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Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-07

We going this whatever costs"Speaker
Champ Clark
The detines Of the world and the hopes civilization
tered upon America of Treasury W. G. McAdoo
There only kind of Germany that will
the world and that is chastened, defeated Germany
Henry Morgenthau former American Ambassador to Turkey
he sacrifices troops daily making for the nation add
ing glorious to her John J. Pershing
commanding the American Expeditonary Force in France
Eight the next nOw."-Newspaper headline
The adOr of the fighting line must not be of
War Baker.
1--WE cannot mpe the ascendncy have gained land
breathing time enemy who could not be trusted
to observe either the rules of honor Herbert
HI. Asquth, former Premier of England
welcome to France the gallant soldiers of America who
participate the battle of Nations right justice
against the Empires of preyMarshal Fochs official
sage to American soldiers expressed through Going
the embarkaton newspaper.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-07
MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Inspecting Where is your
other leather glove?
Rookie ct Il. sir.
Inspecting Oficer lastounded)-
Explain yourself.
Rookie had 1t in my mess kit,
sir, and forgot TO take it out this
morning before breakfast. We had
fapjacks and thought it was one
of 'em until / ;comeitO the buttons
Judge.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-07
THE VANISHING LINE
Avn Irish drill sergeant was pl

An Irish drtN sergeant was putting
o lot of green recruits through the
different movements. He gave them
Fright Dress" Try as he would. he
couldn't get a straight line. Finally
In evaporation he shouted:
Whats the mather wild yez?
Can't ye line up? That line is as
crooked as a corkscrew. ALI Of yez
fall out and take look at it!"
Judge.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-07
YOU GAN KEEP

The home folks advised as to your
life and activities in camp by sending
all your copies Of Trench and Camp"
to them. Why not?
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-07
SOME SINGER

I used to play at center field
Until in war the whole world reeled !:
l went to France, and now, ye gods.
You oughtta see me throw grenadesi
The sun., 1918-07-07

translator Of Sienkiewicz and Tolstoy
and an authority on folklore: George
Ticknor Curtis. turist and writer on
the Constitutions; Goodwin Smith,
whose views on the subject OF the
destiny OF Canada coincided with
DAna's. and who contributed to THE
Sun hundreds Of articles from his store
OF philosophical and political wisdom;
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., who
wrote on railway management; Gen.
Adam Badeau, one of Grants biog-
raphers: William Elliot Griffis, prob
ably the most authoritative OF all
American writer's upon Japanese af-
fairs. and Francis Lynde Stetson. the
distinguished authority on corporation
and railway law.
OF the more strictly journalistic
writer's who. although not attached
permanently to THE SUNS STAFF. con-
tributed to its news and editorial COL
umns, the names rise OF James s. Pike.
Of Joseph Pulitzer and his predecessor
as editor Of the World. william Henry
Hurlbut; of Edward Spencer. a writer
Of fiction who displayed splendid imag-
NATIVE qualities. and Of Oliver Dyer.
The sun., 1918-07-07

cuse STANDARD in its essential features
a provincial replica OF THE Sun. 1t
looked like 1t and read like it and those
who Immediately succeeded him after
he had been bought out. were proud
to have yielded to the same inspiration.
They tried with all their might under
the obvious limitations to make the
paper like THE SUN Of Charles A. Dana
and Chester s. Lord.
This sort of newspaper was a nov
city up State. because the editors OF
those days worked on other lines. They
subordinated the collection OF news 10
the expression of political opinion. Mr..
Lord was on guard long enough to
turn all this upside down. He was on
guard long enough to prove that old
fashioned newspaper making like this
was out OF date. Possibly II the SYRIA
cuse STANDARD had drifted back into
the old rut the general improvement
would have been longer in coming, but
Mr.. Lord had set the stake and 1t
The sun., 1918-07-07

whose range Of ability was so great
that while one day he wrote for Bon
ner's Ledger advice to distressed
lovers the next day would find him
penning for THE Sun an exhaustive
article on the methods employed in
building a railroad across the Andes.
Edward p. MitcheIrs Work for
"The sun"
Dana encouraged the men who wrote
exclusively or almost entirely for THE
Sun to write fiction. Edward r.
Mitchell, whom Mr. Dana attracted to
THE Sun from the Lewiston one
Journal in 1875, when Mr.. Mitchell
was % years old, wrote for THE Sun
at least a score OF short stories OF be-
tween 1000 and 5000 words. Two Of
his tales-"The Ablest Man in the
World" and THE Tachypomp." both
scientific fantasies OF remarkably in
genious construction, were included in
the Scribner collection Of Short
Stories by American Authors" Mr..
Mitchell being the only writer doubly
represented in those volumes. THE
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are two letters from
r. steadfast readers OF this paper

