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Page 4 RENCH AND CAMP .. 4‘ ,_,gm;g, 33,?5‘5}14;5:% wgggfizx% ; Pg,oß e Wotlonat Quuities s sLT ® MEADE EDITION at Meade, BRD 8AYND5................8¢10r SR Brooks Shackley, Jacob K. , BBk Jr., Robert D, Goodwin. :B j L Ofee st Y. M. O. A. Administra- RURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1013, it Don’t Throw Stones. hered here in this well or- Pl camp is an assemblage jenl selected from the vast ‘f? inkind in this coun- EBither by free will, selec- DY an official choice these Bave answered the chll of DUF various tours through fand in your several expe _and acquaintances with goldiers pay no heed 'to vemiarks, discriminating B the enlisted, inducted ifted man. Don’t listen, | is all folly, and idissenters and agitators, : jontributes not a little to- FOUsing animosity in the BB 0L some. This in turn is @8 to the even tenor Which this big family fgour own sake, for the § those who ma{‘ have ieted in some other ar ent other than Kours, re arom drawing this invis je. Perhaps those ip the ere forced to remain in ‘ mes because of sickness jdents, or any of a hun jmsons, and therefore had Off ur 1¢ last call was Lk _Are they not, from a ' f_-mdgomt, justified g for the draft? The L4B yes; therefore, they 06 t ’ das a full-blooded £ our patriotic circle. iߢ men, 1n many in were privileged to be jendent at this gartxcular jo_they obeyed the im- ° jny red-blooded young jid heed under the exist- BieHmstances. More power §& to them for their ac _ a8 for elevating them the other soldiers— [ bear in mind the great | l{ing fact, that we ang & world war and ing an individual tete-a- Eyery muscle and nerve fglirected toward our ul ietory, and if every man pyows for this end he & little time to censure Br. So aml with petty £8 cause by caustic M, away with' sarcastic ng ¢omment regarding a gntrance into the Army. ithe words you may di jeérning a drafted or in ien - may prove a g all, consider our Presi- Wecree that all distinc s regular, drafted, Na pard and reserve armies abolished, and from now 38 to be but one Army— ¥ of the United States. eventh Commandment. & already world-known : imandments we wish to piie: “Revere thy na fiblem, keeping it al oly in thy sig%t and free ain.” Recently there oc & happening unpardon / fevery sense of the word. B eéxtend someh m%dificaf i dealing with the “of &in our highly civilized, §8 and cuituréd Camp “Was seen a man wipl psils with the m:% e (s éfl o ;; e .“' VS A& ‘ L i M wmey “merely ‘a foreigner, who, cou pled with bemg illiterate, was vnfimiliar with our language and customs. This will permit of some leniency in dealing with him ; nevertheless, ne should be levcre:z admonished and school fid in the art of respect for our afi. o doubt there are others within these confines = who, through utter ignorance, or, mayhap, an exag‘geuted and jaded conceg’tlon of the hyphen, might be guilty of the same act. We may be privileged to find such a one., ° . In all events, let every man make ‘it a heartfelt duty to en lighten the ignorant, punish the unthinking and prosecute the deliberate who would repeat such an act. Herein is the em bodiment of Camp Meade’s orig inal eleventh commandment. S——— i ————— Trench and Camp Elsewhere Trench and Camp Elsewhere. A recent visitor remarked that from & certain turn in the road about four miles from here the fleld appeared to be a large and picturesque dairy. But this is not a dairy. It is, Horace? No. . Certainly not. There are no cows here? No. Certl.lnlr not. What's that? Obh, yes. Just a little bull, of course. (Ah, gwan!)—Wright Idea. : “What can a barracks ba;?" asked the smart private from the Four Cor-. ners. - “Dunno,” replied the Cape Cod rookie; “T was just goin’ to ask you how much would a bayo-net?”’ “You dtuya may think iou'ro bright,” grunte .the big corporal in the corner unk, “but I bet you never saw a post exchange anything.” . “Well, what I want to know,” chirped the Cape Cod rookie, “is how far can fi rifle range?” Luckily at that moment mess was blown.—Devens. Burning Up Space. ‘Forty inches!'” were the werds, The sergeant yelled aloud, s ‘And William Jones heard them o much ’ ; His intellect felt cowed. - His father wrotz and asked one day If it was very‘far —From Ayer to camp; Bill wrote right— back: ; “It's forty inches, pa!"