Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-30
!. G.. A. At CAMP HANCOCK

satisfied comment of tens of thousands of
regular and guardsmen, Sammies and
ijackies and marines all over the length
and breadth of the land.
1t is pretty much as an Uld-timer. one
of these picturesque military institutions,
| the regular army drill-Sergeant put it:
Soldering amt what it used to be. With
the inoculatin' and the vaccinatin' and the
paradin' there amt nothing to get sick or
| grouchy about, and you amt really got
any kick comm. But if you think you
have. there's always the ~ movies to go
| to, and there you forget all about 1t.
| The doughty old soldier was right; sol
| diering is not what it used to be. No con-
| structive provision was made for the old
| timers hours of leisure. The odds then
were all in favor of the eVer-besetting in
| iiuences that degrade.
Now all that is changed. The Red
| Cross is on hand to aid in the preyen-
| ton and cure of bodily ills; while wher-
| ever he goes, the soldier and the sailor
| finds new agency at hand to minister to
| his social, recreational, and religious
needs and to stimulate mental side Of life
| in war time.
| The new agency is the Army and Navy
/ Y. NJ G. A, with its all-inclusiVe pro-
gram Of freely given service-and its en-
| tertainments and stunts" its educational
| classes in English and French and the en-
| tire long list of modern academic courses,
it's voluntary religious meetings, it's
| sing" and last but by no means least
its movies.
e. s. Mowbray who heads the motion
| picture bureau CT the Army and Navy Y.
| Nj. c.. A in the Southeastern Department.
states that at present GA movie shows are
! given monthly in II camps and naval sta
| lions in these seven states. over 80 NOV
| ing picture machines are used. BY sum
| mer it is anticipated that the number OF
shows to be given monthly will pass the
| 1000 mark, booked from Atlanta, Ga,
| headquarters.
| The Southeastern Department is now
running 100000 feet CT film monthly for
the entertainment of our boys in khaki
and blue. That is each month the Y. NJ.
| G. A. viii show in its 125odd buildings
| in this department the equivalent of a
| film 581 miles long; a picture capable, in
| other words, of spanning the distance
| from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi
river, or across the entire Southeastern
| Department
From the New York city office OF the
| Community Motion Picture Bureau, which
is the selecting and distributing agent
| for practically all the films shown by the
! Y. M c. A, between four and five mil
lion feet of film is the total recorded
weekly as being distributed through it's
eight Offices one of which is in Atlanta,
Ga. serving the Southeastern Depart
ment. When the full quota of army "Y''
buildings called for are in operation,
seven and half million feet of film viii
If one man were to watch a picture the
aggregate length Of time that all the
soldiers and sailors in the country watch
the movies every two weeks, that man
would still have a century to sit and
watch, assuming that he first sat down
before the screen at the beginning of the
Christian era and had remained there
eight hours day, six days a week ever
since.
With the American Expeditionary
Forces, too, the Red Triangle movies are
shown, secured "over there" mostly from
European producers. Many is the dull
hour, the homesick heart, and the dscon-
ISOLATE "Sammies" that is relieved by the
click click of the projectors crank and
/ alllIpincr nj
The Army and Navy Y. NJ. c. A..
through the Community Motion Picture
Bureau, is now showing more film at more
: P hs ba a fogaT on spd a
of its shows are free to our soldiers and
sailors.