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TRENCH AND CAMP NINE

TRENCH AND CAMP.

Official Camp Sevier Newspaper.

Published weekly under the aus-
pices of the National War Work Coun-
cil, Y. M. C. A. of the United States,
through the courtesy of Greenville
Daily News.

THOS. N. JARRELL ...... Editor

Phone Camp Sevier 31.

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CAMP SEVIER, GREENVILLE, S. C.

THE WAR AS AN EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTION.

This war has proved to be such a
frightful disaster in so many ways
that we are forcing ourselves to see
whatever silver linings there may be
upon the outside edges of this dark
and bloody storm cloud.

There is some little consolation in
the fact, for example, that the eyes
of our minds are being prodigiously
opened by it. An Oxford University
lad was asked by a comrade in the
trenches whether he proposed to go
back to his college to finish his edu-
cation. "Education!" he exclaimed.
"I have learned more in these few
weeks in Flanders than I could learn
in the peaceful shades of Oxford in
as many years."

It is equally true of every man
or woman who has faithfully followed
the evolution of this prodigious dra-
ma. Whatever else he has to say of
the stupendous catastrophe he will al-
ways declare that for himself the war
has been an educational institution--
it has given him a more than univer-
sity training."

What a study in "human nature"
it has been! Whose ideas of man, as
man, have not been profoundly altered
by it! To whom does civilization
seem the same3/8 What a lurid light
it has thrown upon the depth of the
vices and the height of the virtues of
the human soul!

What astudy it has also proved it-
self to be in the history of the human
race! The roots of the awful struggle
are buried deep in the past. There
are aspects of it which we have been
utterly unable to comprehend without
tracing the stream of events back to
the present life of all the belligerent
nations, and especially those of the
Balkan States, into the most distant
period of human life.

And how vividly it has disclosed
to our astonished gaze the tangled
complications of the political life of
Europe at the beginning of the twen-
tieth century! It seems to us now as
if we knew as little about them as
about those of China or the semi-sav-
age tribes in the heart of the Dark
Continent. How deep, how intricate,
how insoluble those problems seem!
What knotty questions have been pre-
sented to us and to all mankind for
solution in the future!

Life has become a thousand times
more significant to us. Our horizons
have been widened a hundredfold.
Our difficulties, our dangers, our pos-
sibilities, have been multiplied. Our
consciousness of responsibility has
become almost intolerable. We can
best express our sense of this vast
transition in our point of view--this
strange and startling enlightenment
of our souls--in the words of t he
Apostle Paul: "When I was a child I
spake as a child, but now that I am a
man I have put away childish things."

And our education has just begun!
We are freshmen yet. Our gradua-
tion is a long way off.--Cincinnati
Enquirer.

A SOLDIER'S PAPER

Trench and Camp is a soldi-
er's paper, the only one in the
South that is endorsed by Pre-
sident Wilson and Secretary
Baker. It is written by the sol-
diers, about the soldiers for the
soldiers. It is no money making
proposition but is given to the
soldiers absolutely free of cost
by the Y. M. C. A. and The
Greenville Daily News.

So its your paper, soldiers, to
do with is as you see fit. What
are you going to do with it?

Help make it the best paper
by sending in news items, pic-
tures and catroons. Send in
something today for next
week's paper.

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EDUCATIONAL NOTES OF CAMP SEVIER.

Dr. H. F. Holtzclaw, Director.

We want to remind you that the
Camp Librarian is now, more than
ever, receiving good books which are
being placed on the shelves of the
Camp Library. Don't allow them to
remain on the shlevs. Come to the
library or go to a Y. M. C. A. or K.
of C. Branch and read them. Better
get "sign up" and take your choice
to your tent and return it (the book,
not the tent) within 7 days.

An exceptionally good book is that
one entitled "How to Live at the
Front," written by Hector Macquar-
rie, Second Lieutenant, Royal Field
Artillery and published by the J. B.
Pippincott Company, Philadelphia
and London.

In his delightful treatise the au-
thor gives straight tips about the
things that struck him more forcibly
in training and at the front. If you
will read his book you will form an
acquaintance with the conditions
that you will encounter and as the
author says in his preface the read-
ing of this little book may help to
make you a more valuable soldier,
one better to look out for his body
and soul for both are in danger at
the front. Here are some of the in-
teresting subjects discussed: "Be-
hind the Firing Line, The British
Tommy, "French Life, The Four-
Legged Recruit, Rats, Pets and
others. The Folks at Home" and
"Some Reflections, Sentimental and
otherwise."

