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Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
SECRETARY ON RANGE

The extension value of the Y M. C. A.
was again demonstrated during the week
tillery was served on their range near
Rlley's pond, by Secretary Barton e.
Richards of Building rs
Monday morning, February 18th, the
regiment left Camp Hancock for the range
and by 1880 a. m, the barren hillside
north of Rley's pond had been transform
ed into city Of pup tents and picket
lines. Within an hour after the arrival Of
the regiment the Y M. c. A. tent was
ION the job" ready for business and from
that on until camp was broken Friday
morning, the fellows utilized every ad-
vantage offered by the "Y' tent. from
postage stamps to scriptures. A battal-
ion of the 103rd Engineers camped across
the pond from the artillery soon found
their way to the tent and between the
Engineers and Artillerymen the secretary
was kept busy from reVille to taps.
Every day was typical Southern one.
and the same chaps who few weeks ago
were complaining about the frigidity OF
the Sunny South were sporting sunburnt
neclSs and faces, the second day on the
range. Riey's pond proved an enticing
spot and every day found from ten to 40
Monday night, Sergeant Major Gering-
er and his band entertained the regiment
with a concert that was much appreciated
and probably would have repeated the
performance Tuesday evening but for the
fact that just at supper time severe rain
storm broke over the camp. Some OF the
fellows were unfortunate enough@to nave
their blankets soaked and spent the night
in the Y M c. A. tent Wednesday night
the band again performed, this time to
a crowd Of about 300. Thursday night
proved to be another disastrous night for
entertainments as rain descended just
after supper. breaking up a soldier talent
entertainment that Chaplain McFetridge
By actual count, 1927 letters passed
through the Y. NJ. c. A. tent from Mon
day noon until Friday morning when
camp was broken. That the service was
appreciated was evidenced by the fact
that from supper time until taps the tent
was damned with fellows writing on
whatever was available. This included
anything from the top of the desk (erst-
while a packing box) to the back of the
secretary's shovel.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
THE @. M. C.

When our boys get into action
In that land across the sea.
You will hear of deeds of valor
BY the u. s. Infantree;
And while the battle is raging,
And the enemy turns to flee.
Don't forget the gallant heroes
OF the Q. M. G.
AS the Cavalry swings past us
The cheers ring upon the ear,
While the ArtiIlerys heavy thunder
Booms forth message from the rear
And we have that welcome feeling
That victory must be near:
The old O. M s are toiling still
With never a thought of fear
When at last the struggle is over,
And our land once more is free;
When the horrors of battle
Are only left in memory;
When they place the Roll of Honor"
For all the world to see,
Who will think to give any glory
To the O. M. c.
by Sergt. H. L. Richardson Remount
Depot
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
CHEER up

Cheer up! now little mother.
Don't let your heart grow sad
Some day he'll travel homeward
That loved and missing lad.
There are oht so many others
Who like you must bear
Tne absence of a loved one
And are bowed with grief and care.
Some day within the future
('Tis known to God alone)
The strife viii sure be over
And will send our heroes home.
So cheer up! little mother
Don't let your heart be sad.
May heaven protect and keep him
Your loved and missing lad.
Anna M Waldner.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
LAND SPRlTES
(By Oswald 81

(Ry Oswald Smith, Merton. Pa.)
The nimble tanks indulge their pranks,
With gleeful might and main,
In leaps and lopes like antelopes
Cavorting cross the plain.
Through walls they race from place to
place
They swiftly work their way,
And often face the killing pace
OF seven miles a day.
With smoothness born of parte well worn
Each playful speedy runt
In far-flung crash proceeds to smash
All records at the front.
Like h1ppopotami they trot
Across the trench wired land.
And soon would win to Hun Berlin
II Tom the strain could stand.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
CONGRESSMAN TESS
ON LINCOLN