TOLLOW1NG are two letters from
r. steadfast readers OF this paper
who have been following The
Story OF the SUM-"
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir.
Frank NJ. O'Brien's story of THE SUN
is so valuable contribution to history
and Is so intimate a narrative OF the
wonderful careers of the great men
who have made the newspaper great
that 1t seems almost an impertinence
to attempt to add a word to what he
n writing. Nevertheless II due apollo
giese are offered Mr.. OBrien perhaps
he wiknot think it amiss II one who
knows Septures to supplement his
chapter about Chester s. Lord with a
recollection or>tgo that ought to have
record.
In speaking Of Mr. Lords resigna-
ton from the stan OF Dug SUN in 1871
to become the owner and editor of the
Syracuse Standard for a period of q
few weeks, the fact is dismissed with
a half dozen lines. Mr.. Lord. Efeel
certain. gave this brief experlenes
greater importance. In life spent In
newspaper work that gave him inter
national distinction. he has often told
me there was no incident which alb
sorbed him more. As he puts 1t, 81
never crowded more real fun into my
life than I had in being the editor OF
the Syracuse Standard"
Although his editorship covered 90
short a time, he left an impress on the
journalism of central New York that
long outlived his quick return to his
old love in New York. His sojourn
In Syracuse carried into upstate Jour-
nalism new light. He was SO vital a
force therein that he upset for all
future time the musty traditions which
until he came led II along beaten paths
In the first place he made the SYRIA
The sun., 1918-07-07

marked the pathway. He had shown
that new kind OF paper could be
printed outside of New York and one
after another the wiser publishers and
editors followed suit. They had to, fE
Mr.. Lord had really established a new
order Of things. He had given first
Importance to the publication OF the
days news written in an entertaining
style. Editorial comment was made
secondary 10 that.
Before Chester S. Lord had his short
inning in Syracuse the chief end OF
the papers up State was to whet poll
tical or factional axes on the revolv-
ing wheels Of the newspaper presses.
They have only recently given up that
diversion entirely as n result OF the
deaths which have decimated the
Sanks of the old school editors, but it
is a matter OF history that the reform
dated from Chester S. Lords advent
In Syracuse.
1t must be that this is the fun"
The sun., 1918-07-07

