Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-05
Gimp lee "BAYONET"
3; |: makes ITS APPEARANCE
Weekly Publication Issued by and
for Men OF National
49, Army.
NEWS OF EIGHTIETH DIVISION
Prepared Under Direction Of Licuten-
ant Guy I. Viskniskki, and Given
Official Sanction by Major.General
Cronkhite, Commanding Camp.

Omcfal Sanction by Major-General
Cronkhite, Commanding Camp.
The Bayonet, the first official publ
cation issued by and for the men of
Camp Lee. will make its appearance
this morning. 1t is to be a weekly
the Eightieth Division. National Army,
at the great army cantonment near
Petersburg. The initial issue is of
eight pages, with "A four-pagc picture
supplement. giving interesting views
of camp life. The new publication is
issued under direction of Lieutenant
Guy e. riskniskki, rcgimcntal head
quarters, Three Hundred and Twentieth
Infantry, Camp Lee. who appears as
business manager.
On its editorial page the Bayonet has
the following salutatory:
with this issue. the Bayonet energies
from the scabbard. Its return, We
trust, will be contemporaneous with
that of its readers TO their homes when
Recall has been sounded. Our title
WAS, selected because it has a point to
1t and n punch behind II.
THE spirit in every line and page is
typical of that of oar new armies
cheerful CO operation in a great cause.
1t Is created to foster esprit de corps.
to convey. In each issue, a military les
son, to add something of pleasure to
the life Of the soldiers of the Eightieth
Division and TO convey a message TO
the folks back home
Gathered here from the farms and
factories. the m. Is and the mines Of
three States, unknown TO each other
but yesterday. we take up. in conf
dence. the pleasant task of fostering
an esprit de corps which will make
our. former lives seem narrow and self
ish, which will. urge us chcerfully to
give the best that is in us to the SER
vice. of the republic Such spiri; finds
IT'S highest expression in the heart of
a soldier-bravc, because he possesses
courage cnnoblcd by discipline: tender,
because the bravest are ever thus loyal
unto death. If we shall. in any way
cheer him when the burden seems
heavy, or help him smile when most
everything goes dead wrong. the Bayo-
net Will have paid ample dividends on
lis common stock of cooperative eff
fort. We ask the cheerful aid of every
man In this command TO make the
Bayonet worthy of it's high aspirations
When called upon TO help. let your
slogan be that which we have adopted
Tor our own: DO it for the Eighticth
Division: do it for Americn!'"
'>-NA nf'ssf.S Aff'fictlATION
TO THE TIMES-DISPATC,Ii
Accompanying this is the following
editorial acknowledgment to The
Times Dispatch for assistance in tho
details of the new publicu-
ton:
In behalf OF the officers and men
OF the Eightieth Division. the Rayonet
thus publicly expresses to The Rich
mond Times-Dispatch. their deep ap-
probation OF its action in placing It's
plant at the disposal of the Bayonet.
ana In insisting. despite .,rotestations
10. the. contrary. on printing the Bayu-
net ut cost and with no profit. This
generous and wholehearted co-opera-
lion has made il possible for the Eigh-
1eth Division to claim, without fear
or contradiction, that theirs is the larg-
est and most pretentious publication of
the sort ever undertaken"
GENERAL CRONKHITE
CoMMENDS PUBLICATION
On its first page the Bayonet carries
the following message signed bv Major
General Adelbcrt Cronkhitc, command
ing, the Eighticth Division, National
Army:
Headquarters Eightieth Division.
Camp Lee. Petersburg Va,
October 4. 1917
TO the Eighticth Division, National
Army,-ln extending greeting TO YOU
In this. the first issue of the Bavonet
wish 20 bring TO your attention the
fact that this rs to ibe our means
of placing before Che various elements
OF The command the many things which
snail prove OF personal and general in
terest, not only to us but to our home
folks, for thu Bayonet is to be our
mouthpiece both in our home land
and in that foreign land where duty
Calls us TO enforce those principles
which are the very basis Of the free
mans existence.
with your officers, you are assem-
bling at Camp Robert E. Lee from
Pennsylvania. West Virginia and Vir-
sinia to form the Eighticth Division OF
the National Army OF the United States
nave known most OF your senior Of
hcers for many years ] have served
with them under varying conditions
both in the United States and in its
outlying possessions-I can assure Won
that there are none better. You have
come on a serious mission. but your
intelligence. your earncstness Of con-
duct, your application To every detail
of instruction indicate fun realiza-
ton Of the obligations which Won have
assumed.
No greater honor may fall 10 any
man than the development of such a
hne body OF men into fighting unit.
a unit which must rebound TO the credit
OF Its States and the country and n
unit of which they will he the moro
proud when il displays its prowess
against the enemy Let us not forget
however. that our preparations contnm.
plate stern. serious war; that much
suffering must be the part of these
young sons. and that even greater sur
fering must come TO those who are left
behind in anxiety and ignorance OF
what is happening, not knowing what
additional sorrow the day may bring
forth.
We are entering into conflict with the
most cruel enemy in the history OF the
world. an enemy whose means of en-
comprising death and destruction arc
SO barbara as 10 be unirnaginable in
warfare by civilized beings. We are
entering into the most gigantic s,rur.
gle which ever fell to the lot of man.
struggle which involves the safe
guarding OF all that makes life worth
living; struggle to enforce again the
principles for which our foretathers
fought. to suffer and possibly die in a
strange land, that the horrors of war
may not be brought TO our very doors
ALBERT CRONKHITE,