GAS TTACK NEW Y DIVISION 27 th. V. S.A.

Vol. i CAMP WADSWORTH, SPARTANBURG, S. G. AprU 6.1918 No; 20

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pago The Modern Discus Thrower, illustration, by Pvt. Ed Neal, Co. M, 106th Inf.. .Cover

To a Finish, full page illustration, by Lieut. E. C. Dreher, 105th Inf......

Why Men Join the New York Division, a recruiting story......

Major Sharp is Inspired, including a poem by a distinguished bard......

New York Division is Adopted as Nickname, by Capt. William T. Starr......

Editorial: Such is LIFE! by Pvt. Richard E, Connell, Co. A, 102nd M. P..... A Soldier's Letter to His Sweetheart, by Lieut. Edward Streeter, 105th Field Artillery ......

Confessions of an Artilleryman: No. 3, Non-Coms, by S. S., Bat. D, 104th Field Artillery ...... The Ideas of Ethelburt Jellyback: XVIII. On How He would Rewrite the Drill Regulations, by Pvt. Charles Divine, Hdqtrs. Sanitary Squad No. 1 Illustrated by Lauten

The World's Greatest Battle...... Slumming, illustration, by Pvt. D. Mueller, Co. B, 102nd M. P

"Never Mind th' Guard!" full page of cartoons, by Pvt. Elmer Lauten, H. C, 108th Inf...... 9

Our Daily Bread, photographs 10

Make 'Em Fee! at Home...... 10

Legal Protection for Soldiers, an important article...... 11

A Satire on Inoculation...... 11

Illustration, with screaming jest, by Pvt. D. Mueller...... 11

News from Division Units, beginning on 12

Russian, illustration, by Pvt. Dick J. Kennedy...... 15

Save it for the Boches, poem, by Pvt. B. L. Nash, Ordnance Dept...... 17

Entertainment somewhere at Artillery Range, by George Clarke, Bat. D, 104th

Field Artillery ...... 18

Illustration, by Paul Gould, Bat. D, 104th Field Artillery...... 18

On the Roads to Camp, illustration, by Pvt. George William Breck, Co. B,

107th Inf 19

Illustration, Hornets, by Goepel...... 20

K. of C. News...... 21

Sports, edited by Pvt. Fred J. Ashley, Division Headquarters Troop. .. .22 and 23

News of the Y. M. C. A., edited by Ray F. Jenney. 24 and 25

World Brevities, edited by J. S. Kingsley...... 26 and 27

Important Notice ...... 36 Every one and any one can subscribe to the GAS ATTACK. Subscribe for yourself and for the folks back home. See page 36.

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TO A FINISH! GAS ATTACK 3 Why Men Join the New York Division | 15. Because the New York division has MAJOR SHARP IS INSPIRED. Capt. Tristram, Tupper, in Charge of ' the lowest percentage of desertions of any division in the country. The men are loyal Chorus Lady in Division Show Causes Recruiting Work in New York and contented. Him to Invoke Muse. City, is Accomplishing Splen• 16. Because the New York division has Major John B. Sharp, of the British Mis• did Results. an unexcelled system of military schools, sion here, was overcome by an attack of offering complete and modern training in poetry last week. He sent the Gas Attack Capt. Tristram Tupper, who is in charge all phases of present-day warfare. the following poem, and with it this note: "Sir: of the recruiting campaign for the 27th di• 17. Because you will have the privilege vision in New York City, is doing splendid and opportunity of fighting in a veteran or• "The enclosed was inspired by that lovely work. Already nearly 100 recrruits have ganization. creature, Lotta Noyes (Private Pauly). "You have my permission to tear it up, been received here and others are expected 18. Because you will be serving side by but 1 just had to tell someone how I felt. soon. Patriotic societies and women's or• side with men from your own state and (Signed) "JOHN B. SHARP, Major." ganizations are assisting in the recruiting your own city. campaign and the New York papers are giv• Here is how Major Sharp felt: 19. Because the New York division is ing a great deal of prominence to it. noted for its excellent mess. The cooks Capt. Tupper has circulated, among other Oh! Fairy of the hefty arms, have been trained at modern schools and literature, a pamphlet entitled, "Twenty- Behold me—victim of thy charms! they appreciate Napoleon's maxim that an *** *** seven Reasons Why You Should Join the army marches on its stomach. Twenty-seventh Division." It follows : 20. Because the New York division is How daintily, how neatly dost thou dance! 1. Because the 27th division is regarded known to have the best artillery range and How sweetly, how demurely doest thou by many military observers and high offi• best system of trenches in the country. glance! cials as the best division in the United To think that now at last my heart should States army. 21. Because the New York division is re• know, 2. Because the 27th division is the New nowned not only for the large number of \t hands so fair, the shaft from Cupid's York division. famous athletes in its ranks, but also for the bow! 3. Because it is an all-volunteer division. high standard of athletic ability throughout, * * * t- * * 4. Because men outside of the draft age— and for the spirited interest in sports. Oh! Curse Jack Roche! A murrain on his men from 18 to 21 and from 31 to 40—are 22. Because the men of the New York di• graces! now eligible to enlist. vision play hard as well as work hard, and Thy dainty toes in danger from his paces.) 5. Because the organizations composing have splendid facilities for entertainment fhat his it be to hold thee, maiden—blush• the New York division have made glorious and recreation. ing, history in America's wars and will continue 23. Because the fact that you have de• His nu nkey-paws thy flow'r-frame surely to do so on the battle-fields of France. pendents is no longer an obstacle in the crushing! 6. Because 3,700 men—physically sound way of military service. The government and mentally alert—are needed at once to will take care of them and at the same time * • * * * * * fill up the ranks for service overseas. safeguard your own future. Now do I know the State that I should serve, 7. Because you can pick your own branch 24. Because under the liberal provisions America!—and, if I had the nerve, of the service—infantry, artillery, engineers, of the Military and Naval Insurance Act \ soldier I might be and so combine machine gun, military police, ammunition the United States government will protect War with the chance to worship at thy train, ordnance repair units, hospital order• you and yours by the triple protection of (1) shrine! lies, etc., etc. family allowances, in addition to your own (From the Official Bulletin.) 8. Because the chances for rapid advance• allotments; (2), compensation (or pension), "NEW YORK DIVISION" IS ADOPTED ment are excellent. and (3) government insurance at low peace AS NICKNAME. 9. Because the New York division is offi• rates, against death and total disability. Editor, The Official Bulletin: cered almost entirely by men who have 25. Because every intelligent New Yorker It is noted in your edition of March 11th risen from the ranks. They know the sol• wants to "Fight in France with New York's that the 31st Division recently adopted dier game from the ground up. Volunteers." the name of "Dixie Division" in a general 10. Because the New York division saw order. 26. Because every patriotic man desires service on the Mexican border and made a It might be of interest to your readers to take part in the greatest struggle in the to know that the 27th Division has adopt• splendid record under most trying condi• world's history. ed the nickname of "New York Division." tions. This name is extremely popular among 27. Because no red-blooded American can 11. Because at Camp Wads worth, Spar• the soldiers here for the reason that dur• stand idly by while the Hun is at the gate. tanburg, S. C, the New York division has ing border service the then 6th Division was known as the "New York Division." had six months' intensive and scientific For many years the National Guard troops training for modern warfare under the best CLEAN UP BY MAY 15TH. in New York State comprised the only American and allied officers and instructors. Each organization in camp has been di• tactical National Guard division in the United States, and was known throughout 12. Because Camp Wads worth has the rected to advise the reclamation officer as to the country as the "New York Division." lowest sick rate of any camp in the United the number of overcoats, woolen coats, The present 27th Division is made up States. woolen breeches, woolen sweaters, blankets, entirely of troops from New York State, 13. Because the New York division is en• omforts and woolen caps to be cleaned at all of whom were volunteers and former National Guardsmen. camped on an ideal site—regarded as the the present time. Very respectfully, best in the South. It is also directed that all organizations W. T. STARR, 14. Because the morale of the New York report as to the total number of each of Captain, Assistant Chief of Staff, Acting Division Intelligence Officer. division, from the rawest recruit up, is these articles in camp to be cleaned be• Headquarters 27th Division. superb. tween now and May 15. 4 GAS ATTACK

GAS ATTACK of our army, its misinformation .coupled with its custom• ary cock-sure opinion a t i v e n e s s, makes the result ludicrous Published weekly by and for the men of the Twenty-seventh Division, U. S. A., at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C, under the direction of and piffling. Yes, Life is the Bevo of humorous mag• the Camp Wadsworth Young Men's Christian Association. azines. Honorary Eclitors— One can even see a fine German hand in the piece in Major General John F. O'Ryan. Life. Fritz is subtle. It would tickle him to foster feel• Colonel Charles L. Phillips. Lt. Colonel Franklin W. Ward. ing between different elements in the United States Army. Ernest W. Leslie, Camp Y. M. C. A. Secretary. Of course, Life which is plastered with Uncle Sams and Publication Gommittee—• other evidences of patriotism, would be just the tool for E. W. Leslie, Chairman. J. S. Kingsley, Editor-in-Chief. him to use; a dull tool, to be sure, but one admirably Regtl. Supply Sergt. Gaylord \Y. Elliott, 102 Ammunition Train, Business Manager. suited to his propaganda. The Hun wouldn't hesitate for Editor-— a minute to take advantage of women, children—and Pvt. Richard E. ConnelL Co. A, 102d Military Police. Life. Associate Editor— However, there is little danger that anything will come Pvt. Charles Divine, Headquarters Sanitary Squad No. 1. of this or similar articles in which the former National Art Editor— Guard soldiers and the National Army soldiers are com• Pvt. Richard J. Kennedy, 102d Supply Train. pared, to the disparagement of one or the other. We 'are Editorial Staff— all soldiers, fighting the same fight, for the same end, Lieutenant Edward Streeter, 105th Field Artillery. Lay F. «J eimoy, Y. M, C. A. under the same flag. And we are going to make that fight P.ikate Waiter A. Davenport, O. T. S. Pi A ate £>/i.u J. Ashley, Headquarters Troop. together, shoulder to shoulder, regular, volunteer and i\l»ate ixtyph r A. Bisbee, 105th Held Artillery. conscripted man. Viil^E, TEN CENTS FOR THIS ISSUE. Major General O 'Ryan has sounded the keynote of our

