TRENCH AND CAMP - THE CAMP UPTON NEWSPAPER

DECEMBER 31ST

December 31, 1917

SCHOOL HERE SOON

TO MOLD N.A. MEN

INTO OFFICERS

Non-coms 'and Privates Will Go

Into Three Months' Training Course

Red, white and Blue hat cords will soon take their place among the insignia of camp, denoting members of the third Officers' Training School, which opens here Jan. 5, composed of 535 non-coms and privates and 237 men from Eastern colleges enlisted as Regular Army privates.

There has been great density of interest among applicants as to who would be chosen, the choice being made from 1.7 per cent of the division's enlisted personnel by a board composed of Col. William R. Smedberg, 305th Infantry; Lieut. Col. W. B. MCaskey, 152d Depot Brigade, and Lieut. Col. Charles r. Pettis, 302d Engineers. Merit has been the sole qualification for places in the school, eligible's being recommended by platoon leaders, passed to the company commanders, thence selections to the regimental commanders and then to the division commanders.

Probably a provisional battalion of three infantry companies and one battery of field artillery will be created from the 762 students in the school, which will be in command of Lieut. Col. McCaskey. There will be a staff of twenty-nine reserve officer instructors and one French instructor. All the serve officers have had experience at the Plattsburg and Fort Niagara Camps, and are splendidly prepared for their work. The candidates will be quartered in barracks in the J section.

The course of training is three months, and at the end of that time graduates will be recommended as eligible to Second Lieutenancies, but will be returned to their former rank in camp until vacancies arise in the division. the National Army men retain their present rank and pay during the school. The college men classed as Regular Army privates receive $33 per month. These men come from Harvard, New York Military Academy, Cornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Connecticut Agricultural College and Massachusetts State College of Agriculture.

Give Him a Try-Out, Lieut!

One of the men in Casual Barracks, corner 15th Street and Third Avenue, asked to be assigned the other day to the Medical Corps. His Lieutenant asked him what his qualifications were.' He answered that he was a butcher by profession.

BEST IN MUSIC IS

APPRECIATED HERE

Philharmonic, With 17-Star Service

Flag, Also Cheered for

Americanism.

That the men of Camp Upton appreciate the finest in music has again been demonstrated, this time by the reception accorded the New York Philharmonic Society, under the leadership of Josef Stransky. The Y.M.C.A. Auditorium was filled for the concert and a big cheer was given for the society when it was announced that every one of the ninety members of the great orchestra on the platform is an American citizen, that all belonged to the Red Cross and that they were giving the concert free as a bit of patriotic service. A service flag with seventeen stars hung from the rear of the stage, showing that number of men from the society, the oldest musical organization in America, in the service of their country.

The programmed numbers were enthusiastically received, especially the four movements of Dvorak's New World Symphony, written for the Philharmonic by Dvorak to express the spirit of America and incorporating negro and Indian melodies. three cheers were given for the orchestra at the close of the programmed, which included "The Star Spangled Banner." "The Swan of Tuonela" (Sibelius), "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Dukas). Noeturna for violoncello and harp, Leo Schulz, violoncellist, and Alfred Kastner, harpist (Chopin), and Victor Herbert's "American Fantasy."

GOVERNOR, IN LETTER, INDORSES

"THE SOLDIERS' OWN PAPER"

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Is "a Patriotic and Practical

Activity," Says New York's Head

Above is a New Year's greeting to the officers and men of Camp Upton from Gov. Whitman, who feels on the eve of the New Year the heroic responsibilities which rest in the hands of men of this State in the Seventy-Seventh Division.

The fact that Trench and Camp is peculiarly a soldier's paper is recognized by the Governor, the text of whose letter follows:

"I am greatly interested to learn that the national War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Association is issuing weekly a Camp Upton edition of Trench and Camp, a patriotic and practical activity which has my hearty endorsement.

"Such a paper must prove of the greatest interest and comfort not only to our soldiers in the field but to their families at home, and as Governor of this State I am glad to avail myself of the opportunity, through the medium of "The Soldiers' Own Paper," to send to the officers and men of Camp Upton my cordial greeting for the New Year.

"I share in the pride which must be felt by every patriotic citizen of this great State in the noble response of our gallant manhood to their country's call, and I know that whatever the coming year may bring forth in suffering and hardship, there will be no faltering no indecision - in the high duty they are called upon to perform.

"CHARLES WHITMAN"

"INNER CIRCLE"

SIGNIFICANT OF

A BROAD SPIRIT

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All Religious Agencies Here

Cooperate, by Distinctive

Plan

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Visitors to camp who have visited other of the National Army cantonments remark upon the remarkably fine and liberal spirit of co-operation which exists among the various agencies working here, especially for the conservation and advancement of religious activity and interest. One of the strongest tangible proofs of this is the distinctive plan adopted here by religious workers for the maintenance of the high moral tone. No other camp uses the plan, which is an Upton one, conceived and executed. "The Inner Circle" is the name under which the work is carried on, and cards are used which bear the insignia of the three agencies working together - the Jewish Board of Welfare Work, the Knights of Columbus and Y.M.C.A.

Signers are secured in each barracks who constitute the Inner Circle, and it is upon them that much of the responsibility for moral conservation rests. they sign the following obligation: "Having answered my country's call and recognizing that an obligation rests upon me as a member of the National Army to be a strong and efficient soldier, and realizing the need of help in meeting this obligation. I do hereby pledge myself to cooperate with other like-minded men by forming in my barracks an Inner Circle which will promote the following: 1 - Clean thought. 2 - Clean speech. 3 - Clean living, and 4 - character building. Character is formed through prayer, Bible study, attendance on divine worship and service for other men."

Bishop Brings

Message From

Gen. Pershing

Must Get Spirit of Determination

Into War, Says Divine.

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That America can win the War, must win the War and will win the War was the message brought Upton soldiers from Gen. Pershing recently. the bearer was the Rev. Bishop Luther B. Wilson, General Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New York, who was six months in France and Italy observing conditions. Before leaving for America the Bishop had a conference with the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, and asked Gen. Pershing what message he sent the American people and the young men in training.

"Tell them." said Gen. Pershing, "that it is the rankest sedition to say that Germany will win this War. America can win the War, America must win the War, and America will win the War."

"They shall Not Pass!"

In his three addresses here, Bishop Wilson said that his country must get the same determination which stiffened the living wall of French at Verdun, when the immortal sentence went through the defenders, "They shall not pass!" He deplored the presence of those in this fend who sympathize, professing loyalty to the Stars and Stripes, with Germany and its programmed, and suggested that they be sent to a place where there will be meatless, wheat less, sweetness, heatless and, occasionally, earless days. "There will be no treating for peace with the present heads of Germany," said the divine. "That power must be crushed, with absolute finality."

The noted cleric delivered two of his messages to the men of the 305th Infantry, being a guest of Mr. Young and Mr. Malmberg of the Fifth Avenue and First Street Y.M.C.A. His third address was to men of the 307th and 308th Infantry Regiments in the hut at Fifth and Eight.

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COLORED SOLDIERS TO

SING IN NEW YORK

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1,000 Buffalo Warblers, Under

Max Weinstein, Will

Be Heard.

One thousand men of the 367th Infantry (colored), the Buffalo regiment, are practicing zealously under the direction of Max Weinstein, official regimental song director, for a musical affair in New York, which promises to take a unique place among soldier entertainments.

It is to be a concert in Manhattan Opera House, New York, Sunday, Jan. 20th, featuring the great chorus of negro soldier voices. Weinstein secured marvelous effects from the throats of these song-birds. some of the pipe organ harmonies and nuances rising into the heights of real musician. Col. Moss is enthusiastically backing the New York appearance, and it will be an opportunity to hear music of a rarer sort only infrequently accorded even in the neighbor village.

The 367th continue in the entertainment field with honors, one of their most recent being an evening in K. of C. Auditorium, when a programmed of regimental talent was given. Among the performers were the following singers, dancers and monologists: Private Williams, Company A; Sergt. Bowman, Company A; Private Fells, Company A, Private Simmeljkaer, Headquarters Company; Private Blackwell and Private Robsinon, Company A; Sergt. Battle, Headquarters Company; Private Hacketts, Company A.

THEY WANT TO KNOW

All your family - grandmother to little sister - are eager for every scrap of information they can get about your life in camp. Trench and Camp is full of items concerning your military life. Send this paper home.

PUZZLE - FIND THE SOLDIER

WHO DID NOT GET

A LETTER

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Here is another drawing from the pen of Frank Hines, a member of the 122d Field Artillery Band at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, who won the wrist watch in the cartoon contest recently conducted by Trench and Camp. Like his prize-winning drawing, the above cartoon doubtless will appeal to all soldiers because of its human touch.

In his letter acknowledging receipt of the wrist watch awarded him, Bandsman Hines said:

"The watch is a beauty, and needless to say, I am more than proud of it, not only for this reason, perhaps, but also because it is in a way a trophy and one I hardly hoped to get. I fear very much that if Mr. Ray McGill, at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill., had been more prompt in submitting his work I would have been rated among the "also rans,' but fate was kind.

"That Trench and Camp has been, so far, successful in its mission to inform, stimulate, entertain and amuse the soldiers, I am sure, for it is decidedly popular among the boys here, many of whom send it home."

All Officers Must Be Able To

Stand " Prolonged Hardships"

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"Capacity to perform a highly specialized and arduous type of service" is the test by which the fitness of general officers of the army for services "Over There" is to be judged.

Physical examinations have already proved the unfitness of a number of high officers in the Regular Army and National Guard to stand the rigorous service in France. Announcement has been made that these officers and others who cannot pass the examination will be utilized in training troops in camps and cantonments in the United States.

Following is Secretary Baker's statement regarding the physical examination before being detailed for service overseas:

"All general officers of the Regular Army and the National Guard are being examined by medical boards and efficiency boards with a view of determining the advisability of sending them for service abroad. The conditions of foreign service in this war are unusually severe, requiring that general officers shall be not only adequately grounded in military science and adequately alert physically to acquire rapidly the lessons which the new form of warfare require, but able to endure prolonged hardships.

"The determination of these boards are impersonal and in the interest of the success of our armies and the welfare both of leaders and men, and will be affirmed by the War Department. This policy will no doubt commend itself to the people of the country as being in the public interest, and even where it is necessary to delay the opportunity for foreign service to soldiers of long experience it will be understood to imply nothing in any way prejudicial to the officers involved.

"Boards of this kind have already found some of the general officers of both the Regular Army and the National Guard physically unfit. Such finding does not in any way reflect upon the past services of the officer or upon his present zeal and willingness to make personal sacrifices in the further service of his country, but the question to be determined is one of capacity to perform a highly specialized and arduous type of service."

Bill would Permit

Americans To Accept Foreign Decorations

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Among the first bills introduced at the present session of Congress was a measure by Congressman Linthicum, of Maryland, "To permit any soldier, sailor, marine or other person engaged in the service of the United Stated in the prosecution of said War."

Passage of this bill, which seems practically assured, would permit the wearing of War crosses recently bestowed upon twelve American officers and enlisted men by the French government and the acceptance of similar decorations by the families of Corporal James d. Gresham and Privates Merie D. Hay and Thomas F. Enright, the first United States soldiers to die in battle "Over There." The fifteen War crosses were informed that they could not wear them until authority was granted by Congress.

The Linthicum bill would permit the acceptance of decorations from Great Britain and Italy as well as France, and also provides that diplomats be allowed to receive decorations.

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WILHELM'S LAST WILL

APPEARS AS SOUVENIR

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One of the latest souvenirs of the War to make its appearance in various cities throughout the country is an official-looking document bearing a big red stamp and entitled "The Last Will and Testament of the Kalser,". The wording of the will is as follows:

"This is the last will and testament of me, Wilhelm, the super swanker and ruler of the sausage-eaters, recognizing that I am fairly up against it, and expecting to meet with a violent death at any minute at the hands of brave Sammies, hereby make my last will and testament.

"I appoint the Emperor of Austria to be my sole executor (by kind permission of the Allies).

"1 - I give and bequeath to France the territories of Alsace and Lorraine (as this is only a case of returning stolen property, I don't deserve any credit for it, and am not likely to get it either).

"2 - To Serbia I give Austria.

"3 - To Russia I give Turkey.

"4 - To Belgium I should like to give all the thick ears, black eyes, and broken noses that she presented me with when I politely trespassed on her territory.

"5 - To your Uncle Sam I give all my dreadnaughts, submarines, trope do-boat destroyers and fleet of Frunkers generally, what's left of them. He's bound to have the, in the end, so this is only anticipating events.

"6 - To John Bull I give what's left of my army, as his General Haig seems so hand at turning my men into sausage meat.

"7 - To the college of Science and Museum I leave my famous mustache as a souvenir of the greatest swanker in this or any other age.

"8 - To Mrs. Pankhurst and the wild women I leave my mailed fist; they'll find it useful, no doubt, when they resume their militant tactics.

"9 - To Sir Ernest Shackleton I leave the pole I've been up for so long that I regard it as my own property.

"(Signed) H.I.M.Wilhelm,

"Lord of the Land, Sea and Air,

"Not forgetting the Sausages and Lager Beer."

FRENCH CONFIDENT SAMMIES

WILL END WAR NEXT SPRING

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"When the American forces start their drive next spring the Germans will melt away like butter before a hot fire."

This is the expression heard throughout France today and brought to this country by Americans returning from Europe. These travelers declare that an entirely new spirit has come over France since the American soldiers arrived "Over There." The French soldiers have been

greatly encouraged and stimulated by the sight of the boys in Khaki and are confident that the more American soldiers sent to France the nearer draws the end of the War.

Shortly after his arrival at an Atlantic port Robert Davis, who has spent several months in Europe working for the Red Cross, said:

"Everything is all right with the American troops this winter. General Pershing told me that unless something unforeseen happens he does not expect American troops to get into action generally until winder breaks. He said we must buck up the French because they are holding the line until our baby army is schooled."

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SHORT STORIES

SAVE THE CANS

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In each of the camps and cantonments throughout the United States an officer has been appointed to direct the saving of all tins cans. Similar work has been taken by civilian committees in various cities. The object of the can saving is to conserve the tin supply of country.

IDENTIFYING THE NOISE

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Harry (just "out") - Listen, Bill! Sounds like Ole Fritz comin' over in the mud- Squish squash, squish squash.

Bill - that's Orl right - that's only the Americans further up a 'chewin' their gum rations. -

LONDON OPINION.

ITALIANS BATTLE HUNS

WHERE ATTILA WAS HALTED

FIFTEEN CENTURIES AGO

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Italy's struggle to save Venice developed one of the strangest phases of War ever known in the history of the world. It is neither land warfare nor water warfare, but a combination of both and is referred to by correspondents as "half aquatic, water-and-land conflict."

Fifteen centuries ago Atilla and his original Huns reached exactly the same spot between the Piave and the Sile rivers that the modern Teutonic Huns have reached today. Fifteen hundred years ago the original inhabitants of the section fled from the mainland and on to the gulfs and flats of the lagoons founded the island colonies which eventually became Venice. Over the same intervening canals, marshes, lagoons and lakes by which Atilla and his Huns were checked, the Italians today are checking the modern-day Huns.

302D - ENGINEERS.

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Dr. Trexler has been transferred. He now is chaplain for the Base Hospital. His cheery ways will comfort many there. Don't forget us, Doctor' we won't forget you!

The design and construction of the Community hall has been placed in the hands of the engineers. Any other odd jobs, or hard ones! Send them along to us and we will finish them. Essayons!

The Chief of Engineers at Washington took occasion to compliment Company E on their fine knot and lashing board, photograph of which had been sent him. Hats off to Privates Cole, Lehman and Foley, who superintended the making of the board.

And while on the subject of compliments, Ye Scribe wishes to call attention to the remarks made on the record of Coral. Bromberger of Company B. he has received a very high compliment from one of the ranking officers of the division for gallant and courteous conduct. One can never tell when actions are being watched. Let his action be typical of engineer courtesy.

The lecture by Capt. Trounce, Engineer Reserve Corps (late of the Royal Engineers) at the Auditorium was enjoyed by all. His account of the doings of the Royal Engineers was very apropos. As a result, we are going to do some mining and tunneling. here will be a good chance for the companies to distinguish themselves. Who will finish the first dugout? And who the best one?

The relief map being made by the artificers of Company E is well worth seeing. It illustrates the terrain of an areas about one mile square, and shows all the accessories of modern warfare. Go and see it and do likewise!

The frozen ground has delayed the completion of our landscape improvement, but you can bet we will win that $100 prize for the best kept grounds; also any other prizes that are offered.

The men here Christmas didn't lack. At a Christmas party in Company F barrack, every one of the 130 men received a box, with candy, smokes and other articles. Dr. Manning received 130 pairs of very fine gloves from New York, which were included in the gifts.

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FROM THE HILL TOWER

CAMP UPTON

Private C.a. Brightside is of the opinion that the fellows who got New Year's leave were vastly better favored than the brethren who passed Christmas at home. They only got four days. We New Year's ginks get home for two year's

OFFICIAL STUFF

Where do we go from here, boys? Ah, yes, where do we! The observer from the Hill Tower perceives a ray of light illuminating this question sending its beams from any barracks.

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Says Lance Corporal Helmiderkiser: "One of the Post Office boys told the fellow who wears my other shirt when he goes to town that the General's mail was five ounces heavier yesterday. He thinks that means we leave within forty-eight hours to besiege Hoboken."

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Chief Beanzunash figures that his outfit will be packing up for Porto Rico soon. "Not so much sugar in the mess as there used to be. That must mean we're going to beat it for where there's more. Probably Porto Rico."

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December 31, 1917

"We'll be here at least a year," disagrees Orderly Orsumthing. "Didn't the Sergeant tell a fellow the other day that it'd be a year before he could shoot at a German if it took him as long to load a gun as it did to learn how to carry it?"

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Private Supeladel overheard a pair of lieutenants talking. "No," said one, "I don't think I'll new my subscription to the Poetry Review. I report in Pvt. S.'s company spread like jam for breakfast that "We're going South pretty soon- probably at once. heard two brigade generals talking and they said we'd leave within a week."

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Of course it may not mean anything, but Sergt. Sacks is in the Bakery Department and has considerable to do with Flour.

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One of the many little advantages of being a soldier at Christmas is that the Aunt Who Gave the Pale Flowered Neckwear is no longer terrible. But speaking of useful gifts for soldiers, how's this for a prize package: Tow pair garters, two neckties, one red and one green; one copy of Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well," a blue silk muffler?

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The guard had challenged three times. The challenge was a "non-English speaking" person and the only American language he had was What he'd picked up under Private Masterbrand's classes. The click of the guard's gun spelled business. The challenge gapingly realized that he'd better say something, so from the book he rehearsed, slowly: "Sergeant, dismiss the company."

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Now that the discussion is on the matter of leaves, we venture to wonder if the Kaiser will turn over a new one.

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Some sort of decoration is due Private Nauheim, Company A, 308th. He likes fire guard duty in the Hill Tower. That's not why he should be given a war cross, but the reason for liking it ought to qualify him. He likes it, gently reader, because form thence he can see the Camp Upton sunsets. Now while the class in esthetics is reciting, how many have deliberately and cold-bloodedly watch a sunset from here? Let there be a show of hands!

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"How do you wish your hair trimmed, sir?" murmured the barber to his Soldier Prey.

"Over the top," came the reply, just like that.

CULLED FROM OTHER CAMPS

FOR UPTON MEN

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There may be a munitions shortage and all that, but nevertheless the boys of Camp Kearny, Linda vista, Cal., are having valuable preliminary experience with powder. "Battle With Powder" is the caption of a little story in the Camp Kearny Trench and Camp, and, reading on, the intelligence is gleaned that a score or more members of the 160th Infantry engaged in a battle royal with - talcum powder! Several cans were used and the stench of battle was terrific. Then, as an indication of the love of these Kearny fighters for powder, another item in the same paper tells of the theft of a powder puff from Miss Katherine Stinson, an aviatrix, by one of the 40th Division men. Some ambitious youth in the Ordnance Department, no doubt.

While the chaplain of a Camp Beau-regard (La.) regiment was conducting service, some disturbing talk went on in the vicinity of the meeting. the padre happened to be praying and a devout worshipper rebuked the disturbers in old-fashioned theological language thus: "Shut up there, you damned heathens, don't you see he's praying?"

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Uptonites, ducking their heads under Long Island nor'westers, may be interested to hear that their comrades-in-arms encamped at Palo Alto, Cal. (Camp Fremont), are in the midst of a camp "world series" of baseball. The account says that "these warm days (business of brushing perspiration from the brow) see the diamonds filled morning and afternoon." Orderly, pass the Iced Tea!

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Some one at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan, wants Private Brodie's address. We wonder if it's the immortal Steve who's being sought for data concerning the taking of another chance.

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One man in twenty in Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, got a Christmas Leave. the imagination finds it hard to picture what happened when the other nineteen greeted him after the vacation.

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Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas, is to have an Aviation Examining Board for men aspiring to soar higher in the service.

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"Pockets were not made for men's hands," is the comment on the lax habit of thrusting the latter in the former, by Major Gen. Bell, commanding Camp Logan, Houston, Texas. he issues an order that this habit, carelessness in dress, saluting with a cigarette or cigar in the hand, and other evidences of faulty soldier breeding, must cease.

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Farmers in the vicinity of Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia, demonstrated a real warmth of patriotism by hauling seventy-five wagonloads of cord-wood into camp for the use of the soldiers.

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RECRUITS FROM SLOCUM.

Over a thousand of the enlisted men who found Fort Slocum without hotel accommodations and slept in New Rochelle churches and clubs have come under the Seventy-Seventh Division's hospitable roof, and from the remarks they have a high opinion of Gen. Johnson's treatment. They came with the proverbial "two thin blankets," but were supplied with more protection against Long Island's rigors, and in their Depot Brigade quarters have been making themselves quite at home. They compose' part of the great flow of men who enlisted before Dec. 15th.

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FIRE DRILLS TESTED

The first fire alarm has proved the wisdom of the strict fire drills which have been practiced here, and the damage done was kept to less than $1,000 as a result. A blaze started in the basement of the 304th Field Artillery Dispensary, when no one was in the building, but some of the heavy gunmen returning from a hike discovered it, formed a hose line and bucket brigade, and by the time the Fire Department arrived the would-be conflagration was done for.

JAZZERS PROVE THEY'RE INDEPENDENT

OF L.I.R.R.

The famous Jazz Band of the Q. M.C. was smashed all up on Sunday last by the absence on leave of two of its most prominent members, the Harmonica and Jew sharp manipulators, Privates Alfred Lawrence and Julian Hankins. Of course, there is nothing remarkable in the fact that they were away. herein lies the story: for a lark (More or less) these two musicians decided to practice marching by saving carfare to New York through the simple expedient of walking it! It can be reported that the energetic hikers reached the big town in just nine hours. They were given lifts in eight different automobiles, walked thirty miles, and had a beautiful time the whole way.

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With the Humorists

Among the proud boasts of the Machine Gun Company, 307th Infantry, which include military efficiency, accurate marksmanship and esprit de corps, is Herman Cohen, the Yodeling Yit of Yaphank, who is known from the wilds of the Bronx away down to Battery Park, from one end of Camp Upton to the other.

Every organization has its funny man; every outfit has one or more characters who, in some way or the other, serve to liven things up and make the time fly faster; but the machine gunners are ready to maintain that no disciple of wit and humor in the division so deservedly enjoys such popularity as the Yodeling Yit.

He is a truly funny man. His stuff is good. There is nothing half-way about it. His gulps and jokes are as effective against the blues as a forty-two centimeter gun against a sandpile. There is no strained attempt to be funny. He is just naturally humorous. His presence on a disagreeable detail is enough to make the job not only easy but pleasant - and that's the reason why the Machine Gunner swear by him. he makes them laugh. and anyone who can make people laugh is better than a philanthropist.

And some jay-not far distant, perhaps - the Machine Gunners of the 307th Infantry will go into action with smiles on their faces, produced by some remark or joke from the Yodeling Yit, and then woe betide the botches!

TAPS AND REVEILLE

MEET IN MILITARY

BALL OF BUFFALOES

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367TH Infantry Welfare League

Sponsors Affair in

New York.

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If there was a in ember of the 367th Infantry by any misfortune or hard fate wrought by military necessity left at Camp Upton Dec 31, he was some mournful Buffalo. For at 9 o'clock on that evening, the threshold of a new year, the Buffalo hand men, inspired by the able baton of Egbert E. Johnson, erstwhile leader of musicians in the British Navy, struck up a grand march that will always be memorable. The scene was the 71st Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Park Avenue, New York. Hundreds of friends, with their erect, stalwart military escorts, furbished and accoutered as becomes the perfect soldier man, gathered for this grand military ball and army New Year's Eve ceremony. It was given by the 367h Infantry Welfare League. Col. Moss and other regimental officers, officers of the Welfare League, of which Theodore Roosevelt is Honorary President, were honor guests and the patroness lie contained many prominent names.

The sounding of "taps" and "reveille" were features of the evening, which was replete with interesting ones. The following explanation of these two calls and their bearing on the part was given in the programme:

"At military funerals "taps" is always sounded just before the coffin is lowered into the grave. This practice involves a deeply felt sentiment - ' rest in peace. In the daily life of the soldier the sounding of "taps." at 11 o'clock P.M., signifying lights out, announces the end of the day, implying that the cares and labors of the soldier are ended for that day. So does the sounding of "taps" at his funeral signify the end of his day, the "lights out" of his life, his 'rest in peace'.

"Reveille" is the first call that is sounded in the daily life of the soldier announcing, as it does, the dawn, the beginning of another day.

"So it is that with "taps" and "reveille" possessing the significance they do, meaning what they do to the soldier, it is an old army custom to sound, with all lights extinguished, the "taps" of the old year as the clock is striking 12 the night of Dec. 31st, after the last stroke of which, mid light, music and song, the "reveille" of the New Year is sounded."

REGIMENTAL BUFFALO.

The first issue of the Regimental Buffalo, the paper which will be issued for the men of the 367th Infantry (colored) will be ready for distribution soon. Capt. B.F. Norris, Headquarters Company, is editor in chief of the venture, with Col. Moss in general supervision, and talented members of the outfit contributing drawings, news, poems and quips.

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THE UNBREAKABLE LINE

One of the higher commanders of the French Army now on duty in America recently prepared a memorandum for the French Institute of the United States , in which he pointed out that Germany would make her supreme effort to win the war before June 1, 1918. Already the German divisions that have been set free on the Russian front have been hurled against the northern borders of Italy. France and England and America are calmly waiting the advent of new divisions for fighting in the Champagne district, in front of Verdun, or anywhere else the Germans may choose along the line of trenches from the mountains of Switzerland to the North Sea.

We speak of trenches and we have in mind one narrow trench three or four feet wide and five feet deep, but how many of us stop to think that trench, and then another trench, and then another, until the whole system from where the first front line trenches face each other all the way back to the rear line covers a distance of more than fifty miles? It is this network of trenches; it is this long and carefully prepared system of defense backed by the artillery of France and that of her allies that has made France so sure that Germany would not pass that way.

As the attack on Paris failed in 1914, as the great drive at Verdun has since failed in spite of the hundreds of thousands that the Crown Prince lost, so this new drive against the integrity of France and the success of the Allied cause will also fail.

But one thing this French commander did not emphasize. He spoke of the fact that America would be there to help, and she will; he spoke of the fact that the French artillery and the British artillery were now able to dominate the German gunfire as they had never been able to do before in all their experience, and he commented with evident satisfaction upon the fact that Germany had been forced to go back to the old method of mass formation which, though it gives more courage to the men who are marching, exposes the whole body to a degree of destruction from gunfire that is not possible where men attack in open order.

These are some of the conditions which make the Allies' line seem unbreakable, but there is one fact that surpasses them all. It is the spirit of the American soldier. These men do not have to be herded along like cattle by their second lieutenants; they did not cross the ocean in pursuit of loot or lust; they have not been fed for a generation on hatred, nor is their national industry founded on war. they are come to face death because they wish that life may be preserved for themselves, their fathers, their mothers and their children. They have made war that they might insure peace. They have brought suffering that they might do away with sorrow. They are fired by the highest ideal that animates the heart of man, and that ideal is the unbreakable trench which no German Soldier can ever take, and no German shell ever demolish. The Prussian barbarians have sacked Louvain; they have shot to pieces the great Cathedral of Rheims; they have laid waste the fairest portions of France, but they have not broken the spirit of France, and they will never scale the citadel of the soul of America!

That is the contribution that America will make. All its guns and all its men are only the outward symbol of the spirit which these men exemplify by their lives and by their labors.

The way may be long, but the end is certain; the cost may be great, but the victory is secure. Already in Germany there are those who see the handwriting on the wall. Perhaps even the Kaiser has seen it; if not, the time will come when he will look back and know that when America came into the war he met the insurmountable force of the American spirit. And that day the war for Germany was lost!

CARRYING THE BOYS "OVER

THERE"

"There is," said Napoleon, "no such thing as certainty in war."

That maxim applies today as surely as it did at Austerlitz, at Jena and at Waterloo. There is no certainty as to the effect of artillery-fire, perfected though it seems to have been. There is no certainty as to the resistance of the enemy, tried though he has been by three years of fighting. There is no certainty as to the future of the submarine, combated though it is by most accurate science and the most creaseless vigilance of the allies.

This was why Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, in announcing the arrival of the first American troops in France, felt it necessary to warn the people that some of our transports would inevitably be lost before all the boys had been landed "Over There." If nothing else operated, the mere laws of probability and chance would make it almost certain that some of our transports would founder and sink. There is no use concealing the probability.

But this we can write down with assurance and with pride: Thanks to the efforts of the allied navies, not one of the tens of thousands who have left American ports for foreign service since last April has yet lost his life at sea en route to England or France. Dangers there have been as a matter of course, and close escapes; but of deaths, not one in all the army.

How this record has thus far been attained it is neither prudent nor patriotic to explain in detail. The less the enemy knows about our defensive methods, the less capable he will be of combating them. But the censorship has permitted the publication of a few facts from which readers of Trench and Camp may draw conclusions.

Reports have come, from time to time, of submarines operating 300, 400 and sometimes as much as 500 miles from the shores of France and Ireland, but actual experience has demonstrated that the undersea boats seldom venture more than 200 miles from shore. it is within this distance - the last day's run - that the danger is most acute. Consequently, as our transports approach the edge of this zone, preparations are made for defense and the size of the convoy is greatly increased. The guns are manned, the boats are swung out on their davits and the men put on life-belts. Fore and aft, the gun-crews stand ready to fire on an instant's warning, while the officers and the lookout scan the horizon.

Chief reliance, however, is placed upon the destroyers and the submarine chasers. These move around the transports in a cordon and at a speed more than twice that of the transports. If a submarine is sighted, the destroyer is under orders to open fire and run it down, where practicable. If a "chaser" or a destroyer sights the wake of a torpedo, the navigator must, if possible, put his boat between the torpedo and the transport. Dangerous work, that, with the assurance of a certain dearth if the torpedo strikes the chaser! But the men on those fast flying craft face it with a cold courage and a quick decision that are an honor to America.

Taking all the troop0movements at sea since the outbreak of hostilities, some statistician has computed that the chances of death on a transport are only about 1.5 times what they would be on ocean-liners during times of peace. If the comparative losses on transports during three years of war be reckoned against the losses at sea during the three years immediately preceding the war, the chances of death are even less than 1.5 to 1. That is consoling to the fighting-man who wants at least, to die with Mother Earth beneath him. But if those chances were ten times as great as they are, there is scarcely a man in any of the thirty-two camps that would hesitate a moment. that is the spirit of America and that is the spirit which is to win the WAR!

CANTONMENT TYPES

THE AUTHORITY

At every mess his voice is heard. it rises from every tent and barrack group, and thunders forth edicts, pronunciamentoes, last-words and final opinions.

The Authority has a grim set of jaw and the light of inside information in his eye. He Knows It All - or If Not All, Practically Everything of Any Account.

Perhaps that question if before the house which All Men Everywhere discuss: How Long Will The War Last? The Authority doesn't guess when the conflict will end. He knows. He proves by arithmetic, calculus, theology and astronomy that it will be over in three years, five months and fifteen days. His opinion amounts to a Fiat. Let The Powers heed, is the way one feels after The Authority has seen fit to Speak.

His pronouncements on other matters, be they smoking tobacco, rifles, philosophy, religion or army hash, are Final - five -Star Complete, as the newspaper language has it. If his mates are hanging breathless on the Latest Rumor, The Authority pushes aside the bringer of the alleged tidings and lays before the house contrary information forty seconds later than the latest.

It is impossible to argue with The Authority. Like trying to contravene General Orders with poetry, or put off reveille with logic, is any attempt to gainsay him.

Toleration is the most bitter treatment. Indulgence, such as one accords a mildly insane person, is the best medicine for this chap who is in every camp and cantonment. He can't help it. Perhaps his nurse dropped him on a concrete sidewalk when he was too young to prove authoritative over that point in knowledge is to know how little is known, or can be. Then, he will be humble, and no longer The Authority.

THE FIRST THIRTY-SIX HOURS

ON SHORE "OVER THERE"

By CHAUNCEY P. HULBERT

Somewhere In France

"Heaven help the Germans if they ever get in front of that bunch."

There was good reason for this remark. Across an open field came charging 1,400 khaki-clad men as fast as they could sprint.

"Like a herd of buffaloes," remarked another observer.

At the end of a minute's run the 1,400 men jumped a shallow six-foot trench and went flying back again. If the dust had not been so muddy it would have filled the air.

This took place at one of the great French ports during the first afternoon the men landed from America. it was called an inter-regimental field day and somewhat over 4,000 American soldiers participated in it inside of two hours. The events included a company run of 200 years, the trench jump and "Company Soccer." Every man took an active part and the winning company was announced amid cheers. This is one example of what the Red Triangle is doing with "Mass Athletics."

During the morning on which the soldiers arrived on the transports three members of the athletic and recreation department of the Y.M.C.A. delivered nine lectures before all the officers and men of the convoy on "social Morality" and "Mass Athletics." The filled day of the afternoon was a practical experiment along the latter line, being conducted by six "Y" secretaries without preliminary plan or special equipment. Every man got strenuous exercise and plenty of it and spent the evening writing home about "Some Track Meet."

The next morning the same Red Triangle speakers, Dr. John McCurdy, Dr. John Coulter and Dr. James Naismith, addressed other groups of men drawn up by regiments on similar topics. It is significant that the activities of the arriving troops for their first thirty-six hours ashore were put entirely in the hands of the Y.M.C.A. The favorable comment of both officers and men attested the success of the undertaking.

In the trench jump the men wore their full uniforms and carried their rifles and looked for all the world like they were actually going over the top. Following the trench jump they were actually going over the top. Following the trench jump they were marched back to the starting point and a few moments later dashed off the 220 yards in record breaking time. In the company soccer game four balls were used and the officials included four referees, two umpires, four scorers and two time-keepers.

THE RED TRIANGLE

(An appeal in behalf of Y.M.C.A. War Work)

Lift up the Red Triangle

Beside the thundering guns-

A friend, a shield, a solace

To our ten million sons!

Go build a hut or dugout

By billet or by trench-

A shelter from the horror,

The cold, the filth, the stench!

Where boys we love, returning,

from out the gory loam

Can sight the Red Triangle

And find a bit of home!

Lift up the Red Triangle

Against the things that maim

It conquers Booze, the wrecker!

It shuts the house of shame!

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Go make a friendly corner,

So lads can take the pen

And get in touch with mother

And God's clean things again!

Where Hell's destroying forces

Are leagued with Potsdam's crew,

Lift up the Red Triangle-

And help our boys "COME THROUGH"!

SIX NEW MAJOR - GENERALS

THE FOLLOWING BRIGADIER-GENERALS HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO BE MAJOR-GENERALS:

George H. Cameron, Andre w. Brewster, Charles C. Ballou, George W. Reed, Charles H. Muir and Charles T. Menoher.

These colonels were made brigadier-generals:

Malvern-Hill Barnum, William H. Hay and James McI. Carter.

Col. Alexander L. Dade was made brigadier-general of the Signal Corps.

SOLDIERS SEND GIFTS

It was not a case of all take and no give with the American soldiers in France on Christmas Day. The khaki-clad boys "Over There" sent back more than 10,000 sacks of Christmas presents to their relatives and friends. The gifts included hundreds of foreign novelties and souvenirs of the war and will be most highly treasured by the recipients.

SOLDIERS GRADUALLY COMING UNDER SPELL OF THAT

INEFFABLE FEMININE TOUCH IN HOSTESS HOUSES

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Mrs. George Pirnie, With Three Sons in Service. finding That

"Camp Mother" Mantle Falls

Upon Her.

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Outside Mud, wind, rain, damp, bluster. Inside-Warmth, subdued lights, comfortable wicker chairs in which soldiers are resting comfortably, Yutetide decorations with the ineffable touch that denotes a women's artistry, blazing fire in the huge stone fireplace, Christmas carols, a queenly, sweet-faced woman acting as mother-host.

Such was the contrast offered by the Hostess House at Christmas. and such a contrast is afforded at all times by this haven, where men find the quieting, restful, toning-up balm that is brought into life wherever women are. It was sight never to be forgotten in the great room of the house Christmas Eve and Saturday night before. Men of all races and creeds singing together the time-hallowed Christmas carols, and Mrs. Pirnie, with the three-star service shield mothering "Her Boys"

She is one reason why the men of Camp Upton have gradually fallen into the habit of drifting into the Young Women's Christian Association establishment. the mother of four sons, three of them in service, this Springfield, mass., Woman has a heart open for all the men in camp, and they find her a ready, sympathetic friend and a wonderful counselor. She is the hostess of the house, at Fourth Avenue in-the-Fields, Capt. Malcolm Pirnie, somewhere in Russia": Lieut. Bruce

Pirnie, Fort Douglas, Salt lake City, and Second Lieut. Roderick Pirnie, Camp Dix, are her three flesh-and-blood contributions to the war for liberty. Gradually she

is finding the honor of Camp Mother inevitably falling upon her shoulders.

The Hostess Houses have as their avowed function the entertaining of women visitors to camp, and they fill that place to such an extent that Upton would be a dreary place indeed if they were removed suddenly. But one by one the soldiers have found out that a visit during the week makes them better men. At first they came from neighboring outfits, the 302d Sanitary Train, the Engineers and the 302d Supply Train. But the fame has gone abroad. Now there are men there every night from the four corners of camp, from the Depot Brigade, the 305th Infantry, the 306th infantry. And they keep increasing in numbers. A real light can't be kept under a bushel. or even in the middle of a muddy, stump-littered field.