—Devens. : : Some fellows . : Aré so observing iy That they look For a wishbone : In a soft- ) Boiled egg.—Cody. ! Help! | (By Private Austin F. Zicht, 45th Co,, 12th Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade, * Caump Taylor, Ky.) Sentry—Halt! Who's there? The Shadow—Why, Henry Jones, - don't you know your dear little wife? Sentry (throwing away his gun)— _ Corporal o’ th’ guard! Help! ' Gleen Farmer and Joe Houlihan were strolling the main stem of the city of sobs and tears. A lady passed. . Bays Houlihan, “Did you see that lady smile at me?” . *“T-t-t-that’'s n-n-nothing,” says Far mer, “t-t-the first t-t-time I s-s-saw you I mearly laughed my d-d-damned head off.” % And in the distance a lost loon call g plaintively to his mate, Cuckoo! ckoo!—Afloat and Ashore, _Leon Applewhite was recently torn between love and duty. Apple made a Tftanic hit with the only woman who ever understood him, and he was at -about the same time sent to the dis tant port of Pensacola. “iYea, verily, Sherman spaketh the truth when he said J‘l‘t:' e . .. And, speaking of war things, here’'s something that huppenod.to Joe Holst: He ‘asked the dainty Charleston miss To give him just one littlé kiss; She gazed at him with look of awe, Then gently told him, “Go to war.” He visioned flelds where men had bled, Then thought what tien. Sherman said; A light dawned on him, and he saw . Just what she meant by “Go to war.” —Afloat and Ashore. . Toast to the Flag. ' BY JOHN DALY’ s In “‘Somewhere in America.” 3 : !Tlh'::;!lt:o:h: fhread :E:tt. e Vet , From foot to i But heroes bled m'h ~ - Roteslmthel gt -k Here’s to the white of it; : Thrilled by the sight of it, Who knows the right of. it, Bnt has felt the might of it Through day and night. Womanhood's care for it ° Made manhood dare for it, , Purity's prayer for it : } Kept it so white. Here's to the blue of it, Heavenly view of 1.% ; Star-Spangled hue of it, . Honesty's due of it, 2 Constant and true; Here’s to the whole of 5 : Sun: stripes and pole it, Here's to the soul of it, Red, white and blge. . ——Beauregard. o - One of the military policemen came sfloplu down the street Sunday at a ne ' He N)% NS [LO v gid " 7WF 4’ fi":rlfi THEY WOULDN'T WITH BARROW Gill Wilson, Instructor, Says They Shoot ~ Straight Down, Slip, Slide, Tumble and Roll All Over Sky. ot Gill R. Wilson, son of Secretary Wil son of O-Y, writes about himself and brother, J. Volney Wilson, who was wounded in an air battle recently, and said nothing about his experience to his parents at home. His bravery under the trying experience is de soribed by his brother. The, letters of Gill Wilson have appeared from time to time in this paper, and this one is not the least interesting of the lot. It follows: Plane Like “Lame Duck.” “My small brother and myself re turned yesterday from a chase across country, very sleepy, but having en- Joyed the four days we were gone Last Thursday, if you care to hear of our wanderings, we left here in what passed for an airplane,-if you saw it from a distance. It reminded us more of a lame duck than anything else. “At b o'clock we started, and after crawling over a mountain range for an hour ]I remarked to Volney, like fa mous captain in the poem, ‘We are lost’ Unlike the little daughter, he grinningly agreed With me. The lord was no doubt in the air, too, but it was 'so hazy, I did not blame the kid for poor visability. ‘“Well, like two wandering Jews, we _ Just headed into the sun and flew away until our gas ran out two hours later. When you are lost you can't - be any more 80, so why worry? We made a landing along a river we had been following and near a town with a medieval castle sprouting up in the middle of it. Was Like Toreador. “As we landed a bunch of cows charged the machine with their men folks. It looked for a minute as if we were to be shot down or up, and no bull—just cow. Think a red leather coat we were wearing was the cause of their curiosity. It surely did look funny to see the gang of bovines with their tails in the air chasing this huge plane across the field. I felt like a toreador. S “We climbed out and went to the town. The people then came out to the bus and bummed cigarettes, asked questions and monkeyed about the