Address, GAS ATTACK, Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. attitude toward the new men who are coming into our camp from National Army camps, in a general order pub• Subscription terms, $1.50 for 3 months. lished elsewhere in the Gas Attack. We have a dim sus• Contents of this Magazine Copyrighted, 1918. picion that the spirit of good will and co-operation advo• cated by our commanding general will, somehow, prevail SUCH IS LIFE, over the spirit of petty jealousy that such articles as the one in Life seek to propagate. 'We reprint the following from a recent number of Life, We would be interested to know the source of Life's a week.y magazine of humorous tendencies, published in theories on military matters. We would like to hear New I crk: Life's military expert, assuming that there is one, define Yaphank vs. Spartanburg, "dependable." We would be interested to know what U m- hears it s, hisj ea d- - thoi;gh not printed even in the he knows about the Wadsworth appetite for military s:r.uLv>T s 1'iiif --i lui. x.i me jadgment of injectors, the New ITrii wi^iLiii (jr..«nu -u

'in' i i« u«tt i. u M.^Uiid u-> L>at ti>e National Guard troops "No one who knows will tell," so presumably some one P.u't \*PIK to ilio boiuti- <'.,i..i' ba.k w.i.i ••() clear an impression u.<.( i \>«.{.- Mu'tiiy i.uis., u O t.aii ,.s uu. t t,i tic gi\<.n i..eu al Yaph ink. Our first tendency, when we saw this article in Life ' \ his explanation «ppi.< o e.-weAai.,\ Lo . aGoaal Guard officers, and i.i su^iUJ^.^'Junt i» tit* NL.^.I L u thai the National Army was to pass it by without comment, secure in the knowl• i.giu.m s ii.c te~s j\u-i«jk« j i u> IJ irs who are a little too gocd to ttuow our, and mt ±\a 1^ M to ho in. than the National edge that no one would pay much attention to it. So far dura u^jiLi-nirt. bo.uui.i- v\x.w i-. i (u-i eient to judge probably ILU>\».S nii.L.^j (be ?T,ai\anLiu g i.oojs or the Yaphank troops as we can find out the only people who read all of Life ,.iv i.il.ir, i,ut ro OL.' V.MI k,.u.,s ,s going to tell, except for are persons waiting in a dentist's outer office. tnc iai- i.i.nhi/a t I tne miliary aiithoiuies \\'o shall see pres- ••aGy uTienii-/ lii.iliitiiK' or hp-., uuaburg troops go to France first, And, of course, of those who read it, there are few in• bin e\eii laut irt ui t a HH: itfi

A SOLDIER'S LETTER TO HIS when Im not hungry like some fellos. A YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM. • SWEETHEART. fello what does that is makin a pig out of Taylor Holmes, late star of "Bunker hisself I think. Dere Mable Bean," is telling a story along the "Great Angus McDonald, the skotch fello, was I would have wrote you before this only White Way" which has the earmarks of be• the fellos in my tent is too tite to buy any out garding the guns with me the other ing a new one: A little Irishman who was paper. It wouldnt take much, though, to night. He went, to sleep on an aunt hill. I doing his bit in one of the Canadian regi• tell you what I been doin. If I ever wrote guess the aunts thought he was a new moun- ments was captured by the Boches and a book about my adventures same as that tin or something cause they was all standin fello Empty what wrote the book called brought before a very important looking on him the next mornin. To look at the "Over the top and go to Hell" it would run German general, who was covered with iron in competition with the Manual of Inferior sunrise I says, eh Mable. Angus didnt seem crosses, tin crosses, and all the rest of the •G-ard. Im gettin so I can only sleep four to care though. He says Napoleum had the "junk" dear to the German heart. As he hours at a time. The only trouble is that same thing happen to him and was always approached the general he remarked: it works the other way. When I do happen tellin how an army traveled on his stum- to miss a day not be in on gard I have to "Say, Gineral, YOU DIRTY DUTCH will go to sleep after I work for two hours. Of mick. Napoleun, Mable, is the fello that have to admit that WE IRISH certainly course that interferes with the drill sched• Washington licked. They named that three knocked hell out of you at the battle of the ule, Mable, but you cant explain nothin to colored ice cream after him. Somme." At this the general ordered the Irishman flogged. a top sargent. All day long while were firin, Mable, a I overslept the other mornin. I didnt here fello from Brigade headquarters stands near The Irishman remonstrated with him by saying, "Sure, Gineral, I meant no offense, the horn. I dont see how they expect a fello the guns and looks through a big glass with I am only saying something that when his• to here the horn if hes a sleep. If he herd horns on it. I guess hes to lazy to hold it tory is written will go down as a fact, and it hed be awake. I got out before they himself so he brings out camera legs and that is 'YOU DIRTY DUTCH will have to started firm anyway. I had to go without puts them under it. He looks through the admit that WE IRISH certainly knocked breakfast to do it. I wasnt goin to complain glass and seems to see a lot of numbers that hell out of you at the Battle of the Marne." about that, though. Soldierin every minit. he tells to a fello what stands beside him. At this second insult the general became Thats me all over, Mable. The Lieutenant I dont see where he sees them. I looked got awful sore. I guess he was mad cause enraged and ordered the Irishman to be through the glass the other day while he he saw hed got up earlier than he had to. shot at sunrise. The Irishman pleaded for was eatin lunch and I couldnt see a thing He said he was goin to prefer charges and his life, but the German informed him that except the side of the hill. Then he came asked me what I had to say. I told him he could only save it in one way and that back and looked through it and read off a every man to his taste and if he was askin was by becoming a citizen of Germany, string of them. The fello beside him writes my opinion Id prefer to go back to bed. swearing allegiance to the Kaiser, and all down everything he says. I looked over his Awful excitable fello, the Lieutenant. German institutions. shoulder the other day. It looked more like I saw a letter on the tops desk yesterday The Irishman concluded that he "was a a Jewish curse to me than anything else. about the meddles a fello can get now. better man living than dead," so he agreed Theys all kinds of different ones. Somes The Lieutenant came down the other day to become a citizen of Germany. After this from Congres and somes from the Ward and told us to get all shined up cause the long ceremony had been gone through with, Apartment. Im goin to write my congress• Sanitary inspector was comin out to look and he had sworn allegiance to the Kaiser, man as soon as I finish this and get a bunch us over. I thought hed be all dressed up in he stepped up to the general, slapped him of them. Of course I wouldnt wear them white with white tennis shoes like fancy on the back, and remarked, "Well, Gineral, till I do something pretty good but I figure bakers and sanitary barber shops. He wasnt WE DIRTY DUTCH have got to admit that out that itll take so long to get em over though. He just had on a regular uniform. the IRISH certainly knocked hell out of us there that it would be better to get em now I didnt think he was speshully sanitary. It at the battle of the Somme." may have been sunburn though. I couldnt and takem over with me. Sent in by SGT. J. W. McGOVERN, tell from where I stood. Im goin to tell the congresman too that as Co. B, O. T. S. far as Im concerned Id like to go to France He had a fello with him they said was as soon as I can. Its gettin nice and warm from the audience department. I know now now for travelin. I want to see the Champs why they call it the audience department. Eliza. Thats a street in Paris that was All they do is come round and watch us named after Queen " Elizabeth. But thats work. Thats a branch I didnt know about history, Mable,. I dont suppose youd under• till after Id joined this. stand. They tell me its even better lookin Well, Mable, I got to quit now and go and than Broadway or Fortysecond (42d) street. look at the Gard rooster to see if I answer I saw in the Sarahcuse papers that they to sick call tommorrow morning. They say thought the artilery was goin there to ex• the Germans is raisin the dickins. I wish pand. If I expand any more Mable, I in thed hurry up an get me over there. goin to bust my belt. I don't know why it yours eternally is. I dont eat nothin outside of meal hours in haste HOW RUMORS START. exceptin a few pies and the lik« but 1 get Bill '' One hears it whispered.'' fatter and fatter. I never think of eat in (E. S.) (See editorial on opposite page.) 6 GAS ATTACK

