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By and For
the Soldiers
of the A. E. f.
TRUE TO FORM

Freddy" says an infantryman who
knows him, Twas the LATEST man ever
knew. When he was away on vacations
he'd take carbon paper along, so as to
make the same letter he sent to his fam
ily do for his girl as we'll. He used
trot for all his Latin in high school, and
always copied his algebra from some one
else He never took girl to dance
or anything; he was too lazy to go
around and fill up her dance order for
her, and rustic punch for her and her
mother. He just staged everything,
and bummed on us for dances.
"When war broke out and all the boys
in Billville were hustling around trying
to get into this and that, we didn't see
Freddy doinA blooming thing. They'll
call me when they want me- seemed to
be his way of looking at it, and nothing
we could tell him seemed to make any
difference He jeered at US of the local
militia company as we went hiking off
with our packs on None of that for
him!
'Finally we heard Freddy had disap
peared from town, and then we lost
track of him. He was, you see, too lazy
to write to anybody. But I've found out
that, as a general rule, it's lazy people
who take the most trouble. So it turned
out to be with him-but wait.
''The other day / ran plumb smack
into hinl--and would you believe it? He
was all dolled up in an aviator's uniform
wings over his breastbone and all the
rest-had his commission and every
thing He looked fit as a fiddle and
straight as ramrod. l just held my
sides and gasped.
Freddy / managed to say, when l
had gotten my breath. Freddy, how on
earth did you ever stir up the energy
to go through the training camp and
the flying work and all the drudgery Of
it to get where. you are now? How in
the name of time did you manage to
do it?'
"'Well' he ventured, in that same
lazy, matter of-course tone of his, after
seeing you doughboys hike off like that
when you left, said, mix on that prop
osition!" l simply had to get into
some branch of the service where
didn't have to walk"
"Can you beat it?'
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MITHER, MA DEEAR

Ah'm thinkin' the NIGHT o'=ye, mither, ma
deear,
Ah'm thinkin' the NIGHT O. the glimmerin'
teer
That brichten'd yer cen as We watch't me
depart,
An the sigh that well'd up frae yer sair
achin' heart
Aim thinkin' the NIGHT O. the days that
a game
When we wandered taegither adoon the
auld lane,
An kerkt tae the tinklin' bells O. the kline
An the voices O. TWILIGHT oh mither O.
mine!
All haze watch't the cauld yeear stealin'
over yer haid
All haze watch the gled bloom o. We wither
an fade;
An as each winter left it's white trace in
yer hair
Ye haze grown The mair deear tae me,
mither, sac fair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
THE ARlMY,S POETS

Oh, lang the cauld miles lie between us
the moo,
But we ken Aim a-loein' We, tender an
true;
An the wing O. each breeze that blaws
over the sea
Bears aloft yer untirin' devotion tae me.
All, JOY yer nae heerin' the voice O. the
guns
Wha' hae n'er heart fer the mithers
O sons;
But All ken that there's niver a harm
can come neer
While yer prayers hover over me, mither,
ma deear
All watch the gowd sun till it's lingerin'
LIGHT
Haze fled frae the face o. the conouerin,
NIGHT;
An joy, as the shadows creep doom ABBOTT
me,
Tae ken that this moment it's smilin'
on We.
Oh, lang is the journey, but gledsome the
WaY
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A FIELD NOTEBOOK

backing out of the line in good form with
both hands full, some boob has to go and
butt into you from behind, and make you
spill it all?
That, just after you've got pile of
papers from home of fairly recent vim
tage and read them, another pile, dated
lot earlier, comes along and you get all
balled up reading them and trying to re-
member which things come first:
That, just after you get settled for a
quiet evening Of letter writing, and hope
to heaven you're going to catch up with
EN- all at last, you get the steer that
there's going to be an inspection the first
thing in the morning and have to spend
all your time fixing things up?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

