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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.
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: 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.
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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.