THREE GENERALS MEET TO EX• CONFESSIONS OF AN ARTILLERYMAN AMINE OFFICERS. bars, and sometimes he is seized with the fear that the money could better have been spent No. 3. Non-Coms. on eagles of the same metal. He will rise. Maj. Gen. Carter and Brig. Gen. Mann Nothing can stop him. Let us hope that he Visited Camp Last Week. To a buck private there is nothing more rises from the toe of a Number 10 army shoe. obnoxious in life than the sound of a non- But, alas, miracles seldom happen these pro• saic days. com 's voice. I am not particularly vicious Maj. Gen. W. H. Carter and Brig. Gen. W. There are other types of non-coms IM like A. Mann came to camp last week to serve by nature. My disposition is above all things to write about, but I don't want to appear with Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan on a board sweet and placid. But oft-times, when I am vindictive or at all set against the little to examine officers. The board finished its sweating over the pungent flanks of some dears. I suppose they're necessary, after work in two days. The order convening this vivacious gowel, and Corporal Legree, from all. Come to think of it, what would we do board authorized it to meet elsewhere than Ms position in the haypile, raps out sundry with all our single mount sadldes if there Camp Wadsworth, after completing its work were no non-coms to fill them? I actually witty remarks anent my general stupidity, here, but as yet no order has been issued knew a non-com once that everybody liked. for another meeting. laziness and all around uselessness when it After he was broke, he became the worst General Carter and General Mann were comes to wielding a curry comb—then, oh goldbrick in the outfit. keenly interested in Camp Wadsworth and gentle reader, the blood lust enters my veins, S. S., Battery D, 104th F. A. in the troops stationed here. They seemed and I realize why electric chairs are kept to be greatly pleased with the camp and its so busy! arrangements and the fine discipline of the A CHANCE TO GET GAS ATTACKS. There are all kinds of non-coms in this men. They were carried through the trench army. My chum confided to me one night There has always been so great a demand system by General O'Ryan, and made com• that in civil life he was sure they make up for back copies of the Gas Attack that many plimentary remarks about the lay-out and the large and flourishing wife-beating class of the numbers have long since been ex• the kind of instruction that is being given that keeps the reporters of the Bronx Home hausted. The management has been collect• here. They were particularly interested in News busy. ing the numbers as far as possible. We now the camouflage work in and near the. offer for delivery the following numbers: 1, trenches, and said they had never seen any• We all know the conscientious non-com, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. If you thing finer anywhere. who keeps his lips firmly compressed, and send to the Gas Attack, Camp Wadsworth, worries himself sick over the missing but• General Carter was placed on the retired you can get the above numbers. All will be ton on Private Goop's blouse. He's the kind list some time ago on account of age, but sent to you for 75 cents. Act quickly be• of a pest that insists one man can carry that he wouldn't stay put. He has been in com• cause there is a great demand for this pop• log, and when pressed to prove it, carries it mand of the central department of the army ular periodical which will grow in value himself for ten feet, amid loud cheers. Every for some time, with headquarters at Chi• yearly. J. S. KINGSLEY. night, when everybody else has gone to bed, cago, and is capable of doing a lot of hard and the ridge-pole quivers gently to the work despite his advancing years. He is youngish looking and spry, and laughingly crescendo solo from the buck who snores, NO GAS ATTACKS BEFORE NOON. this non-com goes down - upon his knees and said that he could outride and outwalk half prays that the morrow will witness no in• The delivery system of the GAS ATTACK the youngsters in the army. fringement on his part of the book of Regula• contains one ancient automobile suffering But General Carter is one of the veterans. from locomoter ataxia so it is impossible for tions, Model 1918. He entered the army during the Civil War, all the canteens and Y. M. C. A.'s to get the Then there is the humorous non-com, who when only twelve and a half years old, as GAS ATTACK at the same time. It takes fully has developed a voice that is the closest imi• a dispatch bearer, and has been in the serv• a day to distribute the numbers. In order tation of a Wisconsin buzz-saw that I have ice ever since. He entered West Point when that no canteen will be handicapped by ever heard. Upon rising in the morning, he he was only 17, and has seen all kinds of starting its selling late, the rule has been takes a large mouthful of barbed wire, casts service and in all parts of the country. He made that the GAS ATTACK will not be on is one of the most popular officers in the a hasty glance over Joe Miller's Joke Book, sale before Saturday noon at 12 sharp of and goes forth in search of prey. He is at army and the officers in Camp Wadsworth each week. Please co-operate with the can• greatly enjoyed his visit. his best when some gang of grimy privates teens and don't try to get them to sell you swing pick and shovel in the early afternoon GAS ATTACKS before noon. sun. It is refreshing to hear his jovial com• BRING BACK THE BINOCULARS. ments, especially when a new crop of blisters comes into active being, and the pickaxe at• BRIG. GEN. CARLETON'S LARGER Someone has borrowed—and kept—a pair tains the weight of a Flemish church bell. COMMAND. of binoculars—type EE—No. 26717, with mill Some day he will be kicked in the plumpest scale on left lens. They were taken from By an order from the War Department portion of his anatomy by our most leaden- the trunk of Lieut. Murray E. Cramer, Co. Brig. Gen. Guy Carleton, commanding the M, 107th Infantry. He needs them badly, footed steed, and when he is carried away provisional corps and army troops will as• and will appreciate it if they are returned in the stretcher, I will tell him exactly how sume command of all troops in Camp Wads- at once. No questions will be asked. All he funny it all was and how I wouldn't have worth which are not in the 27th Division. wants are the binoculars. missed it for the world. The wording of the order indicates that the The ambitious non-com is a familiar indi• War Department intends that another divi• vidual. He may be easily distinguished by sion shall be organized when the 27th moves. ACTION, NOT WORDS. the way he stands at attention. His arms have an exaggerated crook at the elbows, his Sammy—How do you manage to get on so chin is sunk into his wishbone, and he nour• CAPT. HOLBROOK ACQUITTED. well with the French girls when you can't ishes the fallacy that the human chest is sit• A court martial has found Capt. Rossiter speak the lingo? uated in the lower rear instead of where it Holbrook, Co. C, 106th Infantry, not guilty Jackie—You're dead slow. Can't ye kiss properly belongs. The day after he took the of the charge of intoxication and disorderly a girl without a dictionary?—Browning's oath of enlistment he bought a pair of silver conduct for which he was tried. Magazine. GAS ATTACK 7

THE IDEAS OF ETHELBURT JELLYBACK, PRIVATE,

It was a warm afternoon XVIII. On How He Would Rewrite the take this work myself. For and I was lying back on the good of the service, my cot, resting against Infantry Drill Regulations don't you know?" the luxurious sofa pillows "Oh, you would, eh?" sent me from home. Some• "Yes, sir. For instance, how the officers had been unable to think book in hand that it was with difficulty I there is the manual of arms. The book up anything more for us to do, so they had got to my feet. says 'the manual is taught at a halt.' I have sent us to our tents for a study period. The captain frowned. also seen it taught by the halt, the lame, Under the furled sides of the tent stole a "Where did you get the mug?" he de• and the blind. If I were to write the drill sun-laden breeze. By "sun-laden" I mean manded. regulations I would say that to bring a that the sun was shining outside of the "He can't help it, sir," I replied, think• squad to a halt you give the command, tent and that the breeze, in passing through ing he was referring to Mugrums. "He 'squad, halt.' Then I would explain it by the sunlight before reaching me, acquired came into the army that way." saying that 'at the command halt, given as something of the heat diffused by the burn• "Why aren't you studying your Infantry either foot strikes the ground, plant the ing orb of day. To be crude about it, it Drill Regulations? What book is that in other foot as in marching; raise and place was hot. your hand?" the first foot by the side of the other; look "It is entitled 'Military Fashions in forward at the graceful pine trees etched I began to fear that I would perspire. I Smart Clothes for the Coming Season.' It against the blue sky, how statutesque they flung open the collar of my woolen shirt. is so much more refined than the drill reg• look, in silhouette like a Japanese print; I called to Jim Mugrums, who lay sprawled ulations, sir." see the peach trees, pink and gray in their out over his cot, next to me. He lifted up his funny little, dirt-smeared face. 1 had decided to send him on an errand, for I was thirsty. "Mugrums, I have a commission for you to execute." "If I gotta commission, that's what they'd do—execute me." • I told Mugrums to run up to the canteen and buy me a bottle of soda and a palm leaf fan. He muttered in protest. "Can't you see I'm bunk fatiguing?" "Don't employ that uncouth phrase, 'bunk fatigue.' Rather should you say you are lounge luxuriating. But now be off, Mug• rums, or I'll withhold your salary as my orderly." Mugrums a Nubian Slave.

Grumbling, he started for the canteen. There are two kinds of canteens in the army, I may say. In one you carry water that tastes frightfully. In the other you buy soda water that tastes frightfully. It was to the latter that Mugrums went—a wooden structure in which is sold everything from "So?" said the captain, paying great atten• blossoms, what carnival attire; harken to shoe strings to gumdrops. It is a country tion to me. the birds, how sweetly their song gushes upon the morning air by the numbers." general store without the whiskers. The Idea Comes to Ethelburt. I paused to see what effect my idea was When Mugrums returned I bade him open "Yes, sir. As a matter of fact, now that having upon the captain. He was evidently the bottle of soda, called "pop" by soldiers you have solicited my ideas on the topic, impressed. He fixed his eyes on me, spell• less discriminating in their choice of lan• the drill regulations are dull reading, fright• bound. Mugrums stood with one hand clap• guage, and had him pour the liquid into a fully dull! They should be rewritten by ped over his mouth, undoubtedly endeavor• queer old china mug. Then I ordered him some person with more imagination and ing to conceal his smudgy face. to stand over me with the palm leaf fan, poetic diction. There should be more The Idea Grows. like a Nubian slave, while I lay back, sip• sprightly conversation sprinkled throughout "Sir," I continued, "do you recall the cer• ping the soda and reading a military book. its pages, repartee and badinage. Yes, they emony of evening parade—how it is de• "Alas!" I lamented, "If there were only should be rewritten at once. No time should scribed in the regulations when the adjutant some cracked ice in this drink. But then, be lost. Think of the thousands of young directs the band to 'sound off?' All that the we are at war and these are some of the men who are now taking up this book for regulations say is that 'the band, playing in hardships I must suffer." the first time, and how they would read it quick time, passes in front of the line of I had but a little while enjoyed this re• with greater avidity, in fact with eager an• officers to the left of the line and back to its freshment when the captain entered the ticipation, if it were prepared in the fashion post on the right, when it ceases playing/ tent. Mugrums shouted: "Attention!" But of one of our best sellers, with a love in• How bald and empty that description is! I was so comfortably ensconced in my pil• terest, and a rising climax! Can't you just Here is the way I would write it, sir: 'The lowed resting place with my beverage and fancy it, sir? I wish I had time to under- (Continued on page 38) 8 GAS ATTACK The World's Greatest Battle GENERAL PHILLIPS GOES. Has Been Assigned to Command Coast Along a line of fifty miles has raged for does not place them, to any disadvantage for Artillery in Puget Sound District. over ten days the- greatest and the most im• they have given up only war devastated ter• portant battle in the world's history up to ritory which will add to the burdens of the Brig. Gen. Charles L. Phillips has been re• this date. During the first three days the Germans to develop into defensible territory. lieved here as commander of the 52d Field Germans had called up most of their reserve News of the battle has thrilled America Artillery Brigade and assigned to command forces in order to fill up the gaps made by and every department is speeding up to the Coast Artillery in the Puget Sound dis• the terrible losses on the side of the Huns. hasten more men to France, while General trict. More than fifty divisions were used within Wood thinks that we should not think of There was no intimation last wreek as to the first three days but without much avail stopping this embarkation till we shall who will be selected to command the 52d for the British lines have not broken nor have sent at least five millions of men to Field Artillery brigade to succeed Brig. Gen. have the British used all of their reserves the aid of the Allies. He feels that since Phillips. which up to this time they have kept to there have been forty millions of men un• It is not known whether the War Depart• meet any added assault by the Germans. der arms since the war began, any number ment will select a Regular Army officer for The British have fought with wonderful less than five millions would be far too small the command or whether one of the colonels courage and have yielded only gradually to for this great country. of the 27th division will be promoted to be the overpowering force opposing them. Just At the end of the first week the German brigadier general and given the command. at this moment President Wilson praises forces made an attack at Arras which may The brigade is, for the time being, in com• General Haig for the wonderful defense be the new center of the battle or it may mand of Lieut. Col. Howland, of the 106th made by the British when at the same time simply be a feint of the Germans. At any Regiment, all of the Artillery colonels being Lloyd George cables to America telling this rate the battle is not spent for the Germans away from camp at present. country that the crisis of the war is now at are moving up their heavy guns and are pre• hand and that the importance of getting re• paring for more heavy fighting. The Allies A DIVISION EMBLEM. inforcements across the Atlantic in the are expecting to make a counter attack but Major General O 'Ryan wishes to express shortest period of time can not be exagger• when and where is at present a secret. his gratification over the results of his re• ated. The British and French seem confident of quest for suggestions for a suitable emblem The British lines have kept moving back the outcome and reports are reaching the or symbol to represent the New York di• and have given up more territory than they Allies that all the Germans captured ex• vision. There already have been several re• had gained during the previous year. This press their weariness of the war and tell sponses but the General wishes the contest backward movement is probably due to the of the extreme difficulty they have in get• to be a Division Contest so that the final se• fact that in sections the Germans are said ting supplies. lection will be representative; therefore, he to outnumber the English 4 to 1. There is All eyes are also glancing toward Italy asks for many more contributions. He asks a strategic reason for the retreat and that where forty Austrian divisions are slowly contestants to send drawings, suggestions or is to get the Germans into the open and moving to attack the Italian lines. descriptions of a suitable design to the Aides there to meet them with machine guns in The airmen did some of the greatest serv• of General O 'Ryan at Division Headquarters. which the English are vastly superior to ice performed at the great battle for amidst Within ten days after this article appears the Germans. One specialist says that the the torturing fire they flew over the enemy's a committee will be appointed whose duty it mode of warfare has changed from that of lines and attacked reinforcements and sup• will be to select the better designs. This position to that of movement. plies thus destroying whole trains and even list of the better ones will be exhibited to roads which later were abandoned by the the public at Division Headquarters and one Huns Hit Line Hard. Huns. of them will be selected as the best symbol The object of the Germans was appar• of the Division. Get busy and send in your ently to break through the Allied lines where designs. J. S. K. the British and the French lines joined and THE BROWNING GUN. then roll back each line separately. In this The light Browning Gun is a rifle weigh• the Germans have failed so far utterly for ing 15 pounds, it takes regular ammunition PRIVATE JIM MUGRUMS. It isn't the bullets that Jimmie fears. they could not break through the English used by the American rifles, in fact, all the lines although they hurled great masses re• Nor a death unknown to fame, American guns, the Springfield, the Modi• peatedly against the lines. It is later claimed But the awful thought, when the list appears, fied Enfield, the two Browning guns use the that the Germans used over ninety divisions They'll go and misspell his name. in this battle and have lost between 450,000 same calibre'ammunition. and 650,000 men. The light Browning is automatic or semi• In type it will look, unless it is pied, automatic in action for it can be used for Muggins or Migs or Mall— Although the British have retreated this continuous fire until the magazine is emp• "If they don't gimme credit for havin' died, tied, or it can be fired by use of the trigger. I don't wanna be killed at all!" It is air-cooled, gas operated in design, the —CHARLES DIVINE. energy of the Browning projectile is the same as that of the Springfield. The cart• The two soldiers were at mess. ridges are fed from a detachable magazine "Say!" said the first. "Are you an avia• containing 20. Although the heat caused by tor?" the explosion is very intense, yet by the air- "No," said the second. cooling apparatus 350 continuous shots can "Well, then, take in your wings." be made without having to stop and to cool the weapon. Next week's episode in the career of Ethel- The heavy Browning gun is water-cooled, bur t Jellyback, Private, will deal with his belt fed and is operated by power created troubles and tribulations in going on guard. by the recoil. It is fed on a cotton belt The "ideas" of E'thelburt are a feature no• which contains 250 rounds. The heavy body with a sense of humor wants to miss. guns 34^ pounds. The recent tests prove 1 ' Hey, K. P., where you going?'' them one of the most excellent guns if not There will be lots and lots of news from 1' Goin1 slumming, cook!'' the best for general use. division units in next week's GAS ATTACK. GAS ATTACK