IN WHICH DONAHUE

DISSECTS A HEAD

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Headline in last week's Trench and Camp: "Turkey, Ornamented Trees, Santa Claus and Yule Log All on Bill of Fare." Raymond Donahue of Bakery Company No. 10 called attention to it. He said: "Turkey? Yes, and some were there who were Hungary! In fact, we have all nationalities. There was some Greece present. In reminded one of the Sandwich Islands, where they Fiji. Ornamented Trees? That must have been the celery sticking out of the glasses. Some of 'em grew very all. And Santa Claus? No claws at all on our turkey! Yule log? Let me see - they play a kind of Hawaiian music on 'em, don't they? And the bill of fare? Well, if they send me a bill it wouldn't be fare, that's all!"

Donohue is six feet tall and one or two feet hick at certain points. In his home town they say he goes with a petite damsel, who is so small that when they go down the street someone has to go around on the other side of Donahue to make sure he isn't talking to himself. Donahue says most of his family joined the army when he enlisted.

JUNIOR LEAGUE PLAYS SANTA

The Junior League played Santa Claus to the boys left in camp over Christmas in the section around the Fifth Avenue and Eight Street Y. M.C.A., presenting them on Saturday afternoon with cocoa and cakes and on Christmas Day with cigarettes and gum. They also brought down decorations for the Christmas trees and the walls of the rooms. the decorations of the building are highly effective, two large trees, furnished by two regiments, 307th and 308th, gracing the platform, and smaller ones surrounding each post and banking the fireplace of the social room. And the panoramic winter sense decorating the walls all around the building give it warmth and color that is very attractive. In fact, as usual, everyone who comes in says it is the most attractive "Y" in camp, and of course, keeps up to its "rep" of being the most homelike and cheery, according to its habitués.

OFFICERS SERVE

MEN CHRISTMAS;

ALL CARED FOR

One "Y" Hut gives Out Nearly

Two Thousand

Packages

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The provisions made for a substantial Christmas were not overestimated in the predictions. through the Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., Knights of Columbus and dozens of other agencies, every soldier who remained in camp was given a package, some more than that. There were special Christmas parties in all the "Y" huts, each one of which had its Christmas trees and decorations. In the 19th Street building one of the largest parties was held, nearly three thousand packages being distributed. On Sunday night the five hundred men who left Monday for the South from the Deport Brigade were given a send-off of holiday cheer, with boxes. On Christmas night two thousand and more boxes and packages were given out, the men who came in that morning from Fort Slocum not being forgotten.

The other huts all proved splendid hosts and helped make the day a home-like one, with a minimum of blue and indigo combination. Col. Smedburg, Lieut. Col. Ray and Officers of the 305th helped make the Christmas party at 5th and 1st a huge success. Candy, ice cream, pie, smokes and other "useful and beautiful gifts," as they say of the Bride's presents, were passed out to the large company of men by the officers. It was an uplifting sight to lamp a captain, his arms laden with edibles, et al, serving the men under him. Movies were shown, Christmas services were held in the morning and each hut did a more than substantial bit in warming things up.

SPIRIT HERE CHRISTMAS WILL MAKE

GREAT SOLDIES, SAYS DR. MANNING

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NOTED DIVINE WHO CHOSE TO BE

In Camp Says He Never Spent

a Christmas More Worth While

At first it was hard to believe. A man who actually chose to stay in camp Christmas Day, when perhaps - and the perhaps might be made a bit stronger - he might have been home with his family and friends.

Was there one? You ask with some incredulity. There was, and he's mighty glad he stayed here. This unusual choice was the Rev. Dr. William T. Manning's, rector of one of New York's largest churches, Trinity, and now chaplain here in camp, attached to the 302d Engineers.

this was the first Christmas Day Dr. Manning has been absent from his parish. He chose to remain here and share the Christmas joys with those whose lot it was to perform duties in camp. The appreciation of the divine's work here among the men was borne witness to by the attendance at the Christmas service he conducted in the Second Avenue and Seventh Street Y.M.C.A. The service was attended by every officer of the 302d remaining at Upton, except two, one whom duty kept in charge of regimental headquarters, the other forced to stay in by sickness.

Dr. Manning very kindly prepared for Trench and Camp the following article on his Christmas at Camp Upton:

Thanks to the Y.M.C.A., the

K. of C., the Y.W.C.A and the

other good agencies which look

out for our welfare, we had a real

Christmas here in the camp.

Naturally, every man among us

would have liked to be at his own

Home on that day, but the many

hundreds who were required to be

here on duty stayed at their posts

willingly and cheerfully.

There is a magnificent spirit

in this camp and it was this which

made our Christmas a good one

in spite of all obstacles. We

have a wonderful lot of men

here. Wherever I go I find a

straightforward human reality,

an open hearted frankness, a

readiness of response and a

cheerfulness under all circum-

stances which fill me with ad-

migration and make it a pleasure

to be with them. And this same

spirit which was in our men here

on Christmas day is going to

make them great soldiers when

they reach the front. That sec-

tor of the German line which hap-

pens to be opposite the Seventy-

seventh Division has my sincere

sympathy

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The religious services on

Christmas morning were remark-

ably well attended. The Christ-

mas trees and other festivities

were a great success. The

weather was bad. We had no

fine music at our services. We

missed the faces and the greet-

ings of our families and our

friends. But for my part, I have

never spent a Christmas which

seemed to me more worthwhile

than this one here at Camp

Upton.

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MACHINE GUN CHRISTMAS

SHOW ENJOYED BY 400

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A Christmas vaudeville entertainment was given by the Machine Gun Company, 307th Infantry, in the mess hall of their barracks, which was decorated for the occasion with holly, red and green bunting and other seasonable touches expressive of the Yuletide. More than four hundred privates and many officers were present.

The record attendance is attributed to the success of the first Machine Gun show, given several months ago, and the high standard of that affair was gone a couple better, if anything by the Yuletide Lay-out. Herman Cohen pulled big hands with his inimitable comedy. others who elicited high favor were Corpl. Sam Friedenberg, Machine Gun song-bird; Willie Leblanc, 304th Machine Gun Battalion, in bass songs; Private Buffo, Company M, 306th Infantry, selections from Italian opera, and the famous Camp Upton Four-Harry Solomon, Ben Baker, Will Reedy and Harry Weisberger. Fifty dollars was realized from the affair, which will go to the company fund.

K.C. XMAS PARTY

A HUGE SUCCESS

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Auditorium Is Jammed for

Vaudeville and Gift Dis-

tribution

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Two thousand who stayed in camp Christmas packed the Knights of Columbus Auditorium in the afternoon to witness a fine Vaudeville performance by entertainers sent out by the United Booking Office from New York. the building was jammed to overflowing. Men were clinging to the windows outside and sitting across the beams near the ceiling. Quite a number of officers were among those in the audience. After the performance 2,000 packages of tobacco and cigarettes were given out to the men as they passed from the building and also comfort bags sent by the Chaplain's Aid Society. The K. of C. Secretaries were not prepared for quite such an overwhelming crowd, and are consequently sorry that some of the men had to go without gifts. Three rousing cheers were given for the performers after the excellent entertainment.

The bill was as follows: Songs by Doris Keene, Gladys Berkley and Lola de Morgan; T.J.l Carroll, prison and straitjacket escape artist, who gave a demonstration of how it might be possible to escape from the guard house; Nicola Dominco, Italian baritone; Miss Cathryn Powell, one of America's most famous classical dancers; Cantwell and Wright, the two salesmen, with jokes, stories and songs that kept up a gale of laughter; Billy McDermott, the famous tramp comedian, who made a hit with the crowd as soon as he stuck his face into things. The last number before retreat he "went big," and nearly missed his train back to Broadway accommodating the encores. All in all, it was a wonderfully fine show. Every artist appreciated the enthusiastic greeting accorded each number with generous encores. The boys hope the United Booking Company sends another such galaxy to Camp Upton, and will assure them a royal welcome.

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"CANE" YOU CHEW IT?

Private Arthur Henry of the Quartermaster's Corps is passing out to his compatriots some real samples of Louisiana sugar cane. you simply cut off a chunk from the reddish stalk, peel off the tough covering, and go to it. it is grand, succulent chewing too, and the flavor lasts.

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CONGRATS TO SILOSKI!

When it comes to grand Christmas dinners, the Fedora must be doffed to Mess Sergeant Mike Siloski of the Bakers' and Cooks' School. It was not only in the cuisine that the Sergeant excelled, but his dining hall decorations were most tasteful (like the turkey), and every table was sheathed in snowy white cloths jes' lak home!

THE MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW

BY: H. ADDINGTON BRUCE

Have you ever heard of the spirochaeta pallida?

Do you know what it is? Do you know what it can do?

Are you aware that it is one of the worst enemies menacing you as a soldier for Uncle Sam?

You do not have to go abroad to encounter it. You are in danger from it even now.

Here, on our own soil, it is waiting a chance to attack you, And it is cunning in its method to entrap you.

It masks itself in attractive guise. it comes to you, not as an open foe, but as a seeming friend - a young woman, eager to help you amuse yourself when off duty and away from camp.

True, the face of your would-be "friend" is not quite so fresh and pleasing as the faces of the girls you know and respect back home.

And the mode of entertainment she offers is not one approved by your moral sense.

But you feel lonely. The flame of youth is burning brightly in you. The temptation is strong to forget the teachings of morality- just this once.

Tremendous Risk Involved

Yield to the temptation, and forthwith you make yourself liable to suffer the physical pains and mental anguish which the spirochaeta pallida knows well how to inflict on its victims.

Prompt help from men expert in fighting it may save you from its cruelest tortures. But it is indeed a foe whose grip is hard to lose.

Years after you think you are entirely free from it, you may one day discover that it was only biding its time to strike you a new and deadly blow.

You may even find yourself in the miserable plight of a certain successful business man, who one day confided to his wife:

"I'm afraid I'll have to see the doctor. Something queer is the matter with me."

"But," his wife objected, "You eat well and sleep well. Your health seems to be as good as usual."

"I have strange pains in my legs," he told her. "They are sharp, shooting pains, like a stab or an electrical shock.

"When I walk, it sometimes feels as if I were walking on cotton or sand, not on firm ground. And when it is dark I have trouble controlling my feet

"I have noticed, too, that I almost fall if I stand with my eyes shut. Certainly I must ask somebody about it."

The doctor consulted was not long in giving an opinion.

"I think you had better let a neurologist examine you," he advised. "Your nerves seem out of order, and may require special treatment."

At the neurologist's there was a prolonged session of physical testing. As it proceeded, something in the specialist's manner sent a chill of dismay through the business man.

"You might as well tell me the worst," said he. " I guess I'm pretty sick."

"Your nervous system is not in good shape," the neurologist admitted. "In fact, I am afraid that you are suffering from locomotor ataxia."

"Which means," the business man groaned, "that I shall soon become a helpless cripple."

"It may not be as bad as that. Modern methods of treatment may -"

"I know, I know. But I have seen too many men afflicted with this terrible disease. Doctor, how did I get it?"

Enlightened Too Late

The neurologist parried the questions, answering it by a vague reference to nervous injury in earlier years. He did not deem it wise at that moment to enlighten his agonized patient concerning matters about which he should have been given enlightenment in the days of his youth.

therefore he did not show him, as he might have done, a picture of the spirochaeta pallida. He did not say, as he might have said:

"this curious little corkscrew-shaped creature is the source of all your trouble.

"It is a disease-germ which got into your system when you were young and foolish. It is the germ which cause syphilis, and which is now causing your locomotor ataxia as a sequel of the syphilis you contracted in your years of indiscretion."

there was nothing to be gained in telling this long after the harm had been done. It would only have drawn from the unhappy patient, as it has drawn from many another sufferer, the bitterly regretful cry:

"If I had but known!"

But there is much to be gained by letting other men know, before it is too late, the harm that the spirochaeta pallida may do to them.

And Uncle Sam wants to put every one of his boys on guard against this insidious enemy.

He wants them to know that the surest way to protect them salve against it is to lead clean sexual lives.

He wants them to know that, they do not lead clean sexual lives they will be incurring risks as dead to health and to life itself as any they will incur on the flaring -line.

BIRDMEN WILL DECIDE WAR

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The war will be won in the air. This is the opinion not only of the great army of rocking-chair strategists, but also of some of the best informed military leaders.

Just what is it what the aceroplane does in warfare? The lay mind conceives of some wonderful feats of reconnaissance, of map-making and of directing artillery fire. But in just what measure does the aeroplane contribute to victory or defeat? the whole story of the aeroplane's contribution will not be known until, in those quiet hours following the war, men that have actually taken part in aeroplane encounters can write the stories contained in their brief and fragmentary notes.

General John Maitland Salmond, head of the Central School of the

Royal British Flying Corps, in an article published in the New York Tribune, tells in detail of some of the feats of the nation's airy navies.

He explains the fact that the German reports tell the names of machines and even of engines and of the rank of British pilots and observers by the statement that the Allies retain air supremacy. if the Allies did not hold this supremacy, he argues, their aceroplaines would not fight and fall over German lines and it would be impossible for the German Intelligence Service to have such detailed information. Were the supremacy held by the German their aeroplanes would be fighting over the Allied lines.

The German reports for a given month claimed 78 British machines. the British, for the same period, claimed 152 German machines as victims by actual crashing to the ground and 122 driven out of control.

General Salmond surveys the work on all fronts. he says the artillery co-operation resulted in such careful ranging in a single week of the given month that 226 enemy batteries were "successfully engaged for destruction."

In the sphere of actual offensive squadrons carried out several deliberate attacks with enemy infantry concentrating for counter attacks. All the counter attacks were broken up, troops being thoroughly demoralized by machine gun fire from heights of one hundred to three hundred feet. Also in the sphere of actual offensive, bombing was continued in all weathers, day and night. No enemy air dome opposite the British front escaped unmolested and "rest-billets, ammunition dumps, road and railways wee attached assiduously."

Thus it will be seen that the aeroplane assists in directing artillery fire, in making and preventing reconnaissance, in destroying enemy morale and in scattering his forces during respites from front line effort.

THE HONOR ROLL

Last week Trench and Camp told how Hawaii had sent more than twice her quota of volunteers to the army and how she had asked that credit be waived so that more of her 26,337 eligible's might be chosen under the selective draft.

Now comes the following:

Larne County, Kentucky, had 132 men as her quota for the National Army. Only 132 were examined. None claimed exemption. All the 132 wee accepted.

connecticut will send double its quota into the army of the United States. When the recruti9ng closed on December 11, the total accepted in Connecticut stood at 4,305. Only 3,228 were called for.

NEXT

THEY'LL APPRECIATE IT

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SOLDIER'S WATCH LAUNDERED

Being laundered did not hurt a watch owned by a soldier in camp near San Antonio,Texas. The watch was thoughtlessly left in a pocket of an army shirt by the owner when he sent he sent the garment to the laundry. The timepiece went through the big washing machine and was not discovered until the shirt was put into the wringer. It was removed from the pocket and found to be running in perfect order.

THE SOLDIER'S RECREATION

By RAYMOND B. FOSDICK

(Chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities)

In the summer of 1916, when our troops were temporarily mobilized on the Mexican Border, I was sent down, as a special agent of the War Department, to study the conditions which were surrounding the troops. I remember standing in the streets of Columbus very shortly after Villa devastated that village, and watching the soldiers as they came across the railroad tracks. Five thousand of our men were in camps there. There was absolutely nothing in town that could in any way amuse them. There were no moving picture shows; no places where they could write letters; no athletic equipment for their use; no library facilities of any kind; no homes to which they could go - absolutely nothing offered to the soldiers in the way of clean entertainment.

Just after war was declared last April, the President and the Secretary of War, having these facts keenly in mind, asked me to assume the chairmanship of the newly appointed Commission on Training Camp Activities. The main job of this Commission is to supply the normal things of life to the hundreds of thousands of men in training camps. Besides the chairman, the members of the Commission are Lee F. Hanmer, of the Russell Sage Foundation; Thomas J. Howells, of Pittsburgh; Marc Klaw, the well-known theatrical producer; Joseph Lee, president of the Playground and Recreation Association of America; Malcolm L. McBride, the former Yale Football star; Dr. John r. Mott, well known as General Secretary of the War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A.; Charles P. Neill, of Washington; Col. Palmer E. Pierce, U.S.A., and Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, director of physical education of Princeton University.

It was our task, in the first place, to see that the inside of the sixty odd army training camps furnished real amusement and recreation and social life. In the second place, we were to see to it that the towns and cities near by the camps were organized to provide recreation and social life to the soldiers who would flock there when on leave. In short, the government took this attitude and is holding to it all along: "Over a million men are training hard to flight for the Government; the Government will give them, while they train, every possible opportunity for education, amusement and social life.

The Commission has not developed any more machinery than was absolutely necessary. So far as possible we wished to work with the existing agencies. The Commission leans heavily on the Y.M.C.A, the knights of Columbus and the Jewish Board of Welfare. For the general club facilities inside the camps the splendid achievements of these organizations are so well known that they need no explanation here. The American Library Association was asked to assume responsibility when it came to creating library facilities inside the camps. It has raised a fund of over a million dollars, and in every National Army cantonment and National Guard camp there is now, either finished or in process of construction, a library building - in charge of a trained librarian who makes it his sole business to see that the men have ready and easy access to any type of book which they desire.

The needs of a million men in camp, however, cannot be met by club facilities and books alone. the War Department felt that it was absolutely necessary that opportunities for athletics, mass singing, dramatic amusement and education be furnished, not to five per cent or twenty per cent, but to one hundred per cent of the men within each camp. Accordingly, the Commission on Training Camp Activities has established for the Government a comprehensive organization which will furnish such opportunities in each of the training camps. Sports directors, song leaders and theatrical managers on the payroll of the Government are super-intending this great work at most of the important army training camps.

For instance, to furnish dramatic entertainment to every man in the sixteen National Army camps the Commission has erected a theatre seating 3,000 people. These theatres were built under a standardized plan and are completely equipped with full sets of stage paraphernalia, lights, drops and a moving picture machine. By building theatres on a standard model we obviated the necessity of transporting scenery from camp to camp and made possible the production of high-grade performances at the very low cost, for the expenses are reduced to a minimum.

Mr. Marc Klaw was given the task of organizing four companies to play light comedies and four companies of vaudeville stars. "Turn to the right," "Cheating Cheaters," "Here Comes the Bride," "Inside the Line" and other popular plays will be presented in turn at the various cantonments. The professional vaudeville companies will also make the rounds and the theatres will be offered to the men for the production of amateur dramatics or special moving pictures. There will be a small charge of from 15 to 25 cents made for the professional entertainments. In addition to these theatres, and at both the National Army and National Guard camps, the Redpath Lyceum furnishes entertainment. The general direction of all paid entertainments at the camps is in the hands of Mr. Harry P. Harrison, the president and general manager of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau.

One of the most interesting activities of the training camps is a brand-new one - mass singing. that is, a systematic and organized development of it is new. Victorious armies have been singing armies for many years, but the United States is probably the first country to go into mass singing on such a big scale. Under the direction of a song leader, singing in nearly every training camp has become an enthusiasm. To meet the demand for songs, the government for the first time has printed a song book. this was published by the Commission.

To make sure that the man who wanted to study French or English or trigonometry - indeed any such subject - would have an opportunity to do so, a special committee on education attached to the Commission has been charged with the responsibility for supplying instruction i9n any course for which a demand is seen. The great number of men throughout the camps who have seized upon these educational opportunities is inspiring. Naturally, in many of the camps of forty thousand men there are a number of native Americans and a number of foreigners who have taken up with interest their first lessons in English grammar, and in reading and writing. The Committee on Education is utilizing in its work the machinery not only of university extension courses, but particularly the educational department of the Y.M.C.A.

Athletics in connection with the training of a modern army is, of course, extremely important. The responsibility for the organization and conduct of these recreate athletics in each camp is in the hands of a skilled organizer and coach who is officially recognized as a civilian on the staff of the Commanding Officer. His salary is paid from Government funds. thirty such sports-directors have been appointed by the Commission and assigned to posts. The supervision of this work in each camp involves the creation of a Division Athletic Council, supplemented by regimental councils, and by such organizations among the companies as may be necessary. The sports-directors in the National Army camps will be assisted by boxing instructors, fifteen of whom have already been appointed. They will also co-operate with the representatives of the Y.M.C.A. and the Knights of Columbus assigned to athletic work in the camps.

The whole object of this comprehensive athletic program is to give to the largest possible number of soldiers the opportunity to play hard as well as work hard - and to play at organized athletics if they want. One of the most popular sports has proved to be boxing.

So much for inside the camps. What about the very important problems of recreation and amusement for soldiers on leave in the towns nearby? To make these communities adjacent to the training camps the best possible places for soldiers in their free time - to organize the social and recreational facilities of the towns to meet every need of the men on leave, the Playground and Recreation Association of America has sent, at the request of the Commission, nearly one hundred train workers to such towns. Their object is to impress the various city organizations with their responsibility for showing a sincere hospitality to men in uniform. They are emphasizing the fact that the soldier in uniform is exactly the same men who walked on the streets in civilian clothes a few months since, and the putting on the uniform has not changed the man but has increased the responsibility of the community toward treating him fairly - and, more than that, cordially.

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ATHLETICS PROVE

BIG HELP TO MEN

IN TRAINING CAMPS

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The wisdom of appointing athletic directors in all the training camps and cantonments to co-ordinate athletics with the military drills has been thoroughly established by the results achieved.

The soldiers have been immeasurably assisted in their military work by their participation in games in which the same movements were used as in drills. As a result they have made astonishingly rapid progress.

Much of the credit for the splendid condition of preparedness in which the men in the camps and cantonments are found today belongs to the professional coaches and regimental and Y.M.C.A. athletic directors.

Of particular assistance to the men have been the athletic games in which the participants wore uniforms or heavy marching order equipment. the athletic programs were so arranged as to put the participants through the same movements as they would be called upon to execute under actual war conditions.

In a number of the camps the athletic games have approached trench conditions, the men taking part in contests of bomb throwing for distance, bomb throwing for accuracy and bomb throwing for speed and accuracy. These contests have been witnessed by French and British instructors, who marveled at the ability of the American soldiers in mastering the art of bomb throwing in such a fashion as to compare them most favorably with the men now in the trenches.

CONSCRIPTION IN CANADA

Conscription has been adopted in Canada by a larger majority than was expected. The majority will be increased by the votes of the Canadian soldiers "Over there," practically all of whom cast their ballots in favor of selective service. The retention of the Union government in power into the Dominion carried with it endorsement of the "win-the-war" policy as against the "quit-the-war" policy of a certain element of the Canadian citizenship. BENNY BACK

AND BOXING

TAKES BOUND

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Champion Will Give Exhibition

at Indoor Athletic

Meet.

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Benny is back among us again. After a triumphant tour of the country during which he fought military benefit bouts in Denver, St. Paul, New Haven and other centers, the World's Champion Lightweight has weighed anchor in the Home Port. For Benny Leonard, official boxing instructor to the 77th Division, has temporarily moved from Manhattan, Stutz and all, and writes "Camp Upton" as his habitat. It is needless to say that he returns with the luster of his brown undimmed and his hair unmissed. Benny has a way of going through encounters and coming out fresh and combed and brushed, as faultlessly as when he steps into his racer for a breeze-out. He's here to stay, so he announces, and will carry on his work of instructor where he left it off.

One of the evidences that the manly art is in the ascendancy is the company boxing eliminations which are going forward. In each company the men are all putting on the gloves to select the premiere fisticuff expert who will compete in the boxing tournaments to be held.

Benny himself will appear on Friday at the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium as the headliner of another Athletic Night similar to the one so successfully conducted there recently in the winter series of Indoor Sports. He will put on a couple of exhibition bouts with "Young" Fulton, who has sparred with him on other occasions, as one antagonist.

The Friday night show will have other splendid features. There will be some boxing preliminary to the Leonard exhibitions, and a moving picture of an athletic nature. In all probability Lieut. Roddy will be billed to give some bayonet and share movements, and there will be other interesting contributions to the athletic evening.

MORE "Y" MEN ENLIST.

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"Y" secretaries at Upton continue to feel the call to other service. L.P. Lindsay, building secretary of the 19th Street Hut, goes to the Third Officers' Training Camp at Dix, Wrightstown, N.J., Jan.5, and K. Forman, late physical director at Second Avenue and 14th Street, has enlisted in the American Ambulance and is training at Allentown, Pa.

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FINE SPIRIT SHOWS

IN JEWISH WELFARE

ACTIVITIES AT CAMP

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Notes From the Board Which

Is Working for He-

brews Here

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(From Jewish Board of Welfare.)

At one of the Jewish services at Second Avenue and 14th Street, a number of non-Jewish fellows waiting for the movies, which were to follow the Hebrew services, had sat through the service and sermon. "Say, Bill," said one after it was over, "do you know there isn't an awful lot of difference between their prayers and ours." Another instance of mutual understanding.

Mr. Hyman, in charge of the Jewish Welfare Work, on Tuesday sent over to the Adjutant of the 306th Infantry about 1,100 packages of cigarettes to be distributed.

As an instance of the fine spirit which the men at camp are showing toward the work. Private Ruben Rosenfeld, Headquarters Company, 307th Infantry, popped into the office of the Jewish Welfare Board and said modestly, "I just got my pay and don't know what to do with it; I know that you people are doing good work, so I want to contribute $10," and before we could stop him, had laid down his offering and disappeared.

We do not believe in taking money from the men in the service, and we are going to get Private Rosenfeld to apply that money to some other useful purpose: but the spirit is great!

When it leaked out among the men who frequent the Y.M.C.A. Building at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street that the Y.M.C.A. men and the Jewish Welfare Board Secretaries had just receive the needle, one universal grin overspread all faces. "Do youse get jabbed, too?" asked one anxious looking individual. He was reassured when we told him that the needle spared no man. Another bond of fellowship between the workers and the men in the army.

All Jewish men who are interested in forming a Bible Study Class should get in touch with the Jewish Welfare board office.

"THE SPY" SHOW HERE.

One of the strongest films seen here such movies have been a favored Upton pastime - was seen at the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium when "The spy," featuring Dustin Farnum, was shown. the picture was secured by Company 1, 307th Infantry, some for the fine "motions" coming here having been signed up by members of the outfit.

HAVE YOU BEEN INTRODUCED TO

YOUR LITTLE SH'TA-HARA YET?

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Allan Smith Begins Initiating

Enlisted Men in

Jap Art.

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"The Apostle of the Sh'ta-hara" might be the title of Allan Smith. He is the short, smiling Scotsman who is bringing the persistence and steady enthusiasm which got him the Black Belt to the work of making Upton soldiers more efficient. he is planning to spread the gospel of the sh'ta-hara until there shall be one in every barrack, like a piano or a shaving stick. But, stay, there is already one in every barrack. The difficulty is that nobody knows it's there. Everyone has one of these here-now-sh'ta-hara. The thing is to get acquainted with it, train it, become friendly and clubby and intimate with it. to make everyone know his sh'ta-hara is Mr. Smith's mission.

the sh'ta-hara is the center of gravity. it is practically the same as "guts," to use a classical term not generally understood, and is that portion of the person lying south of the chest. Part of it is called the diaphragm- why digress into physiology. The sh'ta-hara is more practical than just physiology. When you get control of it your efficiency is raised several kilos. Your carriage and poise are then not what they were in the dear, dead days before the sh'ta-hara entered your life. They amount to something. Mr. Smith makes it worthwhile. He has been here some weeks working with the officers, or rather playing with the, for he's thrown the biggest Lieutenant that every consulted a wrist watch. Jiu-jitsu did it.

He knows jiu-jitsu as perhaps no other white man has ever learned it, holding the Black Belt which is awarded only virtuosos in the Japanese art. It took him ten years to get the belt.

Mr. Smith has begun to instruct the enlisted men in sh'ta-hara control and will teach them some jiu-jitsu tricks. Two companies of the 305th Infantry received his first tutelage immediately after the Christmas Holiday.

308TH AUDITORIUM

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Night and day mean practically the same thing to Col. Averill's doughty doughboys these latter days, as the work on the new regimental auditorium advances both in the dark and the daylight, whenever details can be girded up with saw, hammer and overalls. The work is being done by men of the regiment, supervised by the officers, and the 308th is taking a lot of interest in the enterprise. Contributions by officers made it possible, financially, to construct the building, which will seat about 1,800, and will be used for regimental entertainments, lectures, movies and other purposes. The structure is to rear its bulk in the exclusive Fifth Avenue section, near the corner of Eighth Street.

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COURT GAME PLANS

PRESAGE ACTIVITY

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Basketball to Be Played All Over

Camp by Company and Regiment.

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This will be a shooting winter in camp, from all indications. The rifle range is one reason why, and another one is summed up in the basketball plans which the duo of athletics dads, messrs. Bryant and Glick, with the co-operation of regimental athletic officers, have ready to set in motion. Basketball is a shooting game, and there are scores of cracks among the enlisted men, indicated by the games played thus far, who can punish the bull's-eye with great consistency. There is a lot of enthusiasm for the game, which is an excellent form of exercise, and the number of participants will be large.

Enough good indoor courts will be available to give all the teams plenty of practice. There is no doubt but that a basketball arena will be constructed in each Y.M.C.A. hut, where companies can play off battalion tournaments and the battalions in turn play for the regimental supremacy, as the plan calls for. There are, besides courts in the K. Of C. club houses, and the K. of C. auditorium has already been very much in demand and has witnessed a number of fast floor contest. There will be also several regimental halls which will lend themselves to the caging game. There will be two courts in the Y.M.C.A. auditorium, and this building will probably see the games for the division regimental championship.

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HUTS' MOVIE PROGRAMMES

ENHANCED BY BANDS.

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The pictures now being shown at the Y.M.C.A. huts in camp are remarked by the men as being of a much higher class the last couple of weeks, and the men show their appreciation in every decided way. Recently at the Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street building the showing was a photo play entitled "The Last Man." The 308th Infantry Band under the direction of Bandmaster Miller opened the programme with the new march, "Colonel Averill," and rendered a selection during each intermission between reels. Austin McClure of the band played the plane all during the picture, adding greatly to its enjoyment. It is planned to have a musical programme put on by various companies of the 307th and 308th regiments in connection with the movies each Wednesday and Friday evenings.

At the Fifth and Fourth Street Hut a band detail from the 306th plays Wednesday, in accordance with an order issued by Col. Vidmer, and Bandmaster Burns's men add greatly to the enjoyment.

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ALL SIGNALMEN GUESTS

OF NEWER BATTALION 321.

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Signal Corps men of the two battalions, 321st and 302nd, got together recently at the Y.M.C.A. hut, Second Avenue and 14th Street, in a wigwag evening, when the members of the former battalion were hosts. Officers of both battalions were present as guests of honor, and a feature of the entertainment was the presentation of non-com warrants to those of the newer battalion who have won their chevrons. A signal Corps jazz band, composed of musicians from both outfits and embracing every known jazz instrument yet led into captivity, took honors in the entertainment, as did the Eczema Quartette, which broke out with camp songs and original parodies. Harry Schoen, xylophonist and versatility man of Company C, 302nd F.S.B., figured prominently in the programme, which from start to finish had the unmistakable marks of class. The occasion was noteworthy in bringing together the men of the two signaling "corpses" in close fellowship and establishing a closer bond between them

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TRAIN INFORMATION

FOR LONG ISLANDERS.

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Many of the Long Island men in camp are unaware of the arrangements in force by the Long Island Railroad to take care of them in their journeying. To inform the, especially the men new in camp, the following excerpt is printed from a letter received by Corpl. Harry Tappen, No. 302 Headquarters Train, from Mr. Ralph Peters, President of the Long Island:

"We have put into effect a special rate of $1.20 for the round trip between Camp Upton and all points on the Island, good on all trains. This enables the Nassau County and Suffolk County men to use the regular or special trains from Camp Upton, Manorville, Moriches, Yaphank, or wherever they may find it convenient to take them. We have built a westbound wye between the Manor Branch and the Montauk Division at Eastport, so that trains can leave Camp Upton terminal and head out in either direction, either by Main Line to Jamaica, or to Manorville, Eastport and over the Montauk Division to Jamaica. The movement has become so heavy that some of our trains must be diverted to the Montauk Division".

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INTERESTING 305TH HISTORY

ONE OF DEVELOPING MORAL

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Regimental Spirit Has Been

Strong From Inception With Splendidly Disciplined, Well-

Trained Organization the Result.

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One of the best-drilled and best-disciplined regiments at Camp Upton is the 305th Infantry.

Filled with new York City men, officered by New Yorkers, many of whom were "captains of industry" before they entered the army, and with a Regular Army Colonel at its head and a Regular Lieutenant Colonel, this organization has established a remarkable training record.

The 305th can justly be referred to as Greater New York's "peppiest" regiment. Within a little more than three months its members have demonstrated not only that the average New Yorker can be transformed into a well-disciplined fighting man at short notice, but that, torn from either a tenement house or a Fifth Avenue mansion, he thrives on life in the army.

Some Shy on English.

When the 305th came into being its officers found themselves struggling, like every other National Army outfit, with what was practically a civilian mob. New York men from every walk of life were its members. Ninety-five per cent. of them had no record of previous military experience. Many there were who could not speak English.

To drill these men under the supervision of Col. William R. Smedberg jr., commanding officer of the 305th, and Lieut. Col. James C. Rhea, both of the Regular Army, and both West Point graduates, was the task that fell upon the shoulders of the new Reserve Officers. Of these officers there was a sprinkling of men who had risen from the ranks in the Regular Army; but most of them were former New York business men who had given up important interests and sacrificed their home life to defend their country.

With the exception of having attended one or two Plattsburg training camps previous to the "war camp" of 1917, or a period of duty with the National Guard, these Reserve Officers had no records of military experience. Much has been said of the "paper work" that confronted the new Reserve Officers. As a matter of fact, this 'paper work," or individual book-keeping on the soldiers, was not the bug/bear it has been pictured. It kept many of officer up late o 'nights and robbed them of much sleep; but having been well established in business before taking up a military career, he found that by applying common sense and energy to his "paper work" he got along all right.

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MORALE DEFINED.

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The biggest job of all was to start the men off right with their daily routine - to establish in the 305th Infantry that difficult - to -define element known as "morale." This word "morale" means "the soul of a fighting unit." If you see a bunch of soldiers who are cheerful, happy and well-disciplined, you may know that their morale is good, If, on the other hand, you see an outfit of men surly, poorly disciplined, who do their work as if forced to it, you may know their morale is bad.

Good morale is what every commanding officer first aims at. it was what Col Smedberg aimed at in the 305th. he hit the mark. The men were cheerful from the beginning. He made them work hard and enjoy what they were doing. Then, finding that they were making good progress at their work, they became mighty well satisfied with their surroundings and decided that the 305th was the best possible outfit for them. Having decided this, they became proud of their organization and centered every energy on bettering it.

This feeling - regimental spirit, it is called 0- was encouraged by Col. Smedberg and his subordinate officers, with the result that it now exists in the highest possible degree.

Col. Smedberg has a military record that is well worth a glance. Here it is:

Graduated from West Point in June, 1893; entered the cavalry. Instructor at West Point 1896 o 1898. From 1889 to 1902, covering the period of the Spanish-American War, was aide to Brigadier-General S.B.M. Young, serving in Cuba and the Philippines. Promoted to First Lieutenancy in 1899; Captain in 1901; Major 1916; Lieutenant Colonel 1917, and on August 15, 1917, after serving as commander at Madison Barracks Training Camp, was appointed Colonel.

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MOVIES TO PLAY PART

IN DIVISION COURSE

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Films to Be Shown Designated

Organizations - "The Training

of the Soldier".

Motion pictures will play an important part in the training of the 77th Division's soldiers. A series of instructional movies called "The Training of the soldier's is included in the course of instruction for regiments of the division, and the first group of films will be exhibited in the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium within a short time.

Organizations will be designated to attend, and will march to the auditorium, each company in charge of a commissioned officer. The reels, made under the direction of the General Staff of the United States Army, are on subjects common to all branches of the service, and special films will be shown organizations whose schedules of instruction includes subjects treated.

Group one, to be exhibited the first day, consists of Discipline and courtesy, Physical Drills, Army Signals. Various regiments will be appointed to attend each day, and those which will view the initial presentation are the four infantry outfits - 305th, 306th, 307th and 308th.

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ORPHEUS FOUR PLEASES;

SING IN NUMEROUS CAMPS

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The quartet of young men who have taken the M out of Morpheus- the Orpheus Four, in other words- of Los Angeles have been in Upton for a week tickling the ears of Seventy-seventh Division fighters. The new York gang know good stuff when they hear it, and their approval of the smoothly phrased, mellow harmonies emitted by the lads form the Golden State has been unqualified.

The Orpheus singers have been singing in numerous camps through the East and South and have sung before thousands of men in the new army. They have expressed astonishment at the advanced stage of soldiering achieved by the National Army men here and have commented on the splendid discipline and co-operation.

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F. 307th, PACKS "AUD".

Vaneville and Italian war pictures were on the programme given at the Y Auditorium under the auspices of Company f. 307th Infantry, with a packed house. the company fund benefited by the proceeds. private Paul Weinheimer was in charge. Some fast boxing topped the programme.

DECEMBER 31, 1917

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L BOYS REGAL HOSTS.

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The boys who make the 5th and 3rd Y Hut their spare time hangout were treated to an evening of "fun and frolic" recently by Company L. 308th Infantry, with five big vaudeville acts and eight reels of motion pictures on the menu. First Sergt. Stevenson, through the kindness of Private Philip A. Schwartz, obtained the reels, Sergt. Frank Mocherce trotting them hither in his car. The vaudeville went big, and not least among the success factors was Mr. Miller's 308th Band. Some of the camp's big timers were there, including Abrams, MacManus, Nulty and Incus. Private Louis Stutz, social representative of Company L, superintended the affair, Private Harry B. Scheiber ably assisting with Cronin, artilleryman, at the piano. The Liians proved no pokers when it was time to feed. They served a line of gastronomic in the company barrack after the programme that resembled a grange picnic before the war for completeness and variety.

DECEMBER 31, 1917

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OFFICERS' CLUB OPENED.

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Beautiful in every appointment, Officers' Club was recently turned over to the Board of Governors, of which Gen. Whittenmeyer, Second Senior Officer of the Division, is Chairman, by Mr. and Mrs. Milton Burrill of Westbury, L.I. the building, which is part of the group at the base of headquarters Hill, is easily the most perfectly equipped of any in camp for comfort. Great easy chairs, beautiful rugs and every appointment of a gentleman's club are included. The building and furnishings are the memorial gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burrill, in commemoration of their son, who died while a cadet at West Point. the officer of the Division are eligible to membership.

