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Vol. 1. No. 2 CAMP WADSWORTH, S. C. November 27, 1917
THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION
PRESIDENT WILSON'S Proclamation designating Thursday, November 29th, as Thanksgiving Day, follows:
T has long been the honored custom of ou People to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in Praise and thanksgiving to AI mighty God for His many blessings and mer- / cies to us as a Nation. That custom we can follow now, even in the midst of the tragedy of a world shaken by war and immeasurable disaster, in the midst of sor- row and great fieri], because even midst the darkness that has gathered about us we can see the great blessings God has bestow ed ufion us; blessings that are better than mere Peace of mind and Prosperity of enterprise. We have been given the opportunity to serve mankind as we once served our- selves in the great day of our declaration of independence, by taking uj> arms against a tyranny that threatened to master and debase men everywhere and joining with other free Peoples in demanding for all the nations of the world what we then demand- ed and obtained for ourselves. In this day O] the revelation of our duty not only to defend our rights as a Nation but to defend also th rights of free men throughout the world, there has been vouchsafed us in fuT) and inspiring meas are the resolution and spirit of united action. Wie have been brought to one mind and fiurfiose. A new vigor of common counsel and common action has been revealed to us. We should especially thank God that in such circumstances, in the midst of the greatest enterprise the spirits of men have ever entered upon, we have, if we but observe a reasonable and practicable economy, abundance with which to supply the needs of those associated with us as well as our own. A new light shines about us. The great duties of a new day awaken a new and greater national spirit in us. "We shall never again be divided or wonder what stuff we are made of. And while we render thanks for these things let us Pray Almighty God that in all humbleness of spirit we may look always to Him for guidance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of service; that by His grace our minds may be directed and our hands strengthened, and that in His good time liberty and security and peace and the comradershifi of a com• mon justice may be vouchsafed aT) the nations of the earth. Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 29th day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the People throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations and in their several homes and places of worship to render thanks to God, the Qreat 'Ruler of nations. ¥TI C TO
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PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS AND FIRST CLASS DRUGS O <^> o <* o TA.B1 <±j CONTENTS < In this issue of the Wadsworth Gas One of our own men has contributed <-> Attack and Rio Grande Rattler you will a Thanksgiving poem that ranks with find a splendid story of the British any verse dedicated to this season. Tank Drive by the British—the drive The editorial page takes up the 6 that has recently broken another hole cudgels for you against several of your in the Hun's first line. most impudent enemies. And even better, perhaps, are the two There is a clever story of the work pages of news from Division Units. of the Remount Station work—work We are sorry there are not four pages. that you likely never knew was in prog• "We print two pages of up-to-date ress here, sporting news. The result of the recent-division cen• Mrs. Charles P. Loeser's Society Page is a new department but an absorbingly- sus is boiled down into a story that is interesting one. far too short—-had to be because we In between and scattered elsewhere lacked space to print more. through the pages of this magazine You will read and enjoy The Incine- you'll find a half hundred snappy briefs and paragraphs. DRINK 1$/E are manufacturers of Bodied Coca-Cohi Orange Whiisile, Crystal Brand Ginger > Ale, Root Beer, Sarsaparilla, Concord Grape, Straw• <$> berry Soda, Lemon Soda and other popular f flavors. i i Look for the word Coca-Cola on the bottle. This insures you of a sterilized bottle, and the best quality of Soda that can be obtained. 4> Visit our plant and see our modern sanitary . . system of manufacturing. . . f <•> Spartanburg Coca-Cola Bottling Co., In Bottles W. G. JACKSON, Sec'y & Mgr. Phone 247 <<>> FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA THE WADS WORTH GAS ATT AC !\ AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER DAY OF THANKSGIVING By Charles Divine, Ambulance Co. No. 108. For cotton fields thai neighbor us, For Carolina s shies of blue, We raise up thanks, and also for A turkey feast instead of stew. For British pluck across the seas, For deeds of all the gallant French, We thank the Kaiser s God that now We are companions m a trench. And thanks for rumors filling camp That, written home, give writer s cramp: The Huns sing Tipperary now, The Major says we march the best, I hear we're leaving anyhow For some place-—I forgot the rest, But you know me, I get 'em right; I heard the rumor just to-night. They plan to discontinue mess, So we can get more time for drill; I got it straight from Sergeant Hess, Who heard rt from his brother Bill. We're going home. We're off to France. They're going to issue woolen pants. The Kaiser's joined the Democrats, We all get furloughs in a day, Enamel bath-tubs, Turkish mats, I overheard the G apt am say. To-morrow noon toe all get paid, And cotton breeches never fade. They say the Colonel may decide Postponing reveille til ten, And when we reach the other side, They'll serve champagne to all the men: You'll never have to clean your gun, The Government will have it done. For rumors, dreams, and skies of blue, Oh, raise up thanks that some are true! THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 3 By PHILIP GIBBS. Copyright, 1917, by The New York Times Company. After two years of fighting along the set rule of prec eding infantry attacks by days of artillery fire to smash trenches and cut barbed wire, on November twentieth the British swept over the German trenches without artillery preparation and captured territory five miles deep and tw enty-Rve miles wide. Through the courtesy of the New York Times, we ar e able to reprint a portion of Mr. Philip Gibbs* able descrip• tion of the operation. Mr. Gibbs* stories of the British Ar my in France are classics of journalism. Special Cable to The New York Times. did not know that dining recent nights great and got tliem into action and used II er<- rjflos numbers of tanks had been crawling along the to snipe the British. roads toward Havrincourt and the British WAR CORRESPONDENTS HEADQUAE - British Rushed on Cheering. lines below Frequieres Ridge, hiding by day TEES, Nov. 21.—The enemy yesterday had, in the copses of this wooded and rolling coun• I am sure, the surprise of his life on the Out of the silence which had prevailed be• try beyond Peronne and Bapaume. Indeed he western .front, where without warning by ordi• hind the British lines a great fire of guns knew little of all that was going on before nary preparations that' are made before a came upon the Germans. They knew they had him under the cover of darkness. battle, without any sign of strength in men been caught by an amazing strategem, and and guns behind the British front, without a For the Generals and staff officers directing they were full of terror. Behind the tanks, single shot fired before the attack, and with this operation there were hours of anxiety and coming forward in platoons, the infantry his great belts of hideously strong wire still suspense as the time drew near for the sur• swarmed, cheering and shouting, trudging intact, the British troops suddenly assaulted prise attack. It was a most audacious adven• through the thistles, while the tanks made a him at dawn, led forward by great numbers ture and depended absolutely on surprise. scythe of machine gun fire in front of them, and thousands of shells went screaming over of tanks, smashed through his wire, passed Had the secret been kept? It looked as if the Hindenburg lines. beyond to his trenches, and penetrated in the enemy suspected something a night or two The artillery made but a feeble answer. many places the main Hindenburg line and ago when he raided the British trenches and Their gun positions were being smothered by the Hindenburg support line beyond, captured two or three prisoners. Had those the fire of all the British batteries. There It was not only a surprise to the enemy, men told anything or had they kept the secret were not many German batteries, and the but, to be frank, it will be a surprise to all like brave men? All was on the hazard of enemy's infantry could get no great help from the British officers and men in other parts of that. them. They were caught. German officers the line. To my mind it is the most sensa• Relied on Wire Defenses. knew they had been caught like rats in a trap. tional and dramatic episode of this year 'a It was their black day. fighting, brilliantly imagined and carried It was probable that the night sentries had through with the greatest secrecy. Not a heard the movement of traffic on those quiet, Tanks Rest for Mew Advance. whisper of it had reached men like myself, silent roads, the clatter of gun wheels over the A number of tanks were on the battlefield who are always up and down the lines, and rough roads, the rumble of transport behind '4 resting', awhile for another* advance. The since the secret of the tanks themselves, which the lines, but his wire was still uncut and no strange gray masses in the pale light of morn• suddenly made their appearance on the Somme new batteries revealed themselves, and that ing were scarcely visible at any distance. I last year, this is, I believe, the best kept secret was the thing which might lull all his suspi- spoke to one of the pilots, 1 (How are you of the war. ! cions. doing?" I asked. "We are giving them merry I During the last twenty-four hours or so cer• hell,J; he said. '' It is our day out.J' tain uneasy suspicions seem to have been | To attack against uncut wire has always 1 been death to the infantry, and every time aroused among the German troops immediately SNEAKING UP ON THEM. until this it has been the gun ?s job to smash in the front of the attack, but their higher ' A young city fellow went to the country the barrier. We knew now that whatever command did not dream of such a blow. How to take a flyer in agriculture. suspicions were aroused, a real surprise was co'uld the enemy guess, in his wildest night• About 3 o'clock one morning the fanner scored this morning. The British caught the mare, that a blow would be struck quite sud• for whom he was working rustled him out enemy 1 i on the hop, •'? as men say, and in denly at that Hindenburg line of his—enor• of bed in a great hurry. spite of uneasy moments on Monday night mously strong in redoubts, tunnels, and "What's the rush?" asked the young man. they had no evidence of what was coming to trenches, and without any artillery prepara• "Come out to the barn as quickly as you them and no time to prepare against the blow. tions or any sign of gun power behind the can and I will tell you," replied the farmer. Most of the prisoners say that the first thing British front? With all possible haste the young man they knew of the attack was when, out of the went to the barn and again inquired as to Tanks Secretly Moved at Night. mist, they saw the tanks advancing upon the reason for the early rising. them, smashing down their wire, crawling over It is true he had withdrawn many of his "We are going out to thresh the oats," said their trenches and nosing forward with gun• guns from this i 1 quiet;; part of the front, but the farmer. fire and machine gun fire slashing from their unless that wire of his was cut in the usual "Are they wild?" the young man asked. sides. way by days of bombardment and unless there • "No," the farmer responded. The Germans were abashed and dazed. was artillery action which gives away all "Then what's the idea of sneaking up on Many hid down in their dugouts and tunnels, secrets, he had every right to believe himself them in the dark at this unearthly hour?** and then surrendered. Only the steadiest and safe—every right though he was wrong. He asked the city fellow. bravest of them rushed to the machine guns 4 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER That after they deduct insurance prem• BUCK UP! iums, Liberty Bond payments and general Wadsworth Gas Attack We are down here for business. allotments from our pay, we only owe the We are preparing to meet the biggest government $2.57 a month. and proposition of our lives, the biggest proposi• That somebody else had to pay the car• tion that was ever faced by any army in fare to fetch this crowd from New York. RI© Grande Rattler history. That they decided to keep the rifle range We've got to buck up. east of the Mississippi River. The Kaiser's machine is efficient because Published. weekly by and for the men of That the succeeding issues of the GAS AT• it has eliminated lost motion and every man the Twenty-seventh Division, IT. S. A., at TACK will become better and better. Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C, under from top to bottom, does his part. There are the direction of the Camp Wadsworth Young no belts, chains, cogs, or screw drivers in Men's Christian Association. the Kaiser's machine. WHAT "P. AMD N." STANDS FOR, We can eliminate them from ours, and Honorary Editors—• When we swarmed down here from the when we do we will have a machine that will Major General John F. O'Ryan. land of the B. R. T. and the N. Y. Central, smash the Kaiser's. C, W. Dietrich, Camp Y. M. C, A. Se-cie ve i a tin al A ainec a curious eye at Lhe lail Americans have more aptitude than Ger• tary. load cnai links tne " in > »o bpaita thing mans and. t^ev will omnia icn the i if iue / AAA n Uencral C3ia lea A. Ph'Jlip* Jems yonn^, op'i vsAc ana uAA% we f&- v ill oooal them m aoplicatAn (i J Gel" d^wi oubincss ,o da Buci up I« Vo'o^A 'A a\nn TV. And. i.med Jiat ~~ and NA scoco ioi Punctual 1 0 Jr 'AiPine'" a piivaie o., 3 Pe ai Ame icao 3 oldier r\ r\ iian, -IT d 57^7- or' Ar //•— 'The to i isi c, i rii oar doer/ wc w ofc r \) (t tlie * cs o is.il 'lit] To ti s icc^s cj i a, A A1 o ^e V ,< d f'o,.). Au^ iome i oi ai st i ? d ^ p < a a acb r v ai xoi nb^ii^ ug^t i] on } c ^ ^/ L n L A- Ai r il eecjA "a,!i ran v a Av mi ories :n.^ ders. Li- w ^. ?> a dry r p A time." Dock i>) a J /r «r naf ^ - c J c A. 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It mi^ht be '^o^se despAt, °caji ike °< ortin0, c °,e o mi1 the nnal and (0., cc< s on the client in] g jy in Pie next col vdio jnsis s It was nisi man 1 amnion sense, not 10 Dated subjects. that no hmg could be. mention practical patriotism, to be ready tor That we La\re notiiing to do between taps the soldiers—to give them good service. OUE KIND CONTEMPORARY. and ^e^eV'c The soldiers arrived. The service was That Iheie JS but ore Saturday morning in Now that we have safely launched the first atrocious. Many were forced to spend half each week. issue of the WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND a day's pay to get to town and back. Howls That we don't have to shine those new RIO GRANDE RATTLER, we can settle back for and kicks echoed over the Blue Ridge moun• trench shoes. a brief breathing spell and assemble our re• tains. The service was improved. But it is That whoever it is who fetches those pack• sources for the next sally. still redolent of Camembert, ages from home into Spartanburg contents In this period of relaxation and reminis• himself with, merely smashing them. What is the P. and N. going to do about cence we recall the courtesy and open-handed That mail reaches Camp Wadsworth— it? Of course if has its freight problems. generosity of the Spartanburg Herald and eventually. That must be taken into consideration. But Journal. In a moment of doubt and trouble That some fellows are going to be granted will it hurry up with the new Camp Wads• it was our friends mentioned above, who a furlough over Christmas and we may be worth spur? •came forward with a helping hand, to make- one of them. The GAS ATTACK suggests that while this possible the publication of our sheet in the That the ancient worthies who got up spur is being hurried to completion that the manner and schedule we planned. the calendar put only twenty-four hours in P. and N. cultivate a love for punctuality The favor was well timed and hugely ap• each day. that not even a top sergeant could -criticize. preciated. That the shower baths will be heated in We suggest, also, adequate and punctual It will be -the policy of the WADSWORTH time for whoever it may be who will follow shuttle service between town and camp, es• GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER to us in Camp Wadsworth. pecially on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so further the spirit of friendship that the Spar• That Herbert Hoover hasn't decided to put that the innocent doughboy may get to town tanburg Herald and Journal have so clearly us on war-time rations. and back with comparative inconvenience. initiated. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER INCINERATOR Thanksgiving! out some scheme like this the war would 7. He requests that he be notified imme• Gobble! Gobble! be over now. It takes us Uncle Sammies, diately either by mail or otherwise whether Listen to those boys eat. eh, Mable? this application will ever be answered. This is the second year that the 27th Di• The other morning I went up for thirds Yours respectably, vision has received its 18 ounces of O. D. at breakfast as usual and the cook said: S. P. O. NAGE. turkey in a mess kit. Next year it may be "You seem to like coffee," and without stop• eating weiners and saner kraut 'from the ping to think or no thin' I said: "Yes, that's We notice this sign painted on the window Royal Wine Cellars of the Imperial Palace? the reason I'm will in' to drink so much hot of a Spartanburg restaurant: Fresh trout water to get some." Eh, Mable? and ice cream. All right, and have you tried After three months in executive session the Went to a dance the other night in Spark- limburger with baked apples, or for a quick, National Committee on Hays and Beans at ingsburg and met some swell girls. Couldn't light lunch mashed potatoes and grape Washington has issued the following help meeting them; they just crowded round juice? — • me. I guess I got the instincts of a soldier Thanksgiving menu. Every enlisted man They say that the reason that a soldier all right, for the minute I sin el led powder I will be issued one of these dinners. It will bolts his food- is to keep it down. be charged to him and must be shown at all was right on my tows. I haven't been very well lately. I guess Satiirclay inspections. Overheard among the Military Police: I'll cut out eating at meal times. It spoils Turkey—1.345 ounces (drum-sticks are ex• "My cocoa's cold." my appetite for the rest of the day. I know pendable). (Gizzards to be divided equally "Put on your hat." ih -a *^hoi I the commai d ) you'll be glad to know that my feet ain't I'Litusg me neai so much and 1 leceived lha« C ~i 1 ei A 3P D) tanking i . 1cr i >'e f n 1 CPT3 • O 10 R PC » i ' - ( ' recti a 1 r ip in c c^c o' e ' o »at r~ \ -3 be< PR< if ^ rC tD 3.0''li 1( °~ ^ a'i - *' j ° 1 r ! 1 oi > - cL, p, ^ ' LOI 3/ 11 (0 Li s pe ) it r tu nt ? n c> or i r . s1 c ' o J " ' ~ J ' r i jau p - 1 e I I »L c 0 e P ^ 1 ' J* 1 11 Lei in a f 0' ^O 'P v O1" » ^8 B'Jc)ih liPtC oa 0 i - t L 1—p subdivi I 0 -X CP f )P i HE liAS ATTACK nas naa. so many ques- Arrive JLenwood—Probably. 'cis a , c ' v1 c v c ^ r • ,n c» 1 u >n yu / 'i p^ c "/c 0 b— * i( t s r ' pi 1 1 1 ic joi.e \" ° c1 s r iijo3ei Of /' 1 - e n c L— LI o- £sb c fill cGiamiiiiicdlofQ ahoin lo gu ihiocgh t^c 'ah' 3 be » . ^ 1^ T J^) s k T channels: r i < -o J^S bolio 'c do * -P3C up the &bo^ c sc 'ci L c if r iP/jCro IP ^ IP. g(- 7 1 f ^ j r t& sui t ?n> bi i f>om t.ie To. IU^JO CoutF our notice. 1 1 > -j !»c "6 i i 21 a > Cat ta«ii d ttr* f .3"] o 1 . pTivatc & f 0 'age r j Or I MTOd1, £ 3P( < 10' ^ ir / Lu3ject Application .c be measinec1 for a A^I tn.fc.cn L .cieas a bom i nnnmg diingu. tiaJns will iea/o Cai^eir « ' ts < ^ " 0 One of us had to leave. He'd been there horse. ule of arrivals will, howe,r L^ « t longest so I did. That's me all over. I'm 1. Private S. P. O. Nage presents his com• (2) Owing to the pro^ 1 * " u>r hot-headed. plaints to Major Boots and trusts the latter to the motorman's hour We're do in' bay.nut drill every clay now. is well. stopped at this point I can't say anything about it. It is not for 2. He also presents his complaints to Mrs. lunch. 'women's ears. There's one movement where Major Boots and all the little slippers. No. 32. The Thursday ^X( \(> \ n » > ih we hit the Hun in the nose, then continuing 3. He hereby applies, for one large O. D. be run Wednesdays from tins dale nirteaa downward rip all the ornaments off en his horse. of Tuesday, as usual. uniform. Then there's another where we 4. He prefers one with large violet eyes, The company desire at all times to cater rip up his shoelaces so he can't run and answering to the name of Beatrice. to the comforts and convenience of the knock his hat over' his eyes. Then comes 5. He further requests that he be relieved soldiers. All cars have been fitted up with the wnperzup accompanied by a lot of bums from all active duty, light, heavy and laundries where the men may wash their who do the dirty work. I and the rest go featherweight, until this application is clothes, reading rooms and lounges. oh' and take another trench. I haven't been filled. Three-day furloughs must be presented able to find out yet where we take 'em. 6. The applicant sets forth the following with tickets to protect the road against pos• It's all worked out scientific.. The fellow data relative to his application: sible delay. Any man still en route to or who thought it up had some bean. All you a. He has never worn a brown derby. from Spartanburg at the end of three days have to do is get the other fellow and not b. He voted: for Mitchel. will be picked up as a deserter by the rail• let him get you. If the allys had worked c. He never draws to an inside straight. road. E. S. 6 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER WHEN DO WE GO? Real Information. At Last. "When do we go from here?" How They Tame the Outlaws at the Remount This Is the moo test of all the moot ques• "Whoopeee! Whee!" No one knows just how old Joe is but he tions. It is the principal topic in the tents, So chortled Baxter Reins, astraddle the couldn't have learned as much as he knows in the mess halls and in those enlisted hurricane deck of a bucking bronc. about horses in less than GO years. When Joe slaps a sinewy leg over a horse, that men's clubs situated just abaft the shower- Plop! Mr. Reins came down on the seat of his horse is in for a riding, whether he likes it baths. corduroy riding breeches on the soft earth or not. Joe pulls his floppy Mexican hat THE GAS ATTACK, keeping always on the of the Remount Station corral. over one ear and lets the critter buck, rear alert and observing everything that takes Mr. Reins expressed his opinion of the and snort until it gets tired, and does what Joe wants it to do. place within sight or hearing, has gone into bronco's probable low ancestry, and then picked himself up, dusted off his chaps and this question and can now answer it. It Capt. Walnwright Commands, went back' at it again. detailed a squad of picked reporters to col• Captain Richard B. Wainwright is in That's the secret of busting 'em. Go right charge of the Remount Depot. He is a lect all the very latest shower bath rumors, back at them. If they're rough, be rougher. thorough horseman. He has from 1,000 to to run down all tips, to interview anyone Stick with them. 5,000 horses and mules to take care of. He who might really know or who might know The next time, Baxter Reins stayed aboard has taken care of them so well that only a until the bucker knew who was boss. And anyone who might,—in short, to collect all comparatively small number have died. the army gained a good horse. available dope on the question. Most of them died from pneumonia and Baxter Reins is one of the men over at colds due to the unusually severe nights. Interviews are herewith published, for the the Remount who makes green or bad horses He is assisted by 130 men regularly at• first time in any Camp Wadsworth news• into first-rate army horses. It is a tough tached to the Remount Depot, 60 men loaned paper, which should enable all men to settle job. But the men who do it know the game. by the 10th Regiment, and 50 veterinarians. this' question. ''Sopey Williams' Creed." "Most of the horses we get here," said There's Sergeant "Sopey" Williams. Every Here are the answers to the point-blank Captain Wainwright the other day, "are horseman has heard of "Sopey" Williams, question: "When do we go from here?" tractable. Our problem with them is to keep one time bronco busting champion of the them, in good health and in good condition General Phillips: "Lovely autumns they world, and winner of prizes for breaking so that they will be available for use on have down here, don't you : think? Yes, horses from Calgary, Canada, to Sheepshead short notice. Once in a while, however, one that's right—the door closes from the out• Bay. of the horses turns out to be a killer. While side." Sergeant Williams is a modest young man, the other horses must simply be trained, he General Michie: "It looks like the Giants little, light and lithe. He doesn't say much must be broken as well as trained. Horses again next season." about his horsemanship. But once he climbs have temperaments and ' dispositions that aboard a horse he is apt to stay there. His differ as they do in human beings so there General Lester: "When do we go from creed is simple. Is no one set way of making a killer Into here? Ah, yes, to be sure. Possibly sooner. "Be kind to a horse, as kind as you can, a serviceable horse. We study a horse. Then Possibly later. Possibly not. Where is that but let him know who's boss. Never show we decide what to do. We try to be kind to draft coming from? Ah, yes, the door." him that he has your goat. Stick on him the horse, and often a little kindness, rightly Private Whoozis: "It is easy to dope out till you. get him." ] applied, will convert an outlaw. Some of when we go. Just use a little logic. Have Most of the horses that come to the Re• the outlaws are horses turned back from they built any Turkish baths? No! Have mount are already broken. They are tested various outfits. These horses have been so they Issued folding beds? No! Have they for wind and gait before they are bought by mistreated by poor horsemen that it takes issued O. D. ear-muffs? Again no! Well, the government horse experts. All of them patient handling to bring them back to nor• the answer is easy. We are here for a short have been under saddle or are alleged to have mal again." stay—a short stay, get me? Personally, I been. Some of the men at the Remount say believe we'll sail from Tampa before Christ• that the horses were broken by being shown Fifteen Minutes Enough. mas." a bridle and a saddle and having someone The gradual method of breaking a horse whisper "You're broken" in the horse's ear. is seldom used at the Remount. There isn't Horseshoer O'Nail: "I just laid in three Horses that have been broken by this meth• time. The gradual method is to accustom kegs of nails, so that means well be here od get prompt and energetic attention from a horse to a rider by tying a sack of oats till August, anyway." Sergeant Williams and Baxter Reins. Reins to his back and trotting him about. Cook Wuff: "We leave right away. Proba• is a real William S. Hart cowboy, from Mon• The other method, used by Sergeant Wil• bly to-morrow. Cook Ruff in Co. K tried to tana, who wears wooly chaps and a som• liams, Reins, and the other Centaurs of the get a new egg- beater from the Q. M. and brero a couple of yards in circumference. Remount is to get a stock saddle on the out• they wouldn't issue him none! What more law, even if he has to be tied down to do it, Sometimes "Mexican Joe" Hooker comes proof do you. want that we'll pull outa here and then to jump into the saddle and let over and lends a hand with the outlaws. Inside of a week? Wanta bet?" things rip. Usually it takes only about fif• Clerk Quirk: "I'll give you the real inside teen minutes for one of the busters to con• info. I've got a friend who knows a guy Summary. vince a snorting, fighting brute that he'd who pals around with a friend of the ser• Number of persons interviewed 9781 better be a good horse and let himself be geant-major of a soitan. regiment. You know Number who knew exactly when wre ridden. the in sergeant-majors knows everything— are going to leave 9781 everything. Well, this sergeant-major over• Number of persons who agreed on date heard a soitan colonel tell a soitan captain of departure ...... 0 The GAS ATTACK thanks Trench that it was hardly worth while to send for From this it is clear that the GAS ATTACK and Camp for much valuable his golf sticks. That can only mean one must answer the question "When do we thing—that we sail from Hoboken within a go?" by saying, "There'll be lots of Huns material, suggestions week." left, whenever we go." and inspiration. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 7 THE SERGEANT. Who is that man of haughty mien, Who yells, "Right Dress" and "Right by With ample chest and peanut bean Who cries "Fall In," and when you do, Fours," And movement like a Ford machine? Says, "As you were, you rough-neck crew;" And gets as mad as all outdoors—• Why, Sonny, that's the Sergeant! "Fours right about!" "I'll put you through?" And sends you out to do the chores? Why sure, that's like the Sergeant! You're right, that is the Sergeant! Who's busy as a bumblebee, Who carries all the world's disgrace Why does the poor boy act this way? To get you up at reveille, Writ in furrows on his face, Will he be General some day? And shouts your name in strident key? And looks for trouble every place? No, sonny, quite the other way, Why, bless you! that's the Sergeant! Why! That must be the Sergeant! For Hell is full of Sergeants. BAD NEWS FOR BLIND MEN. LIBRARY BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS. ENLISTED MEN'S CLUB, The attendance at the Enlisted Men's Whoever it was who invented the finger- The American Library Association, Club, opposite the Cleveland Hotel, is grow• less glove and the armless sweater, has Library War Service, has begun active work ing daily. Captain Schoelkopf, of the 105th started something that THE GAS ATTACK in camp through George G. Champlin, its Field Artillery Brigade, is to be at the head contemplates with mingled emotions. representative. Mr. Champlin has head• of the enterprise, and at a recent meeting quarters in the church across the street From Washington comes the news that held by twenty regimental sergeant-majors, they have now decided to Hooverize women's from the Knights of Columbus building. it was planned to have an advisory com• skirts that wool may be conserved. The Books and magazines will be placed in mittee consisting of seven soldiers (prob• Commercial Economy Board of the Council available places for soldiers as far as pos• ably captains) and two civilians. A Wof- of National Defense has launched a refor• sible. There will be technical books on mil• ford College student will be in charge of mation in female attire that will mean a itary subjects, fiction, etc. All red tape will the Club, which will occupy several large saving of 25 per cent, in the amount of ma• be cut. The simplest methods for loaning rooms and include among its attractions terial used. and keeping track of the books will be em• pool, bowling, and billiards; a Victrola and a cafeteria, and other well-known forms of Jules JTisserand, the French Ambassador ployed. Books will be loaned for two weeks, indoor sports. to the United States, helped direct the re• with a two-week renewal privilege. formation plans. The Ambassador gave the MUST BE PROPERLY CLOTHED. Board the benefit of his knowledge of what OFFICERS ON LEAVE. skirt sacrifices the French women are Strict orders have been issued by the War making. The following commissioned officers have Department that all men transferred from been granted leaves of absence: Second the National Army to the National Guard * Inasmuch as we are scheduled for service Lieut. William H. Geis, Jr., 1st Infantry, 10 must be equipped with a complete uniform in Europe, this conservation of skirts means days; Second Lieut. H. T. Clement, quarter• and two or more blankets before leaving nothing at all to us. We can but hope we master corps, 10 days; Capt. M. Juffe, 12th their cantonments. When the attention of get back to Fifth Avenue before the women infantry, 20 days; Capt. J. J. Dean, 12th in• the department was called to the fact that get back that conserved 25 per cent. But fantry, 20 days; Capt. James G. Conroy, many men had been sent away without proper the probabilities of our seeing Paris within 106th infantry, 15 days, starting from De• clothing and blankets, it was announced that a reasonable time (whatever that is) are cember 10th; Second Lieut. W. E. Taggart, this was in violation of specific instructions, bright. Therefore, all is not lost inasmuch Co. G. 108th infantry, from December 3rd, and all division commanders have been as the women folks over there are in the and Capt. H. W. Olmstead, 102nd Ammuni• ordered to see that the practice is discon• same delightful plight. tion Train, 10 days. tinued. 8 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER A DIVISION "WHO'S WHO.'5 WILL YOUR PAY BE RAISED? If a German spy should by any chance PKIVATE RUDOLPH EESJGNB Service records of National Guard officers happen to get a look at the personnel- and enlisted men are being scrutinized to records of the men of the Twenty-seventh Leases Army Flat, Bnc Resignation \s determine what men are entitled to the in• Division Ms report to the German Foreign Not Accepted. creased pav the government has decided to Office would undoubtedly make the war (Fiom Tin: G^r A IACR S Special Corres• give. Each man will receive an additional lord pause and reflect. pondent.) 