"NEVER MIND TH' GUARD!" GAS ATTACK

MAKE 'EM FEEL AT HOME.

That is the Gist of a New Order Relat• ing to Drafted Men in Camp.

Drafted men now coming in to fill up the various skeletonized regiments and bat• talions in the provisional depot for corps and army troops are being given a cordial re• ception not only by the officers and men of the organizations to which they are assigned, but by the officers and men of the 27th di• vision as well. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, commanding the di• vision, expressed the sentiments of his en• tire command last week, when he addressed the following letter to the enlisted men of the division: "The division commander takes this means of informing the officers and enlisted men of the division that detachments of drafted men will arrive in this camp from time to OUR DAILY BREAD. time to increase the strength of certain or• These men are all officers on the Staff of Life. They man the highly effi• ganizations stationed at this camp. It is cient Camp Wadsworth Field Bakery, which is constantly in operation turn• the desire of the division commander that ing out thousands of good loaves a day. (Make your own jokes about "They every enlisted man of the 27th division co• loaf while we sleep," etc.) Probably no outfit in camp works harder—or operate with the officers to the fullest ex• does more important work than these original doughboys. tent in making these drafted men feel at home with us and that they have the re• spect and regard of the soldiers of the 27th division. "An effective army must be a homogene• ous army and not a factional army. In do• ing our part in this requirement, we must measure up to the high standards of a di• vision composed of men like ours. Our men are noted for their intelligence, loyalty and zeal. Accordingly, they will see the desir• ability of carrying out in effective manner the course of action prescribed for them to help make our army a united army. Further• more, every ordinary, commonplace sense of hospitality would prompt veteran soldiers to make happy the lot of newcomers. "It is hoped our men will provide oppor• tunities to make this attitude clear and un• mistakable in the minds of the drafted men as their detachments arrive. Whether this be done by cheering their entry into camp, by inviting them to entertainments, or in other ways, is unimportant, so long as out• ward, visible evidences of the attitude of the division toward the newcomers is made clear. DRAWING BREAD. "It is directed that this bulletin be read at two formations to every company and Here we see the artists drawing bread, a morning pastime at camp,.very unit in this division." popular with mess sergeants. The bread is taken away by the wagon load. It is first-class bread, too. It is estimated that all the loaves baked and car• ried away and eaten at this camp to date, if placed end to end, would reach SOME NEWCOMERS. from Spartanburg to Nome, Alaska. The First Pioneer Infantry has been aug• mented by more than fifteen hundred men BOTH THE SAME. SORROWS OF SALUTING. of the National Army from Camp Zachary An argument between two artillerymen First Lieutenant—Why, what's the trou• Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Other men from was quickly ended when one said to the Western camps are expected. They were ble, old fellow? Did you sprain your arm? other: given a cordial reception on their arrival. Second Lieutenant—Worse than that. I "You came down to this camp two months Sixty men from Camp Hancock, Augusta, ago with that shirt and a $2 bill, and you walked down Main Street last night.—Camp Ga., have been added to the 1st anti-aircraft haven't changed either one of them since." Dix Times. machine gun battalion. GAS ATTACK

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR SOL• A SATIRE ON INOCULATION. DIERS. Our genial but sometimes hobbied con• temporary LIFE has printed this amusing view of inoculation in the army. Of course, How Our Civil Rights Will Be Safe• like the report of Charley Chaplin's death (or was it Jonah's) it is greatly exaggerated. guarded In Our Absence. Or, perhaps, they are writing about the Ger• man army. We hope they are. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, recently passed by congress, has been A BILLION BUGS. signed by President Wilson and is now in full force and effect. This act aims to pro• No Shortage in U. S. Army's G-erm Supply tect all soldiers from undue hardship, due Anyway. "I see the P. and N. is running faster to their inability to defend and bring law• these days.'' suits and to attend to their business obliga• Army life is just one darned inoculation ''Sure, that's what they got the spur for." tions or proper rights during their absence after another. The average soldier is as full in military service. of holes as a porus plaster. They aren't bul• brum. He spends half his time getting in• The act, according to Maj. J. Lester Kin- let holes. They are the apertures through oculated, and the rest of it recovering from caid, judge advocate of the 27th division, is, which all sorts of anti-bugs are introduced the inoculations. next to the war risk insurance act, the into his system. Each soldier is issued a Here is the schedule of a typical day in greatest benefit and protection that has been billion bugs, for whose up-keep he is held training camp when the doctors are in an conferred upon the soldiers in Camp Wads- responsible. They hike hither and thither inoculating mood. worth by the government. The purpose of through his system. They drill on his spinal 6 A. M. Reveille. the act, as set forth in the first paragraph, column and hold sham battles on his cere- is to protect persons in the military service 6:15. Report to Dr. Jabb for inoculation of the United States in order to prevent against sleeping sickness. of property in which the soldier or sailor is prejudice or injury to their civil rights dur• 6:30. Breakfast and inoculation against interested, go to the court in whose jurisdic• ing their term of service and to enable them indigestion. tion the property is, notify the court above, to devote their entire energy to the military and ask the court to summon the other 7. Drill. needs of the nation. party. All such persons are forbidden by 7:11. Report to Dr. Poke for inoculation "A soldier or sailor may owe money on a law to take property in that way without against baldness. note," said Major Kincaid, in discussing the first applying to court for an order, but 8. All men must be inoculated in the left new law yesterday. "Or he may have some persons may attempt to take posses• shoulder-blade against Tasmanian epizooty, bought or leased land or tools or furniture sion without doing so, in ignorance of the in case the army goes to Tasmania. on which installment is yet due. Or he may new law." have mortgaged his home, and be liable to 9:01. Report to Dr. Pricker to have 5,- The act also provides for the government, foreclosure for nonpayment. Or he may 765,899 anti-prickly heat germs injected in on certain conditions, guaranteeing the pay• have started a homestead or mining claim the right funny-bone. ment of premiums so that an insurance and be unable to continue the necessary oc• 11:07. Second inoculation against flat policy or fraternal benefit membership will cupation in the required period of time. Or feet and warts. not be forfeited during the soldiers' ab• he may have carried life insurance for sev- 12. Mess. Men will be inoculated with sence. He will then have a year, after his years and now be unable to keep up the one plate of stew and four cubic inches of return, in which to pay up and save his premium payments. Or he may have a bread pudding. policy or membership. money claim against some one and during Major Kincaid said that the judge advo• 1 P. M. Report to nearest doctor to be his absence the lapse of time may raise a cate general of the army is taking all inoculated with any germs he happens to legal bar against suing for it when he re• steps necessary for a wide promulgation of have around. turns. Or he may be sued on some claim the terms of the act in order to protect the 2:20. All men suffering from fox-bite or in his absence and may be unable to de• rights of soldiers. The immediate necessity squirrel-bite report to Dr. Kneedle for inoc• fend the suit effectively while absent. In is to bring the act to the attention of the ulation. these and other ways he may suffer undue courts and lawyers, creditors and families 2:30. Drill (if able). hardships. The object of this act is to give of soldiers, so that the latter can protect 2:55. Ankle inspection by Dr. Slasher. relief from such hardship." the soldiers' interest by applying to the 3:33. Bring your calves to Dr. Punch's The provisions of the act are too numer• courts. It is expected that officers and tent for inoculation against frost-bite. ous to set forth accurately here, but the soldiers at Camp Wads worth, who desire to 4. Special inoculation in Dr. Muff's tent. main provisions are: take advantage of the act will be able to All men suffering from alimony, pip, cauli• 1. Let some one, on behalf of the soldier count upon the gratutitous legal services of flower ears, free verse, persistent sneezing or sailor, notify the court that the party the members of the legal advisory boards or aversion to work, must report for prophy• concerned is a soldier or sailor. Then the attached to the local boards of the selective lactic treatment. court will make prompt inquiries into the service system. These boards, in every lo• 5. Mess. Each man will be issued one merits of the case, and if the case merits it cality, consist of public spirited attorneys, pill, the equivalent of one plate of beans, one the court has power to stay the other party who are giving the government their serv• mug of tea and one piece of bread. He may from further proceeding or to give other ices in connection with the execution of take it, or use it for ammunition. remedy that may be appropriate. The court the draft act. 6-9. All men must stay in their tents, as may also appoint an attorney for the sol• All soldiers, whose civil rights are in any the doctors may think up a new inoculation, dier or sailor in the lawsuit. way liable to be prejudiced by civil action and may want someone to practice on. 2. If a lawsuit has been already begun in should immediately communicate either 9:16. All men who are still conscious will some court against the soldier or sailor, with Judge M. L. Smith, if they are mem• be inoculated against insomnia and mule- go to that same court and give the notice bers of the provisional depot for corps and kick. above mentioned. If no lawsuit has yet be• army troops, or with Major Kincaid, if they 10. Taps (for survivors). gun, but some landlord or other person is belong to the New York division, to have N. B.—The only thing they don't inoculate preparing to sell out or to take possession their rights protected as far as possible. you against in the army is inoculation. 12 GAS ATTACK

