Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10


Religious Work Secretary, G. E. Fin
lay, Canandaigua, n. Y.
Educational Secretary, c. d. Plans
Business secretary-C. Frederick Mar
tin, Nazareth, Pa.
Once again our staff has been dimin-
ished, this time by the departure of Ply
steal Director Keller, who has gone back
to Toledo to enlist in the army his
manly presence and genial manner are
greatly missed by us all
During the past week this building has
been fortunate in having number OF
special features for the evening pro
grams making an unusually interesting
week On Monday evening very atteh-
tive audience expressed hearty approval
of an informal address by Chancellor NC
Cormick of the University OF PlttSburg,
delivered in his peculiarly eloquent and
forceful manner. His discussion of the
causes and aims Of the Great war was
On Tuesday we were glad to welcome
several hundred newcomers from camp
Travis and Camp Meade transferred TO
the keystone Division as replacement
troops; and a few day rdter tne mum
Der was increased by the ARRIVAL OF an i
other detachment from Camp Lee we
are glad to. see that these men make good
use of our building.
DR.. Nussbaum, of the American heu
Cross was with us on Thursday eNehihS'
bringing several IGeiS VI Vel iiAeS' go
ing motion pictures of the Red Cross WORK
in France The men also appreciated
his talk on the same subject.
Friday evenings progrcm was hahateo
very nicely by Secretary Gather, VINO
brought his own perSoh~s experiences TO
bear on the subject of Paris, as II was
being presented in beautiful colored PIC
lures on the screen.
In addition an unusually attractive
movie program on Saturday evening we
were especially favored in having with
us Mr. w. II. Stevenson of Plttspurg,
with his set of wonderful colored slides
Illustrating his lecture on 1.-The EVolu-
ton of the Flag" Although it was rath-
err late when he took the platform he held
the close attention of large crowd lie
has made an exhaustive study OF his SUB
iect and knows how TO prtSent it.
The men of the Machine Gun Battalons
are very unfortunate in losing Chaplain
Dolman, who has been transferred 70
Camp Wheeler. BY ar cement with
Major Foos. Secretary Finlay will con-
duct the usual 10 ocioc". service every
Sunday morning for these men and do
anything else in his pvWer, in the ab-
sence of a chaplain.
Sunday afternoon VS. rather dreary
out of doors but inside of our building
there was harmonious good cheer, for we
were fortunate to have with us Pro-
fessor Irvine's splendid mixed quartette
from the First Baptist Church The au-
dience appreciated greatly their artistic
handling Of an interesting program Of
Easter music. In the near future we ex-
pect to take advantage OF Professor r.
vines kind offer to put on a program of
secular music.
DR.. c. c. Mitchell may be small, but
Oh My how he did charm that Sunday
evening crowd. His clever manner of pre-
senting facts and figures and the elo-
quence of his patriotic appeal for united
action against the Prussian devil proved
very effective.
We are looking forward to the coming
of big Mason" who made such hit
with the men on the border. He is
day, April 8, Tuesday, April Is, and Sun
day, April o. We also expect to have
a big evening with AshNy Jones on Fri
day next.