10 per cent, for every five years he has W inches ter, Vi— ^udolpli Ai mislead, of And he may well reflect, for nowheiv In Ftedf/ick Con ilj has decided to do his fight- spent in the service. in „« at homo, he o T udolph v\as drafted. He Many National Guard records of the men the world, is there such a clear revelation passed the physical icst and wos told to await of the purpose of American manhood to de cad co his flisiiif t cantonment But Rudolph of this division were destroyed in the fire mamed one OL na most po> nlar belles last stroy those directing the barbarism of the v eel and jcstcrdav sent 10 hi« resignation that swept the capital at Albany a few years new Kultur, than in the little white ca ds from xhe army. ago, but eventually the data will be gath• Ire told the ohuicds thai macmuch as he now being filed by the Personnel Board of hari tatt n i -\\iic it ^ oulc he mighty incon• ered. venient ior him to £?o abroad and that, any- the Division under the able direction o< vi"v he'd he much •*oo His/ ihis year to he Captain Gauche. They contain in cold n^L me Gei mam o< in olhei European, coun- "TAKE A SOLDIER HOME'5 ARMY. ov He m-ick it quite plain 11m ^ he was will- statistics, the record of sacrifice of more m' to tako on he foe lace«—sa^ in about a There • will shortly be two earnest and than 30,000 men who have devoted them oi c o—bat hcic a* piesent he would be pi el t> mild occupied . L lone well-organized armies in Spartanburg—one selves to the making of a war to compel a Phe ^ ai Depai tme U c teoies^atatives here, being the National Guardsmen, the other hov eve decidec that Rudolph vs ould have to just and lasting peace. help then o"t oJ (his « n n hi a-7 ay. Rudolph the members of the "Take a Soldier Home The census of ' the camp, embodying a is feaxlull's peeked 1\ n l f J V1SK U £1 I fi M h iS understood Gilt Captain Wnif oey n r R^ AMI a> »isH> PAPIK lOid tTngn ee< an c tic 03 \ 1 i ea n the e rlv h c t o i u eo u we el from mnnas y oo y omc^ or ii0 > -.p p, < c -e lit oo for P PASOiA .LA-~- inn. tj^ xiiissiim tu ow 2 J K la Ice me? a lime ei.. omce* s ^f l-\ic\ < ° nt^ MJ-' ie > ^ 1 c> « ^ J ' ° L3 3'C)« F o i 1" bis C - \ iv,LcH&acal V m^ r hec c c Act* s i ^ < p ^ m , * n / ° ^ 1 c c <- t i • n ii 3 s i_ < »cii fa icia co J JO > h*s otr J > " > n < ^ " o * i ^ ^ , oo he v. ai I°J pi I in n.i o^ P 1 ie J ugi ^ of« ci i ^ * ) y a c n j v' ^ \ "\ ,> ce i i T'C; o < c ' 1 / in ti - J a PCC T fl ( ji ' \ ' ^ r J c ieJ c ito v &» o » ix w to ' v ecc P n\ <\ \ c ^ t> re1 > f ^ t ' ^ ' P o ^ Oi 3 < 3P 1 oi i \ T c«^ e i v. 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Twos ;p--\p- tfiein 9 any v 11 G A Lent ( c Pi rj> j a t L o * P eif f 11 ^ oo J SJ o 1_°c(° cc • t o Tne poetry editor welcomes contributions. or shack. - entertain in public with his Boy Scout Doll, The more, the merrier. The merrier, the ARMY Y. M. H. A. "Rollie," who, by the way, is the Detach• better. And to achieve this purpose THE Isador Dominitz, representing the Army ment mascot. Jack is some cold-blooded GAS ATTACK announces a contest in humor• and Navy Y. M. H. A. (under the auspices boy. Nearly every morning before ous verse, the winner of which will receive of the Jewish Board for welfare work), has "Reveille" he takes a cold bath under the a prize of five dollars and the honor of established his office at the Administration camp showers. He says he is doing it to having Ms work published In this maga• Building of the Y. M. II. A. reduce. He is especially desirous of obtaining a zine. The verse of other contestants will George McKenna, formerly of Co. K, 10th census of the Jewish men In Camp. Cards be printed, too. N. Y. Infantry, has been transferred to this will be provided for that purpose. Following are the rules governing the con• Detachment and has been made Wagoner. Mr. Dominitz In the near future will ar• test.; they are extremely liberal: 1, no con• McKenna handles the reins like a veteran range for religious services to be conducted tribution should be longer than 50 lines; and will make a good man on the seat with at one of the Y. M. C. A. units every Friday brevity preferred; 2, write on one side of our old friend "Possum" Paley, a former night, between the hours of 7:00 and 8:00 the paper only; 3, address all contributions member of the "Fighting Sixty-ninth." p. m. to Poetry Editor, THE GAS ATTACK; 4, do not do your contribution up with pink rib- Private William S. Kimball, of this head• quarters, is detailed to attend the School of COMPANY C 105TH MACHINE GUN BAT• ron; the editor prefers lavender. • Liaison Division School of the Line. Private TALION. After the closing of the contest, which Kimball was transferred a few days ago The merging of Troop C and M. G. Troop will be December 15th, the editor will sub• from Machine Gun Company of the 10th. of old Squadron A, has at last been com• mit the manuscripts to the three judges who Regiment. pleted and the ranks have been filled to have been selected to decide the winner. war strength as called for under the new The judges will be: Mrs. John F. O'Ryan, 1st Lieutenant R. J. Easton has been very regulations for Machine Gun Companies. Capt. •—— Moore, the camp censor; and busy conducting mounted drills for the Twenty. new recruits were brought in from Dr. Snyder, President of Wofford College. Headquarters Detachment, and the members the 47th of Brooklyn. are very enthusiastic and are fast becoming efficient equestrians. The spirit with which these new recruits LEARN HOW NOT TO BE GASSED. have been received by the old men of the The reorganized School of Gas Defense Mrs. J. H. Barker, Mrs. R. J. Easton and Company, and the manner in which the opens this week. Captain Harold M. Deans Mrs. R. D. Williamson visited the Brigade new men have themselves entered into their of the British Army, is acting as principal Headquarters camp on Sunday last. new duties, has been very gratifying. That instructor. Lieutenant Lindsay Peters, M. The Detachment String Orchestra has is one of the tests of a good soldier. To R. C, will assist him. been holding frequent rehearsals and will give up those things which .he dislikes to From the 105th, 106th, 107th and 108th soon round Itself Into shape. The follow• give up, whether it be friends, or associa• regiments of Infantry there will be detailed ing are members: Privates Milo F. Robetor, tions, or comforts, and to accept without one line officer and one sergeant for in• Jim-; Flanagan, T. J. McEnaney, Corporal murmur such duties, such fellowship, such struction. . And from the 104.th, 105th and Ge.Ov DeMeur. burdens as- may fall to his-lot. 106th regiments of Field Artillery and the —T. J. McE., Jr. 10 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 104TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION". and frequent efficiency tests are made. "night attack," as this form of pleasure is On the evening of November 23rd, a ban• Major Henry Quackenbos is supervising the conducive to a sharp appetite. quet and vaudeville entertainment was ten• work of the schools. dered Major General Bailey, of Camp Jack• The officers of the regiment have opened 102ND FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION. son, at the Cleveland Hotel. General Bailey- a club house in a section of the mess hall The Battalion, of 15 officers and 241 en• had heard of the now famous entertainment which has been enclosed and after the listed men, lacking but 4 men of full of this division, and wished to convince evening classes the club is the favorite strength, left New York on September 11th, himself that all he had heard was true. An gathering place for a discussion of events arriving at Camp Wadsworth on September excellent program was arranged by Sergeant of the day. The club has been comfortably 14th, in its alloted space, 215 by 1480 feet, Carpenter of Co. D. 104th M. G. Batt Prom• furnished and real rocking chairs about a north of Division Headquarters. inent among the actors who took part were warm stove make an Inviting corner. On October 2nd, word, was received from Fallon & Brown, of Co. A. 104th M. G. Batt., Brigadier General Lester and Major the Chief Signal Officer of the Army of the who were recrutied from the ranks of vaude• Wright were the guests at a dinner on the authorization on September 25th by the ville into the ranks of the army. These two opening night and a reception followed. Secretary of War of an Increase in the Out• chaps are the essence of variety, one week post Company (C) from 75 to 280 enlisted doing blackface, and the next week portray• TO WEED OUT THE UNFIT. men, and other changes in Headquarters and ing Italian characters. Harry Sharpe, of Capt. Henry A. Riley, 105th Machine Gun Sanitary Detachments, to make the total the- same organization, lent his Caruso-like Battalion, First Lieut. George A. Powers, strength of the Battalion 15 officers and 269 tenor to the occasion, and Stanley Hughes, 104th Machine Gun Battalion, and First men. On October 1st, by G. O. No. 9, or• brother of J. J. Hughes of the famous team Lieut. Harry Tebbutt, 106th Machine Gun ganizing the 27th Division, the Battalion's of Adelaide and Hughes, danced his way to Battalion, have been selected to enquire in• designation was changed from 1st Brigade high favor. Fred Schmidt and Bert Hamil• to the physical condition of the three bat• N. Y, Signal Corps to 102nd Field Signal ton of the 106th M. G. Batt. also handed talions to determine if any are unfit for ac• Brigade, without change of personnel. the General a laugh with their comedy turn. tive service. As recently announced, the The new strength for Company C was After It was all over, Gen. Bailey declared first line regiments making up the Twenty- built up gradually by transfer of technical it one of the finest shows he had ever wit• Seventh Division will consist of only those and other selected men from other organi• nessed. men absolutely perfect in every respect. zations at Camp, assisted by Div. S. O. No. Sergeant Tommie Coppinger, of the 104th 88, on October 30th, requiring the Chief Offi• M. G. Batt., is happy. We asked him the WHITNEY ENTERTAINS ENGINEERS. cers of 8 units of the Division, submit the reason for the continuous smile which he Company B, 102th Engineers, have return• names of 25 telephone and electrical men wears, and he confidentially whispered that ed to Camp after an interesting two week's each for transfer to the Signal Corps, and the lady of his heart was nearby, and the training in Pontoon, bridge building at the skeletonized units, the names of all such moving picture places were more pleasant Whitney Lake. They were royally received technical men they had. than heretofore. by the town folks at Whitney, and after With Sergt. Grand of the same Regiment., Private Tom McVeigh received a chicken drilling hours, were kept busy being enter• Service Telegraphique, has been assigned: from. Brooklyn recently—one of those chick• tained. The entertainments for the men to the Brigade as instructor and advisor. ens you eat, not treat, and he Invited a were given by the town people and all the He has been lecturing also in the Division bunch of M. Troop boys to get right to It. leading citizens attended. School of the Line, which is conducted by Tom turned his head a minute, and all he Hartley Schwartzbaum, the Company co• the Brigade at its Headquarters, with Major had himself was a feather. He said he was median, did much to make labor light, and Wm. L. Hallahan as Director, under Div. tickled to get that. gave the men a good many laughs with his G. O. No. 11, of October 15th. The class of Lieut. Andrews is a great believer in ath• good-natured antics. The most entertaining 36 student officers has been studying Gen• letics and always breaks the monotony of feature of the trip was the singing of Pri• eral Service and semaphore flag codes; ele• the morning drill • by a basket-ball game. vate Valentine, who started singing on a mentary electricity in application to tele• The 3rd Platoon have returned champions bet, but he was kept going by coaxing, even phones, telegraphy and wireless; ciphers; every morning. These boys are all fast men though in danger of losing his voice. The and trench and attack liaison. and it will take better men than the 2nd drill and bridge building under Lieut. Max• Platoon have now to trim 'em. well H. Gray, did much to prove the effi• A Brigade canteen was opened on. No- vembre 14th, and has already difficulty in Private Percy Van Holland, the champion ciency of the man and some good records keeping any stock. Co. B gave a vaudeville waltzer of Flatbush, was told by Lt. An• were made in throwing bridges across the entertainment at the Harris Theatre in drews the other day to find the range for little lake. A. Company, under Capt. Ross, Spartanburg on October 20th, to a crowded him. Perce beat it away and came back will go to Whitney to take a similar course. house, and more shows are planned for the In about 15 minutes with a Sibley stove. future. Private Dinny Moore was in the medical NOISELESS NIGHT DRILLING. shack the other day with a stomach ache. The Whistle and Flashlights Aid In Training —-G. I. Doc Powers asked him how much coffee he For Fighting In Dark. drank. Dlnny said, "About 12 saucerfuls Drilling at night by flashlights is another FIELD HOSPITAL COMPANY NO. 107. a day." interesting feature introduced into the mili• Sid Berger, on kitchen police, discover• —H. R. tary life of the camp. The men take to it, ed that a pitcher of milk had been over• and always heartily welcome this unique looked in the general onslaught of noon TWELFTH REGIMENT NOTES. way of spending an evening. The company mess. Having never seen anything left Depleted In numbers but with its martial commander, with flashlight in hand, and a over before, Berger became panic stricken. spirit undlmmed the Twelfth is training with whistle in his mouth, directs the various He solved the problem by hanging the all the Intensity of a full strength regiment movements of the troops. The whistle is pitcher of milk on a hook in the ice box. and Its non-commissioned * officers and the blown, the light is waved to indicate the few privates left are rapidly becoming ex• desired movement—and the men do the Sergeant Williams was directing litter pert in the use of the bayonet and In trench rest. There is seldom a word heard during drill. Hawthorne was the "patient." warfare. Under Captain Morris Pike the the drills—a practice which will be bene• "This man has been severely injured in men are attending drill and school dally. ficial when these loyal nephews of Uncle a football game," roared Williams. "You Special classes in trench warfare, signall• Sam are "Over There." After the drill the will notice a hemorrhage from a wound in ing, map making and reading are conducted canteens are usually busy warding off a his thigh—where the ball went through." THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER WHAT A CHAPLAIN DOES. Arrived at the camp, the little organ is ETHELBUET JELLYBACK HAS AN By Rev. Horace R. Fell, Chaplain, 102 set up at the head of the company street, IDEA. Engineers. or if the weather forbids, in a hospital tent. I, Ethelburt Jellyback, Private—though A song service with address is held im• There seems to he an erroneous impres• Heaven knows I have more intellectual en• mediately after evening mess. After the sion in the minds of a considerable number dowment than a great many officers I have service conferences are held with the men of civilians that an Army Chaplain is more seen—enlisted in the army to do my bit who are interested enough spend an hour or less of a secular official, occupied very and make the world safe for democracy. in the discussion of some religious topic. largely with the care of the mail and the But at the time I so gallantly offered This is followed by a short visit with the supervision of the Post Exchange. But such my services to the nation, I had no warning officers. In the morning Holy Communion is not the case. The writer knows of no that weather conditions might prove so is celebrated before mess. Frequently the greater opportunity for distinctly spiritual inclement. little Ford truck gives some of the men a work than is offered by the post of Army Having come into the army from one of lift to the scene of their day's labor which Chaplain. Conditions vary in the different the best homes in the country, what with our may be five or six miles from the location branches of the service, but the weekly fine big house, so assiduously cared for by of the tents. Camp Wads worth is usually round of the writer is fairly typical. the servants, particularly Plobart, the but• reached by noon, by which time the Hos• We begin with Sunday morning. The ler, and Jibson, my valet, I now feel that pital and Guard House work again needs Chaplain is up not later than 6:30 a. m., get• I have been intrigued. To put the matter attention. ting ready for the first service, which is a frankly, it is often terribly cold here at Friday is chiefly occupied in preparation celebration of the Holy Communion at 7:10 camp. One can't do one's best bit when it for the Sunday services, getting out Church a. m. This is followed by a second service is so bitter. Raw winds blow. It may be notices, etc. Sometimes a song or choir at 9:00 a. m. This second service is some• permissible to put the draft men in the practice is held in the evening. times a Celebration of the Holy Communion, draughty places, but for us who voluntarily sometimes an informal Song Service, but is Rests Saturday Afternoons. came forward with our lives and good fam• ilies, well, that, as the negro servant who always accompanied by an address. On On Saturdays the boys have the after• fell into the flour bin said, puts a different Sunday evenings the Chaplains in turn noon off, and if possible the Chaplain roots complexion on the matter. speak at the services in the Y. M. 0. A. for the baseball team or attends such ath• tents. Sometimes there is also a service letic games as may be under way. In the But I have a splendid idea. (I often have in the afternoon for men on detached serv• evening