News From Division Units

PUGNACIOUS PIGEONEERS. FIELD HOSPITAL COMPANY NO. 106 COMPANY G, 51ST PIONEER INFANTRY. Private Marsden is back in the ranks again. A thrilling battle was waged recently be• Lieutenant Reed, athletic manager of the 7 7 tween the Fearless Englishman, Corporal company, lias made arrangements for ths com• '' Muscles Mansfield is beginning to look Ray Haggas, and Pvt. K. O. Swain, both of pany to enter in all divisional and inter-di• like a Polish grappler even though he does the Pigeon Section, Signal Corps. When visional athletic fetes. The baseball team only weigh 135 pounds. Timekeeper Pvt. Odell rang the bell, both made a very fine showing last Saturday when Company G- has gained a reputation that is men looked fit and in fine condition. As they played Wofford College on their home well worthy of emulation. The quarters of they shook hands the Englishman stated, grounds. Some very technical plays were wit• G Company have been complimented and "All friendship ceases." Both men showed nessed by those in the audience. It seemed taken as an example by the whole regiment. a lot of action and apparently were out to our crack pitcher who is very consistent on Keep up the good work, G. A reputation is get each other. The Englishman was very the diamond, outclassed the college team as well worth the labor. clever, and full of speed. He shot a severe they were only credited with five hits. For Sale—-Wooden shovels for sibleys by "Tush77 Lewis. left jab to Swain's mouth in the first minute Our kitchen, icThe Palace of Cleanliness/7 of play, causing the claret to flow freely, and as our Mess Sergeant McCormack calls it, has A series of hundred yard dashes was held repeatedly kept after the cut, keeping Swain been remodeled and a new field range install• by the entire company the other night. The busy covering up. Both men took a lot of ed by Private "Farina" Frederick Heid- winners were exhausted while some dropped punishment toward the end of the round. rich. before reaching the goal. Sergeant Taylor will answer all requests, Swain had considerable reach and weight on '1 Saliva77 Private First Class Frederick his opponent. As the referee, Corporal Frey, says he is going to cultivate his voice for the service of an expert handler of dyna• Sheehan, called time, Swain threw a terrific so as to partake in the Divisional Show. A mite. His newest powder which he calls right to the Englishman's jaw, which dazed sign is now under preparation for the pri• "sand-o-mite,7 7 is guaranteed to do any job. him for a few seconds. vate, which reads i 1 One large plow wanted for SERGEANT F. SQUAZZO.

7 7 Swain's second, Si Thorn, managed to stop cultivation. The private sings in quite COMPANY M, 106TH INFANTRY. a high pitch, known to his tentmates as tenor the flow of blood from his mouth before the Since Sergeant Hawthorne has been acting- eleven. start of the second round. When the referee First Sergeant he seems to have lost what• 1 7 7 called time for the second round, Swain was Private ' Snuffy Prescott, bugler for the ever amount of amiability was in him. He is company, lost his bugle while the company full of action and fighting mad. He pressed so terribly busy that we can 7t help hoping,, his man very hard, playing for the kidneys was on a hike recently. The war was called for his own good and that of all concerned, 7 7 and landing heavy body blows. The Eng• off until '' Snuffy procured his bugle again. that Sergeant Apy—who went home to see his i 1 7 7 lishman was clever in guarding his face, and Parade ' Rest Private Rassenberger is first born-—will not fail to return at the sched• clinched repeatedly, trying to wear out his heartily in favor of a ten hour schedule, pro• uled date. opponent. Swain landed a left swing to the viding that four hours bunk fatigue is called Sergeant Milton Griesbach is now enjoying 7 1 7 7 Englishman's nose, bringing him to the mat for. Don t mean to disturb you ' Rassy, be a fifteen days furlough in Brooklyn. We said calm. and causing the blood to flow. He rose to enjoying but it is doubtful whether he will 1 7 7 his feet quickly returning a left jab to ' Skitch Private Hallenbeck is somewhat enjoy it or not. The poor boy is so bashful Swain's mouth. Swain made several wild lonesome for his mate, Private Purdy who is and modest that it would not be a surprise to blows, and the Englishman, taking advan• on a furlough. The two privates are so broth• learn that he would rather stay home all day tage of the openings, shot a severe right to erly when together, especially at mess time. long than go out and be seen by a girl friend Swain's chin, knocking him unconscious on "Pass the sugar Art77 says Frank '1 Wait with three stripes on his sleeves. the mat. The referee, Corporal Sheehan, a minute brother,7 7 says Art, and he is wait• Private Sullivan claims to be affected with gave Swain the count, leaving the English• ing yet. what he calls a "milk leg.77 The doctors at man the victor. 7 7 '' Reggy Private Pringle, the originator the regimental hospital did not find any- of double time in the army, says that Prohibi• Pigeoneer Cowboy. trouble with him, and it is the general opin• tion should be in force now. Jim, why is it Corporal Sheehan, of the Pigeon Section, ion that he is only looking for seconds on you are so selfish, it 7s hard to keep up spir• furloughs. Signal Corps, made a daring rescue, recently its in a dry state, Jim, but don 't get discour• Corporal "Monk77 Finan is suffering with stopping four runaway mules. The driver aged. some kind of a disease for which he has a 1 7 7 lost control of the mules, also his nerve, and ' Shifty Private Clark, the camouflaged new name every day. But when it is con• jumped from the wagon. They were going lieutenant and formerly a Rensellerite, is sidered that it only bothers him around 5:45 somewhat interested of late watching the at a terrific speed over the rough ground a. m., it is evident that its proper name is mails. Cheer up, Ray, perhaps the Renssel• and tree stumps, toward the wireless sta• i' Lazyness.7 7 aer Post Offices are closed for the time be• tion. If it were not for Corporal Sheehan Corporal N. Nielson, assistant mess Ser• ing. (1 bringing the wild animals to a stop, they geant, is the proud inventor of the White? 77 "Experience Private First Class Charles Rock Economy Cocktail,7 7 which is served would have destroyed the wireless station. Re illy, Fred McDermott 7s side partner, and at our meals quite often. This is how it is A major, who witnessed the episode, rode legal adviser, has a hard time of late pursuad- mixed. In a regulation barrel about the size over to Corporal Sheehan and congratulated ing Fred, that he should eat more steaks for of an ash can place a lump of ice weighing*

him for his daring feat and bravery. breakfast, especially when they are served 30 pounds (that 7s the white rock) and fill him. barrel with a liquid composed of one part of CAR FOR SALE The bowling team of the company defeated oxygen to two parts of hydrogen. Serve three the bowlers of the 107th Infantry in a local spoonfuls to each man and give as many For sale—second hand Chalmers touring alley. The boys from the Capital City proved seconds as desired. car, good condition, good bargain. Apply that they outclassed the boys from the me• Note.—The liquid is easily obtained at any J. W. Stoll, B Co., 105th M. G. Bat. tropolis of our state. faucet. T. A. F. GAS ATTACK 13

