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Published weekly at the National Campe ahd Caatonments for the soldters of the
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et e B S et L ee e e e
. LAUGH, BLAST YOU, LLAUGH! |
Some of the kill-jolj!n who come to
visit the camps as if they were visiting
a menagerie seem to think there is
something sinfully shameful in the
jokes of the boys. According to the
shocked appearance of these worthies,
the moment a man puts on a uniform,
he ought to be as solemn as on in
spection; and as for a joke, what right
has a man who is ‘going to scent pow
der to let himself smile. There’s a
funeral ahead, they argue: prepare for
it now. |
We of the camps should like for a
few of these mortals to spend a few
days in any camp and not laugh—not
because there is anythingl peculiarly
amusing about sentrg-go the snow,
but because if you do not laugh you
are apt to forget how. This “grim
business of war,” as they call it in
Congress, is like any other business.
If you look at one side of it all the
time, you grow stale. If you keep
thinking about the ‘“crosses on the
BUTTONS AND BRAVERY; POLISH AND PUNCH
If you swear under your breath as
you get ready for inspection, and if
{ou ask your pal what a soldier’s pol
sh has to do with his fighting punch,
be 80 good as to remember how Brit
ish buttons contributed to British
bravery.
What have buttons to do with
bravery?
gore than you think.
or on that dugente retreat from
uons‘ when the British had to filg‘ht
and fall back and fight to the last
breath of the stoutest old Tommy, the
officers said, “What’s the use of mak
ing the goor devils tKoli;h their but
tons and burnish their equipment?
They xt little enough rest; give them
what they earn.”
tinso they told the bmtilthf.t t‘l:e rou
e suspen until further or
dcnm that E need not polish
their buttons any more. Tommy is
like every other soldier, and when his
captain told him he might leave this
. & reasoned that shoes were
no more rtant than buttons, or
equipment lhoec‘n:r face than
e e el e
get e di
not fight with the mud on his biots
cr give a thought to those blasted
buttons of his. Naturally enough, it
“OONSCIENTIOUS EJECTOR"
A good story is told by Sir Auck
land G:;ldfl eone:::ting a.x:l lnt(e)rter
ing pu 0 er and a Cana
ghnplolw :E:‘ bore on his shoul
er straps the initials ““C. 8E.,” which
stand for Canadian Engineer.
The soldier, his face a study in
concentrated wrethfulness, had the
civilian by th lcfllfl’ . of t:‘he nacikn:m;
was apwen!j‘ ust on the point o
ftflu him a g v&eh a be
ated policeman put in an appear
ance.
“Now, then, what’s all this about?”
demanded the constable.
R & sl e '
wr er
an extra -shake to emphasize his
words. “Why, he called me & con
scientious ejector. Now watich him
being ejected.”
ALPHABETICALLY SPEAKING
K is said to be the most important
ia the Russian alphabet, but
o d Mm.hg ts for the
an accoun
inability of the Russians to C.
TRENCH AND CAMP
hill,” you get as morbid as though you
belorfied to the grave-diggers’ detail,
and after you have been morbid long
enoughégou either go crazy or become
hardened.
Viewed from the other side, the
good humor of the men is a positive
asset to the army. There never was
but one victorious army .that never
smiled, and that army was Cromwell’s.
Every other bod{“of fighting men that
won a place in history knew how to
smile, how to laugh and how to make
the ve% best of the hardships that
came. hat helps the army helps the
men who make it ug‘. All things be
ing even, the man who knows how to
smile is a better soldier than the man
whose face is like crepe on a door
knob. The mess that jokes is seldom
a mess that sulks,
And what is the reason for all-this?
Just the plain common-sense maxim
that the man who finds life worth liv
ing will fight harder to Ii .
was not many days before Tommy re
sembled a hobo so closely that he
could not have identified himself in a
mirror. And when one Tommy saw
the earmarks of the “bum” on his pal,
he decided that something had hap-
Klened to him and that his pal had lost
is gl:nch. Consequently, when Tom
my had to sustain the next charge of
the Germans, he argued there was no
use standing if the other man intended
to run. He beat him to it—and that
meant threatened disaster. |
At length the amazed officers saw
the connection between button and
bravery. They traced back the changed
psychology of Tommy and they de
termined that no Tomm{egx:reafter
should ever lose heart se his
mess-mates looked like cut-throats.
Back to polishing his buttons went
Tommy and back with the polish on
the tl':.mm came Tommy’s old-time
punc o\
That is why he is poliuhing‘lsltill, no
matter whether he is in billets or
a"d:i"'r mmy’ L Anlghmt
y To s cousin is po <
too. A uniform does not make a
soldier and polished buttons do not
win a bar or a medal; but the soldier
who looks fit feels fit, and when he
feels fit he is fit to fight!
WOULD SUIT EXPLORER
Hearing that Captain Rolad
Amundsen, the polar explorer, had
visited the American sector on the
western battlefront in Europe, many
of the soldiers in training camps in
this country remarked that “He
would have felt more t&homo here.”
In one of the camps in Wisconsin the
temperature recorded ome morning
was forty-two degrees below zere.
In other words, the mercury shriv
elled up lke the Kaiser's hopes of
Germanizing the world.
“TFHE BEST MBANS"
Writing to the rmor of Trench and
Camp & soldier at Camp Sevier said:
“Trench and Camp keeps us posted
on sll the live, snappy, up-to-date
news of the u&u well as war news
ifn general, des abounding in
amusement and entertainment.
It is also the best means of letting
the folks back home know what we
are Going.”
Do you know anything the home
folks would like better?
.‘
OT Member of Parliament, though mayhap as powerful, nor any of
N the other things which humorous and semi-humorous interpretations
of the inltal: make {t—but Military Police.
Wearers of the plum-colored, black-collared Robes of Distinction,
where would “us boys” (including all soldiers under the age of ninety-six)
be without you! Minions of the law sprouting up in the midst of law and
order raised to its highest coeficient! Wheels within wheels! Blessings
on you, upright, stern-visaged and unrelenting, wherever you may be hold
ing post, afoot or mounted!
M. P., among those other above-mentioned humorous and s.-h. desig
nations, might be the Men with a Past. They include some of the pick and
flower of city police forces, from Dan to Beersheba, including N. Y. and
Chi. They have'faced the striking rioters with their night sticks, side arms
and solid blue, in many a port and clime. They have winged the bounding,
burglarious second-story man and the feather-fingered “dip’”’ in the con
ventional light overcoat. Their quarry has been everything from runaway
three-year-olds to murderers. And some have been clerks and farmers—
bnt“they too were Men. with a Past in their particular block of quarter
section.
Now they're in the Army of Freedom. It's everything from directing
visitors and keeping back the crowd at a regimental boxing match, to
watching the trains for ‘“‘tea” smugglers. And, considering the vast num
ber of soldiers under their watchful care, the duties of the M. P. along the
more serious lines are light. He stands as a friendly and efficient symbol |
of Law-and-Order imbuing the Army. .
WANTED MONEY DIRECT
. —————
A Russian peasant in a German
prison camp, having heard that ap
peals for assistance were being an
swered, decided to write a letter and
ask for money with which to buy
food and clothing. Not knowing to
whom else.to appeal, he wrote a let
ter to God, asking for one hundred
marks. . |
His letter attracted attention at‘
the censor’s office and was referred
to the War Ministry. The omeersl
there collected twenty-five marks
and sent them to the Russian pris
oner, thinking they had thereby done
a good turn. The prisoner, however,
was not well satisfied, as was ap
parent from his reply in which he
thanked God for the twenty-five
marks but cautioned Him to send
future money direct rather than
through the War Ministry, saying
that the rascally officials there had
kept seventy-five marks and had sent
him only twenty-five.
OOLLEGE MEN DOING BIT
Only six 6f the seventy-three Har
vard students who won their “H” in
athletics last year are still in the uni
versity. The other sixty-seven are
in the war. More than fifty Yale
professors and instructors are now
engaged in war service.
A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING
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TOMMIE SIZES UP SAMMIE
'E'd rawther 'ave ’is coffee than ’is beer
'E- caunm't tyke any pleaswre 4
tea, i
‘E calls’ “The Lunnon Times,”
Ofi.lqp;gwidge qu;er, % ; :
icial organ—of a cemeiery.
'E speaks in such a bloomin’ fmuoy_.;
wye—
‘E talks of buddies, side-kicks, msttq
and geeks, :
But ‘e can ’old ’is end up any dye,
And every blinker listens when @
speaks. !
So ’ere’s to you, Sammie Wammie, l‘
vow'll let me call you so. '
It seems jolly strange to ’ear yos call é
kippy blink a bo, z :
But no matter wot yer langwidge, and
no matter wot you do,
Hi daresay we ‘ave some failin’s un‘
seem bloomin’ strange to you.
—Detroit Saturdey Night.
TENTS PREFERRED - 8
The bitter, cold, winter weather -
has caused a great many civilians to’ -
express sympathy for ‘‘the poor boys -
living out in the fields in tents.”
Soldiers old and new, insist that they
are more comfortable in tents, prop<
erly put up, protected and heated,
than they would be in cantonmentg
or barracks. .