Trench and Camp January 29, 1918 pg.1

Trench and Camp Printed weekly for the Y.M.C.A. by courtesy of Published under Auspices of National War Work Council Y.M.A.A. of the United States The News and Courier. Edition for CAMP SEVIER Greenville, S.C. Army news for army men and their home folks Vol. 1. January 29,1918 No. 16

Nearly all World in European War. Nine-tenths of the population of the world is now at war. More than half the governments of the earth are engaged in the struggle to preserve civilization or have broken off relationswith Germans and her copartners. Little more that one-third remain neutral, and most of these are the smaller States, who are prevented by their position from engaging in the conflict or whose influence would be without effect. It is the world against barbarism! These facts are stupendous, yet they are borne out by figures as the following tables will show: The Allies. Nineteen countries have entered the war against the modern barbarians. The following are their names, date of entry and population, including that of their colonial possessions: 1914. Serbia, July 28 ......4,547,000 Russia, August 1........ 175,137,000 France, August 3........ 87,439,000 Belgium, August 4........22,571,000 British Empire, August 4...... 439,950,000 Montenegro, August 7........516,000 Japan, August 23........73,807,000 1915 Italy, May 23......37,398,000 San Morino, June 2........7,508,000 1916 Portugal, March 10........15,208,000 Rumania, August 27........7,508,000 1917 United States, April 6.... 113,168,000 Cuba, April 8........2,500,000 Panama, April 9........427,000 Greece, July 16......4,821,000 Siam, July 22......8,149,000 Liberia, August 7......1,800,000 China, August 14......350,650,000 Brazil, October 26......24,678,000 Total, 19 States...... 1,37,225,000

Relations Broken. The following nations, all of North or South America, and all during the present year, have broken off relations with Germany: Bolivia, April 14......2,890,000 Guatemala, April 27......2,119,000 Honduras, May 18......600,000 Nicaragua, May 19......600,000 Santo Domingo, June 8......710,000 Hayti, June 17......2,000,000 Chili, June 29......5,000,000 Costa Rica, September 21......431,000 Peru, October 6......4,620,000 Uruguay, October 7.......1,400,000 Ecuador, December 8......1,500,000 Total, 11 States......21,870,000

The Central Powers Austria began the conflict at the instigation of German by declaring war on Serbia. Four days later Germany entered. Turkey began hostilities three months later without a declaration, and Bulgaria dallied with both sides eleven months longer beforejoining the Teutonic combination. Following are the dates and the population of each country, including colonial possessions: Austria, July 2, 1914 .... 49,882,000 Germany, August 1, 1914 ...... 80,661,000 Turkey, November 3, 1914 ...... 21,274,000 Bulgaria, October 4, 1915......4,755,000 Total. Four States......156,572,000

The Neutrals The following governments have remained neutral in the great struggle betwen right and wrong: In Europe - Andorra, 6,000; Denmark and colonies, 2,872,000; Holland and colonies, 43,667,000; Luxembourg, 2,459,000; Spain and colonies, 21,350,000; Sweden, 5,680,000; Switzerland, 3,742,000. Nine States; populatgion. 80,064,000. In Asia - Afghanistan, 6,000,000; Persia, 9,000,000. Two States; population 15,000,000 In Africa - Abyssinia, 8,000,000; Morocco, 14,500,000. Two states; population 14,500,000 In North America - Mexico, 15,063,000; Salvador, 1,254,000. Two states; population, 16,317,000 In South America - Argentina, 9,000,000; Colombia, 5,500,000; Paraguay, 800,000; Venezuela, 2,780,000. Four states ; population, 18,080,000. Total neutral population, 143,961,000.

At war, 19 states.......1,370,225,000 Relations broken, 11 States 21,870,000

Anti-German, 30 States...1,392,095,000 Germanic allies, 4 States....156,572,000 Neutrals, 19 States......143,961,000

World's population, fifty three States.....1,692,628,000

[subheading and article span columns 2 and 3 half page] Only twelve days more in which you can insurance If he has no one within the "permitted" class he should buy it anyway, for reasons: 1. It is worth the premium charged to him, because in the event of disability it pays to him as long as he lives. 2. He cannot buy it after February 12 if in service October 15. 3. He may lose his insurability in the service without disability, and would then have the protection if he had subscribed for insurance. 4. He might create (almost certainly will) dependents in the future. Some of the mistaken ideas I have come across are as follows: 1. Some men are under the impression that rates will materially increase. Not so. Rates published on back of application. 2. Some men think automatic feature of bill protects all dependents. Not so. One covers wife, child and widowed mother. 3. Some men think insurance will be administered by corporationafter war. Not so. Contract will always remain a contract with the United States. [column 3] 4. Some men are under the impression (I am informed that this holds Battery F, your regiment,) that insurance is only good where soldier married ("permitted" class" published on back of application). There is a lack of understanding on the part of some officers as to a man's rights to being excused or exempted under the law from allotments. The bill almost certainly provides the means to buy insurance if it is desired in every case - officers in all cases should familiarize themselves with the full law both from a standpoint of their duty to the men and the service, but also to avoid pecuniary loss to themselves if they are or hope to B Cs. One excellent scheme I heard of in one case where the unit reached 100 per cent is a case where the company commander, after canvassing and securing applications from all the men he could, took the uninsured into his tent, singly, blindfolded them and had them try to walk around, telling them that is blinded, in the event of their subscription for $10,000 they would receive £57.50 monthly as long as they lived. The subscription was forthcoming in every case. [column 2] The Sportlight (By Grantland Rice. Revenge. When the drill somehow seems longer Than it ever was before; When my back feels half-way broken And my aching feet are sore; When lectures crowd upon me Until figures fag my brain, And life, for just the moment, Is an anguish and a painThen it is I pause a second, In the long day's rushing pace, And I cuss the bally Kaiser Till I'm purple in the face. When a lengthy hike is ordered Where the rocks are like a thorn; When the reveille reechoes On a cold and wintry morn; When my pleasant dreams are vanquished And I rub my half-shut eyes To see gray dawn a-stealing Out of January skiesThen it is I find existence Is bereft of all its thrils, And I cuss the pop-eyed Kaiser Till I'm blue around the gills.

Teaching French song to sammies. Lieut. Raymond V. Phelan, commanding receiving company No. 4, Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida, is teaching the company to sing the French patriotic anthem, La Marseillaise. Receiving company No. 4 is said to be the first in the United States to learn this great anthem of the French. In addressing his men at the first rehearsal of the song, Lieut. Phelan said: "An American army entering the battle line singing: "Arise ye children of the nation, The day of glory now is here,'

"will double the force and power of every French soldier within hearing." This military singing is led by Pricate Harry Garland, rec[ently] of the New York stage. Phelan [was] [f]ormerly with headquarters troop, Camp Dodge. He is a graduate of Western Reserve University in the class of 1902, and has been professor of economics in the University of Minnesota.