Congressman Simeon D. Fess of
Ohio. saws that in oxford University,
England, they teach the finest English
taught or spoken in any place in the
world There, mark you,in one of the
corridors of that great seat of learn
ing, is exhibited zone of the finest let
tiers of coincidence ever written in our
language" written by Abram Lincoln,
and here is a part Of it:
Dear Madam: I have been shown
q statement of the adjutant general
mother of five sons who have died
gloriously on the field-of battle | can
not refrain from rendering to you the
thanks of the republic they died to
save. | pray that our Heavenly Faith
err may assuage the anguish Of your
bereavement and leave you only the
cherished memory of the loved and
lost, and the solemn pride that must
be yours to have laid SO costly sac
rifice on the altar of freedom"
Gettysburg Speech.
Then go to the British Musuem,
where can be found books enough, if
put on a singl shelf, to reach forty
mills ASK there for the finest short
speech in the English language and
you will be handed at once the splen-
did piece OF rhetoric, high mark OF
literary appreciation and statesman
like delivery, uttered by Abraham
Lincoln at Gettysburg, November 10,
1853, beginning:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent
new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal"
Addressing the House of Represen-
tatives of the American Congress on a
special occasion, Representative Tess
said
"Who is this man, that he could
thus speak and write? Born in a hut
in Kentucky, at the age of seven he
accompanied his parents and sister in
to Indiana, where they lived one win
ter in an open camp with but three
sides to it? And yet without having
gone to school more than six months
alf~told, according to his own state
ment, here is a man, thus starting with
no convenience, who has reached a
plane, an ability to speak the English
language not rachel by any of the
scholars of his day.
"Where is the secret? / think that it
might be found in the sort of books he
read.
1.-THE one book with which he was
quite familiar was King James's YER
sion of the Bible. / once heard Parks
Cadman, pastor OF the greatest Con-
gregational church in the world, say
that Abraham Lincolns verbal lnowl
edge of the Bible was not equaled by
the theologians. I would not say that
upon my own authority, but cite it
upon his authority.
"He knew Shakespeare, and in the
darkest hours of the life of the nation,
in the midst of great depression often
when the Cabinet was in session, Mr..
Linciln would quote page after page
of Shakespear, until the scholarly
Seward would turn to him and say:
"Mr President, our understanding
has been that you have never gone to
school, and yet you quote Shakespeare
as do not, and / am regarded some
what as a Shakespearan scholar"
"Buynan's Pilgrim Progress was
another book that he read. Feed a
growing mind upon the English Of
these texts and you will have choice
of English"
The scholarly Congressman also
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
GUARANTEED
BY Nolan Harmon, Camp
Jackson

There's carbolic in my coffee,
There's bi-chloride in my soup;
A coal-oil rags around my neck,
For fear Til catch the Group.
They Sterilize all water,
Dis-infect each army bean
And the whole N. A. cantonment,
Is under rigid quarantine
In the morning I taste Dobelrs,
In the evening I hear Sprays"
And the smell of dis-nfectants,
Sickens all my army days;
Captains dose out antiseptic,
Rockies swallow liver pills,
And when pay day comes your money
Is all prophylactic bills.a
I'm fumigated rookie,
In dis-infected squad,
clean my gun each morning
With an antiseptic rod;
They sterilze the bullets
For my prophylactic gun:
With my hypodermic bayonet
Watch me make those Germans run!
Sure these germs of meningitis
Scare a soldier half to death,
An dthe dread of tonsilitis,
Almost takes a fellows breath;
Sentry, what's your general orders?"
Says the officer of the day
"Gargle six times with carbolic,-
On retiring--use the spray"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
A Warning To SlackerS

you drafted and who wouldn't volunteer
JUS atet his cauton-f a
tsteal
That hers boy s a
He is facing German ego a
howt behind him.
thoughts will
girl he left behind him and the fellow back at home
SO till home
For in the utureh e come II
And we lay
SO adyice-do take a chance;
From Sc
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20

said: 81 concede the speeches before
mentioned as q high rank Of express
sion, but I think that the high-water
mark was reached when, looking back
over four years of awful war, he said:
Both read the same Bible and pray
to the same God and each invokes His
aid against the other. The prayers of
both could not be answered fully. The
Almighty has His own purposes"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
Our Service Flags

