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‘What A Woman Saw And Heard In An American Training Camp v (This is the ond comcluding i Pt abows R ; By RUTH DURKEE ' Rditer of the Daily Trojan, University of Southern California 1 wanted to borrow an ambulance I 8 which to go out to the remount de- Dot and the hospital, but we couldn’t ‘leave the Ford. 1 really should have félt much safer in the ambulance, as - the editor had mever before drivem a “Ford. But the ambulance was held An reserve. Finally we got the Thing started, nearly running through a _kitchen instead of reversing. - My most vivid impression of the re ‘mount depot is of being stalled in Sadie on a steep 'dobe hill, with hun dreds of mules rudely looking on from surrounding corrals. = Being stuck on the hiliside might have been worse, but everywhere I weat there were mules’ eyes staring at me. I've ridden horses ever since I was a kid, but mules———. We left. . Then we bdreezed out to the base hospital, the sight of which revelu tionised my idea of hospitals. About mmmhmotm _samp. Some of the buildings were on L~ 'The Pumling Femceo =~ Two of the hospital byildiags were fenced in with barbed wire like New zdlum Was it to kheep 3 Germans out or the germs in? +-'Twenty reokies at the recruit camp ‘were lined up to get their shots in the arm. Aside from these tweaty the piace seemed like a deserted in salute as we dismoumted. Poor ‘ Abings! They hadn't seen a girl for 90 Jong that J—even I—was worth holh“:‘t. Every one looked home sick. were isciated in a tent out “_mear the road because a comrade bad ‘ hesm so inconsiderate as to get the ~‘measles. With nothing to do except z’flm,&qmmsw , ‘would be ignorant of drill when Yacation was over. i That evening as we ate dinner at the Hostess House I watched the boys _Mle in. It was worth Mving just to g their sturdy, straight figures and ~ their air of good comradeship. The hostess told me the crowd wasa’'t so ~.big as usual, because it was just be fove pay-day and every one was broke. mwt bhave to pay for my dianer. . We went to an entertainment in a ¥ hut. The hall was overflowing with soldiers, yelling and whooping like a ~bunch of cowboys or a crowd at a footdall rally. They told me this par ‘‘ticdlar crowd had a reputation for ‘being the toughs of the camp. It may e 90, but I never saw a more respon sive audience at any grand opers than this crowd of Mexicans, Slavs, Rus ‘ware on the program—both with spiendid voices. Oid songs were most popular. As they sang there wasn’t a man in the room without that far sway look in his eyes. Yes, they re ., At another building the movies ‘were “on.” The girl and the hero ‘were ¢ast upon a desert fsle. The plot ‘was quite original. The girl wors - ome-of those filmy, flimsy back-te nature costumes that are always in ‘style, while the hero wore a coat— and kept it on while the night breezes played o’er the isle. : “Why don’t you give her your coat?” called a deep veoice. -“He's 2 GCerman,” came from the ‘other side of the room, followed by a roar of laughter. Through it all the fellows talked to the sereen char- Inspection Fascinating—Perhaps . § missed reveille the next morning. The M. P. “loot” wasnt in when we - phoned about s pass (o visit the trenches. Two hours later he bhad mot arrived. Why not go without ome? We did. ou&- t:ehxrudo grounds two companies o antry “forth that the hawk-éyed captain flh:a-unmm We watched ‘mapection until | knew what kind of PR the boys used, and uantil I counld mmwfimmm ) attit and what-the-'ell-are ,mu-hmanenMl - wanted to inspect the compasy my ... We trudged along some way fur = O ,hsleflvon:v;omnflim pieking up stones and throwing them ““as far as they could. Suddenly they g " - = " r Zo >, 4 - P X > 5 N WG :oy4.S®- N . ; 3 i “ ‘ . \ / (‘ d . " - - i i .. = iy "/ ,"'_‘.' 