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ASK FOR STAMPS NOW

IN REFINED ACCENTS

BECAUSE OF A WOMAN

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Old Terminology Disappears

Among Denizens of 5th

and 8th Hut.

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The doughty doughboys of the 307th, 308th and the Suicide Club men in the Machine Gun Battalions are stepping with a lighter tread and speaking with cultured accents these days. It's the training they're getting in buying stamps and securing paper from one of the fairest of the fair who is on duty at the desk of 5th and 8th Y Hut every day in the week.

"Three of each, if you please," are now the refined syllables lisped in boney-dew accents in place of "Hey, Billy, jitney's worth o' red and green 'uns," or the expressive "Gimme stamp."

The Junior League girls are doing many other very large "bits" also. The boys in that section are continually singing their praises. Just recently it was Mrs. Fairchild, whistling soloist, and Mrs. Braisted, pianist, who please with an entertainment. And there are always "seconds" on the coca and cake which are accompaniments.

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305TH GIVE ST. JOHN'S

CLOSE RUN IN FAST GAME

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The whirlwind quintet from St. John's College, Brooklyn, had to travel their limit at Knights of Columbus Auditorium when they met the five basketball geniuses who uphold the banner of the 305th Infantry. it was a neck-and-neck affair from the first whistle, and the result was in doubt until the final minute of play, which showed the visiting team slightly to the goo, 29 to 23. Clever playing on both sides brought round after round of approval from the large gallery of fans, who declared it the speediest contest of the many excellent ones played on the K. of C. court. The teams were as follows:

305th Infantry - Donohue Mills, Graham, Shepard and Woods.

St. John's College - Murphy, Roche-Glass, Burke and Flynn.

JANUARY 7, 1918

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JANUARY 7, 1918

BAKER DOES NOT FAVOR

UNIVERSAL TRAINING

Secretary of War Baker, in his annual report, makes it plain that he does not favor universal military training as a national policy.

“The department has not sought and does not now seek legislation on the subject,” he says, “chiefly for the reason that the formation of a permanent military policy will inevitably be affected by the arrangement consequence upon the termination of the present war. Civilized men must hope that the future has in store a relief from the burden of armament and the destruction and waste of war.

“When a permanent military policy, therefore, comes to be adopted, it will doubtless be conceived in a spirit which will be adequate to preserve against any possible attack those vital principles of liberty upon which democratic institutions are based, and yet be so restrained as in no event to foster the growth of mere militarist ambitions or to excite the apprehension of nations with whom it is our first desire to live in harmonious and just accord.”

Notwithstanding the expression of these views by Secretary Baker, however, a large number of congressmen and senators favor universal military training and have announced their intention of trying to have a bill providing for it passed at the present session.

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GOVERNMENT EXPECTS TO SPEED WAR MACHINE BY OPERATING RAILROADS

With the railroads now operated by the Government, under the direction of Secretary of Treasury McAdoo, it is expected that the movement of troops and supplies will be greatly expedited. Henceforth the army will have first call on all transportation facilities and shipments not absolutely necessary to the conduct of the war will be given second consideration. It is believed that the operation of the railroads by the Government will greatly accelerate the speed of the war machinery throughout the nation.

In his proclamation on the subject President Wilson said the railroads would be taken over “to the end that such systems of transportation be utilized for the transfer and transportation of troops, war materials and equipment to the exclusion so far as may be necessary of all other traffic thereon, and that so far as such exclusive use be not necessary or desirable, such systems of transportation be operated and utilized in the performance of such other services as the national interest may required and of the usual and ordinary business and duties of common carriers.

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GEN. ROSECRANS’ PLAN

Anent the question of shoulder marks for a second lieutenant, now settled by the adoption of a gold bar on each shoulder, Col. John C. Stiles recalls the plan of General Rosecrans, who, in July, ’63, ordered that second lieutenants should wear a single bar on the right shoulder only. He adds:

“As this bar is not very weighty, there will be no danger of a starboard list to the wearer as was the case in the old U.S. Navy, where, I believe, a first lieutenant was only allowed to wear one epaulette when in full dress”.

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HE KNEW

Instruction was being given as to targets, and the officer said to a gunner, “You see that sapling on the hillside?” “No, sir,” said the man, after a careful look; “I don’t see no sapling.” “What!” said the officer, “you see no sapling! Why, there’s only one, right in front of you!” The man looked again, and reported as before. “Look here,” said the officer, “do you know what a sapling is?” “Oh, yes, sir,” replied the gunner, “a Young Big.” - London Chronicle.

ENLISTED MEN BEGIN COURSE OF TRAINING

FOR SHOULDER STRAPS

About 15,00 non-commissioned officers and privates in the camps and cantonments throughout the country are on their mettle today as never before, having been designated to take the course of training to be officers. All of them may not win the honor of being placed on the list of eligible for commissions, but each man who takes the course will be inestimably benefited.

The War Department is desirous of seeing all the men pass the final tests and placed on the eligible list and the instructors will do everything in their power to develop the non-commissioned officers and privates into officers during the three months training period ending April 5. There will be great need of officers when the American Army starts its big push “Over There”, and practically every man who finishes the course will get a commission sooner or later.

The men designated to take the course of training were selected with absolute impartiality and with the single thought as to their fitness. The 1.7 per cent of men designated are supposed to represent the cream of the intelligence in the enlisted personnel in the National Guard and National Army. The same rules which governed the selection of these men will determine the make up of the eligibility list.

Conduct, leadership, ability to learn quickly, ability to instruct others, general suitability, military appearance, etc., will be the tests by which the men in training will be judged.

While taking the course the men will be carried on detached service and will receive the pay and allowance of the grade in which they were before being designated.

BAYONET DRILL IN K. OF C.

HALL DRAWS

Activities getting in full Swing - Women to Be Hostesses

Now that the holidays are well over, the Knights of Columbus activities will soon be in full swing. Benny Leonard has arranged to give exhibition bouts and free instruction in the Auditorium, Upton Boulevard, every Wednesday night, beginning Jan. 9. An athletic carnival will also be arranged for those nights.

Secretary Grade is going to have the regimental basketball games on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the other nights in the week at the Auditorium will be devoted to the various company and regimental shows.

The 357^th Buffaloes are preparing to stage a big show in the K. of C. Auditorium, and Sergt. Battle, Headquarters Company, promises the camp a real treat.

Preparations are being made to install a first class moving picture machine in the Auditorium, and Messrs. Fox and Brady, widely known film men of

New York, have promised all the films needed, including features of big time caliber.

A committee of ladies of the Catholic Women’s League were visitors in camp during the holiday and became very deeply interested in the Auditorium and clubhouses. They plan to have a hostesses’ section for women visitors during Sundays and holidays.

The bayonet classes under Capt. Brown and Sergt. Major Covington, of the British Mission, continue to hold interest for the men who drop into the hall during their progress.

Anyone who hasn’t witnessed the stocky, rangy, enthusiastic drill-sergeant at work has missed one of the big items of life at Upton as it is, Major Haskell made an informal inspection recently, and the non-commissioned officers in the course demonstrated effectively the rapid strides they have made under their instructors. When their men meet the Hun, he’s due for an unpleasant surprise. Their deftness has the ring of conviction about it.

MAIL IT TO THEM

Mail this paper home when you finish reading it. The folks back home want to read it!!!!

WHY NOT?

If Trench and Camp interests or entertains you, why not share your pleasure with mother and your other relatives by sending this paper to them?

QUANTITY OF “CITS” FOR

BELGAIN RELIEF GIVEN

ALL KINDS OF GARMENTS:

YIELDED UP BY SOLDIERS

It is certain that the soldiers of this particular camp are doing a generous share in relieving suffering in stricken Belgium, as east off civilian clothing of all sorts continues to flow into the Belgian Relief Commission here. Heavy, warm overcoats and suits in such good condition that a Third Avenue second –hand man would display them among his best “take me homes” are among the hundreds of garments turned into the hands of the commission. Silken hosiery, roseate neckwear, bravely colored shirtings and very known brand of unmentionables are among the garments, no longer of any value to Uncle Sam’s nephews.

The bundies of clothing are received at the various central points about camp and are taken up by the commission’s truck for shipment to New York and thence to Belgium. Many company commanders have explained to their men, upon issue of the regulation habiliments, the opportunity to help by the disposal of the cast-off’s and have given them explicit information regarding disposal. The commission is notified of the presence of clothing and the truck is sent to collect.

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M. S. T. FAREWELLS

The 407^th Motor Supply Train gave their farewell entertainment at the Y.M.C.A., 14^th Street and 2^nd Avenue, the other night. The programme was as follows: Meyers, contortionist act; Leo Bembeimer, baritone solo; Andrew Flelsehman, the man with the funny legs, buck and wing dance; Charles Reno, the boy with the man’s voice; Phil. Schuman, imitation of a dope fiend in “From Here to Shanghal;” Hecktor-Healy Company, sketch entitled “Somewhere in Long Island.”

The train’s noted comedian, Pete Carvo, got a big laugh with his new sketch, “The Italian Counsellor;” Billie Mack, one of the Train’s famous singers, warbled a bit; Abe Krauss, character impersonator, gave an imitation of George Beban in “The Sign of the Rose;” Marty Morrison and Jerry Roth missed mitts for two rounds, and that boy Morrison is some boxer; and the show closed with William Ottinger leading the crowd in the train’s favorite ditty; “It’s a long way to Berlin, but we’ll get there.” Lieut. Cassals was in charge of the programme and the boys owe their fun largely to him.

Claude W. Enlow, till lately private in Company L, 313^th Infantry, told his Sergeant he’d come to Camp Meade (Admiral, Md.) 0 prepare to fight the Germans and would not peel potatoes. He refused to accept the honors of K.P. even when the disobeyal was carried to his carried from the service and is now doing three years at Fort Jay (N.Y.), the sentence handed down in court martial trial.

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Claude W. Enlow, till lately private in Company L, 313^th Infantry, told his Sergeant he’d come to Camp Meade (Admiral, Md.) to prepare to fight the Germans and would not peel potatoes. He refused to accept the honors of K.P. even when the disobeyed was carried to his company commander. He was dishonorably discharged from the service and is now doing three years at Fort Jay (N.Y.) the sentence handed down in court martial trial.

SHORT STORIES

At Camp Zachary Taylor (Louisville, Ky.), it’s the “Kit’ Carson rifle Range,” the shooting ground being named from an ideal type of American pioneer. He belonged to a school of marksmen now developing followers in Upton. To this school a squirrel’s eye is an easy target at 100 yards.

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SHORT SHORIES

Doubt that Camp Fremont (Palo Alto, Cal,) would be one of Uncle Sam’s large camps has been removed. A committee of San Francisco citizens has purchased leases on property needed for expansion, and additional troops are now being sent there.

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VETS. ARE SPEEDED

The Veterinary Corps, whose regular hang-out is on 16^th Street, had a farewell night at the Upper J “Y.” Lieut. Stumpf, who was the moving force behind the project, had things very excellently arranged and a first class programme greeted the large crowed that collected for the celebration. Everybody was satisfied, and several of the boys were heard to remark that they hoped the Vets. Would give a farewell show every couple of weeks. They might well do so, as they are always expecting to leave the “next” week.

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OFFICERS TO-BE

Here is a complete list of the non coms and other enlisted men of the 77^th Division, who will attend the officers’ Training School:

306^th Machine Gun Battalion – Sergeants John A. Montgomery, Heary L. Dooring, Lyman w. Davison, Walter F. Schultze; Battalion Serft. Major Williard r. Mchargue, Private Martin J. Emsen, Sergt. Jacob F. Goldstein, Battalion Supply sergt. Robeert D. Fordan, Sergt. William D. Murphy.

202d Sanitary Train- Private Harry G. Bebacher, Sergt. Harry L. Bost, Sergt. Fern N. Herrington, Sergt. Robert E. Hobba, Sergt. Cloyd D. Funderber, Sergt. Ivan G. Schlegel, Sergt. Geary H. Whitlock, Private Fred A. Reess, Sergt. James M. L. Bickford, Sergt. James E. Welch, Corpl. Frank A. Halloran, First Class private Arthur Yates, Private Charles H. Myers.

321^st Field Signal Battalion – Corpl. Herbert P. Elliott, Sergt. Norman s. Hobson, Corpl. John Y. Thomas.

407^th Motor Supply Train – Corpl. Clinton D. Abraham, Corpl. Robert H. McClure, Sergt. Carl R. Sjostrom.

Headquarters Troop – Corpl. Wallace macmennies, First Sergt. Robert Eckenroad.

Headquarters 152d Field Artillery Brigade – Corpl. A. C. Gluck.\

302^nd Trench Mortar Battery – Sergt. Frank E. McGrath, Corpl. Raymond A. sunderlin.

104^th Ordnance Deport Compnay – Ordinance Sergt. Charles M. Jones, Ordnance Sergt. Mosher S. Hutchines.

HOSPITAL MEN IN LINE

Base Hospital – Sergt. Oliver J. Irish, Private Edward m. Ames, Private William A. Jarrett, Private Walter H. Sheeler, Sergt. Fred B. Pursell, Private Hugh M. Nicholson, Private Edwin H. Muir.

302d field Singal Battalion – Sergt. Richard A. Forester, Sergt. William g. Rapp, First Class Private Archibald L. Brown, Corpl. Ogden N. Giles, private George W. Gillette, Corpl. John r. Daly, Private Carl p. Nelson

Division Headquarters – Battalion Sergt. Major Howland s. Davis, Battalion Sergt. Major Osborn M. Curtis Jr., Private Edward S. Greenbaum, Private e. G. Minshull.

Quartermaster Corps Detachment – Private James V. Frawley, Constructing Quartermaster; Sergt. First Class, W. Zabransky, Camp Quartermaster.

304^th Machine Gun Battalion – First Sergt. Asa r. Reed, Sergt. John a. McKeown, Private Charles w. Moyer, Battalion Sergt. Major roger r. Hayes, Private Herbert Asbury, Private Richard W. Martin, Sergt. Frank J. Podlewski, Corpl. William a. bargfrede, Sergt. Thomas A. Bray.

305^th Infantry – First Sergt. William T. Maher, First Sergt. Francis M. Lavelle, Sergt. Morgan K. Harris, Corpl. William L. Saladine, Sergt. Richard J. Arnold, Private Abraham Birsh, Corpl. Jas. Sutherland, Private Herbert E. Arnold, First Sergt. Willard B. Kapper, Sergt. Wingate Smith, Sergt. Alan Rogers, Sergt. Frederick C. Klingsmith, Sergt. Thomas M. Brogan, First Sergt. Reuben P. Lindheim, Regimental Sergt. Major John H. Grassman, Sergt. Duncan Morrison jr., First Sergt. John John M. Paxton jr., First Sergt. William R. Atwood, Sergt. Elmer S. Ecay, Sergt. Otto Marquard, Sergt. Robert Greibe, Sergt. Alfred N. Rohr, Sergt. Davis M. Bernard, Private james E. Ewens, Sergt. Victor Voltz, Sergt. Edward J. Fitzgerald, Sergt. Harry J.Flinn, Sergt. Charles A. Lamb, Battalion Sergt. – Major Charles A. Quinn, Sergt. Thomas E. Coulton, Sergt. Walter S. Peterson, Corpl. William M. Genen, Sergt. George Lishardt, Sergt. Benjamin Gromstein, Sergt. Thomas J. Gallagher, Sergt. Charles m. Forbes, Corpl. William E. Fuge, Sergt. Edward t. Rodenbeck, Sergt. Alfred J. Ostendorf, Sergt. Frederick H. Bayer, Sergt. Arthur J. Schradwieser, First Sergt. James O’Donahue, Sergt. Charles J. Bengert, Sergt. Emil H. Lauterwasser, Sergt. Arthur J. Olson, sergt. William E. Langan, Sergt. Albert J. Ornstein, Sergt. Arthur S. Kraussman, Sergt. Charles v. Lent, Sergt. Albert X. Bader, Sergt. Henry w. Gundlach, Corpl. William B. Brogan, Sergt. Henry L. Hissiger, Corpl. Charles F. rosenquest, Sergt Joe e. Kerwin, Corpl. Arthur Walter, Sergt. Edward r. Foudy.

306^th Infantry – First Sergt. Morell Smith, Sergt. Major Albert J. Knox Battalion Sergt. Major John C. Pemberton, Sergt. Charles t. Bohl, Sergt. Rusell G. Slayter, Sergt. Charles a. Hulser, Sergt. Conrad Shumway, Sergt. D. S. Cloughby, Sergt. Samuel Randel, First Sergt. Carl J. T. Ashlers, Regimental Supply Sergt. Clarence J. Hamer, First Sergt. W. E. Booddinghans, Sergt. D. M. Connolly, Sergt. Kenneth D. Fisher, Private Abraham L. Heller, Sergt. Ellis Monroe, Private Philip F. Stifel, Seergt. Harold J. Manson, Private Thomas G. Maguire, Private George g. Mead, Private Harry C. Wildner, private Joseph I. Katsch, Sergt. E. Embleton, Sergt. R.C. Carter, Private Joseph Rothman, Sergt. S. Silverman, Sergt. James M. Halloy, Sergt. Stuart C. Robson, Sergt. Ernest W. Hoops, Sergt. Herbert W. Mannering, Sergt. Axel E. Lawson, Sergt. John D. Cosario, Private Hart J. Beach, Sergt. Walter Lohman, Sergt. Samuel A. Blank, Sergt. Benjamin W. Kanter, First Sergt. George r. Lynch, Corpl. Harry a. Mulligan, Sergt. John O. roesch, Supply Sergt. Kal Wisner, Sergt. Svend H.B. Reffs, Sergt. John O. roesch, Supply Sergt. Kal wisner, Sergt. Svend H.B. Reffs, Sergt. A.B. Hixon, Sergt. H.A. Phillips, Sergt. L. Haustein, Sergt. C. Byerly, Corpl. E. J. Reiler, Sergt. John R. Burns, First Sergt. Harvey b. Aden jr., Sergt. Herbert e. Cohen, sergt. Tobias S. Freund. Sergt. Herbert e. Herlthy, Sergt. William J. Luke, Corpl. Blatchford Sherman, Sergt. Thomas b. Mullen, Sergt. Frank P,. geegan, Sergt. Albert Slessinger.

Headquarters Detachment, 154^th Infantry Brigade – Private Harry H. Hernandez.

307^th Infantry – Sergt Bernard A. Cruz, Sergt. R. L. Hill, Sergt. Charles e. Berlin, Corpl. Albert J. Stanford, Sergt. Elva d. Hosman, Sergt. Rudolph L. Rossolman, First Sergt. James A. Corey, Sergt. Ward B. Belknap, Sergt. Fred Schierbaum, Private Eugene J. McGivney, Sergt. Edgar F. Pwell, Sergt. H.L. Gallagher, Supply Sergt. Earl E. Sang, Regimental Supply Sergt. Louis Katz, Sergt. C.C. Adlard, Private Harold H. Maynes, Corpl. James dowling, Sergt. R. J. Dimmaggio, Corpl. George W. Kuehnbaum, Sergt. Milton Weill, Corpl. John J. Swift, Sergt. John J. Kenny, Sergt. Charles J. Trevail, Sergt. Edward Sanderson, Corpl. Albert A. Munster, Sergt. Charles E. Trainer, Sergt. John Murtaugh, Sergt. J.C. Creig, First Class Private H.H. Dwight, Mess Sergt. C.E. Bucklin, Sergt. F.D. Ballantine, Sergt. Daniel S. robinson, Sergt. H.S. Hait, Corpl. Louis Schlesinger, Sergt. Elias M. Boddy, Sergt. Harry Little, Supply Sergt. Philip Be;ckerman, Sergt. Hyman Freibert, Private John J. Beck, Sergt. Goerge A. Burke, Sergt. Daniel V. Allen, Sergt. William H. Halligan, Sergt. L. I. Rosenberg, Sergt. Dunton Seymour, Sergt. Lewis Ishman, Sergt. G.J. Leinfelder, Sergt. Charles J. Machonald , Sergt. W. f. Baber, Corpl. Ewing Gabryel, Private Joh a. Pyerman, Sergt. Joseph J. Swift, Sergt. Walton v. beauvals, Sergt. Aquilla teter, Corpl. Thomas f. Carroll.

Many Sergeants on Roll

308^th Infantry – Regimental Sergt. Major William J. G. Shannon, Regimental Supply Sergt. Arthur L. Engels, Sergt. Sigurd J. Arnesen, Bergt. William C. Allen Jr., Sergt. Lewis L. Frankford, Sergt. George H. McGay, Sergt. Siegfried Chiupsa, Sergt. Thomas V. Brady, Sergt. Charles Hutchings jr., Sergt. Frank e. Edwars, Sergt. Joseph H. Berner, Sergt. C.S. Dennison, Sergt. Robert M. Fisher, Sergt. George l. hough, Private Charles j. McGinnis, Battalion Sergt. Major Lester M. Brown, Sergt. John a. Campbell, Battalion Sergt. Major r. Kynett, Penfield, Serft. Charles R. Cranberg, Sergt. J. M. Duflocq. Sergt. H. L. Pettingell, Sergt. Charles e. Byrne, Sergt. Henry M. Wolf, Sergt. Louis M. Brownheim, Corpl. Cyril v. Nicholas, Sergt. William W. Sample, Sergt. Edwin H. Wearms, Sergt. Arthur B. Myers, Sergt. Edwin J. Thomas, Sergt. Thomas Downes, Corpl. James O. Davis, Sergt. Howard I Smullen, Sergt. Charles L. Murray, Corpl. Frank Walsther, Sergt. Samuel Freedman, Corpl. William g. Armstrong, Corpl. Percival C. Hope, Sergt. Frank C. Carstens, Sergt. B.D.

Straight, Sergt. Francis A. Lederle, Sergt. Paul J. McCauley, Sergt. John M. Thayer jr., Private William L. Lindorff, Sergt. George H. Gardiner, Corpl. William B. Bartely, Corpl. Raymond B. Beach, Sergt. J.P. Byrne, Sergt. John e. Mitchell, Sergt. James J. Garry, Sergt. Samuel Strauss.

304^th Field Artillery – Sergt. Mitchell L. Burke, Corpl. Theodore Jung, Corpl. Francis K. Barton, Sergt. Joseph M. Wallace, Sergt. J. W. fischer, Sergt. Andrew J. Wenzel, Sergt. Anthony f. ghedardi, Sergt. Arthur T. Gorman, Sergt. Joseph Anderson, Sergt. William K. Vernon, Sergt. Goerge W. Perkins jr., Sergt. Alson D. Kimball, Sergt. Frank B. Loving jr., Sergt. Arthur O. Lember, Sergt. Raymond G. Manderson, Sergt. George Fischer, Sergt. Garner D. Palmer, Sergt. John H. Brodt, Corpl. Archie W. Anderson, Sergt. Evangelos J. Stamoules, Sergt. William Van r. Coates, Serft. Iring H. Hill

305^th Field Artillery – Corpl. J.J. Mckay, Sergt. William D. Love, Sergt. T. E. Wollingsworth jr., Regimental Supply Sergt. William C. Haley, First Sergt. Dean C. Conklin, Sergt. F.B. Peters, First Sergt. David C. Robertson, Corpl. Jeams H. Mcermott, Supply Sergt. Thos. A. Reilly, Sergt. Frank Dunbaugh, Sergt. Edgar J. Sausville, Sergt. Gilbert c. Mackenzie, Sergt. B. J. rosethal, Corpl. E. Anderson. Sergt. Archie F. Winter, Sergt. Major Charles E. Hughes Jr., Sergt. Roy Hunt, Corpl. Loster Friedman, Corpl. Oscar A. Kreiger, Sergt. Walter B. Mcoul, Sergt. Howard E. Meyers, Corpl. F.J. Collins, Mess Sergt. Theodore P. Heider, Sergt. Major Eugene A.H. Watson.

These from The 306^th

306^th Field Artillery – First Sergt. I. Haywoard Peck, First Sergt. Thomas W. Sheridan, First Sergt. John W. Blackford, Corp. Donald e. Elliott, Private Edwin I Arthur, Private Lewis M. O’Donnell. Private Martin w. Mason, Sergt. Ellsworth B. Moras, Serft. Malcom M. Slaughter, Serft. Morris Lukens, Corpl. Percy Voorhees, Corpl. Edward M. Gross, Sergt. Lawrence H. Sonebern, Sergt. Carl A. Ritter, Sergt. Samuel Weisman, Sergt. Don E. Critchley, Private Frank W. Demuth, Private Rudolph A. Travera, Private Theophile C. Kaminsky, Private German B. Wilson, Sergt. Maxwell Steinhardt, Sergt. Charle sgranklin, Corp. Grey H. Weyman, Corp. Maurice Phillips, First Sergt. William J. Ardiff, First Sergt. Einar C. Funck, Private Theodore Miner, Corp. William r. Christgau.

302d Engineers – Frist Sergt. John Pylo, First Sergt. Y. Phillipson, Corpl. A. C. Wbb, Private R.C. Mees, Corpl. A. J. Schnebbe, Corpl. R.E. Coby, Sergt. F. W. Berry, Sergt. C.A. Duffy, Sergt. B.S. Shepard, Sergt. John Walsh, Private G. e. Sinclair, Sergt. R. royer, Corpl. P. romeo, First Class Sergt. E. t. Mccormack, Corpl. A.C. Croker, Corpl. James f. Brown, Private D. H. Hunt, First Sergt. S. B. Tarof, Corpl. E. Bromberger.

302d Engineer Train – Supply Sergt. W. H. Strawbridge, Private e. Van Hook.

302d Headquarters Trains and Military Police – First Sergt. Robert Dixon, Sergt. Douglas L. Byrd, Sergt. Charles N. Bajar, First Class Private Alan N. Billard, Regimental Sergt. Major Richard H. Adams, Battalion Sergt. Major Edward J. Neary.

302d Supply Train – Sergt. Edward E. Buzby, Sergt. William B. Mendos, Corpl. Harry E. James, Sergt. Maurice De C. De Castelbled, Corpl. Cedric r. M. Fox.

302d Ammunition Train – Battalion Sergt. Major Robert r. Brown, Sergt. Ralph Hall, Sergt. Robert e. L. Bunch jr., Sergt. Edwin L. Classen, Regimental Supply Sergt. H. J. Monahan, Sergt. Joseph riley, Sergt. Edwin S. Ham, Corpl. Paul J. Urban, Sergt. Malcolm W.s tuttle, Private Douglas E. Kimball

Many Privates in This Group

152d Depot Brigade and Provisional Recruit Battalion – Private Fergus H. Colquhoun, Private Herbert e. Lewis, Sergt. Wm. W. Drake, Sergt. H.H. Main, Sergt. F.P. Kellom, Private Fred Yaffa, Battalion Sergt. Major, Charles white, Private Harold A. Bucken, Private jos. M. eard, Private Franics Wall, Private Eustace Seligman, First Serft. Ed. C. Robers Private henry M. Mathison, Private Chas, F. Sutton, Private Salvatore Cerone, Private Joe C. Menendez, Private H.w. Parkhurst, Private Thomas McEntergarl, Battalion Sergt. Major Carol Johnston, Private Chas. B. Lucke, Private J. Collins, Private Mathew Mossburger, Private Herbert leed, Private Herman Heide, Private Ed. T. t. Williams, Private Francesco Zara, Private Herbert e. Monohan, Private Walter J. Murray and Private Mckenzie William, Supply Sergt. Milo A. Borqoe, Corpl. Thomas V. Chistavin, Private Archie Roberts, Sergt. Edward L. O’Connor and Sergt. Russell A. Faust, First Sergt. Maxhallian Sr., Sergt. Otis s. Powell, Private Edwars, Sergt. Leon J. C. Jos. R. Brennan and Sergt Adams, Corpl. Richard M., Sergt. Jesse Carl, Private Franklin Kehoe, Private Frank P. McNally, Private John E. Donohue, Private Jos. B. Martin jr., Private Herbeart S. Carter, Private Theo, W. reinbroeht, Private herman J. Ernst., Private Earl c. Baron, Private Carl C. Lang, Private Chas. J. Lotten, Private Geo F. Garlock, Private Leon J. Regard, Private Fred A. Dirkes, Private Wm G. Hornberger, Private Jos. A. Fulcoly, Private Chas McCathry, Private Leonard Schumann, Private Cornellua J. McDonlad, Private H. W. Norton, Private H. L. Kern and Private Francis x. Dineen

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SWEDISH FOLK DANCERS

TO SHOW OLD STEPS HERE

Something new, novel and nutritious in the way of entertainment will be afforded on Jan. 23 when the Society of Swedish Folk Dancers of New York appears at the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium in a programme of music and dances. Some of the dances which are to be presented are more than a hundred years old and all with be done in picturesque costtime.

Sergt. F.R. Johnson, Company C. 306^th Machine Gun Battalion, and Private O.a. Larson, 302d engineers, who are members of the society, will participate. Carl Sulvan, another National Army boy, attached to the Base Hosptial, will officiate at the piano, used exlusively for the dancing. The programme will be diversified with vocal music, K.V. Peterson, a prominent Swedish tenor from New Yor, being scheduled to furnish a goodly portion of entertainment. The affair will be open to all men of the camp and will be free.

There are nearly three hundred Scandinavians – Swedes, Norwegians and Dances – at Upton, and the promotion of the affair will be especially interesting to them and will receive their backing.

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IT SOMEWHAT DEPENDS

“Are you an officer in the National Army?” a certain fair dame asked Lieut. Davis of the 6^th Company at home the other day

“No, I’m in the 152d Depot Brigade.,” The lieutenant humbly confessed.

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JANUARY 18, 1918

JAPANESE GENERAL AND UPTON FIND EACH OTHER CONGENIAL

Nippin Deputation Tours Camp, and Veteran of 36 Years Talks 97^th Division Impressions Through Interpreter.

Camp Upton has received a visit during the past week from representatives of America's ally in the East, Japan. The visit was not an official military one, but was made by Major Gen. Nobusuke Hibiki, heading the Japanese Y. M. C. A. deputation to the Allied armies. Some of the largest American training camps are being visited, and from this country the deputation will go to France to observe Y. M. C. A. work. Other members of the party were Kuninosuke Yamamoto, General Secretary of Tokyo Y. M. C. A., and G. Suga of Chicago. While here, these Japanese gentlemen made a tour of the camp, taking luncheon as guest of General Johnson and appearing at various Y Huts in the evening. They were enthusiastically welcomed by the men, who listened with great interest to the volcanic speeches of the little General, whose Japanese was rendered into English by Mr. Yamamoto. Tremendous ovations were accorded Gen. Hibiki, and scores of men in each building rushed to shake his hand. He was more than gracious in allowing this privilege. A private in one of the infantry Y buildings summed it up when he looked at the hand that hand that had shaken the General's and muttered "By Gosh, he's bigger than he looks!"

Gen. Hibiki is indeed bigger than he looks in prowess and achievements, as the medals which completely surround his chest demonstrate. He wears among many directions the insignia of the Order of the Golden Kite, the highest merit award of his country: the rising Sun Medal, for long service, and a Korean medal awarded for counsels giving the Korean Government. He was in the China – Japanese War, 1894–95; the Boxers uprising of 1900 and the Russo - Japanese War, 1904-05, serving in the Quartermaster's Department. Thirty-six years of continuous service as a soldier of Japan in his record.

That department here was a particular object of interest to the General. "In Japan," he said, our soldiers carry everything on their backs. Here you have wagons and trucks. Your way is much more efficient." Concerning the Upton soldiers – in – the-making, as he sam them here, Gen. Hibiki said: "Your Americans are naturally fine material for soldiers. Their education and athletic training help develop them. It is remarkable, this army you are making here out of your citizens. You are much more simple and direct than we are." Touching his medals, he said: "You have nothing like this, no Gaudy uniform. That is just like your character-direct and efficient."

Money, men and resources in unlimited quantities will make America victorious in the war, according to the Japanese fighter. "But," he said "you have another and more powerful ally. God is on the side of the Americans. You cannot but win." He is a Christian, being a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church. The purposes of the deputation which he heads too is essentially to "bring Christian greetings," and the inspect the work of the Y. M. C. A. He said of the Camp Upton work to W. F. Hirsh, General Secretary, that its democracy impressed him. "You reach everybody," he declared. Mr. Hirsch conducted the party around the camp.

One of the interesting features of the visit was dinner at the offices Mess, 304th Field Artillery, Col. Kelly greeting the distinguished visitors with a few cordial words.

Also Furnished Base Hospital With Quantity of Medical Material.

There is very little sounding brass or tinkle of cymbal in the work of the Camp Upton Red Cross, but the work has been done just the same, effectively and on an astonishingly large scale, as shown in a report of the society for fourteen weeks. There have been 77,180 articles distributed, valued at a quarter of a million dollars, from Sept. 10, when recruits first arrived, to Dec. 31. Clothing supplies were as follows: 16,619 mufflers, 16,238 pairs of socks, 7,851 pairs of wristlets, 673 helmets, 303 pairs of gloves, 104 blankets, 498 comfort kits and seventeen flannel waistcoats. Emergency medical supplies issued to the base hospital were as follows: Twelve hypodermic needles, 292 triangle bandages, 132 abdominal bandages, six pairs of crutches, 425 bandages, sixty convalescing gowns, 132 bathrobes, eighty-seven pajamas, one case of 600 pairs of bed socks, 138 cotton handkerchiefs, ninety hospital shirts, 135 woolen abdominal bandages, five cases of medicine, three cases of accessories 429 wash cloths.

One of the most important ventures of the Red Cross here will be the erection of the building for convalescents at the Base Hospital, where patients in that class will be provided amusement and entertainment.

Congrats, Inspectors!

Campaign hats a loft to the Q. M. Inspectors who are on the job at Camp Upton, seeing that our own men are taken care of properly and not victimized by frauds!

Two dozen shoes, the soles of which filled with a glue and paper compound, were discovered recently in a shipment sent here. They were reported to Gen. Johnson and he promptly notified Washington. The matter is under investigation. No one punishment could be too severe for the manufacture or the Government factory inspectors who allowed such material to pass, and the 77th Division is glad that such shoddy, more than dangerous materials, was nailed at the gates.

306^TH N. G. BENEFIT.

On Feb. 10 New Yorkers are to have the privilege of paying $1 to $3 a seat to see the monster show being arranged by First Class Private Lew Burnstein under the auspices of Company A, 306th Machine Gun Battalion. The Court Theater has been engaged for the show and 10 star vaudeville acts and a special orchestra will be among the features. Burnstein has been in this game for eight years or more and knows how to put a big show across.

COMPANY’S INSURANCE TOTALS TWO MILLIONS.

Although no insurance bureau has been established at camp Upton to head up the work of organizing the insurance drive here, under the efficient direction of the Division Judge Advocate the insurance program has been steadily widening. The last week of January has been set by the Insurance Department at Washington for a general drive. Daily figures would be published at that time, as they were during the liberty loan campaign. The figures for insurance are astounding in their magnitude. One company of the 306th has a total of over 2,000,000 signed up, with nearly every man of the 250 down for maximum, $10,000. Other company records approach this one, so that the total will be in the billions.

GETS ‘EM SINGING.

Harry Barnhart, New York Community Chorus head and official song director of the camp, has been opening up the throats of Camp Upton’s soldiers in fine shape. He has added to his work of charming melody from soldiers the song-leading at several large gatherings, in Y. M. C. A. auditorium and K. of C. Hall, and the men have taken enthusiastically to his pep and ginger. Mr. Barnhart will put forth every talented effort to make harmony and melody as important in local soldiering as beans and bacon. Through his influence numerous Upton choruses have appeared in New York recently, as have massed bands from camp.

HOSPITAL BRIGHTENED

Base Hospital denizens were given one of the treats of the year Saturday when Augusta Glose, piano lounge girl, Amelia Bingham and a company of other stars appeared there. They were engaged for Camp Upton under the auspices of the State Women’s War Relief.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.

TO DELIVER TALKS HERE

Created Sensation in Church

World Recently – His

Pastor Here.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. will spend several days at the Camp Upton, speaking to the men, from Friday to Sunday, Jan. 25 – 27. Recently he delivered a series of addresses to the soldiers at Camp Dix, Wrightstown, but was not permanently attached to the Y. M. C. A. staff there, as reported. He is thoroughly imbued with a spirit of helpfulness to the men in arms and will bring a live message to Upton.

The son of America’s richest man is known for his sincere purpose and high ideals of service. His life is given over entirely to the administration of the great philanthropies possible with the fortune delivered to him, and as a director of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is in no way connected with the business direction of the Standard Oil Company, built to its present world proportions by his father. The son’s task is the wise disposal of the tremendous fortune which has been given into his charge.

Recently Mr. Rockefeller created a sensation by declaring that the Baptist Church, of which he is a member, should not continue immersion as mandatory condition of membership, but should make it secondary and place the primary emphasis on the more cardinal principles of Christianity. The statement created a furor in the denomination. Mr. Rockefeller’s pastor Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church supported the principle enunciated by Mr. Rockefeller. Dr. Woelfkin has been in camp for a week, making religion-patriotic addresses

STATISTICAL BUREAU IS BUSSY GETTING DATA.

The Statistical Bureau of the 77^th Division is one of the most continuously busy departments at Camp Upton, its job being the securing of answers to a set of seventeen questions through personal interviews with every man here. The work is enormous, as new men are continually coming in and their cards, with those of the men already in camp, must be kept up to date. New reports are sent to Washington every week. In each regiment the chaplain has charge of the work, with a sufficient corps of assistants to interview each man, and the divisional organization is under three officers—Lieut. Humphrey Nichols, Lieut. J. La R. Harris and Second Lieut. E. P. Parker.

The seventeen questions call for various pertinent facts relating to the soldiers, securing primarily the names of relatives to be notified in case of casualties.

“Y” TO TAKE WIRES.

Hereafter the Y huts in camp will receive telegrams as part of their service. Men wishing to send messages by wire will leave the message, with the charge, at any hut and it will be relayed immediately to the Western Union office. No incoming messages are received. This service, it is believed, will be very welcome, as heretofore a trip to the Western Union office was necessary to send a telegram.

Roars and Funeral March When Champ Exhibits Prowess.

Soldiers Cheer Leonard On—

Lieut. Roddy Gives Some Valuable Tips.

Camp Upton’s word champion has been appearing before capacity houses recently, and his exhibitions have had roaring success. The Y Auditorium was packed on the occasion of the second indoor athletic night recently, for a rope skipping, shadow boxing and real boxing exhibition by the premier lightweight. He met Paul Edwards, 302nd Remount Depot, and Young Buckley, Co. F. 305^th, and the rounds went with a roar, the champion wearing his opponents out with cool, calm elusive work that brought frenzies of attempt from his opponents but few “hits” Chopin’s Funeral March was a humming accomplishment to the fighting.

A feature of the athletic night was a lecture by Lieut. Roddy, bayonet and physical instructor of the Officers Training School, pointed with illustrations on a live subject, of How to Out-Hun the Hun. Lieut. Roddy, old Holy Cross coach, has a great bag of tricks up his sleeve and great interest was show in his demonstration. A preliminary boxing bout was fought by J. Brancato, 308^th Ambulance Co., and Jack Coyne, Sanitary Detachment, 305^th Infantry. Capt. Mills, 305^th Infantry, was an able referee of all the fistic arguments.

Benny gave another exhibition in Knights of Columbus Hall the succeeding night, which drew big, other features also contributing to the evening’s success.

BATTERY NIGHTS STILL BIG WITH GUN HANDLERS.

Batter Nights in the Artillery Section continue to be a welcome diversion after the day’s toiling, and the affairs have been wonderful in developing the battery spirit and contributing to the regimental unity which distinguishes the organizations in the Gunnery Belt.

Lieut. Eberstadt recently put over a big entertainment for Battery D, 304^th, with brother officers and men as witnesses. Lieut. Col. Kelly and Capt. Sullivan, regimental adjunct, were among the guests. Participants were the band, increasingly popular and able; Wendell Miller, Frank Cronin, Bugler Shirley, Joe Capello, Joe Stack, Yap the Hawaiian, Kelly, McNulty, Waldron, Jones, Peters, Pincus, Schneider and the Upton Four. The array of offerings, ranging from acrobatic twists to Dutch monologuing, was A1 stuff, every whit, and the sum of appreciation was voiced by Lieut. Col. Kelly, who complimented Lieut. Eberstadt on the affair.

WORKING UP MINSTRELS.

Talented members of the 302^nd Engineers are hard at it whipping into shape a minstrel show to be given this week in the Y Hut at Second Avenue and Seventh Street, with Private Robert Minotti, Headquarters Company, employing all his varied abilities in directing the production. Minotti, with the connivance of Ralph Walker of the Y, has composed a song, “’So Just Smile, Smile, Smile,” which promised to be one of the hits of the show. An engagement in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium and one in New York also in prospect are included in the plans.

LEITNER CHECKER CHAMP.

The checker tournament which has been raging for the past two weeks in the 2^nd Avenue and 14^th street Y. M.C.A. is at last finished, and from the battle H. Leitner of the Camp Utilities Det., Q. M. C., comes champion of Upper J. The final match between Leitner and Turant of the Casual Barracks, 219 15^th Street, was a wonder, as was also the semi-final between Leitner and Spence, Co. A. 302 F. S. Bn. Another tournament will soon be held and a challenger picked to test out Leitner’s hold on the championship.

HOCHSTEIN’S VERSATILITY.

Sergt. Hockstein, 300^th Infantry’s assistant bandmaster and violin virtuoso, is nothing if not adaptable and versatile, despite his thorough classical background of European training. On one night last week he played at a concert of the New York Philharmonic, with Maggie Teyte, soprano and the next led his recently formed regimental orchestra in a varied programmed, including some jazzing.

COMPANY SHOW IS PRETENIOUS WITH L BOYS IN CHARGE.

New York Star Vaudeville Performs for Big Audience.

To Company L 307^th Infantry, goes the honor of putting over the most pretentious company show yet attempted in camp, one of last week in the Y Auditorium. Mr. Nord’s splendid regimental bandsmen were on hand with selected brass harmonies and upheld their end completely. The show was given by star vaudeville talent from New York, secured through Marcus Loew, and included feature movies – June Caprice in Miss U.S.A.” and Pathe weekly. The ticket sale for the affair was a thoroughly conducted campaign, the company platoons competing. The standing each day was shown by means of a large clock in the barrack hall. A thousand tickets were disposed of in one day and the boys realized a good total of two-bit pieces for the company fund. Gen. Johnson, members of the British and French missions, Mrs. J. Franklin Bell and members of the division staff were among the invited guests.

The show was managed by Lieut. Wile in a manner which brought the results so gratifying to the company boosters.

COMPANY B ENTERTAINS BROTHER GUNNERS.

The boys of the 306^th Machine Gun Battalion were made to forget the disappointment of not getting passes by an entertainment for which Company B of the battalion was sponsor, with Lieut. Kreel and a committee- Privates Quinn, Lange and Levy- in charge. Every member of the programme, opened by the company song, was a riot of success, and General Opinion, that last word authority, declared the whole affair one of the best ever given in this section of camp. Some of those taking more than a man’s part were: Privates Kloberdanz and Little in a four-round boxing bout; Private Kennedy, piano solo;Private Hayes, wal-amd-talk run; Private Sherwood wondrous warbling; Waldron and Jones, in a rib-tickling recital of how the fiels Artiltery will lick the Hun; Private Mosser, Hebrew comedian; Upton Four, peerless harmony; Davy Jones, Broadway monologue; Doyle and Ryan, Irish dancers; MacManus, Filbert Folly; 367^th Jazzers; Fox Comedy, Roaring Lions. The B boys, with their committee, should get a barrel of praise for their effort.

302D Engineers.

The following men have left for Petersburg, Va., to attend the training camp for engineer reserve officers: Sergt. N. R. Dalton; Train; Sergt. S. W. Sterling, Sergt. J. J. Hyland, Corpl. F. B. Finlayson, Co. B; Sergt. C. J. Foster, Private J. M. Cuningham, Sergt. C. W. J. Massa, Co. C; Sergt. G. C. Eldredge, Private Salsbury, Sergt. A.A. Hesser, Sergt. A. Baegman, Sergt. R. H. Roeson, Co. D; Corpl. W.L. Glenzing, Private D. P. Ritschy, Private G. Haag, Sergt. A. Pearson, Co. A; Private H. J. Feehan, Private E. A. Wells, Co. E; Private J. C. Gilson, Co. F.

There was quite a little send-off party to the men who made the Third Officers’ Training Camp here, with the splendid Engineers’ Fife and Drum Corps, and a real train of escort Wagons for the baggage. Lieut. Col. Pettis spoke to the boys before they left, and the regiment cheered them on their way: “We’re with you, comrades- always! Bring distinction to the 302d!”

If anyone wants to see how a company mess should be run, visit the kitchen and mess hall of Company “F.” Ye scribe thinks it beats anything in camp, and he doesn’t come from Company “F” either. A good mess is surely half the battle. Too bad there isn’t a prize for thr best mess in camp. “F” ought to come home with it!

The dugouts and mine galleries are coming along in fine shape, despite the frozen ground. There is some competition among the companies to see who gets out the greatest “cubic” every day. Hard work and “TNI” will do it, so go to it and may the best miners win!

This is getting to be quite a brigade. In addition to the Train, there is a new infant in the form of a Provisional Battalion of the 11^th Engineers. If any men are fortunate enough to be transferred thereto, don’t think that it’s “Camp Gordon,” for it isn’t. You will then belong to one of the first American regiments to fight in battle in this war. Here’s luck to you. 11^Th! Don’t forget the 302d and that you are engineers. Essayons!

INTEREST KEEN IN SING FOR REGIMENTAL CUP

From the amount of interest already displayed, the regimental sing song competition for

the trophy cup and flag will be among the most interesting events of the winter.

The 367^th, in spite of the mumps and measles, vow that they’re going to hang the ag in Col. Moss’s headquarters. The 306^th Field Artillery is determined that it will cross staff with their regimental guidon, while Col. Vidmer, 306^th Infantry, has ordered a space dusted on the shelf where reposes two cups already won by that regimen. And so it goes throughout the camp. Those 305^th doughboys are not doing much talking, but they’re after it, and every other organization in camp is determined to bring home the trophy. The first of three competitions will be held Jan. 31. A trophy is also to be offered for the best regimental song, and composers hereabouts are sharpening their pencils and conning over the melodies that might fit.

305^th F. A. SHOW ONE OF THE FEATURES AT K. C. HALL

Basketball Also Interests During Week of Interesting Programme.

The week opened in the K. of C. Hall with an impromptu vaudeville show, and as usual when things are gotten up on the spur of the moment the show turned out a real success.

Tuesday night saw two of the hardest fought basketball games thus far played in camp. The first resulted a victory for G Company over H Company, 306^th infantry, scores 15 to 4. The second game was between the Headquarters Company and Machine Gun Company of the same regiment, with a Headquarters victory, 12 to 6. These games are being played in K. of C. Hall every Tuesday and Thursday nights between the companies of 306^th to determine the regimental championship and to pick a regimental team to compete for the supremacy of the division. The teams that played Tuesday lined up as follows:

Company G—Forwards, O’Neil and McGuire; guards, Rothenstein and Jaffee; center, Davis. Company H—Forwards, Lautz and Bennet: gaurds, Bowran and Rabinowitz; center, Moreland; Leonson and Muller, substitutes.

Headquarters Company—Eisenberg and Kenney, forwards; Stapleton and Kasper, guards; West, center; Giveo and Young, substitutes. Machine Gun Company—Burns and Aaronson, forwards; Tobel and Rainey, guards; Pogue, center; Referee, Lieut. F. P. O’Brien, Company C.

A real vaudeville show was put over in the hall recently by the 305^th Field Artillery, bolstered by the band and a twenty – piece orchestra.

Signor Joseph led a splendid overture, late star of “Young America.” Progamme offerings were: Percy Michel, late star of Young America; Joe Stack, “The Minstrel Soldier:” Frank Shirley, “The Man With the Big Voice;” Kelly and Mcnulty , laugh-urging character comedians: Maurice Le Van, clever impersonations; Wendell Milbe, unique entertainer; Waldron and Jones, “Two ‘Nuts:’” Yaphank MacManus, “That’s All;” the famed and rightly heralded Upton Four in harmonies closet of the close.

OFFICER’S SCHOOL HAS MACHINE GUNS

Work Is Portion of Former Privates, Non-Coms and Collegians.

Upton’s Officer’s Training School is well started, and clad in their sheepskins the members forming the battalion appear on the Boulevard frequently. A synonym for Officer’s Training Battalion is work. The officers-to-be are at it from sun to sun, and then a little, with lecture and drill.

The machine-gun feature of the training will be one of the notable ones. Thirty guns of the Colt pattern and eight Lewis models have been secured by Capt. Schroeder of the 71^st New York Infantry machinegun instructor, and mare are assured. Capt. Schroeder was personally responsible for getting the guns. He was instructor in both Plattsburg camps.

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RECLAIM 308^TH PET LOATHES WORD KAISER.

“Reveille,” the pet hound of the 308^th Infantry, was first picked up by Jack Gehris of the Regimental Infirmary when suffering with a combination of diseases, including tuberculosis, zymosis, writers cramp and homesickness. Jack was a “mother” to him, nursing him back to health and strength. “Rev” is now the perfect thirty-six of dogdom. Every time he hears the word Kaiser he arches the eyebrow, registers anger and cuts loose with a blood-curling “G-r-r-r-r! Woof, woof!” He seems to harbor a certain instinctive hatred for that word, although his nationality is unknown. It is thought probable that he may have clubbed around with some dachshunds, was led into ambush and given a touch of Kultur. He refuses to answer continual cross-examinations on the subject. It is believed he will make a good spy-hound for the 308^th.

QUARANTINE PLAYS HAVOC WITH PLANS OF BUFFALOES

Mumps an measles have wrought havoc with plans for outside activity of the 367^th Infantry, the Buffalo regiment, and among other postponements has been the setting forward indefinitely of the big regimental show in New York, scheduled for the 20^th before the two afore designated maladies broke loose. The entire regiment has been put under rigid quarantine by Col. Reynolds, Division Surgeon, to prevent outbreak of the disease. Only company gatherings are allowed and men are not permitted to mingle indiscriminately, except as company units. Mr. Seldon’s staff of Y workers have been bringing some rays of cheer into the situation by entertaining companies in the colored Y Hut, and projecting their services into the barracks.

The New York show has in no wise been abandoned, and Max Weinstein will begin training his chorus as soon as the quarantine is lifted and the regiment allowed to foregather as such. Mr. Weinstein has left for a week or so of work with the 368^th Infantry (colored), Camp Meade, Admiral, Md.

LAMBS TO GAMBOL HERE; 307^TH WILL BRING JULIA MARLOWE

Ex-Theatrical Leaders Now Infantry Officers Are Responsible.

Entertainments a “big features” are as thick around Upton during the winter as mosquitos were in the early days of the camp, but there is one coming under the 307^th auspices which will loom like an eagle among the mosquitos. The regiment is fortunate in having some show boosters who have the capacity of putting thing across, among them being Capt. Harrigan, Co. I, and Lieut. Butterfield, Co. B. Through the efforts of the former the Lambs Club will give a show here. It will be presented Jan. 24, along with “Somewhere in Mexico,” by the Upton Players, and is a number which the Lambs have put on in New York—“Christmas in the Trenches.’

The real headline effort of this regiment, however, will be shown Jan. 17, when a mammoth entertainment is to appear on the boards of the Y Auditorium. Julia Marlowe will lead the bill, and other stars also are scheduled.

CO. I, 306^TH INFANTRY

Corpl. Pincus was asked why he tries his camp renowned jests on Corpl. McCrae. “If he laughs, I know they’ll go anywhere,” said Pincus.

Sergt. Cook: “No taking while standing at rout step.” Corpl. Moe Siegel is strong for Irish songs.

Private Boyle was away for five days, and when he got back said he’d been “for a walk.” The boys have been trying to figure out how long he’d stay if he should go for a hike.

Private Solomon of the Upton Four has been doing some great duets lately with the coal can.

Sergt. Coldwell will organize a quartet if he can get three good singers. Better make it four, Sarge.

M.G.BN. ATHLETICS.

The Athletic Show put on at the 5^th and 8^th Y Hut by Company C. 305^th Machine Gun Battalion was undisputed winner. The visit of Gen. Hibiki, Japanese Army, wasn’t on the programme but was a notable factor in the evening success. Corpl. Schmidt’s newly organized Battalion Orchestra played a number of selections and were congratulated on their fine work. Also on the programme: Marcus Longo, cellist; Joseph Raymond, violinist; Louis Francis West, piano artist; Eugene McKenna in solos; boxing bouts—Grunstran vs. Egan, Geary vs. Foley, Eckert vs. Cavicchioli, with J. Kirstien refereeing.

LIEUT. WILE BRINGS FEATURE.

At the Y.M.C.A. at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street Company L of the 307^th Regiment put on two showings of the Fox photoplay, “When a Man Sees Red,” featuring William Farnum, Lieut. Wile was responsible for bringing this exceptionally fine photo drama to camp and it was

greatly appreciated by the boys at both showings, 6:30 and 8:15 P.M. The three-piece orchestra of Company L furnished music during the evening in a very acceptable manner.

WELFARER’S MINSRELS.

Camp Welfare Workers K. of Co., Jewish Board for Relief, and Y.M.C.A. are hard at work on the minstrel show which the Uplift Brigade will give in the Y Auditorium Thursday, Jan. 25. The show will be in Scotch costume, with a number of good sketches in addition to the straight minstrel numbers.

LIBRARY FINISHED.

All the construction work on the Camp Library, Upton Boulevard, just below Officer’s House, is completed, both inside and outside, and as soon as light and heat connections are in will be ready for business.

Passenger Aptly Depicts Town That Lacked Thrift.

The London Express ran into Puddlecomb with a loud snort, as though disgusted at having to stop at such a back number of a town. The platform was empty, save for one weary and dilapidated citizen, who was leaning against the wall, with hands in pockets, trying to draw nutriment from a straw.

Suddenly one of the passengers thrust his head through the carriage window. “Hi, tell me, you, what do you call this fly-blown, frost-bitten, down-at-heel, dried-up, one-horse place?”

“Oh, that’s near enough,” said the weary native, letting the straw slip from his indolent lips as he looked up. “Let it go at that!”

It’s Sure They Won’t “Spill the Beans”

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Maj. Valliant, Commanding 302d Supply Train

Sid Hydeman, talented in the use of India ink and art board, has drawn some excellent likenesses of the officers in his outfit. Fourth Company, 302d Supply Train, and that of Major Rigby D. Vallliant, commanding the train, is reproduced herewith.

One of the officers of the train was asked by Trench and Camp to tell something about the place of the organization in the division. He was quite modest, but furnished some facts of interest:

“Don’t know much to tell you, but we are expected to deliver the beans and biscuits to the boys at the front. We expect to be equipped with the new Liberty Motor Trucks. Do all our driving at night-not because we’re ashamed of the grub we carry, but because it would indeed be a feather in the Hun’s cap to bag a Supply Train.”

INTOLERANCE AND KEITH ACTS IN F. 307^TH SHOW

The massive film production “Intolerance, with a record run of one year at the Liberty Theatre, New York, at $2 a seat, will be presented to Upton crance,” with a record run of one year auspices of Company F. 307^th Infantry. The story of “Intolerance” is based on the intolerant attitudes shown during all history from Fiddler Nero to Charley Chaplin. Fifteen thousand people participate in one of the battle scenes, then only rival of this gigantic spectacle being “The Birth of a Nation.” also a D. Q. Griffith production. There will be four star acts of Keith Vaudeville in addition to “Intolerance.”

The admission charge will be 25 cents for officers and 15 cents for men, the former occupying the first ten rows. Tickets can be secured at Company F barrack, 407 Seventh Street. Proceeds will go for company benefit Paul Weinheimer, well known formerly in the theatrical world as Jesse Weill, being in charge. The performance will begin promptly at 7:30 P.M.

MRS. HUMISTON PLEASE NOTE.

Private McCleary of the Sixth Company, 152d O. B., was reading his pocket Testament, and remarked in a casual sort of a way: “Gee, they always told me a guy went to the bad when he joined the army, but I can’t see it. It’s a shame how good I’ve been since I struck this camp, and if I stick around much more they’ll want me to qualify for a ‘Holy Joe.’”

“Them’s my sentiments too,” said Private Jim Austin of the Signal Corps. “A guy gets to be good here whether he wants to or not.”

REMOUNT STATIONS NEW CLUB HOUSE IS OPENED

The 302^nd Remount Depot, one of our most prominent and desirable suburban locations, has opened a charming and cozy little bungalow and clubhouse recently which will be one of the social centers for this locality. The 300 and more men attached to the station have already found it a great factor in keeping happy and comfortable.

Opening night featured Benny Leonard, and he asseverates (yes, boys, Benny can do other things than fight in championship fashion) that the remount crowd is a hearty and fine bunch as he’s met yet. Benny cleaned up so neatly on the talent offered that here was some talk of matching him against the flying hoofs of Hoboken Jane, one of the remount’s prize mulesses. Kiesling’s muscling posing and numbers by members of the depot were featured, in addition to the boxing. Lieut. Pettler’s management of the party underlie its success.

FOR THREE REGIMENTS.

For the information of all companies of the 307^th, 308^th and the Machine gun Battalion, all of which regiments are served by the Eight Street Y. M. C. A. hut, the association social secretary is always ready to extend to any company or group of companies the use of the Y. M. C. A. hut auditorium for clean vaudeville, musical, dramatic or motion picture presentations obtained through the efforts of the company or company or camp talent, for which their individual mess hall accommodations are inadequate. Already a number of such nights have been held with great success, and Mr. Grunert will be glad to talk the matter over with the social or entertainment man and arrange a night for your company and its guests.

COMPANIES I AND K, 307^TH, PUT ON SHOW.

Wednesday, Jan. 9, will never be forgotten by the boys who attended the performance given under the auspices of Company I and Company K, 307^th Infantry.

Private Max Felder of the I outfit secured from the Goldwyn Picture Corporation the great war spectacle film, “For the Freedom of the World.” The picture in seven parts showed the whole possible career of a soldier from the training camp to the front line trenches. This stirring drama of the battlefields was pronounced by the 77^th Division critics the most fascination and interest compelling war story ever seen on the screen here. Private Sender of the K outfit obtained from the Fox Film Corporation a rip-roaring two reel farce, “The Bath House Tangle.” The men could be heard laughing and howling over this gloom-killer all the way to the Long Island Railroad station.

The big hit of the entertainment portion of the programme was piano-playing Sergt. Markel’s own Jazz band, a big time aggregation which he brought out from New York to play for this occasion.

Nearly 1,200 men packed the Fifth and Eight Hut for this big show, and the boys were honored by the presence of a number of officers and their ladies. Col. Irwing, Col. Spooner, Major Rich, Capt. Harrigab, Capt. Holahan, Lieuts. Kenon, Ryan, Lord, McDermott, Miller and others were among these guests. Private Felder and Sender are arranging for another big show next Thursday night, Jan. 17 and will have as the feature of this programme William Hart in his latest drama of the plains, “The Narrow Trail.”

COMPANY H, 308^TH, GIVES ENTERTAINMENT.

The Fourth Platoon of Company H of 308^th Infantry gave a monster entertainment Wednesday night in honor of Lieut. Campbell, who recently joined the Married Men’s Club.

The party opened with a duet by Private Todd of Company H and Private Durkin of 302d Sanitary Train. They were followed by a battle royal which was a scream. Along came the surprise of the night by Private Molfetto and his awkward squad. The barrack was shaken with immense laughter by the awkward squad and its commander. Privates Petti and Russo put in their appearance with some original jokes and songs, which were roundly applauded. Privates Schwartz and Kearney gave a boxing exhibition and spared no blows. Private Andy Carlock of Company H. the pride of the company with the silvery tenor voice, rendered some very pretty selections. Private Ernest Brewer and other members of Company D 308^th Infantry, obliged with some of Mr. Brewer’s latest compositions, which were appreciated by all. Capt. Sterling and his Lieutenants were laughing and smiling the entire evening, which impressed the boys that the entertainment was enjoyable to them. The party ended in great fashion with plenty of refreshments, due to the efforts and supervision of Sergts. McGovern and Raffo, also the tireless efforts of the cooks.

JANUARY 21, 1918

JANUARY 21, 1918

STRENGTH OF O.D. BROTHERHOOD PROVEN

BY THIS INCIDENT

Private Lost Ticket for Trip to Sick Mother, but New Comrades Helped.

The trench of the Olive Drab Brotherhood, to which all members of the 77^th Division belong heart and should has never been evidenced as strikingly as by the help given a private in Company 1, 305^th Infantry, on the way to see his mother, who was very ill. He lost his railroad ticket, and Private Burbach, Company M, 308^th Infantry, began a collection, which more than bought the ticket, and Burbach had the engineer back the train into the station again, when it started off without his succored, 305^th brother. Who was frantically endeavoring to make the departing train with the ticket bought through the generosity of fellow Soldiers.

Here are some of those whose spirit of generosity and fine helpfulness aided the Comrade in distress: Private Horowitz, Company A, 305^th; Privates Smith and Steckler, 152d Deport Brigade; Private Gross, 302d Trench Mortar Battery; Corporals Conlin and Schwab, 407^th Motor Supply Train; Mechanic Power, 306^th Infantry; Private Regan, 302d Engineers; Sergt. R. L. Arnan, 306^th Field Artillery; Privates Greenwood and Schultz, 152d Deport Brigade; Private Haffner, 306^th Infantry, and Private De Bue, 304^th Machine Gund Battalion.

January 21, 1918

PRIZES WILL STIMULATE PRIDE IN COMPANY AND REGIMENTAL AREAS

Hundred and fifty Dollar Awards for Best Policing and Beautifying.

Pride in the appearance of barracks, company and regimental areas has been of encouraging proportions ever since the New York Division went into camp, but the offer of regimental and company prizes for the best-policed and beautified company and regimental areas has already swelled the enthusiasm tremendously for keeping grounds ship shape. One hundred dollars is to be awarded the regiment whose grounds are adjudged most pleasing and scrupulous and $50 to the best company.

The regiments eligible to compete are as follows: 305^th, 306^th, 307^th, 308^th, and 367^th Infantry, 304^th, 305^th and 306^th Field Artillery, 302d engineers, 304^th, 305^th and 306^th Machine Gun Battalions combined. All company organizations are eligible to compete. Conditions governing the competition and awards have been submitted by a Board of governors brought together by order of Gen. Johnson.

The basis on rating regimental areas is on three parts; 30 per cent. On the Sanitary Inspector’s report, 30 per cent. On the Division Inspector’s report and 40 per cent. On improvements and beautifications of the area, monthly ratings are to be made by the inspectors, and the final award will be made by a board appointed by the Division Commander from the reports for the months of January, February, March and April. In rating companies the following are basis’s; Incinerator, bath and toilers, 40 per cent. Interior of barracks, 30 per cent.; exterior of barracks, 30 per cent.

Expenditures are discouraged and if a regiment spends more than $100 or a company more than $50 exclusion from consideration in the prize award will follow. From the wonders that have already been accomplished by some of the units with the aid of a few transplanted pine trees and some concrete and other fixings there will be some miracles wrought within the next three months under the stimulus of the prizes.

SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS VISIT UPTON AND MARVEL AT

PROFICIENCY AND SPIRIT OF THE DIVISION

Are Special Guests of 302d Engineers – Gen. Johnson Commands “His Boys”

Six hundred members of the American Society of Civil Engineers, with two hundred ladies visited Camp Upton Thursday. Col. C.O. Sherrill of the 302d Engineers was in charge of the entertainment of the party. Inspection of the engineers’ section and a regimental review with Gen. Johnson reviewing officer, which revealed a wonderful degree of soldierly efficiency, was the features of the day. The visitors were taken to all the points of interest in the camp. They saw a gas attack, a demonstration of bayonet drill, under the supervision of Capt. Brown, assisted by Sergeant Major Covington of the British Army.

A machine gun demonstration was afforded by the machine gun company, 307^th Infantry, and an exhibition Infantry attack, given by Company L of the same outfit. Luncheon was served at the Acker. Merrall and Condit Hotel. The visitors also made an inspection of the division target range. Their astonishment at the advanced degree of practical training attained by the 77^th Division was widespread and was expressed in enthusiastic approval of the splendid military establishment here at Upton.

Gen. Johnson in addressing the visitors said that in all his years of military experience he had never seen a finer spirit than that existing among the men in Camp Upton.

TALKED $22.50 WORTH TO GIRL, BUT REFUSED

WHEN ASKED TO PAY

Prize three Hour Telephone Conversation Ends With Chase a la Movie.

What the talk was all about and who the lady was at the other and of the wire are questions agitating the camp since a high private from the Deport Brigade pulled the prize one of the season, talking for three hours over the telephone to a girl somewhere in New York. The talker entered a booth in K. of c. Hall at 7 o’clock in the evening. He stayed and stayed, privates gathering interestedly before the glass door and counting off “It’s $15 now. He’s talked $20 worth,” and so on. Finally Mr. Grady started to close up the building and six telephone operators fell on the long-winded gent as he stepped jauntily from the phone enclosure. They told him the amount of the bill - $22.50, and he refused to pay. Whereon the orderlies notified Military Police Headquarters. The talker tried to get away and a posse of orderlies chased him over camp until 3 o’clock in the morning. He was finally apprehended and taken to Military Police Headquarters.

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TAKES LARGER WORK

Mr. W. Eugene Kimball, who has been business manager of the Camp Upton Y. M. C. A. since the beginnings of Camp, has left to take up the larger work of business manager for the Eastern Department of the Red Triangle organization. Mr. Kimball’s departure is generally regretted among associates and a large acquaintance in the military establishment.

Mr. Burton Twitchell, who has served as building secretary of the Fifth and Eighth Street Hunt, will take his place.

306^TH HOLDS FIRST SONG COMPETITION

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Company 1 Proves Most Tuneful in Meet Which Points Toward Division Affair

The regimental sing-song competition waxes space. At least eight organizations are expected in the list of entries, the last date for presenting which to Charles Wayland Towne, manager at Y.M.C.A. Headquarters, is Jan. 29. The first contest will be Jan. 31, with four regiments competing and four will come the following night. The finals will be Feb. 6. This feast of song is to be spread in the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium. A beautiful trophy cup is to be awarded the winner. The basis of award is as follow: Harmony, 25 per cent.; expression, 25 per cent.; enunciation, 25 per cent.; tone quality, 25 per cent. A Board of competent musicians will act as judges, among them the popular Orpheus Five of Los Angles.

An interesting prelude to what may be expected in the way of soldier chorus singing was afforded by the 306^th Infantry sing-song competition, held in the Fourth Street Y.M.C.A. Hut recently. A silver cup is the prize offered. Company I won this first competition, their 25 singers presenting work of peculiar excellence. Col. George Vidmer, in announcing the winner, commented upon the splendid military fashion in which Company I presented their original harmonies. Their opening song, “Be Proud That You Are a Son of America,” was written by Corpl. A. M. Pincus and dedicated to Capt. Marshall. Company 13 ran a close second in the affair, with Companies M and D close on their heels. This first regimental song competition reflects the progressive spirit general in this live doughboy outfit.

“EVERY MAN GET HIS OWN HUN”

BY George L. Moore

(Camp Upton Long Island, N.Y.)

It seems probable that when the full strength of America’s armies are lined up for fight, a shortage of Kaiser will be one of the disappointments to our combatants.

The hope in the bosom of every fighter is to “Get The Kaiser,” with a peculiarly personal slant to the laudable ambition. It is a pet ambition, nestling close to every soldier’s heart, to administer one poke in the regal jaw, one kick in the royal seat of retirement and various pummellings, maulings and manhandlings distributed otherwhere on the Hohenzollern Person.

“Can the Kaiser,” “Get the Kaiser,” “Hit the Kaiser,” and dozens of other kindred phrases rampant in every poem, song or story written by soldiers sum up this ambition.

Isn’t it barely possible that the Last of the Prussian War Lords, being a single, lone and solitary individual, will prove inadequate to these millions of desires for personal vengeance (see accompanying illustration)?

One inspection, slight and cursory though it may be, of the Trench Hoof of the American fighter, with its dangerous steel studs and its efficient horseshoe makes it seem that His Williness is going to find one application of it, propelled forcibly, enough. And several Bared Fists have been seen among our defenders which are of a size and hardness that make a mule’s foot seem like an instrument of soft caress. How long would one (1) Kaiser stand up against the short-arm jabs which use one of these “Dukes” as a weapon? We give Wilheim about thirty (30) linear seconds.

What’s to be done, then? Our Bolsheviki friends might make this a cogent argument for peace: There being a dearth of Kaiser, let us cease our strivings. Let us call off our war dogs, since there isn’t sufficient quarry. As usual, such Nevsky-Prospeck logic has a joker in it.

Its answer is this: Let us transfer some of our desires for personal satisfaction to the few million Plain Huns who have been doing their bit in this war.

Let the slogan be Hunt out the Hun, in addition to the rallying cry, “Kan the Kaiser.”

Despite the bear stories to the contrary, there are undoubtedly enough Plain Huns left to go around. They will make just as good receivers for punches in the jaw, kicks in the shins and pokes in the ribs as their Master. They’ll probably be a trifle more available than Potsdam’s star boarder. And it will be more satisfactory to pick out your own, private, individual Hun than to have to stand in line while several thousand comrades are having their poke at the One and Only Bill. The number of kicks, bites, et cetera, will not be limited when given a personal Hun. It would cause bad feeling if, while the line was impatiently swaying back and forth, each member of it clamoring for “just one little poke at Bill,” some hoggish creature should polish him off with a Single Haymaker. There would be disappointment and untold aggravation.

According to this “every man gets his own Hun” plan, there will be no such embarrassment. There will be no jealousy or bad feeling in the ranks. Everybody will be given a chance. It isn’t democratic to destroy autocracy all by oneself. Give the other fellow a chance. Cease the striving to be First at the Kaiser’s Person. Leave that to a Committee of Experts, and let everyone, all together, pick a Hun of his own.

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DESCRIBING BASEBALL PROVES HARD JOB FOR FRENCH SPORT EDITORS

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The Clark C. Griffith Ball and Bat Fund has sent more than two thousand baseball outfits to the American soldiers “Over There,” and the boys in Khaki have introduced our national pastime in many parts of France. Here is the attempt of a baseball game:

“The theque is the ancient game of ball to the field modified and regulated. One can play to ten, but to well play the theque it is necessary to be eighteen players. The dimension of the ground is illimitable; all the same she ought not to have less than 300 square meters. One traces a polygon, of which each side can have from five to ten meters. The bases are indicated by blocks of wood. The first chamber (home plate) or base is ordinarily a square of two meters of side. The post of emplacement of the lancer (pitcher) ought to find itself at four meters from the first base. The lancer ought not to eject the ball, but lance her in such fashion that she arrived between the shoulder and the knee of the beater (batter). The role of beater is off to bet the ball – as soon as she is served in the direction which he desires (but all the same before this field) and far enough for to permit him of to run at least just to the second base and thus soon again just to the base of return. The play of the opposed field is to send back the ball the most rapidly possible to prevent the beater from to make his run around.”

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FRENCH AS SHE IS SUNG

The Negro solders in France Have invented a French song which they sign while performing their duties back of the lines. The ditty, set to music of the Negroes’ own making, runs something like this:

“Polly vooh Fransay?

Polly vooh Fransay:

Wee, wee, wee!

Ceska say ca sa,

Oo-la-la;

Oo-la-la.

Come bien por sank sous.

Come bien por sies sous.

Oo-la-la.

Oo-la-la!”

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“THE BARRACKS WHEEZE”

By Private Chet Shafer

(310^th Sanitary Train, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.)

With the

Prevalence

Of Mess Room

Activities,

Several soldiers

Have

Shattered

The Records

For

Gourmandizing

Previously

Held by

Some

Poland-China

Hogs.

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Apropos of appetites—

There is a current feeling that the manufacture of bread pudding and hash in the army is strikingly similar to hoarding coupons in civil life.

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The guard house is the little pink pill of military circles.

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“Son”, queried the father, “how are you progressing at camp.”

“I’m getting along nicely,” the youth responded, “but I’m still lacing my Leggings.”

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Of all the pretty alliances of history not one is more beautiful and sublime than the friendly pact between the regulation issue heavies and the goose-pimpled skin of the soldier

Just before taps.

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His recommendation was:

“Before taking my oath of fealty and allegiance I was addicted to the use of pajamas. Now my pajamas are in the bottom drawer of the marble-topped commode in the spare room back home and I sleep in everything but my trench shoes.”

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On the advice Of the Artist: “Read ‘em And weep.”

ENGLISH CLASSES WITH 1,100 STUDENTS AND 89 TEACHERS

ARE HELPING DEVELOP MORE EFFICIENT 77^TH SOLDIERS

By S. F. Mclennan, Camp Educational Secy., Y.M.C.A.)

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Enthusiasm Possesses Students and Teachers – List of Those Instructing.

In every corner of the camp and at various hours of both day and night military schools of every sort are being held-schools of the regular drill, non-com. Schools, the officers’ training school, schools of gassing, machine gun schools, bombing schools, &e.

In addition to these and outside the regular military requirements are the schools organized and operated by the educational secretaries of the Y.M.C.A. Of these, the ones conducted in English are especially interesting.

Rapid Progress Being Made

The English schools are known, formally, as “Schools in English for non-English speaking American soldiers”. The title reveals the problem and the human interest of the organization. Men born abroad and still speaking their own languages, while living in America, were drafted into the National Army. It is obvious that difficulties as to military training would arise at once. Soldiers who know no language but Polish, Russian, Italian, Greek, or other of some score tongues, cannot be given military training by ordinary methods. At this point the Y.M.C.A. offered its services, and with the sanction and co-operation of the military authorities, opened schools for enlisted men who are entirely ignorant of the English language. The teachers and supervisors are taken from the ranks. Many of them are former teachers – some of them having been teachers of English to foreigners before they joined the army. They give their services freely and undertake the work as an addition to their regular military programme. More enthusiastic pupils and teachers could not be found. Rapid progress is being made. One could scarcely find more patriotic service.

In one section of the camp – the 305^th Infantry – schools in English were initiated by the military authorities and are run with great success under the direction of Lieut. Davidow as part of the soldiers’ military programme. This, perhaps, is the ideal scheme.

In both sets of English school, the Gouin method, popularly known as the Roberts method, is followed. The lesions of the Y.M.C.A. schools are wrought out by Sergt. Mantinband and those of the 305^th Infantry by Lieut. Davidow, both former teachers in the New York City schools.

The numbers of teachers in the schools is eighty-nine and the enrollment is 1,100. The names of the teachers in the schools follow: Lieut. Mckay, Lieut. Davidow, Lieut. Browne, Lieut. Nordgard, Lieut. Park, Pvt. Peristein, Pvt. Hyde, Sergt. Albers, Pvt. Bisbano, Corpl. Styles, Sergt. Stembler, Pvt. Charles, Corpl. Loew, Corpl. Koenzler, Corpl. Moscowitz, Pvt. Blumgarten, Pvt. Lew, Pvt. Mendes, Pvt. Murray, Pvt. Bramson, Pvt. Gonsior, Pvt. Tremair, Corpl. Gluck, Pvt. Heyman, Pvt. Weinstein, Mechanic Stokes, Pvt. Wallace, Sergt. Dinzey, Corpl. Dix, Sergt. Murphy, Corpl. Anthony, Corpl. Anderson, Corpl. Malone, Corpl. Overton, Pvt. Rostron, Pvt. Kraus, Sergt. Routh, Pvt. Morris, Pvt. Popper, Corpl. Prendergast, Pvt. Goggin, Corpl. Lippner, Corpl. Isaacs, Pvt. Horwitz, Pvt. Nolan, Pvt. Brown, Corpl. Altman, Sergt. O’Brien, Sergt. Gallup, Sergt. Morehouse, Pvt. Noxon, Pvt. Smith, Sergt. Hurburt, Pvt. Hurlburt, Pvt. Carroll, Sergt. Kittle, Pvt. Copeland, Pvt. Levy, Sergt. Smart, Pvt. Kostoini, Pvt. Keane, Corpl. Von Hoogenstein, Pvt. Restle, Pvt. Goldstein, Pvt. Littner, Pvt. Krulheit, Sergt. Johnson, Sergt. Rosalsky, Pvt. Kasper, Sergt. Whalen, Corpl. Krasiaiski, Corpl. Cartucci, Pvt. Selmonowitz, Pvt. Christoffers, Pvt. Jacobs, Pvt. Eisenstein, Pvt. Niles, Corpl. Minotti, Pvt. Kroeger, Pvt. McCormank, Pvt. Lancaster, Corpl. Ficker, Pvt. Arnold, Corpl. Barrataa, Corpl. Schrelber, Corpl. Sullivan, Pvt. Stockel, Pvt. Owen, Pvt. Silverman, Pvt. Demaree.

DINNER HONORS WRITER WHO INTERPRETED UPTON

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Frazier Hunt Had Shown Some of Human Sides to new Army.