eontrols till I threatened sudden death te the next offender Hereafter, on every cross country, I shall carry one bomb, and the sight of it will serve my purpose. They have read in the g&por- what bombs do to people. “The blasted guard we requested did not arrive till 11:30, so J. V. .and I sat wearily in the moonlizht smok ing cigarettes and philosophizing on ‘“‘brains versus seldiering.” Finally this guard rode up and from the looks of it you might have thought it was the entire regiment bent for overseas duty! ~ They had sleeping bags, horses and guns, and Oh, Lord, what not. All to watch one poor old bus that no aviator could have been hired to steal. : Not Too High to Buy. “Volney, after donations of flow ers from the admiring inhabitants, brought the plant on up to Tours, whither I had gone. Going to Paris, we spent the day talking to friends 0 e A S SAR Lilies of France. BY PAUL WHITAKER, 211th Field Signal. France's liles wave today O'er the men who paved the way, Who died and bled, and went to stay o With their God lbtove. rance’s lilies wave today, Wafting the notes wlien ‘women pray That their land.from all decay Bhall be changed through love. France's lilies droop ton?ht. Wug-&for the awful fight; White faces u.q&\ed with fright, Petals falling fast. - France's lilles droop tonight, %&".‘."‘f'..e:"{...“"aei"a‘:“’ were -?:3'@"- bright, But now with war has passed. France's lilles yet shall s 0% Warmed by th’:onn the.pnr:!t‘fon sings ; wgll‘fle the air with shouting rings, umph comes with their bloom. France’s lilies m :h:hl:ucp;‘s::, g To M“‘:g to t{telr fragrance- cling, Foretelling new life from the tombs. A it est st T To “Spineless” Foreigners. | Any stranger who gets his bread - and butter in this country ought to love, support and protect the U. S. A. We, whom it concerns most, realize and appreciate that this country has kept its doors wide open to all op pressed and unfortunates and ?rovod to be the best and safest shelter in the whole world. A country where the principles of freedom, independence and self-de termination are practiced for every individual or community. This is a country toward which all the eyes of the oppressed world look for libera tion, and they surely will be liberated from that hated militaristic death grip. No matter from what part of the world we had comehwo had one reason in selecting the United States of America as a safe and good shelter for us, and we all, no doubt, enjoy our privileges. Therefore, don’t try to “get away somehow” because you are~not a citizen, or some other inconsistent reason. There is no reasom in the world to do such a humiliating. act. If you have no citizenship papers it is your own fault. I got my first papers as soon as I came to this country, and now, tortunatol{. I am in the United States Army, where I obtained my second ra.pora. The sec ond should be the aim of every for : m.fihtfi!flmmm. e 48 OW 1 4 :‘ufi:;;’.‘}: &5 oqflm.:; S “ in the Y. M. and trying to buy a pair of shoes, without ?ylng the entire war indemnity for France. Got a fair pair reasonably enough for 1438 francs (about $26). You see that thinp are not so high here that one can’t buy them., “Work, by the way, is not my idea of how to live to a good old age. If you can tell me a job with more thrills than testing young pilots’ a.bm% to fly, I will call myself a piker. he{ do things with an airplane that wouldn't do on the ground with a wheel-barrow. Honest, it’s laughable. “I climb into the back seat and we start. We shoot straight up. We shoot , straight down, we slip, slide, tumble and roll all over the sky. We do everything that a plane is not sup posed to do, while the simple ass drives blissfully away antf says ‘What a smart boy am 1. Then we come down and make about fifty rubber-ball bounces before he gets \ her on the ground to stay. Then he turns around and says, ‘That’s the worst landing I ever made, and I re mark, "iha.t's the best landing you’ll ever make with me,’ and ;goceed to thoroughly denounce him. e crawls out and goes away calling me a ‘crab,” while I offer a prayer in Dr. Breed’s prescribed form (1) Thanks giving, (2) supplication; thanks that I am still here and supplication that I will still be after the next bird comes down. Good for Optimist. “Great sport for a