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Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18
SPORTS AT COLLEGES
MUST NOT INTERRUPT
TRAINING CORPS WORK

Washington. q. c.--Athletic sports as
formerly pursued, involving extended
trips and specialized training, viii not be
permitted at colleges and other insu-
tutionS hay ng army students training
corps Col X, l. Reese. chairman OF the
war department committee on education
and special training, has advised presi
dents Of such institutions in letter
made pubic here Saturday,
1t viii be the policy Of the committee
10 strongly encourage athletic sports
within each association and with neigh
boring institutions, Colonel Reese said, in
cases In which the distances are so
short as to necessitate no interruption OF
the weekly schedule Of academic and
military training
Athletic sports as formerly pursued,
involving extended trips and specialized
training, are inconsistent with the sol
ders' progress Of drill and study says
and professors Of physical education who
are already in the employ Of the stu
dents army training camp institutions
can he used in connection with itra-
mura lsport ad for the assistance of Of
hcers in charge OF military physical train
The commanding officer at each insti-
tuition will be in charge Of the physical
condition and training of the men under
his command, and win be responsible for
cO-ordnatng the military training. rou-
tine and discipline with athletic sports"
After reCc,ut OF this letter the presi-
dents Of several colleges wrote to sena-
tors protesting that the plan would pre-
vent intercollegiate football this season
and until the end Of the war, with
consequent financial loss 10 the schools,
which already had arranged schedules
Of games and made contracts for playing
them.
In addition to preventing intercollcgi-
ate football the ruling also may make
II impossible for the institutions to par
ticipate i'm other intercollegiate sports.
They had just got married and the
girl was rather sad at taking leave Of
her family and the old folks We're do
ing their best to prevent signs of emo
ton
Poor father" whispered the girl t.
her husband 'He's afraid now that we
are married I shall forget him"
Hubby smiled:
Well If he feels that way tell him
he !ght let YOU see his name on a
check occasionally"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18

Eight Veterans.
GILMORE DOBlLE, coach of the
Navy Academy football team, has
eight veterans back for the 1918 eleven
and 500 young classmen to select
from to fill the vacancies in the eleven.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18
w HIF F S
Edited BY
DICK JEMISON

Hurting Shells Now.
ELLIOTT E. DENT, former Crack
er twirler, is notw First Lieutenant
Elliott r. Dent, 10th Field Artillery.
Dent and his company are participant
ing in the present allied drive and is
now hurting shells in a bigger game.
Big League Additions.
THE CAMP GORDON baseball nine
is to be strengthened in the near flu
ture by the acquisition of some big
league stars, Wambsganns, CIovelend
infielder, Shawkey New York Yam
kee twirer and Ray Schalk, White
Sox catcher, are three players who are
expected to report this week w it'll
Won Kolnitz of the Reds, Marshall OF
Chattanooga, Delaney of Birming
ham and Kingman of the Yankees al
ready on the club, the Gordon nine has
quite u professional aspect now.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18

7 o Have O0tbaTI,
CAMP DIX viii have four football
teams this fail in addition to the us
ual egimental and company teams.
Sol MetsEer viii be the coach Of the
camp teams. Pracice will start the
coming week,
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18
Raycroft Defends
Value of Boxing
In Soldiers Life