New Department of Army Serve by Saving Is the Slogan. A department for conservation, under the command of Col. James Camby, has been established at Washington, D. C. The need of such a department has long been felt throughout the army camps of the country, and its advent among them is warmly welcomed. At Camp Sevier this important work has been entrusted to Lieut. Horner and a force of men under his direction. Although the department here is but in its infancy, as elsewhere, it is destined to become one of great magnitudeand of an ever-increasing value to the government. A large building is now under construction on the reservation, in which will be housed this department and a repair shop in connectin therewith. Cooperation and a mutual understanding between the men of the camp and the department of conservationwill be the keynote of the success of this movement. In order that the best results may be obtained a conservation officer has been appointed in each organization, who reports the progress of his unit and the methods employed by him to prevent waste to the camp conservation officer. In this way the department is apprised of the conditions from day to day throughout the entire camp. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance and far-reaching results of this work, which is practically limitless in its application. In view of these facts it is the patriotic duty of each and every man in Camp Sevier to do all within his power to aid this department in fighting waste and needless destruction of property. The folks at home are saving and making many sacrifices; why, then, should we in camp be wasteful? Look every week in this space for announcements and articles from the conservation officer. Remeber, your aid will help shorten this war and bring victory for your country and its allies.

Metric measurement for all American guns. Washington, Jan. 21. - Adoption of the metric system of measurement for artillery and machine guns and maps for the American overseas forces was announced today by the War Department. The change was agreed upon at the suggestion of the French Government to avoid confusion in France, where the metric system is used exclusively. "The Italians have been busy breaking up hostile working parties and harrassing centers of military activity.

Allies Prepared For Blow In West - Baker. Washington, Jan. 21. - The Allies are maintaining an expectant attitude on the western front, Secretary Baker stated today in his weekly war review, while recent events in Russia have greatly increased strategic freedom for the Central Powers. The following review is for the week ending January 19. It says: There is little to record in the way of military activity during the past week. On the western front the Allies are maintaining an expectant attitude."While the esemy has been busy concentrating his offensive forces the British and French have greatly strengthened their defensive positions, reorganizing their tactical arrangements, which, in many instances , are, or were, hitherto chiefly of an offensive character, and are now prepared for every eventuality. "The recent events in Russia, which have removed from the theater of active operations over 900 miles of front in the east, the invading of Italyand the consequent shortening of the battle line in this section by nearly 150 miles, have resulted in greatly increased strategic freedom for the Central Empires. "Reviewing the minor operations it is noticeable that ascendant initiative and alertness is again displayed by the Allies. "We find the British and French active raiding the German lines, driving in outposts and patrols. "Along the British front the enemy for the first time in many weeks maintained a relativelyh passive attitude. The British sent out numerous parties. "East of Loos a sharply conducted operation by the British was brought to a successful conclusion. The Britsh broke into the German line and captured a number of prisoners. "North of St. Quentin and east of Mericourt the British had brushes with the enemy, which resulted favorably. "In the neighborhood of Lens a Canadian detachment launched a raid against the Germans, which was crowned with success. Not only were the Canadians able to penetrate the enemy's positions, but they held them as long as they deemed it expedient, and only retired after inflicting serious damage and taking prisoners. "The air raids on Karlsruhe proved particularly effective. "In the Italian theater the successes of the preceding week have been enlarged and extended. "The Italians launched, successfully, along three seperate segments of the line, a series of formidable assaults, which resulted in a decided advantage for their forces engaged. "The first attack was made east of Carpo Sile, in the Piava delta, which brought about a material extension of the Italian bridgehead along lower Piave. "The second in the region between Monte Tomba and the Monte Solarolo, was a tactical gain of positive value, in that it greatly strengthened the Italian position in this area. "The third and by far the most important undertaking resulted in bringing about a rectification of Italian disposition in the Monte Asolone sector, which rendered secure trench elements hertofore not devoid of serious weakness. "This last achievement must be looked upon as of essential significance, in that it has removed the menace of the enemy being able to turn the Italian flank in the region of the Monte Grappa. The only reaction on the part of the enemy took place in the Piave delta, where the Austrians attempted to regain the ground lost east of Carpo Sile. The enemy was driven back without gaining any of his objectives and suffered several casualties. It would seem that it is now clear that the pressure of the Austrians in this area has been materially lessened. "The British forces were active in the Palestine theater. Gen. Allenoy has strenghthened his defensive position and extended his lines. Frequent patrol encounters are noted. The enemy is being cleared of villages north of Jerusalem and a firmer hold on the Holy City is thus assured."

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A MAN AMONG MEN! [photograph of soldier by Robert L. Ripley]

German Editors Ordered To Deceive Readers With Hand-Picked War News How the newspaper editors in Germany are forced by the government censor to deceive and bamboozle the people is shown by a copy of the secret orders to the German press which has come into the possession of the State Department. The editors are forbidden to print anything about reverses suffered by the German army or navy and must suppress everything unfavorable to the Central Powers. Everything favorable, however, must be emplasized in large type. For fear the atrocities perpetrated by the German soldiers will cause the people to protest, mention of these outrages is either forbidden entirely or must be minimized. Herre are some of the orders from the censor to the German editors: "Concerning the most recent bomb attack by a German flying machine on London, nothing may be published." "It is forbidden to publish anything concerning a fire in the flying station at Lawica." "It is desired that the great enemy flying machine losses in the month of May be strongly emphasized by large headings or in some other particular manner." "For the present nothing may be published concerning the explosion which took place this morning at the Friedrichstrasse station in Berlin." "Advertisements of undertaking establishments which seek the removal of the bodies of fallen soldiers are not to be accepted." "It is desired that it should be clearly and distinctly put in the foreground that the enemy offensive has utterly failed on all fronts, that the enemy has not althernative but to attempt another offensice, as the enemy statesmen are still against peace." "Petot Parisien informs us that five American divisions, numbering 125,000 men, may be expected in France in the autumn of 1917. It is urgently requested not to reproduce this information without some comment. We do not wish to underestimate the ability of America to accomplish things, but must not, on the other hand, overestimate it. In order to bring a division over from America, 75,000 tons must make the trip twice. Therefore, from the mere fact of lack of space, the transportation of such a body of troops within certain fixed time limits is impossible. Moreover, it is impossible to train these troops properly by autumn. These facts which have recently been discussed in the German war news can not be too strongly emphasized in the discussion of that French news." "While the news about America's war preparations, such as the organization and outfitting of an army 1,000,000 strong to reinforce the French-English front is looked upon, in that form, as 'bluff,' the spreading of which may unfavorable affect the opinion of the German people, yet the fact must not be overlooked, on the other hand, that the United States, with the support of its capacity for material and industrial management, is arming itself for war with great energy and tenacity. The war preparations in America are therefore, as was intimated int he Reichstag at the time, not at all to be made little of, but must be taken seriously, wihtout on that account being made a source of worry." Concerning the recent announcement that America would send our Allies 90,000,000 bushels of wheat, a German paper, acting under the direction of the censor, printed the following: "This means that America has decided not to appear on the battlefield for an indefinite time. The last hope of the Entente has gone. It will inevitable cause deep depression in Frane, whose bread ration may be increased slightly, but for whose war-weary troops there is no hope of relief." THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR You wouldn't think that men would go to war to learn how to be kind, but they do, is the observation of a Canadian soldier. There's no kinder creature in the whole wide world than the average Tommy. He makes a friend of any stray animal he can find. He shares his last franc with a chap who isn't his pal. He risks his life quite inconsequently to rescue any of one who's wounded. When he's gone over the top with bomb and bayonet for the express purpose of "doing in" the Hun, he makes a comrade of the Fritzie he captures. You'll see him coming down the battered trenches with some scared lad of a German at his side. He's gabbling away making throat-noises and signs, smiling and doing his inarticulate best to be intelligible. He pats the Hun on the back, hands him chocolate and cigarettes, exchanges souvenirs and shares with him his last luxury. If any one interferes with his Fritzie he's willing to fight. When they come to the cage where the prisoner has to be handed over, the farewells of these companions whos acquaintance has been made at the bayonetpoint are often as absurd as they are affecting. I suppose one only learns the value of kindness when he feels the need of it himself. The men out there have said "Good-bye" to everything they loved, but they've got to love some one, so they give their affections to captured Fritzies, stray dogs, fellows who've collected a piece of a shell-in fact, to any one who's a little worse off than themselves. WANTED TO SEE ENEMY A French artilleryman who had been in an artillery camp "at the front" for three years helping to bombard the German lines and furnish barrages, recently returned to Paris on furlough. His first request was that he be allowed to visit a prison where German prisoners were incarcerated, as he had not laid eyes on a German soldier since the beginning of the war.

