enemy I with a perfection of discipline that ! surpasses the German training of forty years, and they are delivering sledgehammer blows against the Teuton armies with the contained fury of a good-natured man who has been goaded into a life-and-death struggle by the wanton insults of a swaggering Dully, uermany nas comminca many blunders since the spring of 1914. Her crowning mistake, however, was her idiotic theory that she could afford to despise a nation that prises peace but has never lost a war. ADVENTURE the civilization to which we belong, brave, valiant and adventurous spirits, hungry for freedom and liberty, have sailed across the ocean to this clean and fresh America, the very name ol which has slowly come to mean so much to all the world. America has taken them, given them happiness i freedom, riches and contentment in the fullest possible measure. Now their descendants return serosa the ocean to destroy the bestial thing which is the eternal foe of all tip , ideals America represents; return acrosf the ocean to Wing to oppressed \ < ? 1 . - " Pi fc'sK < " v. INJ> CAMP people* in the okl world the liberty and freedom, the freshness of soul and the clcanneaa of mind oar great country has given to all who have come under her unsullied flag. Jo*t as we can close our eyes and see the American colors carried by brave, honest and determined men from every corner of the whole vast expanse of America; can see it flown by great fleets of warships and transports across the sea; can sec it borne along the roads of France and Flanders to the frontiers of civilization, so men of all future time will close their eyes and see the American flag earned bravely and triumphantly across the pages of history; will tee it come aa a Symbol of great, human aspirations to bring freedom end peace to an harrassed world. Think how men will be stirred, how they will thrill and he uplifted, when they read of America's Crusade! They will conjure it all op from the begin nine, will see it unfold before them at some marvelous and inspiring pageant They will see America going steadily along on her career of peace. They will see the Great War begin, and America's shocked and horrified amazement. They will see the years 1915 and 1916; the valiant fight offered, by the Allies; the incomprehensible horrors and atrocities committed by Germany; the slowjy developing determination of America. They will see a great nation, standing squarely back of the great President, wbo so marvelously voices the thoughts of all the nations, slowly strip for action. They will see the cities and towns and villages, the KEEP FIT Marshal Foch has spent his whole lifetime in perfecting the strategy which is winning the war. An unusually intelligent man?concentrating to the utmost for a few months?might possibly learn from Marshal Foch the most important points in that strategy. But the knowledge would be absolutely valueless to him unless he posa ?1>, ntW llimv whirh it has taken Marshal Foch tiia whole lifetime to perfect?the thing which is the most important part of every soldier's equipment; the thing without which all tne rest is of no value. That is poise?the ability to keep your head no matter how tremendous die excitement about you; the ability to Jcecp utterly calm, cool and collected; the ability to keep always clearly in mind the big ideas into which all the details must be properly fitted. Have you ever thought of the tens of thousands of facts which are brought to the Allied Goyefalisimo every day? Have you ew thought how difficult it must be to keep the CHAFF?fr By URSUS, THEY say nobody LOVES a fat man? BUT a fat man is a SOriv-mato for a movie iraunmc l< vnni iikij, ii juu iwuijKiiv HIM nllh that INDIVIDUAL called the SANITARY inspector! A brief for the SANITARY Inspector! DAY in and out he TROTS, sniffing for STRANGE odors, getting CLOSE-UPS of things UNMENTIONABLE, writing NOTES, skinning all who WILL not maintain things IN a sanitary manner. HE is -as popular as CLOWNS at a funeral; THE more efficient he is THE more his friends AVERT their faces?he COULDN'T borrow a TEN-spot if his LIFE dcpennded on it! IN rain and under hot St'N, be trudgds along, and PERSPIRATION crawls over and DOWN military channels. EVER faithful, he is EVER cursed. AND there come* a GRKAT day, whem the SUFKB-critic wires his IMPKNDING arrival for INSPECTION. Brooms frictioa, AND mops are worn down to HANDLES. The Sanitary Inspector YANKEE TOAST Here's to the day when we dine On the banks of the old river Rhine; For Marshal Foch Can sore posh the boche. And Jack Pershing himself has done J fine! , SEND IT HOME Mail this copy of "Trench and 1 Camp" to the home folks to-day. They , want the news a boat yea and your t fellow soldiers in camp. I . crowded street* sad the quiet country lanes, from-which brave men, laying -MSn aside the old interests of peace, take np the ways of war, determined that _ ~*jMi PrnstisTitsm shall no longer be per- 1 mitted to exist. They will see soldiers arise as by magic; see them trained J and sent to the embarkation ports. " gj They will see the transports move oat # bearing the crusaders who go to risk all, with no hope-of gain and no selfish ' motive. They win see the hard straggle, the triumphant end. They will see the transports', bearing back to a^ ? -J new, ennobled, exalted America the' . valiant spirits who participated in the fight. They will see the years of vJT happy peace that follow. They will ' see America's young men slowly p growing old, ever more and more / proud of their participation in the -i peat struggle, ever more and more honored by the rising generation, aiwratn tn the nflhcliev ably splendid days of their fortunate S and wonderful youth. The very names of the boats that bear us oyer the ocean, bach to the lands from which our ancestors came, will be remembered. Every name of every transport will figure in the poetry, the literature, the art; the history of the future. Generation after V-S generation will remember and think of these experiences we are under;- ?T going today. Let us deterroihe to see *~ 3GS die adventure as they will see it Let us understand the great privilege which is ours. Let us be infinitely glad and luppy that we are living in , such epic ticpes and have been granted ^ sj the honor of participating in the greatest adventure of history. TO FIGHT big program clear with all these de- . -? tails coming every moment to confuse? Have you ever thought that one of the greatest of Marshal Foch's duties is to be able to sleep after the . tremendous mental activity of the , day? Have you ever thought what \ might happen to the world if Marshal Foch coulll not sleep, if be ever had "nerves," if he were not always absolutely "fit," if he were to make the mistake that Ludendorff is hoping he may make? All the strategy would be valueless without the poise and fitness. To be "fit ?that is the essence of the soldier's job. That is the acid test of his manhood and of his ability to play a man's part in this war which . demands all that every man has of manhood. The fives of a company or of a regiment?at any time?depend upon the fitness, the poise, the calm, steady nerves and quick thought of any sol- . ilia dier in the ranks. And no soldier ever has those things unless he deliberately builds them up in himself. It sounds preachy, but it is a fact nevertheless. .^3n OM WILD OATS Camp Shelby v DOG-trots here and there, v."3?* AWAITING results with a PALLID face. THE landscape looks - ^ CLEAN as a hound's tooth? UNTIL a last-minute sandstorm DEPOSITS three inches of DIRT on everything I THE Super-critic rides up in AN auto. He steps out and GREETS the Colonel; the Colonel J"3? H.4NDS him a good cigar and HOLDS a lighted match. IN the excitement the match BURNS the Colonel's hand?and HE tosses it away! UNFORTUNATE act! THE Super-critic turns APOPLECTIC, seises the burnt STUB of the match for evidence, . TRIES to speak?but sobs, and LEAPS into his auto seat, THERE to write: "Sanitation "OF camp very bad." AFTER this, the Colonel skins THE Sanitary Inspector and the INSPECTOR goes home in Squaw Camp, KICKS his dog off the porch, and BUYS his mother-in-law a ONE-WAY ticket to her home, up NORTH. He earns no cross BUT the cross he bears. No WONDER thqf his nose is PERPETUALLY brittleI HIS conscience is his ONLY source of compliment. A brief for the . .-a.! - JgH* J SANt'l'ARY Inspector?he '/5 human. DELETED BIT CENSOR "Where do you come from in the States?" an American soldier in -;*s| France was' asked: "You'll have''to pardon me. sir, but the captatln tells me not to di- . JH vulge valuable military Information." " A CHINLE88 QUWCK , , J&gjSm Look at the M^f aKatoe^? He still is inclined to be thin, -.2? He ibo inclines to no chin' L ^