To billet an entire battalion in the
limits of two farm courtyards means
cramped quarters. Everything that can
be made to pass for a shelter must be
pressed into service, and the result is
sometimes bizarre.
Our billeting officer stopped beside
big sheet iron cylinder that once had
been cistern, but now, discarded, was
lying in corner of the courtyard on its
side
cts WONDER" he observed sardoni-
cally, chat this neat little bombproof
wasn't put on our list 1t would furnish
cosey quarters for two, at least"
A head popped out of the open end of
the cistern and grinned:
"Already taken, sir"
The officer crouched down and looked
inside. The cylinder was, bedded with
straw, two blanket rolls were spread out
in inspection order and two walking
sticks, trench model stood by the door.
"Shades of Huckleberry Finn" the Of
ficer cried. GIVE heard of living in
hogshead and a packing box, but never
before in cstern"
The company had stopped on the
march for a ten-minute rest in p small
town. A husky doughboy sat down on a
doorstep and eased off the weight of his
pack. A small boy passed, turned and
hesitated. An exchange of grins and the
youngster sided over. In another minute
three or four other gamins were crowd
ing round
One particularly small fellow climbed
up on the doughboy's knees. Suddenly
the youngster reached up with both arms
and gave his burly American ally kiss
on the cheek.
The doughboy didn't seem to know
what to do. A mule skinner coarselv
guffawed. The small boy, not at all en-
barrassed, repeated the performance.
Again the driver guffawed, but this time
not so heartily. Then there was p
marked pause.
"Er-how does it feel, Bill?" the
mule skinner queried.
Darn good" came the CHEEKY answer.
I'm family man, you know
We were searching for the major. who
also was the schoolmaster Of the ,5cole
commun0lc. We went to the schoolhouse
first, though it was Sunday, on the
chance that he might be in the neighbcr-
hood.
We peeked in. A familiar figure-but
not that of the schoolmaster-sat at the
high pulpitlike desk. A ruddy face: a
large black cigar a-tilt; pencil flying
across sheets of copy paper, grinding out
an article for the Saturday Euenino
Post.
Yep, it was Col. Irwin Cobb, KY N. G.,
U. S. A.
Here's where l spend my Sundays"
ne observed. "If you want to find me on
week days keep on down the street to
where dog will run out and bite you.
Anyway, he bit me-
Everybody in this outfit wears a gold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

Everybody in this outfit wears gold
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OUGHT TO BE VlVACIOUS

Our artillerymen always have nick
names for the guns they serve. The
French go US one better They have
names-formally painted on the gun bar
rels. One of the most highly descriptive
caught our eye on the road up to the
front the other day. 1t was chrstcned
"Gaby."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
VARIETIES OF SLUM

Every one knows that there are at least
three different kinds of sum-the
watered kind, the more solid variety and
the occasional special sort that wears
pie crust. The Marines describe these
three types in sea lingo: "slum with the
tide in," "slum with the tide OUT and
"slum with an overcoat"
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YOUR FOLKS WILL KNOW

When you get the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross, or any other military honor,
the folks at home will known all about it.
You can't hide it from them That is,
not if your division commander can help
it. There's an order that says he will,
when practicable, furnish G. H. @. with
the name and residence of the nearest
relative of the officer or man concerned,
every time he forwards the name of an
officer or man with recommendation
that he be decorated. This, says G. H. O.,
is in order that the relatives Of the per-
son to whom the award has been made
may be notified
Have you been growing about the
cooks and mess sergeant because your
coffee wasn't quite as sweet as you'd like
to have it? Then remember that if the
FOLKS back home are very, very lucky
they may be getting almost half as much
sugar as you are.
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All shall travel tae find We, one happier
day;
An when war an it's folly a left fa'
benin,
Ye shall rest in the arms O me, mither
O mine.
JOHN FLETCHER HALL.
Sgt. - Inf, Acting Regimental Chaplain.
A LETTER
I'm just poor buck private,
And as lonesome as can be-
For / haven't received a letter from Her
For-well, seems a century,
AS l lie here a-thinkn' of her
Upon my bunk of straw,
With tin hat for a pillow,
And the wind a-cuttin raw
| wonder if she's forgotten me,
Her little soldier boy,
And why she doesn't write to me.
Sos to bring me pride and JOY
But I'll wait another week or two
Or maybe three or four
And trust to luck in the meantime
That III get a dozen or more
Pvt H. j. PAGEL, - Engineers
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The Official
Newspaper
of the A. E. r
FRAGMENTS FROM THE FRONT