Beneath the stars and stripes in France tonight,
Our soldier boys who lately marched away
Are sleeping on their arms prepared to fight.
While meath service flags wait and pray.
OF all the starry emblems made,
OF all the flags of history song,
Alone these tell Of manhood unafraid,
Each star speaks of one hero who has gone.
Each star is bright with meaning and intent
Each tale of sacrifice could tell
Each point glows with the prayers of Mothers sent
To Him who rules and doeth all things Well
AS surely I pen these simple lines.
AS certain the ache within my heart,
know that God earnest prayer declines,
And that of every life He is part.
Oh! Service Flags from to you reach,
In homes of every grade and circumstance,
Lessons of love and loyalty you teach,
And the cause of wor Id wide liberty advance.
T. II. KENDALL Al
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
AMERICAN FREEDOM
PAST AND PRESENT

(FirsJ verse;
often stop and wonder why
Folks from all lands beneath the sky;
The perils of the deep forego-
Because they loved their freedom so.
(Chorus.)
Because they loved it so,
Because they loved it so,
They bled and died-yes-side by side,
Because they loved it so.
(Second Verse;
Where Stars and Stripes wave in the air
With bouyant spirit there We'll go
On mount or main Wen ne'er despair
Because Our Freedom we dove so.
(Chorus.)
we loved it so,
Because we loved it so,
We too will die-yes-side by side
Because we loved it so.
JOHN L. JONES,
Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
SOLDIER VERSE, BETTER AND WORSE
THE GREAT ADVENTURE

There is not thing accomplished
That doesn't have it's cost
And fight is never ended
Until you've won or lost.
A battles never ended
Until you see them run
And you'll never have that pleasure
Unless you get your Hun.
And as 1 said before old man,
There's no pleasure without pain
And the only way to lick them
Is to buck right up and train.
The training is the hard part, boys,
l grant that much to you,
But if we had no training
Well, we would simply be through.
The whole great game we're playing
now
From the start until the end
Is hard for every one of us
But it's something we can't mend.
We didn't want this big fight, boys.
We didn't yell for war,
But the kaiser kept on picking
Till every one got sore.
Now that we're sore, we're mad clean
through,
We gave them every chance
So just to show them what we mean
We're going from here to France.
We're going to play the big game there
We're only training here;
So buck up boys and do your best,
The time is very near.
The time is drawing very near
When your going to stand the test
And fight with men the whole world
claims
To be better than the best.
You're booked for the great adventure,
You're due in dear old France,
The world picked you to see it through
And turn the tide Of chance
BY George w. Kendrick McFillin
Headquarters Co, 1O9th Unfit
"FLAG OF THE FREE"
Flag of our country,
Flag of the free;
Long may you wave
Ger the land and the sea!
Death to the foe
Who dshonorS thee!
Yes. we love dearly
Our red, white and blue,
May no foreign flag
Fer float above you
Wave on forever,
Ger land and on sea!
Death to the foe
Who dishonors thee
When our ships go out sailing
Upon the wide seas.
With the stars and stripes
Floating out on the breeze;
Let all nations honor
The flag of the free!
Death to the traitor
Who dishonors thee!
Ella Netting Hoagiand.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
A BOYS THOUGHT
OF LINCOLN

Some days in school when teacher says,
Jim, name tho Presidents
/ up and commence,
And say them ALL from Washington clear
through Buchanan, then
have to stop and clear my throat
always have to when
come to Abraham Lincoln's name,
Fen though the teacher whispers,
"Shame
Can't you renemh :, Jim?"
Can't I remember him?
Why h IS my hero! That is why
l get choked up and want to cryt
Once he was just as poor as I,
And homely too, and tall and shy.
But he was brave and made his place,
Climbed to the top and freed a race.
When l think what he dared to do,
just vow I'll do something too!
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20
God Bless Our Boys

God bless them-the soldiers going to the
front,
Our husbands. our sons, and our broth
erS,
To fight that right may triumph DER
might,
That the world may emerge from dark
ness to light:
And God bless the gallant young lovers.
How splendid they look as they march in
the ranks,
SO handsome, so stalwart,e so human;
We force back the tears and smother our
fears,
We try to look happy and join in their
But God knows the heart of a woman
Great lads these of ours SO willing to go
To face the foe that is strong;
So steady of nerve, SO anxious to serve
Their own glorious land. May they never
sWerve
From duty, or stoop to the wrong,
'Tis noble to die in a righteous cause.
Where the demons of battle rave:
But to live and to win 'gainst temptation
and sin,
To keep himself pure and spotless with
in,
Is a task alone for the brave.
May these valleys resound again to your
tread,
May liberty shine your hallowed brows
With e chaplet of glory, and may the
Divine
Protect you and bless you forever.
Ruth May Fox, Salt Lake. Utah.
(For Trench and Campo
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-20

The old army horse that had the let
ters "U. s." engraved on his aft star
board quarter for IL years had just died.
what killed the old war-horse?' in
quired a captain.
"Sir, he accidentally saw a squad of
Motor Mechanics drilling" explained
sergeant.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
THINKS OF MOTHER

When an American soldier goes
"over the top" or when he receives a
bullet or shrapnel wound he thinks of
his mother The French poilu thinks
Of his wife, and British Tommy. of his
sweetheart.
This fact is borne out by the Of
ficers and doctors who have served
in all three of the Allied armies
They declare that when the Ameri-
can soldier is wounded the first word
on his lips in almost every case is
Mother" Even after he is removed
to the hospital he calls constantly for
his mother. His British cousin, how
ever, seems chiefly absorbed in his
sweetheart, and longs to see her"
just once again, while his Franch
compatriot thinks only of his femme
bien aimee"
The correspondent of The Asso-
ciated Press at the American front
asked a number of soldiers what
thought was most on their minds
when they first left their trenches to
attack the Germans. In nine cases out
of ten the answer was, "Of home an
neither
There were few, however, who
said that as they entered the battle
their minds were given ever wholly
to prayer, although they had never
before been in the habit of praying.
Some of them kept before them words
of encouragement and counsel contain
ed in letters from relatives.
One soldier on the morning of the
attack received a letter from his
mother quoting the Scriptural phrase
Trust in the Lord and no enemy shall
prosper against the" The soldier
went throw one of the bloodiest bat
ties of the war that day and came out
unscathed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
ONE MORE HONOR FOR
WILSON in ITALY

Lucca. Italy, Oct. 1O.-An ancient
thoroughfare which for four hundred
years has encircled this city on top
of the Lucca wall has been officially
renamed as THE Boulevard Presiden-
to Wilson" in recognition of American
aid extended Italy in the war. The
bouvelard is so wide that u hourse
can be driven ARREST in it. The forti-
fication beneath it was built when
Lucca was the capital of the feudal
duchy and has been a famous relic
for centuries.
On the same day an Areican Red
Cross orphanage. also built on the
top Of the great Lucca wall. was dedi-
Gated The curious site was selected
for lack OF an available location in the
town The building is q cunning adap
tation of the Luccan style.-painted to
conform 10 The wall and set with an
Gent panels and Latin notices. !.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
SURGEONS TENDER CARE

War has not calloused or dulled
the sensibilities of the American army
surgeon. Nothing stands out finer or
nobler than the tender care and ear
nest solicitude with which American
military doctors handle their soldier
patients.
In tree-day trip through the Saint
Mihiel sector the correspondent of
The Associated Press had many op
portunities of observing tie worl, OF
the American medical men. lie visit
ed number Of field dressing stations
and also several hospitals just back
of the hattle-line through which hun
dreds of wounded Americans were
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

