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Ky..Loulsville Courier J0urna1........ Bruce Haldeman Camp San onfo, xas. .. e Frts ong Com m,.,}m Antonio Light................Char1es 8. Diehl Camp Übpton, !hu&. L. L, N Y.... New York W0r1d........c.ce0e00000...D0n C. Seitz Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga............ Macon Telegraph....c..ceooooo.o...FP. T. Anderson Published under the auspices of the National War Work Council, Y. M. C. A. of the United Btates, with the co-operation of the above named publishers and papers Distributed free to the soldiers im the National Camps and Cantonments. Civilian subscription rates on applicaton. = s St iatietenimacsmmate GERMANY'’S GAINS IN RUSSIA In the words of Colonel Starbottle, of Kentucky, “Germany has whittied Russia down to a wishbone.” Poland, which Germany seized and now holds, is 43,804 square miles. Next to Po hndb:;jthe north, lies Lithuanis and the c provinces, the scene of out rages that are even worse than those in Belgium and Poland. This terri tom 86,965 square miles. means, in terms of our mtefi that Germany has done what woul be the same as if she had organized Maine and Massahcusgetts into a sep arate government and then seized all of New York and two-thirds of Penn sylvania for herself. o e o Rosiest Tt eat gludimrl‘ynh, has been recog nized as a separate republic, which is as if Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, FRANCE, THE MOTHER OF EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY One hundred and forty years ago French soldiers crossed the sea to make this land of ours safe for democ racy. It was, thanks largely to them that hvtve ps.e‘ga.red g\:r indepenm.xz mifi ps have turne :i; ou‘t’ntll;em;‘db\:; we nee(liedi th;it elp s a e it in the generous spirit in ;fiic?' the French- B e eo % ng an othing exc afin!acdon of ‘:‘trlging a good mw in a righteous cause. In the same gener ougl spirit our American soldiers are fighting in France, Through them at last we have a chance to repay an old debtoigntiwdotothel?rench{eo ple. For the cause of France and the cause of dcmomz are one today, as th?wmlnthe ys of Washington and Lafayette. Ever since then France has been one of tge f:;‘egxos:n c:hamE pions of lE:x!e‘c’!:tm oratic t urope. te carried back the wor?which he had used so well in America to :{ti.ke down despotism in his own land. He put himself at the head of a French Revo lufionhmd ”nfht to win for France what he had helped to win for Amer i:a. No doubt his efforts were stimu ted by the fact that he had learned in America not only that defifiom could be overthrown but also that de mocracy could be made to work. The ar:zramme of the French Revolution was indeed much like our own, and their Declaration of Rights embodied the same pri:girles of government by the &m’e which were set forth in our ation of Indc‘g:ndence. While much which revolution ists in France did was bad and much w‘hicll: they builded perimd, g:e ideals of liberty, equality aternity which they proclaimed have ever since been the political watchwords of the French people. In these words, more over, thegmnot only defined their own position but they set up a standard to which the m:mdhbeu 1 c%:i‘tnin Bu rope at large rally. ce led continental Europe in the march to wards democracy, The other coun tries more or leas readily followed." France had no wme:gu&l:hedhh: own democracy than to fa 34 combined armies of Prussia and The despots who ruled thoge : rightly feared that unless free : were stamped out in France it ROOKIBES' MISTAKE Newly drafted men arriving at some of the camps mistook the brig gdier generals’ flags on the front of dutomobiles for service flags. &‘\\ Y " {"9 SAL el | .b - , Qs 4 =) 4 ) , Zz é %‘% ol b“ pa , RAi“ . 5 Sol Re e As. & R > ey T e eTR ot LL S PO TR TRENCH AND CAMP : g;ct Virginia and half of Kentucky been set as ate govern lment here in E'e Umt:tu. 'l But this does not take into account | Bessarabian Russia, with its 92,069 .| square miles. This slice of fertile ter [| ritory is equal to the other half of Ken .| tucky, half of Tennessee, and all of | North Carolina. -| The Turks, l:ioo,. hav:‘ nlot been idle. little 6,932 square grea dmadou. ut govern 1| ment of and the dstricts of Kara -| bagh and Batum which the Turks took 1| mean more loss to Russia than we -| would suffer if Mexico controlled the mountain passes and the Rio Grande t| crossings on the Mexican border. ,| In the face of such colossal losses, -| there is only one thing for the Allies 3| to do, and that is to beat Germany and . destroy Prussianism! )y would presently arouse their own | downtrodden subjects. But their en | slaved soldiery was no match for the il o evolu over the | same fields wherznknncmm today, | drove back the Germans, delivged | France and presently carried their ] ltandards_rdee&‘into the country peopafo thoi .