stripe on his left arm, and goodlv mr.,
Ter boast campaign badges in add;,;,.
So it occurred to an energetic corr,
spondent attached to the battal;on -
quest an interview with the ory,n;,s
TONS oldest veteran.
Sure" agreed the major. "but ,....
are certain difficulties. He's hard n !.
terview."
cav, 1 can make him talk" declared
the reporter. "Just lead me to bimn
The major got up and led the wav m.
into the courtyard and around to II.
stables.
Here he is" said the officer, grinn;no
He had stopped in front of an aged null
His name is Peanuts He has servos
in Cuba, the Philippines, China, at Yer,
Cruz, on the Border, and in France r.
to it, young man"
But all that Peanuts would saw f.,
publication was, "He-haw. He-haw,.
The favorlte song of certain outfit NJ
machine gunners is to the tune of "a
Long, Long Trail" The chorus runs.
There's long, long trail a-windinp
Way out in No Mans Land in France
Where the shrapnel shells are BURSTING
And we must advance.
Therell be lots of drills and hiking
Until our dreams all come true.
For we're going to show the Kaiser
What machine gun battalion can do
Five other verses in ballad form fol.
low, and then section seven advances and
delivers the coup de grace
Well, Kaiser, I'm through talking.
III give you one advice.
You had better chat with Sammy
And try to compromise.
For when we get good and started
You never can tell;
We're going to have your left ear.
Or chase you into ell.
We overriding along wooded road
the major related. Il saw nv intelI.
gence officer intently studying the land
scape. That pleased me- I said to nv.
self, He's getting observant. III make
damn good soldier of him yet Then i.
occurred to me to check up on the facts.
so l asked him what he was thinking
about
He pointed up to the festoons of mis-.
tletoe that draped the road, and grinned,
Golly, he sighed, "if | onlv had nv
little Mary here in an old-fasbioned
country buggy"
The orderly saluted.
Sir" he reported, 'the rations ere
coming up the road, in charge of that
lassoon man."
"Who?"
Sergeant Lacrosse, that lassoon
man."
A light dawned on the adjutant.
"You mean haison2"
Eyes, sir-LEE-AY- son. sir" he re.
peated painfully Its tough word,
Sir"
"Souuenir, m'siew! Bees-kvee, sil
cous plait.w
That is the cry along all the Paris,
Amiens march route, from the juvenile
population of France. 1t is plea for a
remembrance in the form of hardbread.
Young France loves these fiinty crackers
as passionately as an epicure loves
caviar. And, possibly, for the same rea-
son-it is an acquired taste for foreign
delicacy.
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ice behind the lines in France, but will
serve the people at home at the same
time.
In France there is a wonderful system
Of roads throughout the country, and
without which the soldiers Of the allied
armies would be at a great disadvantage.
There are hundreds Of miles of theke
roads, from the Aisne to tho Mouse. In
that battle-torn section. the roads are
always kept up. Along one side OF each
road is pile of crushed stone and on
the other side sand. Immediately after
a shell strikes q road a force of men.
sometimes German prisoners. fill the
hole with mixed sand and stone.
Every nation at war has been forced
by the demands of transportation to
fall back upon Its highways and carry
over them q portion Of the load Just
as her system of roads saved France
in the days of 1914, the war experts say
the conduct of the war is now depend
Ing upon these roads. Efforts through
out the United States are now being
made to make the Lincoln highway. the
peoples memorial to the great war
President. a fait accompli during the
next year. This highway is now being
utilized by the Army trucks.
Mr.. Chaplin. chairman OF the high
ways transport committee, Council Of
National Defense. says For weeks
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Daily Newspaper Printed at Sea for Uncle Sans Fighters