Harte. having written his most IA
nous short stories, had come east.
Howells. then IS. had published three
or four novels. but THE Rise OF Silas
Lapham" was ten years ahead. John
Hay. then on the Tribxne editorial
STAFF. had written his pike County
Ballads" and "Castilian Days" Henry
James had put forth only Watch and
Ward" To these budding geniuses the
general public was rather inclined to
prefer Augusta Evans's est. Elmo" f.
p. Roe's Barriers Burned Away" and
Edward Eggleston's "Hoosier School
master"
Famous Contributor to The SUM-
Notwithstanding tho expressed
doubt as to Harte's fecundity. Dana
admired his work and printed his
stories in THE Sun for years after
ward. Late in the '70s he bought
Hartes output and syndicated it
probably the first successful applica-
ton Of the newspaper syndicate sys-
tenn to fiction. About the same period
Robert Louis Stevenson's earlier sue
cesses. such as THE Treasure OF
Franchard' and The Sire de Mala-
troits Door," were having their first
American printing in THs EuN, their
original appearance having been In
Temple Bar and other English maya
zines
The fles Of THE Sun for 1891 contain
writings Of Stevenson that are omitted
from most il not from all Of the col
lect!ons Of his works. These are parts
Of his articles on the South Seas, an
ambitious series which he was unable
to finish. Some Of them were printed
in the London Black aud white. All
of them appeared in THE SUN.
Through THE SUNS literary syndi-
cate the American public gained some
OF its earliest acquaintance with
Harte and Henry James. Kiplings
Light That Failed" had it's first
American appearance In THE Sun in
tho autumn Of 1890. It may interest
Mr.. Jamess admirers to know that
one of the middle Western news
papers having bought James novel
from THE Sun. played it UP with a
gingery headline:
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| Ablest Man in the World" also has its
place In Stedman and Hutchinson's
distinguished Library of American
Literature"
Other short stories Of Mr.. Mitchelrs
like THE Man without a Body" and
THE Balloon Tree" are remembers
by older Sun readers for their ingen-
ious form and delightful narrative. Mr.
Mitchells smaller sketches, numbering
perhaps 800. included not only fancy
but humor. and particularly little bur.
lesques delicately picturing the weak
nesses Of the great or quasi-great men
OF the day. AS q change from his
strictly editorial work he might write
description of Mark Twain in his
observatory. armed with a boat hook
and preparing to fend of a comet; or
becoming Mr.. Dana's reporter, he
would expose a spiritualistic seance OF
the Eddy Brothers somewhere up in
Vermont, or 60 to Madison Square 70
record the progress Of George Francis
Train toward world dictatorship by
self-evolution on a diet of peanuts; or
he would write a dramatic criticism
Of the appearance Of THE SUNS droll
friend. George, the Count Joannes, as
HdmIet
These few instances. a dozen out of
the 10000 or more articles that Mr.
Mitchell has written for THE Sun, are
not mentioned as a key to the general
tenor of his work-whtch has covered
everything from the definition of a
Mugwump to the Interpretation OF a
Presidents constitutional powers-but
rather as an indication OF THE Suns
catholicity in subjects. II incidentally.
they serve to counteract the impress
sion that the editorship Of great
newspaper is gained through mere
eru3ition as opposed to n fine under
standing of the very human reader. SO
much the better.
From his first day with THE Sun
Mr.. Mitchell absorbed his chiefs life
long belief that the range Of public in
terest was infinite. AS he said in 1916
in an address to the students Of the
Pulitzer School OF Journalism on 1.-THE
Newspaper Value of Non Essentials" &:
Sometimes people are as much inter-
ested in queer names. like Poke Stogis,
for example. or in the discussion of a
question such as What Is the Best
Ghost in Fiction" or How Should En-
gagged Couples Act at the Circus" or
What Is Dodunk?" or do the Angels
Play Football" as some other people are
interested in the conference OF the
great Powers.
1t is well TO remember always this
psychological factor. Both the range OF
the newspaper and the attractive power
OF the writer for the newspaper in any
department depend upon the breadth of
sympathy with human affairs and the
diversity of things in which he, the
writer. takes a genuine personal interest.
In that speech The SUNS judgmen,
of what the people want, whether /,
be in news, editorial or fiction, is re-
stated exactly as it might have been
stated at any time within the last
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which MI Lord places such store by.
Old timers in Syracuse will have no
difficulty in recalling how he rode
roughshod over the political plans OF
Frank Hiscock and James ]. Belden,
the big bosses OF Onondaga, who,
until he came had never thought
newspapers had other missions than
those which they outlined. To be
sure they made things so hot for the
young disciple OF Dana that he found
it best land very pro1table) to leave
the field half won. but not before he
had planted the seed OF a new school
OF journalism in central New York.
When Mr.. Lord writes his reminis-
cences he ought to tell tho whole
story. 1t belongs to history.
New YORK, June "a. c. r. S.
To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--Sr:
The Story OF TIE Sun" by Frank
OBrien, now running in your Sun
day issue, is extremely interesting
to an old SuS reader In one install
ment he gave several headings by s.
NJ. Clarke, but failed to give very
good one. perhaps by Patton, as it
was over a Jersey story about a
farmers troubles with revenue officials
on account Of his applejack distillery
1t must be nearly twenty years since
clipped il from THE Sun. It was:
HIS STILL STILL STILL.
Lambert Says 1t May Never BE Oper-
ated Again.
Applejack Had Been Made There by the
Lambert Family Since 1928, and
Never Before Had There Been Any
Question of a Violation OF the Rev
enue Laws,
The three uses OF the word still" In
succession was stroke OF genius
THE Story OF THE SUN" should be
printed In book form. G.FK.
New YORK, July s.
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Founding Of The
/ Evening Sun and
Some of Its Fa-
nnousCraduates--
. Influence of Mr..
Dana on Litera-
! ture in America
Has Proved I'M
perishable