HEADQUARTERS 102ND TRAINS AND COMPANY A, 106TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION. M. P. Company A bids Captain Spencer "So long We are wondering whether it is the ur• and good luck.77 gent janitorial duties of headquarters or the On March 6th Company A went to sleep un• arrival of Joe White the rising young tenor der command of Captain Spencer and awoke and his "Society of Busted Bums" which the following morning under the command has caused the so noticeable absence of our of a new captain, Captain Gardner. handsome young janitor from his former home Captain Harry Spencer 7s career as a soldier, on the hill. How about that, Fred? his ability as a leader, had won him the best Methinks that from recent demonstrations troop on the border. Few of the men who en• of a certain person's ability in the line of joyed his command in the First Cavalry, oratory that he must be looking for an addi• ever entertained discouragement over the tion of Chaplin before his name. How about many shake ups and changes so long as Cap• that, Jimmy? MIKE. tain Spencer remained as their leader. New We take pleasure at this time in announc• men who either enlisted in the old Troop K ing the promotion of Battalion Sergeant Ma• last summer, or were assigned to the Machine jor Harry Ernst to the grade of First Lieu• The Second Article From the Mascot Gun Company A, of which Troop K formed tenant and I am sure that it will be with a of D. Co., 53rd Division. the nucleus, soon learned to love the man who feeling ©f pleasure and respect that we now could command so much admiration and re• salute Lieutenant Ernst. spect. Dear Editor: — Gasoline Craig, the famous speed king of Needless to dwell upon the regret with headquarters may still be found at the same Darn the luck! which Company A parts with the captain who old post. If you do not happen to see him You know, I'm all upset today. had already taught them to forget cavalry, on the machine look underneath and you will Just take a look at this picture. You re• and had inspired an interesting liking for be sure to see him. member I told you how glad I was at be• machine gunnery. Headquarters has acquired a new addition ing a bull dog? We heartily congratulate the 108th Infan• in the form of an ordnance detachment com• try Machine Gun Company for. winning Cap• Well—I ain't, that's all! posed of four picked men from the 102nd tain Spencer and the privilege of training I mean I ain't a bull dog. Supply Train namely Joseph White of the under him. First Company, Joseph Schnieder of the First And that's not the worst of it either. No Last Wednesday night, March 20th, Com• Company, Charles Rottan of the Second Com• one seems to know just what kind of a dog pany A met in good fellowship at dinner in pany, and Samuel W. Fry of the Third Com• I am! I suppose that's what I get for be• the Finch Hotel of Spantanburg, with caval• pany. From the way in which they have ing born in the army! It would be just my ry memories and a "So long77 to Captain started work it would seem that they are luck to turn out like Rudolph. Spencer, and a welcome to Captain Gardner, started to build up a reputation that will be a Say, that combination New Fou— who comes from Fort Sill,. carrying with him credit to these Headquarters and a solid foun• dashound is crooked. I've been watching the best record and highest grades in machine dation for future advancement. him. Do you know, he told me his mother gunnery that that wonderful school has yet Cook of the Officers Mess claims that he was a German dashound and his father a granted any man. Captain Gardner is spoken has, thanks to the efforts of Karl Illava who Newfoundland. Well, I was sleeping in of at Fort Sill as the man who accomplished directed the job, one of the finest decorated front of my house here the other morning the difficult feat of assembling the lock with mess halls and kitchens in the division, and just before reveille when I suddenly woke the famous click, blind folded and using only if you don't believe him you are welcome to up and smelled him. He has a German one hand aided by his teeth. The dinner was come over and see for yourself. smell, if you know what I mean. And he a complete success. The tables were uniquely was sniffing all 'round the tents. I barked 7 7 Moustaches seem to be coming into their arranged to form a huge letter "A. at him and he ran away. own here at Headquarters. Even our old While still standing at their places the men friend "the Great Lover77 Jones is culti• Then First Call blew. united in singing the border favorite "In the vating one of those lovely things. Gee, I hate that bugle! Cavalry.7 7 Bert Hamilton at the piano and John Mahoney in song threw a " Church- S. W. F. I can't sleep—everybody makes so much hill 7s7 7 atmosphere into the Spantanburg din• noise getting dressed and stamping around. ing room. 106TH INFANTRY BAND. I always have to go into my house or they'd step on me. Why can't a feller look Walter Kuhn as toastmaster reminisced (Alias Mr. Gartland's Indians.) where he's goin' in the early morning? wittily on border and cavalry days paying high tribute to Captain Spencer as a 1916-17 "Who stole the dog-house?" was the cheer• How do you like my house? Private Mc- ful greeting the members of the AMEN Cord made it for me. He says he's Irish and campaigner. Major Bryant and Captain Squad received as they entered the mess I believe it. He says that Mike is an Irish Spencer also spoke. hall one morning last week. It grieves the name, but anyway, I'm going to be an A. L. NELSON. writer to have to say it, but the reputation American even if I have an Irish name. of these sky pilots has been on the decline SUPPLY COMPANY, 51ST PIONEER IN• Here comes the mail man with another ever since Father Abeel left their ranks for FANTRY. pink envelope for Private Wengler, I sup• the more lowly life of cleaning horses in pose. Twelve pages of Gee! I feel Guess what squad this is: the 104th Field Artillery Band. rotten! Six of Uncle Sam's soldiers living in a tent Contributions are being asked for in order None really broke but all badly bent. Just got vaccinated and inoculated and to buy the Drum Major a heavier baton so One of them a wagoner. decimated, and cauterized, sterilized and that he will not find it such an easy matter Two of them are cooks. pulverized yesterday. I guess the captain's to hold it aloft too long before stopping the Two of them mechanics, vaccination has took—he didn't pet me this band at guard mount. And the other checks the books. morning. Now that the spring is here and the foot• They are all quite contented hills are awakening into new life and beauty, Nobody loves me! And in health quite well, it is expected that Corporal Ackerly will So long! But they all agree with Sherman visit Camp Wadsworth more often. MIKE. That war is hell. —A. S. S. Per Herbert F. King, Co. D, 53d Pioneer Inf. By ME OIL A. V. W. 14 GAS ATTACK

COMPANY Gr, 52ND PIONEER INFANTRY FIFTY-FOURTH PIONEERS. SANITARY DETACHMENT, 105TH FIELD

Well, Pop, how was old New York? Never On Wednesday evening, March 13th, only ARTILLERY. saw our Top Sergeant looking so fine. Hon• four days before St. Patrick's Day, the social Sergeant First Class Walter Longnecker estly, Joe, now come across with the truth, climbers of this regiment made another foray leaves us to take up similar duties with the did you or did you not get doubled up? Who of the town of Spartanburg, and as before, 106th Infantry. Sorry to lose you old top, is the girl, Joe? The one whose picture you had an enjoyable time, even though they were and we all wish you the best of luck. Possi• carry with you? We admire your taste, Joe, forced to make the trip in one of Corporal bly you can explain to the Doughboys that because we were lucky enough to steal a look Dunn's one lunged Maxwells. The poet and Artillery isn't such a bad branch of the serv• at that photo you brought back. the Two Little Fat Boys obliged with their ice. '1 My Darling Brother,'' Foxy old boy. Wish usual stunts. We often wonder how two fel• Sergeant McNeill is only about 5 ft. 4 in., you luck Mac but cheer up, you'll get a let• lows could grow so big. First Sergeant but as acting topper, one would think he ter soon. Clark enjoyed the trip back to camp, even was Oh, why explain further? Sergeant Rosemier has gone. We were though he didn't find what he was looking Artist Voorhis says: "Why speak of cheek• too slow for him. How about a little poker, for, a hat larger than is issued. ing up combat equipment, I always have my George? Jawbone? Yes? Luck to you, George. As a result of G. O. 19, Supply Sergeant schalalea with me?" Tom Farrell is following a new occupation Moon of E Company, was appointed to a new Chief Gonsalves is going around very now. He is our advertising agent. For Heav• job, that of taking the laundry out of the morose. Does our little South American en rs sake, Tom, advertise for a few privates. streets to the dark people looking for it. Of Bearcat want to do another War Dance? How Feel sorry for our non-coms when we do get course if a few darkies, or more, mostly more, are funds Chief? a full Regiment again. When fatigue call manage to enter the camp, they look for the Stumpy Kiernan will soon return to us sounds it will be funny to see them all fall in custodian of the soiled socks. Now Mr. Moon after a visit of ten days to the land of the just the same. says it is going too far, when five or eight White Lights. As heretofore, Gus, we all hope Jack Sampson is still in the contracting coons follow him to the canteen, mess hall, your Golden Voice will help keep gloom business. Jack is expecting to get a contract showers, supply house and anywhere else. We away and charm our topper. to build up a town in France when war is over. think he is right, but wish he would arrange Perturbed Hill is back with us again after Well, if here isn 't my old pal from Junkers. a schedule for calling for our wash, say every an absence of three months at the Base Hos• Any new styles in rubbers today sir? Do you odd Tuesday. pital and a thirty-day sick leave home. Jack, know why my feet just fit right inside of those Our popular Sergeant Morgan of A Com• can't you help us fellows toward getting ac• shoes. Say! Aleck, no more pie in the 01 ym- pany is perambulating on the sidewalks of quainted with some of your nurse friends? It pia restaurant, have some chicken? New York, enjoying a fifteen day furlough. seems to us as though you know every one of Why hello, Andy. You are just in time to Bugler Buttermark is also enjoying one of the fair sex in Camp Wadsworth. fall in for fatigue. Yes, you can take a those things, by learning all of the latest A rumor says that Walter Helwege is go• broom and sweep up the street, but don't go dance steps. He will have plenty of time, ing home to get married. Some of the boys, below No. 16. We have a new family down when he gets back, to practice his steps in Walt., are inclined to think that you are go• there. Yes, the Boyle family, nice people, but policing D streets, in the absence of the other ing to pull a Phelan. Here's hoping that you talk very much, but I will send our little boy member of the Company, whoever he is. are requested to bring back a marriage cer• Willie down to see how many are in the fam• When necessity, who is the mother of in• tificate with you. ily. You know perhaps they are our new vention, and a few other things, demands it, Sergeant First Class Bill Miller is still at janitor, poor folks, they look so lonesome, try a bulb is taken from First Sergeant Steward's the Officers' Training School. Somehow or and cheer them. Put all your garbage near tent. He wants to know why the kleptomani• other, Bill, the boys all wish you get your them so they won't have to carry it far. I'm ac has to "lay off" the officers' showers and commission, but then they are an ungrate• sure they will appreciate it. pick on him. ful lot anyway. Corporal, Private, First Class Private, Company Beck increased its roster 100 per SERGEANT GEORGE NEU. Corporal Edward Ruege has gone to New cent last week by the addition of Sergeant York on a furlough. Have a nice time, Eddie. Buehrger, whom we all wish the best of luck Some day you may make a success as a quick in. his new regiment, but the Company is I it up Back-her yull soon be warin an neagel, change artist. Company still, that is, still after Beck goes to con-grand-u-lashuns. The marvel of the grease pan. Don't sleep, and gives his "Hello Joe" a rest. Sar-jants Bock an Oh Bryan, corpril Likes; worry, you will soon be home, and say, Tony, The post exchange is doing a rushing busi• her and Law-law, priz-vatz Bar-rag an Carrie take my advice, beware of Aleck Young; he is ness, catering to every one in the vicinity, and Gore-done ess-em-belled in are tent last sure watching you. I think he is following and a galaxy of Top Sergeants. Here is a satiday nite, de first tree were playing pig- you. Beware. complete list of everything they have not got: nukel an evry ting was goin fine wren Mack-gin Attention! Sergeant Major Thomas P. Ma- Laundry bags. Sergeant Moon take notice. de bum trower come in an he started trowin lone, congratulations Tom. We all wish you "Buck Ellvia" of F Company who doesn't bums, sum uv dem hit he pig-nuckle playis in the greatest of success. Hope to be able to know what it's all about has arranged an in• de noze and dat fin-nisht de gaim. Awl hans joyfully extend to you a salute very soon. teresting dance schedule to take place soon. (an feat) left de tent, dat guy kin shure trow Men like you we will swear by. H Company reporter sends in the following: de bums, o boy. Sum gim-mick dekorat-ted de- JIGGY. H kom-pan-nie, a-ten-shun. mess shank wit criss-miss trees on Paddys day, De re-port-ter uv de rej-a-ment ast me to dat fello musta had his daits mixed, how do rite sumpin fer de gas attax, so I sez awl rite, they get like dat. Wate a minit I narely CHANGES IN WARFARE. so hear it tiz. De sar-jent dat dishes out de fergot to rite a-bout Oh Shade who duz awl A story illustrative of the changes in close, an so fort, is on a fer-loe, an we hope de detales an awl he duzis play wid a tipri- methods of warfare comes from a soldier in dat he has a gud tie-ime an pun-ish-shes a ter in de adu—, gee, I cant spell dat wurd, France who took a German officer prisoner. lot uv hops. but u no what tis. Its ware de top kicks go "Give up your sword," shouted the poilu Its a wun-der dat kook Hacks-dead doant fer dere mourning reports bux an gets de as he covered the Hun with his gun. wize up sum day an kook sum aigs an gray- name uv de ginks dat walk dere posts in a But the officer shook his head and an• ape frute sum mourning. mill-in-airy man-ner at de cur-ral. I muss swered: De guy dat blows de horn in de mourning stop now as mess has plaid an I wan to beet I "I have no sword to give up, but won't my (I tink hez called a burgler cawse hez rob- kom-pan-nie in line fer eats, ore he may get vitriol spray, my oil projector or my gas bin' evry wun uv der sleep in de mournins) dere furst, Tanks. cylinder do as well?" has bin de-moated to a mack-kin-nack. Keep D. J. M. GAS ATTACK 15