confirmed opti mist, I assure you—but me, well, I know only the good die youn:. but, darn it, I'm getting old and sus picious. “This is one of those rainy, com fortable evenings and I have an hour to spend with the greatest pals in the world, for Oft in the stilly night, s Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me, “What-companions those other days are; they ripen with age like an old wine; their supply never decreases, for each present will be a glorious past, I know, when the time comes to look back from the setting sun. As a child I used to think old age 'was a thing to be dreaded, and to me the old person seemed robbed of the best life had. Now I realize that it is in those last years that one really be —gins to live, as each hour is the es sence of many years. About Kinsolving. “Volney is sitting here playing bridge with the major and two other chaps, while Charlie Kinsolving and Kyle make slighting remarks at each other. They are & pair, for sure. “Our course here is finished, ex cept for a day or so, and I have been given a job for another few weeks. Am-to be the commanding officer of the student officers for the next course. All of which sounds good, but dealing with men of your own or higher rank in the Army is a job for a diplomat and I turn up missing on that score. : “Volney, also, is staying, and if what we hope for and are promised works out, he will get a whale of a job at the front and. I will probably be under him. That listens good to me.” W Welcome the New. { BY PAUL WHITAKER, X /' 211th Field Signal. Welcome, loyal sons, welcome to the camp! w: hear m’md' ng cheers, and hear your footsteps tramp Upon the sands of Meade. Good soldiers all, in sooth, m soon shall be; Ready ‘fi' the fight and y whate’er the You'll pitch " tlnirlthulflet'ht'lelun And you'll otees be Db : Grow strong in work and gain the crown That covers the brow of those death cannot Though hard be the road you tread each day. Make each act count, every deed sublime; ' > Tuh;m,lotulteomu. and in all good time You'll attain the good soldier’s way. we and wish the best ‘i"fl?&d ‘e:l“be’:i; in this rntfedm test ; We of the camps stick stanch and true, And help with strength if you ever feel blue. And then, when the tis done, what ! Praise shall be mwfthont ealloy. W P g e For omr ts ‘er dale and b Until m“““m..,-.‘fm'“ ron. " B - 71st’s New Colonel. Col. Frederick S. L. Price of Camp Gordon has been transferred here and will command the 71st Infantry, just being formed, according to advices from the south. The new officer has just been pro moted and has come with best recom mendat@ons_. e e SR e | . New Seng Leader a “Hit.” George A. Mahl, new song leader of the “Y,” is having great success with his work here. He came from one of the northern camps, where he was wxfulfiim has a kind of : r. a of “pep” which takes with soldie:g from the start. e s s m——— Trench and Camp is just in receipt of The Soldiers’ News Letter, a forty page paper issued at Portland, Ore., { by an association of patriotic busi ness men and sent free to all Oregon soldiers and sailors. It contains no advertisemenis, the reading matter being the condensed t’m town” news m every coun _ state, c..rrlo‘" under the county headings. It -is a unique publication, and no _-he picks up'a copy_he finds in s _home town news. It will. be mailed Rie sL 0 L LPR T e TRENGH' el 11 -.1 I Y - ey BY W. B. GOODENOW,, . h With a smashing upper-cit lfi‘; Kopczynsk stopped haymaker " at his jaw and, continuing the oms slaught, he knocked tweo ailants into a non-combative frame of il The altercation arose when & trugt) driven too close to John for omfort, got him riled. The timely appearance of an officer terminated the ’“ A The round was decidedly in favesr off the Polish giant. Corp. Englem: 7 M presses regret that he was not among, those at the ringside. S Selected to select in the o - draft, Sergt. Smith, statistician, Se¥s: ered his services from the storage . section supplies division. In Ris new: capacity he will assist the second as= sistant secretary of war. e s o A Dolly Gray and his side kick, Kid Weeks, are off to the nitrate flelds of Sheffield, Ala. They are to join Ri Murray in the big project, one in purs chasing, the other in construc lonm work. Sorry to lose this jovial due, but it certainly is nice weather for & trip south. . - : Py , Private George R. Cressmsn tg ; ing out smokes on the streng nis getting married at West Chester, Pa., on July 27. The honeymoon at b= lantic City was all too short. Come gratulations and many thanks! . “I'm shot!” - exclaimed Anl'fi}',' Schram, as_he rushed wildly out of the machine shop and headed for % infirmary. Anton Kavenek bheing ab: sent, Private Page helped Capt, ¢ Arner make the examination; which disclosed a wound in the abd len. While removing the cartridge fron A subcaliber adapter Sergt.™ TADR struck :he cap and the charge fired. into Private Schram point b Owing to the heavy clothing “*3" wadding, the penetration was slight. Barring the possibility of lanus. setting in, we leok for a a‘pc edy re covery. Bernie Schnieder, impaneled'™s a jury, and after due deliberation Sergt. Curran was relieved of ré-, sponsibility, but it will take three of four surveys and a couple of I'and £ reports to fix the accountability. Dyifs' ton papers please copy. ;fa Nick Backus™ has secured am fie definite furlough and will irn. to the Nicetown works of the Midvale. Steel and Ordnance Company &t Philadelphia, Pa., to en‘m".g: the™ rifling of heavy artillery. Ve are pleased to see him return to a trade: in which he is an expert, but wé will miss his good-natured humor. -~ .*0 George 1. Boles came to breakfast wearing the stripes o n ordnance - sergeant and to lunch in the garb of a Heutenant. After 'lgcndlng a fow - days at his home in ;*, he will report to the district ordnance officer at Bridgeport, Conn, - :g.j’é;j;j‘\ Private Harold N. Young has bees. transferred to the Maxwell Motor Company plant at Detroit, Midh. anl is to’ work under the d&fle’" ord- " nance officer. Shorty will ight st home. R “3, S RPNy Maj. D. M. Bates has left for Gamp Lee, at Petersburg, Va. *f Ordnance Sergt. Courson, maSter: armorer, is attending school &kl Springfield, Mass. Maybe he is Jaarms". ing how to clean his own rifle. .- il Sergt. Orville J. Marshall, fo fn structor at the cooks' and bakew school, is initiating Corp. Ford Inthe - mysteries of being a mess sergeant . Overseas assignments are responsible . Aor many ehanges in the enlisted pers & sonnel. - i ?*f‘;" 'fltr Sergt. Donald P. Bean, & men ?, the staff :{n Maj. Downing, division ordnance cer, is on special anty here. s ’., Private Robert K. 'Andevson has Joined the command. He hails from Edgewood arsenal. s ; Corps. Urner, Moore and Wi 4 o?utheil; way tot(!a.ntzg '1:.710"-". Louis ville, . to enter-the . artillery: camp of the central 'ol_bee:&'f raining - school. Better luck this trip! I ;\::;&_ Capt. Robert Sigmund has retarned from Camden, N. J. S Lieut. William A. Shearer has bebh ' Issigned to this command. . = e Of the twenty-five recruits sent f ?fh" Fort Slocum, all but three are under " twenty-one. They’'ll like it. R George Donnell is considering . the matter of entering the artflery as' s private. Think it over, old top! . . -\ 54 Guy Aaron, ordnance sergeant, Says it’s no joke to face 130 dewp e men . armed with rifies. Wonder fi- he would stand gas? o e TR ey —.“,..x?"’; Real Concert Music at 0-X. * ° As proof that Meade men like highs. class music Secretary Averill well known musician of New York, put on & Show Monday night in O-Y that pleased Bl dreds of boys who heard it. He hadl a8 tenors Charles Favoli, James William Chenoweth and Paul - Whitaker; b e tones, Paul Farber and Mr.- Averill;* Bodiieves.. Ouly tae Mot eon?t‘u plant - frd Moore t musie’ was played and the success of the ems teflalnm%!::l was such"ubh omise A watch was found at Hostess House Sunday. Owner may have it by iden L fying. o 7 o - - A fls‘ 4 e——————— = ,; Lieut. Pettit Married. * = When Lieut. Frank H. Pettit _“ \ ties left Monday for cun Imphreys he did not tell everybody “he wWe g be a bridegroom before fi Byt he was. He was married to ‘Hermion Dennis of Ellicott Ctz,.ld“ io more _ popular young officer | ver been hers than he. His home is in OMo. . . ( b ?L % i 4 4 -4 ':1 x:“‘ o ‘ Yeé ' er en l sßig hs Cc 80 s 1 m: ha To 3 mg < he: an ) A & 0 ‘ 7-.," A " v LIS 7 i amed S x < ; e i .-,i{ - 3 D 'ifi e N i A o otntd "?’,.~ {w i SR by st b ] > + jue . SOF f% -4 . 1 Ay ‘ :;}} term R S s i B as ; e 2 . AIGE . 1 a" b s - Bt B