he is always in his tent, accessible splendid ideas). It ought to revolutionize ice somewhere within reach of the main to any of the boys who may want to see the world's system of waging wars, and also camp. him. make for greater comfort. It is this: Why not do away with all wars and train• On week-days he is usually up in time to On his trips to the Rifle Range, he is fre• ing in the winter time, and conduct them take part in the setting-up exercises in one quently accompanied by one of the Y. M. only in summer? For example, in the game of the company streets, or to take physical C. A. Secretaries or by a Roman Catholic known as baseball, though I seldom play it exercise playing medicine ball before morn• Priest. myself owing to its propensity for causing in ing mess, with the officers. Immediately This more or less regular routine is of the player such a nasty amount of per• after morning mess there are letters to be course broken in upon by cases of critical spiration, contests are often eliminated dictated to the stenographer assigned him. illness demanding particular attention, or when the elements are unpropitious. This is followed by visits to the Base Hos• by death with its consequent ministry of I believe the phrase is: "Postponed on pital and to the Guard ITouse. On Monday consolation to the relatives of the deceased. account of wet grounds." Why not bring afternoons there is the joint conference of There are also each day conferences with influence to bear upon the great nations at Chaplains and Y. M. C. A. workers to be boys seeking advice or assistance. Arrange• war to have their winter battles "postponed attended. in the evening he is usually ments have been made by the Chaplains on account of cold weather?" And then present at a meeting of the Athletic Asso• acting in concert for two services every play the so-called double-headers in the ciation. Later there are visits in the offi• Sunday at the Base Hospital, for entertain• summer. cer's tents or he receives visitors at his ments there on two evenings each week, own tent. These visits nearly always af• and for two Chaplains to be within call Perfectly corking idea, isn't, it? All my ford opportunity for discussion on some re• constantly in case of emergency. This in own,—I, Ethelburt Jellyback, Private—- ligious topic. When encouraged To do so, addition to the regular visits made by each though goodness me, a private gets little both officers and men are very ready to Chaplain to the Hospital in the ordinary privacy in the army! Some officer or en• ask questions. Taps usually finds the Chap• course of his duty as Regimental Chaplain. listed man is forever poking his head in at lain busy with personal correspondence for Rainy days, when drills are impossible are my tent and looking around at me, even which there is little or no time during the the Chaplain's harvest days, when he can when I am only partially clad. day. visit the men in their tents. There are 365 days in the year. There Follows His Men. This schedule leaves little time for what are usually, I have discovered, only about It frequently happens, in the writer's or• is generally known as secular work. The 150 battles a year between two armies in ganization that more than one detachment Chaplain is, as a rule in charge of the mail, conflict. What could be more simple than is away from the main body. In such cases but the details are all attended to by mail to arrange it so that all of the 150 battles Tuesday usually finds him away from head• orderlies, so that this function of his office would take place in April, May, June, July, quarters on a visit to the nearest detached does not in the slightest degree encroach (Continued on page 20) body. On Tuesday evenings a class in Re• upon the more important spiritual duties ligious Instruction is held at Headquarters. which are his proper sphere of action. As Sacrament, the Chaplain's greatest oppor• This class is very informal, taking up topics to the Post Exchange, he has nothing what• tunity, and it is a very great one, comes in suggested by questions which have been ever to do with it. the little conferences with small groups of asked by the men. Services are of course sometimes held un• men, or the almost daily occasions when one Wednesday, as a rule, is the day for a der difficulties, and sometimes the attend• man alone will open his heart to the spirit• visit to the boys at the Rifle Range, some ance is comparatively small. But always ual father of the regiment on some ques• twenty-five miles from Camp Wads worth. there is the opportunity to come into vital tion of vital religion. Some hardship and This is a two-day trip, and the Ford trucks religious contact with more men than most inconvenience there may be in the Chap• furnished by the State of New York prove Rectors ever reach at home. lain's office, but we are sorry for those invaluable for this work. Bedding Roll, The writer is of the opinion that, aside priests at home who have never known the Organ, Altar, Books, etc., are placed aboard. from the administration of the Blessed unique experiences which fall to our lot. 12 THE .WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER % <•> <•> <$> 4> O 1 1f uind Jt* wends H 701;. '^r^ looking 'xv ^ g^oO € to L 1 W i j 7 / * v { ot/J .i. liv l/ldik:ii /bi i7!cv, ' < OJ.J{;V ' c /r^T-,r// ' Y 1 Jf v , ~ 'r < ' ' I reed TO . Co. iky £ igb oe, .-a^ tktif no \on in^ i T e amove, k-d ib' • ] C LO .he cudic y, Ike | ^ ^lM >-o ^ ^ ici^g ,1'? The a Sc -or^r, C,iii» V^k* vo • !> en-! on..-v to c-'i I < °r- 'l ecu T warded, and j Oi1 i e o'e c^ i noQJ, -on ,e go. *ct the i7i.j -^"d usL^b i i g of this ma- o< ic' voir, +lie >'0£'(J a" icnr^er ic he J r 'TP dizzy, ne 11e noi laugh JO and grin, M i tii ep us L r rocLs 7 1 iose ^, u o , ^' o tde^^aic jf (I'Oiuig hi. So r lo iovn mo rlo yov, v-\si lo win; lUou yen, r 0 C " y or k, e iio^b.os, -\? ck kei" . i. your h re losing t^err's ~ no bi«5n*j^g d DO you, R T ^ ^ 'VJ7 n r i o IT 1 icr L , iGY Ti HiO ov . TC yev can1' h'wrt ? foul, nr cl ? i me i doi-kt 1 c e ho i i kc °a f c if" you can unci potatoes m tne stew; hesj 'd j l »"ai i on> Jc!r e .ci L men Don't growl at all, but go and do your own r Lhei'ijr, mnoi ailments, c id Ihose If you can wait three months without a pay• bit, who meet with injuries of any kind from day, And when we've won, you'll get a chance accidents. In civil life practically all these Or smile when told to do the things you to shout. men would be up and going about their hate, HOWARD A. HERTY, Private, business. In the army we take every case If you can grin when you get near' the at its incipiency and treat it, rather than mess-shack, Co. A. Military Police. run the risk of having it develop into some• Or eat the meals you get, and say they're thing serious through lack of attention. great. German newspapers are said to be print• Nobody could ask for a better health re• ing pictures labelled "Types of Americans port than we are able to show in Camp When you feel fine, the gang Is always Captured on the Western Front." It is early Wadsworth," sleeping, to pass final judgments, but it is safe to When you're asleep, they're always rais• assume of the American prisoners in Ger• NEW. ROAD TO SPARTANBURG. ing Cain, many that they are very respectable types. Work has begun on the concrete high• If you march fast, the bunch is always way between the city of Spartanburg and creeping, Camp Wadsworth. This highway Is to have If you go slow, they'll never do the same; Many State Jobs to Go to Women.—Head• an asphalt surface. and none of the bumps Suppose they start a little game of poker, line that ridge the present roads to camp. Just try to sleep if you're not in the game, To the victors belong the spoils. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 13 CHURCHES OF SPARTANBURG. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS BAPTIST AT CAMP WADSWORTH. First Baptist, .Main and Dean, Rev. E. S. The Official Designation of the Camp Post- Alderman, Pastor. —• Sunday Service: Office is "Wadsworth Branch/? Spartanburg, Preaching, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00, p. ni. South Carolina, Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8:00 p. in. There will be six (6) round trips daily be• Green Street Baptist, Corner Brawley and tween Camp and Spartanburg for transporta• Green, Rev. J. L. Hodges, Pastor.—Preach• tion of mails. ing, 11:00 a, in.; night service, 7:45 p. in. Mail trains on the main line of the South- To fh^rs E»a: list, Corner r lemont Avenu^ pin lea^ e ai the following liouib 3 9 ai d 1 A0 midnight The 01RJ "i '^jnj. G»oric-y < The Jiiai' L ip^ m?30 J LGUI ba n\ io ( A\ (Jj- A3 A < O i... r c 3 0 . 1 7" *7 v « n i w A 4 nm» I "0 00 3. ^ 3 " ' . • f * * 1 on j >ri^—HimoiH » 10"! 1 5 11 J iij T ol Gen* no in n, f' J 1 ^ K >pat ( hi' j « p r, 11 « ... A .e. i.<- r '(h ! I 1 00 f ^ b, .l>p ' L i i \ i L n J 0 a 01 i' r 0 j\ S 3 ' dOx ' 'Oil i , 1 c p L , i n 1 -30 P vTe mr 00 x 0"i\ c ( 'cm < 3A JOP 55 P 11 > ^ o 1 -Air/. s_ imp »0 P 3 • A/ rrive at Sps 3Jf' (MP A S A A J L O iO - 11 C i( c ) HONU- OF A DAY OUT OF CAMP. 1 c 1 r • /< t 1 tj O > / - ' 1 1 c ( c < < 1 ^ 1 ( C'l r 7 " 3 1 is V ^ui * jr Ltie if d liJ J 0 i3^, b"m c't ._ ,J r-c -',c .— C o1101 3ek!s, c A^djOx^ ^ JIK'^IT ^1 j3e Ann4 ?t 51 30 <( m 1 11 ' ' be ? _30 0«i ^ E.'. vc'v ^-i Ts, 1,0 '-n.^Lt^ Tlu^ s a o^m a± ^ rid l±001 ihe 'nip, AND Pastor. This is a song of the sun in the sky, El-Bethel, Corner Crescent Ave. and South Roadways that wander, get lost, return, Columbia Records Church, Rev. M. B. Patrick, Pastor. Jitneys that splutter and flutter by. Wesleyan M. E., South, 512 Magnolia Street. New Catalog of Latest Hits This is a song to fill the air, just Out PRESBYTERIAN " This is a song to fool the ear, First Presbyterian, Main, near Converse, Rev, This is a song to fill up space, A, D. P. Gilmour, Pastor.—Sunday services I.ins is the space it fills right here! at 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. 111.; prayer meet• —C. D. HERRING ing, Wednesday at 8:00 p. m. Second Presbyterian, Corner College and Mag• Broadway by night will still be Broadway FURNITURE CO. nolia, Rev. A. D. Watkiiis, Pastor. though the candle-power of its-attractions is reduced. Under the dimmed lights it will 115 East Main Street UN-DENOMINATIONAL yet be bright enough for people to find their Salvation Army Headquarters, 198 Elm Street. way to it, which, is the main thing. 14 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER • E. W. LESLIE, Editor. Y. M. C. A. IN DEMAND AT FRONT. The Y. M. C. A. is in demand not only in the United States, but abroad as well. Gen. Pershing, commanding our troops in France, has called for 500 American secreta• ries to serve our boys abroad. He also re• quests secretaries for work with the French troops. A similar call has come from Italy for 200 secretaries and Eussia is begging for us to send over as many secretaries as we can i spare to work among the Eussian troops. I In addition to all this, the Y. M. C. A. seeks to serve the 6,000,000 men already in the prison camps of Europe. Permission has been granted by all the countries involved in the war for Association secretaries to enter and work in their camps. PLAYERS PROM BUFFALO, The War Time Players, an aggregation of prominent amateur actors from Buffalo, have been touring the military camps of the East CHARLES W. DIETRICH. , and Southeast, putting on three one-act plays DOING HER BIT WITH HER VOICE. Charles W. Dietrich, Camp Executive Secre• for the entertainment of the boys in khaki. Miss Marion Davison of Albany, N. Y., who tary of the Army Y. M. C. A. at Camp Wads- These players appeared at Camp Wads• is the daughter of Mr. W. J. Davison, Y. M. worthy was born in Altoona, Pa. He was worth three nights last week and were, with• (1 A. Physical Director, has been giving con• educated there in the public schools and in. out- a doubt, one of the best companies which certs throughout the Camp for the past two Lebanon Valley College. For six years he has visited the camp. The plays were clean- was in the men's clothing business in Harris- cut and clever and the players well received months. She has visited every Y. M. C. A. burg. Pa. During all this time he was very at each presentation. unit in Camp and rendered evening of song, active in church work and was interested In In the company were the following Buffalo- much to the delight of the men. Y. M. C. A. matters, later becoming a director nians: Miss Lucia Schoelhoff, Miss Kathryn Miss Davison is a graduate of the New of the Harrisburg Association. Park Lewis, Miss Charlotte Beecher, Miss England Conservatory of Music and has a In 1390, he went into Y. M. C. A. .work as Sylvia Spencer, Mrs. Spencer, Mr. Sherrili certificate as soloist and teacher. She has a an employed officer, and his record as general McWilliams, Mr. Albert H. Zink, Mr. Eobert fine mezzo soprano voice and. delightful per• secretary in Stamford, Conn., Troy, N. Y., and Dempster. since 1901 in charge of the famous Central sonality. Her rendition of Scotch and Irish Branch of Brooklyn has been an enviable one. ballads has been especially well received; her A NEW Y. M. C. A. UNIT. Mr. Dietrich was especially successful in interpretation of Angus MacDonald has been his part in the planning and erection of the The Y. M. O. A. is to establish a unit at called for again and again throughout the new building of the Central Branch, which is Glossy Mountain to serve the boys on the Camp, and no concert has been closed without recognized as the last work in Association rifle range. One of the big white tents has a call for the Marseillaise, which Miss Davi• architecture. been sent up to the range together with a son sings in French. French officers and men Mr. Dietrich was released by his home Asso• complete "Y" equipment consisting of writ• in Camp have complimented her highly on ciation for four months to inaugurate the ing tables and material and everything a her rendition of the French National air, work at Camp Wadsworth and to push for• standard Association building has to make saying she sings it as the French do, with ward the erection of the Y. M. C. A. buildings, for the comfort of the boys. spirit and expression. Miss Davison also two of which were dedicated last week. Two secretaries from, Camp Wadsworth, possesses a happy knack of getting men to The latest honor which Mr. Dietrich has Messrs. Bonk and Dame, have been assigned sing with her the popular camp airs. had thrust upon him is his being invited by to duty at the range and left Saturday to Miss Davison leaves for New York City the National War Work Council to sail soon take up their duties there. the first of the month, but it is hoped by the for France to start work in certain sections music lovers of Spartanburg and the boys at ; y among our American troops '' over there. RED TRIANGLE TENT APPROVED. Camp Wadsworth that she will again favor Mr. Dietrich says he is willing to go over if them with her presence and gifted talent. Mr. Paul M. Pearson, of the National War his home Association will release him for a Work Council, sends the following letter to longer period of time. Eev. A. E. P. Hegeman, of Unit No. 97, Mr. Wickes, the manager of the Eed Triangle has been called back to his parish in Bing• Tent: Theodore Ellsworth, a prominent business ham ton, N. Y., and has been succeeded in his man of Chicago, has' arrived at Camp Wads-, "My Dear Mr. Wickes: You will be in• work at that unit by Eev. Chas. II. Ford, of terested to know that you have the best worth to '' do his bit; 'J by serving in the Cortland, N. Y. Mr. Hegeman has done a ranks of the Army Association. He probably record of any camp superintendent. fine work with the artillery boys and all will be assigned to building No. 95. Paul M. Pearson.;; regretted seeing him go. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER CONVERSE COLLEGE GIRLS AT Y. M. C. A. BUILDING. One of the most enjoyble events yet put on by the Y. M. 0. A. in camp was the con• cert given at unit No. 97 on Friday evening by the Choral Society of Converse College under the direction of Prof. E. C. Morris. The new building was packed to over• flowing and the entire program was enthusi• astically received. Prof. Morris has promised to bring his Choral Society to the camp to sing for the boys each week if it can be so arranged. WAR WORK FUND OVER $50,000,000. The Y. M. C. A. has just completed the mammoth task, of raising $35,000,000 in a gigantic campaign carried on throughout the entire country, in fact up to the present writ• ing the fund has reached the amount of $50,000,000 and the end is not yet. The campaign has been in the building for seven weeks and filters down through the larger cities into the small rural towns and districts. Every one in every section of this country has been given the opportunity and privilege of giving what he or she could for the comfort of the soldier boys, and the re• sults well show the patriotic and generous spirit of the givers. sings in the Y. M. C. A. huts and in the big men to keep away from pioslilnces. Almost HE MAKES SOLDIERS SING. Triangle Tent. every newspaper is full of emblazoned arti• Robert E. Clark, Camp Musical Director, A large chorus of trained voices is under cles warning the soldiers from, the impending comes from Colorado State where die was way. Rehearsals are rather slow on account danger. In many cases the warning has come teacher of voice training. He joined Dr. of the great amount of training that the boys too late. George Wood Anderson, who is now in have and organized work is difficult along The 27th Division has an exceedingly clean France, in evangelistic work. Later he was musical lines. The band leaders are co• record. Talk about vice in this division is right-hand man, musically, for Plon. John operating in organizing a large orchestra for nonsense. Morally Spartanburg is one of the Wanamaker of Philadelphia, and gradually the Friday night camp sings and the Sunday cleanest towns in. the country. Furthermore, advanced to become, as Mr. Wanamaker night religious service. the personnel of this division and their ab• states, 11 The greatest Gospel singer and leader sorption in serious training have cut dissi• since the time of Mr. San key,77 so long asso• THE ARMY'S GREATEST MENACE. pation of any character to a negligible mini• ciated with Mr. Moody. Men who are experts in medicine, and yet mum. A chocolate soda and a Keystone While Mr. Clark was taking a vacation not alarmists, are doing all within their comedy are the average soldier 7s idea of a last summer in the Pocono Mountains, Mr. power to keep our soldiers from the venereal hot time in the old town these days. Wanamaker wrote that he had taken the diseases which have ravaged Germany, liberty of making an engagement for him at France and Great Britain. In these countries THE M. P. FOLLIES. the 202nd Anniversary of the Cold Springs the disease is ravaging not only the army Presbyterian Church, near Cape May. It was but the entire populace. The Biggest Slow of the Year at Converse here that a representative of the Edison Official and semi-official reports say that College, December the First. Phonograph Company heard Mr. Clark 3s Gos• '1 conditions among the other belligerents be• pel singing and sought a hearing, which came just as bad or worse. One nation during The M. P. Follies will be presented by an terminated in a trial record, which was the first year and a half of war lost the All Star Cast, at Converse College on Satur• passed upon by Mr. Edison. Mr. Clark made services of more men through venereal dis• day evening, December 1st. The best talent records of two Gospel songs, i 1 Gethsemane7 7 eases than through death or wounds in battle. in the Division has been secured by Major and i' Why I Love Him/7 both songs written One regiment which participated in a furious T. Harry Shanton, commanding the Military by 13. D. Ackley, the very noted Gospel song attack in northern France was sent back of Police. This show will be different from any• writer. Later Mr. Clark was asked to make the lines to recuperate and there joined thing ever seen in Spartanburg. There will records of secular songs and was planning to another regiment which had been encamped be song 1iHits77 galore, with two bands from visit the recording office for some patriotic behind the front for some time and had seen the Division assisting. The big feature and songs when called to Camp Wadsworth. Mr. no actual fighting at alb Will you believe c c hit7 7 of the evening, will be the first public- Clark hopes in the near future to make that the latter regiment, the one that had presentation of the M. P. Song. Words and records of some of the songs that the boys in not been in action, had lost the services of music of which were arranged by Maj. Shan- Camp love to sing. more men through venereal disease during ton himself. His work in the last two months and a half •its stay behind the lines than the one back 77 To an optimist a ray of hope is as brilliant in Camp Wadsworth has been of very pleas• from the firing.line had lost in the attack? ing nature,—visiting mess shacks, conducting All over Europe placards are up advising the as a searchlight. i6 fHE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK \ND RIO GRANDE F/.TTAGP w a a swot c;o v' "VA TS )A !\c\j b' r«,g, r orji | 0 12 LRLV v.» i ' ^ " tf d 'I' -ilC ' 1 L C " -x " * 1 VA ~ ! ^ ^r Vi L f3 f e ' • i^nc c i < u i o " J10 " I i tiC 0 ? "tA ^ ^ ' id . Z < ^ Q A V 1 s T i i C ° C i \ 5 sport lias C0H16 down« "0 r > 3 little uc cans. r 1 1 > , A " " x i u o < i J C' ^ | u, Sfc ' v y,A are. kk die C • oo i j y> i i g'V- na pad-! r-Aa CA a C prcA lie <^A% , f T 1 I cut v r-' ^ - ' egtrnent; Ice ^ d K T r"' u ~ \v viu c j -c stjovj A r S , v r AA C ' 1 1 ,r r Zi> ^ o , J T Kksr o -> dozen, mer c Crc J ^0 .s d »i A o>c" e h ? • c * A l 1 r .O A i c r it r , i. °cl circle -ri z*" A 3 * ^i j° l t —70 > nu> iced T f 0 A o I >me to mind. - > 3u 33i ° rea^v ] rakicd Gzrc a*, BaiGCxy E. kosiacix BckuCi y k". Kiernan L. E.. . Spring < _ l 10" " - oOOb* Gleason, the AAA3 l! /oo. /oi Ad c,nam_ ri! Noonan...... C... , t ida'cu d.3n« ch^m Mori, VAC fought Mike sac idee ko"! his n 'kv- Johnny Shaw, who Hall G ituO.^, a an oineis; Sailo Carroll, Young won some note as a middleweight fighter In Kelly ...... R. G.. , . . McNamara Diamond, Battling Kiddy, and there are New York and elsewhere was killed in Yerkes...... R. T...... Lawlor doubtless many other formidable warriors, France a few days ago. The dispatches say Pierce ...... R. E...... Owens who at present are brindling unseen. that he was killed In a railroad accident, ^O'Neill...... Q. B. . * Hasselbrink. To say that boxing is necessary to a but just what the circumstances connected McBeath...... L. H. B...... Simmons soldier is needless. In this war, particular• with Ms death were, were not mentioned Finney. ... , . . . .R. H. B...... Vreeland ly, with its close hand to hand fighting, the in the notice. Corbett...... F. B...... Rudolph man with the knack of landing the sleep * Captain. producing right-hand cross Is a man to be Kiddle Diamond Is out with a challenge Score by periods: feared in any company. There may be times to any lightweight In the 27th Division. He Battery E...... 0 6 0 0—6 when we have gone over the top, crossed. styles himself the champion lightweight of Battery F...... 6 0 0 0—6 No Man's Land and invaded the Teuton the camp, and would like to argue the point Substitutions, for E, Raleigh for O'Neill; trenches when there will be little room for with anyone at his weight. O'Neill for Raleigh; Brltton -for Kierman; wielding the bayonet or using the rifle. The Schaffner for Brltton. For F, Fitzpatrick British dispatches have cited many cases BATTERY E TEAM CAPTURES TITLE. for Spring; Spring for Barker; Barker for when' the fighting was so close that fists The football eleven of Battery E, 104th Owens; Owens for Vreeland; Conor for Mc• took the place of the usual weapons of war. Field Artillery, brought its season to a close Namara. As a sport, boxing stands alone. It Is yesterday afternoon when it played a tie Touchdowns: Vreeland, Finney. Referee: a real developer of nerve, quick thinking and game with the team, from Battery F on the Lieut. Ranssalaer; Umpire, Lieut. Col. De- spirit. It places a premium upon perfect co• regimental athletic field on Wednesday laney. Time for game: Periods of ten min• ordination between mind and muscle, teach• afternoon. The score was 6 to 6. utes. es one to be cool under stress of circum• Battery E clinched the regimental cham• stance, and brings out the real spirit of the pionship, winning five of its six games, with ATHLETIC FIELD PLANNED. man. No individual with the "yellow streak" F alone checking it. The result came as Efforts are now being made to erect a ever made good as a fighter, and surely the a distinct surprise to the maroon clad host, large athletic field to the rear of the parade army has no use for men of that calibre in and as a staggering disappointment as well. grounds of the 102nd Engineers. Captain these times. Having disposed of the powerful Head• Dieges, the authority on regimental ath• Boxing is as old as civilization itself. The quarters team, and running roughshod over letics and an officer in the old Military Greeks promoted bouts between trained the A battery eleven, it was expected that Athletic League expects to be able to use fighters, but instead of using the modern F would be trounced. the surplus funds of the organization to padded glove, they went in for the more Captain Hasselbrink, however, brought pay for the improvements. In addition to efficient cest^s. This consisted of buck• eleven fighters out on the field with him, and a five-lap, track, jumping pits, and accom• skin thongs wound tightly around the hands, for the better part. of the game played the modations for baseball, soccer, basket-ball, binding brass caps over the knuckles. One champions to a standstill. The F team and football, a permanent dressing room solid smash on the chin, or under the heart, scored the first touchdown of the game, will be built. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 17 i Sporting Pas;es |h~A 1 .L TAP AOVCf t~±£ C AA . AA\JCJV In i aci i e C 1 I'L A 7 T ( r x e 1 z lei> c * re ibf neAA ^g ai, rtei " u ioe tiijfl 0 "F . te > > d ci cc 10 i ns y f\ LGU too T 1 > L e oa 1 c ) ^\ cm I ^aoqi a t « hc r 1 ! i 1 LI c L M R 1 , > he ti A jnc ,ibc c 01 'A" P U Abi» f r 0 1 1 ! j Oi. tfic 10 J ^ leio _ i xl c v i »c e j ] j i] sr. i -^ip it / y A i , S JcA. o n^ J 1 r w f lv u - i 1 -i •> jK 1 v no A ' > ^ 8cM-[, ^ CP y " c t , ' 1 b Vc ac c m ^ > 1 ^ ^IM - -r c ^ \ i R T 1 1° i ° *' 1 Z 0 J] r L \ jj 1 0 *C1 ! ^0.^ ' o A ^ ^ t c , al'p^n p f , 10 K r - i vc - ^ 1.^ >' j - Aa ^ vr^c x nc 1 fr ( v. v J urn ' ! N L i e D o c ft * ' T^ \ O -to °" he f [ ivi o 1 i ^ wr d - , , yr t 1 p ^ C V v c 'i IP CixC" r , 1 i - L> ^ x ^ , 3 III e~v ^ c K " " J' lUi > r * ' j i 0 0 o^ r e 0 ^ n i o" ! i c ^1 1 j \ 1 - ^ / n ^ _ ( f fiC* r r t ) ' Ov. til I O r -> T 1 - le Id 1 v z> if >d re A Ci ( ') cte^ ing punch 1 n d 1 c* 0 - * J ie ball be- ova iic zc was suffi- ! is ^ n^, f L t to make sure, Co .!; u^z c iOf 10 t 1 - W e s ec ei -pthered another P 1 10 ^ e Lund...... > ic nop LF °I lie game. P ...... Desmond j ...... Koert| c L S fn 1 C ^Iftg * t Ox 0 c C ^ m T10A i >m n 0 ~< SWo f m^p A^ d>i 1^ stars. c ..... Hamilton | A«-L " i |M 1 " Ao b?n" A ctma 7 m i, T ^A n c1 1 N iA at 0 ,e I ? Oara a^cag n HEADQUARTERS POSITION . .BATTEEY A Touchdowns, Maloy, Lund. Goal from Right Half—"Ted" Eilertsen. Keogh...... L. E...... Flannigan field, O'Hay. Time of quarters, 10 minutes. Right Half—"Teuton" Jergensen. Horn...... L. T...... Venson Umpire, Lt. Stern; referee, Capt Bird; Left Half—Yic Streckfuss. Tarintino...... L. G...... Hack headlinesinan, PI. Ortner, Y. 1VA C. A. Left Half—Geo. Lounsbury. Berk...... C...... Shear Quarterback—Jack Oakley. Quarterback—''Ham" Clark. Higgins. R. G...... Graham MAOI-I. GUM 106TH • HQTES. CO. 105TH Williams...... R. T...... Savage (0) (25) Center—"Piggy" Johnson. Stevenson...... R. E...... Atkinson Smith...... R. E...... Harney Right Guard—"Butch" Hahn. Keenan...... Q. B...... Murphy Connelly...... R. T...... Conant Left Guard—"Nemo" Gooss. Simpson...... L. H. B...... Furlong Emely...... R. G...... Hunerhoff Right Tackle—"Slim" Howell. Throp...... R. H. B...... Hoi ton Kendrick Left Tackle—"Cadet" Gallagher. Ledwith...... F. B...... Flynn Credon ...... C...... Murray Left Tackle—"Greaseball" Poach. .Right End—"Aeroplane" Quinn. Substitutions—For Headquarters: Min- Collins Left End—"Flea" Buttermark. naugh for Ledwith; for A Battery: Davis Longnecker...... L. G...... Landquist Line Man—Dan Donovan, for Flannigan. Weller Touchdowns, Stevenson and Throp. Goals Moskowitz...... L. T. ... .Walsh (Capt.) from touchdown, Throp. Widing WHAT THE SUBMARINES MISSED. Referee, Lieut. Ransselaer. Umpire, Lieut. Broughton...... L. E...... Horsman That the German submarine policy has, Col. Delaney." McShean failed is best proved by official statistics as Time of game. Periods of ten minutes. Kenedy...... Q. B. . . .Collison to the number of men and quantity of muni• Hartman ...... L. PL B ..Schaible tions and supplies safely transported across HQTRS. CO., 105TH AND CO. K, 105TH WIN McLeod the Atlantic since the U-boats became active. PIEST GAMES IN STREET CHAM• Brill...... F. B...... Arndt In the last three years 13,000,000 men have PIONSHIP SERIES. Shocke...... R. H. B...... Vannier crossed and recrossed the Atlantic. Only The first set of games for the street McGbvern 8,500 of these men were lost. More than championship, comprising the 105 th, the Touchdowns, Shaible, 2; Arndt, 1; Colli• 25,000,000 tons of explosives, 51,000,000 tons 106th and the 10th Inf., were played Satur• son, 1. Goals from touchdown, Shaible, 1. of coal and upward of 100,000,000 tons of ma• day. Headquarters Company, 105th, defeated Referee and Umpire, Lieut. Stern. chinery, rifles and other supplies also were the Machine Gun Company, of the 106th, by transported without any loss whatsoever. the score of 25 to 0. President Lee of the Brotherhood of Train• The K. Co.-Machine Gun, 105th, game was men says that "there isn't going to be a rail• Future political parties in New York can played on the 10th Regiment field. The game road strike,'* but he did not originate the never count on the women's vote as the silent was hard fought throughout with honors expression. vote. i8 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER MRfk CRAB. P. LOESER, Editor generously toward giving the boys a good time COMPANY B 104th DANCES. on Christmas clay. This is one way of bring• The members of Company B 104th machine Associate Editors ing the home nearer to the men in training gun battalion gave a delightful buffet dance Mrs. Walter Montgomery Mrs. J. W. Allen camp. at the Hotel Cleveland. The patronesses were Mrs. E. B. Dean, Mrs. Charles O'Neale, Mrs.. The following wives of officers and enlisted Charles Morgan, Mrs. O H. Haron, Mrs. E. L. THE GAS ATTACK has decided to print a page men volunteered to do all in their power to of division social news. This is its first society Miller, Mrs. Edward McLeer, Mrs. G. W. page and the editor is Mrs. Charles P. Loeser, make the Christinas celebration successful: wife of Lieut. Loeser, of the 107th Inf. Hinckley . We are fortunate in having Mrs. Loeser as the editor of this page, and we are triply for• Mesdames O'Ryan, Phillips, Munsill, Kil- tunate in having as assistants to her, two pa trick, Allen, Michie, Andrews, Seligman, women prominent in Spartanhurg society, Mrs. •COMPANY K DANCE BRILLIANT Nichols, Hayes, Taylor, Billings, Norton, Ilild- Walter Montgomery and Mrs. J. W. Allen. AFFAIR. Send your social notes to the society editor, reth, Morrison, De Peyster, Quackenbos, THE GAS ATTACK, Camp Wadsworth, who will he pleased to give all information her personal Crimcnius, Carlisle, Sehoelkoff, Riley, Haven- Company K 107th gave one of the most attention. i never, Decker, Hal lab an. Bates, Palmer, largely attended favor dances of the season Water bury, Salisbury? Loeser, King and at the Hotel Cleveland. The music was fur• OFFICERS' THANKSGIVING BALL. Stevens. nished by Corporal Dusenberry's thirty piece orchestra from the Ammunition Train. A The Officers' Ball to be given Thanksgiving Mesdames Ireland, King and Kilpatrick have grand march was led by Major F. M. Sherman id glit at the Cleveland Hotel to raise Christ• been working untiringly to get bids on va• and Mrs. Walter Montgomery. mas funds will be quite the most elaborate rious articles required for the tree, and if there affair of the season. There will be general are men either in Camp or in Spartanburg who dancing in the ball room and lobby of the hotel. can assist this committee in securing the HEADQUARTERS' COMPANY 108th TO Music will be furnished by the Artillery, 105th lowest possible prices obtainable, they would GIVE DANCE. Infantry, and Jazz band of the 74th. Tables not only he a great help, but a great saving The members of the Headquarters' Com• will be arranged for those desiring to play to the finance committee. pany 108th infantry will give a dance at bridge. A supper with cabaret will be served Rasackon Hall on Tuesday evening, December Each individual's assistance, be it large or in the dining room at eleven o'clock 4th. The ladies chaperoning will be Mesdames small, will do much towards making Christ• The followink ladies will act as patronesses, Andrew Law, Harry Price, Thomas Porrim L. mas a day of cheerfulness for the 33,000 sol• Mesdames O'Ryam, Phillips, Lester, Michle, T. Reid, Edwin Johnson, Frank McKin, Charles diers encamped at Camp Wadsworth. Andrew, Norton, Bates, Wainwright, Manning, P. Loeser, Charles O'Neal, J. B. Stepp, Cecil Montgomery, Allen, Law, Carlisle, Gantt. Chairmen of Christmas Trees at Camp. Page. Those serving on the dance committee are The following chairmen of committees to arrange Christmas trees at Camp Wadsworth Mesdames Riley, Gantt, Seligman, Sehoelkoff OFFICERS OF THE 108th GAVE A GET- have been appointed. In some cases It has and Miss Michie. TOGETHER DINNER, been Impossible to get in touch with ranking Officers of the 108th infantry gave a dinner officers' wives. Where mistakes have been at the Cleveland Hotel. Many of the officer s? CHRISTMAS TREES FOR SOLDIERS IN made it is urged that the secretary be notified. wives of the regiment are in town and attended CAMP. Division headquarters, Capt. Dunbar, chair• the dinner. Dancing followed the dinner. A lively campaign is under way in Spartan• man; Mrs. O'Ryan; 52d brigade, Col..Smith; burg to raise money to provide Christmas 105th artillery, Col. Wlngate; 106th artillery, An invitation has been extended to the trees for the soldiers at Camp Wadsworth. Mrs. Phillips; 53d brigade, Miss Margaret families of the officers of the 14th infantry At a well attended meeting of the wives of Michie; 105th Infantry, Col. Andrews, Mrs. Andrews; 106th infantry, Col. Norton, Mrs. for Thanksgiving day dinner in the officers officers and enlisted men