indivisible nation. faring forth. shoul-
der to shoulder, eyes alight. hearts
aname. to an even higher place in the
splendid sisterhood of freedom"
And the lighter side of life at sea
comes in for considerable attention by
contributors to the "Hatchet." a few Of
the contributions running as follows:
Jack be nimble. Jack be quick.
Jack be spry with the printers stick; .
Set four columns o. type 4 day.
Or the Hatchet1l slip and cut your pay.
With plate Of sauerkraut under his nose, The
corporal roared: I'VE must be nearing Germany;
'One good turn deserves another" murmured
the Port Propeller to the starboard as she lady
stirred up the brine to the tune Of IS q minute
Yes, answered her sister blade. churning the
wave in like tempo: but it's funny. with ali the
that seem to be doing anything" whereupon
they quietly resumed their dynamic duet and
feace brooded over the deep.
Sing a song Of sister,,
Seven ships at sea-
Semaphoring chattily;
Tres b!en' and h0uiss
When the night has settled,
Silence rules the deep
Cause the Hun might catch you
Talking in your sleep!
The Ratchet. in spite Of the fact ~
Its many changes of editors and the
entire staff of the paper is well print
ed; there are no typographical errors,
and the mechanical work is wellnigh
perfect An explanation Of style changes
Is made in one announcement:
The editorial stan of this sheet
changes from voyage to voyage; there-
fore, II you travel in our company con-
tinuously. frequent change of STYLE
Will be noticed. Our censorship forbids
managers on which tho Hatchet's life
depends" f,
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the highways transport committee and
the Quartermaster's department have
been working out the details OF the
plan to relieve the present serious
rail congestion and the constantly in
crcasing freight car shortage. Abnor-
NAL war conditions have made neces-
sary the use Of every available means
of transportation to the fullest possible
extent. Our steam railroads. electric
railroads and waterways are already
being utilized to their utmost capacity
and are carrying a flood of freight far
beyond the limits OF the service they
were designed to give. .l-+
1T became apparent that the prob
lem could not be solved satisfactorily
by the mere stretching OF existing
facilities: new facilities for trans
portation had to be developed. There
remained for the consideration of Gen.
Channcy b. Baker and others of the
quartermaster's department the pos
sfbility of using our highways as
auxiliary routes and relieving the rail-
roads Of such freight as could be trans
ported by these Army trucks as they
travel east. q system OF war relief
transportation which has long been
meeting a similar need in England .
THE plan developed is the result Of
an urgent need, net only for the relief
Of our overloaded transport system.
but for means of providing adequate
opportunity for the training OF an eff
receive corps of transport drivers and
officers. II will require for its COM
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went much farther people in the neigh
borhood would be- naming their babies
Prospect Smith or Prospect Jones'" He
had heard that one of the farmers in
the neighborhood had developed new
'prospectarine"
1t often happens-indeed it usually
happens-that old names violently pro-
test against being disposessed by new
names. The geologic survey or the
Geographic Society may, put new
name on the map and the Post Office
Department may print it in the postal
guide, but old names die hard. Many
old Washington people still speak of
Anacostia as Uniontown and South
Washington as 1.-The island" while
some gray-bearded men persist in CALL
ing certain sections Of the city Swami
poodle, Foggy Bottom, and Bloodfeld.
Some old gentlemen continue to reside
In the first, ward or the fifth ward. and
all the kings horses and all the kings
men and a board of District Commits
sioners could >Qot change Georgetown
into West Washington. Fifty. years
ago the Post Office Department changed
the name of Surrattsville to Clinton,
but even the children today who live
beyond the Eastern branch call that
historic crossroads "Surrattsville" or
shorten 1t to "Surratts."
The top of Prospect Hill. which the
geological survey has marked as hav-
ing an. altitude Of as3 feet, is seven
miles west by north from the Chain
bridge: which. by the way. has not been
q chain bridge for ever SO many years.
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road, hard and cloddy when the RAM
bier passed that way. leads north be-
tween two lines of wire fencing. There
are open fields on the outer sides OF
this fencing. The road ascends gently.
and soon after passing cement house,
whose blocks were cast IN the molds
of rough dressed stones, one comes to
three old barns set in a line, at an
equal distance from each other, and all
close by the right-hand side OF the
road. The barns are old, but do not
look their age.
A few yards further and traveller
arrives at point on the road opposite
an old house, and, like the barns, 1t Is
so we'll cared for that 1t looks
Younger than many houses fifty years
its junior. Still. there is a maturity
which tells you that its windows have
Hill for generations and that the two
red brick chimneys that rise above the
roof have smoked for SO many winters
that IL all that smoke could be gath
cred in one cloud 1t might be spun into
q sable band that would reach around
the world. The, house is frame. with
deep shady porch that extends across
the full front. Opening onto that porch
are three windows and three doors. all
carefully screened. a little thing in It
self, but a mark which told the
Rambler that there was country homo
where flies are not permitted to buzz
around the sugar bowl or stick them
selves to thesweet edge of the molasses
pitcher. Across the front OF the porch
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Substitute DAYS.

