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4 TRENCH AND CAMP

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

JANUARY 29, 1918

Second-class mailing privileges ap-
plied for at Charleston Postoffice Oc-
tober 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. Lang-
ley, Memphis, Tenn.
Associate Camp Secretary - F. G.
Randall, New York city.
Religious Work Director - Rev. Mel-
ton 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. Mar-
riott, Memphis, Tenn.
Social and Entertainment Director -
H. Holmbery, Nashville, Tenn.
Camp Accountant - S. C. Candier, At-
lanta, Ga.
Office Secretary - Brown Carithers,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Camp Electrician - D. F. Folger, Cen-
tral, S. C.
Superintendent of Building Mainten-
ance - W. P. Day, Memphis, Tenn.
Supply Clerk - George Owens, Green-
ville, S. C.
Mrs. Lewis W. Parker, director.
Mrs. Mathews, official hostess.
Mrs. Florence Gray, cafeteria sec-
retary.
Miss Marjorie Stoughton, business
secretary.
Miss Grace Hamilton, information
secretary.

GENERAL BUILDING STAFF.
Unit 82 (Paris)
Col. L. W. Kennedy, building Secre-
tary.
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 secre-
tary.
D. S. Blankenship, business secretary.

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

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 sec-
retary.
David Sanderson, educational secre-
tary.
Thos. B. Dlits, business secretary.

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

Unit 262, (Remount Station)
J. R. Cunningham, building secre-
tary.
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 prin-
ciples, 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 com-
rades and an honor to your country.''
Gen. Pershing,
Commanding American Expedition-
ary 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 seem-
ingly 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 infan-
try 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 infan-
try 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 fun-
damentals of all other educations. Now
the 113th and 115th machine gun bat-
talions 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 at-
tend 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 re-
production of the latter O. Gives one
the uncomfortable sensation that, per-
haps, 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 immeas-
urabely better citizens of the republic
for which they have risked their
lives, and thus become in less or great-
er 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 en-
deavor, 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 sheet-
anchor of our liberties; write its pre-
cepts 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 freez-
ing 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 mu-
sic, fragrance and soft light.
I take the bloom of innocence from
little children and youth.
I am the enemy of a good con-
science.
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 vir-
tur 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 un-
expectedly. 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 explana-
tion.
''Now, you stand here and salute
me fifty times,'' ordered the lieuten-
ant.
The ''rookie''obeyed. A major pass-
ing stopped to watch the perform-
ance. 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 de-
scribed 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 miscon-
duct.
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 re-
port as I told you?''
''I thought I'd give myself another
chance,'' returned the offender. And
the officer let it go at that. - By Yeo-
man 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 demon-
stated 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 re-
linquish it for the good of humanity.
For this reason we have been pro-
tected 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 lib-
erties have died,
That right and freedom shall not per-
ish 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 hu-
man 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 wor-
ries 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 found-
ation 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 porterhouse-
treated right. He does not wear shab-
by clothes, but well-tailored ones-
treated right. He has few amuse-
ments, 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 im-
portant habit you can cultivate, the
most profitable and the most satisfac-
tory. 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 sit-
uation which may seriously affect the
future salary or income of every indi-
vidual. 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 in-
dustries 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 impor-
tance 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.