BATTERY C, 104TH FIELD ARTILLERY. HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, 3RD PIO•

This happens to be our first contribution NEER INFANTRY. and providing the writer is in good health Did you notice our gallant band leader stand• after the boys read this issue, we hope to ing reveille and retreat lately. Gotta hand it hold a regular place hereafter. to our new skipper, everybody plays the game In the recent firing, as usual, the Apple- nowadays. Knockers, "knocked 'em cold," while our The boys are all anxious to know if "Dol• 1 K. O. fired problems that ' made 'em all ly" went to Framingham during his fur• step.'' lough. It has been the custom for all Head• General Rumor has informed Private Gil- quarters men visiting Boston, to make the son that we will be "Somewhere in New trip out to Dennison Town, some attraction York" State soon, so "Ollie" has arranged there. to spend his "week-ends" at home (H. W. How was the new Liberty Motor a success Williams.) without the aid of old "Annie'' McDermott, The "Megaphone Quartette'' meets every Hyde Park's would be Thomas Westing- evening in Sergeant Hull's tent, under the house Edison Smith? Now his argument is careful tutoring of "Big George," and" "Me for the Navy Yard.'' promises to develop good singers after a few The organ grinder from Roach street will years practice. have to look to his laurels, for the Roxbury Stable Sergeant Johnson is our hardest A JOKEVITCH. Crossing "Hot Dog Man" is hitting the trail working man, and since he has taken up his for "Hank the Hermit.'' Santie Claus re• First Moujik—'' Hurrahsky, for the great new duties, the horses are looking in fine member your Anna needs you home now to Russian revolution! We nicked Nick Ro• condition. wind up those alarm clocks. manoff, let the Huns chase us till they are "Buck" Hallman wore a green ribbon in honor of St. Patrick on the "17th" but we Funny how all the "Gloom Chasers" are out of breath, and soon we will turn and were disapponted in having soup, instead of getting pally with "Baby" Cawthorne late• wallop the Kaiser, and there will be free ly. Everytime a box arrives or the gold piece "Irish stew" for dinner. vodka and—'? is broke the boys decide to move the cots. Quartermaster Sergeant Kimble is with Second Kvass-imbiber—i 1 Cut out the All the famous border non-coms are receiv• us again with a large stock in store, and due Bullshiviki!'' ing daily instructions in the manual of arms to his sudden change of nature, even the from Old Timer Carney, and to think after all "small guys" aren't afraid to approach him. their famous training and that hike to Las COMPANY L, 108TH INFANTRY. i' Stay. at Home'' week is now in progress. Cruses and that Irish water up at the Ce• Everyone consented to refrain from dice or Mess Sergeant Edwards said that Codfish ment Plant, made famous by the "Dandy cards or eating meals in restaurants, etc. came from Cape Cod. Tell us, Sergeant, if Fifth." The returns will be donated to purchase su• codfish come from Cape Cod, do oysters come gar for our morning oat meal and coffee. '' Spurs'' Dudley, the boy who promenaded from Oyster Bay? Received word that Private Shields, who Tremont Street while on furlough with Spiral Sergeant Edwards says he's running short went on detached service, has arrived in putts and spurs, is somewhat peeved since of codfish. How about Freddy going to Cape France O. K. Good luck, Shields, we '11 be he lost his job driving the Adjutant's car. Cod? with you soon. Sergeant O 'Leary Ryan of American Fed• Corporal Tormey is hereby appointed Chief Things that are impossible— eration of Labor fame will never forgive Whistle Blower. (1) Trying to make the Mechanics work. Washington for the orders prohibiting the Private Pierce is now firing the Bingle (2) Get a hat to fit Van D. Walker (3) To wearing of spiral puttees. So "Mother" once Boiler at the head of the street. keep Sergeant Hull from that mysterious more will place them back with the camphor Corporal Poncho Villa Pougratz is still look• thing in Asheville. (4) To find anyone with balls. ing for his furlough. Ask the Top, Al, he '11 shoes not polished in " C" Battery. (5) Barney Keough has failed to answer sick give you one. To win in a crap game with the "Hudson call since the Pioneers have been taken off The twenty-third squad mourns the loss of Street Steve," the millionaire tenor. (6) their daily training the wood pile, and how Bob Freeman. He's in the Base Hospital with For Private Brannigan to be a friend of the the boys did regret their release from real appendicitis. Quartermaster Sergeant. work. The twenty-third set aside Easter Sunday Some singers in Sergeant Howard's tent. Just as we anticipated the Golden haired for a semi-annual gathering at the bath-house. Caruso is good, but you fellows are better Lounge Lizzard of Jordan and Marsh fame, There was a social gathering in Company still. (Hope they see through it.) has ensnared several of Spartanburg's society L mess hall Monday night. Top Sergeant Contrary to the general rule, our First Ser• buds and making his usual splash. But why Weaver thinks its a good idea to cut out the geant is very popular with all the men, even abduct Benedict Beale and Detention Camp profanity at formation. We think so too, Ser• the Bucks. Our former instrument sergeant Saunier? geant, how about you? has certainly made good in his new posi• We have just learned that our '' Rumor Lieutenant Bentley is wearing a big smile tion. King'' and Ex-Striper is about to depart these days. He ought to; no more squads Everyone is feeling fine and our popular from our fold, and enter the Signal Corps. right for him for a while yet. He's now Can• Mess Sergeant Loomis is serving chow "fit How about that much talked of discharge? teen Officer, succeeding Lieutenant Rignal. for a king'' and the weather here is very Things that never happen—• We envy Ray Canfield who has his wife here good. In general, life here is much more en• Sergeant Rainey telling the K. P. to take it in town. He is envied by all of us. Sorry we joyable than in Camp Wadsworth. easy. didn't get married now. What was "Red" Quick thinking of when "Bandy" refusing a piece of pie from B Why does Sergeant Holway shake all the he repeated the 10th Commandment to the Company. wooden boxes Bill Bissell brings in? Some• officer of the day? Observing Lieutenant Supply Sergeant Barry getting some clothes thing strange about that, Eddie. "Red." for the boys. Sergeant Simcoe, commanding our fourth Our newest officers, Lieutenants Sanchez "Coo Coo'' Hurley's steeds being cleaned. platoon, has his mother here for a short stay. and Breen, are fast becoming very popular, Joey Bell and his tentmates going to sleep But that doesn't stop him from yelling i i Hur• and well liked by all the men. at taps. ry up down there, double time!'' G. P. W. UGOCHASSER. A. B. C. GAS ATTACK

