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TRENCH AND CAMP

[Title spanning columns 1 and 2]

Wadsworthers Stuck On Their Mud,
But Would Put Part In Spartanburg
By CHAPLIN PERCY T. EDROP, 53 Pioneer Infantry

[Column 1]

Why is Camp Wadsworth the finest
came in the United States? This
question was asked of the writer. He
thought at first the superiority of
Camp Wadsworth had won new rec-
ognition. But the truth slowly
dawned that thirty-one other men had
been asked the same question about
thirty-one other camps.

Plainly the editor of Trench and
Camp was trying to be nice, trying to
play no favorites. Yet his use of the
word finest was his undoing. Far
more tactful did a bachelor beocme
after two mothers met, each one with
a statement, "Why, that's just what
he said about my baby!" Far more
tactful will the editor of Trench and
Camp become, for the men he ques-
tioned are meeting in the columns of
his paper and his perfidy is being ex-
posed.

No matter what the editor wrote to
thirty-one other men, the fact re-
mains that his question was quite
proper when it concerned Camp
Wadsworth.

Spartanburg! Was ever a name
more fitting for a place at which to
train the soldiers of the country?

An Improted Climate (?)
Tak for instance the matter of the
climate, now that we have approved
of the name--- only those with a Spar-
tan spriti could have survived it.
"Most unusual weather" was the con-
stant comment of hte natives. But
they could not always be on their
guard, and, in moments of forgetful-
ness, they admitted that the pipes
had frozen during te preceding Win-
ter. Then they tried a new tack.
They tried to pack up their troubles
and ours in the old kit bag and smile,
smile, smile; for htey told us that, in
order to keep us from being home-
sick they had brought the New York
climate to the South!

This fulsome praise of Camp Wads-
worht is being written in a well-heat-
ed room in New York City and the
writer is gazing, long after the calen-
dar has summarily dismissed the
Winter, into a raging snow storm---
let us see, do snow storms rage? No,
they blind; well then, into a blindin
snow storm. Having spent the Win-
ter in Spartanburg, he cannot help
but paraphrase the benediction of the
wives of the Nantucket sailors and
exclaim, "God pity the poor soldiers
in Spartanburg on a day like this."

Next, take for instance the matter
of the mud: even as Spartanburg was
true to the traditional hospitality of
the South, she was loyal to her own
variety of mud. ANd this loyalty pro-
duced a mud par excellence. We
have heard tales of Flanders mud.
There is a story of the man that kick-
ed a cap, uncovering a soldier who
had sunk into the mud'; and of the
soldier who, being [torn paper] from the
mud, dragged awith him the horse he
had been riding; and of the horse
that calmly munched some hay he
had biten from a pile upon which he
had sought refuge and which had
sunk beneath him--- but that mud in
Flanders is the product of artificial
floods and three years of artillery op-
erations. Spartanburg mud is just
naturalLike certain storekeepers---
storekeepers from the North and the
West originally, it must be said in
fairness---Spartanburgmud has un-
usual sticking qualities. It sticks to
everything except a Ford and nature
is powerless before that product of
American ingenuity.

So then, the outstanding features
of Spartanburg's greetings to the New
York soldiers are her freezing them
in Winter and sticking them in [continues on column 3]

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COURAGE MOTHER!
It's oh, such a beautiful, beautiful day!
The sky is blue and the garden is gay,
And the wind is singing--- or is it my
hear?
And its "Courage, Mother, we'll do our
part!"
And I think I'll sit by the window and
knit
Till the postman comes by
Oh, I know there will be a letter to-day,
With a little red flag in the corner so
gay---
Or perhaps a triangle---its all the same,
And its "Courage, Mother, we'll play
the game!"
And so I'll sit by the window and knit
Till the postman comes by.
It's oh, such a gloomy, gloomy day!
The flowers are drooping, the sky is
gray,
And the wind is sighing--- or is it my
heart?
For to wait at home is the mother's
part;
And still I sit by the window and knit---
But the postman---has gone by!
- RUBY ELIZABETH HINES

[Column 2]
Spring. Watchman, what of the
Summer?

Did it Not? It Did

Spartanburg is much improved
since the coming of the New York
troops. It has adopted a slogan,
"Spartanburg, the city of success."
That slogan is printed on the di-
torial page of a daily newspaper
every day in the week except Mon-
day. Agter the Sabbath the editor
has qualms of conscience and needs
contact with the world. But on the
remaining days he charges five cents
a copy for his paper; and gets it,
Hence the slogan.

Yet Spartanburg is successful. DId
it not bring to its environs the finest
troops in the American army? Cho-
rus from the New York division and
the Provisional depot, "It did."

Did it not have the proud distinc-
tion of boasting the only National
Guard Major General in command of
a Divison? Chorus, "Three cheers
for Major General O'Ryan!"

Did it not succeed in being chosen
as the site for another great camp?
Chorus, "Hurray for the Pioneers and
the Anti-Air Crafters."

All of which brings up th ques-
tion, "What is a Pioneer?" Chorus
from the Provisional Depot: "A man
in training to be the first permanently
out of Spartanburg."

The Division went in and could not
extricate itself. So the Army decid-
ed it was necessary to create some
entirely new kinds of troops to see
what they could do. Hence the Pro-
visional Depot.

Camp Wadsworth is about four
miles on a Ford line from Spartan-
burg. There is a railroad: but it is
Primitive and Negligible. Chorus
from the natives: "It is owned by
Northern Capital."

And Spartanburg! Well, it boasts
two colleges and a fitting school---
no, gentle reader, the fitting school
has nothing to do with waists and
skirts. It is a boy's fitting school, fit-
ting them for Wofford College. The
girls' college is the more interesting
to the soldiers. It is known as Con-
verse--- spelled with a captial "C" and
the accent on te first syllable. The
girls do not converse. But they are
easy to gaze upon. They troop sol-
emnly in on Sunday afternoons and
hear lectures by men of great renown
on the potential wickedness of the
soldiers. They are very well behaved
and when one of these aforesaid lec-
tureers told of the awful dangers lurk-
ing at every dock and ferry in Spar-
tanburg as the soldiers came to the
camp--- Spartanburg being an inland
community--- the girls never even
smiled.

Churches Reach "The Inner Man"
There are many churches in Spar-
tanburg and they have won many
converts. Right through the stom-
achs of the men they have appealed
most directly. When chaos reigned
in the resturants and meals were the
substance of things hoped for, the
churches came forward with the evi-
dence of the things not seen. Good
meals at reasonable prices made the
churches like oases on the desert of
success.

The people are hospitable. They
have opened their homes to the sol-
diers--- and then they must have
closed the doors, for something has
kept the men in Spartanburg.

The soldiers of the New York Di-
vision will concede anything. Spar-
tanburg is the finest city in America;
Camp Wadsworth is the finest Camp
in the whole world--- anything! But
the condition is that they be allowed
to escape and to go "Over There."

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Persons Attempting Fraud
Will Be Serverely Punished

Official announcement has been
made by the government that swift
and severe punishment will be meted
out to persons attempting fraud in
connection with the military and na-
val insurance law.

The frist case of this character was
brought to light by an investigation
conducted by Major S. Herbert Wolfe,
Quartermaster Reserve Corps, who
was detailed by Secretary of War
Baker for special work in the Bureau
of War Risk Insurance. The case
was that of a woman who fraudulent-
ly clamed that she was the wife of a
soldier and accepted and cashed Gov-
ernment allotment and allowance
checks to which she was not legally
entitled.

"Persons fraudulently filling out
application blanks iwll be prosecut-
ed," says a Treasury Department
statement.

S.O.S
Improper care of shoes means
abuse to your feet. "Don't bite the
foot that carries you."

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"The Recruit Says"
ABOUT HORSES
BY PRIVATE BILL MEAGHER
Battery F, 305 F. A. N. A., Camp Upton, N. Y.

Learning to groom a horse from the back down may not give one curva-
ture of the spine but it will insure a 20-20 eyesight.
In lifting the horse's hind legs be careful to acquaint him to the fact.
A horse is very fussy about these little courtesies.
A gold brick always wants the stable detail. It's a stall.
There is no regulation restiricting one from calling a horse by any name
that may come to mind.
While leading a horse without a halter never lose your composure or
the horse is liable to step on it.
If you cannot tell whether your horse has the thrush without lifting
his feet, you must have a cold in your head.
If my horse has the thrush in his hind legs, no one will learn of it
through me.
Mules always have the right of way, or they kick about it.
In cleaning the frog in the hoofs be careful of the hops.
Horse sense as a word seems insonsistent. Most horses want to stop
on the hand that feeds and cleans them.
Stable Guard provides more exercise than any other detail. One must
run up and down the stables with the loosed horses until they become too
tired to play any longer.
Taking the horses out to be shipped is like watching the funeral of the fellow who wrote that popular ballad "Innoculation."
Never whip a horse. If he kicks you on the near side turn the other
---if you can get up.
You can easily tell a good horse, but not much.
In feeding a horse never wear green gloves.
Ralph W. Rookie, a former stenographer has been appointed orderly to
the horses. His duties consist of taking down oats.
A horse with a high forehead and Roman nose is inclined to be stu-
dious.
A horse with a large head and body is considered artistic as he should
draw well.
A clean-limbed, well-proportioned horse is said to equal in value a
squad of drafted men.
A mule costs about $400 and is considered by the Government worth
more than a Depot Brigade Company.
If a mule has to be shot there is a court of inquiry--- including almost
every officer in Camp. When a private is half shot the Mess Sergeant and
K. P. usualy preside over him for a week.

[Political Cartoon drawing taking up rest of Column 3 and 4]
SIDE LIGHTS ON THE ARMY.
[chef in circle holding pie calling out for seconds]
SECONDS
ON
PIE!

THIS
HAS NEVER
HAPPENED
YET

[A man is eating.]
SAY, WHO ZIS
GUY 'HOOVER'
I HEARS ABOUT?

[Two soldiers are talking.]
7:14, BUT

SAY, BUDDY, WHAT
TIME DOES YOUR WRISTWATCH SAY?

IF YOU WANT
THE CORRECT
TIME, IT'S 11:36

FRANK HINES
ILL ARTILLERY BAND
CAMP LOGAN, PRINCETON,
TEN.

[Last picture of 3 soliders, 2 making fun of the guy wearing his chin strap on his army hat.]
"NOW, THAT GUY HAS AN EXCUSE FOR WEARING A
CHIN-STRAP - HE'S GOT A WEAK CHIN."
"NOPE, HE HASN'T ANY EXCUSE. HE AIN'T EVEN GOT A CHIN!"

[A long, narrow illustration runs the length of the right side of the page. At the top is a group of buildings, an American flag on top of one. Several soldiers are marching, with what appear to be rifles. Below that, there is an explosion in the sky. There are a few trees and a truck driving along a road. In front is a wagon that says "U.S." and an explosion in front. Below that, a soldier stands in front of a large pot over a fire, stirring what's inside the pot.]