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TRENCH AND CAMP

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NO WONDER SHE WAITS
HE'LL BE SOME HUSBAND WHEN HE COMES BACK
[In the center is a cameo-like picture of a woman's profile.]
Peeling Spuds
will be nothing new -
[A man is sitting on a box labeled "PRUNES", peeling potatoes.]
Scrubbing is all part
of the game --
[A man is on his hands and knees, scrubbing the floor with a brush.]
No trouble
to pack fuel
[A man is carrying an armload of firewood.]
When she wants
him to sweep she
can say: "John
Police the
Barracks." - Ha'll do it!
[A man is standing, holding a broom.]
Monday's will be
a cinch for
Wifey.
[A man is bent over a washtub, a cigarette in his mouth, his sleeves rolled up, and his hands in the tub. The tub is on top of a box labeled "XXX BRAND HARDTACK."]
And he'll be used to staying
in at night -- and going without
"Just one more" -
T.C. Manning B- 29th Eng

Officers Should Stimulate
Enthusiasm of Their Men

"The first condition in order to
stimulate the interest of the men is
the enthusiasm of the officers," says
Major H. M. Nelly, Adjutant 34th
Division, National Guard, in an official
bulletin dated at Camp Cody N.M.
"Inspiration is contagious, and if the
commanding officer has it, it will
gradually be communicated to all in
his organization. Then the purpose
of each drill must be made perfectly
clear to each man. American soldiers
have not yet acquired the habit of
doing things simply for the purpose
of doing them. The war value of
each exercise should be clearly set
forth in meetings with the non-com-
missioned officers, and these instruct-
ed to explain it to the men. The writ-
er, for example, knows nothing more
tedious than constant repetition of
the trigger squeeze exercise as a thing
for its own sake. Done day after day
for an hour or more, it is enough to
drive even a dull man insane. But it
is the only way to learn to shoot accu-
rately. And looked at from this an-
gle it is a means of the very sort of
efficiency most needed in trench and
open fighting. The same is true of
bomb throwing, gun laying, fuse set-
ting, trench digging, patroling, and
all the thousand and one little things
we are instructed to do day after day.
If the officer will see to it that he
enters into the supervision of the
drills in the same spirit in which he
wished the men to carry them out,
much of the dreariness will disappear.
What we learn to do now under sim-
ulated battle conditions are the same
things we shall have to do later when
bullets are flying. If we can keep
our interest to learn to do them well
now, we shall be so much the safer
and more efficient when we do them
in front of the enemy."

FRENCH HONOR WILSON

A statue of President Wilson is to
be placed in the public square in the
town of Aix-les-Bains, France. Money
with which to purchase the statue was
contributed by French men and wom-
en of all classes. Considerable money
was donated by American soldiers
using Aix-les-Bains as a rest camp
after seeing service in the trenches.

TRENCH LINGO

Here is some trench lingo
translated:
AMMO--Ammunition
BAT--Battalion
BULLY BEEF--Canned
corn beef; called "Tinned
Willie" in the U. S. Army.
CHAR--Tea (derived from
the East Indian Lan-
guage)
CLICK--To die. To be
clicked means to be killed.
CHAT--Officers' term for
vermin which the men
call COOTIE.
DIXIE--An oblong iron box
of five gallon capacity and
used on field kitches for
making coffee, soup, etc.
FAG--Cockney English for
cigarette.
GRAYBACK--A German
soldier. Applied because
the Hun wears a field gray
uniform.
GROUSING--Complaining
and kicking.
KIP--To sleep. FLOP and
DOSS mean the same.
MILLS--A hand grenade
resembling a lemon in
size and shape.
NAPPER--The head.
STOKES--An eleven-pound
bomb hurled by mortar or
by hand.
TIN HAT--Steel helmet to
protect the head from
shrapnel.
ZERO--A military term in-
dicating the time at
which any contemplated
move is to be started. The
time before and after is
reckoned as plus or minus
zero.

Government Takes Charge
Of Air Around Reservations

"For the protection of the Army
and Navy," President Wilson issued a
proclamation forbidding any but li-
censed aviators to fly the air over or
near any military or naval camp, can-
tonment, fort or station. The licenses
will be granted by a joint board of the
Army and Navy, but it is not expected
many will be issued.

The President's proclamation con-
tained this paragraph: "In case any
aircraft shall disregard this procla-
mation or the terms of the license, it
shall be the right and duty of the
military or naval forces to treat the
aircraft as hostile and to fire upon it
or to otherwise destroy it, notwith-
standing the resulatant danger to hu
man life."

KILLED 30 HUNS

A Bronx, N. Y., school boy, thir-
teen years old, claims to have killed
thirty Germans on the French front
by bayonetting or shooting them. He
is unusually large for his years and
when he told a Canadian recruiting
officer he was eighteen he was accept-
ed and shipped "Over There." When
he was wounded at the front and sent
to a hospital behind the lines, his
mother was notified by cable and im-
mediately informed the British au-
thorities that the boy was only thir-
teen years old. Upon recovering the
veteran of several battles who says he
counted thirty Germans that he had
killed was sent back to the United
States and has resumed his studies in
school.