This is the twentieth of a series
Of articles nsrrating the history of
THE SUN. and giving a vital, init
mate view of metropolitan life and
journalism during more than eighty
eventfui years. The first article
told of the founding of the paper by
BENJAMIN II. Day in September.
1888, and of its rapid rise to sue
cess. Succeeding articles told of
the papers continued prosperity
and of changes in ownership, in
Guiding its purchase by Charles A.
Dana. Mr.. Dana's career, and told
of the able men who made THE
SUN the best newspaper in America.
The sun., 1918-07-07
Camera Aids Parchment Reading

n EFORE the days OF books parch-
ments became so costly that
,esQnomical scholars erased more
or less perfectly what had been writ
ten and used Them a second time. In
this mannef-ssme highly interesting
and valuable manuscripts have been
lost to the world 8ut In many cases
the ancient eharactefs>are still visible
1t was not long ag6 that photog-
raphy was first successfully applied
fer this work The color Of the faded
ink OF the older writing on a >palimp-
sest Is yellow. A photograph OF such
a manuscript was made through aNyei-
low screen. The result was a negative
on which the old writing was barely
discernible, being little darker than
the background, while the later black
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writing appeared distinctly as white
letters.
Next an ordinary negative on a bro
mide plate was made and from this
was produced a transparent positive
on which both writings appea red dark
and about equally distinct. Then the
transparency was superposed on the
first negative so that the dark letters
Of the later writing covered the light
letters, representing the same writing
in the negative, They were thus elm
mated. being indistinguishably merged
with the general dark background
produced by the combination Of pos
Ntve and negative. But the earlier
characters, since they were dark In
both cases appeared In the combina-
'tisaS inierfkely black and distinct.
The sun., 1918-07-07
PAUL DANA

non Blackwood. the novelists, wer,
also EVENING Sun men.
The EVENING Suns list Of forme
dramatic critics includes Acton Davie.
and Edward Fales Coward, both play
wr.ghts. and Charles b. Dillingham;
the theatrical manager. Arthur
Woods. recently police commissions
Of New York, and Robert Adamson
recently fire commissioner were ole
EVENING SUN men. Frederick Palmer
Associated Press correspondent with
the British forces In the grea
war. and Arthur Ruhl, a special cor
respondent at the front. are EVENING
SrN alumni.
In the early years of THE EVENING
Sun the chief editorial writer was
James T. Watkins. whom Mr.. Laffar
had known in California as a man o!
wide scholarship and an economic eX.
pert. He was so prolific that II was 9
common saying in the Office that, with
Watkins at his desk, THE EVENING
SrN needed no other writer's OF edi.
torial articles. Frank H. Simonds
who had been an editorial writer for
THE SUN since 1908, became chief edi-
torial writer for THE EVENING Sun
in 1918. In 1914 his war articles at
tracted wide attention. He was after.
ward editor of the Tribune.
Other writer's for the editorial page
were Edward RI. Mullin. an Irishman
from Dublin. and Frederic J. Gregg
The chief editorial writer is now James
Luby, who Is assisted by an EVENING
Sun veteran. Winfield s. Moody.
The managing editors since w. C,
McCloy have been Charles =. Cooper
James Luby and the present incum-
bent. George NJ. Smith. for many years
night editor Of THE Sun. and its man
aging editor in the absence Of Mr.
Lord.
After Allan Kelly, the city editors
were w. c. McCloy. Charles p. Cooper
Erwin Hawkins, Nelson Lloyd, T. NJ
Dieuaide and Earl j. Hadley. Mr.
Lloyd. who left the paper to write fic-
ton, had served as city editor from
1897 to 1904.
The EVENING SUN has always had a
particular appeal to the woman reader
It's first woman reporter, Miss Helen
Watterson of Cleveland, Ohio, was in.
duced to come East in Brisbanes
regime to write a column called 1.-THE
Woman About Town" and ever since
1890 the staff of women writer's on
the paper has been increasing. THE
EVENING Sun has page or two a day
oi feature articies written for women,
ny women. ABOUT women.
The financial and sports depart
ments of THE EVENING St,N make IL =
mans pa Der too. M homo ~o;n o
broker would dars 70 hoara ~. I'D.
u,o,, .,;,ho,, ,, -
.a,;;a. 80 80 80 va 'ne wan .tee'
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CEORCINA'S REASONS!
HENRY JAMEs's LATEST STORY!
A Woman Who Commits Bigamy
and Enforces Silence on Her
Husband.
Two Other Lives Made Mise "a bic
by Her Heartless Action.