A tribute to a fine personality and distinguished, widely read articles in the New York Sun was the farewell dinner given Frazier (“Spike”) Hunt at Moriches Inn, Centre Moriches, Wednesday night. Capt. M. Brown of the British Mission was another honor guest. Hunt’s work as Upton Sun correspondent has had human value of a rare sort, and has reflected the evolution of the camp in remarkable fashion. Every high officer of the division knew and admired the work of this talented news writer. By special invitation he lived with the 306^th Infantry. He has left Upton to take up work in the city for his paper. Doubleday, Page & Co. brings out “Blown In by the Draft” soon, a book which is largely made up of the stories Hunt wrote about Upton. Thirty or more illustrations in it are done by Capt. J.S.S. Richardson.

Through the informal talks which were made by all the guests was a vein of fine admiration for the honor guest, who himself responded modestly. The dinner was easily a big scoop, and the party throughout was large. Those present were: Major Bozeman Bulger, 306^th Infantry, who presided: Capt. Louis B. Gerow, assistant to Division Adjutant;

Capt. J.S.S. Richardson, Division Intelligence Officer; Capt. Arthur Wolf, 306^th Infantry; Lieut. James Loughborough, 305^th Infantry; Lieut. Thomas e. Stone jr., 307^th Infantry;

Lieut. Lee D. Brown, Assistant Division Intelligence Officer; Mr. Allan smith, instructor in jiu-jitsu; Mr. Earle Hadley, New York Evening Sun; Mr. Lindsay McKenna, New York World; Mr. Edward Clary, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and Mr. Aruthur Cowan.

“Onward, Christian Soldiers”

Suggested As America’s Battle Hymn

What do you think of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” as America’s battle hymn?

A corporal in the Headquarters Troop of the 101^st U.S. Cavalry has suggested this stirring hymn as the battle song of America’s fighting men. Trench and Camp is desirous of ascertaining the opinions of as many soldiers as possible on the adoption of the hymn. Write to the editor and cast your ballot.

In making his suggestion the corporal wrote the following:

“Our great President has-outlined America’s policy and declared to the Teutonic Powers that we seek nothing but justice to the oppressed and an assurance of Everlasting Peace, with the downfall of Autocracy. Can those words mean anything but that we have a righteous cause – that we are the inspiration of our allies – that we are in a war for world freedom – that we are the reserve forces of the almighty sent forth to struggle for weary brothers in arms, who for over three years have stayed the on – rush of the diabolical, God – forsaken foe? Can those words mean anything but that we are the last, final, mighty blow, called on by the very God Him – Self to bring inspiration and new courage to the battle – worn hosts of Righteousness?

“Do we not, therefore, need a battle hymn that characterizes the cause for which we fight and give our very lives and fortunes for its victory? Can it better be expressed than by that old familiar marching hymn of:

“Onward, Christian Soldiers!

Marching as to war,

With the Cross of Jesus

Going on before,” etc?

“Have you ever heard that wonderful hymn blared forth by massed bands? Have you ever listened to your regimental band play it on their way to or from Sunday church service? Have you ever felt the thrill – the cold chill creep up your back until it came with a rush to the very roots of your hair, when you heard it as you marched on parade in the old home town? Is there anything more inspiring in its marching rhythm – its words and simplicity of meaning? Has it not been the old reliable of band leaders for years to bring applause from an unresponsive audience? Does it not appeal to you as the battle hymn of the hour – the very thing we need – that extra something not expressed by bayonets or bursting shells, but the human dynamic force back of them inspired to an overwhelming victorious strength?

We will not have time to sing it in the trenches nor going over the top, but we can sing it and have our bands play it as they march through the streets of America, England, France, Italy and Russia, on our way to the front. It will proclaim to nations very where that America has a divine objective.

“Let us then sing it everywhere, on the march, in the divine service – in our hearts. Let it grow and kindle within us. Let us thoroughly understand our objective in that song, so that no matter what the experience or sacrifice may be we will stick to our task with that tenacity which has ever marked American victory. Therefore let the band's sound off – The Battle Hymn of America:

“ Onward, Christian Soldiers!

Marching as to war,

Going on before,

Christ, the Royal Master,

Leads against the foe,

Forward into battle

See His banners go.”

Commenting on the suggestion, the Camp Hancock edition of Trench and Camp, published at Augusta, Ga., says:

“His suggestion is an excellent one. No hymn is more universally sung. No hymn rings with the martial spirit as does “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” There is a dignity, a sweep of majesty in the setting that enraptures and ennobles any soul the least bit responsive to emotion. We have heard it sung by 20,000 people and the effect was tremendous. It has been sung in our hearing by small gatherings and never does it fail to impart virility and a challenge to the holiest impulses. We heartily endorse the suggestion.”

CANTONMENT TYPES

THE GUARD HOUSE LAWYER

The Trouble Man is an important member of many industrial organizations.

The Trouble Man is also a member of the Army Organization.

He wasn’t elected to the office by a meeting of the Board of Directors, or by a plebiscite. Nor was he lifted, protesting, into his Post of Importance by a firm insistent hand which recognized his worth. The Trouble Man in the Army elected himself. His age-hallowed designation is The Guard House Lawyer. Guard House means Trouble, Lawyer means Man – Trouble Man.

The G.H.L.’s philosophy is that No One Gets into the Bull Pen because He Deserves It, but because of Regulations. Therefore, he achieves a bowing acquaintance with a couple of regulations, and launches into the practice of Guard House Law. He hangs out no shingle, nor does he accept thing from Post Exchange Coupons to loan of a razor.

His legal opinion is freely given on anything from overstaying leave with failure to make reveille to ducking retreat – all in the day’s work. He often scents out with uncanny directness the lad facing court-martial or a grilling less serious. The G.H.L. reads signs, clouded brow, unusual nervousness, peaked and drawn face.

Don’t worry, leave it to me, I’ll give you the straight dope,” is his message.

“Now, you want to go at it this way,” and he spills out in a mixed-up jumble the segment of Regulations he’s learned. “They can’t get you for that, if you’ll just hand ‘em a little stiff stuff from the Regulations.”

So he counsels. If his scent has deceived him, and he finds that his victim is overcast because there’s been no letter from Her, he quotes Regulations just the same.

But he forfeits even friendly gratuities in such a case. Perhaps he might be given the loan of a razor but it would be forcibly applied – to his throat.

AMERICA’S PART

Our troops have been advised by Secretary Baker that on them will fall the burden of the next campaign. And this is not be wondered at. France has already lost in casualties more than two million men; the British casualties are nearly one million. This we know. Germany has not made her wounds public, but no censorship can conceal the fact that Germany has suffered a desperate and deadly toll in her assault upon the peace of the world. The Crown Prince had more casualties at Verdun than the United States has men in training in fifteen cantonments. The Austrians lost 400,000 men to Brussiloff in early summer of 1916 and the steady wearing out of German men, from Messines and White Sheet to the Vosges Mountains, has gone on with increasing acceleration.

In spite of this loss on both sides the war has not been settled. Far from it, for German received new resources in men and material by the cessation of effective Russian hostilities for many months. Therefore, America faces the task of winning the war or seeing all that has been done heretofore dissipated in useless efforts. Victory is all that counts now. A Headlock peace means nothing.

Those who know the heart of America have no doubt what America’s answer will be. There is no race for both Democracy and despotism in the civilization of the white races. One or the other means triumph.

Four years ago no one would have believed that Germany could have come so near definitely turning back the hands of progress. And to –day the world knows it is a desperate fight to a finish. We even begin to doubt whether the German people themselves want to be set free from Prussian domination. German people of the next generation, men and women who have been raised in a free atmosphere of unfettered thought, and who have been allowed to come to their own conclusions and express the will of their own minds in self-government, will naturally love freedom and will, when gained, maintain it, but those who for two generations have been taught by Prussian masters, preached to by Prussian preachers, drilled by Prussian sergeants and ordered to death by Prussian generals – out of the hearts of these men something has gone that seems to set them aside from the ranks of those who would die to be free.

And so against men whose hearts are proof against the appeal for freedom; whose minds are so beclouded they cannot see that England, America and France are fighting not to destroy German, but to set her free along with the rest of the world, there is no other means of approach except through the field of battle. To this crusade comes America. All that a government can do our government has done or is doing. In spite of mistakes which we all know, we have accomplished great and unparalleled works in preparation and efficiency. Our troops have been convoyed to Europe without the loss of a single man, and they will be kept there, supported and fed and cared for with foresight and with abundance. This rest lies with the soldiers, and those who know the homes in the prairies and mountains and the lowlands from which these Americans have come know well that from their parents these soldiers have imbibed courage and patriotism that will be proof against all distress, that will endure all hardships, that will meet the German wiles and snares, and will stand at length triumphant in the forefront of those who have sacrificed all that the world might be made safe.

England and France have held the Hun. Now comes America, with England, France and Italy, to inflict such a defeat upon Prussian autocrats as will forever establish in this world the truth that Democracy is able to protect itself in the face of whatever assaults.

This is the reason for our entrance into the war, and with bayonet and grenade, with trench mortar and rifle fire, with aero planes and cruisers, the Americas will force their way to glorious victory!

FEBRUARY 12 LAST DAY TO TAKE OUT INSURANCE

February 12 is the last day on which soldiers in the American Army may insure their lives.

Every solider should avail himself of the opportunity to purchase insurance before that date. This is the first time in the history of the world that any government ever insured its fighting men. The rates are incredibly low and the protection of the highest and best.

America’s soldiers should show their appreciation of this great boon by taking as much insurance as they can pay for without “strapping” themselves. If private insurance companies insured soldiers the rates would be several times those quoted by the Government. The rates were published in last week’s issue of Trench and Camp and the officers in charge of insurance in the various camps will be glad to talk over the matter with any man contemplating insurance.

Don’t wait until the last minute to insure yourself. There will be a big rush on the final day and you want to keep out of that so as to be sure you get your insurance and to lighten the burdens of the insurance officers. Insure today.

GERMAN INVINCIBLE?

Since the German Army was defeated at the Battle of the Marne in the autumn of 1914, it has not achieved a victory on any front where it was opposed by a force of similar size, with man for man and gun for gun.

“Victories she has gained, to be sure, in Serbia, in Roumania and in demoralized Russia, where men in high command betrayed their trust,” says a military writer, “but nowhere has she met an enemy of equal strength, in any field, without recoiling.”

The German people have been “fed up” on masterful retreats” and spectacular drives against small armies, but for the most part the German army has been “advancing to the rear” and the end is not yet.

“PERFECTLY KILLING”

THE Libertyville Home Guards in Waukegan, Ill., were giving their first exhibition drill. Mrs. John Kingman, a farmer’s wife, was approaching in buggy drawn by an ancient horse.

The horse took one look at the formations and dropped dead.

CONGRESS CAN COMPEL MILITARY

SERVICE SAYS SUPREME COURT OF U.S.

In upholding the constitutionality of the selective service law, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the power given Congress to declare war includes power to compel citizens to render military service both at home and abroad. The draft law came before the Supreme Court when the appeals of thirteen persons were heard. The thirteen appellants, among them Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, were convicted of either attempting to evade the draft law or trying to induce others to not register. This is the final decision on the selective service law.

A ROOKIE’S NERVE

During some recent maneuvers a raw recruit had been told off as orderly.

On reaching the marquee where the officer was he poked his head in and bluntly inquired:

“Have ye anything for me to do, mister?”

Disgustedly laying down his cigar, the officer exclaimed:

“Why the deuce don’t you introduce yourself in a proper manner?

Sit down,” he added, “and I will show you how to report yourself.”

The “rookie” seated himself and the officer, proceeding to the entrance, walked briskly into the tent, saluted, and said:

“Orderly for the day, sir. Have you any orders for me?”

The recruit calmly picked up the discarded cigar from the table and, between puffs laconically replied:

“No, there’s very little doing today. You can hoof it!”

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THE BEST WAY

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FEBRUARY 11, 1918

GOVERNOR'S GLOWING COMMENDATION SUGGESTED ANOTHER N.Y. PARADE

308th Does Service for National Army in Showing Degree of Surprising Efficiency Achieved in Training.

The 308th Infantry parade through the humanity-jammed New York thoroughfares is now a matter which historians and movie exhibitors will tell the world. "In and around the reviewing stand the magnificent bearing of the outbursts of applause and cheering that voiced itself warmly enough, despite the chilling blasts that made all spectators pinched if not frost-bitten. Who will be next to parade? is the big question now.

Gov. Whitman Suggests.

Gov. Whitman was so impressed with the splendid showing made by the men whom he saw only a few months ago marching down Fifth Avenue as raw civilians that he wrote Gen. Johnson a glowing enthusiastic letter and expressed the hope that other parades would be held of like nature. The letter was sent out by Major Haskell, Chief of Staff, as a division order, with comment in which Gen. Johnson expressed his gratitude and thanks for the fine work of officers and men.

"They looked and acted soldiers to the last button." Thus further spoke one of the "Public Prints," with much more enthusiastic commendation of the showing made by Col. N. K. Averill's regiment. Many notables were in the reviewing stand, including Gov. Whitman, Mayor Hylan, Gen. Johnson, Gen. Radiquet of the French army, a Marne veteran, and Major Gen. W.A. Mann, who commanded the Rainbow Division when it went to France.

Before the parade Gen. Johnson and staff, with Gov. Whitman, were guests at luncheon in the Union League Club. The Acting Commanding General paid high tribute to the Upton men, saying that New York's contribution to the National Army was one of the finest and most gentlemanly bodies of men he had ever met. He is assured that this State will hear good reports of their sons when they get to the front.

"GIRLS IN BLUE" ADD TO HOME TOUCH AT Y

Get Paper a Sheet at a Time Now-Boys Appreciative.

There used to be a lot about the "boys in blue," but the most popular attractions at two of the Fifth Avenue "Y" huts are the "girls in blue" who are serving as volunteer secretaries behind the association counters. At the hut at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street Mrs. Willard D. Straight and the Misses Fuller and Damrosch are serving, and at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street the Misses Alexander and Hollins are stationed. Stamps and writing paper have an added attraction these days, and the boys, instead of asking for six sheets and six envelopes when they wish to write a number of letters, ask for one so they can come back a second and third and fourth time. That the service these ladies are rendering is appreciated by the soldiers and the "Y" secretaries alike is putting it mildly, for morning, afternoon and evening of each day the boys, hungry for the home touch, eagerly pour their confidences into the sympathetic ears of these Junior League workers who render this service sincerely and impersonally.

CONCERT SATURDAY.

The second of the orchestral concerts offered by the Metropolitan Museum, Fifth Avenue and Eighty second Street, to soldiers and sailors and their friends will take place on Saturday evening Feb. 16, from 8 to 10 o'clock. A fine programme will be performed by an orchestra of fifty five men under David Mannes, conductor. Everybody is welcomed, and there is no charge for admission, the expense of the two concerts being borne by a generous friend of the museum and of the men in the national service.

A BATTLE OR WHAT?

Sergt. Louie Arrock, then genial mess-master of the Quartermasters' Corps, says that there are some parts of a beef that are just simply bound and determined to be tough. Perhaps this explains the remark of Capt. Cecil Hook as he paused before the plate of Sergt. Sigel: "Is this a battle or a beefsteak?"

Intimate Parade Aftermath.

(By S.E.M., Trench and Camp's Crashing Contrib.)

We were getting quite hungry when along came a blessed angel and drops a bag of eats and three (count 'em) boxes of cigarettes in the big gray ambulance. "Oh! what a gran' and gloryus feelin'!"

Lillian Walker, "the movie queen." blew kisses galore to the boys as the ferry pulled out the 34th Street pier.

Sergt. Boynton, who hails from the metropolis of St. Ignane, Mich., was afraid the throng would swamp the poor soldiers.

You should have seen the rush when it was announced that coffee and sandwiches were to be served. For a moment it was thought that the M.P. would have to be called out.

And to think that only five months ago some of these birds were neurotic looking office clerks! Talk about a healthy looking crew!

Only thirty-three members of Pvt. Marshall Cowitz's family followed the ambulance. They could not be convinced that it did not contain any coal until they had a look.

Someone shouted to the medical stretcher bearers, "Hey, boys; don't forget to bring back the Kaiser on one of these!"

The last man in the parade hoped they would give an order. "To the rear, march!" so that he could lead the parade.

ALL-BATTERY PARTY FAREWELLS CAPTAIN.

Capt. E. Powis Jones was tendered a farewell surprise entertainment by his men of Battery F, 304th F.A., on his departure for the school of fire, Fort Sill, Okla. The numbers on the programme were by Battery F talent solely and were arranged by Sergt. Wesley Karlson and Corpl. Powers as follows: 1st Sergt. R. Kosky, Master of Ceremonies; Corpl. James J. Hagan jr., at the piano; Private Marcella, cornet solo; Corpl. Fitzpatrick, soft she dancing; Private Rosner, vocal solo; Private Yap, Hawaiian music; Corpl. Powers, monologue and song; Privates Griffin, Larson and Early, comedy skit; Private Restie, vocal solo; Private Schwartz, monologue; Private Marion, harmonica melody; Buglers Schmidt, Marcella and Reale, black face comedy; Private Lorenz, reading from Donald Hankey's " A Student in Arms;" Sextette, battery songs composed in the battery and dedicated to the Captain.

The mess afterward was Christmas, New Year's and Peace Plenty rolled n one. Mess Sergt. Claude S. Bell, a nephew of Old Mr. Epicurus himself, had charge. Capt. Jones made a short addresses, expressing his appreciatin for the affair.

ANOTHER NEEDLE IS ON JOB HERE

15,000 Infantrymen are Inoculated With New Pneumonia Serum.

Another needle has found its way into the lives of Upton men. It shoots a serum never used before on soldiers, and the 15,000 infantrymen here who have taken it act with the inoculation in them will determine whether or not it will be introduced into the whole body of American troops. This new inoculation is for pneumonia and the fluid used is called pneumociccun vaccine. It was prepared by the Rockefeller Institute, but will also be made by the army laboratories. It was used on the South African miners with considerable success and if the immunity offered is for a long enough term it is thought that the serum will be generally adopted in the American Army.

Officers here were inoculated first and the 15,000 men in the infantry regiments were then given their first shot. Three, and perhaps four, injections are to be administered, with five-day intervals. Capt. Russell L Cecil of the base hospital has supervision of the treatment. The dough-boys who've taken it will be observed and if thier health proves better than the rest of the camp all Upton's citizenry may be given the inoculation. The new serum is said to be effective for the three virulent forms of pneumonia which are prevalent among soldiers.

TWO SERGEANTS-MAJOR GIVEN COMMISSIONS

It's some slight leap from Sergeant to Captain, but it takes a Camp Upton man to make just that sort of an unusual and unprecedented jump. Edward S. Greenbaum, regimental Sergeant Major attached to the Division Judge Advocate's office, has just received his commission as Captain, and has been assigned to the insurance department of the Adjutant General's office. Capt. Greenbaum is a New York drafted man, and came down with one of the first increments. He was formerly a lawyer and is the son of Judge Greenbaum of the Supreme Court.

And at the same time, another Sergeant Major received a commission. Howland S. Davis, who has been attached to the Division Headquarters detachment assisting the Division Adjutant, received a First Lieutenant's commission. He was formerly a broker in New York.

BIGGEST MILITARY BALL WILL HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR BIG COMMUNITY HALL

Upton Officers and Men Will Dance at 7th Armory Feb.22.

To raise funds for the big community hall here, to seat 10,000 soldiers, a military ball-the biggest in the history of balls, base, basket, foot or military- is to be held in 7th Regiment Armory on the night of Feb. 22.

President Wilson has been invited to attend.

Tickets will be sold to officers and enlisted men alike, and this is said to be the first occasion when officers and men will dance at the same ball. Mass singing by the boys is to be a big feature. The grand march will begin at 9:30 and, boys, its it's an inducement, remember you won't have to carry a rifle or do any double quick. Dancing will continue until 12:30.

Among the patronesses are Mmes, Henry P. Wickes, J. Purroy Mitchell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Rolfe E. Bolling, Donne Barber, Sidney C. Borg, Walter Lewisohn, T. Mortimer Lloyd, Skeffington S. Norton, Edwin O Holter, Howard Mansfield, John M. Bowers, Irving T. Bush, Evan Evans, George P. Robbins and James W. Gerard. Tickets of admission, mates are a dollar apiece and reserved seats are three iron men. How many? Let's go big!

Mrs. Joseph F. Choate is Chairman of the committee for the community hall, which is to be erected in the community centre of camp and is to be the largest building in the reservation. Quite a sum has already been raised toward it.

CAMP LIBRARY IS NOW OPEN

Building, Costing $10,000, With Equipment Same, Has 8,000 Volumes.

The latest completed addition to "Our Village Centre" is the Camp Upton Library, Central Branch, located just below Officers' House, on Upton Boulevard. Every day the building is open from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M., and beside a collection of eight thousand books on the shelves, has magazines and newspapers for use by enlisted men and officers. The building, large, airy and exceedingly attractive, was created at a cost of $10,000, from the Carnegie Library Fund. The American Library Service, War Service Department (A.L.A), furnished the equipment at a like cost, and conducts the library.

In addition to the volumes on hand the Upton Library has access through a loan arrangement, to all the leading libraries of the country, including the Congressional Library at Washington and the New York State Library. Books are needed however, by the A.L.A. to put at the constant disposal of soldiers. When you write home, suggest the gift of books as a fine way to help things along. Donations may be left at any of the New York Library branches.

A staff of four, headed by Frank L. Tolman, is in charge of the Upton Library and will be glad to offer any help and suggestions to men seeking books. The Library is well supplied with works on modern warfare, and will probably be used for officers' training school and other lectures, with the needed reference works thus close at hand.

ARTILLERYMEN ARE FAST ON MASKING

Battery D, 305th F.A., proved speediest gas mask adjusters in a recent gas defense contest held in the Artillery Y Hut, Batteries D, E and F participating. Lieut. Mitchell, gas instructor, directed the contest. The teams were composed of twelve men each, with five events in the contest. The first one was adjusting masks against time, won by Battery D. The other four were relays in column formation, a competition held frequently over camp by the gas maskers. At the signal "Gas" the first man on a team runs for his mask, returns and adjusts it, touching the next man, who goes and does likewise. D won two of these contest and E two, placing D first in the meet with 60 points. E scored 40. The judges were First Lieuts. Watson Washburn, Lawrence L. Shenfield, D.J. Cronin, Donald F. Taylor and Second Lieut. Warren W. Nissley. First Lieut. A.R. Gurney was timekeeper. Each battery had a husky rooters contingent that offered their best backing.

From the 307th Infantry

WHIFFS FROM COMPANY F.

According to Eighth Class Acting High Private Fred Haupt: Fred sez, that if he ever gets back to civil life, some Saturday night he'll forget himself, walk up to his wife, stand at attention, salute and stutter for a few seconds to clear his throat. Then he will feebly ask for a leave of absence. "See the Captain," will say Madame Wife, Mother-in-law, upon be consulted, waves her hand to where Granny sits and says, "Better ask the major." According to our opinion, Fred will want to come back to the army about then.

No wonder Cohen's hard on shoes. He has won the cross country championship record running for second helpings in the mess hall. He hasn't missed a double portion yet, for while the rest of the gang is saying its prayers over the first, Cohen is away with a rush and another plateful.

Harold Boyd says he's the fellow who wrote Annie Laurie. But she never answered him.

There's a run on Y.M. stationery. Reason; Bernie Gold and his girl back home.

OVER COMPANY G WAY.

Company F's basketball five fell fore fingers recently, and it looks as if Sergt. Sol Goldstein's men will make a bid for the regiment championship. The team works like a clock, and that's what beat F, the score being 17 to 4.

Upton Follies, C and D.

The Upton Follies are nigh at hand. Companies C and D, 307th, are bringing them out at the 5th and 8th Y Hut. The publicity expert announces a deluge of "telegrams" and "recommendations" in other form from celebrities far and near. Will Hohenzollern wires: "Your show makes me sick. I hope it's a frost. Yours for an early peace." Victor Herbert's "message" reads thus: "Officer Packard twin sis, 1-2 pound sugar, two pounds of coal and 100 acre farm for sing-boosting privileges." The D and C boys promise faithfully that they'll come through in spite of their publicity agent.

Sanitary Detachment.

Reginald Goudey, Joseph Abelow, John M. Maurice and David Schlyn are on detail at the Base Hospital and like the work.

Michael Longo has purchased a saddle for the horse he now has charge of. On trying the saddle on the horse he finds it is large enough to fit an elephant.

Harry Koorbusch has returned to duty after a short illness. We sure missed Harry and greatly welcome his return.

William Harbaugh has charge of the twelve horses and three mules of the Sanitary Detachment. This is what Will likes, as he just loves quadrupeds. How about it, Will?

Lawrence McGuire has relieved the boys from guard at night by staying awake and keeping on the lookout for fire. He was known in the city as being a night owl.

William A. Feldman, whose jawbones have great chewing power, has been given the nickname of "The Maxilla Wonder."

"Y" PERSONALITIES.

The 306th Infantry feels a keen regret, shared among men and officers, at Arthur B. Hunt's leaving Y work for active service but congratulates him on it, and wishes him the best nevertheless. Mr. Hunt has been Building Secretary of the Y at Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street, and has built up a splendid work in the regiment which his building serves. His "intimate teas" become quite an institution in the regiment. He joins the hospital unit.

W.F. Wefer, Physical Secretary, Fifth Avenue and First Street, has left for Alentown to train with the American Ambulance. "Bill" enjoyed a wide popularity among the 305th Infantrymen. His place is taken by Gilbert S. Swem of Brooklyn, who has been with the Y at Kelley Field, San Antonio, Tex.

S.L. Hedrick, Social Secretary of the Artillery Y, made the address at the dedication of a service flag in the Methodist Church, East Quogue, L.I., recently. Private Fred Harvey, Battery E, 306th F.A., also made an address on "The Spirit of the Soldiers in Camp."

VETERINARY CORPS HAS SOME FIGHTING FELLOWS

The Veterinary Corps, No. 206 15th Street, boasts of having some real fighting me. Corpl. Melino and his squad, Privates Fred Foster, Peter Crean, John Silvester, George Gardner, Lester Conners, Al Maier and George Sinonetti, who are spoiling to go "over there" and end the war, fight among themselves constantly. And there is also Private John Silvester's organization, the "Blue Overalls." There is Corpl. Shiff's squad of "panhandlers," consisting of Privates Tom Carroll, "Fat" Sallish, Isaac Winestock, John Bodicker, "Red" Noon, "Sleepy" Farrell, Jimmy Liebman and Charles Brandt, Private Carroll, the dizzy man, who needs air every twenty minutes, and Private Forster, who doesn't like himself at all. The same squads are also skilled French leavers and have nerve enough to ask their Lieutenant for a pass afterward. Lately Private Carroll said he was going to the laundry. It took him five days, going and coming. Now he wears "the blue."

FROM THE HILL TOWER

The 77th Division's new name, picked by Gen. Johnson- the Metropolitan Division-isn't so very unlike Melting Pot Division, after all. Simply a slight difference in the arrangement of letters. But wrap the tongue around them fast- "Melting Pot" and "Metropolitan"- and they're not so dissimilar.

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And speaking of words, there is the Sergeant in a Depot Brigade Company who found of how little value words are at times. A non-English speaking private tried to force seconds from the K.P.'s before the rest of the bunch had firsts. "Couldn't you demonstrate a trifle more appreciation and consideration for the feelings of your brothers?' was Sarge' a gentle suggestion. "No wanna englis word, wanna steak." was the pointed defense.

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Private M.C. Nowve, Company C, 308th, has brought up again the matter of lines. He recalls the mess hall line, the equipment line, the payroll line and, of course the skirmish line. Then there are those lines which the guard forgets when asked for his General orders. Here's some skeins of mess line untangled and versified by Private Nowve:

We wait and pine on the weary line.

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For the Mess Sergeant's whistle blas'

But his smiling face no worried trace

As he watches the minutes pass:

Not one moment too soon will he blow his tune,

Though we yell, and grow unsteady

But when done and up is our time to sup.

He'll announce that, "Mess is ready!"

After inspecting officer tells the sergeant to take some man's name on account of a dirty rifle, did you ever ask this man what the officer said to him? They're all alike evry one would answer in practically the same words. "Oh," he would say "my rifle was fine, the officer said only a speck of dust must have dropped under my sight-leaf." One of these days we are going to get up sufficient nerve to ask the inspecting officer what really was the trouble.

Undoubtedly, the answer will be unprintable.

With oily rag and elbow grease,

You rub each hidden section;

You vanquish rust and punish dust, just to pass inspection;

You pick on bolts and screws untold,

Then dry the oily smears.

And when you swear it's beyond compare.

Dust somewhere else appears!

REGULAR COLLEGE STUFF WHEN THESE TEAMS CLASH.

The spirit vented at a big floor game between two rival colleges has nothing on the demonstrations that accompany games in which Companies D and K, 306th Infantry, played D (Tyner's Tough Terriers) finally pulled ahead, after neck and neck battling, the final score standing 37-28. The K boys sent their supporters into paroxysms of delight by cropping the first eight points, but Tyner's gang took a fresh hold and crept slowly up on the lead, with the above result. Doxee, D's diminutive forward, caged four goals in succession as a contribution to the victory. His mates became raving, ranting rioters when the game was over and nearly bulged the K.C. Hall roof with their demonstration. D at present leads the regiment league and promises to bid strongly for the title.

First National Army Circus- 308th- to Have Everything, Including Parade and Peanuts

Equestrians, Equilibrists, Fat Lady, Trained Animals, Double Headed Boy.

The Big Show-Col. Averill's World Famous Wild East, West, North and Southwest Attractions and Nickabucker Circus- is soon to be in town. Parade Lincolin's Birthday. Free attractions and everything from Equestrians to Equilibrists under the Big Top in the Y Auditorium. Cossack Dancers, Arabian Pyramiders, Nerbo (Formerly N.Y. Hippo-drome) in the Dive of Death, Clowns, Clowns and a third time Clowns, Trick Cyclists, Aerial Artists, Trained Animals, including every known and guessed at variety from the Peruvian Pistachiohound to the famous Australian Ibex which flies backward to keep dust from its eyes, Baby Emma, the Two Headed Boy, Tosko the Double Boy, the Wurruld's Tallest Lady. Step right in, ladies and gen'l'men.

Oh, there's any amount besides , of attractions equal to these. Any one in the 308th who has seen aught of the preparations will tell you that it's positively the biggest National Army show ever attempted. Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb, 12 and 13, are the dates, Y Auditorium the place. And from all data that could be gathered, with practically every precinct in-this is the first National Army Circus.

CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN HEAD ON TOUR PRASIES UPTON

Bishops Hayes Inspects Cantonment and Confers with Chaplains.

That Upton is far beyond the fine reputation it has over the country as one of the best camps was the assurance of the Right Rev. Patrick J. Hayes, Auxiliary Bishop of New York Catholic Church, and Catholic Chaplain General of the United States Army and Navy, during his recent visit here. He is on four months' inspection tour to the military camps and naval stations and conferred here with the Catholic Chaplains, Lieut. Thomas J. Dunne, 30th Infantry; Lieut. James J. Halligan, 308th Infantry; Lieut. John J. Sheridan, 305th F.A.; Francis W. Walsh, 307th Infantry, and Lawrence W. Bracken, Knights of Columbus Chaplain.

The Bishop was taken on a tour of the cantonment, had a half-hour interview with Gen. Johnson and lunched with Major Haskell, acting Chief of Staff.

306TH F.A. MARCH COMPOSED BY SOUSA

The 306th Field Artillery has taken on a new and striking distinction with the "United States Field Artillery March" by Lieut. John Phillip Sousa, famous bandmaster, dedicated to the officers and men of the regiment. Lieut. George Friedlander, who has organized the regimental band, was largely responsible for getting the talents of the famous bandman directed along 306th lines. The old artillery song "When the Caissons Get Rolling Along," has been woven into the piece, and Secretary of the Navy Daniels encouraged the idea. The cover of the music is no less distinguished, being the work of J.E. Kelly, an eminent sculptor. The design shows an artilleryman on horseback, with "306" above the crossed cannons on a guidon.

BATTALION BOXING BRINGS THE DAY OF INTER-REGIMENTAL FIGHTING NEAR

306th Mitt men Fighting it Out-Tells Friend Adolphe About Big Cup Competition in 307th,

Boxing continues a strong favorite in the Metropolitan Division, and several regiments are gradually creeping up on the regimental championship. The 306th Infantry has about reached the finals, inter-battalion semi-finals having received advancement this week. The star mittmen of the First and Second Battalions fought at the 4th and 5th Y Hut, and some fast and flaming fighting resuited with the Second Battalion winner finally, three bouts to one. Benny Leonard acted as referee, and Lieuts. Lawrence and McLear were judges. The results: 122-lb. class- Private Bartenbach, Co. C, beat Private B. Kaplan, Co. E. 135-lb- Private Lombardi, Co. C., beat Private Cresci, Co. G. 145-lb- Private J. Tiplitz, Co. G., beat Private Callahan, Co. B. 160-lb- Private Kaufman, Co. E, beat Private Devancy, Co. C. Heavyweight- Private Duffy, Co. F, beat Private Scully, Co. C.

CUP AND PRIZES GIVEN HERE.

The Second Battalion, 307th Infantry, fought out the battalion championship for a beautiful trophy cup, among other fisticuff events. Louis Goodman, Co. E, has given the following account of it to his friend Adolphe, and gives Trench and Camp the privilege of printing it:

At the Y.M.C.A., Camp Upton, L.I.

Monday night, Feb. 4, 1918.

My Dear Friend Adolphe:

Ven I heard dot a prize fight was going to take place, and admission for nothing, I yust vent dere so early dot I could get ah gooten seat. But to my sorrow I could not get in, as the doors were closed.

At the place vas so many peoples dot I was thinking for sure I vould not be able to see the first fight. But ven the doors opend I pushed so hard dot I found myself sitting 5 rows in front of the stage.

The muzik started to play, Den Benny Lemonade said I vill tell you who is ah better fighter.

The muzik stoped, den two rel fighters step on the stage, and some one said in dis corner is Gilligan of Company E and dot corner is Brofy of Company F. Ven I heard dot Gilligans name I knew dot someting vas going to happen. Vat should I tell you? The fighters said Hello, and right avay far noting Gilligan hit Brofy. Vell dot started the whole trouble. The vistle blew and dey stopped. Den dey started again. Gilligan got so mad dot he knocked Brofy down, who forgot to get up. The band began to play and the Irish loafer walked off from the stage and all the peoples clapped their hands.

The vistle blew again and two big piano movers valked on the stage, and somebody said in dis corner iss Benjamin of Company H and dat corner iss Mahoney of Company E. They also said Hello, and den Mahoney gave Benjamin right in the face. Everytime Mahoney hit Benjamin he laid down and jumped up again. Diss got Mahoney mad and he gave it to him ah punch dot he forgot to get up.

The next fight vas between Silotopolsky of Compnay E and Gardinar of Company F. This vas a goot fight because both of them forgot to lay down. Everting vent vell until in the third round Soltopolsky made ah funny face at Gardinar and he got so scared dot he put up his hands and said I don't vant to fight any more.

Say, the next fight vas also a goot vone. It was so interested dot all Officers of Co. E viggled in dere seats yust as if dey had taken Epsom salts. Yeh, yeh, dot Litowitz of Co. E has goted ah left hand which fitted Dorsen's nose of Co. F. Litowitz vas dancing up and down. Dis got Bennah Lemonade so mad dot he said Mister Litowitz you are the best fighter.

And to make a goot job for Co. E dey made dot Mahoney fight a big fat fellow whose name is Sossman of Co. G. To make a long story short, Mahoney pushed dot Sossman so many times to and under the ropes dot Benny Lemonade stopped the fight and told Mahoney dot he vas the better fighter.

This fight finished all the trouble. Den Maj. Jay gave all the vinners ah silver cigarette case mit no cigarettes, and to Co. E he gve ah big cup dot if dot if it was filled mit beer it vould fill many ah thirsty heart. I forgot to tell you dot Perkel the champion bantam fight of the vorld of Co. E sprung a friend from New York; his name vas Bernstein. Dem to feller vas doing fency fighting. Dot feler Perkel also got a silver box, as dere vas vone who wanted to give him ah real fight. Do you know who vas the whole trouble from dis fight? Dot vas Lt. Fields of Co. E. Dot feller vas showing all the fighters from Co. E how to win.

Adolphe: If ever Co. E is going to fight again, don't forget to bet. You positively vill vin.

Regrettin dot the Kaiser vas not here to recieve some of the knockout vallops, I remain, your friend,

LOOIE.

MACHINE GUN RATTLE

305th

An orchestra is in the process of construction and promises to be a corker. The boys in this battalion are also working hard to stage a show at the Y hut, Fifth and Eighth. Private Liebling, Company B, and Corpl. Collins, a pianist and tenor, are forming a quartet that will be second to none.

Headquarters Company and Medical Detachment played a game of indoor baseball out of doors last week which ended in a tie.

Corpl. Schmidt, the orchestra leader of Company A, rendered some very beautiful selections on the violin last Sunday evening at the Y hut, Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street, and was accompanied on the piano by Private West of Company C. They answered to eight encores from the audience.

306TH

A tug-of-war between Companies A and B is scheduled for Saturday night and promises to be some battle. The boxing tailor of Company A is scheduled for a return bout with his sparring partner for this night also. A sporting editor is to be appointed by each company by each company in all three battalions and all news forwarded to E. G. Riegel, physical director at Y hut at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street every week and he will publish the news in Trench and Camp.

The basketball teams are now battling for the championship in their battalions, being quite far advanced. A boxing tournament is in the process of organizing six different weights and promises to be full of pep. We are very pleased to say that Benny Leonard is again on the job giving lessons.

MME. BERNARD SINGS.

The 19th Y Hut was jammed for a concert by Mme. Ernestine Bernard and the Depot Brigadiers showed hearty appreciation of her splendid singing. Private Holt, 12th Company, 152d Depot Brigade, brought Mme. Holt here.

308TH INFANTRY

Company C.

An interesting manual of arms competition in the fourth platoon went to Col. Frank Hogan, and the showing of the platoon as a whole was so good that Lieut. Schobeck has challenged any other platoon in the company.

There's one chap gets the goat of mine, Just he and he alone:

He rubbed the "B" clear off the sign

That said "No Brooms to loan."

Who, oh who, would not be a top sergeant? Our top, Charles E. Brroks waits till the mess line-up is the longest, then walks gracefully past it and takes his place at the front, not forgetting the merry "Ha."

FROM COMPANY C.

Private Callahan has been given up fighting in the ring. Not another glove will he put on. He's married.

After reading "Dessert Gold," Corpl. Treakle has entered the engineering school. Is there any connection corporal?

Sergt. Bonaventure got "Good Luck" from everybody before leaving.

Corp. Korn is handy at showing the ladies the Points of the Perfect Non-Com.

