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TRENCH & CAMP

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Published weekly at the National Camps and Cantonments for the soldiers of the
United States.
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National Headquarters:
Room 504, Pulitzer Building
New York City
__________ JOHN STEWART BRYAN
Chairman of Advisory Board of Co-operating Publishers
Camp and Location Newspaper Publisher
Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La.....New Orleans Times Picayune.........D. D. Moore
Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas......Fort Worth Star Telegram........Amon C. Carter
Camp Cody, Deming, N. Mex...........El Paso Herald....................H. D. Slater
Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.....Battle Creek Enquirer-News........A. L. Miller
Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.............Boston Globe.............Charles H. Taylor, Jr.
Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J.........Trenton Times.....................James Kerney
Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa........Des Moines Register.............Gardner Cowies
Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla......Oklahoma City Oklahoman..........E. K. Gaylord
Camp Forrest, Chickamauga, Ga.......Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times..........H. C. Adler
Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, Cal........San Francisco Bulletin..........R. A. Crothers
Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan.......Topeka State Journal........Frank P. MacLennan
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga............Atlanta Constitution..............Clark Howell
Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill...........The Chicago Daily News........Victor F. Lawson
Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C........Charlotte Observer..............W. P. Sullivan
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga...........Augusta Herald..................Bowdre Phinisy
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C........Columbia State......................W. W. Ball
Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla....Jacksonville Times-Union.........W. E. Elliott
Camp Kearny, Linda Vista, Cal.......Los Angeles Times...............Harry Chandler
Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va............Richmond News Leader........John Stewart Bryan
Camp Lewis, American Lakes, Wash....Tacoma Tribune.....................F. S. Baker
Camp Logan, Houston, Texas..........Houston Post...................Gough J. Palmer
Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas.........Waco Morning News.............Charles E. Marah
Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala.......Birmingham (Ala.) News.............E. P. Glass
Camp Meade, Admiral, Md.............Wash., D.C., Evening Star......Fleming Newbold
Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark.........Arkansas Democrat..............Elmer E. Clarke
Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.C........Greenville Daily News..............B. H. Peace
Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss......New Orleans Item..............James M. Thomson
Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Al.......Montgomery Advertiser...............C.H. Allen
Camp Zachery Taylor, Louisville, KY.Louisville Courier Journal......Bruce Haldeman
Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas....}San Antonio Light............Charles S. Diehl
Kelly Field and Camp Stanley.......}
Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I., N. Y....New York World...................Don C. Seitz
Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga.............Macon Telegraph................P. T. Anderson
Published under the auspices of the National War Work Council, Y. M. C. A. of the
United States, with the co-operation of the above named publishers and papers.

WHY ARE WE HERE?

Nations or men at war have real
things at stake--real things, like food,
shelter, safety! Professors may argue
over theories, but men fight for things.
We are fighting for the dearest pos-
sessions of mankind. A man's cattle
have always been protected from rav-
ishing wolves and marauding robbers,
but all the cattle on a thousand hills
are not worth a little child. To pro-
tect their children Belgium's men laid
down their lives, and our children's
lives are now in peril.
The freedom of the seas is an old
and dearly loved right of nations, but
it is not as old, as important, nor as
faithfully guarded as life itself. In-
ternational treaties were supposed to
be honorable and sacred, but they
were not as honorable as motherhood,
nor as sacred as chastity. Look at
Poland and Lithuania, where thou-
sands of young women and girls were
herded together by the Germans into
foul stockades for the foulest pur-
poses.
Look at Belgium, where neither
youth nor age, neither sex nor condi-
tion, were spared in Germany's brutal
march to success.
From the waters of the Irish chan-
nel the voices of drowning babes
cried to America, but from the soil of
Belgium the crucified children cried to
Heaven.
And what the Germans did in Bel-
gium and Poland they praised the
Turks for doing in Armenia, and the
Bulgarians for doing in Serbia.
Those atrocious outrages on hu-
manity sprung from the heart of a
nation that knew not God, for the
Germans have dethroned the God of
Love and set up in His place the
Devil of Lust. They have crushed all
noble sentiments in the heart so that
nothing might interfere with the cold
calculation of the brain. They have
set up an empire on the soil of others,
and they will establish unbreakable
control over the soul of man unless
America takes up all that Russia laid
down, and then adds her own ideals
and strength.
To win this war is to make woman-
hood safe, to give childhood the prom-
ise of old age, and to insure old age
a peaceful eventide. It is to cast out
the demon of cruelty and to re-estab-
lish the kingdom of honor and kindli-
ness and civilization among men.
To lose this war is to lose all that
mankind has won in the struggle of
the ages and
WIN WE MUST!
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THE SALUTE