| enemy. To o -| Austria and Prurtrcidcmmtu | foes but as deliverers. For their vic | tories meant the overthrow of the old .| cruel autocracies m‘gflthe establish | ment &f. a new poli < fl;rdor based | upon sovereigniy people. || Unfortunately the filonn sticcess |of the French armies them by de | grees to forget the principles for which ;g:yfaught, :ldh:,uhch -dund im | portance to dorl con ?wtforittmub. t was that | fact principally which enabled gm -gr?tectngmm the :;i | poleon {om 5-'1 | ltheFrenchdtohhmm The | armies o convert zedintotgcmmenr‘emormd | their aims became rather imperialistic | than democratic. Ineop-e&nencethey | lost the moral advantage of their ear izponenuan.donalqiflt prov | lnfiuendtoommfim It sl g B e 1 government was more i‘xberal than the government he over | threw, but it was equally true that the Gmnmd&esm“twhh 'toc:e made in?he even on jsuch terms. 1 consequence was that Napoleon was finally crushed. For 1 all his genius and all hig efficiency he | had lost sight of the fundamental fact |that the only stable foundation for gov | ernment is the consent of the gov | erned. : { Yet he did much for France. He | gave her an administrative system | which has survived to the present day. ‘Keavehetaeo?heothmvhlfidflca:- | bined ;unbly flncb o - Ilicotderwid‘l“tm{dpkdprfv:te | liberty, and fu the pattern for | most of the legal systems of modern Europe. He gave her also a splendid cd‘g:n of military prowess, and ‘prov.edtoherwllatlhq; proving again today, that the French soldier is ufineazghfiumuthueisin the world. | CONYERS READ. SERD IT HOME There is an ever-increasing demand for Trench and Camp. Save your copies by sending them home. Your relatives will enjoy this paper. l - THE MOUNTED ORDERLY | LA FRE B DB B et et Bl L L C01..‘.',..1..'.10'.' ‘ *E is not a Common Orderly. Everything sbout him, manner ad habits, H savors of Someth!ngTGmtor. There are Great Men, there a’e Greater | Men, and there are Those Who Ride Horses. , The Mounted Orderly is the superlative form of the word Orderly | used in the American army. When he Is afoot he might be mistaken f an ordinary person, for noth!nfi‘l: so lowly and inept, among objects, a horseman unmounted. He a look in his eye,. though, knock-kn and bandy-legged as he might be, that is above the Things of This Worl He looks into a Country not Vistble to the lay unequestrian eye. He things that are withheld from those who walk. He dreams, afoot, of mounted. That means all of paradise and adjoining suburbs to aho And when he swings astride his mount and feels the good McClellan underneath him, what gold of the Incas could buy from him his job. hm chauffeur can appreciate his feeling. The pedestrian hasu t feelings w compare. : The Mounted Orderly, too, sees Great Men Close-up. The king may : nothing to his valet and even a colonel has no terrors for the Mo Orderly. He absorbs the importance of his contacts, until he is the 01 bodiment of colonels and genmerals on horse. His red sleeve band is badge he would change for no other. It means distinction, power to pass up the earth-crawling walkers who clutter the earth, everything worth having. Would the Mounted Orderly change his badge? Not any more readily than the far-famed leopard would change his well known spots. And he couldn’t if he would. TRie it TR B i ; By EDWIN K. GONTRUM (Editor of the Camp Meade edition of Trench and Camp) If anyone posing as a prophet a year ago had predicted that ‘‘Some where in Maryland’’ there would sprihg up a city from nowhere, which would rank second to the municipal fy bearing the name of Lord Balti more, surpassing the long list of cities already scattered across the fair ex panse of the state named in honor of Queen Mary, he might have beén hunted down bx the department of public ufet{ and sentenced to intern ment for life on some lone island at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Monument to Constructing Genius Nevertheless, here {8 Camp Meade, half way between Washington and Baltimore, planned and built with the most modern housing, sanitary, com munication and highway facilities and constructed along the latest and most approved engineering and mechan ical lines. It stands as a tribute to the best offort of human brain and bre wn ir city building. . 1.