2 % -\_‘_‘ . O e \p,-‘." 5 P o Lgn " ] A g o % p. -“;'d 9y d e & % e P 4 !: | # g [ S i 3 b N o 3 - ety <Tt ’!EF% - B 28 3 = g Rt !w T s ‘ bl el i e )R N —e h@“ R e f e- B i N T - i~ —— TR— T - PR PR———e T TT o I T IR = mrr eT R e W . "Pad o ol R P f&fi t fi wc';‘iv" ak AM fl63 ;fl?‘éflx I Sty all ran back and put om their gas masks, and then. threw some bombs that exploded and gave forth a white smoke. 1 was getting real exeited “"“n.’-bnummm a tall officer British uniform, who :::m-&;ou.mmm “Will you people please move back t‘lxnd-:nn&hmr’ didn’t see any fortress, and thought that an undisciplined way to speak (o the men. But it was all just o . ey ke o you A wasn before one mass and marched toward us. No passes? Sorry, but no civillans al lowed. Good morning. '.Sltbowln-tth some practice which -uou-n:x:“umu—u had not been painted with such ridie ulous faces it would have seemed like practice in the art of murder. Bat when I thought of the Germans 1 wanted to yell, “Go to it!* Compemsations of Youth Then we went over to call on the in command and his chief-of staffl. The chicf-ef-staff was not in to issue me a pass, so I sat down and gave the geameral, ancther gemeral —Jou.'tl.o."::‘amh 'l‘h‘y“ over.” car tainly were a fine-looking crowd. 1 think | like lMeutenants and captains better than colomels and majors, though. For ome thing, they are younger. We rode into the back o-lr{: where some of the infantry and arti wmmmwmm . 1 believe they say they are going on a hike. We turned off the main road and bumped along a muddy trafl. “Look at that feld,” mid the T eoked, bat suw mothing dierens but saw from the fields that we had passed all along the way. A fairly level stretch, _.nwmmn‘::dw sflnothmul gountry, much sage brush. No, nothing unusual, I de- S i sT T, “Now look,”™ he said. The backs of the knolls were sim flar to the backs of movie sets. The stage had beem set to bring up the guns. s “Camoufiage,” said 1, Columbus like, elated at my discovery. He nod ded assent. They certainly used a lot of chicken wire, I thought, and thea to cover it all with weeda' Well, it would fool the Germans, all right, ustil they got within range, and then—God bhave mercy on them, the guns would not. On the opposite hillside the dough boys came rushing over the top of the trenches. “Over the tep!” That was what it meant. Then, after investi gating the temporary cam until we M_;m,mwh‘&t‘mp mflmrm The sign, ““Not ” was hung out here also, and the sentry in the littie tower sent us away before we had time to pesp through the femce. What It's AR About Here is what the casusl visitor sees in your camp. Practical out-of door work. D-to(trdll"l:ll!fl --cal and mental alertness. sanest life in the world. Advancement ac cording to ability. Men learning to stand straight, to obey authority, to work hard and to piay harder. Te earn little (that's unfortunate), and to spend little (that isa’t). To take things as they come—nobody knows what fate or the Govermment will hand out, so why worry? Adventure, strange lands, stramge faces —excite ment, glory, honer—all thess he looks forward to. S 0 what more cemld the soldier want? Just this: Home. Home and all it means to 2 man— to come and go at will; moth er, sweetheart, wife, child. A man may be wanderlust™ incarmate, may Jove nothing better than a good fight —occasionally. But what is the good fight for? To come back home ard tell about. . the sort of fighting the German makes us go through—the twisted, unaat ural distorted fight, where anything goes and victory is to the crafty; where one uses unnatural weapons, gas, fire, poisen, against an unnatural enemy—the. thing that will make it worth while is just the thing that camp and army life iacks—home. To keep