"THE BARRACKS WHEEZE" BY PRIVATE CHET SHAFER (310 Sanitary Train, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.) --- Evening clothes In Cantonment Life Would be About as Useful As an Outside Sleeping porch In Sitka. ---- Back in 1910 all men were "guys" In 1911 they became "birds" From 1911 to 1916, inclusive, they were "dudes" Now, according to leading ologists, they are "Eggs." ---- Although the guardhouse is not located with respect for geographical convenience it is the most accessible building in the cantonment. --- ONE NEVER REALIZES UNTIL ONE GETS IN THE ARMY HOW MANY OFFENSES THERE ARE THAT ONE MAY BE SHOT FOR. Or-- Otherwise-- As the court-martial May direct --- A PAYDAY, MORE OR LESS, BETWEEN FRIENDS, ISN'T MUCH. BUT A FREIND, MORE OR LESS, BETWEEN PAYDAYS---OH, BOY! Many a good wag is making the riffleWith a riflethese days. As you were Johnathan As you were. The job of picking the All-American guard from the National Army after the war will be some task. --- A "Fours Right," "Column Left," And A "To the Rear, March!" Will get Any soldier Out of any Quandary --- THE GROUCH By WALT MASON When wise men write the history of this unholy scrap they'll roast in language blistery the cold-wet-blanket chap. The chap professing loyalty until he sprains his dome, yet comforts Prussian royalty by finding fault at home. He shakes his headpiece gloomily as all our statesmen do, and grouchily and rheumily expounds his doleful view. "We started in too recently, we were two years too late; we loafed around indecently," observes the sad-eyed skate. "We have a cheap john cabinet, and congress is not good; there's too much wind and gab in it, and no one's sawing wood. We're wasting time in training men; they all should be in France, and busily a-braining men, with club and gun and lance." Thus prates the sorehead drearily, until his talk grows stale, till we assemble wearily and ride him on a rial. Don't go complaining bitterly-much better to be a clam! Talk hopefully and twitterly, stand up for Uncle Sam! The grouch! In silk of denim he is traitor to the flag! He's helping out the enemy the way he chews the rag!- (Copyright by George Matthew Adams.) --- GOULLET IN AIR SERVICE Alfred Goullet, winner of the last six-day bicycle race in New York, has joined the United States Aviation Corps. He enlisted recently and asked to be assigned as a regular instead of a reserve, and his wish was granted. Goullet expects his experience as a cyclist to stand him in good stead in his coming exploits as an aviator. "I intend to work had, and I feel certain that I will master the aircraft. I'd like to be in the flyinh squad that first sails over Berlin." Alfred is the second member of the Goullet family to join the colors. A brother, Ernest, who enlisted in Australia, was badly injured in the Gallipoli campaign and is now back in Australia, an invalid for life. --- SAVE THEM Save your copies of Trench and Camp by mailing them home.

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''Prepare to Live''

Did you join the colors to help with this War with the idea that you would never come back to civilian life?

Did you say ''good-bye'' to loved ones, thinking you would see them no more? Have they said: ''Goodbye and good luck and if I do not see you again God bless you?''

If you and they have thought back and said these things, let Trench and Camp break the cheerful news to you that you were both probably wrong - that you probably WILL come back.

Secretary of War Baker estimates, judging from the experience of other expeditionary troops, that 14 out of every 15 Americans who enter military service will return and enjoy the days of peace.

While you stand ready to make the supreme scarifice, if need be, the chances are 93 per cent in favor of your seeing the nations of the world again devoted to peaceful pursuits. In fact, you are just about as likely to live to a ripe old age as your friends who face, in civilian life, the perils of street cars, subways, elevated and steam trains, to say nothing of motor trucks and recklessly driven pleasure cars. You have a big chance of a glorious and victorious future, and Trench and Camp hopes you will adopt the optimistic slogan. ''PREPARE TO LIVE.''

Most of you were preparing for life work when the call came. Patriotic duty and love of country prompted your ready response. After the war this world will be a better place to live in. This fact in itself makes it all the more important to ''PREPARE TO LIVE.''

With peace, there is sure to come an economic readjustment. Many large and new business opportunities will be presented where a little capital and good judgement will mean the chance to accomplish big things.

Some will not find there new job at once. Here again a little captial will come in handy to tide over this period of uncertainty. To retain the self-respect due to one who has been an enlisted man in the war which made the world safe for democracy and preserved liberty of all free peoples, a little extra capital - a nest egg - is a necessity.

To ''Prepare to Live'' means, save a little money each payday and have a rainy day fund for any emergency. ''Prepare to Live'' also means the thrift of your muscle, mind and morals. Save your physical resources in order that you may be a better soldier and a better citizen. Save your mental resources for the same reasons and your self-respect - come home ''clean'' - be able to look into your mother's eyes and tell her that you have come back ''clean.'' Be able to go back to your sweetheart as you expect to find her.

The days you are passing through now and the days you will pass through, climaxed with a triumphant march down the avenues of Berlin, are and will be the greatest of your life. Look at these days as time spent in the most wonderful school on earth. ''Prepare to Live'' by observing and turn into your own advantage this schooling. Practice the broad conception of Thrift - the thrift of money, muscle, mind and morals. This is the message of Y. M. C. A. ''Thrift Week,'' which begins on National Thrift Day, February 3.

Perhaps you know the story of the old man whose cabin had a leaky roof? When asked why he did not make repairs, he replied: ''When it rains it is too uncomfortable to go out and fix it, and when the sun shines it does not leak.'' You have a better philosophy be prepared to live later, if you do not ''Prepare to Live'' NOW.

Pack up the habit of thrift in your old kit bag and you can smile, smile, smile, for you will be prepared to live and enjoy life to the full.

USING BIG GUNS

Although little is heard of them, American heavy artillerymen are playing an important part in the fighting ''Over There.'' The U. S. Coast Artillery soldiers who spent several months behind the lines pracicing with big guns and familiarizing themselves with their operation are now participating in artillery duels. They are using the monster 400 milimeter cannon, equivalent to the 16-inch gun, which throw 400pound projectiles twenty-five miles. The guns are operated from a newly completed American artillery camp which covers a range of many miles. The marksmanship of the American gunners has proved a revelation to the French soldiers, and great damage has been inflicted on the German lines by the boys in khaki.