Sometimes a great truth loses its
impressiveness because of an unfortu-
nate, even awkward presentation.
For instance: Officers frequently
tell their men that a soldier is a good
soldier because he salutes properly.
They mean that a good soldier salutes
properly because he is a good soldier.
That is something quite different.
The salute does not make the soldier;
the soldier makes the salute.
Properly executed, the salute re-
flects discipline and devotion. Care-
lessly given it reflects lack of disc-
pline and lack of devotion.
The salute should be automatic, but
never mechanical. It is the individuak
expression of an individual's part in
a great military--more than that, a
a great patriotic--undertaking.
The soldier sees the commissioned
officer, sees in him the authority of
the nation, the authority to command.
The soldier brings himself to the sa-
lute and, without words, says more
eloquently than he could in words,
"You are chosen to lead; I will obey."
The officer recognizes the soldier by
returning the salute and says, without
a word, "I realize my responsibilities
and will endeavor to fulfill them."
Day in and day out, this exchange
of greetings goes on whenever officers
and enlisted men meet. Day in and
day out there should be this recon-
secrating of one's self to the cause
under whose banner all are serving.
The salute should be solemn, cere-
monious--as one Britich officer put it,
a magnificent thing! Why? Because
it implies so much.
In stress of action, the instant sa-
lute calls one th self-control. For
while it becomes automatic, it sum-
mons the one who is rendering it to
an attitude at attention. In that atti-
tude orders can be comprehended.
Every muscle, every fibre of one's be-
ing comes into play in the properly
rendered salute.
The good soldier reverences the
flag. He does not pass Old Glory
with head bowed and a covert glance.
He does not passby the Stars and
Stripes seeking to evade the rever-
ence due. His head is erect; his chin
drawn in; his shoulders squared, and
proudly his whole being proclaims his
thought, "That is my flag."
When he passes a commissioned of-
ficer, he salutes proudly, because the
officer to him is more than his com-
mander, the man who must be obeyed.
He salutes not only the man in au-
thority, but the source of that author-
ity--and that authority is the United
States of America, which the flag sym-
bolizes.

Something Different
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"We shall go on with the entertain-
ment," said a colonel of an American
regiment a monent after the "lights
out" order had been obeyed. "We can
have an air raid any night, but it isn't
often that we have a chance to hear
Mr. Sothern."
So Edward H. Sotherb, great Ameri-
can actor, resumed his recitation from
Hamlet before American soldiers gath-
ered in a large building back of the
lines "Over There." Upon resuming
he called the attention of his khaki-
clad audience to the fact that at the
moment the Germans begun to rain
down bombs he was reciting the line,
"Oh, what a rash and bloody deed is
this"

DO YOU KNOW THESE?
How are you on army abbrevia-
tions, now that you have been in the
service for........(fill in the num-
ber of months on the dotted line)?
Here are a few: M.G.B.; A.L.A.;
A.W.O.L.; K.P.; C.O.; M.P.; O.D.;
I.C'd; Q.M.; G.O.; S.C.D.; B.C.;
F.S.B.; T.M.B.; F.A.; F.H.; C.G.;eir
T.B.; S.T.; A.T.; O.T.S.; M.O. Do you
know any more?
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CANNING THE RATTLE

On night patrol duty between the
American and German lines the
Yanks are now wearing knitted wool-
en helmets instead of "tin hats." It
was found that the steel helmets
made a rattle when they came in con-
tact with barbed wire and this noise
brought a fusillade from the enemy.

CANTONMENT TYPES
THE ERSTWHILE MILLIONAIRE

THEY are in every camp, these chaps who formerly rode in limousines
but now lift one ten-ton hiking shoe after another on a long hike. Their
silk and fine linen was once laid out by Jymes, the family serving man.
but now they have to personally preen their common khaki just like any gar-
den variety doughboy. And inspection is just as terrible to them as if they
had not one time been so lapped in luxury that even getting shirts and collars
ready for the laundryman was done by some hired hand. They are showing
their comrades, and the world, that given half a chance, with the shackies of
money struck from them, they are men. And it's not an easy task to be one
when a limitless pocketbook tempts a fellow into thinking he's a sort of super-
man.
There are no supermen in the Army, though---just men. The erstwhile
millionaire is helping reduce every alleged superman---from money, power,
position, to the level of a common and yet divine manhood. In the O. D.
Brotherhood he is dependent upon elemental qualities and not on the artificial
props that coin can cop. If he is a good fellow, his mates learn that he is,
easily, and with uncanny intuition. If he's temperamentally a snob---and
would be if he were penniless, they get next to that, too. If he uses a pull
if he sidesteps the disagreeable details---they'rs next to him in no time. No
man is a hero to his valet, and no rich man is awe-inspiring to his bunk-
mates, although the fellow in the cot next his may have once taken tips from
him, as a waiter.
This fellow is helping to make the new American Army the perfect ex-
periment in democracy. He's invaluable. Without him, it would be democ-
ratizing the democrats; with him it also is democratizing the aristocrats.
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France And The German Menace
By CONYERS READ

The foreign policy of France during
the past fifty years has been directed
mainly towards the purpose of self-
preservation in the face of persistent
German hostility.
Ever since Prussia established her
domination over Germany by the de-
feat of Austria in 1866, Prussia has
taken the attitude that France was
an enemy to be watched and, if pos-
sible, to be crushed. It was that atti-
tude which brought on the Franco-
Prussian War of 1870. For although
the imperial aspirations of the French
emperor, Napoleon III, no doubt pre-
pared the way for war, it was Bis-
marck whose cunning actually pro-
voked it.