the home is what this war is for. Jlt’s the biggeat job, the best job, men ever had to de. SNAPPY OVERSEAS CAP WINS PERMANENT PLACE * 5 The jaunty little overseas cap has won & permanent placéd in the equip ment of the American troops. It i now a part of the uwniform of officers and men. Models of the approved de sign are now deposited with the Chief Quartermaster, American Expedition ary Forces, in France. For enlisted men the design calls for a cap of 20-ounce olive drad cloth, o e cap cad he afeuime of ihe on hpho‘!’t.hmeolufi&oupu self. When soldiers have been pro vided with the cap their field service hats will be takem uwp by the nearest quartermaster depots. The officers’ cap is of the same model as the enlisted men’s, but the material is the same as that of the officers’ uniform. Officerw up to gen eral oficers will wear stiffening at the edge of the flap that cerresponds to | the eolor of the service to which they are assigned. This stiffening will be 80 arcanged as tg resamble piping when the cap is worn with the flap up. g General officers will wear stiffening otm-muh:‘;l.‘t:omiu:‘J except that they ve a strip of | sold braid ome-eighth to ome-quarter inch from the outside of the Sap, one quarter inch from the edge. Officers’ caps will be sold by the Quartermaster Corps. ‘n'nom:lelflvmhvmn troops except whem the orders pre scribe helmets. At all other times officers may wear the overseas eap or the service cap. TODAY - - Is the best day on which to sead Trench and Camp home to mether ‘Mwmr&h-. A one-cent stamp will do the trick. Why not? A‘( (] \)t\/fl \‘ s B s, THEE O (] & i\w - I 3 {/’ffim: 255 ¥? = - ; ”Jii’i" b e R, B l { 2 . > e % '_}sv Q i ;4;:3 o’ |7 fi &@l ~ A <e® ? ‘ i§ : "6‘-}" ; ' -oY !*/ k1 "Boy Way Yoo Torn >~ (I and child in the country thinks o | of WRIGLEY'S when chewing ~ | | gum s mentioned. Thisisthe | . result of vears of unceasing i effort t 0 give mankind fthe i benefits and enlovment of f, - this low-cost sweetmeat. é | WRIGLEV'S is the untversal twortte [} : ‘—mm-—hmm B ‘The Flavor Lasts! [| *“”{% | g B - Pt sv T 1' .f Ao T 2 i 35 5 i S . ’ S G lf,\ Big e NS 2R~ SRS e AL ot i AMERICAN NON-COMS TO HAVE NEW CHEVRONS Tty Reguilations regardihg the wearing sßt o oy e Quartermaster . U mtwimh-tmuw engaged im codifyimg the changee. The revision was found to be nec essary because of the confusion as to what was required. In the code of changes it is under stood that all sergeants will wear tho - same type of chevrom and that mo corps insignia will be worn. This | will eiminate the cadeuceus of the | Medical Corps and the flaming shell {of the Ordmance Department, except in the case of sergeants below the grade of those attached to the mon | commissioned staff. Also it is proposed that post nomn , officers and the senior non-commissioned officers will wear a wreath in place of the three chev- R e e Y ot corps. ‘ {will wear a star embroidered above | the corps insignia. i AMWDWM first-class privates, 4 indi {cating their special duties will be {worn by chauffeurs and specially quai jified men in the mechanical units. | Stable sergsants, toe, are to have a new type of chevroa. | The marksmanship medal s doomed to go from the service uni jform. Chevrons will be substituted. 1 These chevrons will be worn also by mwhwhmvuw Mn_ C | The designs m indicate the oe o Bk ognition has been wen. in pistol shoeting will be indicated by aeciing by Gomed e, B aasates \choot::::;uunl ;ia machine i gun a special design showi ;amotm-muuu: in machine gun servies. |t ¥ S | > ‘.MM‘ e (S -|v(6 r [ - i 7 thy - o ; 7 D | I £ | i ‘}t. f 4 i ‘ w g E g , \“’f_‘ ¥ | ‘ : = i! : wm‘"”v i;" 5.‘5? ‘ S S AR - . P r. o . BN ; "./’J’;'\ b/ .l | LEE : ') “ | /FeA } “5"31 -y ®./ ‘ /I.‘-’ e e | B 1'- ‘!f‘ U ;( FE | Tl | & e L R !'fij N