One should not only read this good
little book but he should have it in
his own personal library. It's an ex-
cellent book to take with you when
you "go across." The price is $1.25
net.

There is a real school being con-
ducted among the beginners of the
105 th Engineer Regiment. The
schedule has been changed from a
three hour to a 10 hour a week basis.
Two hours per day for 5 days in the
week. As a result the number of
classes and total attendance has
more than tribled. The classes meet
on five days of the week for a two
hour period each day. There is a
teacher for approximately every ten
men. The classes are well graded and
both teaches and men are intensely
interested in their work.

Ben G. Davis, educational secre-
tary at Y. M. C. A. Unit 85, has
been sick at base hospital for several
weeks. Mr. Davis is now able to be
out and we welcome his presence.

Richard Thrush and R. N. Chil-
dress, educational secretaries at units
84 and 261 respectively, have re-
covered from mumps and are now
hard at work.

The educational work at Camp
Sevier has steadily increased since
the beginning of the new year. Every
week shows encouragement over the
preceeding. For the week ending
March 9 there was conducted under
the general supervision of the Army
Chaplains and the Y. M. C. A., 484
classes with a total attendance of
5,957. During the week ending March
16 the number of classes increased
to 530 and the attendance to 66,589.

Dr. D. W. Daniel, Acting Director
of the Academic Department, Head
of the English Division and Profes-
sor of English at the Clemson Agri-
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YOU STILL HAVE TWO ALTERNATIVES.

The importance of the mental attitude of the men who de-
fended Verdun was recognized by the French Army Staff. To
keep them from worrying about the outcome of the day's fight-
ing, the Litany was taught to all the soldiers. The result is known
the world over.

A few changes have been made in the original version so that
it might conform to American conditions.

Regarding the war, you are drafted or not drafted.
If you are not drafted there is nothing to worry about.
If you are drafted you have two alternatives:
Either you are at the front or in the reserves. If you are in the
reserves there is nothing to worry about.
If you are at the front you still have two alternatives:
Either you get hurt or you don't get hurt.
If you don't get hurt there is nothing to worry about.
If you do get hurt you still have two alternatives:
Either you get slightly hurt or seriously wounded.
If you get slightly hurt there is nothing to worry about.
If you get seriously wounded you have two alternatives:
Either you recover or you don't recover.
If you recover there is nothing to worry about.
If you don't recover--Well--You still have two alternatives.

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cultural College, has recently deliver-
ed two very fine lectures at Units 83
and 84. His subject was "The making
of a man," and it can be said with-
out reservation that his was one of
the finest, most entertaining and in-
structive lectures delievered thus far
in any of the Y. M. C. A. units at
CaCmp Sevier. Dr. Daniel is funny.
We mean of course that he is a
humorous lecturer. He can also be
serious and thereby "drive home" an
important message. When it is an-
nounced that he will lecture the boys
come prepared to laugh and at the
same time to receive a real message
just as good, as the little suggests.
Any who have not heard Dr. Daniel
have missed a rare treat and should
arrange to be present the next time
he finds that he can be with us.

In some of the Battalions and
Regiments a more thorough survey
of educational needs has been made
by the military authorities. As a re-
sult many men have been located
who are need of instruction in the
elementary and who have heretofore
not been enrolled. These men are
now receiving instruction and of
course the attendance has increas-
ed.

Mr. Harry J. Burns of Chicago last
week spoke to the soldiers at Camp
Sevier on the subject "When a Good
Man Goes to War." His lectures were
very interesting and instructive and
he proved very popular with the
men. Mr. Burns resigned as pastor
of All Souls Church in order to lec-
ture in the military camps under the
auspices of the War Work Council.
He was also director of the People's
Forum at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He is
a large, well built man of strong per-
sonality and is splendidly educated,
having had the advantage of ex-
tensive special study in Chicago
University. His views are sane and
constructive. Mr. Burns has also had
the advantage of exceptional study
in the modern social gospel and he
is a strong and clear enterpreter of
the same. He has been lecturing very
successfully in the military camps
since September, 1917.

[W]hile motoring to Spartanburg Mr.
A. G. Bookwalter took occasion to
stop over for a fe whours at Camp
Sevier. He, as have all other visitors,
expressed delight in the general "lay-
out" of the camp and in the work
being done by all who are lending
their aid that the war may be won.
Mr. Bookwalter is Camp Secretary of
Army Y. M. C. A. at Camp Sheridan,
Montgomery, Alabama.