of the 27th Division, Norton; 105th machine gun, Map Wright, Mrs. mess. After the dinner, the 14th band will and many women of Spartanburg, arrange• Putnam; 54th brigade, 107th infantry, Col. give a concert in front of Cok James R Hew• ments were made for making Christmas a Fiske, Mrs. Mazet; 108th infantry, Cok Jen• lett's quarters. merry occasion at the camp. nings, Mrs. Jennings; 106th machine guns, Mrs. J. N. Allen presided over the meeting. Maj. Bryant; 102d engineers, Col. Vand'erbilt, Mrs. Leon Gans was appointed chairman; Among the visitors who have lately arrived Mrs. Crlmmins; 104th machine gun, Maj. Mc- Miss Margaret Michie, secretary; Mrs. J. in Spartanburg from New York City are Mrs. Leer, Mrs. King; 10th infantry, Cok Kline, Seligman treasurer and Mrs. Hamlin chair• James R, Hewlett, wife of Col. Hewlett, of Mrs. Kline; 1st infantry, Cok Boyer, Mrs. the 14th Inf.; Mrs. James E. Schuyler, wife man of the finance committee. Sub-commit• Weinberg; 14th infantry, Cok Hewlett, Mrs. of Major Schuyler, 14th. Inf.; Mr. and Mrs, tees representing every department of the 27th Hewlett; 74th infantry, Cok Kemp, Mrs. Mc- C. S. Brown, parents of Capt C. S, Brown, Jr.,, Division have been appointed to co-operate Machael; 12th Infantry, Col. Foster, Mrs. of the 12th Inf. in working out the campaign Quackenbos;- 71st infantry, Cok Bates, Mrs. It is proposed that every mess shack in the Bates; 47th infantry, Cok Janicky, Mrs. Mc- entire camp shall have its own Christmas tree Adams; Divisional signal battalion, Maj. Hal- SERGEANT RICHARDSON WEDS. and entertainment. lahan, Mrs. Hallahan; Sanitary Train, Capt, Sergeant Harold G. Richardson, of field' hos• The plan is a big one, and to be successful, Snyder, Mrs. Snyder; Base hospital, Maj. Al• pital company 108, was granted leave of ab• will require the help of every one who is in- len, Mrs. Allen; Trench mortar battalion, Capt. sence for ten days to be married In Indianapolis tere'sted in seeing the soldiers happy at the Pearson, Mrs. Palmer; Military police, Maj. to Miss Ethel Marie Jan sen, daughter of Cok coming vide tide. All the ladies of the Army Shanton, Mrs. Snanton; Supply train, Maj. To- E. J. Jan sen, retired. After spending their and Spartanburg are appealed to for assistance bin, Mrs Tobin; Camp quartermaster, Maj. honeymoon in New York they will return to in raising the necessary funds, and the fam• Grimstead, Mrs. Grim stead'; Ordnance, Capt. Spartanburg, where Mrs. Richardson will re• ilies and friends back at home, if they can be Anchinlos; Bakery, Capt. Millard, Mrs. Kil• main for an indefinite time. patrick. fold of the plan, will be glad to contribute (Society continued on page 26) THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER World Brevities (LIVE NEWS IN CAPSULE FORM.) troops as possible across the Atlantic as early When a full report has been received from as possible."—Premier David Lloyd George. General Pershing it probably will be published, Edited by J. S. Kingsley. as officials of the department want the world The first steel ship contracted for by Gen• to know how the American army deals with New York and New Jersey piers are to be eral Goethals was launched November 24. The men who commit such crimes. Secretary Baker guarded by 4,000 military guards. The large first wooden ship will be lauched within a has said that General Pershing had full power munition factories, food storehouses and piers month. Others will follow rapidly. Twenty - to carry out the sentence of the court martial will be well policed. It is suggested that eight vessels under construction before the without referring the case to the President. guards will be placed in city lofts near the entrance of our country into the war have been places to be protected. requistioned by our country. This government will soon standardize the size and weight of a loaf of bread. The price Two free government navigation schools will of flour is already regulated. One of the recent bills introduced and passed open December 1st at Newport News and Nor• in the British House of Commons would extend folk, Va. There will be a great demand for Our government planned to build 0,000,000 the municipal franchise to women. Another sailors when our merchant marine is enlarged. tons of shipping for 1917-18. The workers in would allow sailors and soldiers over nineteen the shipyards are not subject to the draft. years of age the right to vote. We have never declared war against Aus• This amount of shipping is nearly ten times tria, yet we shall probably send forces to Italy. the normal amount built in the United States During the past week the Italians have held The declaration of war is not absolutely essen• yearly. the enemy in check. The Germans in fearful tial, yet without it there are some complica• onslaught tried to crush the Italian lines, but tions in the treatment of Austrians as alien C adorn a, the Italian general, has been re• failed to do so. The Italians are still hold• enemies in this country. moved from command and placed in a position, ing Monte Tomba, which the Central Powers which nominally, is an advancement, but real• have tried hard to get. In parts of occupied France, one has to salute ly a removal from active service. the German officers or get shot. The United States will hold up all supplies English and French troops are said to have to Russia until the Russian government be• The German Kultur makes brutes and mar• been rushed into Italy to aid her in repulsing comes established and keeps her pledges to tyrs; brutes of its possessors, martyrs of those the Teutonic attack. The Italians have stopped the Allies. The Provisional Government of who come in contact with its possessors. (Ver• the Teutons and are holding their line of de• Russia was granted credit amounting to $325,- non K el log.) fense. It is reported that the cause of the 000,000, of which $191,000,000 has been ad• Italians retreat was the use of gas, against vanced but the supplies were largely purchased German efficiency is machinery, but not which the Italians were not prepared. in this country and have not been shipped. brains, and wheels can never really replace 'This country will stop the shipment if Russia brain cells in human functioning. (Vernon Queen Lilioukalani, the once queen of Ha• •.seeks peace with Germany. Kellog.) waii, is dead. She was a queen, rich, refined, as natives of Hawaii can be, a composer of Canada has 400,000 enlisted men, equal in music, a compiler of Hawaiian literature. She The National Academy of Science announces proportion to 5,000,000 from the United States. was greatly beloved by her people. She had that a cure for tetanus a lockjaw has been dis• She has raised a billion dollars, equal to forty lotteries and opium monopolies, but upon the covered by American scientists. The discoverer billions from the United States. (Benj. A. whole she was a well meaning queen of a is Dr. Samuel Meltzer of the Rockefeller Insti• Gould.) primitive people, who soon outgrew rulers of tute. her type. Walter C. Hughes, Secretary of the National The railroad's and the railroad men have Confectioners Association, says that the con• The Supreme Court of the United States re• agreed to avert all railroad strikes and to sumption of candy at the front in France and cently decided unanimously against an ordi• mediate all wage differences till the end of the Flanders has been five times what was antici• nance of a city establishing a segregated dis• war. pated. Not only is candy of great food value trict for negroes. Several cities had passed but it also gives solace to the boys in the such ordinances which were calculated to sepa• rate by law the whites from the colored sec• It is reported that last week five U-boats trenches and in the training camps. Men who tions of the cities. were bagged. Although the submarine has never ate candy in civil life are most eager for been frustrated of late, yet the combined Al• it in the army; men who cared little for pres• lied navies will not relinquish their vigilance. ents now watch the mail for letters and pack• A treaty between Japan and the United. ages. He who is remembered is considered States has been agreed upon, by which it is lucky and he who is forgotten is saddened at intended to preserve friendship between the 5 An American Officers Club was formally the distribution of the mail. The coming of two nations. "The basic principles is equality opened in London last week. the mail in the camp is a big event and the of opportunity for all nations in China ground• folks at home should feel it more fully. ed upon the independence and integrity of the The attempt to raise $35,000,000 for the Chinese Republic." War Work Y. M. C. A. has succeeded to such An American soldier of General Pershing's an extent that the amount will reach $50,- forces, found guilty by court martial of at• All Eastern railroads are placed under the 000,000. tacking and murdering a French woman, has general direction of the war board, five mem• been executed by a firing squad. bers who are expert railroad men. These, to• "The collapse of Russia and the reverses to All details of this, the first death penalty gether with the vice-presidents of the rail• Italy make it even more imperative than be• imposed since the troops landed in Europe, roads, will seek to obtain the maximum effi• fore that the United States send as many are being withheld by the War Department. ciency in traffic. 20 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER t Of hi Jour D®YS Service *md $h&i Class Work f ot'AV .hic^aPA 6.'. J-*tbi€- jKoitow^ias: Places TV - * kk P ,- ) j 1 Hi! - ».d ll o -1 1 J V , ^ m, n >< i) > 1 1 1 It, 1 rd °< s • oi i ... , ! V' S f , (an c i L Hi 1 mid im 1 y i •> •« L) ( i Mmd u d i Hi1- c . > m ( onti i i i v if1 1 ». f ' ii \ h—i ^e n < m .m . ugu i < , km(\ M < 1 Of O.' - 1 k i c; X Tats would Ie3 vc im IO1 e re7e '3 mo nth s ^ar do In j buie smmt at home, d ho u-x d (- e)l . I 1 r C alO |, M< OCV 10 >eso, i em eaiioT~ r< -n d &ce,Jer airv fiom fev ])e^ end i r°Jn j foani. " '\ fi nmi ^df ' . rL wf IA Co r n c 11| Oi, d o the ho f'iout, ban1 m i.io»Taoio aoaicers hi the dam ^ml buehiinp down like (ia> c tirid 1 JV K ir o ad at! oi I j ; EedmM iod up with modest steam-ne? ced apai t- thai I can ury o?Hi added w utinm ta* i \ n v o vm t Ox 11 ahnrg rn r 1 'diviho^. > hoy menL, neat little Kaso bens, ends, and hot helping liquidate oui Uncle's aHcvous hi 11 n IT' umetmg ol ice foi r the amiiieb and and cohi running water. As It is no v, there koc o o\\ Toxoid si »aich<^ though c>bv or ii iii;<> Urn soldiers, md 0 sine o„oh house are only two kinds of water available at the tlnilK. I'll p?y im like c gin "who v^aLi 1c is pio\iced with a cafeteria undi r evpeit maii- iront—cold and stagnant. Outrageous! A do his shaie; so when the bo} s go by. 1'II grd no SUPI THIS IS ME POIGUT FACE AH1 I'LL KNOCK YE L ,L4 COLD IF >Y^A§ XE -SAY IT ' Poole's Barber Shop A! NT fA WHAT A REAL BARBER StfOF I vA> MURPHY ^f=A^ SERVICE' A, WITH REAL jj - PACS;- AA mm AA niy YVPO wAg LID AUAfl TEN FUtCT GbA SS BA.aBftKir i!it AVA Or> 1 r ' - A'-< "001 LP) ID' C'WELS S ^ AKs5 / AAA I LI ZEE, / yy^-y \7{&x\ CA^ ,tfy , /A,,;AA,A-A'b A' BATHS- T/r A^AA db; '..«(4\,M '"iH, j >OJR i-f-'^^2\ AJx. / 1) -fA Xxjyy-^ z 'A yz . A >£AAVA ''•'A ^A ]!, OMC v, tO T a(0 1 T i i HOKI'! , (, \ (i io n A< y. ov vf i-cr* c ^ IH) . ^ •< >v II \i If t if^ - A 1 I JL k >^fy>y,z- r>r {A ru,t£ h/iQ hi- ociucr V/^ r^re recclvirfp doiip. ^pjr>'te£,u^- ipanaA prspe-Aaii, IVIarg^^ g;gt:»(.-st cr a n ber 11 es; celery, Ca 11 i oph it: wal • iiuts, raisins, also a complete line it of produce. : : : i • : j <>> Try us with that Thanksgiving order. SHE SLIPPED A COG-. f Two deliveries to Camp Wadsworth. Anrse (to badly wounded soldiers who have complained of their food)—You men don't A seem to know there's a war on.—London Opin• ion. PEARCE-EDWARDS CO P. & N. WAREHOUSE Phones 83 and 84 "I want peace and I know bow to get it A -Woodrow Wilson. 22 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER + • FALL-IN! • • TODD DRUG CO., For First Glass Service, • ATTENTION! SOLDIERS WELCOME. • • •I* We are now in a position to meet all of the soldiers* needs in our line, and •* • will be glad to procure anything on short notice which we do not carry in stock. • As an old member of the S. C. Battalion Coast Guard, I extend my good • will and best wishes for the success of this paper, and I thank the boys for their • • past patronage. • Re Gc TODD. • • • • TODD DRUG COMPANY • • Main and Church Streets, - - - Spartanburg, S. C. • AMPLE SHIPPING IN SIGHT TO MAIN• during 1918. It will not all be available in the DEDICATION OF Y. M. C. A. BUILDINGS. twinkling of an eye, for providing ships is not 7 TAIN U. S. OVERSEA FORCES. The Young Men s Christian Association in done over, night, nor is there any magic where• Camp Wadsworth is coming into its own and The question, "What grub are we going to by ocean-going bottoms may be whisked into is pleased to announce to the men of the get when we hit the trenches?" which thousands being by the waving of a rod, or of a sheet of 27th division the completion and dedication of American soldiers in cantonments over the paper with figures on it. of two of its fine buildings. entire country are asking one another, is a By June, however, there should be ready 3, Unit No. 97 serving the men of the Artil• simple enough one to ask, but involved in its 000,000 tons, according to expert prognostica- lery section of the Camp was formally dedi• answer are problems which are vast and tors. This, added to the 3,000,000 of tonnage cated on Sunday last. A reception was held weighty. which was available October 1, makes a total in the afternoon and the formal ceremonies Getting an army into action in Europe is of 0,000,000 tons, or enough to support an on Sunday evening. At these ceremonies it simply the beginning of the game, as far as army of 1,200,000 men, at the five-ton a man was necessary to turn away hundreds of the American government is concerned in its ratio. soldiers who were unable to crowd into the relations with its fighting men. Once there, This conclusion is safe, with these figures building. they must be maintained. to build on, that shipping is in sight ample Unit No. 96 located near the men of the Food and equipment must be kept on the to maintain the forces abroad, and to give the 107th. lOSth and 47th Regiments and one of move so that the boys in khaki will be able to men now in cantonments those necessaries of the most complete and finished buildings on sustain the reputation for efficiency which the food and equipment which are so close to the the ground, was dedicated Friday evening. great Pershing organization has gained from lives of the soldiers. It was a very happy occasion and the spirit the Allies. This maintenance totals about five As to the future, there will be 2,900,000 shown by all speaks well for future activities tons per man per year. Every soldier who ar• tons to come after June 1, when the maintain• in that unit. rives "Over There" is to be followed by five able force is 1,200,000. This additional ton• It is hoped by the Y. M. C. A. authorities tons—ten thousand pounds—of upkeep, varying nage will enable the support of reinforcements that in the next week or ten days, all five of in shape and form from beans to bullets. The to the number of 580,000, making the total 1,- the buildings will be dedicated and in opera• vital factor in getting this bulk across is ship 780,000, which should be rapidly increased, as tion. tonnage. On October 1 there were available new shipyards turning out standardized ships for Atlantic service, including German ships, would be capable of an enormous output. approximately 3,000,000 tons, which means OUT WITH YOUR MASKS! that at the rate of five tons to the man, an Watch for the next number of THE WADS• army of 600,000 could be maintained. Private Howard was detailed to the clin• WORTH GAS ATTACK. It is going to be a Of course this would be inadequate if it ical ward in the Base Hospital. He survived corker. There will be big exclusive features, represented the only shipping resources with several riots started by a violent patient but plenty of pictures, cartoons and, if the censor which. Uncle Sam is to back up his expedition• decided he had had enough when a 200- passes it, some regular humor. Already ary forces, but there is a total of 5,900,000 pound er started on a rampage singing, German agents are plotting against us, but tons more either building or contracted for. "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder." don't worry. Watch for the next issue of The great bulk of this Is expected to come in Private Read has the detail now. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER HUNKA TIN. You may talk about your voitures When you're sitting round the quarters, i But when it comes to getting blesses in, Take a little tip from me, I Wc have enlarged our Plant at cost of $30,000.00, Let those heavy mortars be, Pin your faith to Henry F.'s old Ilunka Tim To cater to the boys' business of the 27th Division, Give her essence and de l'eau, Crank her up and let her go, You back firm', spark plug foulin' Ilunka Tin. Our Plant has the approval of your Sanitary au• The paint is riot so good, thorities. And no doubt you'll find the hood, Will rattle like a boiler shop en route; The cooler's sure to boil, Our quality and service is of the highest standard, And perhaps she's leakin' oil, Then of ten time the horn declines to toot. and we are the largest Pie Baking Concern in But when the night is black, And there's blesses to take back, the South, And they hardly give you time to take a smoke, It's mighty good to feel, <•> Our daily output 36,000 Pies, 12,000 Crullers and When you're sitting at the wheel, She'll be running when the bigger cars are broke. Doughnuts. After all the wars are past, . And we're taken home at last, To our reward of which the preacher sings, When these ukulele sharps Will be strumming golden harps, And the aviators all have reg'lar wings, When the Kaiser is in hell, SOUTH LIBERTY ST. SPARTANBURG, S, C. With the furnace drawing well, PHONE 1711 Paying for his million different kinds of sin, If they're running short of coal, Show me how to reach the hole. And I'll cast a few loads down with Ilunka Tin. Yes, Tin, Tin, Tin, You exasperating puzzle, Hunka Tin, I've abused you and I've flayed you, ^ name! w are But, by Henry Ford', who made you, You are better than a Packard, Hunka Tin. % Tin ~\%Zare —From the American Field Service Bulletin. Paris. * Galvanized ^Xfare THERE AIN'T NO MORE. * of Every 'Description. Oh, I can scoff a dish of beans, A plate of slum or two, My plate is ready when they say: "Hot Java com in' thru!" Got Pads, Blankets, Pillows, But these are words that I hate to hear, Sheets, Towels and Pillow It always makes me sore, If, when I'm started, someone says: Gases. "Too bad, there ain't no more!" Leather, Spiral and Can* Yes, I can eat a plate of spuds, vas Puttees. A yard of punk, to boot, Ghevrons, Hat Gords and Bull, gravy, dogs and sinkers, Are all my long suit. I 01! Stoves For' Teats t Insignia. One slice of canned Bill's easy; Sheep Lined Goats, CX I've often eaten four And then have been disappointed D. Sleeve and Sleeveless Because "there ain't no more." Sweaters. Imetto We've turkey on Thanksgiving, 4» New Year's and Christmas day; I'm first to look for seconds, Eat all that come my way, 154 N. CHURCH ST. And never think of quitting, Till through the kitcen door . R T A N B U R G ALL AT FAIR PRICES I hear the cook a-calling: "That's all. There ain't no more." THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK ABB RIO GRANDE RATTLER "1 / ^ 'A \ /VE \ \ M';^ \ ^ ...... EEE/-- !-E-'^'^r uAA',y j'^uf- y.v^;V' -5E> EEE EE^"7 E, EEE^>^ c \\ or, i IE' E1 (H',r'1 ; - E vs : oE; • ^', E i J ,%EEE\ ' E>»^ V E^ UOiEE v . %E .< ,n-v IE1) EerwE./ i Ece f17 6 J3?ight Sto> 2 Jiicl Off'Marge n Sanai e' '1M6 5lCt !Com6 am THE CLtBIC WUO DlSCOVKS FWE MY5 LATEP TWAX YOU CECEWED A LETTffi ijrrocerws FWE DAYS THE MASCOT WUO EATS youo 7/ci4uci6; PESTS WE ALL KNOW- -THE BACKET vates. It knows neither times nor seasons. IN O. D. >t starts going VIHMI e\eryone else in the oar- roauce Tiiere is the fellow in every eamp who gen• racks oi the tout has drawn the cur Lai us of erates noise. lie aright be a useful bit of. icpose. It giggles and gargles and slops ovei. cam on fl age at certain Limes, say when we get It lets loose a chain of snickers when a weary in the trenches and wc ivant to make tin annoyed pal jo'iis Vs strenuous baiting-out to others-. 0ff)cers and enlisted men are Germans think \\ J nove \ wk-e as much. liea^ry particularly welcome in our estab• aitillery as we h „^e. 'Then he might be set 'this camp racket-maker doesn.?t kuon that to work making noise, and the Bodies would a certain type of ^ubbor heels absorbs manv lishment, We want them to feel flee before the PLAY THE GAME. By H. Addington Bruce. Matthewson, Bender, Plank, and Walsh. MOBILOILS I You have all heard these names, and many A. grade for each type of motor f c trne 1 on aie iami'ia with them as the FOR m mcs 0t iouj of the g< carost pitchers thac on! iat >on A ganm has pioduced * AUTOMOBILE LAMPS 7 A ^ f r; ( ^ A ew 1 oris 1 -1 A 0 ) ou lia\e seei one 0* all of these * JA stock for every make of car fine di niaveio ui action. A so, you will h r 'ii) mi, v\ Ah you some c\t.iemely pleasant ! STORAGE BATTERIES have 1iie V ou »wli ''inuiibei in A thei skill was ! PFUCKS TO HERE tSbeepclri"ri coats, rubber AOOA; # e< im Jed l>) ih< 11 pinch \A maAer what the either with or without seats 4» r| r)n6. sfcof s, S c oi niglu he a° a 111 -a A«eu; cuey kept pitch f lASie'Lli^ ^fl Rc/itkA A • ^ A sA < 1 till Ae cell or elm last "He's A ^ ^ our.'' $ h(Lil SSA'' bcokr f( =r a n A , 1 - A tK iKiiii PI ih t in ,iuching, the) A even are a «G>-.d tire , L ei 1 1 J » ) * A! is choir muscles, f t he e , j>iiAc< of SL a1e°j 10 less theo ,c 1 KASW Lic-MTS AND # ft!Ilkctg- lillgJMLA t^ldt k@)Aei '!^ A r i-ic ^ o( LA I« t 0 mio\\ii <_> < vi ves. S Bec3 Polls, \Aeb AAA MGI-W^ ? ^1 ± 1J }on \ ill PLU onhei they we1 e # BATT Cik I Ta bVs 2 iir Co A I^o IT- rr«c A | ui m cn^nesi pi LC h I hat battels l M < |! Largpsi £(ocic of Leo'che^ L-^g- 2t~ 1 ;t'Kis J uL 1 ou t umpue- These f001 di 1 ' 01 A LiUjiisi c ( is ens were made j HI ihco1; the* held tempet and tongues liL & AUTO CO- * in leash. I Irriif k l^ff Ef»H!|iwtKf ^A I LaliO£ke 4jf Oi le •« 1 ' 'A e'l CM£J tliey do 0 I ' (A7 E M/AM tj RLilT | 4 J Mil » ud t LOS Me^ri to POPr-c^fice wm.'1 in r tiooked Wnen HI A did not break ? UEXT TO EUOU T1AEA.A 4^ t # A PI v\ n thoT suuplv smiled did went on fI'4 !A cS"##^s^ & A>M<\O&Y -#€3f>2 S r^^^###4?A4#(W > 5?»'A** '.'^ >:t'rV f-cp^^ •pjT.cl.11ne'. & Tne <\ ) lo p ui A1A7, OJ 101 at all. Mostly the^ 0 m '1 ne) uoii so otien >hA they will o« c ( hoo a ^oiemoot pi ice 111 baseball A .1. A A n ' che-p J oin Aa^e basf baU so, bo\ ^, ' oido ^ mi pkn the niAiiAK bigger game kJjXiJianaes ai C Vf/ adsujoriU Ju Wncl you < t nev\ 11 t amuig. A An vT J 1 e up age list c owdv team—the Ambulance and Field Hospital 106th N. Y. Infantry 1 °T best, di Licst, meanest g uig of thugs 2nd N. Y. Field Artillery—2nd Battalion 108th " Aa ei u ed co win, an>thinto. 104th Machine Gun Battalion, Co. B 106th Machine Gun Battalion, Co. A Dooh u urate fclmu tactics who 1 you come 104th " " " "A to grips with them. 106th '* " " B 104th " " " " C You won't better your chances of winning 104th Field Artillery Headquarters Troop—27th Division if yon do imitate them. And even should A 105th Regiment Headquarters Co., 71st Infantry you win by foul play, you will sink so low in I the world A esteem, and in your own, that Military Police Headquarters 10th Infantry A you will be ashamed of yourselves the rest 107th Regiment 106th Machine Gun Battalion, Co. C A of your lives. A 102nd " (Engineers) 104th " Remember Matthewson, Bender, Plank, and 27th Division Supply Train Headquarters Company Canteen Walsh when you get into the trenches, when A Base Hospital 106th Infantry, Co. C A you go over the top, and when you pursue A A the flying foe. 106 Field Artillery 106th " " L Hit hard, but hit fair. If you get a set• 23rd N. Y. Infantry 105th Machine Gun Battalion back, take it with a grin. 3rd Regiment 106th Infantry, Co. I Think of the folks at home who will be watching you. Picture them to yourselves rom 1: ARMY LADIES REGISTER. SOCIETY NOTES. The Woman's Auxiliary committee of the (Continued from page 18.) Spartanburg Commission on Training Camp CHRISTMAS TREES ON EVERY STREET, Activities has taken the registration of army and other visiting ladies in Spartanburg and now has on file at the Information Bureau in EATING PLACE Plans Going Ahead for the Celebration of the the Chapman building 350 names of ladies who Holiday in Camp. have recently come to Spartanburg to" live The only Restaurant at Camp near their relatives at Camp Wadsworth. Wadsworth Now that the business of getting to press The registrations previously taken at the with this Thanksgiving Bay Number of The various centers, Kennedy Library, Y. W. C. A., BETTER VALUE—BETTER FOOD GAS ATTACK has been accomplished, one of the Tri-Color Tea Boom, Bank of Spartanburg, staff's scouts has been sent out to pick up the were assembled with the names already re• At the Camp Wadswoith Station trail of Santa Glaus. This whiskered, rosy- ceived at the Information Bureau under the cheeked gentleman—Santa Glaus, not the staff direction of Mrs. C. E. Burnett, chairman of of the P. and ft ft R. reporter—is going to visit every mess shack special com mi nee on registration. in camp. A method is also provided whereby the OPEN So far the plans seem to be that every sol• ladies can indicate how they wish to spend 9:30 a. m.—10:30 p.m. (Daily) dier will get a gift, as a result of the work their leisure time in some phase of war work. of a committee of women—wives of men in It is earnestly hoped that every lady who has camp and residents of Spartanburg. The Drop In for a plate -of wheat not registered will come to the Information local Bed Cross organization has taken under cakes and cup of the best Bureau at the Chapman building and do so. its auspices the general working out of the coffee In the county. plans, and the women who are on the special A THANKSGIVING MESSAGE. committee have already decided upon a set• My Turkey dinner every Sunday ting up in camp of many Christmas trees. (William F. Kirk, a writer in the New from 2 p. m. to 8 p. m. York Journal, sends the following poetical There are said to be 300 relatives of sol• Is a corker greetings to Camp Wadsworth and par• diers living in Spartanburg. All of them are interesting themselves in the Christmas ar• ticularly to the men of Company M, the WELCOME ON THE DOOR rangements. Mrs. Joseph L. Seligman, of New 107th Inf.) York, wife of Lieut. Seligman, aid to Brig. Gen. B. E. L. Michie, is the treasurer of the We are eating to-day in the city Tommy Harrison committee. While you are at mess far away, BUFFALO, N. Y. In an early number of the magazine the So here is a Thanksgiving ditty editors hope to print the full results of the For the boys of the Seventh to-day. investigations of the Santa Calus detectives We are thankful for gain or for station, sent out to gather advance information of the For health or for friends that are true, coming holiday visit. But more than all else In this nation We are thankful for soldiers like you! CONVERSE GIRLS VISIT CAMP. Though words are not deeds or endeavor, By Mary C. Dryer, Converse College. They serve as swift bearers to tell The Best All Fall Ave have heard "Camp Wadsworth" How a host will remember forever —"Camp Wadsworth"-—in the churches, The lads who responded so well. ill ihrough the papers, in the shops—all Spar• And though I would gladly address you tanburg living and doing for Camp Wads• In lines far beyond this young gem, ^ Developing Printing f worth ! But Monday was the first opportunity It will serve as a sort of "God Bless You!" the Converse College girls had had to see To the fellows of Company M. Camp Wadsworth. Thinking the trip to the Camp to be both beneficial and educational, the college authori- ii ouvenirs * PETAIN AT CLOSE RANGE. t ies gave us a holiday. Now, holidays at Con• Those of Uncle Sam's boys already "Over Unusual Post Cards of Camp verse are few and far between—but not a one of us regrets having spent our holiday There" find endless interest in comparing Life in just such a way. officers and men of the French army with We know and understand more now about those who wear the U. S, A. label. General trenches and dug outs and modern war equip• Petain, for instance, successor to the great ment than we ever could have learned from Joffre, is described as a man of tremendous t study of the best magazines and papers—even more than we could have learned from read• energy, but one who is never hurried—In 39 Cents Per Pound ing the WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK. this resembling Gen. Leonard Wood. Our Candy Will Make You We appreciate the cordiality and respect Furthermore, Petain hasn't a particle of shown us by the men in Camp—and are espe• A Steady Customer "military consciousness," according to cially indebted to the officers who arranged (hie trip. Converse has an active Bed Cross Charles II. Grasty, who has closely observed chapter—especially active in knitting sweatees him. While General Pershing stands like a |KAMINER'S»DRU6 STORE { —and though the sweaters are turned into statue, General Petain is just an ordinarily headquarters and you may not get the very erect, middle-aged man, wearing the plainest I 159 EAST MAIN STREET % sweaters we knitted, they go "somewhere in kind of a uniform, and with a good, whole• France." And we hope that when you are all I SPARTANBURG, S. C. $ somewhere in France we will not be doing some face which is much plumper than his our bit but our utmost. pictures indicate. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 27 "SHELL SHOCK" NOTHING BUT A STATE OF MIND, SAYS NOTED AUTHORITY. Shell shock and how to prevent it, subjects of interest to each and every American soldier tfll now in training for service in France, are in• THE ARMY STORE 4» terestingly discussed by Dr. Morton Prince in a recent issue of the Journal of the American The men comprising Camp Wadsworth will find a hearty welcome Medical Association. #> at this popular man's store. Dr. Prince writes as an authority. He is one of the world's foremost medical psycholo• We have made provision for the soldier's wants, and it will be a gists. He has visited military hospitals for pleasure to have the men call while over here and look our stock over. the express purpose of studying shell shock. What he has to say deserves careful consider• WE HAVE EVERYTHING FOR THE SOLDIER'S ation. COMFORT IN CAMP LIFE Particularly significant is his statement that the popular view as to the cause of shell shock Officers5 Overcoats ...... $40.00 to $50.00 is entirely wrong. Sleeveless Sweaters, to be worn under shirt, at $3.50 and $3.00 Most people—including most soldiers—be• 0. D. Woolen Uniforms .$30.00 lieve that when a high explosive shell bursts 0. D. Woolen Uniforms...... $35.00 near a man the mere concussion of the air is enough to cause a physical injury of the brain. High Grade Serges ...... $35.00 to $50. 00 To this physical injury are attributed the 0. D. Serge and Cotton Odd Breeches...... $3.50 to $10, 00 dumbness, loss of memory, paralysis, etc., that Stetson and Schoble Regulation Hats...... $5.00 to $6 00 are principal symptoms of shell shock. All Insignia for ail branches, including regimental number, But Dr. Prince unhesitatingly denies that air Sheep-lined Coats...... $15,00 and $18, 50 concussion by high explosives can cause the brain to be organically injured. Specifically, 0. D. Regulation Wool Sweaters...... $6.50 and $7,5 0 e§5 he states: We make Uniforms and alterations on Suits At is now the concensus of opinion that true shell shock differs in no way from the ordinary J Helmets of Wool, Wool Hosiery, Gloves and Cooper's Spring Needle J traumatic neurosis as observed after railway S Union and Two-Piece Underwear, Bed Rolls, Lockers, and everything for # and other accidents, earthquakes, etc. j| the soldier's comfort in camp life. % Being a traumatic neurosis, it is accordingly I nothing but traumatic hysteria." That is to say that shell shock may be more U. S. TO FEED PEI€ONEHS. property described as "shell fear." Thai the TniAd St Acs is not overlooking' any It is because soldiers believe that air con• angle of the Avar is shown by the fact that cussion can cause paralysis, dumbness, or loss plans have already been made to properly feed of memory that these effects actually are pro• The largest American soldiers taken prisoner by Germany. duced. The paralysis, dumbness, and loss of Thousands of prisoners taken by Germany have memory are at bottom examples of the dire I bt suffered and died from lack of nourishment, physical consequences that may flow from a j and the United States government does not wrong attitude of mind, a false and unhealthy propo>e to let Americans suffer for food. The belief. War and Navy Departments have completed ar• If the soldiers could rid" their minds of ••this rangements with the Eed Cross for each Ameri• belief, shell shock would no longer be the can prisoner in Germany to receive two ten- serious medical problem that it is to-day. pound packages of food every two weeks. Accordingly, Dr. Prince suggests that all sol- | diers, officers and men, be given by military j The food is to be forwarded from the Red surgeons instructions for the prevention of Cross warehouse at Berne, Switzerland, where Military shell shock. It should be explained to the it will be held for shipment to the prisoners in soldiers, he says: Germany. exts for "That shell shock is a form of hysteria, that if is due to fear and not to physical trauma, "SUNBEAMS." ncers and there is little danger, and nothing may be THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO feared." GRANDE RATTLER is indebted to the N. Y. Even• Enlisted men He adds: ing Sun for these: "In this way it is to be expected that an Probably when the Germans heard the name a Specialty anticipatory attitude of mind of healthy pre• of Gen. Byng they mistook it for heavy tiring paredness (instead of fear and mystery) and retreated' at once. would be formed; and also that fear when a shell exploded in the neighborhood without The Colonel warned the women at the suf maiming the soldier, would be so minimized as frage celebration that they would "get no flat• not to produce the psychoneur0sisA tery" from him. How about his very pres• Every soldier ought to know—the importance ence there ? of the mental attitude in shell shock, the im• portance of developing a firm conviction that unless an exploding shell causes actual wound• The man who locked himself up to escape ing it is without power to steal away the sol• the arbitrary exactions of the draft was al• m, s. c dier's memory, deaden his speech, or turn him ready the prisoner of a more arbitrary power— into a helpless paralytic. Education, not speculation, is needed. Fear. 23 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER Constantly dropping will eventually wear away the hardest stone on which they fei1, *md " know if 1 keep constantly telling you why i can save you money on aiVli ^rad^ S"HOCS HATS and CLOTHING, YOU will eventually become a customer if you a/r pot one c i/eady I buy from manufacturers direct, and can save you paying MTDDI£MA±V!J percentage. 