~ is laid out a municipality cov- Jering an area five miles wide and sev |en miles long upon a reservation with |a few more miles to spare. With |sewerage lines using miles of piping |and masonry in construction, with | |concrete streets covering nearly sixty | miles if placed end to\end, acres of | woodland and thousands of feet of | timber being cut and cleared, is proof jevident of the American’s bustle |when he gets down to business on a | big job. ' Railroad construction, bringing in {three railroad lines, over forty miles of newly laid tracks and yards hand | ling hundreds of cars of traffic daily, {is a small thing today compared to | what ln‘.ignth task it would have { been co ered by the pioneers on | the plains in the early days of Union | Pacific construction. | And then a little country postoffice, - Adminl;‘(rhich only about 999 people |ever heard of, suddenly being changed | into a bucy hive of activity by moving | its location into the camp and larger | quarters, necessitating the services of | forty rouw clerks and handling 76,- 1 000 pieces of first-class matter daily, besides 600 to 800 pileces of parcel ' x:ct packages, money orders, special | delivery letters and registered malil. | But a fire department of & half a dozen engines and numerous other | pieces of apparatus? How ludicrous it might have seemed a few months ago. Yet here it is, ready and doing | service. * Twenty-five Hello Girls | Is there a telephone in camp? Well, the second largest exchange in the state, with real truly girly telephone operators, is right in the heart of the city. While it has but twenty-five operators on the switchboards, it handles daily the second largest num | ber of calls, ranking next to Balti | FREE POSTAGE FOR SBOLDIERS Captain A. C. Townsend, Quarter | master’s Reserve Corps, serving as | mail censor for the American troops | going to France is anxious that every | soldier rememiber that as soon as he |steps aboard the outgoing transpert kis mail need bear no stamps. All let ters and cards sent by soldiers to their relatives and friends after reaching the tramsport or arriving “Over There” will be handled free of cost to the man in khaki. Captain Townsend says this is not generally understood and that ninety per cent of the mail dropped into bags at his embarkation port by soldiers bore un necessary postage. more. Miles and miles of wires have been run and strung through the streets of the city. . And spun 3 poles, like a spider web of mamm size, are the telegraph wires aled keeping in close touch, with the rest of the world. And such buildings! With the fin est of plumbing and sanitary arrange ments, electrically lighted from @ mammoth power plant, many h b by hot-water systems, with plenty hot and cold water showers, in addl tion to the roomy barracks and invit ing mess halls, it is beyond the com ception of the average civilian to ap preciate the splendid way in whieh. the transients in this new city are housed and cared for. Standing out shoulders high above. the rest of the buildings is located om . the crest of a hill about the centre of" camp the observatory tower, marking the headquarters of Maj. Gen. Kuhn, commander of the Seventy-ninth Di vision. Topping off the tower is the staff from which Old Glory floats gracefully on the breeze. It might be stated here than Gen. Kuhn recenély returned from Franece wherv he was sent early in December by the War Department to study first hand the problems of the modern war game. During his absence Bra' Gen. W. J. Nicholson was acting ! vision commander. Fifteen Recreational Buildings The religious and recreative needs of the soldiers are cared for by the' Y. M. C. A. and the Knights of Cg lambus. Including the big auditon fum, which seats 3,500, the fo organization has twelve buildings g~ operation, with a staff of nevfi gen._ while the latter has three bufld £B. . Bach unit or regiment has its own " hospital, and medical and dental . In addition a large base hospital, an organization of over 400 inclu 650 Red Cross nurses, takes care of ; needs of the men who are suff from any serious illness. Flanking the busy beehive on eith side are the rows of large warehon:s mro the Quart:lrmaster Corps , clothing and all other supp Hes for the migt!on of 40,000 men? And for the sake of cleanliness we must not overlook the laundering ess tablishment. Here is a big bufldla which handles over 500,000 pieces laundry. It has 300 employes service. It takes care of as mug work as most all the laundries of the National Capital combined, or the three or four largest in Baltimore. Yes, Camp Meade is a marked ex. ample of the efficiency and considerg~ tion of the War Department, particue larly under such conditions and cire cumstances as are involved in such 3 great emergency as the present one, be B il Ge R ARMORED AUTO HAS FAILED No more armored automobiles oy machine gun motorcycles will be made for the American Army because they would be of little use on the Eurg pean front, where the figh is don over ground criss-crossed vtvii:g trench: es and pitted with shell holes, it is nognl undgltood. y e tank can operate o such a surface. Despatch bmm'g motor-cycles rendered good during the Pershing campaign Mexico and much had been expec of the armored automobile, but neiths er has proved of great value ig France.