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6. flicers Should Stimulate
Enthusiasm of Their Men
*The first condition imn order to
ulate the interest of the men is
he enthusiasm of the officers,” says
H. M. Nelly, Adjutant 34th
n, National Guard, in an official
lletin dated at Camp Cody, N.M.,
“Inspiration is contagious, and if the
¢ommanding officer has it, it will
gradually be communicated to all in
his organization. Then the purpose
of each drill must be made perfectly
to each man. American soldiers
ve not yet acquired the habit of
oing things simply for the purpose
of doing them. The war value of
each exercise should be clearly set
forth in meetings with the non-com
missioned officers, and these instruct
ed to explain it to the men. The writ
, for example, knows nothing more
E:lou than constans repetition of
trigger squeeze exercise as a thing
for its own sake. Done day after day
for an hour or more, it is enough to
drive even a dull man insane. But it
is the only way to learn to shoot accu
rately. And looked at from this an
tlolthamuna otthonry.orto(l
ficiency most needed in trench and
gzon fighting. The same is true of
mb throwing, gun laying, fuse set
ting, trench digging, patroling, and
all the thousand and one little things
are instructed to do day after day.
the officer will see to it that he
ters into the supervision of the
drills in the same spirit in which he
wished .the men to carry them out,
much of the dreariness will disappear.
What we learn to do now under sim
ulated battle conditions are the same
things we shall have to do later when
bullets are flying. If we ean keep
our interest to learn to do them well
fiow, we shall be so much the safer
and more efficient whea we do them
in fromt of the enemy.”
FRENCH HONOR WILSON
- A statue of President Wilson is to
rphcedlnthe public square in the
wn of Aix-les-Bains, France. Money
with which to purchase the statue was
coatributed by French men and wom
em of all classes. Considerable money
was donated by American soldiers
w Aix-les-Bains as a rest camp
seeing service in the trenches.
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TRENCH AND CAMP
TRENCH LINGO ‘
Here is some trench lingo
translated:
AMMO—Ammunition
BAT—Battalion
| BULLY BEEF Canned
corn beef ; called “Tinned
Willie” in the U. S. Army.
CHAR—Tea (derived from ||
the East Indian Lan- |{
guage) : ‘
CLICK—To die. To be ||
clicked means to be killed. ||
'{| CHAT—Officers’ term for ||,
vermin which the men
call COOTIE.
DIXIE—An oblong iron box
of five gallon capacity and
used on field kitchens for
- coffee, soup, etc.
FAG—Cockney English for
l cigarette.
GRAYBACK A German
|, soldier. Applied because
the Hun wears a field gray
uniform.
GROUSING— Complaining
and kicking.
KIP—To sleep. FLOP and
DOSS mean the same,
MILLS—A hand grenade
resembling a lemon in
size and shape.
NAPPER—The head.
STOKES—An eleven-pound
bomb hurled by mortar or
by hand.
T[Bg HAT—Steel helmet to
protect the head from
shrapnel. : ,
ZERO—A military term in
dicating the time at
which any contemplated
move is to be started. The
time before and after is
reckoned as plus or minus
Zero.
Government Takes Charge
Of Air Around Reservations
| *“For the protection of the Army
and Navy,” President Wilson issued a
| proclamation forbidding any but li
| censed aviators to fly the air over or
| near any military or naval camp, can
| tonment, fort or station. The licenses
will be granted by a joint board of the
Army and Navy, but it is not expected
| many will be issued. :
‘ The President’s proclamation con
tained this paragraph: ‘‘ln case any
‘aircraft gshall disregard this procla
mation or the terms of the license, it
shall be the right and duty of the
military or naval forces to treat the
aircraft as hostile and to fire upon it
or to otherwise destroy it, Jlotwith
standing the resultant danger to hu
man life.”
KILLED 30 HUNS
A Bronx, N. Y., school boy, thir
teen years old, claims to have killed
thirty Germans on the French front
by bayonetting or shooting them. He
is.unusually large for his years and
when he told a Canadian recruiting
officer he was eighteen he was accept
ed and shipped “Over There.” When
he was wounded at the front and sent
to a hospital behind the lines, his
mother was notified by cable and im
mediately informed the British au
thorities that the boy was only thir
teen years old. Upon recovering the
veteran of several battles who says he
counted thirty Germans that he had
killed was sent back to the United
States and has resumed his studies in
| school.