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''Just Before The Battle Mother''

Ten-SHUN - CAPTAINS HAT AND COAT CHEESE IT! CAPTAIN

LEM 304TH FIELD ARTILLERY BATTERY ''B'' CAMP UPTON N.Y.

Drawn expressly for Trench and Camp by Private Michael Lemmermeyer, 304th F. A. Battery B, Camp Upton, N. Y.

Service Flag Attacked And Promptly Defended [crosses into column 3]

''The Roll of Supreme Honor'' is being compiled by churches throughout the country whose members lay down their lives for their country. On the church records a small red cross is to be placed beside the names of the members who fall on the field of battle.

On stars on the service flags representing the members who will not return smaller white stars will be placed.

In another column of this issue of Trench and Camp is printed what has been pronounced the best poem thus far inspired by the service flag. Strange as it is to relate, however, there is at least one man who does no share the poet's thrill upon seeing himself as G. Hallel, of American Flag Association, United States War Veterans.

He protests against the service flag in the following language: ''I have no recollection that our forefathers who volunteered in the Revolutionary War ot the War of 1812, or any war since then up to the present war, had need for a service flag to advertise their going to the war''

''This anarchistic-looking cloth is now taking the place of Old Glory with a good many people. Some who could not afford to buy an American flag seem to have the money for a service flag. On a good many flagpoles from which was formerly displayed the Stars and Stripes is now displayed this other flag.

''The American flag law of this and other States prohibits the attaching or annexing of anything whatsoever to our noble banner. The flag of the United States represents all true patriotic native and naturalized Americans. There is no other one. Old Glory is the only one that goes to the battlefield with our soldiers and sailors and nurses.''

The editor who printed this protest came back at G. Hallal the next day with the following defense of the service flag: ''With the antagonism to the service flag, so called, that was expressed by one of our correspondents yesterday, we are not in sympathy. Of course, like other good things, the service flag can be, and sometimes is, abused. That is no reason for condeming it, however, and no more is the fact that such flags were not displayed during our previous wars.

''The parents of one son or several who have answered their country's call to arms and offered their lives in its service are legitimately proud of their achievement in producing and training real men, and they have a right modestly to advertise the sort of citizens they are. Possibly there is in this pride and in its manifestation something of the queer element to be found in the man who by implication claims recognition of superiority because a horse of his has won a race, but even that and similar demands, though one could argue away their justice and propriety, constitute a ''folkway'' so ancient, so persistent, and of such nearly universal following that not it, but the argument against it, must be wrong.

''That there is in the service flag a trace of invidious distinction against the parents who for good as well as for bad reasons are not privileged to display one is perhaps to be regretted. But the regret need not be very deep or keep anybody awake o' nights. Those sensative enough to feel reproach in the service flag of a more fortu-

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nate neighbor can easily enough prove in other ways the honesty and extent of their patriotic devotion, while those who ought to be humiliated by the absence of the starred banner from their own houses - well, they probably do not suffer at all, sp no commiseration need be wasted on them.

''As for the service flags raised by business houses, churches, clubs, and the like, their case is not quite as clear as that of the proud parents, but its defense would be very far from hopeless. Instinct, if not logic, declares them justified, and the verdicts of normal instincts are by no means to be disdained.''

THE SERVICE FLAG

Dear little flag in the window there, Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer; Child of Old Glory, born with a star - Oh, what a wonderful flag you are!

Blue is your star in its field of white, Dipped in the red that was born of fight; Born of the blood that our forebears shed. To raise your mother, The Flad, o'er - head.

And now you've come, in this fensied day, To speak from a window - to speak and say: ''I am the voice of soldier-son Gone to be gone till the victory's won.

''I am the flag of The Service, sir, The flag of his mother - I speak for her Who stands by my window and waits and fears, But hides from the others her unwept tears.

''I am the flag of the wives who wait Fro the safe return of a martial mate, A mate gone forth where the war god thrives To save from sacrifice other men's wives.

''I am the flag of the sweethearts true; The often unthought of - the sisters, too. I am the flag of a mother's son, And won't come down till the victory's won!''

- WILLIAM HERSCHELL

THE ''WHY'' OF LIBERTY BONDS

Uncle Sam's fighting forces now have a monthly payroll of nearly $100,000,000. This is exclusive of family allowances toward the support of famililes of enlisted men in the army and navy, nor does it include any of the special compensatory features of the Military and Naval Insurance Act under which $176,- 150,000 was appropriated.

MAIL IT NOW

Mail this paper home to mother when you have finished reading it. She wants to read everyhing regarding the life and activity in your camp.

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French Fried

''Come ill foe!''

With these few words, a Yankee High Private stomped up to the Semitic Sewer of Seams, squat Turk-fashion on a corner of the mess-table.

''Voo saunt sompray on the job!'' he added, grinning gleefully at the tailor.

''Eesee.'' A torn greatcoat slipped from brawny shoulders and fell in a heap on the table. The sartorial expert grabbed the heap at the corners, and hoisting it blanket-fashion, showed the rent from waist to heel. ''Commong seelah?'' he asked ''Barbed wire,'' explained the victim of practical Warfare in the Trenches.

''Sacray!'' cursed the tailor. ''La gerr rueen for robes a mantoe, but it is le Diable for ze culott,'' and he fished up three pairs of O. D. garments that looked more like porous plasters than breeches.

''Whew!'' whistled the Soldierman. ''How shall I coudray lay cootours?'' grinned the Tailor. The H. P. frowned and threw up his hands.

''As you were!'' he implored. ''Yuh know you're ten days ahead of me in the Patwah class.''

''Oy! Oy!'' chuckled the tailor. ''It is to say what sewings shall I make, blind stitch or lap seams?''

''Aw, do it as you dempleez!'' growled the Private. ''Only rayparay la day sheeroor an praysant, maintenong! I'm tray pressay!''

''But 'pressay' will take another hour,'' cried the tailor on the verge of tears, as well as the dangerous edge of the mess-table.

''Got you there, old thimble finger,'' yelled the doughboy in glee. ''Don't you know, you poor boob, thay 'pressay' means 'pushed for time'? And when I say I'm 'pressay,' I mean I'm in a hurry!''

''By the way, Ikey,'' he added, ''This robe de gerr is bokoo too long! Cut it off at lay zhenoo. It'll make you a shorter seam to coudray. Besides, when me mates pipe me in the new style reefer cut a la Poiret, they'll all be saluting me for Lay Capitaine himself.'' And his eyes gleamed at the prospect of sudden homage, the unearned increment of a tailor's shears. He turned toward the door and fairly sang his parting shot at the humped-up figure on the table.

''Oh, I'm the glad little plotter, I am! Some tour de force!''

''Not on your life, Sammy,'' grumbled the tailor as the door closed. ''Oy! Oy! I'll shorten your coat! But there's no one to lengthen your wit! And you shall be only for Follies Bergere to the whole regiment!''

Charles Waylan Towns.

