Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-09

Why Is Camp WadSwOrth the finest
camp In the United States? This
question wan asked OF the writer. He
thought at first the superiority of
Camp Wadgworth had won new rec
ignition. But the truth slowly
dawned that thirty-one other men had
been asked the same question about
tnirty-one other camps.
Plainly the editor of Trench and
Camp was trying to be nice, trying to
play no favorites. Yet his use Of the
word finest was his und0ing. Far
more tact1ul did q bachelor become
after two mothers met, each one with
the statement. why, that's just what
ne said about my baby" Far more
tactful Will the editor OF Trench and
Camp become, for the men he ques-
toned are meeting in the columns OF
his paper and his perfidy is being ex-
posed.
No matter what the editor wrote to
thirty-one other men, the fact re-
mains that his question was quite
proper when it concerned Camp
WadSwofth.
Spartan6urg! Was ever q name
more fitting for Q place ct which to
train the soldiers Of the country?
An Imported Climate (?)
Take for instance the matter Of the
climate, now that we have approved
Of the name-only those With Spar
tan spirit could have survived it.
Most unusual weather was the con-
slant comment Of the natives. But
they could not always be on their
guard, and, in moments Of forgetful-
ness, they admitted that the pipes
had fPo8en during the preceding Win
ter. Then they tried . new tack.
They tried to pack up their troubles
and ours in the old kit bag and smile,
smile, smile; for they told us that, IN
order to keep us from being home
sick they had brought the New York
climate to the South!
This fulsoms praise Of Camp Wads-
worth ia being written in o well-heat-
ed room I'm New York City and the
writer is gazing, long after the calen-
Oar has sumEarily dismissed the
Winter. into a raging snow STORM
let AZ see, do snow storms rage? No,
they blind; well then. into q binding
snow storm. Having spent the Win
ter in Spartaaburg. he cannot help
but paraphrase the bened1ction of the
wives Of the Nantucket Sailors and
exclaim, God pity the poor soldiers
In Spartanburg on day like this"
Next, take for instance the matter
of the mud even as Spartanburg was
true to the traditional hospitality OF
the South, she was loyal to her OWE
variety of mud. And this loyalty pro-
duced q mud par excellence. We
have heard tales of Flanders mud.
There is q story Of the man that kick
ed q cap, uncovering . soldier who
had sunk into the mud; and of the
soldier who, being assisted from the
mud, dragged with him the horse he
had been riding; and of the horse
that calmly munched some hay he
had bitten from a pile upon which he
had sought refuge and which had
sunk beneath him-but that mud in
Flanders Is the product of artificial
floods and three years of artillery OPP
erations. Spartanburg mud is just
natural. Like certain storekeepers-
storekeepers from the North and the
West originally, it must be said in
fairness Spartanburg mud has un-
usual sticking qualities. 1t sticks to
everything except Ford and nature
is powerless before that product of
American ingenuity.
So then, the outstanding features
Of Spartanburg's greetings to the New
York soldiers are her freezing them
in Winter and sticking them in