Among the literary mon given les,
to fiction and more to history. so.
GEOLOGY and philosophy who have
yielded to THE Suns columns from
their treasure. sometimes anony.
mously. were jeremiah Curtin, the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-09-12
FOOTBALL STARS
At GRANT BEGIN
WORK ON MONDAY
Campaign Begun to Raise
Fund for New Field and
Grand Stand.

CAMP GRANT. ILL. Sept 12.-With
the return of Capt. Louis Omer from
Washington sports interest in Camp
Grant has turned 70 football TO the ex
clusion of all lesser activities. Every
camp organization is being culled for
gridiron material and the first survey
shows that there are enough former col
lege stars among officers and in the
ranks to fill every position on the new
team.
4 call for nrst practice will be sound
ed Monday.
Athletic officers in Camp Grant are
preparing to launch a campaign toward
raising funds for a regulation football
field and grandstand in the reservation.
All proceeds Of future events beyond
those needed for company equipment
will probably be turned into the new
building channel.
Sept 10 also has been set definitely
as the date for the clash OF boxers of
Camp Taylor and Camp Grant in tho To-
cal arena Fred Dyer. Grants boxing
instructor. and Packey Mcfarland Of
Taylor, will go three exhibition rounds
10 make a feature OF the lntercamp
| tournament.
Stranger Lewis. champion wrestler
/ of the cantonment. went into intensive
| training yesterday in preparation for a
| bout in Chicago with Joe Stecher.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-09-12
7 ETTERSER Sol
Written the Home Folks From This Side and the
Other Side Water

in long trenches. Where I am now is
within a stones throw from so French
graves near a wood on a main road.
You see we ire about ten miles from
the battlefield and we work the field
and hospitals from our camp
Fritz got good pounding the last
few days and nights. il was one con
tinuous roar Of artillery. 1 can sleep
well now. as 1 am quite accustomed to
tho roar. The French and American
soldiers are harvesting the crops here
abOuts. France has a good wheat and
potato crop. from what. have seen, and
from reports the Boche sure left plenty
of guns and ammunition behind in his
mad retreat. but hts airmen are nervy
cusses 1 saw one have a trip over the
other day. He slipped through our bar
rage and shot down an observation bal
loon and got away. He came within
500 feet of the ground. The American
officers with mo expressed their admira-
ton for this stunt
The boys over here crave sweet choco-
late. especially the wounded need it
above all I hope the people in America
stint themselves so the supply depart
ment can buy # ell. If one could see
the look of gratitude and the words of
thanks expressed by our boys. surely
the folks al home would do all within
their power to relieve the sweets situa-
tion. am trying to say q great deal
in a few words and expect you all TO
use your ina gination.
II you wish to realize the situation
over here. take, for instance. the dis
lance from Munster TO Indianapolis and
see all the towns destroy ed-dead men
and horses. guns. ammunition and equip
ment in the field and valleys and see
many soldiers coming and going. artil-
/ lery the same. and see all the roads a
cloud Of dust; no lights at night; no
auto horn. just a whistle (police), and
! YOU have some idea OF conditions back
| of the battle line. I would like 10 tel
| some things more plenty. but I would
/ not be a good soldier If did.
| Sending my kindest regards to all th-
| folks st home I am
Sincerely.
T. c. GRADY.
E. c. Grady.
| K. c. Field Seoy.
Is Place De lie Madeline.
| Paris, France.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-09-12
From Kernie Denton.

To Mrs. T. A Denton. 1851 Monroe
street:
August u. 1918.
Dear Mother:
Just received your letter yesterday.
and as I have a little time to myself this
Sunday afternoon I'll try to give you
a further view Of France and this war
as best my limited descriptive power
can present it 70 you.
I am at the front now, mother. in the
third line trenches. We go up to and
beyond the front line some nights. This
sure is one interesting place. The roar
OF the cannons and the rattle OF the
machine guns here have supplsnted the
bawl Of the COW and the bleat OF the
sheep at our last stopping place
have made one trip a night into
NO Mans Land" It being my first ex-
perience under FIRE. I was subject to a
little stage fright" you might say. at
first. but when that wore away II seemed
thing of great interest. like hunting
for big game. I went into the thine
with the rest Of my comrades as II s,
were a joke. II really seems unreal to
see the young American lads facing
death with a Joke and a smile on their
faces. Anyway II won out on this one
occasion for we cleaned out over a mile
Of German trenches and returned safely
Our infantry supporting us had a It'll,