ENGINEER DEPOT DETACHMENT, AMBULANCE COMPANY NO. 105 BATTERY D, 106TH FIELD ARTILLERY. The drill schedule for the past week called NO. 421. Private Ehmann is acting Top-Sergeant for field manoeuvers for Tuesday and shortly while the Battery is up at the range. He has Our 0. 0., Lieutenant Leonard, has moved after 8 a. m. that day the members of the his quarters up to our street to see that the 105th started for the camp site "somewhere twelve men under him. Never mind, Otto, it's children behave. in South Carolina.'' Captain McKemy and near as you'll ever get to be a non-com. Lieutenant Ballantyne were in charge of the Charlie Hoag has returned from his fur• Privates Brown and Schenfield were sent, company and Sergeant "Smoke" Zion, pace• back from the range to attend the i' Camou• lough. He claimed that he had joined the maker, insisted on taking all of the many flage School." We guess they are making ranks of the Benedicts. We weren't sure hills on "high" with such good effect that good as we hardly ever can find them. They until we saw the famous i 1 Mrs.'' on an en• the company arrived at the camp site at 10.30 a. m. velope. must have the right idea of camouflage, all Small fires were soon blazing, mess kits and right. George Greene is now in the big city. We rations unpacked, and the hungry men were rather doubt that he too will return with Bugler Madgewick claims he has a sore lip. soon on the outside of the bacon, potatoes, the record of having slipped on the banana Never mind, a poor excuse is better than none. onions, and bread that made up the day's ra• peel of marriage. On the contrary we fully tions. We've bought an alarm clock so I guess it '11 expect to see several inches added to his Sergeant First Class Karl H. Buhl and Pri• be all right if you blow retreat for reveille. waist line, vate "Hoddy" Jones ate so heartily that Corporal Briggs, "alias" Lady Bountiful,, both fell sound asleep as soon as the meal Charlie Hoag and Ed Buechner demonstrat• is acting supply sergeant up at the range. ed the value of long legs when it came to was finished, and they unconsciously formed It's too bad you just invested $40 on a new high jumping. They quite outdistanced all the main attractions of the elaborate funeral competitors. ceremonies held over them by several of the suit before going to the range. We are all glad to welcome West's Victro- men who are studying for the undertaker's Shelter-Half Weisner, our Supply Sergeant's- la into our midst, but we can't say that we profession through a progressive Pennsylvania orderly, arose at eleven P. M. the other night Correspondence School. appreciate the duets which sometimes issue and went out looking for reveille. See, Madge,, At 1:30 p. m. the company started on its forth from the tent. Don't try to beat the how you are getting on the "Poor Boy's" Master's Voice at his own game. return to '' Clubhouse Row" and by stiff hiking, reached home by 4 o 'clock. Some idea nerves. Joe Connors has been selected to do the of the pace maintained may be gained by the We wonder where "Cook" Cook and ex- Harvey Cohn act for us. Joe, we must admit, following conversation between Major Cran• Mess Sergeant Sinsmaier go every evening. is rather modest. All he would say when ston and "Tonsorial" Dessert: Major: "Did We don't worry though as we saw Spartan• interviewed was: 1'It's a great little war." you hike very fast?" Tonsorial: "We went burg last fall. We are inclined to think that Sergeant past the milestones so fast that I thought we "Dizzy" Compton is all excited over his Eisner is the reincarnation of Simon Legree. were in a cemetery.?' new job as assistant Battery clerk, especial• He makes a great 1 i slave driver.'' Mess Sergeant Bob Hull's Sunday dinner ly when the mail comes in. It tires him out Now that our 11 Thelma from Missouri'' has with real pies put the company in fine condi• so running around before mail time telling; faded into the past, she having hauled down tion for the week's work. This was shown in the fellows they have a package. P. S.— her pennant after the conglomeration of words the number of records broken in the hundred He is also on the job when these packages are sent her, we have officially adopted another, yard dash which featured Monday's drill. delivered and more so when they are being known as "Alma from Detroit.'' Adoption First Lieutenant Arthur A. White, Jr., has opened. papers are made out in favor of Joe Beyer. been assigned to duty as Adjutant of the San• Pvt. R. L. S. E. A. B. itary Train and Lieutenant Ballantyne suc• ceeds him as Executive Officer of this com• pany. We congratulate both of them on their A request is made for the names of the INFIRMARY, 102ND U. S. ENGINEERS. good fortune. men who have attended the George Peabody Did you witness that exciting game of base• Corporal Claude L. Ratnour had the misfor• College for teachers to send to their institu• ball between the teams of Company C and the tune to break a bone in one of his fingers tion their names, addresses, etc. Doctors? Big Benson pitched for us and Mul- while playing ball last week. downey caught. The score was 7-9 in favor Since the arrival of his wife in Spartan• ARE YOU A MASON? of the Doctors. burg, "Canopener" Louis Peck finds no at• We want to thank Lieutenant Bles for his tractions in Camp Wadsworth. All members of the Masonic fraternity at good work! What's that? You shouldn't Sergeant '1 Heavy'' Briggs and Private Camp Wadsworth are requested to send; thank the umpire in public! Oh, well, don't First Class 'i Chief'' Costello have been de• their names, rank and organization to Mr. D. M. Davis, Y. M. C. A. Unit 93 or to Private say anything about Lieutenant Bles then. tailed for duty at the first aid station at Camp Campobello. H. D. Tucker, Co. D, 106th Infantry, at once.. Big Ben, you know him, i 1 Meatball,'' knocked out three home runs. Privates First Class Ernest Littlewood, Louis Harrington and Privates Harold J. Sergeant First Class Mund has returned to i' Mose'' Vedder and Frank '1 Bab by'' Hen• Short and Rol Henry have been detailed to the fold. He was transferred back from the ry have gone "nuts" over pictures of movie the Base Hospital for a course of instruc• 106th Field Hospital. Welcome home, Harry. actresses and their collection is unequalled tion in dressings. Oh, by the way, you didn't see anything of anywhere in camp. Corporal "Rats" Rat• Wagoners Benson and La Vail e were kind Heffernan on your way over, did you? nour, formerly with the Syracuse News Co.? enough to help out the kitchen police last Say, Walter, why did you tell Ben there was furnishes them with the movie magazines at Tuesday and their efforts were appreciated a dollar in your box. You know he burnt his cost. by all. Wagoner Benson, who acquired fame up without looking into it. as the head radiator man of the division, is We understand that Corporal Ratnour is Say, Shay, what else did you learn out in now working on a book on "How to Repair due to spring some Thrift Stamps on us next Indiana? G. M. C.'s with Steel Wool and Water.'' week. All the boys have taken on weight since As a trapeze performer, "Hungry" Bush- Sergeant Benny Hale has parted with his messing with the Engineer Train. It is verei nell is IT. Ask him to fix the fuse plugs in sleek pompadour and doesn't know what to do> verei goot, I shall cum agin, goo bye. your tent and watch him go. His specialty with hands since the big event. C. C. is night work. A. K. M. GAS ATTACK 17

PHYRAT WILL, HE HAS 'EM SAVE IT FOR THE BOCHES! DIZZY. Do you ever stop to ponder on the fellows over yonder Who are happy and contented with their lot? They don't call the cook a "dub"; they don't kick about the grub; He Invents a Gun that Beats the Ger• They don't swear because their coffee isn't hot. man 70-Mile One. Do you fret because the wood that you burn is not as good As a fireplace in a fifty dollar flat? Phyrat Will, that's me. The acknowl• When your daily work is done you can grab your duds and run. edged world's greatest inventor, acknowl• Over there they're not so fortunate as that. edged by myself and others, from my sum• mer home on the Hudson, at Matteawan. Then to Spartanburg you whirl, spend the evening with a girl, Inventor of the cork battleship, the deadly Grab a taxi back to camp at one A. M. trained spider, and other exclusive exclui- But the fellows over there, where the bullets fill the air— ties which no sane man would even dare Don't you feel a little sympathy for them? think of, I am about to reveal my master• piece, which will make the Hunnish 76-mile Suppose you had to sleep where the muddy waters seep range gun appear as insignificant as the Through a crater in a bullet-riddled trench, German General who uses a quarter of a And you had to stand all day where the Boches bang away mouse's skin to make himself an overcoat, And the air becomes a nauseating stench. the same one who tried to bathe in a mess cup, and would have succeeded if he didn't Now, if you're inclined to grumble, just suppose you take a tumble have such a large moustache. This inven• To yourself and dissipate that ugly frown. tion of mine, which at present is being used If you feel down in the mouth, don't forget you're only South,— by the Esquimoux in spearing whales, their Just a little ways from good old New York town. most thought of vegetable, is one that will make the civilized world, together with the And in closing let me warn you. there is nothing will disarm you members of the Reichstag, stand on their Like a disposition trained to howl and kick; heads, making the first time these members When you go across to France, you'll be given ample chance ever elevated their brains, those valuable To vent your rage on Boches mighty quick. brains which college professors should PRIVATE D. L. NASH, study through a microscope, if such a pow• Ordnance Depot. erful one could be manufactured. As to the invention, here it is in an egg• the trenches, because the earth thrown up START WORK ON LIBERTY shell: by these shells will come down, unlike prices THEATRE. Gasoline will drive an auto twenty miles at an army camp, and fill in the trenches, on a gallon, so if you put in two gallons, the saving the Pioneers the trouble. Camp Mess Halls Will Have Vestibuled machine will go forty miles and stop. Now It is strange I hadn't thought of this idea this aerial torpedo of mine, is shot from a before I sent my spider across; it would • Screen Doors. twelve-inch gun, and as it leaves the muz• zle of said gun, a contact point is touched, have saved thousands of our lives, and as which as the torpedo starts on its deadly many pacifistic speeches, and now I'll have Work has begun on the Liberty theater, journey, starts an ordinary automobile en• to row out aways and bring back my pet. which is to be erected in camp by the War gine a-going at such a speed that the tor• When I first mentioned this invention to Department's Commission on Training pedo keeps rising and rising, and going a magistrate, he locked me up in a padded Camp Activities. The building will be 80 and going until—until what ? Why, sim• cell, probably afraid I would sell the scheme ple—until the gasoline, as in the auto, gives feet by 160 feet in size, and will have a to some German spies. At present I am still out. So this shell is equipped in the rear seating capacity of more than 2,500. The in the cell, where I will probably remain till end with a gas tank, in which is, packed work of construction will be pushed as rap• the bombardment starts, then I will person• tight, 204 gallons of gas. So that going idly as possible. twenty miles a minute on a gallon, it trav• ally supervise it—the bombardment, not the els in three hours and twenty-four minutes, cell. I am now busy drawing on the walls The theater building will be located in 4,080* miles, then out of gas, it falls, landing another startling idea of mine, which will the body of woods near the center of camp, a few miles further away, and upon contact do away with policemen, politicians and and not far from the Knights of Columbus with the terra firma, the front end, contain• lawyers in peace time, so that we can really building. ing three dozen pounds of TNT, explodes, enjoy what my invention will bring about. Other important construction work, the creating in comparison, as much damage as Servantly yours, authority for which has just been received when a bomb is exploded in an ant-hill. PHYRAT WILL, from Washington, will be the installation of Now we can readily see the advantage of per Daniel J. Mahoney. this blood curdling weapon. From any or vestibuled screen doors in all the mess halls all points on the Atlantic coast, our gunners in camp and in all the wards of the base ECHOES FROM THE DUG-OUTS. can fire upon Berlin, bombarding that nest hospital. More than 2,600 doors will be re• of German Headquarters, with a shell every "Are you digging a trench?" asked the quired to complete this job, and in addition two minutes, for we will have as many of civilian who happened along where several these as a fly has warts. With what result? doughboys were doing that very thing. 135,000 feet of screening and 750,000 feet of The surrender of the enemy in twenty-four "No, sir," answered the corporal in charge. lumber. hours, or there will be a well in Germany "We are digging a grave for a rookie who with its bottom in Australia. was on the rifle range the other day. The The War Trade Board claims that Ger• However, before we start our bombard• lieutenant told him to hold his breath while many gets less than a third of the amount ment, an order will be issued, as were our, he fired. The trigger got stuck and here of food stuffs she once procured from the reserve officers, for all allied troops to leave we are." neutral countries. GAS ATTACK

ENTERTAINMENT SOMEWHERE AT THE

ARTILLERY RANGE.

On Monday, March 18th, on the very grounds that General Less mustered in the Confederate Army, the 104th and 106th Field Artillery put forth their best efforts to re• lieve the monotony of life at the range. The rings was pitched in an open spot, with a thousand twinkling stars for the roof, and instead of electric lights, oil lamps, strung on wires, shed a soft light on the ring. It was the first of a series of entertainments to be held every Monday night for the amuse• ment of the officers and men. Everyone was in good spirits, from General Phillips and his staff to the lowliest buck private. It was an ideal night; the spirit of Spring was every• where, the air seemed permeated with good cheer. Both regiments turned out almost to a man. Lieutenant Borde of the French army, who has seen two years service as an artillery officer, and has been wounded sev• eral times in action, was present. At 7:30 sharp the bandmaster of the 106th

F. A. lifted his baton and the band started SPRING ANt> FAi-t, STVtf S / AS I uu U S T R A T er T> 0Y VAC <5K A-T.H I O to RA to play one of those raggy jazz tunes that paved the way for a show that for dash and Sweetheart,'' that made all the boys think of graced, and with a less experienced fighter, pep would be hard to beat. Appreciation of lights, soft music and their own sweethearts. should make a much better showing. the band's excellent playing was shown by His delightful mellow voice certainly got The next was a quaint little Scotchman, the frequent bursts of applause after each over. Although handicapped by the absence Tommy Towle, of the 104th. He sang Scotch selection. of musical accompaniment (he left his music ditties that would have made Harry Lauder Then the announcer, genial Pete Morris, home on the piano), he made such a hit he was look to his laurels. Tommy knocked them off Top-kick of Battery D, 104th F. A., held up forced to render an encore. