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TRENCH AND CAMP
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"THE BARRACKS WHEEZE"
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BY PRIVATE CHET SHAFER
(310th Sanitary Train, Camp Custer,
Battle Creek, Mich.)

Every
Now and then
You find one
Who would
Never
Be recognized
As a soldier
But
For
His
Caducens.
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There are many good arguments
against a bath, but none quite so ef-
fective ad a cold blast from the north.
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"WHERE DO YOU LIVE?"
"JUST AT PRESENT I'M OCCUPY-
ING SOME GOVERNMENT PROP-
ERTY."
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THE CORPORAL ASKED THE
GUARD:
"WHEN DID THIS FIRE GO OUT?"
THE GUARD REPLIED:
"I DON'T KNOW, I'M SURE. IT
DIDN'T PASS ME WHILE I WAS ON
WATCH."
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Once they divided 'em into cantos.
Now they are divided into cantonments.
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"Assemble
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To the Front!"
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"HERCH."
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ALL AUTHORITIES AGREE THAT
A POKER CHIP HAS NO HOME.
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And that a quarantine sign is
the only one that always comes
true.
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AFTER YOU PUT UP YOUR SHEL-
TER HALF YOU CAN GET A
PRETTY FAIR IDEA OF WHAT THE
WOMEN WERE UP AGAINST A
FEW YEARS AGO WHEN THEIR
WAISTS BUTTONED DOWN THE
BACK.
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Herman, a private soldier, said he
wished he was in the tank service and
was training at Milwaukee.
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In the army--
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The "Recess-ional" is
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"Lest we quartette----
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Lest we quartette."
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BUNK FATIGUE IS SAID TO BE
AN EFFICIENT .LABOR - SAVING
DEVICE.
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When these balmy spring days
come over, the buckaroo private
policing the barrack spends all
his time trying to pick out the non-
com he would execute first if he
were commander-in-chief of the
army.
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OH! COOKIE
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AFTER YOU'VE DRAGGED YOUR-
SELF OUT OF A SWEET SLEEP
AND A DREAM ABOUT THE LEAD-
ING LADY BACK HOME AND
SHOVED YOURSELF INTO YOUR
O. D.'S;
AFTER YOU'VE SNAGGED YOUR
FINGERS SEVERAL TIMES LAC-
ING YOUR LEGGINGS AND HAVE
HUNTED FIVE MINUTES FOR
YOUR HAT AND FOUND IT JUST
WHERE YOU HAD PLACED IF SO
YOU WOULD BE SURE NOT TO
FORGET IT;
AFTER YOU'VE CLATTERED
DOWN THE STAIRS IN ANSWER
TO THE TOP-SERGEANT'S WHIS-
TLE AND COME UP ONTO THE
LINE AT REVEILLE WITH A
SNAP;
AFTER YOU'VE DONE A RIGHT
DRESS THAT WOULD DO CREDIT
TO A MODISTE AND HAVE COUNT-
ED YOUR PLACE IN YOUR SETS OF
FOURS LIKE A VETERAN OF SIX
OR SEVEN WARS;
AIN'T IT GRAND---
TO HAVE YOUR SQUAD LEADER
REPORT ALL PRESENT AND AC-
COUNTED FOR WITHOUR EVEN
CALLING YOUR NAME?
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ATTENTION, NEBRASKA MEN!
All men who have ever attended the
University of Nebraska are asked to
send their names, adresses and rank
to Alumni Headquarters, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln. An Honor Roll
and mailing list are being compiled
so that the University may keeo in
touch with her army and navy boys.
Give your name in full, your home
town, and the year you attended
Nebraska. Add your name to the
1500 already listed and send in a card
when you change your address.

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"Did-it-ever HAppen To-you?"

(Cartoon Strip)

Drawn by PHILLIPS, Staff Cartoonist, Camp Kearney, California
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Learn French

LESSON 6
NEW WORDS AND PHRASES.
un allemand (uhn almah), a German
les hommes (lez om), men
un homme (uhn om), man
un officier (uhn ofeesye), officer
l'officier (1 ofeesye), officer
les officiers (lez ofeesye), officers
homme (1 om) the man
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l'oeil (1 Page torn) The eye
les yeux (lez yuh), eyes
une oreille (un orey) an ear
l'oreille (1 orey), ears
allemand (almah), German
bon (bo), good
qu'est-ce que c'est que ca? (kes kuh
se kuh sa), what's that?
qui? (ki), who
je regarde (zhuh ruhgard), I look, look
at
vous regardez (voo ruhgarde), you
look, look at
j'ecoute (zh ekoot), I am listening
vous ecoutez (vooz ekoote), you listen
j'entends (zhahtah), I hear
vous entendez (vooz ahtahde), you
listen
comprenez-vous (kophupne voo?), do
you understand?
ne .. pas (nuh .. pa) (verb between),
not
trop (troh), too, too much, too many
Before a masculine word that be-
gins with a vowel un is pronounced
uhn and le, la are shortened to l'.
Examples: ihn ofeesye, un officier;
1 uhy, l'oiel, the eye.
Before a feminine word that begins
with a vowel, la is shortened to l'---
l'oreille: the ear. Before a plural word
beginning with a vowel les is pro-
nounced lez, as in lez ofeesye, the offi-
ciers.
To make a verb negative "ne" is put
before the verb and "pas" after it, as
je ne mange pas (I do not eat; I am
not eating); il n'a pas (he has not).

EXERCISE.

1. Count in French your fingers;
the number of words in each line of
this exercise for 10 lines; the number
of corporals in your company.
2. Qu'est-que c'est que ca? C'est
un Allemand. Que faites-vous? je re-
garde l'Allemand. Est-ce qu'il parle
angiais? Non, il parle allemand. Com
prenez-vlous l'allemand? Non, mon-
sieur. Il parle trop vite. Ecoutez-
vous? Oui, j'ecoutem mais ju n'entends
pas. Avez-vous des yeux a le tete?'
Out, j'ai deux bons yeux et deux
oreilles. Je regarde l'Allemand avec
les yeux et j'ecoute avec les oreilles.
Regardez vous l'homme? Oui, qui est-
ce? C'est un officier, un capitaine.
Que fait-il (whar is he doing?)? Il
travaille. Nous ne sommes pas en
France; nous en France? Oui, a' Bor-
deaux. Voila le chemin de Bordeaux.
3. Negative all verb forms in all
the lessons, as "je n'ai pas je ne parle
pas, ie ne suis pae, vous____tes pas,"
etc.

LESSON 7

The French numbers from 11 to 25
are:

French Pronounciation Meaning
ouze oz.................11
douze dooz...............12
treize trez...............13
quatorze katorz.............14
quinze kaz................15
seize sez................16
dix sept dis set............17
dix huit diz weet...........18
dix neuf diz nuhf...........19
vingt va.................20
vingt et un vat e uh...........21
vingt deux vat duh............22
vingt trois vat trwa...........23
vingt quatre vat katr...........24
vingt cinq vat sak............25

Here aare some French place names
that American soldiers ought to know
how to pronouce: Look them up on
a map at the "Y".

French Pronunciation
Toul tool
Saint Mihiel sa meeyel
Vosges vohzh
Xivray kseevre
Meuse pot a mooso
Pont-a-Mousson muhz
Nancy nahsee
Verdun verduh
Reims ras
Sainte Menehould sat muhnoo
Meurthe muhrt
Woevre vwavr
Chemin des Damesshma de dam
Ypres eepr

REVIEW EXERCISE

1. Write on a sheet of paper the
English of all the words and expres-
sions in lessons 1--6, and say aloud
the corresponding French words.
2. Go over aloud two or three times
the French for I have, he has, etc., I
am, he is, etc.
3. Do the same for I have not, he
has not, etc.; I am not, he is not, etc.
4. Say in French: 5 men, 15 cents,
20 captains, 22 francs, 19 francs, 14
cents, 18 knives, 20 glasses, 25 loaves
of bread.
5. Give the French for: I speak
French; I do not speak French; you
eat bread, potatoes, and meat (du pain,
des pommes de terre et de la viande).
What are you doing? I am looking at
the soldier. I listen to the soldier.
You hear, you do not hear. We are in
America. You wish to go to (en)
France. There is a newsdealer. Give
me a paper, please. How much? Give
me the change for (of) two francs,
please. Will you have some (des)
eggs (oeufs, uh?" How many eggs
(combien d'oeufs) do you want?
Speak (parlez) more slowly, please.
You speak very fast; you speak too
fast. The captain speaks (parle) too
fast. He works fast, too. He works
with his (la) head and I work with
my (les) hands.
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"MEN WANTED TO
KILL GERMANS"