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A Weekly Newspaper for the Men of the Thirtieth Army Division, Camp Sevier, S. C. Published by Army Y. M. C. A.

JANUARY 29, 1918

Second-class mailing privileges applied for at Charleston Postoffice October 25, 1917.

EDITORIAL STAFF: E. D. Langley, ...Editor-in-Chief. Benjamin S. Gross, Assoicate and Managing Editor.

PERSONNEL OF CAMP SEVIER ARMY Y. M. C. A. Headquarters Building, Executive Staff. Camp General Secretary - E. D. Langley, Memphis, Tenn. Associate Camp Secretary - F. G. Randall, New York city. Religious Work Director - Rev. Melton Clark, D. D., Charleston, S. C. Rev. David Reid, Middlebury, Vt. Educational Work Director - H. F. Holtzclaw, Ph. D., Moro, Ark. Physical Work Director - A. E. Marriott, Memphis, Tenn. Social and Entertainment Director - H. Holmbery, Nashville, Tenn. Camp Accountant - S. C. Candier, Atlanta, Ga. Office Secretary - Brown Carithers, Fort Valley, Ga. Camp Electrician - D. F. Folger, Central, S. C. Superintendent of Building Maintenance - W. P. Day, Memphis, Tenn. Supply Clerk - George Owens, Greenville, S. C. Mrs. Lewis W. Parker, director. Mrs. Mathews, official hostess. Mrs. Florence Gray, cafeteria secretary. Miss Marjorie Stoughton, business secretary. Miss Grace Hamilton, information secretary.

GENERAL BUILDING STAFF. Unit 82 (Paris) Col. L. W. Kennedy, building Secretary. Rev. William H. Cumpston, religious secretary. C. W. Knebel, physical secretary. J. B. Wright, educational secretary. J. H. Tate, business secretary.

Unit 83, (Engineers and Hospital) H. B. Jones, building secretary E. M. Nesbitt, religious secretary. W. C. Hunter, physical secretary. K. T. Futrelle, educational secretary. D. S. Blankenship, business secretary.

Unit 84, (119th and 120th Infantry) F. B. (Dad) Sinex, building secretary. W. S. Stone, religious secretary. (Business secretary.) E. B. Peck, educational secretary. E. M. Giblette, physical secretary. John. E. Dunn, religious work secretary.

Unit 85, (117th and 118th Infantry) E. A. Steele, building secretary. W. P. Reagor, religious secretary. J. W. Richardson, physical secretary. B. G. Davis, educational secretary. W. R. Morris, business secretary.

Unit 86, (Artillery) J. N. Price, building secretary. E. G. Carson, religious secretary. George (Mike) Zeigier, physical secretary. David Sanderson, educational secretary. Thos. B. Dlits, business secretary.

Unit 261. (Signal, Ordnance, and Q. M. C.) H. J. Gardner, building secretary. Garfield McAllister, business secretary.

Unit 262, (Remount Station) J. R. Cunningham, building secretary. R. N. Childress, assistant secretary.

'The Bible is the Word of Life. I beg that you will read it and find this out for yourslves. Read - not little snatches here and there - but long passages that will really be the road to the heart of it. *** When you have read the Bible you will know that it is the Word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.'' Woodrow Wilson. Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.

''Aroused against a nation waging war in violation of all Christian principles, our people are fighting in the cause of liberty. Hardship will be your lot, but trust in God will give you comfort. Temptation will befall you, but the teachings of our Saviour will give you strength. Let your valor as a soldier and your comfort as a man be an inspiration to your comrades and an honor to your country.'' Gen. Pershing, Commanding American Expeditionary Forces in France.

If you want to know more about why the Y. M. C. A. has built these six buildings at Camp Sevier just spend a little time each day reading your New Testament.

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THE GREAT WORK OF THE Y. M. C. A. AS SENN BY ONE ON THE OUTSIDE. [Spans columns 2 + 3]

Five hundred sturdy figures in olive drab, filling every bench and seemingly every nook and corner in the large hall; five hundred awkward hands carefully copying the designs before their eyes. Where is the scene; who are the men; what are they doing?

The scene is the Y. M. C. A. ''hut'' at the Sixtieth brigade, Camp Sevier, almost any time between 2 and 4.30 o'clock on four days out of every week. The men may have come from either the 119th or the 120th infantry regiments, and the task at which they are so busily engaged is that of learning to read and write.

Within the brief space of two weeks educational activities at Y. M. C. A. Unit No. 14 have assumed proportions that would put many a university to shame. When the military authorities decided that the large percentage of illiteracy to be found in the Sixtieth brigade was a hindrance to training they acted with characteristic decision, and after an experiment covering all of last week had showed that the 480 or more beginners in the 120th infantry could be successfully handled by the army Y. M. C. A., more than 400 men from the 119th infantry were also assigned them to be taught these fundamentals of all other educations. Now the 113th and 115th machine gun battalions are becoming interested and will soon probably take similar action in all, the number of students must easily reach one thousand.

TRENCH AND CAMP --GAL 4. School is conducted on a strictly military basis. All men who cannot read and write are detailed to attend its sessions, one hour a day, four days a week. There is no trouble about the meetings not starting on time, for military discipline has taught the men to be on hand at the exact hour, and not thirty seconds or four minutes afterward. Guards are stationed at the door to prevent the departures of anyone during the hour of class work, and the roll is called to see that all

are present. Absence from school must be explained, just as from any other diuty or assignment.

At first it proved rather hard to find enough teachers to go 'round, for, of course, in the most elementary steps the men must be taught in small groups, and the whole staff at Unit No. 84, as well as secretaries from other units and from headquarters, have had to be called in to help. In the 120th infantry, however, where classes have already been in progress a week, the problem is already solving itself through the discovery of men in the ranks who are well qualified to act as teachers. These are detailed to attend the classes just as are the men, and that question is settled. Later, when it becomes necessary to seperate those who learn more rapidly than their less successful mates, the finding of enough teachers will again be a task, but for the moment the difficulty has vanished.

An interesting sight, and one the like of which is not often to be met with that building crowded with grown me just taking the first few faltering steps along the path of knowledge! Not exactly pleasant, at first, to see the infinite pains which some husky giant expends on the reproduction of the latter O. Gives one the uncomfortable sensation that, perhaps, he's had things a bit too easty. Not pleasant until one's mind travels on to the time when, after the war is over, by far the greater part of these men, nine out of ten, ninety-five out of every hundred of them, will go back to their homes in the mountains, the fertile plains of the melancholy seashore.. And the things which they are learning here, the things they never would have learned but for this war, cannot but make them immeasurabely better citizens of the republic for which they have risked their lives, and thus become in less or greater degree a recompense for all the things they will have suffered and foregone.

We wouldn't give a wooden nickel for a religion that wouldn't operate just as well in an army camp as in a church The Y. M. C. A. stands for a religion that is worth while for all men.

The Y. M. C. A. made a brave endeavor, on short notice, to live up to the ideas of sacrifice and service that have made it such a valuable institution ''Over There!'' By serving coffee and sandwiches to men on guard, by holding open house in many instances all through the night and by establishing in one case a first aid station, the Y. made good in its share of the storm-fighting endeavor.

''Hold fast to the Bible as the sheetanchor of our liberties; write its precepts on your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.'' U. S. Grant.

''That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our republic rests.'' Andrew Jackson.

''We plead for closer and wider and depper study of the Bible.'' Theodore Roosevelt.

Is is doubtful if any guard who gulped a cup of hot coffee that freezing night realized that the reason he was so served was because Jesus Christ lived on the earth some 1918 years ago. It is sometimes hard to establish the connection between the Christianity of today and the life of Christ, but here it is very plain. Christ lived to love, sacrifice and serve. That is why the Y. M. C. A. is in Camp Sevier.

Known to Every Man

I am attractive. I am capable of making wrong look right. I can make a fiend appear like a friend. I can make a man believe his sin will never be discovered. I can make a Christian forget he is a Christian. I can make a lie shine with the bril liancy of truth. I lure men to destruction with music, fragrance and soft light. I take the bloom of innocence from little children and youth. I am the enemy of a good conscience. I am the most successful whisperer in the world. I am the friend of the forger, the theif, the libetine, the murderer. I am the skilled manipulator of wealth, fortune and high position. I am the cause of want and poverty and crime. I am responsible for the stolen virtur of girlhood and woman hood, of boyhood and manhood. I am the invader of the sanctity of the home and the cause of divorce. I can wreck and ruin the strongest man ever created, because I am on the job twenty-four hours a day. I AM TEMPTATION.

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Fun From the Fighting Men. (From Judge.)

A New Order.

A ''rookie'' sergeant suddenly placed in charge of several squads for drill instruction ran them into a tree unexpectedly. At a loss to know what order to give them, he suprised them with: ''Fifty-fifty around that tree!'' - By E. L. Folk, Jr., Ground Officers' Training Dept. Kelly Field, No. 2, South San Antonio, Texas.

It Works Both Ways.

It was one of the new national army cantonments. A recruit passed a self-important second lieutenant who had just received his commission at one of the officers' reserve training camps. The ''rookies'' failed to salute. The lieutenant wheeled and said: ''You there, halt! Don't you knoe enough to salute an officer?'' The ''rookie'' gazed at him dumbly, at a loss for satisfactory explanation. ''Now, you stand here and salute me fifty times,'' ordered the lieutenant. The ''rookie''obeyed. A major passing stopped to watch the performance. At its completion he said: ''What's this?'' The lieutenant explained. ''Don't you know that an officer must return the salute of a private?'' inquired the major. ''Return the fifty.'' And he did. - By Bruce Cole, Army Y. W. C. A., Camp Dodge, Iowa.

Well Described.

A ''rookie'' who was send to one of the camps in Texas saw his first horned toad on his arrival there. In writing to one of his friends in the automobile business back home he described the toad as ''an elongated frog, upholstered with inverted tacks, mounted on a lizard chassis!'' - By E. L. Folk, Jr., Ground Officers' Training Dept., Kelly Field, No. 2, South San Antonio, Texas.

Another Chance.

Seeing a sailor under the influence of intoxicants, an officer of another ship reprimanded him. ''When you get back to your own ship put yourself on report for misconduct. This the man neglected to do and his failure later came to the notice of the officer who had instructed hom. The officer, encountering him again, said: ''Why didn't you put yourself on report as I told you?'' ''I thought I'd give myself another chance,'' returned the offender. And the officer let it go at that. - By Yeoman Samuel S. Greene, U. S. Naval Station, Key West, Fla.

Unkind.

Geraldine - Why didn't you enlist? Gerald - I had trouble with my feet. Geraldine - Flat or cold?

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''America Most Christian Nation.''

(Major Gen. Parker.)

''I believe there is a Providence which rules in great things. This country since its formation has been under the especial guidance of that Providence. This has beeen demonstated by our history.

''Our career shows us to be the most Christian nation on earth, and we are the only nation which does not make war for conquest. And we are the only nation that has taken territory by conquest which has been ready to relinquish it for the good of humanity. For this reason we have been protected amidst many dangers.

''We are now confronted with the most serious crisis of our history, but we can say to our allies, 'Be of good cheer. Victory on our side is assured. We are certain to win.'

''America, thy sacred flag we bear, Against thy foe across the ocean wide; America, with lifted sword we swear, By those who fear for their country's liberties have died, That right and freedom shall not perish from the earth. That justice and humanity again shall live, That peace and happiness shall have another birth. And this we swear, America.

Major Gen. James Parker, Commanding Eighty-fifth Div. N. A.

The Benefits of Thrift.

To enumerate the benefits of thrift would be equivalent to enumerating the benefits of a sound body, for all that health is to the physical man thrift is to the temperamental and the material. Thrift is conducive to good habits, and isasmuch as good habits make good character, thrift is good character.

Thrift is an antidote for worry, which is the most distressing of human emotions. To worry about the future is common to man, but not to the animals - they work for the future and plan for it. Thrift avoids the worries of life as no other habit can. It is good medicine for the blues.

Thrift does for the individual what thrift does for the nation - it makes for strength. It is the surest foundation upon which a man can build. Not the successful men of your town. Do they waste their substance? Do they live beyond their means? Do they run into debt, gamble and try to keep up with Lizzie? Yea, verily, they are the frugal men, the solid men, the thrifty men. They have managed well.

The thrifty man does not live on mush and milk, but on porterhousetreated right. He does not wear shabby clothes, but well-tailored onestreated right. He has few amusements, but good ones. He does not go out often, but goes well when he does - and remembers it because of the quality and rareness. Theatres every night are bores.

This virtue of thrift is the most important habit you can cultivate, the most profitable and the most satisfactory. You can see what it does - it works here, not hereafter. Waste is the most costly evil you can tolerate in your material life. Thrift will get you further up life's ladder than any other quality, and waste will carry you down faster. Thrift of time will do more to give you an education than all the colleges, and thrift of food will make you better fed than a Broadway habitue. Thrift of money will make you independent of the loan shark, the pawnbroker and the landlord.

A Nation Can Thrive Only Through the Thrift of Its People.

(From the Jackson Heights News.)

We desire to call your attention to an aspect of the nation's business situation which may seriously affect the future salary or income of every individual. The annual income of the country is $40,000,000,000. This has been none to great to meet the needs of industry and commerce in times of peace. During the first year of the war the government may possibly need to spend $20,000,0000,000. Where is it to come from?

The war cannot be won if the industries upon which the government relied for war material are cramped or bankrupt. A large part of the vast sum needed to bring the victory and the peace we all long for must come through real sacrifice on the part of each individual man and woman.

Approximately half the income of every individual in the nation must go into government war loans and taxes. The government program must be carried out. The more readily this is done the less delay will result in our war preparations - the fewer lives will be lost.

We must all spend less and save more. Unless the people practice thrift the nation will not thrive. This has been true in the long run in the history of every nation, even in times of peace. It is infinitetly more vital in war times. It is of supreme importance now, when we are still far from the climax of the greatest war in the world's history.

Not only must we save to win the war - but we must save if we are to survive.

We urge this because: 1. It will help YOU. 2. It will help YOUR FAMILY. 3. It will help YOUR COUNTRY. 4. It will help CIVILIZATION.

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EDUCATIONAL NOTES -- THRIFT CAMPAIGN AHEAD DR. H. F. HOLTZCLAW.