People's Protest Ignored

The result is well known. France
was thoroughly thrashed, forced to
pay an enormous indemnity and to
submit to the loss of two of her most
loyal provinces, Alsace and Lorraine.
It was to no purpose that the prov-
inces, almost to a man, protested
against separation from France. Prus-
sia took them by right of conquest.
She had no more concern then than
she has now with the rights of peoples.
Having defeated France, it was Bis-
marck's main purpose after 1871 to
keep her weak and isolated. To that
end he joined forces with Russia and
Austria in 1873. A few years later,
when Russia withdrew from this com-
bination, he formed a triple alliance
with Austria and Italy. So far as
Germany was concerned, this alliance
was directed mainly against France.
Bismarck also managed to keep alive
old differences between France and
England. So France for nearly twenty
years, thanks to German machina-
tions, was left without a frienc in
Europe.
Meanwhile she had been recovering
rapidly from the disasters of 1870. In
three years she paid off her war in-
demnity, reorganized her army and
fortified her new frontiers. The Ger-
mans began to think, in 1875, that she
had better be thrashed again before
she had got back her full strength.
They probably would have made the
effort had it not been for vigorous pro-
tests from Russia.
Russia in fact leaned with increas-
ing friendliness towards the French
as time revealed the fact that Ger-
many and Austria were untrustworthy
friends. France on her part courted
Russian favor by advancing large
loans to the Russsian government. The
outcome was that in 1891, Russia and
France signed a treaty of alliance
which at once rescued France from
her isolation and created a combina-
tion of powers sufficiently strong to
prevent the domination of Europe by
Germany and her two allies.

Triple Entente Defensive

Between 1891 and 1904 these two
groups of powers divided pretty equal-
ly between them the fighting strength
of Europe. Unfortunately for France,
however, the defeat of Russia in her
war with Japan in 1904-5 destroyed
this balance of power and enabled
Germany to assume at once an aggres-
sive policy.
Had it not been for England she
might have been more successful than
she was. But England, realizing the
magnitude of the German menace, now
stepped forward, settled her outstand-
ing quarrels with France by treaty,
adjusted old differences with Russia,
and in 1907 had definitely aligned her
self in a Triple Entente against Ger-
mamy's Triple Alliance.
The purpose of this new combination
was frankly defensive. It was de-
signed primarily to discourage Ger-
many from her dreams of conquest.
And for seven years it served its turn.
But in 1914 Germany felt herself
strong enough to measure swords
with it.
The immediate occasion of the pres-
sent war was Germany's support of
Austria's attempt to brow-beat Serbia.
When Russia undertook to defenc Ser-
bia's interests, Germany declared war
on Russia.

Struck France First

With France, Germany had on quar-
rel at all, and France, in spite of many
just grievances, certainly gave her no
cause for quarril. But she struck first
at France, fearing that France would
support Russia; and she struck at
France through Belgium because
France, supposing that Belgium's neu-
trality would be respected, was weak-
est along her Belgium frontier.
That is why we made it our own.
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A MILITARY ESSAY
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BUGLERS

The bane of civil life was the
pestiferous tomcat on the back
fence. Now we have, instead, the
bugler. We used to heave shoes at
the cat and go back to sleep. Now
we swallow hard and cultivate
goose pimples. There would be
good money in a moderate-priced
extermintor for buglers. It would
have a ready sale.
Once there was a soldier who in-
vented a brick for hurling at bu-
glers. The patents are impending.
This soldier has already won his
monument. A bugler makes a
wrist watch about as necessary as
a shave during quarantine. Bug-
lers are buglers. There is no other
definition. The world will never
be completely happy until the last
one has been cornered and shipped
to the Smithsonian institution.
C.S.

FRENCH BOY LIKES GUARD-
HOUSE

For a breach of discipline a French
boy-driver had to be locked up in the
guard-house overnight by the Ameri-
can military authorities. The boy
came out next morning looking very
pleased. They asked him why he was
so happy. He said he liked the Amer-
ican Army Hotel, the food and bed
were good, the helpers attentive. He
thought he had been entertained as
a guest in some new sort of military
hotel.
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Home Folks." You get the paper
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folks. Do you get the idea? The
mail will be gathered up and sent to
the post office soon. Address this
paper to the home folks now.

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