As a soldier Private Graham is some actor. He was formerly with the Hippodrome and can impersonate 'em all.

Corp. Merolla's song when receiving a pass: "All the camp will be jell-us of me-hee!"

NOTES FROM THE ENGINEERS

Company F has long labored under the classification of "Rough Neck." So was Edison when he was young, and Company F is fast assuming Edison-like attributes. They sure did pull a new one of the rest of the regiment. This weeks contribution to science of invention consists of the "pie-pool." Any solider caught using profanity contributes one cent to the pool. Every time this pool reaches 30 cents a rush is made to the regimental exchange for the pie. This makes the pie-pool. The exchange officer reports a large increase in the pie business without any noticeable decrease in the regimental cussing. So the system works well and recommendation is made that other companies follow suit.

Speaking of Company F, they used to be a rough looking lot until the powers that be decided that no solider would be sloppy looking if he only could see himself as others see him. Hence the large and beautiful mirror in the hallway of the barracks.

Sergt. Ryder, Company D, came across with a rush last week and is now master engineer, junior grade. He hates to leave Company D, even for this new job, but is determined to go the limit. Ye scribe understands that there are other opening for active young men who desire to rise.

The regimental practice march on Monday was well attended, The 1st battalion reached the rendezvous first, but they had half a mile less to go than the 2d Battalion. Dinner was served out at Cross Roads 72, south of the rifle range. The regiment returned to camp in a body, solving a tactical problem. The whole march was enjoyed as a welcome change from trench digging and no man fell out in the whole march of over ten miles. That is the same record and one which the regiment should be proud of. With the will to do, as in the case of the engineers, hard work is a pleasure. The satisfaction of a long, hard march lasts long after the discomforts are forgotten.

The provisional Battalion of the 11th Engineers is still with us, though they are fast rounding into shape for France. We wish we wee going right with you brothers.

Soon we will be the only engineer regiment in camp. The 65th Regiment of Engineers is being formed here too. They are the "Thanks" not the old fashioned kind that we knew in civil life, but modern fighting tanks, like the Britains that visited us last month. This is a most interesting service and one that appeals to many.

In this collection ye scribe extends his congratulations to Sergt. F.W. Berry, Company C, who has just been commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 55th Engineers. We expect soon to see him climb all obstacles, like the Britannia did out at the machine gun emplacements. More power to you, Lieutenant.

The following well merited promotions have been announced in Company F, 302d Engineers: From Sergeant to Sergeant first class, Arthur S. Jungdahl and William McHogan; from Corporals to Sergeants, David Solomon, William J. Kane and Louis Doerr; from privates first class to Corporals, John X. O'Connor, William F. Reid, Meyer Willett, Harry Wiander, George Ufland and Ernest L. Tarof. ESSAYONS!

YOUNGEST BANDMASTER LEADS IN FINE STYLE

Sergt. Nord's Baton Wielded by Little Tot in Full Officer's Regalia.

Tiny Isadore Hausner, six-year-old nephew of Louis Hausner, Company K, 307th Infantry, came down to visit his soldier uncle Sunday in his smart new officer's uniform, barracks cap and all. Uncle Louis brought him over to hear the band concert at the Y.M.C.A., 5th and 8th, and Izzie entered right into the spirit of the fine music that the 307th is so justly famed for producing. Bandmaster Nord saw talent in little "Captian" Hausner and insisted that Isadore take his place as leader. So the little chap took Sergt. Nord's baton, and in the most annoyed manner led the band in playing "Homeward Bound." In perfect time and with all proper flourishes the new band leader carried off the honors to the delight of the audience, and Sergt. Nord from his seat in the crowd applauded approvingly. But at the close of the selection, after a bo to the audience in response to their applause the tiny but proud "Captain" surrendered his place and the band finished a most delightful programme that was thoroughly enjoyed by soldiers and visitors. Izzie will long remember his trip to Camp Upton and the proud day on which he led the finest military band in New York State, and his playmates will realize that they knew a celebrity.

CAMP VAUDEVILLIANS TO REGISTER NAMES

Through Local Booking Agency, Talent will Be Furnished for Shows.

The Billboard and Variety wish to have the names and addresses of all professional entertainers now in Camp Upton, so that they can supply you with copies of their publications weekly. File your name, act and present addresses with the Social Secretary of the Fifth and Eighth Y Hut, Mr. J.E. Grunert, and call there for weekly for your papers.

Under Mr. Grunert's direction, Henry Grossman (Henry Brown) of the 307th Infirmary is organizing an N.V.A. local booking agency, which when it has all the camp talent listed, will be in position to furnish "Y" huts and the company shows with star professional acts in full wardrobe and with all necessary properties. It will also be of great advantage to the artists themselves, as they will only be called upon to appear at certain intervals, instead of working several times the same evening, as some of them are now called on to do. As soon as a large enough number of former White Rats register a get-together will be arranged and officials of the N.V.A. organization from New York invited to camp to meet the boys and talk old times over the festive board.

TEN THOUSAND SOLDIERS GAPE AND GASP AT ARRAY OF BROADWAY STARS IN CAMP

George Cohen Leads in "Over There"-More Entertainment Than Long Island Ever Saw in History-Brought Here By Major's Women's Committee.

By C. M'D Pallen,

K. of C. Secretary.

The whole camp is still re-echoing in praise and admiration for the galaxy of actresses and actors who so generously and willingly came down into the wilds of Long Island to amuse and cheer the boys who are waiting the word to go "over there." They were some stars that lit up the hearts and made happy the minds of more then 10,000 of the company's lucky boys who jammed three Y.M.C.A. huts of the auditorium and the K. of C. auditorium, to be treated to one of the greatest entertainments ever witnessed by anybody anywhere, Broadway not excepted. To Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and the Mayor's Women Committee the heartfelt thanks of every man in camp is gratefully extended for the very big part they played in getting together the brilliants and bringing them down on a special train. They were met by automobiles Gen. Johnson provided for the occasion.

After a repast in the Officer's Hostess House and a few short words of greeting from the commanding General, the first of the group proceeded to K. of C. Hall, where an eager crowd of over 300 officers and about 1,800 soldiers greeted them with vociferous cheers.

The Knights were honored with the presence of Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. Nelson Herrick Henry, Mrs. Lewis Nixon, Mrs. Jullian Gerard, Mr. Hearst, Gen. Johnson and staff, who occupied front seats. Soldiers packed the hall to the rafters. They players after their appearance in one building, were swiftly transported by waiting cars to their next scheduled place. This scheme worked successfully and all sections were given an opportunity of seeing the show.

The Line-Up of Stars.

Hal Ford, from "Oh, Boy," was the first on the bill, and after he had rendered several of the popular songs from that successful musical comedy the audience realized that they were in for an evening of the very finest that Broadway could send.

The ever popular favorites William Rock and Frances White brought forth round after round of applause and nothing wohld satisfy untuk diminutive and chic Frances sang "Mississippi." The boys all sang it with her.

Two of vaudeville's best known stars, Lillian Lorraine and Jack Norworth, were the next to give their favorite songs and stunts, and then Harry Watson gave his funniest of funny skits, in which the best stunt, at least the one that the boys liked best, was the slugging match that had the crowd laughing uproariously and wondering how anybody could take such wallops and still live.

Fay Marbe, one of "Oh, Boy's" bestest, followed with several songs that were all favorites, and then that clever young singer Carl Randall from "Oh, Lady, Lady" terpschored in graceful curves, till he could respond no more to the constant urging for encores.

Favorite of all favorites was beloved and well known over the entire world George M. Cohan. George himself and more himself than ever, because here he was right with the boys for whom he has written songs and plays that have always been their favorites. It was with more than his accustomed pep and vigor that he rendered "Over There."

Lovely Carol Mc Comas from the "Oh, Lady, Lady" company, was then brought before the curtain for many an encore and was followed th most famous of all prision breakers, Harry Houdini. He was watched closely so that if any one is caught by the Huns and put behind bars he'll know how to break out and get back to their own lines.

Constance Binney, a pretty name and a far prettier girl who is nightly bowing to the applause of Broadway crowds in "Oh, Lady, Lady," danced with all that rare skill and grace that is the gift of the real artist. She had such a good time that she volunteered to come again, and when she was seen in New York after her performance she asked to "Give the boys her love."

Favorites all over the country were the next pair, Van Schenck, from the Midnight Frolic, and that they hold a big place in the hearts of the boys down here was evident before they even opened their mouths for their first number. They were followed by that screaming pair from the Midnight Frolic, Brennan and Savoy.

Last but by far not least where those two pretty and charming sisters Vivian and Rose Duncan from "Doing Our Bit," and they did, and then some.

154TH INF. BRIGADE STEPS TO FOOTLIGHTS

Plays Under Rehearsal in 307th and 308th Have Felt Spotlight.

The 154th Infantry Brigade is coming to front these days in fine style. What with the 308th Hippodrome show last Sunday, and their parade up New York's Fifth Avenue on Monday, and the bog circus they are pulling off the 12th and 13th, in the 307th Infantry the cracking company shows being put on almost nightly, these dough boys are certainly beginning to shine. Another feature attraction that this brigade soon is to offer will be a series of dramatic offerings to be staged at the 5th and 8th hut. The first of these will be put on by Company A of the 308th Infantry and is a camp life someday written and produced by Private Prunnere of Company A.

The parts are being taken by Company A men. Private Henry Grossman, now attached to the 307th Infirmary, is coaching the production of another playlet comedy. "The Henpecked Husband," and with this will present a strong camp professional talent musical review. Still another play is under rehearsal at the "Y" and its cast promise that "Copy" will make a big hit with the boys. If interested in things dramatic get in touch with J.E. Grunert, Social Secretary, 5th and 8th "Y." He plans to put on a sketch every week or so.

This hut expects to have soon a full equipment of stage settings, curtains, wardrobe and props.

TWO SIGNALLER BATTALIONS EXCHANGE COURTESIES.

Relations between the two Signal Battalions in camp-the 302d and the 321st-are constantly being made more friendly by inner-battalion affairs-entertainments and games. One of the recent affairs was a basketball game in which the 302d Wigwaggers beat their brethren, 31 to 25. The playing of A. Flannagan and Joe Thompson, 321st and that of C. Cottrell and H. Schoen, 302d, was noteworthy. Lieut. Carter, 321st refereed. The Line up: 321st-Forwards, Flanagan and Litzinger; guards, Evans and Thompson; centre, Meeker. 302d-Forwards, Thomas and Cottrell; guards, Cannon and Cramer; centre, Schoen.

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Miss M. Black, No. 463 54th Street, Brooklyn, wants to secure a 24 volume set of the books issued by the Alexander Hamilton Institute in connection with their course. If you have a set, or know of one that could be secured second hand, communicate with Miss Brown. She is very anxious to get a set of the books, and some soldier she thinks might own a set that he can't use now.

RED CROSS WILL HELP SOLDIER FAMILIES

To those men of Camp Upton whose allotments have been delayed, or held up for some reason, the Red Cross here is eager and ready to extend financial aid to their families, who may be in need of assistance. John B. Pruyan, who is the director of the work at this cantonment, wants all those men who wish this aid to simply tell their story to their company commanders and he will be glad. If theirs is a needy case, to have help given to their families at once.

AL'S SAFFRON FLIVVER IS "RUSTED AND LONE"

Al, the Y.M.C.A.'s service-bar wearing captain of flivvers, has gone. The lure of the city was too much, and the yellow curtained little car that did his chauffeur bdding over miles and miles of Upton road since the beginnings of camp is rusted and lonely. Al's full name is Alfred Lange. He had probably a wider acquaintance in camp than any other one man. Every one from all parts of the camp- Depot Brigade Lieutenants to 305th privates-knew his saffron autobus and his progress along the boulevards was always a local triumph. Lange was a regular outfit during the Spanish-American War. Hence the bars. He served the Y.M.C.A. as the chauffeur of Mr. W. Eugene Kimball , who left recently to take charge of the business administration of the Y's Eastern department.

FOUR-MINUTE MEN.

Camp Upton has a large number of officer and men who are doing service as "Four Minute Men." The object of the "Minuters" is to help Government efforts of various kinds by speeches of four-minute length, between moving picture reels at company entertainments and gatherings of any sort.

NOW CAPT. GLICK.

It's now Capt. Frank Glick since the athletic aide to Gen. Johnson received a commission to that rank. Fourteen other division athletic directors were commissioned by the War Department at the same time.

LARGE GIFT FOR 307TH FROM BOSTON NEGROES

Auditorium Fund Boosted and Address Given by Woman Bringing Check.

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A gift of $4,550 from the Negroes of Boston was cheered with enthusiasm by the Buffaloes (367th Infantry)recently when a check for that amount was handed Col. Moss by Mrs. Butler R. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson is the wife of a prominent colored lawyer of Boston, and delivered a splendid patriotic address to the men of Col. Moss's regiment. The donation is for the benefit of the new auditorium, where the address was delivered. Singing of that already famous Buffalo variety was part of the programme. Bishop Hayes of the Catholic Church of New York was an honor visitor.

The big 367th auditorium on Third Avenue is being used constantly and will be formally dedicated soon with a noteworthy programme, including a speech by some men high in public life.

MOVIES FLICKERLESS

The soldier-patrons of the Y hut at Second Avenue and 7th Street have much appreciated the flawless way in which the moving picture performances are run. The satisfaction due to efficient handling of the fils is due to the efforts of Private Van Pelt and his able assistant, Private Fish, both of the 307th Ambulance Company. Both men make considerable sacrifice of time and trouble to keep the machine in perfect adjustment, and running five reels through on a warm night in an asbestos booth is no cinch.

AMBULANCE MEN WIN.

A long delayed basketball game between the 302d Ammunition Train and 305th Ambulance Corps was well worth waiting for, the teams being very evenly matched. The game ended with the stretcher brigade ahead, 23 to 17. It was on the K. of C. Hall Court. The line-ups: Ammunition Train-Forwards, Doyle and Canter; guards, Cleary and Steinberg; centre, McLoughlin. 305th Ambulance-Forwards, Henry and Hanna; guards, Shoe and Finney; centre, Martin.

FEBRUARY 4, 1918

AMBASSADOR GERARD CONGRATULATES WAR DEPARTMENT ON CAMP UPTON

The War Department authorizes the publication of the following statement with he permission of ex-Ambassador James W. Gerard:

"Newspapers have printed statements that I have asked to be called before the Senate committee. I have never, directly or indirectly, asked to be called. I visited Camp Upton to-day. Have had experience in Germany in visiting camps for two and half years. At Camp Upton I ate food being served to three companies. The food was good, equally well and cleanly prepared ; sleeping quarters airy, light, and warm; sufficient bedding and blankets; latrines clean; good bathing facilities. Visited hospital; found it efficiently run, god plant warmed; looked through windows quarantined ward; inspected pneumonia ward, clean and warm, precautions good; present in operating room during operation, visited X-ray laboratory, dispensary, &c.; hospital most excellent. Men have uniforms. Did not examine ordnance. Spirit of whole camp splendid'; officers and men working well together and with enthusiasm. There are some machine guns for training; there has been a lot of rot spread about the machine gun questions. First thing is to teach men to be soldiers, then best qualified men for that work picked for machine gun drill. Which can be learned in twenty days if man is soldier; so no time has really been lost. Congratulate you on Camp Upton; if other camps are as good you have done great work."

"(Signed) JAMES W. GERARD."

MAJOR LLOYD C GRISCOM, DIVISION ADJUTANT

A distinguished record as lawyer, diplomatist and soldier is that of the the Seventy-seventh Division's adjutant, Major Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, U.S.R. Beginning as secretary to Mr. Bayard, Ambassador to England, he has held posts in Turkey, Persia, Brazil and Italy He has been Ambassador to Brazil and left his post as high United States representative in Italy to join the service. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Spanish-American war, acting as aide-de-camp to Major Gen. James F. Wade in Cuba, leaving before an intended promotion went through to become Secretary of the American Legation in Constantinople. The adjutant is a native of New Jersey, born in Riverton, Nov. 4, 1872.

RULES GOVERNING REGIMENTAL SONG CONTEST FOR CUP ANNOUNCED

The first of the regimental sing song competitions for a cup put up by the Y.M.C.A will be "played off' Friday, Feb, 8. Charles Wayland Towne, who is directing the affair , announces the following rules:

1- Teams eligible to contest must contain a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 200 men.

2- Each team must sing three selections, choice of these three being left to the team. In addition every team competing must be prepared to sing the chorus of "The Long, Long Trail."

3- The judges' decision will be made upon the basis of these qualities; (1) Harmony, (2) articulation, (3) shading, (4) tone color.

4- Only chorus singing will be permitted. No solos, duets, quartets or passages by small groups will be permitted.

5- Teams are permitted to employ such choristers or drill masters as they may elect.

6- Entries close Feb, 5.

7- Preliminary trials will be held as the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium Friday, Feb, 8. at 8 P.M.

8- The finals will be held on Friday, Feb, 15.

9- Competent musical authorities from civilian life will judge the contest and their decision will be final.

10- Winners of the February contest will be entitled to retain possession of the cup and pennant indicating the championship for one month, or until the next singing contest is inaugurated. Any team winning the cup and pennant twice will retain permanent custody of the trophies .

ALL THESE 305TH LADS ARE HATERS OF KAISER BUT...

Liverwurst and Pinochle Club Members Sworn to Evade M.P.

Every member of Co. I, 305th Infantry, is an avowed Kaiser-hater, but they believe that perhaps Fritz can be beaten at his own game occasionally. And gastrinimic inclination cannot and do not exclude certain things, as witness the following:

Sergt. Gildenberg is the President, Sergt. Giehl Vice President, Sergt. Rentleman Sergeant at Army, Sergt. Rogers honorary member, Sergt. Stembler correspondent and Corpl. Roese provides the music of the Liverwurst and Pinochle Club. Everyone of the members, when on leave, is duly sworn to bring back a loaf of pumpernickel and a skin of liverwurst and as many more delicatessen atrocities as he can carry. Then, whether the opportunity come before reveille or after taps, the club clubs, eats and talks.

There is an ambition among the members to guide the conversation along certain paths, but with combinations such as the correspondent has been told have been devoured in the first few meetings, its extremely doubtful whether there can be any fruitful discussion at he meetings. Opinion at present is running high tide as to how best escape having an M.P. peer into the bundles and avoid being caught red handed with an array of stuff so pro-German. But they are willing to take the chance, and noting that the honorary membership class has been opened, we are patiently waiting an invitation to join. The infirmary isn't far away, and over there are experts at curing indigestion.

WEDDING HERE IN MUSICAL CIRCLES

Band Leader of 367th Officiates at this Little Ceremony.

Here comes the bride! Egbert E. Thompson, bandmaster of the 367th Infantry, officiated at the ceremony. It is a "wedding in musical circles." It is the nuptials celebrating the union of the Bugle Call, Retreat and National Anthem. The romance was as follows: Leader Thompson noticed that when the bugle sounded Retreat, and immediately thereafter the band rendered "The Star Spangled Banner," there was a slight discrepancy in pitch. So he brought it about that a bugler and trumpeter met each other. He had them play, and noted the variation in pitch. When he discovered it he transposed the music of the National Anthem so that the tones of the bugle and the trumpet were exactly alike.

Should any other band leaders in the division discovers such discrepancy Band Leader Thompson, Hdq. Co., 367th Inf., will be glad to officiate at further musical weddings.

MAJOR HOWARD TELLS OF HUN ATROCITY PROOF.

" The Hun and His Work" was the subject on which Major R.F. Hayward, M.C., British Mission here, has recently delivered a powerful address. He spoke to men of the 306th Infantry last week, Col. George Vidmer being honor officer guest. Major Hayward told of the letters and diaries taken from captured Germans, which prove absolutely, on the Huns' own evidence, the truth of the atrocities attributed to him.

LIFE AT CAMP

The life up here is very nice;

At 5:15 we crack the ice

That gathers on the trough outside;

The Sergeant must be satisfied

We've hardly for our faced dried

Till some one bellows "All outside!"

If absent when they call the roll.

Heaven have mercy on your soul!

From reveille we go to mess

We ate like hogs. I must confess;

Our manners fine are all thrown off

Some guys use both feet in the trough

When means is through we make our bunks;

The duty squad picks up the hunks

Of dirt and refuse thrown around

And cigarette butts on the ground

We all do this in double time,

Then beat it to the picket line;

We groom until our backs are sore

And then they give us semaphore.

From semaphore wet get a change

By marching out across the range

To where the guns are packed, and here

Wet get the school Cannoneer

Sometimes we get the elevation.

And sometimes study equitation;

Some to the buzzers then are sent

Some to the B.C. instrument.

At half past one we have a course

On ills and ailments of the horse:

And then to discount variations

We study army regulations.

We shave ourselves and scrub the floor.

And clean the mud off what we wore;

And this is followed in rotation

By first aid class sanitation.

All this comes just before the parade,

And when the shadows start to fade

Before sundown we have retreat;

Oh, Blessed Hour! It's time to eat.

By this we're feeling pretty fine

And all stay up till half-past nine.

Then "call to quarters" and perhaps-

The lights are all put out by "taps"

-PVT. JOHN HUTHER JR.,

Veterinary Corps.

THE REWARDS OF VALOR

Upon a certain well known street. In dear old France were seen to meet. A maiden, sweet, demure and shy- Two men of spirit- "Do or die!" A captain one, to whom she said, "Has that hand steel to Germans fed?" "It hath," the great one gravely spoke; "Full many a for this arm hath broke." The pretty aid, though very coy. Seized on his hand and jumped with joy; Implanted in a state of bliss. Upon that hand a fervent kiss. The other soldier jealously stepped forth and asked his blissful fee, and puckering up his lips he sath, "I bit a German unto death!"

CORP. GOLDSTEIN.

Company C, 306th Infantry.

Jewish Welfare Notes

To stimulate interest in drill competition the Jewish Board for Welfare work has offered twelve safety razors to the winners in Co. D, 308th Infantry.

A Jewish Culture Group, which has for its object the study of Jewish cultural ideals, has been organized. Men who are interested should apply at the office of the Jewish oard for Welfare Work.

All Jewish men are urged to cooperate with the Y.M.C.A. and the Knights of Columbus in developing the Inner Circle idea by conferring with the representative of the Jewish Board of Welfare Work and by selecting one representative for each company.

HIGH CLASS

Saturday afternoons are not lonesome any more! Junior League girls to talk to and buy stamps from, and entertainments and eats provided by these Junior Leaguers make the time fly. Last week the programme included Jinkle Barcus, baritone; Charles E. Ives at the piano and Robert Johnson with his violin.

IF You Know the A.L.A., O.K.; If Not, Here's and Introduction

THE SUICIDE CLUBMEN MACHINE GUNNERS

When it comes to talent of every description the Machine Gunners score a hundred on every target. Among the notables are Private Oakley, the crack shot of the 305th Battalion; Bugler Campion, 306th Battalion, and Corpl. Hart, the acrobat of the 304th.

Basketball is a great favorite with all the units who are playing a Round Robin at the 5th and 8th Y hut.

The battalion companies have each given an entertainment with invited guests and all of them have been highly entertaining and full of "pep." Boxers, wrestlers, acrobats, contortionists, singers, dancers, monologists, ventriloquists and instrumentalists all are given a air chance for their lives before firing.

All companies in these machine gun units have practiced the various games that were used by Gen. Pershing's men on the Mexican border and are now being used in France and England. They cause great rivalry among the company platoons and the men really look forward to next day's drill period.

On Wednesday night the K. of C. auditorium had its first visit from the machine gun section of the division. The orchestra of the 305th Battalion, under the leadership of Corpl. Schmidt, was on the job and gave a programme that was tonal feast for the large crowd that gathered to witness the spirited and exciting basketball game between Co. C, the 304th, Machine Gun Battalion, and the crack team of Co. A. 305th. While Co. A won the game by a score of 28 to 9, Lieut. Beverly's well coached but outweighed team put up a hard, game scrap. From the exhibition the team representiing Co. A put up it is safe to say that they have one of the best teams in camp and a match between them and Co. M, 306th Infantry, would be one worth going a long way to see.

Lineup: Co. A-Forwards, Fisher and Broke; centre, Hunzinger; guards, Glasser and McKenna. Co. C-Forwards, Donovan and Jack; centre, Walsh; guards, Fingerman and Bushnell.

Colorado, Iowa, Westchester County and Elsewhere, Make Their Contributions.

By F.L. Tolman, Camp Librarian.

What is the A.L.A.? This is one of the most frequent questions at Camp Upton. The men are making acquaintance with many surprising things from tanks to turpite, but the manner in which they run up against the American Library Association at almost every turn seems greatly to excite curiosity. The main library building is in the highbrow section of camp, near Headquarters Hill, a section of the camp familiar to both officers and men, but the branch libraries at the Y.M.C.A.'s the K. of C.'s and the company libraries in the recreation rooms of nearly all of the men's barracks are more familiar to the men than the officers. There is scarcely an organization in camp that has not been provided with a collection of books. The base hospital has been liberally supplied, both through the post exchange and by ward libraries. Distant organizations, such as the remount station and the pumping stations, have been cared for.

From Iowa, New York, Colorado

Books come to the Camp Upton Library from every nook and corner of the United States. They are all directly or indirectly the gifts of patriotic people and libraries of the land. Many are the direct gift of the mothers and sweethearts of the men. Some bear personal messages that have led to interesting correspondence of friendship. Bookplates in many of the books tell of their purchase wih the dollars given by the school children of Colorado, the Red Cross of Westchester and the Grange of Iowa. From New York City alone private libraries by the hundred have been given; many newspaper and business libraries have given liberally from their collections, and exclusive radical clubs have offered selected material from their choice collections chosen especially as of interest to officers and men. Many magazine publishers and scientific societies donate copies of their publications to the library for the free use of the men.

Training Soldier Minds.

There is profound logic behind the library war service. It is fighting Germany with own must effective weapon. It is fighting German science with the world's science. It is supplementing the splendid training of the American officers with the great body of recorded military science. It is training the minds of the soldiers of the new army to be alert, ingenious and informed in the essentials of their new profession. It is an essential condition of victory, and for many it is an education for the peace that wil follow victory.

"MY OWN UNITED STATES."

A spectacular, patriotic film, featuring Arnold Daly, "My Own United States," was shown at the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium, brought by Lieut. Frohman. This was the first public showing of the feature, which was pronounced on of the best seen here by the soldiers.

ENJOY "PEG O' MY HEART."

The frequenters of 5th and 1st and 19th Street Y Huts heard with interest readings by Lois Gregg Secor, dramatic reader of New York, during the past week. She gave "Peg o' My Heart" and "Polly of the Circus."

NEW HOSTESS HOUSE

The new Hostess House of the Y.M.C.A. which serves especially the men of the artillery and the 152d Depot Brigade. has been opened.

TOP SERGEANT AT 21.

Looking for the softest way to get the biggest job is what we're all doing, unconsciously, perhaps, but there's one exception at Upton. He decided that hard work was the only way to get anything worth while. That's why he's probably the youngest Top Sergeant in the 7th Division. He's John Joseph Smith, aged twenty-one years- Serg. Smith, Company A 305th. Three months as a soldier, but every cubic inch is one, accept it from Cousin Oscar.

OHIO COLLEGE HEAD HERE.

Dr. Henry Churchill King, President of Oberlin College, Oberlin, O., was a speaker in the Sunday religious programme arranged by Herman Eldredge, Religious Work Secretary Y.M.C.A. Dr. King is one of the leaders thought and opinion and his words were heard with great interest by audiences in the 2d and 11th Y in the morning and the Y Auditorium Sunday afternoon.

MULTUM IN PARVO; SMALL BUT MIGHTY UPTON NEWS ITEMS

Concerning the Big Military Ball, 308th Parade and Other Matters.

It's now the Metropolitan Division, Mates! Brig. Gen. Johnson, commanding the 77th, has formally declared that Uptonites here gathered shall be known thus. The new designation accompanied announcement of the plans for a big military ball for the plans for a big military ball for 10,000 men and officers of this division, to be held in the 71st Regiment Armory Washington's Birthday. It will be a considerable treading party, and the boys who have become used to mile bikes will tread lightly and fantastically, with great staying power, it is expected. The Committe on Arrangements: Mrs. Joseph K. Choate, Col. C.O. Sherrill, 302d Engineers; Col. George Burleigh, New York National Guard; Capt. Frederick S. Greene, 302d Engineers.

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The entire Metropolitan Division shares with the 308th Regiment the honor bestowed on it by New Yorkers on the occasion of the first parade of National Army men Monday in the neighbor village. Brig. Gen. Johnson and Mayor Hylan were among the reviewing officers. The line of march fringed by cheering thousands: 71st Armory on 34th Street to Eight Avenue, to 59th Street, to Fifth Avenue, to Long Island ferry at 34th Street. Mr. Miller's bandmen gave a good account of themselves.

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Brig. Gen. Wittenmeyer, 154th Infantry Brigade, was reviewing officer for the review of the 306th Infantry here, Col. George Vidmer commanding. This was the second in the series of regimental reviews. Other high officers of the division witnessed the review.

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Members of the 302d Trench Mortar Battery did honor to the memory of a departed comrade Friday, when Private Arthur Peets of the battery was buried in New York. He died of pneumonia.

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The 308th Infantry is certainly super-active these days. The show in New York Sunday was one of the big numbers sponsored by Col. Averill's boys. Of course, you remember the Stupendous and World Famous Wild East and West Show and Nickabocker Circus that regiment will off in the Y Auditorium Feb. 12 and 13. Trench and Camp will list some of the startling features next week.

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And one of the Affairs de Force during the week was the Second Battalian night in the Y Auditorium, Food stuffs included ice cream, cake, cider and the entertainment was riotous.

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The Y Auditorium was the scene of bang-up free entertainments the last of the week. Some feature films were shown, including John McGraw in "One Touch of Nature." The Ordnance Talent has blossomed also, including Private Klemkin, the Upton Mordkin, in Russian dances and Cardini, the Caruso Sergeant; Bert Brown 307th Ambulance Company, who signed some Big Town Vaudeville and the 305th Field Artillery Orchestra have helped in making the recently passed entertainments big.

308TH INFANTRY

COMPANY "C" CLIPPINGS.

Though there is naught about him to cause us to flout him.

Why should we love him, this Oscar A. Schultz?

Though, true, no "Caliban." he's not a ladies man.

Then why, when we see him. this rise in our pulse?

Then why so excited, why so delighted. When he is just sighted treading the trail?

Here's why we rant and shout-I'll let the secret out-

He is the man who brings us our mail!

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From which may be deduced that the mail has assumed precedence even over the female in our company.

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Sergt. Beley claims, and with some basis of truth it must be said, that his platoon is the best platon in the company, and, therefore accordingly, the regiment. His claims are substantiated by other members of his platoon-who admit it.

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" The Singing Division!" Who can find a better or more appropriate name? Any soldier who is not afraid to lift up his voice in song is not afraid to fight. And the 308th is going to be the "singingest" regiment in "The Singing Division." And Company "C" is working its collective head off to become the "singingest" company in the "singingest" regiment in "The Singing Division." Company "C" is a firm believer in superiatives.

THIS PRIVATE'S CLAIM TO CELEBRITY DOESN'T DATE INTO CIVIL LIFE

Claim to Fame is a Wild Ride Taken from Upton Westward.

Every company has a man who is pointed out to visitors. The reason generally goes back to ante-bellum days. They are indicated as celebrities because of what they were as civilians. Not so with Private L.A. Dougherty, 305th Ambulance Company of the Sanitary Train He is pointed out because of an achievement as a soldier.

His claim to fame dates from the time recently when he beat his way to his home in Whiting, Ind., via Albany, Buffalo and Cleveland, using a bag of grins, a large package of nerve and few dollars in cash as his stock in trade. His story is regular Arabian Nights entertainment in itself, but he doesn't tell it readly. He's a little modest chap who enlisted out in Chicago and was transferred here from the South. The biggest thing in his story for soldiers is that, after coping single-handed with several railroads and securing free rides over them, he was unable to escape the Sergeant. Dougherty got thirty days K.P. for overstaying his leve thirty-seven hours. But he rode the cushions back, so what did he care?

1ST BAT., 306TH, PULLS OFF BIG-TIME ENTERTAINMENT.

The boys of the 1st Battalion, 306th Infantry, had a great old time at their big vaudeville entertainment, held in the mess hall of Company C. recently remodelled for entertainment purposes.

The star talent of the 1st Battalion was 'mustered in' to present their wares, and members and friends were invited to attend. Enough came to crowd every nook and corner of the mess hall of Compnay C. who acted as host for the occasion. The mess hall was especially manicured with mop, soap and brush and shone like a palatial music hall.

The price of admission was a smile, and before the show was half over every one had a millin fees to present. As soon as the first number of the programme started Old Doe Gloom made a right about via the back door and Kid Joy ame prancing in to take charge of the evening.

The programme was arranged by Capt. Ralph J. Sprague of Company C, he being Acting Major for the 1st Battalion. Sergt. Murrary of Company C, was stage director and had accts following one another with the rapidity of a veteran theatrical manager.

The whole affair was under the general supervision of First Lieut. B.I. Winn of Company C, who had made up a temporary stage a la cabaret. The following officers of the battalion were present: Capt. Ralph J. Sprague, First Lieut. B.I. Wimm, both of Company C; First Lieut. JOhn Kramer and Second Lieut. Herbert B. Laux, both of D Company, and Second Lieut. G.L. Ball of B Company.

E, 306TH, PLANS SHOW.

Company E, 306th. plans a big entertainment in the Fifth and Fourth Y Hut Wednesday evening. Vaudeville, moving pictures and boxing will be implicated. Rogoff, Paddy Mullen, Pincus, Hochstein, Frank Coswell, Sergt. Hechtman and the Camp Upton Four are some of the large timers named. A feature bout will be between Al Kaufman and Gautti, while Eberhardt, the battling policeman, will do a turn with his sparring partner.

GETS THREE YEARS.

Anton C. Miller, lately a private in the Machine Gun Company, 306th Infantry, has been dishonorably discharged from the service and sentenced to three years at hard labr. The sentence was after court martial conviction on a charge of refusal to participate in regular company drills. Miller was of German birth. He had been transferred here from a Regular Army unit.

Artillery Brigade to See Big Show

Officers Have Written Farce and 304th Will Entertain Brethren.

The Artillery Brigade is going to witness on Feb. 7 explosion of some of the largest size entertainment shells yet seen in the National Army. The mud-crushing boys are going to be guests that evening-the 305th and 306th F.A.- of their brother regiment, the 304th. Col. Kelly of the 304th has agreed to the offer of Mrs. Davidson of New York, prominently associated with theatrical people, to bring some feminine entertainers who will surpass anything yet seen between Upton and the upper west side.

The heavy firing, though, will be done by the 304th, whose committee on entertainment is hard at it getting some unusual features shaped up. Among them will be a twenty-five minute original farce, written by officers of the regiment, the scene being laid in a regimental infirmary at Upton. It is understood that the piece is crammed with bright, original lines, including some original army jokes, if there are such. Talent from the 304th will put it on.

PASSION TO SERVE COUNTRY WAS HIS

Fell Sick at Plattsburg, Forced His Draft, Young Solider is Dead.

Sergt. Gilroy Mulqueen died of pneumonia at the Base Hospital recently, while a member of the training school for officers. His was the sort of patriotic spirit, however, that does not die, but lives in all the great ideals for which men re fighting. His desire to serve his country in the war was almost a passion. And he seemed to be out-lucked at every step until the final great one.

Mulqueen, who was twenty-two year of age, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Mulqueen of No. 43 West Eighty-fifth Street, New York City, and a nephew of Judge Joseph F. Mulqueen of the Court of General Sessions. He went to the first Plattsburg school last summer, but after a month of training was stricken with para-typhoid and had to withdraw. When he received his draft number his dismay was great when he saw it was far down the list and he probably won't be called. Accordingly he exerted every power to have it moved nearer the top. He succeeded and came to Upton with one of the first increments, Sept. . Company II, 307th Infantry, was his outfit, and he was respected and loved by his comrades and regarded highly by officers because of unusual capabilities. He was chosen for the officers' school and entered it on Jan 5. While there he was stricken with pneumonia and died after an illness of eight days. The entire 307th paid respects to him in an impressive military funeral.

MGR. BARNES, BRITISH MISSION, SPEAKS HERE

The Knights of Columbus Hall had one of the mos interesting gatherings in its career when Mgr. Barnes, formerly an officer in the British Army and more recently a chaplain, who is in this country with British Mission, and a man who has served his time in the trenches, thrilled and awed an audience that packed the hall to the roof. His thorough knowledge of conditions convinced his hearers that he knew whereof he spoke, and the message that he brought to the men of Upton will remain with them when they go forth to chase the Hun to his lair.

MUTTONLESS DAY WHEN "LAMBS" CAME TO CAMP.

"A wolf in sheep's clothing" was the universal verdict on the so-called "Lambs Gamboi" promoted by Companies I and B, 307th Infantry, in the Y Auditorium. In fact, there was so ittle of "The Lambs" quality about the affair that the day of the entertainment was easily a Muttonless Day. A short sketch. "A Trench Phantasy," was the saving number and was well recieved. It was written by Precival Knight, who played the Tommy, and Capt. Harrigan, Company I, 307th, took the part of the American Sammy. There was a restive, uneasy feeling throughout most of the show, however, which expressed the dissatisfaction of soldiers who are accustomed to witness free entertainments by their mates of infinitely higher grade.

BAND CONCERTS IN K.C. HALL ARE WELL RECIEVED

Fine Programme of 4th Avenue and 6th Street Clubhouse-Other Notes

(By C. McD. Pallen, K.C. Sec'y.)

That the band concerts inaugurated in the Knights of Columbus Hall for Sunday afternoons have been a big hit was demonstrated thoroughly by the large crowds of soldiers and their visiting friends that packed the auditorium to the doors to listen to three fine concerts rendered by the bands of the 305th Artillery, 307th Infantry and 308th Infantry.

Two delightful cello solos were rendered by Private Rosanoff of the 307th, and Chaplain Bracken of the Knights of Columbus sang several favorite songs. Private Short of Headquarters Company of the 307th was accompanist for both of the solo numbers.

The snowstorm of Tuesday did not prevent the holding of the basketball games in the Knights of Columbus Hall, as there were altogether five of them in one evening, which is possibly a record for the camp. The 306th Infantry games are more like college games than any seen around the camp, as the companies march in and form cheering sections to shout their team on to victory. They have regular Greek college yell and some very "paradoxical" songs that always make a hit with the crowds. Length of the yells, ignorance of the proper spelling of the Greco-Latin-Italian names used and lack of space prevent our printing of the yells here. The results of games, according to the official scorer, were: D Company, 27-H Company, 0; Headquarters Company, 15-L Company, 12; M Company, 23-Machine Gun Company, 12. Lieut. O'Brien was as usual the capable referee.