1 buy for cash and can give you the benefits of discount. I own my own storehouse and do not have to add an extra charge for store rent. ARMY SlIOFS, best qualm, P Ft fs O ARMY EATS FOP SO^DJFFF i;om $ ' F t F A 'F i- , rh 1 <) i- 1. is ai ' oJ ix O and athe turns. ~> ( in i i lew r i j Oil i r n < o doubt that the heavy t uc h l.u. a] sue! r GERMAN MILITARIST SAYS U. S. MAY Dough Boy—Infantryman. NOT SEND ARMY ABROAD. Duff—Any sweet edible. Notwithstanding the actual participation of File-—A number on the lineal list. American soldiers in fighting on the Western Fogy—Ten per cent, increase of officer's pay Uniforms front, the German newspapers still insist Uncle for each five years' service. Sam has no men in Europe. The German peo• Found—To be deficient or wanting in any• thing, especially an exam. ple are led to believe that French and British Tailored by French Leave—Unauthorized absence. soldiers have been dressed in khaki to • look Gold Brick—An unattractive girl. like American fighting men. The House of Kuppenheimer Gold Fish—Salmon. A fair specimen of the kind of stuff the Goat—Junior officer in post, regiment, etc. German people are being "Ted up" on is seen Go a ty—Aw k ward, i g n o r a > I t. in the following from Major Hoffe, of the Ger• Guard House Lawyer—A soldier with a man General Staff: smattering knowledge of regulations and inili- AA~w ~\Amcr\~ trau«po~t of A^eAean tai\ 1 \\\ ; quite loquacious and liberal with 'loop »\<>dd caii^ 3(Mion<~ dbneuities in sup uh ice and connsel 10 men A the guardhouse Cotton Khaki $15 Or> pin * to England and I loncc Tt uu t be or other trouble. e f i< uemhei J that the U boats aie rnii ing 0101c 16 oz. 0. D. Serge 4 j: T ! ILndfatA— TnA d neod bisem fcs. c and moic sAp daih n I'll e—To n aich, to lid \ Funston f'ioth 3i,J> ''V lMituJ\, [he hghiing ^ aiuc of the Araenciii line—To dnco\ei 10 e^tcb. (Heavyweight.) h oop ^ nor srcal piobabb "bout equal to r f Hobo — 'Ae ui y Obi s n o ~>iL{ L'na oi the Aim a nan . ana ihci^ "cri ainb wdl 1 Ajt 'oe—* he Ch?pA " )o ic\ o 1 tiieni t'u ii oi Au i re drab. Vn 1 I 1 no, iu « ir 1 Z. WA thorn dionc c 1 i i ' („ ' a ( c 'i I, A- > i , i J L C til U<> "1 i ' i C I < ( IIOJI ^ 1 \ 11 Vlh l ' j j * Ar Of , ic1»• c UOUOJ 1 A-cA , Lf , J on CCJ I «• 1 e> < c i e^ >cd^ ion 1 MM fic« n - ie Ac ai \ i o» ( e Ui i n ( Kih i — ' o A LAJ r JA rij'_ A A r t . 'i lb1, } 1 o\ le<>-—f'rhii'N nan. o ni ,//-][] fee! A T I 1 M i(e—A ieisn onniuie u-«d i .e Aid 'ouMde. ap A Aha' ^ ^o wi.r ihci \ AM Iin L< pip ate. Cbmerjl Peish 1154 v as ^niu ed to ihrec | An. J > )<_ fox OicJeiU—r-Twng cloihiiiL, and ^ Ans and a w ICMIA o 1.0 i n> a-> ! oecoal teimnt<- e\Li? c Jeanmg so ac to com irt OL hi' nc A i c'li K ohu i announccmenl | k.egular U'?n ner r ( his been m°dc h\ Uic \\ ir DepfMdi iciu chai J pe e loi ' 1 d^ily. Bun Lie—A sohbei ^Ao shores the shelter of foui , nns design?tes a g 1 icral It is not I Every iJay a comrade. probable that General Pershing will be fur Bud— To reduce a non-commissioned officer ther elevated to the rank of field marshal. to the grade of private. Butcher—--.^e company barber. • 'A FATAL DEFECT." Canned Horse—Canned beef. At a banquet recently Secretary of War * iin Street Ca Chief—Name by which the chief musician of Baker said: "One of the fatal defects of the the band is usually called by the enlisted men. Located in Basement Hohenzollern imagination is that fatuous be• Cit—-A civilian. lief that being frightful and making faces Cits—Civilian clothes. and killing women and children will scare New Rex Tkeatre Building C. 0.—Commanding officer. brave men." Coffee Cooler—One who seeks a "soft" detail. BAST MAIN STREET Cold Feet—Fear, lack of courage. Crawl—to admonish. The French pronounce him Bang. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER WE ALL KNOW THIS BIRD. it would be a soft-handed, white-collared, cologne-scented bit. Tie really wouldn't associ• ate with the "common herd," the canaille, the The Boob Who Thinks He's Better. hoi polloi, if he chose his path. For he is a iDiy Better Sort of Breed! The guy with the mole vision might claim He is unused to contact with the bristly that an 0. B. outfit makes every man the same We overestimate the mark- |* neck. He finds tlie jostle of crude elbows so sort of a man. He would back up his near• annoying! And one Is even forced to wash ed superiority, In our stock J sighted claim by declaring that "clothes make one's dishes with those fellows (the "o" Is long of officers' footwear. 'We J the man." But this Myopic Moke has never as in "roast"). And disrobing in plain sight really lived in and of an army cantonment. If doubt it. J of a rude fellow who has driven trucks, and he had enjoyed such a privilege, even his re• to have remarks made by this rude fellow to stricted gaze might have told him that there As pleasing to the eye as * another rude fellow who has been until recently are types in khaki just as truly as there are they are serviceable, Nettle- & a fixer of plumbing! Very distasteful to the in the ankle-length pants and the colored neck• Boob Who Thinks He's Better! ton's footwear extraordi- f tie. nary, are a mighty good * He isn't at all chary with information about One of these types is the Boob Who Thinks how he's never been thrown with rough, un• "buy." i He's Better. You've got him in mind. And hewn men. They are from a different order. when you think of hi in., your fist swings out• He only tolerates the common herd. This army DRESS BOOTS ward involuntarily. You reach unconsciously misfit has a rough road ahead, not because of for a missile to hurl. If there is none, you may SERVICE BOOTS the road but because of himself. He is as out unbottle some of the language that the Y. M. of touch with the democratic spirit as if he'd AND SHOES | 0. A. huts have signs against, If you're that lived' in the time of Louis Fourteenth. His ALSO J kind of a fellow. These hidden resources of nose has been Inherited from a family in which U. S. RED RUBBER BOOTS t language failing you, perhaps you lapse into the proboscis has always been on a forty-five deep disgust which is really more effective than degree angle, though, so perhaps the Boob Who indigo expletives. For the Boob Who Thinks Thinks He's Better can't be blamed. [Te's Better lurks in every camp. And certainly a term as a member perforce He is not there because lie wants to be. That of the great brotherhood in American leggins fact he frankly proclaims. Not that he and service stetsons will bring the Boob to wouldn't be willing to do his share In the Avar, his senses, and make him realize that, after all. if allowed to choose and pick. Tie might. But he isn't Better, but only a Boob. 126 Morgan Square SPARTANBURG, S. C. NOW HAVE 431,180 MEN. THE BRASS RAIL PATRIOT. I met a man the other night downtown in National Army is in Camp—Fimston Largest Looeyville, of All. Who said the Kaiser ought to hang upon some big, high hill, Washington, 1) 0.—The men of America's He said that Prussian frightfulness just filled new national army, either under training or him full of rage, ordered to the sixteen cantonments throughout That every time he smelted sour kraut he- the country totals 431,180. cussed to sacrilege. DOWN SOUT1 In making public these figures to-day, Sec• retary Baker said that tlie shipments of cloth• He pointed each overt act commit teed by the ing to the camps are keeping pace with the Hun, arrival of the new troops. Up to October 2nd, From raping Belgian hearth fires drear to fill• the day before the second increment of draft ing wells with dun. men was ordered out, nearly 13,000,000 arti• He essayed this, he volleyed that, until a Do you sleep warm? cles of wearing apparel and sleeping equip• youth in brown Said, "Where's your gun and uniform?"-—- If not call on us for ment had been sent to the cantonments and shipments are being made daily. the talker simmered down. Camp Funston, in Kansas, has the greatest quota of men of any of the camps, its number FIVE SONS OF GEN. SIBERT NOW SERV• being 39,533. Camp Lewis, in Washington ING- IN ARMY, State, is second, with 39,171, and Camp Devons, Massachusetts, third, with 33,090. Camp Roosevelt Record is Beaten When Boy of 19 BLANKETS Custer, Michigan, has the smallest number, Yields to War Lure and Enlists. COMFORTS 16,193. General Sibert has now outdistanced Colo• Articles sent to cantonments for the new nel Roosevelt. He has five sons serving with men included 1,402,390 blankets, 422,346 bed the army now. sacks, 436,749 cotton breeches, 259,805 woolen Word was received to-day that the youngest WE TREAT TIE SOLDIER BOYS RIGHT breeches, 267,579 cotton coats, 204,728 woolen son, who is just nineteen, has enlisted as a coats, 289,713 overcoats, 4,002,856 pieces of private. Two of the others are captains, one underclothing and 937,734 pairs of shoes. is a lieutenant and one is a West Point cadet- All this material was manufactured in this General Sibert had felt that four sons in country and the quartermaster's department of the army were quite enough and had urged Hammond-Brown-Will fo. the army announces that deliveries have been his youngest to hold off for the time being. The made that seemed impossible a few weeks ago. lure of the army was keener than the parental 145 North Church St, The Industries have been completely mobilized warning, however, and young Sibert followed for the big task of supplying the regular and in the steps of his brothers before his father national armies and the national guard. was aware of It. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 3i lAKFAS' luncheon or a light supper can be prepared quickly and >solute :ort by means of electrical appliances. The Electric Grill toasts, broils, fries and stews. e can show other appliances equally useful, including— COFFEE PERCOLA.TORS CHAFING DISHES SOUTH CAROLINA LIGHT, POWER & RAILWAYS CO. SPARTANBURG, S. C. THE BOLD M. P. HOW TO KEEP WARM, Another splendid plan would be to drop in To begin with, we give you an infalible upon us about the time we go to press; prefer• (A gay camp lay to be sung while brushing method, stay away from Spartanburg County ably a minute or so after the business man• agement imparts to us the glad news that four your teeth.) after nightfall. But, if such things as the rules and regulations of an army division pages of advertising have been dropped and You'd better beware if you don't comb your should make such procedure impracticable^ that we will have to fill them. hair, you'll be compelled to other measures and here Drop in about that time, we repeat, with If you don't lace your leggins and1 shoes; you have it. suggestions about getting out a 32-page weekly And you'd better take care if you naughtily Eat lots of whale and walrus blubber. We in spare time. We'll guarantee to heat you swear, have it from some book Ave read a few years up. If you want quick results just begin tell• back that the Esquimaux get along surprising• ing us how you and your brother used' to print And You'd better keep away from the booze. ly well by adhering religiously to this diet. a dandy little paper on a little Christmas pres• ent hand press that your Uncle George gave Argue a lot on subjects about which you you. CHORUS : know absolutely nothing. Tli at shouldn't be Oli. the military cops will get you, difficult inasmuch as such topics predominate Should these suggestions fail or should you get you, get you, amongst soldiers. Argue vehemently in double find them impractical we have but one more And the stockade you will see. time, using the fists freely. You'll be sur• cure to offer. It is entirely within the im• With their night sticks they will prised' to note the results. mediate ability of all of you: Go to— gently pet you. Wrap newspapers around your legs, your You "11 be sorry that they ever met you, arms and your body—preferably outside the SO beware of the bold M. P. clothing. If your K. O. happens to be un• \» reasonable, however, and decides that the gen• ALL SOLDIERS WILL BE TAUGHT HOW Don't, as you pass, throw a smile at a lass; eral effect is unmilitary, it is not our fault. TO SWIM. And be sure all your buttons are tight; We assume only the responsibility of telling Although travel on an American troopship And you'd better take gas than not carry a you how to keep warm. We are not responsi• through the submarine zone is as safe as it pass; ble for officers' whims. is possible to make it and' ample life preserv• Don't get fresh or you're in for a fight. Then, again, stay in your tent, as close to ers are carried on every transport, American The 46,206,059 pounds of poultry In cold your Sibley stove as the stove will allow. soldiers to be sent "Over There" are to be storage should amply furnish the tables of When the top sergeant blows his whistle simply taught how to swim. Every man ought to refuse to fall in. Just let him know that you know how to swim, whether he is a. soldier or those who intend to make Thanksgiving the are cold and can't think of coming out where civilian, but with submarines operating in the feast it traditionally is and not the fast it you will, quite naturally, become much colder. Atlantic it is all the more imperative that the first was and might appropriately be made Be firm with him if he insists. There's nothing men in khaki be as much at home in the water now. like being firm with those top sergeants.. as on land. 3 2 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER DIVISION TEAM SCORES HEAVILY. | The Division football team had no trou- j ble a week ago In trouncing the eleven rep• We consider it a privilege to have the opportunity to <3> resenting the Headquarters Company, of the insert out advertisement in the "WADSWORTH GAS 105th Infantry, at "Wooford Field. The score was 27 to 0. Originally the local stars had ATTACK^ and. "RIO GRANDE RATTLER." We been scheduled to play the team of Camp thenV n\\ flic boys of the 27th Division for their patronage •Sevier but at the last minute the game was cancelled because of an epidemic,. at the and appreciate their business. We stand ready and willing North Carolina cantonment and the dough• to make good and rectify any mistake. boys offered to fill in the date. Considering* the superior weight and the longer training of the Division players, the men of the 105th played a sterling brand o: football. They more than held their own during the opening period and it was onlj q«ce:rg when the superior condition of the 27th out• fit began to show that they were forced to give up their trenches. In Waite, the C:\HDf AND CAKFS A SPECIAL i'Y former Yale player, and Walsh, the old Ford- ham University tackle, the defeated eleven IMGARETTES AND TOEACX.O have the nucleus of a formidable fighting machine. Peuchen and Foley were the real stars or the game. Time and again the big halfback skirted the Infantry flanks for gains of forty and fifty yards while his passes to Brigham rarely missed, Foley's ability, to pick ouC the weak spots on. the line accounted fo: FIELDER & BROWN more than one first down' on straight smashes. He also was responsible for the Comer Ezell and Choice Sts, SPARTANBURG, S. C. last score of the day when, after taking Waite's punt at midfield, he dodged through PHONE 161 the whole opposing eleven. The first score was made soon after the start of the second quarter. Taking the ball W*^^ >cAf<.«§rJo#« on downs the Division players butted their way through the left side of the lOoth's de• Sol IS fense and went to the ten-yard mark from IE3C CALL" Means whence Peuchen broke through center for Lccessoxr the initial touchdown. 4> The third period was the Waterloo of the O infantrymen. Long forward passes to Brig- <•> ham and the continued line skirting of Foley, Shoe Brushes, Daubers and Kepler and. Peuchen - proved too much and I BEST COFFEE AND TEAS I paved the way for two more journeys over Griffin's Polish. the last chalkllne. The victors might have 8§» , <|» Leather and Leggin Laces made a much higher score but frequent pen• alties spoiled several sure touchdowns.. • Scented blends 18c. to 28c I Collar Ornaments. The line-up: Coat Buttons. * Rio blends 15c. to 20c. * 27TI-I DIVISION HQTRS. Co. 105TH INF. Flashlights and Batteries. Brigham...... L. E...... Venier * Kenny special Rifle and Revolver Cases. Foxe...... L. T...... Walsh Smith...... L. G...... Sun quiet * t Wrap Leggins and Regula- Cranston...... C...... Murray ± MESS coffee 21c. wholesale * lation Leggins, Zinimer...... R. G...... Kendrick * * Sheldon...... R. TV ...... Conant Chevrons. g§8 ago Haulke...... R. E'. McGovern | Only exclusive wholesale tea $ Overshoes, Rubber Boots Foley...... Q. B...... Codeson * . . • and many other necessities Peuchen...... L. H. B ..Waite % and coffee house in the city % Keppler...... R. H. B ..Sheible too numerous to mention, Lehere ...... F. B...... Arndt • Touchdowns, Peuchen, 2; Keppler, Foley. 127 Morgan Square Goals from touchdowns, Brigham, 3. Referee, Lieut. Glass, 47th Inf. SPARTANBURG Umpire, Lieut. Stern, 106th Inf. Globe Sample Co. | Linesman, Mr. Davison, Y. M. C. A. Phone 747 109 W. 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