Washing ton.-Publshed articles to
the effect that boxing does not give a
useful training as a basis for bayonet
fighting and that the two have no COM
II on relationship have been emphat-
ically denied in a formal statement
that has been issued by DR.. Joseph r..
Roycroft, head of the athletic division
of the War Department Commission
c Training Camp Activities. which
directs the athletic activities in the
military training camps throughout
the country The statement follows;
"co,,or,, moro NJ, Lose min -crred
,i+i,, ha,,o r,,b1ieba5 .rt4cIcs 10 tbe
aeeaot H,a+ to.siy,rr lC,a, r,,+ [rI,,o ,,gof,I
t,.ai,,ir,,, ~, ~ hacis To-. ho,,onat firbt-
mo
nco,,o ort+,o,e,,,a ,ro hosod ,,,,or to-
,,o,,.,,,aa oF hoth h,,,o,,at tIyht{no, ia
r1iIitar1, ho,i, ~ Tko exnerience ~
tha nast 1,aa,, IN tho troininr canons
.,Lo,,.s 40 LaV,ir,o, bos or,,a,t ,,o1ne &c
., tiry, co.. ,1oet 6,,bti,,o- and
- l.oi,,, 20 i,s,si,,J
"a ''' s,,t,.,t,,aI 1,,,a,ttt that az 49,.
antaristic Of he arorassi,,o ephting
49,. '''0 '9e
n,rho ,roo4 ,,otori+,, ~ o,,. ,,o,,no
NOV, ,t6 = ,nai,a ~, ~ r,,,, bs,;a bad
49, ~ a,tto,.tp, ~, tt,,.i1,oi 80,
tac+ rraraoe MT JnY,o1on saif- raIianca
ol,,,,5re (,,,ioi, thfr,l,tr,r o,,d .,t,Ili1 a.
cieior,e ,,ndor f,.n Po,,or,,, trair,fn,,
a. 10 hcst ls driu - ytbicbi enand
ar,l,,ra,,oo o,7d sI,tIi IN, harditr,,- 10
,roanon arc da,,oioned h,t IN TO M
ture of things there can b. no prac-
tjce contests with the hayonets Box
ing sunDlies this important contest
factor and furnishes a means Of train
ing men to keep their heads and to
carry out an effective plan of attack
even though they are being punished
by their opponents. In this way quail
tiles needed in the makeup of a bay
onet fighter are deveIoped by practice
in boxing to an extent and with RAJ
piditv that is impossible In ary other
plan of training thus far tried.
.,,t,o oo..,ru,a,,,,t.,,, ,ec,oo.,. - A.
+rainin., 1870 ~ mic co,'r+r,. ba,,o
.,irlnst ~, i,,arso1iIt tasttGod - 10
1870 NJ ho,,,. % ,7ort ~ ,ai1,+ar,,
t,afrt-o+ T., 49,, ~ 49, r,.i,iai,,aj
,arr,r,s r. r,aa booI, ro,3o a ,.o,,,,1ar and
daq,it+o nv ~ ~ JotI,, ro,ttiro Tbo
Se,Il,I,t-,,tt 49,, ,l,,,ri,,
l,I,, INC, traini,,,, oa,ns are t,,n
,oai
i0'''
Boxing undoubtedly Is one OF the
most useIul FORMS OF physlcai tram
ing when SoIolef can nave rs
pecialiy Is TINS true IN the case OF me
payohet man, whose PhyslcAi ProWeSs
is an absolute essential ana whose
800 apiLt' si,o pur,ei tp ''ia 10
,.,.,. 80
'"' o''e'
me primary OBJECT OF DO az
taught IN the army is TO make skill
iul, SeH-rellant' nara hittlng men
rather IMAM expert boxers An eIilcl
ent soldler must not only be trained
fsense. but he must be charged with
the proper fighting spirit. Experience
in boxing develops that spirit 1t de-
velopmcnts in him willingness and
ability to fight at close quarters and |
to give and take punishment. Practice |
in boxing has an additional valu. be-
ause many of the blows and move
ments taught the men in boxing Class
have their close counternarts In bayo- |
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18
BSEBALL IN TRENCHES

Paris, delayed From battle To
basehalll 1t eeems all the same to
these remarkable American oldicrs
So fond are they Of what they call
their national game that they take
their baseballs their big. padded
gloves and batting sticks with them
into the very front "renche. ard as
soon as they have chased the Ger
mans away, they tart to play ball. BAL
let's and baseball! They seem to en-
joy both, these American men.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18
Big Boxing Show
DUKE kARNEt

DUKE KARNES, Atlanta boxing
promoter, has arranged a big boxing
carnival at the Atlanta Auditorium
for Saturday night September 18th.
The proceeds above expenses are to
be given to the Y NJ c. A. Mike Glib
bons, Len Rowlands. frankie Rus
sell, Phil Virgits, Tim O'Neu, Jack
Herrick. Joe Mandot, Patsy Cline,
Sammy Waits. Yong Lewis, Young
McCarty and Earl Puryear are some
of the boys who will appear nthe
card, donating their services to the
benefit
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
An Ancient Seaport.

Kavala, the Grecian seaport, which
has been frequently mentioned during
the present war, was once known as
Neapolis, and 1t was here that st. Paul
landed on his way from Samothrace
to Philippi, where there was thrlv-
ing colony of Christians to whom the
Epistle of the Philippians was ad-
dressed, Prior to the beginning Of the
Christian era Nenpolis was the seaport
of Philippi, whose ruins are to be
found some ten miles from shore, on
the highway from Kavala to Thessaly.
Here the fleet of Brutus and Cassius
was at anchor during the famous CON
flict on the fields of Phillippi In AZ B.
c., when the assassinators Of julius
Caesar met defeat ut the hands of the
legiOns commanded by Antony and
Octavlus. Practically all that remains
to connect ancient Neapolis with mod
ern Kavela Is Roman aqueduct
whose two-tier arches still convey wa
ter from Mount Pangeus to the town
and citadel.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
VOICES MUST BE PLEASANT
Hospital Nurses Undergo Course Of
Training In Some Institutions to
Cultivate Refined Speech.