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Lieut. Cummings is looking for a gold cross that was lost the other day and has offered a liberal reward to anybody that finds same and returns to the K. of C. desk at the Upton Boulevard Hall.

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Max Weinstein, several of the newspaper men and a few Chaplains had a song feast after hoursthe other night and as a result of the impromptu gathering it is likely that Secretary Grady has discovered some more talent for his Sunday concerts.

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A new and very useful member of the K. of C. staff arrived last week in the shape of a very nice station wagon type flivver. The car was presented to the K. of C. by the National Catholic War Council and it is a welcome and much needed addition.

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The new club house at Fourth Avenue and 15th Street started off its initial Sunday with a fine concert.

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The club house at Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street was recently the scene of a lively and entertaining vaudeville show, given by Camp Upton's old favorites from the artillery section. Most of the entertainers came from the famous 305th Field Artillery.

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Misfortune was good fortune recently when the boys who didn't get Saturday passes were entertained by the Upton Artillery of Brooklyn young ladies who came down laden with a treat of coffee, cakes, doughnuts and sandwiches. They passed them out in the clubhouses. The best part of it was that the gracious charmers brought their dancing slippers, and to band strains in each house fox trotted and one-stepped with the boys most of the afternoon. Their heartiest thanks go to them, also the hope that they will come down again soon.

The enterprising secretaries in the clubhouse on Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street have their hall in great shape, with nice white curtains on the windows and cozy corner fitted out, while they have stained writing desks a dark brown so that the ink brigade will hardly make an impression on the desks in the future. The clubhouse on the hill in the artillary section is now jealous, and believe us when we tell you that soon they will more than rival their brothers in "Infantry Valley."

MR. MARKEL JAZZ HIMSELF.

Say, boys, the roof was lifted right off last Tuesday evening when Markel's famous ten-piece jazz band let fly at Company K. 307th, show, Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street "Y" Hut. There are jazz bands and jazz bands, but only one Markel's Jazz! But you were there and heard it so what's the use of telling about it. A feature photo play by George Walsh was also part of the bill that Company K put on. You know they have been in quarantine for the last ten daays and they just naturally had to break loose.

NOTED COLORED MEN SPEAK TO 367TH IN NEW AUDITORIUM

Will Seat 5,000, and is Designed for Many Purposes.

Te big auditorium of the 367th Infantry (colored), seating 5,000, the largest building in camp is practically completed, and already one notable gathering has been held by the regiment. Col. James A. Moss presided at a meeting of the regiment, which had as special guests Emmett J. Scott, special advisor to Secretary Baker on negro questions, and Charles W. Anderson, former Collector of Internal Revenue of New York.

The speeches of these two distinguished colored men contained high praise for the 367th and paid especial tribute to the commanding officer, Col. Moss. Readings of Paul Lawreence Dunbar poems by a Tuskogee student and signing by the regiment, led by Max Weinstein, were features of the occasion. The 367th's rendition of "Roll, Jordan, Roll," with the plaintive negro spiritual quality is something that would repay a long journey to hear. The same evening a banquet was held in honor of the visitors in the negro Y.M.C.A. Gen. Hay, commanding the brigade to which the 367th belongs, was also a distinguished guest.

Many purposes will be served by the new regimental auditorium which has been built at a cost of $40,000 with funds raised through the efforts of the 367th Welfare League and the sale of bonds. The building will serve as a drill hall, gymnasium, lecture hall and for Sunday services. Entertainments will be held nightly. The formal dedication is to come soon and the dedication speaker will be a man of note.

TO THE WORLD!

Sam Goldstein, known as "Young Goldie," is here and wants it known. Sam is ready to meet all boxers of his class at 135 pounds. After mixing it for seven years in ten-round battles, no decision, with such talent as Young O'Leary, Dutch Brandt, Danny Ridge, Mike Wagner, Young Fulton, Young Cardell, Young Leroy, et al., he feels that he still has plenty of fight left. His manager, Abe Krakower, Company E, 305th Infantry, will be glad to sign up bouts.

FROM THE 307TH INFANTRY

Company M.

Sergt. Watson has some promising material for the company basketball team and is confident of it winning the 307th Infantry and Field Officers' Basket Ball Cup for the championship of the regiment. With Hannel and Kisselyak as forwards, Hill as centre and Costello and Stodt as guards, and such men as Reeves, Solomon, Englebright, Esterbrook, Dunn and Sommers in reserve, Compnay M will be found up among the leaders at the finish.

Competition is keen in this regiment to win the prize offered for the best kept barracks. Company M had a lead of one point over its nearest rival at the end of last week and intends to show the way during the rest of the time set for competition.

SANITARY DETACHMENT.

We have many talented men in this detachment and their quality as entertainers is equal to any camp. There are boxers, wrestlers, comedians and singers who can drive the blues away from anyone. Some of the following are well known in this camp.

Henry Brown, a comedian of renown, Billy King at his weight, will wrestle or box and not hesitate. Bill Sweeney, tall and leany, can well take care of himself. Sergt. Stead from the South, imitates bugle calls with his mouth, and Lawrence McGuire, with a Caruso desire, chirps from Reveille to Retreat.

These are a few known to most of you, later you will hear from our other friends dear.

Private Henry Muenzer, formerly of this detachment has recieved a commission in the United States Navel Reserve Force. Good luck to Henry.

Harold H. Maynes received his warrant as Sergeant on the 10th of this month, and is now at the Officers Training School.

Four other privates were promoted to grade of Sergeant. Their names are as follows: Harley R. Stead, Marsden Reece, Frederick Lindner, John Cleslinski.

A rookie, being a constant kicker of the mess served in camp, was observed eating a huge piece of bologna in one hand and a thick slice of pumpernickel bread in the other, called this his regular meal. This rookie, being an actor, must have been a "strong favorite" with his audience.

Headquarters Company has inaugurated a series of get-together nights, with an entertainment in the barracks, to which friends and performers from over the entire divisions are invited. The first one was a bounding success and it is hoped that those to follow will be even more so and will help in giving the men a wider acquaintance over the division. Incidentally, the company fund is aided by the 10 cents admission charge.

DIVISION BANDS WIL CO-OPERATE.

Agreement of the band organizations in camp cemented during the week will assure a schedule approved by Division Headquarters whereby the nine Y buildings and three K. of C. club houses will have Sunday concerts by the bands working in rotation. The base Hospital is also included, but an order from Division Headquarters provides for three concerts a week there, the music dispensers taking their turn in order. The bandmasters all co-operating are Mr. Bergman, 305th Infantry; Mr. Byrne, 306th Infantry; Mr. Nord, 307th Infantry; Mr. Miller, 308th Infantry; Mr. Dolfini, 304th F.A.; Mr. Fisher 305th F.A.; Mr. Galten, 306th F.A.; Mr. Casler, 152d Depot Brigade; Mr. Thompson, 367th Infantry; Mr. Burns, 302d Engineers.

306TH BASKETBALL

One of the merriest regimental basketball scraps in the division is being advanced by the flingers of the 306th Infantry. Company M at present seems to be one of the strongest contenders and have been cleaning up.

WANAMAKER FAMILY HERE.

Over 600 members of the Store Family of John Wanamaker's New York and Philadelphia, are in service with the flag, and the honor roll is published in a little booklet sent every man serving whose whereabouts are known, and the institution, as all the great patriotic firms are doing, keeps close track of its former employees.

A foreword in the booklet by John Wanamaker sounds the supreme duty call. Camp Upton men listed are as follows: Charles Dermigney 321st Field Signal Btn.; John Inciardi, band of the 306th Inf.; Henry Lion, Co. L, 306th Inf.; S.M. Phillips Supply Co. 306th F.A.; Louis Ricckin, Hdq. Co. 305th Inf.; Louis W. Schuler, Co. L 308th Inf.; Frederick K. Thompson, Co. F, 308th.

SITTING TRIO PLEASES

Upton soldiers always appreciate sincerity in entertainers. For that reason the Sitting Trio was thrice blessed with appreciation. Father, daughter and son playing violin, piano and cello respectively, compose this family musician group from New York. They played on Y.M.C.A. huts at Second and Seventh, Nineteenth and Grant and Fifth and Eighth.

FEBRUARY 11, 1918

GOVERNOR'S GLOWING COMMENDATION SUGGESTED ANOTHER N.Y. PARADE

308th Does Service for National Army in Showing Degree of Surprising Efficiency Achieved in Training.

The 308th Infantry parade through the humanity-jammed New York thoroughfares is now a matter which historians and movie exhibitors will tell the world. "In and around the reviewing stand the magnificent bearing of the outbursts of applause and cheering that voiced itself warmly enough, despite the chilling blasts that made all spectators pinched if not frost-bitten. Who will be next to parade? is the big question now.

Gov. Whitman Suggests.

Gov. Whitman was so impressed with the splendid showing made by the men whom he saw only a few months ago marching down Fifth Avenue as raw civilians that he wrote Gen. Johnson a glowing enthusiastic letter and expressed the hope that other parades would be held of like nature. The letter was sent out by Major Haskell, Chief of Staff, as a division order, with comment in which Gen. Johnson expressed his gratitude and thanks for the fine work of officers and men.

"They looked and acted soldiers to the last button." Thus further spoke one of the "Public Prints," with much more enthusiastic commendation of the showing made by Col. N. K. Averill's regiment. Many notables were in the reviewing stand, including Gov. Whitman, Mayor Hylan, Gen. Johnson, Gen. Radiquet of the French army, a Marne veteran, and Major Gen. W.A. Mann, who commanded the Rainbow Division when it went to France.

Before the parade Gen. Johnson and staff, with Gov. Whitman, were guests at luncheon in the Union League Club. The Acting Commanding General paid high tribute to the Upton men, saying that New York's contribution to the National Army was one of the finest and most gentlemanly bodies of men he had ever met. He is assured that this State will hear good reports of their sons when they get to the front.

"GIRLS IN BLUE" ADD TO HOME TOUCH AT Y

Get Paper a Sheet at a Time Now-Boys Appreciative.

There used to be a lot about the "boys in blue," but the most popular attractions at two of the Fifth Avenue "Y" huts are the "girls in blue" who are serving as volunteer secretaries behind the association counters. At the hut at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street Mrs. Willard D. Straight and the Misses Fuller and Damrosch are serving, and at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street the Misses Alexander and Hollins are stationed. Stamps and writing paper have an added attraction these days, and the boys, instead of asking for six sheets and six envelopes when they wish to write a number of letters, ask for one so they can come back a second and third and fourth time. That the service these ladies are rendering is appreciated by the soldiers and the "Y" secretaries alike is putting it mildly, for morning, afternoon and evening of each day the boys, hungry for the home touch, eagerly pour their confidences into the sympathetic ears of these Junior League workers who render this service sincerely and impersonally.

CONCERT SATURDAY.

The second of the orchestral concerts offered by the Metropolitan Museum, Fifth Avenue and Eighty second Street, to soldiers and sailors and their friends will take place on Saturday evening Feb. 16, from 8 to 10 o'clock. A fine programme will be performed by an orchestra of fifty five men under David Mannes, conductor. Everybody is welcomed, and there is no charge for admission, the expense of the two concerts being borne by a generous friend of the museum and of the men in the national service.

A BATTLE OR WHAT?

Sergt. Louie Arrock, then genial mess-master of the Quartermasters' Corps, says that there are some parts of a beef that are just simply bound and determined to be tough. Perhaps this explains the remark of Capt. Cecil Hook as he paused before the plate of Sergt. Sigel: "Is this a battle or a beefsteak?"

Intimate Parade Aftermath.

(By S.E.M., Trench and Camp's Crashing Contrib.)

We were getting quite hungry when along came a blessed angel and drops a bag of eats and three (count 'em) boxes of cigarettes in the big gray ambulance. "Oh! what a gran' and gloryus feelin'!"

Lillian Walker, "the movie queen." blew kisses galore to the boys as the ferry pulled out the 34th Street pier.

Sergt. Boynton, who hails from the metropolis of St. Ignane, Mich., was afraid the throng would swamp the poor soldiers.

You should have seen the rush when it was announced that coffee and sandwiches were to be served. For a moment it was thought that the M.P. would have to be called out.

And to think that only five months ago some of these birds were neurotic looking office clerks! Talk about a healthy looking crew!

Only thirty-three members of Pvt. Marshall Cowitz's family followed the ambulance. They could not be convinced that it did not contain any coal until they had a look.

Someone shouted to the medical stretcher bearers, "Hey, boys; don't forget to bring back the Kaiser on one of these!"

The last man in the parade hoped they would give an order. "To the rear, march!" so that he could lead the parade.

ALL-BATTERY PARTY FAREWELLS CAPTAIN.

Capt. E. Powis Jones was tendered a farewell surprise entertainment by his men of Battery F, 304th F.A., on his departure for the school of fire, Fort Sill, Okla. The numbers on the programme were by Battery F talent solely and were arranged by Sergt. Wesley Karlson and Corpl. Powers as follows: 1st Sergt. R. Kosky, Master of Ceremonies; Corpl. James J. Hagan jr., at the piano; Private Marcella, cornet solo; Corpl. Fitzpatrick, soft she dancing; Private Rosner, vocal solo; Private Yap, Hawaiian music; Corpl. Powers, monologue and song; Privates Griffin, Larson and Early, comedy skit; Private Restie, vocal solo; Private Schwartz, monologue; Private Marion, harmonica melody; Buglers Schmidt, Marcella and Reale, black face comedy; Private Lorenz, reading from Donald Hankey's " A Student in Arms;" Sextette, battery songs composed in the battery and dedicated to the Captain.

The mess afterward was Christmas, New Year's and Peace Plenty rolled n one. Mess Sergt. Claude S. Bell, a nephew of Old Mr. Epicurus himself, had charge. Capt. Jones made a short addresses, expressing his appreciatin for the affair.

ANOTHER NEEDLE IS ON JOB HERE

15,000 Infantrymen are Inoculated With New Pneumonia Serum.

Another needle has found its way into the lives of Upton men. It shoots a serum never used before on soldiers, and the 15,000 infantrymen here who have taken it act with the inoculation in them will determine whether or not it will be introduced into the whole body of American troops. This new inoculation is for pneumonia and the fluid used is called pneumociccun vaccine. It was prepared by the Rockefeller Institute, but will also be made by the army laboratories. It was used on the South African miners with considerable success and if the immunity offered is for a long enough term it is thought that the serum will be generally adopted in the American Army.

Officers here were inoculated first and the 15,000 men in the infantry regiments were then given their first shot. Three, and perhaps four, injections are to be administered, with five-day intervals. Capt. Russell L Cecil of the base hospital has supervision of the treatment. The dough-boys who've taken it will be observed and if thier health proves better than the rest of the camp all Upton's citizenry may be given the inoculation. The new serum is said to be effective for the three virulent forms of pneumonia which are prevalent among soldiers.

TWO SERGEANTS-MAJOR GIVEN COMMISSIONS

It's some slight leap from Sergeant to Captain, but it takes a Camp Upton man to make just that sort of an unusual and unprecedented jump. Edward S. Greenbaum, regimental Sergeant Major attached to the Division Judge Advocate's office, has just received his commission as Captain, and has been assigned to the insurance department of the Adjutant General's office. Capt. Greenbaum is a New York drafted man, and came down with one of the first increments. He was formerly a lawyer and is the son of Judge Greenbaum of the Supreme Court.

And at the same time, another Sergeant Major received a commission. Howland S. Davis, who has been attached to the Division Headquarters detachment assisting the Division Adjutant, received a First Lieutenant's commission. He was formerly a broker in New York.

BIGGEST MILITARY BALL WILL HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR BIG COMMUNITY HALL

Upton Officers and Men Will Dance at 7th Armory Feb.22.

To raise funds for the big community hall here, to seat 10,000 soldiers, a military ball-the biggest in the history of balls, base, basket, foot or military- is to be held in 7th Regiment Armory on the night of Feb. 22.

President Wilson has been invited to attend.

Tickets will be sold to officers and enlisted men alike, and this is said to be the first occasion when officers and men will dance at the same ball. Mass singing by the boys is to be a big feature. The grand march will begin at 9:30 and, boys, its it's an inducement, remember you won't have to carry a rifle or do any double quick. Dancing will continue until 12:30.

Among the patronesses are Mmes, Henry P. Wickes, J. Purroy Mitchell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Rolfe E. Bolling, Donne Barber, Sidney C. Borg, Walter Lewisohn, T. Mortimer Lloyd, Skeffington S. Norton, Edwin O Holter, Howard Mansfield, John M. Bowers, Irving T. Bush, Evan Evans, George P. Robbins and James W. Gerard. Tickets of admission, mates are a dollar apiece and reserved seats are three iron men. How many? Let's go big!

Mrs. Joseph F. Choate is Chairman of the committee for the community hall, which is to be erected in the community centre of camp and is to be the largest building in the reservation. Quite a sum has already been raised toward it.

CAMP LIBRARY IS NOW OPEN

Building, Costing $10,000, With Equipment Same, Has 8,000 Volumes.

The latest completed addition to "Our Village Centre" is the Camp Upton Library, Central Branch, located just below Officers' House, on Upton Boulevard. Every day the building is open from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M., and beside a collection of eight thousand books on the shelves, has magazines and newspapers for use by enlisted men and officers. The building, large, airy and exceedingly attractive, was created at a cost of $10,000, from the Carnegie Library Fund. The American Library Service, War Service Department (A.L.A), furnished the equipment at a like cost, and conducts the library.

In addition to the volumes on hand the Upton Library has access through a loan arrangement, to all the leading libraries of the country, including the Congressional Library at Washington and the New York State Library. Books are needed however, by the A.L.A. to put at the constant disposal of soldiers. When you write home, suggest the gift of books as a fine way to help things along. Donations may be left at any of the New York Library branches.

A staff of four, headed by Frank L. Tolman, is in charge of the Upton Library and will be glad to offer any help and suggestions to men seeking books. The Library is well supplied with works on modern warfare, and will probably be used for officers' training school and other lectures, with the needed reference works thus close at hand.

ARTILLERYMEN ARE FAST ON MASKING

Battery D, 305th F.A., proved speediest gas mask adjusters in a recent gas defense contest held in the Artillery Y Hut, Batteries D, E and F participating. Lieut. Mitchell, gas instructor, directed the contest. The teams were composed of twelve men each, with five events in the contest. The first one was adjusting masks against time, won by Battery D. The other four were relays in column formation, a competition held frequently over camp by the gas maskers. At the signal "Gas" the first man on a team runs for his mask, returns and adjusts it, touching the next man, who goes and does likewise. D won two of these contest and E two, placing D first in the meet with 60 points. E scored 40. The judges were First Lieuts. Watson Washburn, Lawrence L. Shenfield, D.J. Cronin, Donald F. Taylor and Second Lieut. Warren W. Nissley. First Lieut. A.R. Gurney was timekeeper. Each battery had a husky rooters contingent that offered their best backing.

From the 307th Infantry

WHIFFS FROM COMPANY F.

According to Eighth Class Acting High Private Fred Haupt: Fred sez, that if he ever gets back to civil life, some Saturday night he'll forget himself, walk up to his wife, stand at attention, salute and stutter for a few seconds to clear his throat. Then he will feebly ask for a leave of absence. "See the Captain," will say Madame Wife, Mother-in-law, upon be consulted, waves her hand to where Granny sits and says, "Better ask the major." According to our opinion, Fred will want to come back to the army about then.

No wonder Cohen's hard on shoes. He has won the cross country championship record running for second helpings in the mess hall. He hasn't missed a double portion yet, for while the rest of the gang is saying its prayers over the first, Cohen is away with a rush and another plateful.

Harold Boyd says he's the fellow who wrote Annie Laurie. But she never answered him.

There's a run on Y.M. stationery. Reason; Bernie Gold and his girl back home.

OVER COMPANY G WAY.

Company F's basketball five fell fore fingers recently, and it looks as if Sergt. Sol Goldstein's men will make a bid for the regiment championship. The team works like a clock, and that's what beat F, the score being 17 to 4.

Upton Follies, C and D.

The Upton Follies are nigh at hand. Companies C and D, 307th, are bringing them out at the 5th and 8th Y Hut. The publicity expert announces a deluge of "telegrams" and "recommendations" in other form from celebrities far and near. Will Hohenzollern wires: "Your show makes me sick. I hope it's a frost. Yours for an early peace." Victor Herbert's "message" reads thus: "Officer Packard twin sis, 1-2 pound sugar, two pounds of coal and 100 acre farm for sing-boosting privileges." The D and C boys promise faithfully that they'll come through in spite of their publicity agent.

Sanitary Detachment.

Reginald Goudey, Joseph Abelow, John M. Maurice and David Schlyn are on detail at the Base Hospital and like the work.

Michael Longo has purchased a saddle for the horse he now has charge of. On trying the saddle on the horse he finds it is large enough to fit an elephant.

Harry Koorbusch has returned to duty after a short illness. We sure missed Harry and greatly welcome his return.

William Harbaugh has charge of the twelve horses and three mules of the Sanitary Detachment. This is what Will likes, as he just loves quadrupeds. How about it, Will?

Lawrence McGuire has relieved the boys from guard at night by staying awake and keeping on the lookout for fire. He was known in the city as being a night owl.

William A. Feldman, whose jawbones have great chewing power, has been given the nickname of "The Maxilla Wonder."

"Y" PERSONALITIES.

The 306th Infantry feels a keen regret, shared among men and officers, at Arthur B. Hunt's leaving Y work for active service but congratulates him on it, and wishes him the best nevertheless. Mr. Hunt has been Building Secretary of the Y at Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street, and has built up a splendid work in the regiment which his building serves. His "intimate teas" become quite an institution in the regiment. He joins the hospital unit.

W.F. Wefer, Physical Secretary, Fifth Avenue and First Street, has left for Alentown to train with the American Ambulance. "Bill" enjoyed a wide popularity among the 305th Infantrymen. His place is taken by Gilbert S. Swem of Brooklyn, who has been with the Y at Kelley Field, San Antonio, Tex.

S.L. Hedrick, Social Secretary of the Artillery Y, made the address at the dedication of a service flag in the Methodist Church, East Quogue, L.I., recently. Private Fred Harvey, Battery E, 306th F.A., also made an address on "The Spirit of the Soldiers in Camp."

VETERINARY CORPS HAS SOME FIGHTING FELLOWS

The Veterinary Corps, No. 206 15th Street, boasts of having some real fighting me. Corpl. Melino and his squad, Privates Fred Foster, Peter Crean, John Silvester, George Gardner, Lester Conners, Al Maier and George Sinonetti, who are spoiling to go "over there" and end the war, fight among themselves constantly. And there is also Private John Silvester's organization, the "Blue Overalls." There is Corpl. Shiff's squad of "panhandlers," consisting of Privates Tom Carroll, "Fat" Sallish, Isaac Winestock, John Bodicker, "Red" Noon, "Sleepy" Farrell, Jimmy Liebman and Charles Brandt, Private Carroll, the dizzy man, who needs air every twenty minutes, and Private Forster, who doesn't like himself at all. The same squads are also skilled French leavers and have nerve enough to ask their Lieutenant for a pass afterward. Lately Private Carroll said he was going to the laundry. It took him five days, going and coming. Now he wears "the blue."

FROM THE HILL TOWER

The 77th Division's new name, picked by Gen. Johnson- the Metropolitan Division-isn't so very unlike Melting Pot Division, after all. Simply a slight difference in the arrangement of letters. But wrap the tongue around them fast- "Melting Pot" and "Metropolitan"- and they're not so dissimilar.

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And speaking of words, there is the Sergeant in a Depot Brigade Company who found of how little value words are at times. A non-English speaking private tried to force seconds from the K.P.'s before the rest of the bunch had firsts. "Couldn't you demonstrate a trifle more appreciation and consideration for the feelings of your brothers?' was Sarge' a gentle suggestion. "No wanna englis word, wanna steak." was the pointed defense.

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Private M.C. Nowve, Company C, 308th, has brought up again the matter of lines. He recalls the mess hall line, the equipment line, the payroll line and, of course the skirmish line. Then there are those lines which the guard forgets when asked for his General orders. Here's some skeins of mess line untangled and versified by Private Nowve:

We wait and pine on the weary line.

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For the Mess Sergeant's whistle blas'

But his smiling face no worried trace

As he watches the minutes pass:

Not one moment too soon will he blow his tune,

Though we yell, and grow unsteady

But when done and up is our time to sup.

He'll announce that, "Mess is ready!"

After inspecting officer tells the sergeant to take some man's name on account of a dirty rifle, did you ever ask this man what the officer said to him? They're all alike evry one would answer in practically the same words. "Oh," he would say "my rifle was fine, the officer said only a speck of dust must have dropped under my sight-leaf." One of these days we are going to get up sufficient nerve to ask the inspecting officer what really was the trouble.

Undoubtedly, the answer will be unprintable.

With oily rag and elbow grease,

You rub each hidden section;

You vanquish rust and punish dust, just to pass inspection;

You pick on bolts and screws untold,

Then dry the oily smears.

And when you swear it's beyond compare.

Dust somewhere else appears!

REGULAR COLLEGE STUFF WHEN THESE TEAMS CLASH.

The spirit vented at a big floor game between two rival colleges has nothing on the demonstrations that accompany games in which Companies D and K, 306th Infantry, played D (Tyner's Tough Terriers) finally pulled ahead, after neck and neck battling, the final score standing 37-28. The K boys sent their supporters into paroxysms of delight by cropping the first eight points, but Tyner's gang took a fresh hold and crept slowly up on the lead, with the above result. Doxee, D's diminutive forward, caged four goals in succession as a contribution to the victory. His mates became raving, ranting rioters when the game was over and nearly bulged the K.C. Hall roof with their demonstration. D at present leads the regiment league and promises to bid strongly for the title.

First National Army Circus- 308th- to Have Everything, Including Parade and Peanuts

Equestrians, Equilibrists, Fat Lady, Trained Animals, Double Headed Boy.

The Big Show-Col. Averill's World Famous Wild East, West, North and Southwest Attractions and Nickabucker Circus- is soon to be in town. Parade Lincolin's Birthday. Free attractions and everything from Equestrians to Equilibrists under the Big Top in the Y Auditorium. Cossack Dancers, Arabian Pyramiders, Nerbo (Formerly N.Y. Hippo-drome) in the Dive of Death, Clowns, Clowns and a third time Clowns, Trick Cyclists, Aerial Artists, Trained Animals, including every known and guessed at variety from the Peruvian Pistachiohound to the famous Australian Ibex which flies backward to keep dust from its eyes, Baby Emma, the Two Headed Boy, Tosko the Double Boy, the Wurruld's Tallest Lady. Step right in, ladies and gen'l'men.

Oh, there's any amount besides , of attractions equal to these. Any one in the 308th who has seen aught of the preparations will tell you that it's positively the biggest National Army show ever attempted. Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb, 12 and 13, are the dates, Y Auditorium the place. And from all data that could be gathered, with practically every precinct in-this is the first National Army Circus.

CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN HEAD ON TOUR PRASIES UPTON

Bishops Hayes Inspects Cantonment and Confers with Chaplains.

That Upton is far beyond the fine reputation it has over the country as one of the best camps was the assurance of the Right Rev. Patrick J. Hayes, Auxiliary Bishop of New York Catholic Church, and Catholic Chaplain General of the United States Army and Navy, during his recent visit here. He is on four months' inspection tour to the military camps and naval stations and conferred here with the Catholic Chaplains, Lieut. Thomas J. Dunne, 30th Infantry; Lieut. James J. Halligan, 308th Infantry; Lieut. John J. Sheridan, 305th F.A.; Francis W. Walsh, 307th Infantry, and Lawrence W. Bracken, Knights of Columbus Chaplain.

The Bishop was taken on a tour of the cantonment, had a half-hour interview with Gen. Johnson and lunched with Major Haskell, acting Chief of Staff.

306TH F.A. MARCH COMPOSED BY SOUSA

The 306th Field Artillery has taken on a new and striking distinction with the "United States Field Artillery March" by Lieut. John Phillip Sousa, famous bandmaster, dedicated to the officers and men of the regiment. Lieut. George Friedlander, who has organized the regimental band, was largely responsible for getting the talents of the famous bandman directed along 306th lines. The old artillery song "When the Caissons Get Rolling Along," has been woven into the piece, and Secretary of the Navy Daniels encouraged the idea. The cover of the music is no less distinguished, being the work of J.E. Kelly, an eminent sculptor. The design shows an artilleryman on horseback, with "306" above the crossed cannons on a guidon.

BATTALION BOXING BRINGS THE DAY OF INTER-REGIMENTAL FIGHTING NEAR

306th Mitt men Fighting it Out-Tells Friend Adolphe About Big Cup Competition in 307th,

Boxing continues a strong favorite in the Metropolitan Division, and several regiments are gradually creeping up on the regimental championship. The 306th Infantry has about reached the finals, inter-battalion semi-finals having received advancement this week. The star mittmen of the First and Second Battalions fought at the 4th and 5th Y Hut, and some fast and flaming fighting resuited with the Second Battalion winner finally, three bouts to one. Benny Leonard acted as referee, and Lieuts. Lawrence and McLear were judges. The results: 122-lb. class- Private Bartenbach, Co. C, beat Private B. Kaplan, Co. E. 135-lb- Private Lombardi, Co. C., beat Private Cresci, Co. G. 145-lb- Private J. Tiplitz, Co. G., beat Private Callahan, Co. B. 160-lb- Private Kaufman, Co. E, beat Private Devancy, Co. C. Heavyweight- Private Duffy, Co. F, beat Private Scully, Co. C.

CUP AND PRIZES GIVEN HERE.

The Second Battalion, 307th Infantry, fought out the battalion championship for a beautiful trophy cup, among other fisticuff events. Louis Goodman, Co. E, has given the following account of it to his friend Adolphe, and gives Trench and Camp the privilege of printing it:

At the Y.M.C.A., Camp Upton, L.I.

Monday night, Feb. 4, 1918.

My Dear Friend Adolphe:

Ven I heard dot a prize fight was going to take place, and admission for nothing, I yust vent dere so early dot I could get ah gooten seat. But to my sorrow I could not get in, as the doors were closed.

At the place vas so many peoples dot I was thinking for sure I vould not be able to see the first fight. But ven the doors opend I pushed so hard dot I found myself sitting 5 rows in front of the stage.

The muzik started to play, Den Benny Lemonade said I vill tell you who is ah better fighter.

The muzik stoped, den two rel fighters step on the stage, and some one said in dis corner is Gilligan of Company E and dot corner is Brofy of Company F. Ven I heard dot Gilligans name I knew dot someting vas going to happen. Vat should I tell you? The fighters said Hello, and right avay far noting Gilligan hit Brofy. Vell dot started the whole trouble. The vistle blew and dey stopped. Den dey started again. Gilligan got so mad dot he knocked Brofy down, who forgot to get up. The band began to play and the Irish loafer walked off from the stage and all the peoples clapped their hands.

The vistle blew again and two big piano movers valked on the stage, and somebody said in dis corner iss Benjamin of Company H and dat corner iss Mahoney of Company E. They also said Hello, and den Mahoney gave Benjamin right in the face. Everytime Mahoney hit Benjamin he laid down and jumped up again. Diss got Mahoney mad and he gave it to him ah punch dot he forgot to get up.

The next fight vas between Silotopolsky of Compnay E and Gardinar of Company F. This vas a goot fight because both of them forgot to lay down. Everting vent vell until in the third round Soltopolsky made ah funny face at Gardinar and he got so scared dot he put up his hands and said I don't vant to fight any more.

Say, the next fight vas also a goot vone. It was so interested dot all Officers of Co. E viggled in dere seats yust as if dey had taken Epsom salts. Yeh, yeh, dot Litowitz of Co. E has goted ah left hand which fitted Dorsen's nose of Co. F. Litowitz vas dancing up and down. Dis got Bennah Lemonade so mad dot he said Mister Litowitz you are the best fighter.

And to make a goot job for Co. E dey made dot Mahoney fight a big fat fellow whose name is Sossman of Co. G. To make a long story short, Mahoney pushed dot Sossman so many times to and under the ropes dot Benny Lemonade stopped the fight and told Mahoney dot he vas the better fighter.

This fight finished all the trouble. Den Maj. Jay gave all the vinners ah silver cigarette case mit no cigarettes, and to Co. E he gve ah big cup dot if dot if it was filled mit beer it vould fill many ah thirsty heart. I forgot to tell you dot Perkel the champion bantam fight of the vorld of Co. E sprung a friend from New York; his name vas Bernstein. Dem to feller vas doing fency fighting. Dot feler Perkel also got a silver box, as dere vas vone who wanted to give him ah real fight. Do you know who vas the whole trouble from dis fight? Dot vas Lt. Fields of Co. E. Dot feller vas showing all the fighters from Co. E how to win.

Adolphe: If ever Co. E is going to fight again, don't forget to bet. You positively vill vin.

Regrettin dot the Kaiser vas not here to recieve some of the knockout vallops, I remain, your friend,

LOOIE.

MACHINE GUN RATTLE

305th

An orchestra is in the process of construction and promises to be a corker. The boys in this battalion are also working hard to stage a show at the Y hut, Fifth and Eighth. Private Liebling, Company B, and Corpl. Collins, a pianist and tenor, are forming a quartet that will be second to none.

Headquarters Company and Medical Detachment played a game of indoor baseball out of doors last week which ended in a tie.

Corpl. Schmidt, the orchestra leader of Company A, rendered some very beautiful selections on the violin last Sunday evening at the Y hut, Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street, and was accompanied on the piano by Private West of Company C. They answered to eight encores from the audience.

306TH

A tug-of-war between Companies A and B is scheduled for Saturday night and promises to be some battle. The boxing tailor of Company A is scheduled for a return bout with his sparring partner for this night also. A sporting editor is to be appointed by each company by each company in all three battalions and all news forwarded to E. G. Riegel, physical director at Y hut at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street every week and he will publish the news in Trench and Camp.

The basketball teams are now battling for the championship in their battalions, being quite far advanced. A boxing tournament is in the process of organizing six different weights and promises to be full of pep. We are very pleased to say that Benny Leonard is again on the job giving lessons.

MME. BERNARD SINGS.

The 19th Y Hut was jammed for a concert by Mme. Ernestine Bernard and the Depot Brigadiers showed hearty appreciation of her splendid singing. Private Holt, 12th Company, 152d Depot Brigade, brought Mme. Holt here.

308TH INFANTRY

Company C.

An interesting manual of arms competition in the fourth platoon went to Col. Frank Hogan, and the showing of the platoon as a whole was so good that Lieut. Schobeck has challenged any other platoon in the company.

There's one chap gets the goat of mine, Just he and he alone:

He rubbed the "B" clear off the sign

That said "No Brooms to loan."

Who, oh who, would not be a top sergeant? Our top, Charles E. Brroks waits till the mess line-up is the longest, then walks gracefully past it and takes his place at the front, not forgetting the merry "Ha."

FROM COMPANY C.

Private Callahan has been given up fighting in the ring. Not another glove will he put on. He's married.

After reading "Dessert Gold," Corpl. Treakle has entered the engineering school. Is there any connection corporal?

Sergt. Bonaventure got "Good Luck" from everybody before leaving.

Corp. Korn is handy at showing the ladies the Points of the Perfect Non-Com.

As a soldier Private Graham is some actor. He was formerly with the Hippodrome and can impersonate 'em all.

Corp. Merolla's song when receiving a pass: "All the camp will be jell-us of me-hee!"

NOTES FROM THE ENGINEERS

Company F has long labored under the classification of "Rough Neck." So was Edison when he was young, and Company F is fast assuming Edison-like attributes. They sure did pull a new one of the rest of the regiment. This weeks contribution to science of invention consists of the "pie-pool." Any solider caught using profanity contributes one cent to the pool. Every time this pool reaches 30 cents a rush is made to the regimental exchange for the pie. This makes the pie-pool. The exchange officer reports a large increase in the pie business without any noticeable decrease in the regimental cussing. So the system works well and recommendation is made that other companies follow suit.

Speaking of Company F, they used to be a rough looking lot until the powers that be decided that no solider would be sloppy looking if he only could see himself as others see him. Hence the large and beautiful mirror in the hallway of the barracks.

Sergt. Ryder, Company D, came across with a rush last week and is now master engineer, junior grade. He hates to leave Company D, even for this new job, but is determined to go the limit. Ye scribe understands that there are other opening for active young men who desire to rise.

The regimental practice march on Monday was well attended, The 1st battalion reached the rendezvous first, but they had half a mile less to go than the 2d Battalion. Dinner was served out at Cross Roads 72, south of the rifle range. The regiment returned to camp in a body, solving a tactical problem. The whole march was enjoyed as a welcome change from trench digging and no man fell out in the whole march of over ten miles. That is the same record and one which the regiment should be proud of. With the will to do, as in the case of the engineers, hard work is a pleasure. The satisfaction of a long, hard march lasts long after the discomforts are forgotten.

The provisional Battalion of the 11th Engineers is still with us, though they are fast rounding into shape for France. We wish we wee going right with you brothers.

Soon we will be the only engineer regiment in camp. The 65th Regiment of Engineers is being formed here too. They are the "Thanks" not the old fashioned kind that we knew in civil life, but modern fighting tanks, like the Britains that visited us last month. This is a most interesting service and one that appeals to many.

In this collection ye scribe extends his congratulations to Sergt. F.W. Berry, Company C, who has just been commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 55th Engineers. We expect soon to see him climb all obstacles, like the Britannia did out at the machine gun emplacements. More power to you, Lieutenant.

The following well merited promotions have been announced in Company F, 302d Engineers: From Sergeant to Sergeant first class, Arthur S. Jungdahl and William McHogan; from Corporals to Sergeants, David Solomon, William J. Kane and Louis Doerr; from privates first class to Corporals, John X. O'Connor, William F. Reid, Meyer Willett, Harry Wiander, George Ufland and Ernest L. Tarof. ESSAYONS!

YOUNGEST BANDMASTER LEADS IN FINE STYLE

Sergt. Nord's Baton Wielded by Little Tot in Full Officer's Regalia.

Tiny Isadore Hausner, six-year-old nephew of Louis Hausner, Company K, 307th Infantry, came down to visit his soldier uncle Sunday in his smart new officer's uniform, barracks cap and all. Uncle Louis brought him over to hear the band concert at the Y.M.C.A., 5th and 8th, and Izzie entered right into the spirit of the fine music that the 307th is so justly famed for producing. Bandmaster Nord saw talent in little "Captian" Hausner and insisted that Isadore take his place as leader. So the little chap took Sergt. Nord's baton, and in the most annoyed manner led the band in playing "Homeward Bound." In perfect time and with all proper flourishes the new band leader carried off the honors to the delight of the audience, and Sergt. Nord from his seat in the crowd applauded approvingly. But at the close of the selection, after a bo to the audience in response to their applause the tiny but proud "Captain" surrendered his place and the band finished a most delightful programme that was thoroughly enjoyed by soldiers and visitors. Izzie will long remember his trip to Camp Upton and the proud day on which he led the finest military band in New York State, and his playmates will realize that they knew a celebrity.