! AN HONEST SERGEANT
| Recently a non-commissioned offi
| cer was mistaken by a new recruit on
| sentry duty, who saluted him. The
non-commissioned officer, ignorant
that his colonel was nearby, returned
the salute. Next morning he was or
dered to report to the colonel, where
he was asked why he returned the
salute when he, the “non-com,” knew
he was not entitled to it.
“gir,” he answered, “I always re
| turn everything I am not entitled to.”
The colonel dismissed him. 3
Taps Will Soon Blow
On Goot. Insurance
SRS
It is getting along toward April &
which means that the final r.dym
gven delinquent American sol
insure their lives with the govern~
ment is about to nfi.
No government ever beem
suecou to its soldiers as the U
tates. A precedent was
when the American mmm;‘gt
cided to insure the lves of its
ing men—men whom private ln:a:
ance companies would not touch
a forty-foot pole. .
Although a soldier may not have
anything in the world but the th
per he is drawing from Uncle Sam,
ean immediately creats an estate o
SIO,OOO by taking out a l!el with
the governmeat. This no. 00 is
payable to his mother, wife, children
or other relatives in case he does not
come back. If he returns totally dis
_ubgdlit is payable to him. £
nly a small tage of the so
diers in the tnm:ml failed to
take out insurance before February
13, the original time limit set by the
government, but there are still some
men who have failed to avail them
selves of the government'’s gensrosity.
It is better to rejoice than regret.
It you haven’'t insured your life for
all you can afford—which ought to
be all the government will allow—
you haven’'t been as square to the
folks back home as you could have
been. If you don’t want to take a
tormenting thought like that 3,000
miles across the ocean with you, IN
SURE BEFORE APRIL 13.
Domino Shortage Averted
When U. S. Cork Bobs Up to
Pinch Hit for German Wood
Once again American ingenuity has
come to the rescue of American sol
diers about to be deprived of amuse
ment. A threatened shortage in domi
noes has been promptly met and all
the indications are that the 20,000
sets needed for soldiers in khaki at
home and “Over There'’ will be sup
plied at the desired time.
The shortage was due to the in
creased demand for dominoes by the
devotees of ‘‘Muggins,” and to the
tact that the sets used in Americs for
merly came from Germany, whose ex
ports to this couatry have not been
very extemsive for some three years
and a half.
When the threatened shortage was
reported in the camps, the Y. M. C. A.
sent out an SO 8 for help. A prompt
answer came from the employes of
the Armstrong Cork Company, Lan
caster, Pa., who volunteered to stay
after hours to make dominoes for the
| soldiers. The demonoes are being
made of scrap cork carpet, donated by
the company, which also had a special
machine made to stamp out the
blocks from double nothing to double
six. The new cork dominoes are bet
ter than the old wooden ones from
Germany, according to soldiers who
have used them.
This is the second tragedy averted
in the amusement world. It was only
a few weeks ago that a checker short
age occurred owing to the fact that
the supply from Germany had been
cut off. This situation was met by
the use of old-fashioned, checked lin
oleum and ofl cloth.
TAKES CHARGE OF CANTEENS
At the request of General Persh
ing, the Y. M. C. A. has taken charge
of all the American canteens in
France and has sent Herbert L. Pratt,
vice-president of the Standard Oil
Company “Over There” to reorganize
the canteen service. Prices will be
fixed so as to be the same at all the
canteens and everything soldiers want
to buy will be placed on sale. Alex
N. McFayden, of Detroit, general sup
erintendent of a chain of 165 five and
ten cent stores will be director gen
eral of canteens in France. Sales
amounting to $4,000,000 were made
at the 350 Y. M. C. A, canteens in
France during the month of Decem
ber. Several hundred additional can
teens will be provided.
DON'T CARRY OFF THE SHIP.
Souvenir gatherers among the
American troops already sent to
France have done so much damage to
the transports that orders have been
fjssued by the War Department to
commanding officers to see that the
practice is discontinued. Not content
with carving their names in conspicu
ous places, thus defacing the wood
work, soldiers are said to have pock
eted all the napkins, knives, forks,
spoons and other portable articles
they could lay their hands on as sou
venirs of their journey across the At
lantiec.
SEND THEM HOME
Send all your copfes of Trench and
Camp to the home folks. They will
appreciate them as well as you.
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