the time their wounds are dressed at
passing.
the advance casualty station. to the
time they arrive at the last base hos
Disabled American soldiers, from
pital receive the most sympathetic
and tender care at the hands of the
army doctors. They get better care
and more attentive treatment than
an average person would in peace
times. To render the soldier free from
pain to make him comfortable to
cheer his spirit, the American mills
tary DR.. will exhaust everey recouse
will sacrifice sleep and food and all
pesonal though Of himself.
Thousands Of instances occur every
day where army physicians so absor,
ed in their patients will keep night
after night an anxious and un-
broken vigil over the progress OF
their condition, and will rest only
when ordered to do so by superior
officer.
Resides the use of aneasthetics the
Yankee doctor, caring for his fight
ing comrade only as he would care
for brother, resorts to a hundred
other means of relieving the wounded
mans distress. In the actual battle
zone he has to act as physician and
nurse, for no women arc permitted in
he front lines. II is always impress
sive to see the gentle. cautious way
he places his patients in bed, the in.
finite pains he takes to cause them as
little suffering as possible when an.
plying or removing dressings, and
how kindly and reassuringly he
speaks to to them
The ambulance drivers and street
cher bearers spare no pains to see
that the sick and wounded in transit
from the front over broken French
roads suffer no hardship or discom-
fort
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
ORGAN. CRISP COUNTY.
A MOTHERS ELOQUENT SPEECH

-
At the thanksgiving service at the
Baptist church last Monday night, a
speech was made by a soldiers
mother that in sentiment, expression
and significance was subimely. The
speech in its entirety was this:
81 am glad that I'm an American
mother whose son has been willing
and anxious to do his part towards
winning this righteous war;
Analysis will disclose volume
compressed in that brief sentence,
just pride in American citizenship;
fixed faith in righteous cause; the
conviction that purpose is accom-
plished through human. agency; that
world disaster was averted by them,
who under God, chose rather to die
than surrender right principle; Love
ready for vicarious sacrifice. All this.
and more.
81 am glad that | am an American
mother who had son doing his bit
towards the winning of this war"
Many indeed are the mothers sons
who sleep where popies bloom on
Flanders Field; many are aching
voids in hearts thus sore bereft. But
better,-is it not so?-better the sleep
and better the void, than that those
sons had shirked the doing of their
bit, and thus cravenly surrendered
i'll their own souls. There are bitter
tears for the dust that shrouds their
heroic forms; there are Loves immor-
telles for their spirits that did not
quail when Duty called
am grad tnat I'm an American
mother whose son had a part in
winning this war" The American
Army of sons of mothers like that.
was the weapon in the hand of Jeho-
van that put rout to the most of the
enemy.
We have known again 'fle times
that try mems souls" No mothers. of
Spartan or other time have matched
the splendid character exemphfied in
this time of the greatest war in hui
man history. by the mothers of Amer
lea
Great is Pershing Foch. Haig
Clemencu." and others. But none is
so great as his mother Let each of
them reverently salute the memory
OF his superior.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
Management of the Georgia stat

Management of the Georgia state
fair this year has mistreated the news
papers outside of Macon. Since we
remember this, we are reminded that
this aggregation has enjoyed three
or four seasons of prosperity in the
management of state fairs. AS a re-
suit their very haughtiness leads
them to assume that all of Georgia
is in Macon. When their first hard
jolt comes, we will be ready to remind
them that Macon is in Georgia.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

According to official Red Cross in
formation from Switzerland hardly
more than $500 Americans became
prisoners of the Germans in the fight
ing up to November 1st. We are quite
sure the Americans felt that this was
-
$500 too many. Germans taken in that
time number more than 100000.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

Today the French come to their
own in Alsacae.Lorraine. 1t must be
great event for the people Of that
nation. |> 3.f.EHk
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

They tell us that our soldiers will
be engaged in holdingSthe mortgage
en- German and Austrian soil for
while, and will remain in Europe
Europe many months.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

Atlanta dopesters who have assert
ed that there is a move on foot to
bring whisky and beer back to Geor-
gia are innocent, to say the least of it
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

More pure white flour biscuit after
eighteen months Of rough fare.
Sounds every day more and more like
the war is over.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

Would you like to known just eX-
actly what has become of the crown
prince? Don't ask us.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

Communications on all topics pub
lished when not too long and accompa-
MED by full names and address. Not
responsible for views Of contributors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
Members Of Associated Press.

The Associated Tress is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
OF all news dispatches credited to 1t
or not otherwise credited In this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.