CAMP VAUDEVILLIANS TO REGISTER NAMES

Through Local Booking Agency, Talent will Be Furnished for Shows.

The Billboard and Variety wish to have the names and addresses of all professional entertainers now in Camp Upton, so that they can supply you with copies of their publications weekly. File your name, act and present addresses with the Social Secretary of the Fifth and Eighth Y Hut, Mr. J.E. Grunert, and call there for weekly for your papers.

Under Mr. Grunert's direction, Henry Grossman (Henry Brown) of the 307th Infirmary is organizing an N.V.A. local booking agency, which when it has all the camp talent listed, will be in position to furnish "Y" huts and the company shows with star professional acts in full wardrobe and with all necessary properties. It will also be of great advantage to the artists themselves, as they will only be called upon to appear at certain intervals, instead of working several times the same evening, as some of them are now called on to do. As soon as a large enough number of former White Rats register a get-together will be arranged and officials of the N.V.A. organization from New York invited to camp to meet the boys and talk old times over the festive board.

TEN THOUSAND SOLDIERS GAPE AND GASP AT ARRAY OF BROADWAY STARS IN CAMP

George Cohen Leads in "Over There"-More Entertainment Than Long Island Ever Saw in History-Brought Here By Major's Women's Committee.

By C. M'D Pallen,

K. of C. Secretary.

The whole camp is still re-echoing in praise and admiration for the galaxy of actresses and actors who so generously and willingly came down into the wilds of Long Island to amuse and cheer the boys who are waiting the word to go "over there." They were some stars that lit up the hearts and made happy the minds of more then 10,000 of the company's lucky boys who jammed three Y.M.C.A. huts of the auditorium and the K. of C. auditorium, to be treated to one of the greatest entertainments ever witnessed by anybody anywhere, Broadway not excepted. To Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and the Mayor's Women Committee the heartfelt thanks of every man in camp is gratefully extended for the very big part they played in getting together the brilliants and bringing them down on a special train. They were met by automobiles Gen. Johnson provided for the occasion.

After a repast in the Officer's Hostess House and a few short words of greeting from the commanding General, the first of the group proceeded to K. of C. Hall, where an eager crowd of over 300 officers and about 1,800 soldiers greeted them with vociferous cheers.

The Knights were honored with the presence of Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. Nelson Herrick Henry, Mrs. Lewis Nixon, Mrs. Jullian Gerard, Mr. Hearst, Gen. Johnson and staff, who occupied front seats. Soldiers packed the hall to the rafters. They players after their appearance in one building, were swiftly transported by waiting cars to their next scheduled place. This scheme worked successfully and all sections were given an opportunity of seeing the show.

The Line-Up of Stars.

Hal Ford, from "Oh, Boy," was the first on the bill, and after he had rendered several of the popular songs from that successful musical comedy the audience realized that they were in for an evening of the very finest that Broadway could send.

The ever popular favorites William Rock and Frances White brought forth round after round of applause and nothing wohld satisfy untuk diminutive and chic Frances sang "Mississippi." The boys all sang it with her.

Two of vaudeville's best known stars, Lillian Lorraine and Jack Norworth, were the next to give their favorite songs and stunts, and then Harry Watson gave his funniest of funny skits, in which the best stunt, at least the one that the boys liked best, was the slugging match that had the crowd laughing uproariously and wondering how anybody could take such wallops and still live.

Fay Marbe, one of "Oh, Boy's" bestest, followed with several songs that were all favorites, and then that clever young singer Carl Randall from "Oh, Lady, Lady" terpschored in graceful curves, till he could respond no more to the constant urging for encores.

Favorite of all favorites was beloved and well known over the entire world George M. Cohan. George himself and more himself than ever, because here he was right with the boys for whom he has written songs and plays that have always been their favorites. It was with more than his accustomed pep and vigor that he rendered "Over There."

Lovely Carol Mc Comas from the "Oh, Lady, Lady" company, was then brought before the curtain for many an encore and was followed th most famous of all prision breakers, Harry Houdini. He was watched closely so that if any one is caught by the Huns and put behind bars he'll know how to break out and get back to their own lines.

Constance Binney, a pretty name and a far prettier girl who is nightly bowing to the applause of Broadway crowds in "Oh, Lady, Lady," danced with all that rare skill and grace that is the gift of the real artist. She had such a good time that she volunteered to come again, and when she was seen in New York after her performance she asked to "Give the boys her love."

Favorites all over the country were the next pair, Van Schenck, from the Midnight Frolic, and that they hold a big place in the hearts of the boys down here was evident before they even opened their mouths for their first number. They were followed by that screaming pair from the Midnight Frolic, Brennan and Savoy.

Last but by far not least where those two pretty and charming sisters Vivian and Rose Duncan from "Doing Our Bit," and they did, and then some.

154TH INF. BRIGADE STEPS TO FOOTLIGHTS

Plays Under Rehearsal in 307th and 308th Have Felt Spotlight.

The 154th Infantry Brigade is coming to front these days in fine style. What with the 308th Hippodrome show last Sunday, and their parade up New York's Fifth Avenue on Monday, and the bog circus they are pulling off the 12th and 13th, in the 307th Infantry the cracking company shows being put on almost nightly, these dough boys are certainly beginning to shine. Another feature attraction that this brigade soon is to offer will be a series of dramatic offerings to be staged at the 5th and 8th hut. The first of these will be put on by Company A of the 308th Infantry and is a camp life someday written and produced by Private Prunnere of Company A.

The parts are being taken by Company A men. Private Henry Grossman, now attached to the 307th Infirmary, is coaching the production of another playlet comedy. "The Henpecked Husband," and with this will present a strong camp professional talent musical review. Still another play is under rehearsal at the "Y" and its cast promise that "Copy" will make a big hit with the boys. If interested in things dramatic get in touch with J.E. Grunert, Social Secretary, 5th and 8th "Y." He plans to put on a sketch every week or so.

This hut expects to have soon a full equipment of stage settings, curtains, wardrobe and props.

TWO SIGNALLER BATTALIONS EXCHANGE COURTESIES.

Relations between the two Signal Battalions in camp-the 302d and the 321st-are constantly being made more friendly by inner-battalion affairs-entertainments and games. One of the recent affairs was a basketball game in which the 302d Wigwaggers beat their brethren, 31 to 25. The playing of A. Flannagan and Joe Thompson, 321st and that of C. Cottrell and H. Schoen, 302d, was noteworthy. Lieut. Carter, 321st refereed. The Line up: 321st-Forwards, Flanagan and Litzinger; guards, Evans and Thompson; centre, Meeker. 302d-Forwards, Thomas and Cottrell; guards, Cannon and Cramer; centre, Schoen.

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Miss M. Black, No. 463 54th Street, Brooklyn, wants to secure a 24 volume set of the books issued by the Alexander Hamilton Institute in connection with their course. If you have a set, or know of one that could be secured second hand, communicate with Miss Brown. She is very anxious to get a set of the books, and some soldier she thinks might own a set that he can't use now.

RED CROSS WILL HELP SOLDIER FAMILIES

To those men of Camp Upton whose allotments have been delayed, or held up for some reason, the Red Cross here is eager and ready to extend financial aid to their families, who may be in need of assistance. John B. Pruyan, who is the director of the work at this cantonment, wants all those men who wish this aid to simply tell their story to their company commanders and he will be glad. If theirs is a needy case, to have help given to their families at once.

AL'S SAFFRON FLIVVER IS "RUSTED AND LONE"

Al, the Y.M.C.A.'s service-bar wearing captain of flivvers, has gone. The lure of the city was too much, and the yellow curtained little car that did his chauffeur bdding over miles and miles of Upton road since the beginnings of camp is rusted and lonely. Al's full name is Alfred Lange. He had probably a wider acquaintance in camp than any other one man. Every one from all parts of the camp- Depot Brigade Lieutenants to 305th privates-knew his saffron autobus and his progress along the boulevards was always a local triumph. Lange was a regular outfit during the Spanish-American War. Hence the bars. He served the Y.M.C.A. as the chauffeur of Mr. W. Eugene Kimball , who left recently to take charge of the business administration of the Y's Eastern department.

FOUR-MINUTE MEN.

Camp Upton has a large number of officer and men who are doing service as "Four Minute Men." The object of the "Minuters" is to help Government efforts of various kinds by speeches of four-minute length, between moving picture reels at company entertainments and gatherings of any sort.

NOW CAPT. GLICK.

It's now Capt. Frank Glick since the athletic aide to Gen. Johnson received a commission to that rank. Fourteen other division athletic directors were commissioned by the War Department at the same time.

LARGE GIFT FOR 307TH FROM BOSTON NEGROES

Auditorium Fund Boosted and Address Given by Woman Bringing Check.

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A gift of $4,550 from the Negroes of Boston was cheered with enthusiasm by the Buffaloes (367th Infantry)recently when a check for that amount was handed Col. Moss by Mrs. Butler R. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson is the wife of a prominent colored lawyer of Boston, and delivered a splendid patriotic address to the men of Col. Moss's regiment. The donation is for the benefit of the new auditorium, where the address was delivered. Singing of that already famous Buffalo variety was part of the programme. Bishop Hayes of the Catholic Church of New York was an honor visitor.

The big 367th auditorium on Third Avenue is being used constantly and will be formally dedicated soon with a noteworthy programme, including a speech by some men high in public life.

MOVIES FLICKERLESS

The soldier-patrons of the Y hut at Second Avenue and 7th Street have much appreciated the flawless way in which the moving picture performances are run. The satisfaction due to efficient handling of the fils is due to the efforts of Private Van Pelt and his able assistant, Private Fish, both of the 307th Ambulance Company. Both men make considerable sacrifice of time and trouble to keep the machine in perfect adjustment, and running five reels through on a warm night in an asbestos booth is no cinch.

AMBULANCE MEN WIN.

A long delayed basketball game between the 302d Ammunition Train and 305th Ambulance Corps was well worth waiting for, the teams being very evenly matched. The game ended with the stretcher brigade ahead, 23 to 17. It was on the K. of C. Hall Court. The line-ups: Ammunition Train-Forwards, Doyle and Canter; guards, Cleary and Steinberg; centre, McLoughlin. 305th Ambulance-Forwards, Henry and Hanna; guards, Shoe and Finney; centre, Martin.

FEBRUARY 18 1918

Washington's Birthday Will Be a Big One for Upton With Parade and Ball in New York

Funds Raised to Transport Seven Thousands Troops to March, and Thousands of Others will Shake Their Feet at Biggest Dance Ever.

From all advance inklings, the natal day of George W. will see big Upton doin'g in New York. The recent parade of the 308th n Fifth Avenue and other rues so stimulated the soldier and civilian appetite for parading that funds have been raised o transport 7,000 Camp Upton fighters fir the biggest parade of National Army men yet attempted . George W. Loft, Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, was named Chairman of committee to raise the coin for fares, and the State Assembly recognized the value of the effort by passing a special resolution is recommending it. This was heartily endorsed by Gov. Whitman, whose enthusiasm for Upton troops was expressed in a letter recently sent Gen. Johnson.

It has been decided, however, that only two regiments can go to New York.

The big topic here has been "Who will go?" and every man to the last K.P. in the division has been polishing even his legging hooks, hoping for special recognition of his parade possibilities.

In addition to the paraders there will be 13,000 or so men traveling into town to Terpsichore at the big military ball in Seventh Regiment Armory for the benefit of the Camp Upton Community Hall. Part of this crowd will go in on Thursday, it has been announced, and the rest Friday, to remain till Sunday. Col. C. O. Sherrill of the Engineers is in charge of arrangements, and tickets are being ordered by units as large as regiments. Gen. Johnson will lead the grand march with Mrs. Whitman, wife of the Governor. Additional ball tickets meant for friends will be marked "civilian tickets" in order not to confuse the railroad transportation.

DR. BUTLER OF COLUMBIA AMONG BOOKING NEXT WEEK AT AUDITORIUM

Division Athletic Night and Regimental Boxing Among Attractions.

President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, with an official lecturer, is one of the notable events for the coming week at the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium.

Among other bookings are the following: Monday, 3P.M. presentation Regimental Sing Song Trophy to, 308th Infantry, Col. N.K. Averill; 7:30, Division Athletic Night, with Benny Leonard. Tuesday, 9:30-11:30 A.M., semi-finals, First Btn, 307th, boxing; 2-6 P.M., 306th Regiment boxing finals: 7:30, big free show by Depot Brigade. Wednesday, 9-11 A.M., battalion boxing semi-finals, 307th Infantry; 4:15 P.M., lecture by Dr. Butler; 730, Hdq. Co., 307th, benefit concert. Thursday, athletic night. Friday, feature films. Saturday, feature films.

TRADITION IN BOOM OF FIRST SUNSET CANNON

Sergeant Fired Civil War Gun, Closing Thirty Years' Service.

Traditions are what National Army men, to a very large extent, are making for themselves. Except for certain age -honored usages of the American Military life which becomes absorbed by a rookie unconsciously, there is no playing up of Times Past, Has Been Stuff or Glories of the Dead Beyond. However, occasionally an echo floats across the newly fledged copse and plains of Upton that is redoient of the days when Washington crossed the Delaware, when Grant crossed the -well, you know.

It was more then an echo, too, when Sergt. Oscar W. Bates, thirty years in the American Army, fired the camps first sunset gun across the barracks roofs, shining in a late afternoon sun. For the gun which the veteran Sergeant shot was built in 1862 and went through the Civil War. It was changed from muzzle to breech loader at the Rock Island Arsenal and brought to Upton, where it now smites the ears of metropolitan divisioners at reveille and retreat. Sergt. Bates retired the other day after his long term of service. He was in the Philippines and served in the Coast Artillery on the Pacific. He was attached to the Ordnance Corps here, coming from Fort Mansfield, R.I., when the camp opened. He turned the gun over to the Headquarters Troop after his initial pull of the lanyard, and the troopers will see that the boom from Headquarters Hill sounds forth twice a day.

DIVISION OFFICERS GUESTS OF FRENCH MISSION AT DISTINGUISHED CONCERT

Society of Ancient Instruments Play French Music of 17th Century.

No more perfectly fitting manner could have been chosen to express the spirit of warm gratitude held by the officers of the French mission toward their brother officers of the Metropolitan Division than the concert by the French artists which division officers enjoyed recently in the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium. The Society of Ancient Instruments, which played , symbolized French musical traditions in a way that has secured them fame throughout the highest musical realms, and the auspices of the affair were significant further of the brotherhood which exists between horizon blue and olive drab. Lieut. Pierre Geismar, automatic rifle instructor from the 128th French Infantry, arranged the concert. Capt. Raymond M. Thibaud. senior office of the mission and artillery expert of the 20th French Artillery, made a short speech of welcome to the company, which included Gen. Johnson and other officers high in command. Capt. Thibaud was given a hearty cheer which went also to his associates. The 308th ban played " La Marseillaise," "The Star Spangled Banner" and "God Save the King," the company standing throughout. Members of the British mission were present. Mme. Raymonde Delaunois, French soprano of the Metropolitan, assisted the artists.

Their work was on instruments of the seventeenth century-the quinton, viole d'amour, viole de gambe, basse de viole, clavecin and harpe luth. M. Henri Casadesus, founder of the society, of which Camille Saint-Saens is Honorary President, led in presenting the following numbers: Le Pays du Tendre (Destouches, 1672-1749), Suite en Quatre Parties (Lorenziti, 1714-1794), Ballet de la Royne (Monsigny, 1729-1817). Moving pictures of the French Army in training in action were shown.

FAREWELL, REV. YOUNG.

The men of the 305th Infantry bade a hearty Godspeed to Rev. T. Basil Young when he left the Y.M.C.A. work here for Governor's Island to be examined for an army chaplaincy. He had planned to go to France in Y.M.C.A. work, but has modified his plans. At the farewell services Corpl. Handy, Headquarters Company, played Meditations from "Thais" on the violin and Sergt. Stell rendered "My Old Kentucky Home" on the cello.

DIVISIONAL REVIEW THRILLS VISITORS

Assistant Secretary of War and Chief of Staff U.S.A. Praise Upton Men.

High tribute was paid officers and men at Upton by Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell and Major Gen. John Biddle, acting chief of Staff of the United States Army, after they, in company with Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson, acting Commander of this camp, had watched the Metropolitan Division pass in review.

In the review were the 302d Engineers, 153d and 154th Infantry Brigades, 152d Artillery Brigade, 304th, 305th and 306th Machine-Gun Battalions and Trench-Mortar Battalion. The commands marched in company formation and considerable time was required for the large body of men to pass the reviewing officers. Every soldier looked his smartest and marched his best. The review was a huge success, reflecting great credit upon both officers and men.

Incredible Transformation.

After the last command had passed, Assistant Secretary Crowell said: "I saw these same men marching to the railroad station to start for this camp last fall. If I had not witnessed this marvelous transformation from these undisciplined civilians to these splendidly trained soldiers I would not have believed such a change humanly possible."

Assistant Secretary Crowell, Major Gen. Biddle and Brig. Gen. Johnson later attended the formal dedication of the 367th Infantry's auditorium, the largest building at Upton seating 5,000 persons and erected by the sale bonds by the colored soldiers in the regiment and donations from friends of the regiment.

Col. J.A. Moss, commanding the 367th, presided at the dedicatory exercises and introduced the speakers. Both Mr. Crowell and Gen. Biddle made inspiring speeches, as did Gen. Johnson and Brig. Gen. William H. Hay, commanding the 184th Infantry Brigade, of which the regiment is a part. A number of distinguished colored men attended and spoke, among them being Emmett J. Scott, special advisior to Secretary Baker on the welfare of colored troops throughout the country.

Under the leadership of Max Weinstein, the 367th Regiment singers rendered "Roll, Jordon Roll!" "Old Black Joe," "The Long Trail" and "See It Through," the regimental song. Assistant Secretary Crowell said he never heard such splendid chorus singing before in any of the many camps he has visited.

Battery A, 304th, Pulls a New York Ovation

Battery A, 304th field Artillery, must be counted in when ovations to National Army men in New York are under discussion. Led by the regiment's band, Sergt. Dolphini leader, the mud crushers were ovated from the Harvard Club to Delmonico's the other day on their appearance in the Neighbor Suburb.

They were guests of the Harry B. Harris Estate at the Hudson Theatre in the evening and had a midnight party at the McAlpin, with supper and all the rest, star vaudeville, boxing and other fixings.

CASLAR'S BAND FETED.

The band of the 152d Depot Brigade, which Sergt. Dan Caslar has whipped into remarkable shape, was given a full sized party at Reisenweber's, New York, recently, through the regard held there for Sergt. Dan. He waved the baton for the Reisenweber's musicians seven years hand-running, and his band men, after the fete of the other evening, are mighty glad he did. The Paradise Room-how does that sound to you, Oliver?- was where the musicians gathered, an the complete dinner was occasionally diverted by music from the brigadiers under the Sergeant's compelling magic wand.

LITTLE SHAVERS FROM NEW YORK LIKE IT HERE

And They Were Liked, Too, These Clever Little Lads in Minstrelsy

What proved to be one of the camp's real novelties was supplied in a minstrel show by the Cathedral Boys' Club attached to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, which came to camp at its own expense and performed in K. of C. Hall. The boys gave an excellent programme and were rewarded repeatedly not only with applause, but whistles and cheers. The club is under the direction of Rev. John M. Quinn, who was called upon for two encores when he sang a new Irish ballad, which proved a big favorite. After the show, sixty cots and 200 blankets were issued, and the young minstrel men turned in at the auditorium.

The clever little shavers have given performances at many of the large camps and entertained at various institutions. Their operations are quite varied, as witness the words of one little fellow questioned at the Hostess House: "Sure," he piped, "we go to Sing Song and lots of this kind of places."

On Sundays the K. of C. main building is becoming the Mecca of the fair visitors to camp who have a fondness for the dance and music, jazz, martial or sentimental. The reason is found in the fact that the bands which favor at the Upton Boulevard K. of C. are not only able to charm with their melodies, but turn out tunes that put the spirit of the dance into the tiredest pair of "kicks."

On last Sunday the concert beginning at 2 o'clock was given by the 304th Field Artillery, under the leadership of Sergt. Andrew Dolphini, and was loudly applauded when it harked back to the "Red Mill" and selections from some of the favorites of the vintage 1908. In the evening, until 8 o'clock, when Secretary Grady sounded retreat, the large floor space in the auditorium was more than comfortably crowded ith dancers, who wheeled around under the watchful eyes of visiting mothers and doting maiden aunts. One remarkable sight was provided by some score of the couples who are regular residents of Upton and did not care how much they stepped on each other's "doughboys." In fact, there were so many couples in the O.D. that it is being whispered around the K. of C. is thinking seriously of running a "stag" dance.

On Monday evening the 305th M. G.B. started the week with two hard fought games and used the hall again on Wednesday night when the men turned out to cheer their officers when they heroically went down before the machine of the 304th M.G.B. officers to the score of 15 to 10. On the same night the 305th team beat the 304th 15 to 9 in their second game routed the spirited quintet from the 307th Infantry by 36 goals to 21.

306th Battalion

The recent show at the Cort Theatre was a riot of success, putting it mildly, and the members of the mitrailleuse outfit will carry the rattle of it with them to the firing posts. Miss Eldora Stanford opened the part, and act followed act until nearly midnight. Here are some of the stars: Sophia Kasimir, Al Piantadosia, Blanche Bellair, Al Wilson, Norton and Leonard, Perfect 36 chorus from "Flo Flo." Barney Bernard, Grace La Rue, Joliet, Harry Cooper, Gertrude Rose, Mlle. Dazie, Layman and Chaulsea and the New Orleans Jazz Band, Handus and Millis.

A competitive machine gun drill, with Companies A, B, and C after the honors, was the last interesting feature. Major Hayward, machine gun expert of the british mission, gave C the decision on general excellence.

304th Battery Gunners.

Basketball still holds the predominant place among activities in this battalion. Companies A and C, each having won two and lost none, are tied for first honors. The balance of the schedule is being played off at the Fifth and Eighth Y hut. The winner will play the 305th and 306th champs for the battalion supremacy.

The preliminaries of the boxing tournament have been started and the gunner are on edge for the fray.

From the 305th Battalion

Company A scored another basketball victory on the K. C. Hall floor recently, trimming the 302d Supply Train, 32 to 15. Though only begun a few weeks ago A's five has played consistently and hasn't known defeat yet. Any company team wanting a game may communicate with Private Fisher at the barrack, 4th and 11th. Hanzinger, star centre, has been caging a majority of the baskets. The music of the 308th Infantry Band and 305th Machine Gun Battalion Orchestra livened things. Private Forest. Company A, and Private McKenna, Company C, 305th Machine Gun Battalion, sang solos. Company A-Forwards, Fischer and Brockie; centre, Hanzinger; guards, Glasser and McKenna. Supply Train-Forwards, Berger and Harrison; centre, Cox; guards, Kern and Schloss.

ENTERTAINERS MOVED

Some of Company L, 307th's entertainers, have been transferred to the Depot Brigade, and their late comrades want to let them know how much their endeavors in making the way brighter were appreciated. They were known in all of the 307th barracks. Here they are: Privates Frank Shannon, Samuel Ury, Lawrence Guinney and Arnold Pickrodt.

COMPOSER IN THE 308TH BAND

Phillip James, noted composer, is now a corporal in the 308th Infantry band and is playing the saxophone. Corp. James's songs are being sung by some of the greatest singers, among them Mme. Alma Gluck, Miss Mabel Garrison, Metropolitan Opera Company, and Mme. Galli-Curci and George Hamilton, the Chicago Opera Company.

SOLDIER CHORUSES VIE IN QUALITY STYLE AT REGIMENTAL SING-SONG.

308th Infantry Takes Trophy First Time, With 30th Its Rivals.

Two hundred men sang in each of the infantry choruses. The 306th, led ably by Sergt. Walter Hechtman, made a splendid showing and were fine in the manner of their presentation. They marched with snap and precision to their places and sang with the same qualities marking their work. Lieut. B Meredith Langstaf Co. I, led the 308th men to victory. Their expression and shading were especially high grade, showing the results of painstaking training. Mr. Walter Bartholomew, who had had experience in camp singing overseas and is now song director for the National War Water Council, Y.M.C.A., announced in his judge's decision that the balance of the 308th was one of the marks of their singing and said his task of judge was made especially hard by the work of Col. Vidmer's men and the spirited singing of the Sanitary Train. The award to the 308th was made strictly o te asis of the competition rules. They gave twenty-five points each for shading, harmony, articulation and tone color. According to Charles W. Towne of the Y.M.C.A., who is directing the song competitions a change in the rules will be made before the next contest, and the revised regulations will be given early publication in Trench and Camp.

Enthusiastically received as part of the programme in the sing-song were violin numbers by Sergt. David Hochstein, and vocal numbers by Miss Hasbrouck of New York. Sergt. Hochstein played, with characteristically masterful bowing and power. Raff's Cavatina and Kreisler's Caprice Viennoise, and played an obligato for the singer's rendition of Elegie by Massenet.

302D AM. TR. SHOW GETS ROUND AFTER ROUND

"Our First Big Hit" was the telling cover on the programmes for the 302d Ammunition Train's benefit vaudeville in the Y Auditorium recently. The cover -by Private Light, Company A- was clever and different and so was the show-different from many benefits known hereabouts. It went a long way to redeem the reputation of the "pay show" as it was a big quarters worth. Amelia Bingam headlined the bill with her company in a scene from "Sans Gene" and there were nine good vaudeville acts.

The train's function is to keep the boys at the font supplied with the ammunition, and the outfit's ability to supply such was proven by the "round after round" of applause in the show. Lieut. Col. A.F. Prescott, commanding the ammunitioners, appointed the following committee to handle the entertainment: Capt. William D. Sherman, Company D; A.C. Koch, Company B; Capt. F.X. Hennessy, Company A; Lieut. Blanchard, Company A, and Lieut. Roger Fuller, Battalion Adjutant. The Medical Quartet from the 152d D.B. was a hit, and the news movie showing troops here in camp on the march was recieved with the accustomed soldier enthusiasm.

IDES OF MARCH TO DAWN SOON PUGILISTICALLY

Division Boxing Starts- 306th Has Put on Some Rattling Fights.

Benny Leoard is working from sun to sun- and by moonlight- these days getting things shaped for the division boxing tourney which they will begin about the middle of March, and bring the Ides of March to many aspiring Upton pug. From the platoon to the regiment, an aspirant will fight his way in the various classes to the right to meet others as himself before the howling, shouting mobs that will pack the Y Auditorium for the affairs. There are to be six classes, as follows: 125 pounds and under, featherweight; 125-135, light weight; 135-145, welterweight; 145-160, middleweight; 160-175, light heavyweight, and over 175 pounds, heavyweight.

Several regiments, notably the 307th and 306th Infantries, have been practicing fistic preparedness by holding regimental championships before the division one starts. The results don't count on Mr. Leonard's party, but the regiments are fighting wise by now and should figure close to the top. The 30th bats over the finals Tuesday in the Y Auditorium. The results of the last semi-finals were interesting, with the Third Battalion fighting the Special Companies. One of the gamest fights was between Blackburn, Company L, and Kaplan, Headquarters, in the featherweight department. Kaplan sprained his ankle in the first round but stuck to the finish, and both boys were on the verge of scoring knockouts several times, but rallied strong. Blackburn got the decision. The other goes were equally good and resulted thus: 145 pounds, Keny, Headquarters Company, beat Parisi, Company L, in four rounds; heavyweight, Joe Gaddi, Company L, National Amateur Champ, got Duffy, Headquarters Company, in three rounds; 135 pounds, Senk, Company L, won from Hynes, Company M, by default. The boxing bayonet movie film, secured by Capt. Frank Glick, will be shown at the 30th finals Tuesday.

302D F.S.B. BOX

Company C, 302d F.S.B., had an evening of boxing in their barracks recently under the direction of Sergt. Lewis. There were five bouts and all were hummers. Whitehead vs. O'Neil; Josephs took on Dillon; Patalio tackled Fredericks, and Corr engaged himself with Middleman. The star bout of the evening was Tony Perrone, old-timer, against Buck Urwood in 3 two-minute rounds. Some speedy going! The bouts were refereed by Corpl. Cannon. The 302d F.S.B. promise to put on a night at the upper J Y.M.C.A. on the 21st and several bouts will feature.

Nellie Takes French Leave From Hospital And Fear She Was "Spurlos Versen kt"

Fitted in With Soldier Life and Was Getting Along Nicely Too.

Has any one seen Nellie? Nellie was the official mascot of Barracks 1-5 at the Base Hospital, being carried on the rolls as Nellie Joslyn, and a brilliant career was predicted for her in the army. But now the Knights of the Pill will have to struggle along without a friendly wag of the tail from Nellie, for she did not wait to see weather she would go to France. She took French leave.

Nellie was a kind of mastiff, and then again she wasn't. She was a cross between an overgrown terrier and underdone lion, with the pugilistic undershot jaw of a bulldog but a more intellectual forehead that a bulldog's. She was given by an acquaintance to Jack Joslyn, the popular speed demon of the Base Hospital, who drives one of the fast racing tracks.

For a couple of weeks Nellie led the carefree happy life of Riley. She was always the first up at reveille and in recognition of her promptness Sergt. Reider Trygstad speedy put her on the roll, and her name was called every morning. During the day she would go for joy rides on Jack's truck, standing up behind him with her horepaws on the side and a sharp eye on the road. At night, tired out by a hard day's work, Nellie would relax in a little wrestling bout with Jock, and then to sleep on whatever cot was handiest.

During all this time Nellie displayed the most model behavior . She always had a friendly sniff for everybody, and was never known to give back talk to a Sergeant. Apparently no other person in the world had quite the fascination for her that Jock had; he might have been the President, so far as Nellie was concerned.

But presently she began to get restless and took to sleep-walking. Perhaps she had the wonderlust. Any how, one day-Jock doesn't exactly know how, or when, or where-Nellie just dropped out of sight- was "spurlos versenkt." If she reappears Nellie, having been absent from roll call nine days without leave, faces court martial as a deserter, an no telling what havoc might be wrecked in military jurisprudence if a lady of Nellie's accomplishments were allowed to take the stand in her own behalf.

New Gymnasium Ready

The demand for iodine has been unusually strong lately, which is making some statement. The new "gym" did it. Plans are under way to make Tuesday the social evening at the base, if only to remind every one here that bumped noses and pills are not the sum total of living. Permission has been obtained, through co-operation with Major Jay D. Whitham, to have camp bands play here Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. This will take a heavy burden from the hospital phonographs. Already the musicianry of the 306th and 307th Infantry Regiments have "omm-pahed" their way into the hearts of patients and hospital staff.

Miss Amelia Bingham, famous actress, and a company of three gave a splendid entertainment recently.

Also, as a diversion on one of the boxing evenings, "Nut" McManus rib tickled with his dances and facial contortions. Come again, Mac.

Four Months Ago These Banders Stole Off to Woods; Now They've Passed Up Insects and Play Right Out (Contributed)

A little over four months ago a handful of raw recruits started out from the Headquarters Company barracks of the 306th Infantry carrying, mysterious black cases of assorted shapes and sizes. Furtively they hurried away and disappeared in the woods which skirted the north of Camp Upton. All through the day strange sounds emanated from out of the wilderness-violent, forbidding sounds that terrorized curiosity seekers into hasty retreat. Also-so the story goes-the reason the woods for miles and miles around are now so devoid of wild (Long Island) animals is that the wild animal population dared not remain "with in sound of the guns."

A mystery? Yes, a mystery that once was baffling. But not now. Ask any man in the 306th Infantry and he'll tell you-with a just pride- that the handful of men were the pioneer members of "our" band, bravely striving to manufacture sweet sounds cut of brand-new instruments and achieving mostly sour ones.

But that was long ago. To-day no a single discord finds its way out of the musical mouths of these same instruments-proving there was nothing wrong with the instruments. So, the bandsmen no longer steal away to the quiet of the woods to play for birds and insects. Now they rehearse in their own band room and play right out before the soldiers- and frequently in New York-without fear of hostile attack.

Wins Praise in Village.

The 306th Infantry band is the pride and joy of the regiment-and justly so, for it is considered one of the best military bands in the country. This is the opinion of the visitors who have heard bands in various training camps. And, furthermore, New York , known to be hypercritical, has placed its seal of unbound praise on "our" band, which has already appeared at the Grand Central Palace during the Soldiers' and Sailors' Bazaar, at the Biltmore for the officers' entertainment and dance, at the Hotel Ansonia for the Headquarters Company Ball, at the Friars' Club and at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre, where, by special request of the management, it played the regimental song. "When the Moon Is Shining Somewhere in France," composed by Frederick Rath, a member of the band and sung by Frances White in the "Hitchy-Koo" production at that theatre.

It also claims the distinction of being the first band from Camp Upton to "play on the march" on Fifth Avenue. New Yorker's were visibly impressed with the perfect carriage and "band movements" of the men. For to march in band formation is much more difficult than ordinary marching, and few bands are as well drilled in "band movements" as the 306th. The precision and snap with which the band executes its movements are what place it in the forerank of military bands.

Material was From "Raw."

To mould such a band out of material that was mostly "raw," in the sense that the majority of the musicians had previously been unfamiliar with brass instruments, is an achievement that merits great credit for the band leader, Clarence Byrn. Many of the men had first to be taught. But the indefatigable energy Mr. Byrn set to the task and attained his end. Now no selection is too difficult. Opera is "pie," which the band literally eats up. Much credit too is due Sergt. David Hochstein, assistant bandmaster, and Sergt. Bugler Marcey Weinberg, both of who proved valuable assistants. Sergt. Hochstein is the brilliant violin virtuoso, noted as a violinist of unusual attainments. Sergt. Weinberg has been a cornet soloist for fourteen years.

The 306th Infantry field music, a separate organization, comprising trumpeters and drummers, who the first such organization to appear in camp, and is deserving of laudatory comment. Under the direction of Bugler Sergt. Gormel it has progressed so rapidly that its record is almost unbeatable. On the occasion of the parade of the 308th Infantry in New York it demonstrated that it was perfectly trained both musically and as marching unit.

One of the finest musical organizations in camp-and one that rivals any of its kind-is the orchestra, made up of men from the band and directed by Sergt. Hochstein. Like the band it too is capable of playing the most difficult selections, at the same time being there with jazz. Among its members -all trained musicians -is Private Lieff Rosanoff, an internationally noted cellist.

"Ralph Jordan's Jazz Band" is a popular subdivision of the band itself. Corpl. Jordan is the drummer and, so the men say, he's a "hummer." When it comes to jazzing he's "all there," and the little jazz band which he organized is much in demand at affairs of the regiment. Alfred Wagner, the 306th Infantry's "official" pianist, or Louis Leigh, a real "jazzer" take excellent care of the piano playing.

The 306th Infantry has often been termed the "crack" regiment. But it also claims first place in other things, and music being one of them.

DEPOT BRIGADE ATHLETICS AND MINSTREL-SHOWS

Jokes Dating Back to Alexander the Great Are Held in High Favor.

Athletics are going strong in the Depot Brigade, and the first and second rounds in the elimination basketball series were productive of much interest. The game between the Eleventh and Twelfth in the second round were two of the closest yet played on the floor of the Depot Brigade Hut. The game played at the auditorium between the Second and Third Battalions was also a tight one. The Second Battalion being one point ahead at the end of the first half, and the Third Battalion winning the game by the close margin of one point only. The Twelfth Company lost a hard fought game to the 305th Infantry, a regimental team, being only seven points behind in a 28-21 final score. Tug-o'-war and relay racing is becoming more popular that ever, and the boys of the various companies go to it every day in spite of the snow and bad weather conditions.

The "Bloomin' Limies" are going strong on the soccer, and promise to have a good brigade team soon. The minstrel show is coming along in great shape, and the old time-honored "That wasn't no lady; that was my wife!" gag, along with Pearson's story about Solly who, when told by his wife that little Abie had the ringworm, said: "Take it away from him, he's too young to play with jewelry!" will go over with the same warm reception as they received by Alexander the Great and his courtiers.

"Over the top, and give 'em what's coming to 'em," seems to be the motto of Private Connor of the Third Company. It happened like this: The Third Company claimed to be the tug-of-war champions of the brigade, the Fourth Company claimed to be champions of the universe. The Third Company accepted the invitation and Capt. Coleman's Cubs went down to show the Fourth Company who was which, with banners in the shape of brooms and posters bearing the sign, "Clean Sweep." It was a clean sweep for the Fourth Company, but the tug-of-war was a minor detail compared to the rumpus which started when the Fourth Company, drunk with victory, proceeded to tear up the signs and steal the brooms. Private Connor was decorated -about his illustrious optics mostly-for conspicuous bravery. He weighs about a hundred pounds and is about five feet in height, and finding things rather crowded on the ground floor when the battle commenced, he went back to the primitive and did a little climbing stunt over the heads and shoulders of the Fourth Company raiders, coming back, figuratively speaking, with the bacon in the shape of one of the stolen brooms, although the Fourth Company retained their hold upon the sign which now decorates the gable end of their barracks.

Benny Leonard is the most modest champion we ever heard about. He dropped into the hut on 19th Street the other evening to say "How do?" but smilingly refused the offer of one of the secretaries to box him ten rounds for the championship. Benny has a sense of humor, and the afore said secretary still lives. Is Benny their barracks.

Franco and Frenchie, the 9th Co. K.P.'s are two desperate looking characters. They were picked up outside the post exchange a few days ago by the guard and taken over to the guard house on suspicion. They were discharged when it was discovered that they were not the men wanted, their only similarity being the fact that they wore overalls. When Frenchie rather indignantly inquired why they should be arrested at all, the officer of the guard informed him that any two men who looked as tough as he and Franco, should be arrested on suspicion and sent to Fort Leavenworth for life.

PARAGRAPHS

The good weather has meant "back to the range." The shooting has been regiments, some of it, and the Eagle Eye is getting to be sharper and sharper.

Those forty-pound packs have made their appearance. On hike they feel like a moving van during the spring rush season.

Explosions from the 302d Engineer neighborhood don't mean that submarine attacks have been made via the lagoons in that section. They're tunneling, and those Engineers are handy boys with dynamite.

Upton is soon to send some of its star vaudevillians on the road if all goes well. They plan to wind up in New York with a discharge of 75's.