"If the success or failure of physi-
clan Is, In some cases as least, deter
mined by his tongue, how much more
important is this matter of speech to
the nurse, who must be constantly with
the patient, and whose every look and
gesture are watched-targets for criti-
cism, silent or open," writes DR.. Irving
W. Voorhees, in the Nurse. ut is said
that in some hospitals this question
of refined, pleasing speech has become
q part of the nurses course Of train
Ing, and that she Is demerited for dis
regard Of the principles as set forth
by her teachers. Although l have no
personal knowledge of these hospitals,
1t Is certainly cOnsummation devout-
ly to be wished that every one who
comes into the sick room should know
how to speak softly and agreeably,"
Doctor voorhees, says European ma
tiOps realize the Importance Of the
nurses voice and insist upon 1t far
more than we do. And any woman
who plans to become hospital nurse
and has net pleasing voice already
should start at clce to cultivate one.
The sick are very sensitive to voices;
the blind are especially affected by
harsh voices, 50 much so that some
wealthy blind men will not permit a
person whose voice Is not pleasant to
come near them.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
BOY ROBBER LOST HIS NERVE
Youth Reported Alleged Visit Of Band
It, But Later Was Induced to Pro.
duce Stolen, JeweIry.

A thrilling story of guns, masks and
robbery, which had stirred country
neighborhood by its recital, melted into
the make-believe of yello-back novel,
once investigators were ON the job,
says the Indianapolis News. A talk
between two persons, which Is said
to have occurred behind a farmers
barn, led to the recovery Of loot In
the form of jewelry and confession
from a boy, who reluctantly dragged
from his trousers pocket the remains
of dollar bill.
Sheriff Coffin was called in by neigh
bors after the boy, whose name Is
purposely withheld, had communicated
to persons with whom he lived that
q very dark man, wearing mask over
his face, had visited his home while
he was alone; that he had been threat
ened with a shotgun and, after rillfng
the house, had forced the boy to leave
with him, About a mile from the
house, the boy related, the stranger
gave him 25 cents and told him to
"keep his mouth shut" A duck and
Belgian hare also were taken, the boy
declared.
When the sheriff arrived there was
consultation behind the barn, and
when it had been concluded the boy
dug the jewelry out Of the ground,
told his friends that he had sold the
duck ut a nearby grocery for some
money; that the Belgian hare escaped
while he was on his way to the gro
Gerry, and that the masked man was
the creation of his own Imagination.
"Glve him another chance" the sher-
iff told the guardians of the wayward
boy. Gle won't do it again."
The boy nodded confirmation.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
Indian Arrow Heads.

Mr.. Gushing, an authority on mat
tiers pertaining to Indians, tells how,
when he was boy, he learned how the
Indians made their arrow heads.
He had unearthed a beautiful har-
poon of bone. He had toothbrush with
him, and the bone handle of this he
chopped off and ground down on
piece of sandstone, to make a harpoon
of his own; but he could not grind such
clean-cut barbs as those of the relic.
The boy then took his flint scales and
chips and set to work with them. The
flint cut the bone away but left the
work rough. Then accidentally he
made discovery, for no sooner had he
begun to rub the bone transversely on
the flint than the bone cut the flint
away. Not jaggedly, as his hammer
stone would have Clipped 1t but In
long, continuously narrow surface fur-
rows wherever the edge was caught In
the bone at a certain angle.
He never finished that hnrpoon. He
turned 1t about and used 1t as an ar
row cutter, by tying it to a little rod
of wood with shoestring. He had
found out how the Indians made
arrow heads.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
SING THE OLE. IRISH SONGS
Popular and Beautiful Melodies Arc
Urged In the Homo and at Pub
lie Gatherings.