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WORK SUSPENDED AGAIN AT SEVIER

Bad Weather Makes Necessary Suspension of All Work in the 30th Division

Y. M. C. A.'S A BLESSING

(From the Greenville News.)

For something like the tenth one in the past six weeks, the activities of the elements have forced a temporary stoppage of all outdoor training at Camp Sevier. The ground is as thickly covered with sleet as in town, and there's several million times more mud, so that any sort of locomotion, except the slowest and mose sedate sort of walk, is out of the question. Yesterday, just to get the men's blood circulating and to keep away the unpleasant effects of possible attacks of damp feet and the blues, several of the commanding officers sent their men on short route marches, but the going wasn't over-pleasant, and most of the soldiers were glad enough to get back to camp and spend the rest of the day in trying to keep from going out into the slush any oftener than abso lutely necessary.

Since the beginning of the second week in December there have been not more than four or five days when outdoor work could be done at full speed, and in this important part of a soldier's training the division must have been delayed fully one month. All instruction regularly continued indoors has been continued on schedule, and wherever possible special indoor instructionto supplant in measure the outdoor work, which was out of the question, has been given, but there are many things which could not be attempted. Nothing begins to replace close and extended order drill, and both these have been impossible, as well as practically all work on the target range, where the soldiers fire from trenches closely duplicating those at the front.

The Y. M. C. A. buildings have proved of the greatest value during the recent weather in keeping the soldiers in good health and spirits. With the large quantities of athletic supplies that have recently come in it has been possible to give a large number of men ample physical exercise every day, and this alone has gone a long way toward counteracting the bad effects which enforced idleness indoors inevitably has on the soldiers' ''pep'' and endurance.

Thrift and the Cattle Tick.

As you go through the country you are frequently impressed with the appearance of a farm. The house, outbuildings and fences are in good repair and neatly painted, the lawn is well kept and a general air of prosperity surrounds the place. If you wre to examine more closely you would find the farm machinery in the tool house well protected from the weather, and, if winter is approaching, greased to prevent rust. The cattle are well housed, warm and fat. You conclude that this farmer is wealthy because his farm looks so neat, but you have reversed the proposition - he is wealthy because he keeps things in good order. Thrift is good management and he makes money through his good management. He is thrifty because he makes money; he makes money because he is thrifty.

You will also find (perhaps more frequently) other farms with a rundown-at-the-heel look. The fences are falling down, the house has never been painted, the roof leaks, the barns are full of holes and the cattle are ill housed, cold and lean.

If you were to examine the premises you would find the farm machinery scattered all over the place. The mowing machine, new it may be this year, is in the orchard; the plow stands in the last furrow plowed and the hay rake in the field last mowed. The cattle are barely protected from the elements, the cows give poor milk, the hens do not lay in the winter, the farmer buys his vegetables and the whole place has a look of decay. It is simply thriftlessness gone to seed, and the bank that holds the mortgage knows it. Everything shows it.

If there is any place where thrift is manifest it is on the farm. If there is any place where thrift pays it is on the farm. It may be the farmer thinks he works hard, but he may fritter his time away; he may not do the things that count. His energies may be misdirected; he may not know how. Perhaps he takes no farm paper, and farms as his father did, with his hands instead of with his head.

He may have a hard heart and not care if the cattle suffer. He is too busy to patch up the holes in the barn and wonders why they ''eat their heads off'' and still are lean; they eat to keep warm, and he is stoking the boiler and does not know it. He raises poor crops and blames the weather

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man, when the manure pile is at fault. He is not willing to spend money to get money. A ton of fertilizer means, not a bumper crop, but twenty dollars. But you can't raise crops without feeding the soil any more than you can raise boys without food.

The farm is full of pests and the farmer must decide whether he or they will run the place. For instance, the cattle tick cost the farmers over $90,- 000,000 last year, and could be eradicated for a trifling sum in comparison. It is stated that $200,000,000 is lost yearly through decaying corn stalks. Forty million dollars' worth of eggs are broken in transit each year and 700,000 bushels of Maine potatoes are wasted every year on their way to market. We could build six battleships with the money saved through killing the cattle tick.

You can't feed the ticks on a cow and get good milk - the ticks get the substance that should go into the milk. The farmer who feeds cattle ticks and knows it is throwing money away. The hide is less salable, the meat poorer and the whol proposition is costly.

Machinery rusts if left to the elements and soon becomes scrapped. A house runs down unless constantly repaired. A good animal becomes impoverished if not properly fed and housed. Thrift pays the surest dividends of any investment known.

You may let parasites live on your property until they own it. The worst parasite is decay. If you don't paint your house it soon rots. If you don't patch the roof, watch the plumbing and keep doing a little all the time it will soon prove a costly job. You can't eat up the rents of your property and keep it in condition. You can't have your cake and eat it. You can't plant corn in the same patch year in and year out and get good crops - nature doesn't work that way. You can't keep taking out and never put something back. Thrift is not the mere saving of money - it is as often the spending of it. The thrifty farmer will plant a field and plow under for two and three seasons to bring back his soil. This is thrift. He will spend five dollars any day to get ten, but if you don't spend the five you may lose your ten.

There are cattle ticks on every farm and in every life - the little things that take our strength. Your success depends upon how you regard them, a pest to be endured or a pest to be conqured.

DO YOU KNOW -

That the Germans have the Willlam to endure?

That it is not how hard you work that gets you ahead, it's how hard you save?

That before the war in Europe America was a debtor nation - that now she is a creditor nation?

That saving money is like swimming - you just save, that's all?

That H. Holmberg has a mustache?

That the Camp Library building is nearing completion?

That T. B. Reynolds has returned from Charleston?

That A. W. Clark, assistant librarian, is a ladies' man?

That the Allies must resort to forcible feeding, for the Kaiser refuses to swallow Democracy?

That Miss Rankin, of Montana, left a sick bed to vote for the resolution declaring war upon Austria?

That thrift will bring you success, save you from worry, make you a better husband, father and citizen, a better asset to the State, a benefactor to your country and, most of all, a profitable and indispensable employe to the business in which you are engaged and from which you make your living?

That America's farmers are receiving $21,000,000,000 for their crops, a figure twice that realized in any previous war year?

That life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort?

That the executive staff of the Army Y. M. C. A. is now doing its own janitor work?

That twice two makes four, and every little bit added to what you have makes a little bit more, and once you get the saving habit you necessarily find a good saving bank, open an account and keep it - that's all?

That the United States covers considerably less than 6 per cent of the earth's area, and contains only about 5 per cent of the earth's population, but that official records show the United States produces: 16 per cent of all the corn grown in the world? 70 per cent of all the cotton? 72 per cent of all the oil? 59 per cent of all the copper? 43 per cent of all the pig iron? 37 per cent of all the coal? 35 per cent of all the tobacco? 26 per cent of all the silver? 24 per cent of all the wheat? 21 per cent of all the gold and contains more than 33 per cent of all the wealth in the civilized world?

That the fellow who wants to be the victor bad enough to cheat never gets to be anything more than a cheat, no matter how often he wins?

That Gen. Pershing has committed to the Army Y. M. C. A. the conduct of the canteen in all the camps in France?