Complete information regarding
the War Work Training School for
Y. M. C. A. secretaries could not be
handel to the press in time for pum-
lication. This school has just closed
and was a great success. Details in-
cluding complete program rendered
will, we hope, appear next week.

LATEST WAR NEWS.

A French soldier cuts off a Ger-
man soldiers retreat.

The Kaiser has just ordered sev-
eral carload of watermelons. He
wants to feed his soldiers on the
Rhine.

The Emperor of Austria has
bought several thousands Paris of
Pajamas as his soldiers want to re-
tire.

JAMES M. SHEELER.
Med. Det. 105 Am. Train.

IN THE LIBRARY

Just as actions speak louder than
words than words so also a picture
will often drive home a truth and
make a more vivid impression than a
printed page could ever do.

Anyone who is at all vague in his
mind as to just why the German
autocracy ought to look over the
book of Louis Raemaekers' cartoons
at the Camp Library.

The New York Evening Post says,
"To Raemakers the war is not a
topic or a subject for charity. It is
a vivid heartending reality and you
come away from the rooms where his
cartroons now hang so aware of
what war is that mental neutrality is
for you a horror. If you have slack-
ened in your detedmination to find
out, these cartoons are a slap in the
face. Raemaekers drives home a
universal point that concerns not
merely Germans, but every country
where royal decrees have supreme
power. Shall one man ever be given
the power to seek his ends, using
the people as his pawns? We cannot
look at the cartoons and remain in
ignorance or exactly what is the
basis of truth on which they are
built."
of truth on which they are built."

"It is this obvious sincerity, this
conviction on the part of the be-
holder that Raemaekers is telling
the simple truth and telling it simply
that gives his work its greatest value
as a revelation of the German pur-
pose, and as and indictment of Ger-
man methods of warfare and the
German proctice of statecraft."

The Baltimore Sun goes so far as
to claim that "no orator in any ton-
ue has so stirred the human soul to
unspeakable pity and implacable
wrath as this Dutch artist in the uni-
versal language which his pencil
knows how to speak. Those who
have forgotten the Lusitania and the
innumerable tragedies in Belgium
should avoid Raemaekers. They who
look at his work can never forget,
can never wholly forgive."

Chaplin McSween Back With the 105
Ammunition Train.

Big turn out last Sunday to wel-
come back the "most popular cahplin
in the division."

Were you to walk down the dif-
ferent Co. streets of the 105th Am-
munition Train you would undobutly
see an expression on the faces of the
men that would be hard to duplicate
for joy. And the reason you would
be told is that "OUR CHAPLIN IS
BACK WITH US AGAIN" you would
remark.

"That's nothing we all have Chap-
lins" and the answer just as prompt
would be "Maybe so but we have
Chaplin McSween."

Then you too would appreviate his
joy, Chaplain McSween originly was
the chaplain of the 2nd S. C. Inf.,
and when the regiment was turned
into an Ammunition Train much too
the regret of the officers and men
who had seen border service with
him, he was transfered to the 113th
machine gun battalion.

But after numerous requests to
the war Dept., he was finally return-
ed to his first command.

Though the attendance at our
past Sunday services was good it
was still better last Sunday and the
reason why can best be explained by
the conversation which two train
men overheard in the canteen.

"You going to church tomorrow?"
one asked.

"No," was the reply. "What for?"

"Chaplain McSween will be there
tomorrow."

Both of them were sitting one of
the benches at the Y-82 the next
morning where the Ammunition
train service was held.

After making his introduction, he
delivered one of the most forceful
sermons that the men have heard in
many months, and one that undoubt-
ly made many a man study. Some of
his phrases were well worth record-
ing they were.

"The devil is a great man in his
way, and I respect him, any man
who don't is a fool."

"A 1st Lieut. in the U. S. Army,
but a buck private in God's army and
as such your tent mate and ready to
help you as a tent mate should."

"You may believe in the devil or
not but your opinion to the contrary
would have about as much effect as a
brown speckled hen pecking at the
face of Gibraltar would have in
changing the policy of Great Britain"

The concluding myhn was "Stand
up, stand up for Jesus." Chaplain
McSween said it brought to his mind
the story of the little boy who asked
his mother why is it that at church
they sing Stand for Jesus and at the
ball game they yell "For the lord's
sake sit down."

GEO. SMITH
105 Ammunition Train