DREsIDENT GUsTAvUs oHLINGER
of the Toledo Chamber of Com.
merce. whose exposures of the German
American Alliance have been helpful to
the government. said on a meatless DAY
in Washington:
What IL meatless day here In COM
parison with every day in Germany
In Germany. you know. every day 10 6
substitute day-a day of substitute
eggs. substitute coffee. substitute milk.
substitute tobacco. substitute sausage,
all prepared by chemistry. :.
These chemical substitutes, perhaps,
contain some little nourishment, but
their taste is awful At the fashiona.
BILE Geological Garden restaurant IN
Berlin a tunker one day called q wait.
ress up and said:
There's something queer about this
coffee. 1t tastes to me like Cocoa.
THE waitress examined it oleoeiy,
smelled 1t. even tasted It. Then SHS
made q wry face.
TIN SO sorry she said: I've brought
you tea" = =
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portance of Good Roads to the mys Great Fleet of Motor TRUCK

class a desire to do all in their power,
individually and collectively. to aid
their country in the tremendous task
which confronts 1t.
Working in close touch with the stof.
age committee of the Council Of Ma
tional Defense. which has in charge the
efficient mobilization of the varied
stores of war at convenient central
points. the highways transport COM
mittee has laid out a comprehensive
system of through routes between the
ruck-production centers, the storage
centers and Atlantic coast ports. The
routes being selected are those that can
most easily and quickly be brought
into condition to stand traffic, and
which will lead most directly from the
truck production centers to the sea-
board.
A central main line or backbone mill
tary highway, as it is termed. has been
selected between Chicago and New York
city. and leading to this mainline feed
er are routes from the various scatter
ed interpretation centers. In the
east branch routes will lead of the
main line north and south to the vari.
Gus Atlantic coast ports.
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which has been worked out by the
French and English behind the western
front.
The military motor truck driver must
not only know his vehicle in every part and
understand its maintenance, repair. adj
justnent and the problems Of loading and
unloading. but he must be able to take 1t
through on time. over any sort Of roads.
rain or shine. day or night. And transport
drivers behind the lines say night on a
transport road behind the allied lines
means absolute darkness. It 10 also point
ed out that he must achieve an instructive
or cultivated ability to do the right thing
in perfect coordination with his unit un-
der every conceivable difficulty. This
comes only through training and expert
ence.
1t has been shown during this war that
upon the initiative and resourcsfulness Of
the motor truck transport drivers often
depends the fate of important operations
and the lives Of hundreds Of men who de-
pend upon the motor truck service for
food. clothing. ammunition and all sup
plies needed in the front line trenches
The truck driver must be trained in mass
formation, as it were, for individual train
ing will not suffice; company training is
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found to be essential before the units are
At for front line service.
The military truck drivers must receive
that training either here or after they ar
rive in France. and 1t has been the policy
of the War Department to send men to
France only after they have received as
much Of their training as 1t is possible
to give them here.
1.-THE highways transport committee"
says Gen. Baker, saw the utter impos-
sibility Of sending men over to Gen.
Rogers. chief quartermaster Of Gen.
Pershing's army. adequately equipped to
cope with the problems to be encountered
there If their training was to be restricted
to hasty and superficial operation of the
trucks at the factories before rail ship
ment. What was required was training
under conditions as nearly approximating
those to be met abroad as was possible in
this COUNTRY"
The training the men will receive in
driving loaded Army trucks from factory
to seaport Under the trying conditions
which were encountered this winter will
as nearly as possible reproduce the actual
service conditions abroad. The plan is
to have them reach France with a mini
mum Of additional training to be acquired.