AN HONEST SERGEANT

Recently a non-commissioned offi-
cer was mistaken by a new recruit on
sentry duty, who saluted him. The
non-commissioned officer, ignorant
that his colonel was nearby, returned
the salute. Next morning he was or-
dered to report to the colonel, where
he was asked why he returned the
salute when he, the "non-com," knew
he was not entitled to it.

"Sir," he answered, "I always re-
turn everything I am not entitled to."

The colonel dismissed him.

Taps Will Soon Blow
On Govt. Insurance

It is getting along toward April 12,
which means that the final respite
given delinquent American soldiers
to insure their lives with the govern-
ment is about to expire.

No government has ever been as
generous to its soldiers as the United
States. A precedent was established
when the American government de-
cided to insure the lives of its fight-
ing men--men whom private insur-
ance companies would not touch with
a forty-foot pole.

Although a soldier may not have
anything in the world but the thirty
per he is drawing from Uncle Sam, he
can immediately create an estate of
$10,000 by taking out a policy with
the government. This $10,000 is
payable to his mother, wife, children
or other relatives in case he does not
come back. If he returns totally dis-
abled it is payable to him.

Only a small percentage of the sol-
diers in the training camps failed to
take out insurance before February
12, the original time limit set by the
government, but there are still some
men who have failed to make them-
selves of the government's generosity.

It is better to rejoice than regret.
If you haven't insured your life for
all you can afford--which ought to
be all the government will allow--
you haven't been as square to the
folks back home as you could have
been. If you don't want to take a
tormenting thought like that 3,000
miles across the ocean with you, IN-
SURE BEFORE APRIL 12.

Domino Shortage Averted
When U.S. Cork Bobs Up to
Pinch Hit for German Wood

Once again American ingenuity has
come to the rescue of American sol-
diers about to be deprived of amuse-
ment. A threatened shortage in domi-
noes has been promptly met and all
the indications are that the 20,000
sets needed for soldiers in khaki at
home and "Over There" will be sup-
plied at the desired time.

The shortage was due to the in-
creased demand for dominoes by the
devotees of "Muggins," and to the
fact that the sets used in America for-
merly came from Germany, whose ex-
ports to this country have not been
very extensive for some three years
and a half.

When the threatened shortage was
reported in the camps, the Y. M. C. A.
sent out an S O S for help. A prompt
answer came from the employes of
the Armstrong Cork Company, Lan-
caster, Pa., who volunteered to stay
after hours to make dominoes for the
soldiers. The demonoes are being
made of scrap cork carpet, donated by
the company, which also had a special
machine made to stamp out the
blocks from double nothing to double
six. The new cork dominoes are bet-
ter than the old wooden ones from
Germany, according to the soldiers who
have used them.

This is second tragedy averted
in the amusement world. It was only
a few weeks ago that a checker short-
age occurred owing to the fact that
the supply from Germany had been
cut off. This situation was met by
the use of old-fashioned, checked lin-
oleum and oil cloth.

TAKES CHARGE OF CANTEENS

At the request of General Persh-
ing, the Y. M. C. A. has taken charge
of all the American canteens in
France and has sent Herbert L. Pratt,
vice-president of the Standard Oil
Company "Over There" to reorganize
the canteen service. Prices will be
fixed so as to be the same at all the
canteens and everything soldiers want
to buy will placed on sale. Alex
N. McFayden, of Detroit, general sup-
erintendent of a chain of 165 five and
ten cent stores will be director gen-
eral of canteens in France. Sales
amounting to $4,000,000 were made
at the 350 Y. M. C. A. canteens in
France during the month of Decem-
ber. Several hundred additional can-
teens will be provided.

DON'T CARRY OFF THE SHIP.

Souvenir gatherers among the
American troops already sent to
France have done so much damage to
the transports that orders have been
issued by the War Department to
commanding officers to see that the
practice is discontinued. Not content
with carving their names in conspicu-
ous places, thus defacing the wood
work, soldiers are said to have pock-
eted all the napkins, knives, forks,
spoons and other portable articles
they could lay thier hands on as sou-
venirs of their journey across the At-
lantic.

SEND THEM HOME

Send all your copies of Trench and
Camp to the home folks. They will
appreciate them as well as you

[A long, narrow series of illustrations runs the length of the right side of the page. At the top is a bare tree, with a man standing in profile, smoking a pipe. He is holding an ax, which is resting on a tree trunk. Below that, a cloud or perhaps an explosion is in the sky, over trees, with another explosion in front of the trees. Two men, on an motorcycle and sidecar, are riding along a road, with another explosion in front of them. Below that, Uncle Sam sits in front of a cannon.]