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TRENCH AND CAMP

FOES
[Spanning first three columns in top left corner; Sketch of native warrior labeled as "waste" squaring off with classic Roman looking warrior labeled as "victory". Picture is labeled "courtesy of the New York Evening Journal"]

[column 1]
French Fried

It isn't advertised at the regimental
canteen or post-exchange, but French
Fried, this new Franco-American en-
tense, is frequently noticed in those
confines. Sort of a clubby, "intime"
(pronounced "ontmae" touch.

"Vwalla, gassong, havey voo any
Meccas."

"Sure, noo havey everything even
cigarettes."

"Bien! Maize je don't want quel-
quechoose cigarettes, I want Meccas."

An old pal drops in. He edges as
close to the fresh pack of smokes as
the canteen legislation allows.

" 'Lo, Bill. See your buyin'."

"Nope. Investing in Liberty
Bonds. Palley you French."

"Like a top. How are you?"

"Bun! Let's alley."

"Back to voter compagnie?"

"No non! Let's alley--- go---on
the French stuff. Let us dire of this
and that in the bun langue of la vive
francay."

"Voozatee on! How far you got?"

"Oh, we got to palley voo the other
day. We ain't sayin' much."

"Droit! je puis voire that res eas-
ily."

"Well, don't holler about your
French. I don't see no craws de gair
on your boozum."

"Well, I can travel with you any
day on la langue."

"All right, let's go. Whaddya
workin' on."

"Parts of the body. Whaddye you?"

"Mauvay. C'est bad for you.
We're travailling on parts of the
motor, l'auto. I'm in the motor sup-
ply train."

"Rotten luck! I'm in the medical
corps. We're hammering away on
parts of the body---poitreen, tait,
fizahoor, boach, dents, dose, pfed,
core and a lot of autre junk."

"Well, we can't get together. We're
on rayon, magneto, soopap, louil, roo
de derryer and that."

"Tough"

"Hard luck."

"Well, anyway, il fay bo."

"Right, Bo!"

SELECTION, NOT SENIORITY

Hereafter promotions to the rank
of general in the British army will
be by selection instead of by senior-
ity, King George having recently
signed a royal warrant to that effect

[Title spanning column 2&3]
Women Seek Commissions In Army
As Shooting Instructors For Men
By Peter P. Carney
Editor National Sports Syndicate

[Column 2 text]
The fighting spirit so characteris-
tic of Americans is just as pronounced
among women as men.

American women are aiding the
United States and its allies in num-
berless ways so that the conquest of
the Central Powers may be complete
---and they will cheefully give fur-
ther assistance in this fight for de-
mocracy and world freedom if they
are permitted.

This remark is made advisedly be-
cause Annie Oakley (Mrs. Frank E.
Butler) and Mrs. L.G. Vogel, two of
the most expert shooter o the so-
called weaker set, have offered their
services to the War Department as
instructors of hte shooting art.

If the Secretary of War doesn't see
fit to secure her services, for which
she asks no compensation, Miss Oak-
ley is eager to visit the many can-
tonments and give exhibitions of her
prowess with the rifle and shotgun
and in this way show the recruits the
best methods of getting quick results.

Miss Oakley is quire enthusiastic,
too, about thr formation of a regi-
ment of women for home defense pur-

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pose. Publication of this expression
of thought brought her more than
1000 letters from women who are
anxious to join such a regiment. Miss
Oakley gave instruction in shooting
to more than 5000 women during the
1916-1917 seasons at Portsmouth, N.
H., and Pinehurst, N. C., where she
conducted schools.

Mrs. Vogel resides in Detroit and
for years has been considered the
best amateur target breaker of the
fair Dianas. She would like to se-
cure an appointment as an instructor
of shooting at an army cantonment
or at an aviation school.

"It is the ambition of my life to
serve my country in this way," writes
MRs. Vogel, "and I am prepared to
answer a Government summons this
minute."

The usefulness of traphsooting in
training soldiers to shoot accurately
with a rifle has already been recog-
nized by the United States Govern-
ment. The first shipment of clay tar-
gets to the American soldiers in train-
ing in France was 20,000 barrels,
each containing 5000 targets, or one
hundred million targets.

[spanning columns 2&3]
MOTHER'S DAY GREETING
by ANNA JARVIS
Founder of Mother's Day

[being column 2]
It seems fitting that as sons and
daughters we should se aside one
day of the year as sacred to the
memory of the mothers and fathers
who have gone before, and as a re-
newal of affection and gratitiude to
those still living.

There is no mawkish sentiment in
a holiday of the heart and home and
nation that evokes renewal of alle-
giance to our highest ideals of wom-
anhood.

An organized tribute to the

[begin column 3 in advertisement]
mother love resolves iteself into
higher love for country, for com-
rades and for God.

Write home on Mother's Day,
May 12, and every other day that
you can. If you have no home to
which to write, write to me as your
friend.

Live this day your Mother's
way. Don't try to be an earthly
saint, but just the boy your Mother
thinks you are.

With friendly greetings to each
and all.

[under mother's day advertisement]
[Column 2]

SIMILARITY
"In what way does Germany re-
semble Holland?"
"It is a low, lying country, and
damned all around."

[under mother's day advertisement]
[Column 3]

HE HAS HOPES
First Rookie--- What branch of the
army are you in?
Second Rookie--- I'm not in the
army yet. I'm in the Depot Brigade.

[Column 4]

WARN YOUR PARENTS
AGAINST THIS SWINDLE

An official statement from the In-
telligence Department in Washington
calls attention to a swindle that is be-
ing perpetrated successfully upon the
parents of the soldiers in the various
camps and cantonments of the coun-
try.

The statement says, "A telegram is
sent informing that the soldier has a
furlough and requesting funds by
wire to come home, waiving indentifi-
cation. The rest is a mere matter of
deatil.

"Parents and friends should be
warned of this game and of the simi-
lar one where the telegraphic request
is to mail money to the soldier care
of general delivery."

Ever soldier in the service has a
definite address. No soldier needs to
have his money sent waiving indentifi-
cation. He can be thoroughly and
satisfactorily identified.

Do not let your parents be victim-
ized.

Here's the kind of telegram sent to
the parents of soldiers by these
swindlers:

" Have been discharged. COming
home. Going to Atlanta through
country tonight. Please wire me $60
at Atlanta so I may pay for uniform
and come home direct. Waive identi-
fication, as I am not known in At-
lanta. Wire cash quich, so I can get
it to-morrow morning."

Before being complied with, any re-
quest for money to be sent under
such conditions should be verified by
a letter or telegram to the command-
ing officer to the camp in which the
man whose name is signed to the re-
quest is stationed.

A Message to Stay-at-Homes
From Soldiers "Over There"

Trench and Camp is always eager
to hear from its contemporaries; and
particularly is it glad to hear from
papers that are published in France.

Company C, of the 165th Infantry,
which was the famous "Fighting Six-
ty-ninth" Regiment of New York, has
its own little publication.

THis is what the paper, called O
What Happens, has to say editorially:
"We are close to the seat of war.
Not a war of ink or of imagination,
but a war of actual suffering, of sac-
rifice, of death. We have seen the
widows, the fatherless children, the
hopelessly wounded men that lust for
greed in the merciless Hun has creat-
ed. We have shared bread with these
stricken people and know all too well
what it means.

"To you at home this appeal is ad-
dressed:
"If you love us, if our lives mean
anything to you, do you bit in the
land we love as well as we do over
here. Look out fo rthe enemy within.
Conserve the products of the nation.
Start to-day to do your bit, so that we
can do our bit until the War Lord is
bereft of his hold on the people and
we can return to homes unmenaced
by the cruel desires of unscrupulous
enemies."

MILITARY ESSAYS
company photos.

The company photo occurs when
those who wish it most are on
extra duty or out of focus. It is
taken by an ambitious young man
and is sold by a member of the
company who promises much to
the company fund. The photog-
rapher gets rich and so does the
salesman, but hte amount due the
company remains in solution.

All company photos are sent
home to replace the favorite puz-
zles around the hearth. Fond
parents, onreceipt, have another
reason for wishing the war was
over---to give Lemuel an oppor-
tunity to return and point out
which was him.

When peace is declared the com-
pany photo will constitute the first
act in every Sunday afternoon
gathering in the front parlor. And,
mounted on the top, along with
the album and the tatting that
Gramma Gamble done when she
was past eighty, it will afford an-
other legitimate excuse for the
organ besides the "Mute" stop.
C. S.

A LIGHT PENALTY

Captain--- what became of that pa-
cifist who was kicking around here?
Sergeant--- He was convicted of
high treason and tehy put him in the
guard house for two weeks.
Captain--- Two weeks in the guard
house! That's a mighty light penality
for such a serious offense.
Sergeant--- Yes, sir, it was light, but
after he had been locked up in the
guard house for two weeks they took
him out and shot him.

S.O.S.
Do not stint the soldiers in the
trenches by wasting food in the
camp

[A long, narrow series of illustrations runs the length of the right side of the page. At the top, a man stands in front of the tree, looking to the left. It looks like he is smoking a pipe, and in his left hand, at his side, is an axe resting on a log. Below that is a cloud or perhaps an explosion in the sky, with another explosion in front of a group of trees. Two men, on a motorcycle and a sidecar, are riding along a road. There is another explosion in front of them. Below that, Uncle Sam sits in front of a cannon.]

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