Sing the old Irish songs at the divi-
sion meeting, at the public meeting
and in the home. There is beauty in
them, and as the melody pours forth
from the depths of the emotions there
is touch of the spirit with the noble
souls whose lips are silent forever.
The inherent gift Of song is fore
most trait of Irish character, remarks
the National Hibernian. Historians
and travellers Of other races noted this
gift many centuries ago. Philosophers
have advanced the theory that the mu-
sic Of a nation exhibits Its inner feel
ings as surely as the needle points the
way to the pole. Governments have Ia
bored to destroy the melodies Of con-
quered people and striven to educate
subject races to sing the songs OF the
conqueror. So true is the oft'quoted
line of the poet, LET me write the
songs of nation and care not who
makes it's laws" that statesmen have
nodded their policies upon the wise
saying.
Let us sing the old Irish songs Let
us recognize that no nation has such
songs to sing, The Irish nation has
few immortal composers, but its popu-
lar melodies have all the genius Of Inn
mortal compositions.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
EVERY FUR SEAL HAS HAREM
Male Sometimes Gathers More Than
100 Females on the Section OF
Beach Which He Controls.

Fur seals are extremely polygamous
and the old males, which weigh
from 400 to 500 pounds, haul up
first on the breeding beaches. Each
bull holds certain area, and as the
females, only one-tifth his size, come
ashore they are appropriated by the
nearest bulls until each "beach mas
ter" gathers a harem, sometimes con-
tanning more than 100 members, says
the National Geographic Magazine.
Here the young are born, and after
the mating season, the seals which
have remained ashore without food
from 4 to 6 weeks, return to the wa
ter. The mothers go and come, and
each is able to find her young with
certainty among thousands of ap-
parently identical woOlly black pups"
From the ages of one to four years
fur seals are extremely playful. They
are marvellous swimmers and frolic
about in pursuit of one another now
diving deep and then, one after the
other, suddenly leaping high above
the surface in graceful curves, like
porpoises. Squids and fish of various
species are their main food. Their
chief natural enemy is the killer
whale, which follows their migrations
and haunts the sea about their breed
ing ground, taking heavy toll among
them.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
PEKING SEES DEVIL DANCE
Ceremony Instituted During the Using
Dynasty More Than 200 Years
Ago, Enacted by Priests.

Peking recently witnessed the cere-
mony instituted during the Using
dynasty, over 200 years ago, known as
the "devil dance" 1t took place in the
Lama temple, and was witnessed by
several thousand devout Buddhist
worshipers, says East and West.
Eighty priests danced in groups, vary.
ing in number from two to twenty.
All the celebrants wore gorgeOusly em-
broidered silk robes and masks repre-
senting animals. Conspicuous were
heads of tigers, oxen, sheep and deer.
The dance ended ut two o'clock in the
afternoon, when a procession Of the
priests formed and proceeded to the
east gate of the temple grounds, where
the paper effigy Of nude woman was
burned.
The legend which the ceremony COM
memorates Is that the devil in form
of woman, ran about the country,
casting spells and working mischief to
crops, animals and humans. Attempts
to catch her were futile until the Bud
dha sent charmed horse to run her
down. The animal overlook the flee
ing woman after race of 10000 II,
seized her In his teeth, brought her to
a place of punishment where she was
publicly destroyed by fire. The female
figure is not alike on all occasions;
sometimes an old hag Is represented,
but generally the woman is young and
comely, as being more dangerous to
mankind.
The ceremonial recalls to those who
have travelled In Mohammedan coun-
tries the religious fervor of the "danc-
ing dervishes."
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
BELL HAD EARLY STRUGGLES
Inventor of Telephone Experienced
Common Fate Of Pioneers in
His Early Manhood.

Next to the reaping machine, which
drove famine from the world, Amer
ica's greatest gift to modern civili-
zation has been the telephone. The
name of it's inventor, DR.. Alexander
Graham Bell, will live down the ages
after all but two or three present-day
Americans have been forgotten.
Unlike most famous inventors, Doc
tor Bell did not spring from Obscurity
and poverty. His father was a scholar
and scientist Of note, and young Bell
received a ripe education. But he did
not escape the common fate of inven-
tors and pioneers. His struggles with
poverty came in early manhood in
stead of in boyhood. And they We're
struggles as trying and as protracted
as fall to the lot of few men. At one
time while fighting to establish his
ridiculed toy as an article of genu-
inc use, he was reduced to the eX-
tremity of borrowing occasional half
dollars for meal, sharing this lot
with his dynamic colleague, Theodore
n. Vail.
The world first learned of the tele-
phone at the Centennial exposition at
Philadelphia In 1876. On January 20
of that year young college professor
Of Salem, Mass, Alexander Graham
Bell, had executed specifications and
q claim for an invention embodying an
improvement in telegraphy, which in
reality was telephone, and on Febru-
ary IA his application for the Amer
lean patent was filed at Washington.
The first telephone message Of
which there is record was this: "Mr.
Watson, come here, l want YOU" 1t
was sent on March 10, 1876 by the in
ventor from the top floor of Boston
boarding house to colleague, Thomas
A. Watson, in a room below. Watson
heard every word and rushed to ap-
prise Bell of the fact. Almost 40 years
later on January 10, 1915, Doctor Bell
sent this same message to Mr.. Wat
son, only this time Bell was in New
York and Watson in San Francisco.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
Five F0odIeSS Years.