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THE ARMY AND NAVY Y. M. C. A., THE WORLD'S BIGGEST MOVING PICTURE EXHIBITOR.

''Movies tonight?'' cautiously queries the American counterpart of ''Flies on Parade'' to the high private at his elbow.

''Movies tonight?'' three times a day the question runs down the long mess shack line of every camp and cantonment in this country.

''Movies tonight?'' is the stock inquiry in every Y. M. C. A. building at the 200-odd places where soldiers and sailors are training in the United States.

''Movies tonight!'' affirms hundreds of Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. secretaries from Portland, Maine, to San Diego, Cal., and from Vancouver, Wash'n., to Key West, Fla.

''Hurrah!'' is the shout, or ''Good!'' the satisfied comment of tens of thousands of regulars and guardsmen, Sammies and Jackies and marines all over the length and breadth of the land.

It is pretty much as an old-timer, one of these picturesque military institutions, the regular army drill sergeant, put it: ''Soldierin' ain't what it used to be. With the innoculatin' and the vaccinatin' and the paradin' there ain't nothing to get sick or grouchy about, and you ain't really got any kick comin'. But if you think you have there's always the 'Y' movies to go to, and there you forget all about it.''

The doughty old soldier was right; soldiering is not what it used to be. No constructive provision was made for the old-timer's hours of leisure. The odds then were all in favor of the ever-besetting influences that degrade.

Now all that is changed. The Red Cross is on hand to aid in the prevention and cure of bodily ills, while, wherever he goes, the soldier and the sailor finds a new agency at hand to minister to his social, recreational and religious needs and to stimulate the mental state of life in war time.

The new agency is the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A., with its all-inclusive program of freely given service - its hundreds of huts and tents, its thousands of secretaries, its athletic activities, its entertainments and ''stunts,'' its educational classes in English and French and the entire long list of modern academic courses, its voluntary religious meetings, its ''sings'' - and last, but by no means least, its movies.

E. S. Mowbray, who heads the motion picture bureau of the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. in the Southeastern Department, states that at present 614 movie shows are given monthly in seventeen camps and naval stations in these seven States. Over eighty moving picture machines are used. By summer it is anticipated that the number of shows to be given monthly will pass the 1,000 mark, booked from Atlanta, Ga., headquarters.

The Southeastern Department is now running 3,070,000 feet of film monthly for the entertainment of our boys in khaki and blue. That is, each month the Y. M. C. A. will show in its 125 - odd buildings in this deparment the equivalent of a film 581 miles long, a picture capable, in other words, of spanning the distance from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi river or across the entire Southeastern Department.

From the New York city office of the Community Motion Picture Bureau, which is the selecting and distributing agent for practically all the films shown by the Y. M. C. A., between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 feet of film is the total recored weekly as being distributed through its eight offices, one of which is in Atlanta, Ga., serving the Southeastern Department. When the full quota of army ''Y'' buildings called for are in operation seven and a half million feet of film will be required weekly.

If one man was to watch a picture the aggregate length of time that all the soldiers and sailors watch the movies every two weeks, that man would still have a century to sit and watch, assuming that he first sat down before the screen at the beginning of the Christian era and had remained there eight hours a day, six days a week ever since.

With the American expeditionary forces, too, the Red Triangle movies are shown, secured ''over there'' mostly from European producers. Many is the dull hour, the homesick heart and the disconsolate 'Sammie'' that is relieved by the click, click of the projector's crank and the alluring magic of the screen.

The Army and Navy Y. M. C. A., through the Community Motion Picture Bureau, is now showing more film at more places every night than any other agency; it is the biggest moving picture exhibitor in the world today, and all of its shows are free to our soldiers and sailors.

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GREAT INTEREST IN BOXING AT UNIT 261

Bam! Wif! Wow! Some boxing. The boys at the Signal Battalion will be ready for the Germans in the slam band hand-to-hand stuff. If you don't believe it send in a German spy to put on the gloves with any Sammy that has had Gardner and King working on them, and you will see what the fine art of self-defense means to the enemy. The boys at the new Unit 261 have been going some with the gloves the past three weeks and Gardner reports that he is some busy man handing out the gloves for the signal Sammies.

The drill grounds will be in shape by next Wednesday if Old Sol will keep working and then you will see some real athletes at work on the field. The boys have had all of their athletic work indorrs for the past month. Close quarters to be sure, but they have been going after it and are shaping up in fine style. The drill grounds are all we need now and if we can stretch out on the hill next Wednesday there will be some doings.

Read about the educational work of the 119th and 120th infantry regiments as seen by an outsider and told in the Greenville News. The account is reprinted on the editorial page of this issue of Trench and Camp.

Private Lewis, of Company C, 105th engineers, is aiding the educational secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Unit 83 with the liberty which has been installed there by the camp librarian, Mr. R. P. Emerson.

A report from one regiment where classes have been organized only about five weeks says: ''One of our beginners' English classes will write a letter home at the next recitation.

In the Christmas issue of The Southern Lumberman there appeared a 2 1/4page illustrated article on ''The Exportation of American Lumber,'' by Dr. H. F. Hotzclaw, of the educational department. The article is a comprehensive survey of (1) The history of our export trade in lumber from the date 1600; (2) Of the trade with foreign countries in normal times, and (3) Of the effects of the present war upon the lumber export market.

A man came to the desk of one of the secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. last week and asked the secretary in charge if he could read the address placed before him. A very plain address had been placed upon this letter to his mother. Upon being assured by the secretary that it would ''go through'' O. K. he proceeded to say that two months ago he could neither read nor write and that he had made such progress in his work that he had now written this letter to his mother, and he was sure she would be proud when she received it.

Go around to the remount station about 6.30 in the evening and you will see a group of soldiers hurrying to the mess halls, not for their meals, but with books under their arms and ready for schools.

A new current events class has been organized; 150 men were present the first evening.

CAMP AND TRENCH - GAL 8

Several of the boys of the 105th engineers and of the ambulance companies have agreed to ''read a book a day.'' The circulation last week at the Y serving these boys was 300. One of the boys whispered: ''This beats crap-shooting.

Someone pays the following compliment to David Sanderson, one of the educational secretaries: ''Always on the alert to take advantage of all opportunities presented to him in advancing his work; having a cheerful word for everyone; being pleasant and congenial; he has had the pleasure of seeing his work placed on a solid foundation for great accomplishments.''

One of the officers at Camp Sevier, in introducting the educational work to his men, said: ''You will get the benefit of the very best that can be given in the world today.''

R. N. Childress has been transferred from the remount station and will serve as educational secretary for the signal, ordnance and quartermaster corps.

He Knew Them.

In a New York school one day the teacher was having considerable trouble in keeping some of the youngsters in the middle of the mathematical road. Several questions were asked without making much headway, and finally she turned to a small boy named Jimmy.

''James,'' said the school teacher, ''if your father can do a piece of work in six days and your uncle can do it in seven days, how long would it take them to do it together?''

''Ten thousand years.'' was the rather startling rejoin er of Jimmy.

''Ten thousand years!'' returned the teacher, somewhat sternly. ''What do you mean?''

''I mean that I know Pop and Uncle Jake,'' exclaimed Jimmy. ''Just as soon as they get together they would sit on the fence, smoke and tell fish stories. - Anonymous.