WANTED---Men who are fighting mad
and eager to kill Germans; positions in
tank corps open to responsible parties;
action on fighting front guaranteed with-
in one month of enlistment; no guaran-
ty of safe return, but assurances given
that those enlisting will get their crack
at the Hun; men below and above draft
ages accepted, from seventeen to forty-
one. Apply U. S. A. recruiting station,
Forty-second street and Sixth avenue.
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This is the wording of an adver-
tisement inserted in a New York
paper by the recruiting staff for the
Tank Corps of the United States
Army. Great Britain has the tanks,
more tanks than she has crews, and
Uncle Sam wants to supply the
crews.
"Only two-fisted fighting men are
wanted for the Tank Corps," said a
recruiting sergeant. "We want only
men who are eager to go out and kill
Germans and don't care what hap-
pens to them just so they succeed in
that laudable ambition. Germans
stand between the world and peace.
The more Germans we kill the nearer
we get to peace. The sooner we kill
the Germans the sooner we will have
peace. The motto of the Tank Corps
is 'Kill Germans.' Kill them early,
late and all the time, but kill them
sure."
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CURTAILMENT OF PARCELS
A MILITARY NECESSITY
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A statement has been issued by the
War Department explaining that th
recent order forbidding the sending
of merchandise to American soldiers
"Over There" unless they requested
it was a military necessity.
Records furnished by officials on
the trans-Atlantic steamers showed
that every week 250 tons of mer-
chandise has been sent to the mem-
bers of the American Expeditionary
Forces by their relatives in this coun-
try. It was not only the weight but
the bulkiness of the hudreds of
thousands of packages that took up
so much room on the steamers as to
crowd off war equipment actually
needed by General Pershing's forces.
It is explained by the War Depart-
ment that the recent order does not
mean that the relatives and friends
cannot send articles to the American
soldiers in France, but each package
must have in it the request the sol-
dier sent that such articles be for-
warded to him. Unless the package
contains the soldier's request and
the sender writes, "This parcel con-
tains only articles sent at approved
request of addressee, which is en-
closed," on the package, it will not
be sent to France. The request of
the soldier must be approved by his
commanding officer.
In France the American soldiers
can buy a great variety of articles
and it is not necessary to send them
to the fighting men. The list of arti-
cles the soldiers can buy abroad in-
cludes the following: Biscuits, books,
brushes, bouillon, candies, candles,
canned goods, holiday cards, chewing
gum, chocolate, cigarettes, cigars,
combs, dental creams, various soft
drinks, flashlights, fruit, handker-
chiefs, heaters, jam, knives,leather
goods, malted milk, condensed milk,
evaporated milk, mirrors, nuts, pen-
cils, pipes, razors, shoe polish, shoe
laces, soap, sponges, tobacco, towels,
and wooden gloves.
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SOLDIERS CAN HELP

Soldiers in training who do not
feel that they can carry any more
Liberty Bonds can be of inestima-
ble assistance to their country by
urging their relatives, friends, and,
in fact, every one with whom they
come in contact, to purchase them.
It is believed that if the soldiers
take up this task they can make a
great sucess of it. Every parent
who has given a son to the nation's
fighting forces should purchase
Liberty Bonds to help keep that
son supplied with the essentials of
war.
That is what is being done with
the money raised through the sale
of Liberty Bonds: buying food,
clothing, equipment, rifles, bullets,
bayonets, etc., for the American
soldiers, and with which they are
confidently expected to win the
war.
Aside from the patriotism
shown by buying Liberty Bonds,
such purchases represent the best
investment in the world. All of
the money in the U. S. Treasury
and all the property owned by the
United States Government backs
up these bonds and they are as
good as "old wheat in the mill."
In addition to this, the rate of in-
terest, 4 1/4 per cent, is generous
and will make a good return on
a sizable purchase of Liberty
Bonds.