Just as the ranchman's horse had
learned to get along without eating, he
unfortunately "up and died" All ami
NAL organisms would doubtless uti-
mately meet similar fate, but certain
small beetles In the larval stage have
recently lived without food for some
thing over five years. The experiment
ter, Prof. J. r. WOdsedalek of the Uni
versity Of Idaho, tells in Science New
York; how number Of specimens
were placed In steriized walls to find
out how long they could exist without
food. Newly Matched larvae lived over
four months without ever having eat
en-. The others resisted death for
periods varying with their size and
age, the last one only succumbing af-
ter FIVE years, one month and twenty
nine days of starvation. The larvae
dwipdle in bulk, but are ready to eat
at the end Of their fast, and then grow
again to normal size.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
Arrive and Depart.

arrivals" and departures" have q
definite place In French trench philol-
Ogy. When the American troops first
entered the trenches their French com
rades were very anxious to have them
distinguish accurately between the
noise Of "arrlves" and departs" 81
thought they were talking harbor
clearances at first" said one Yankee
lad. "Then heard n low, whining
sound and shell exploded behind us.
'Un arrive said my companion. He
signified that it was n present from
the Germans. Soon there was II louder,
sharper sound. 1t was n responsive
roar from our own batteries. I'm de-
part he said with great satisfaction.
'Voila!' we had it. The exchange of
artillery fire is, after all. a matter of
arrivals and departures Needless
to say, the departs enjoy the wider
popularity"
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
Woman Horse Nurse.

In London Messrs. MacNamara, who
employ about forty woman drivers,
have put their horse hospital entirely
In charge of women. Mrs. Parry, the
superintendent, says they have thirty
to forty patients day. She and three
assistants do all cleaning, grooming
feeding and administering Of medi-
cines prescribed by the veterinary sur
geon. The animals, she says, are
grateful and companlonable, and she
has no doubt that women will want
to keep on with this work after the
war. eve do not baby the horses"
she says. "Somehow we reform the
worst cases Of temper, and the women
can do anything they like with even
fractions, nervous and suffering
horses. The effect on the nerves Of
the horses, and consequently on their
value, Is noticeable"
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
Fewer Lobster Fishermen.

An Augusta (Me.) correspondent
says that seven hundred fewer fisher
men renewed their licenses to catch
Holsters this year than last year, this
falling off being due to various causes.
Thus far this year Oscar II. Dunbar,
the commissioner of sea and shore
fisheries, has received the applications
from 3,193 men who wish to fish the
seas. The high cost Of the lumber,
lath and twine that 60 into the traps,
together with the increased price Of
gasoline, has caused many Of the fish,
ermen to 60 out Of the business.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
AN OFFICIAL STORY TELLER
Libraries in Canada Find Special Fea-
ture for the Entertainment Of
Children Is Worth While,

In several of the public libraries Of
Canada story telling to children has
for some years been special feature,
says an exchange. Each Saturday morn
Ing from fifty to one hundred children
assemble ut the library In room set
apart for the purpose and called the
"Children's Room" The ages Of the
children vary from six to fourteen
years,
At st. John, New Brunswick, story
telling has been continued now for
three years. This year 1t has been
found advisable to divide the children
according to age and to hold two
classes of half an hour each. The
work has steadily grown In interest
and the demand for books Of less
trivial type justifes the work of the
committee In charge. During the sum-
mer, when opportunity offers and
story-teller Of note Is Il guest Of the
city, notice is given to the library, and
1t Is often possible to have special
session.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-28
Penclla In ,Japan

An unthought-of result of the war
has been the creation of a lead-pencil
industry in Japan. In 1911 Japan i'm
ported 65,OO00O0 pencils, most of
which came from America and Ger
many. But with the opening Of the
European conflict German sources of
supply were cut off and native manu-
facturers, who had been producing
only in comparatively small quantities,
seized their opportunity and made the
most Of 1t. In 1914 Japan exported
over nine million pencils and in 1915
the number had increased to 16S,00O,-
600. There Is strong indication, OBJ
serves writer, that many of the mar
kets won by the Orientals will be held
by them after the war, for they have
the advantage Of very cheap labor.
Most Of the lead which they use Is
imported from India and this country.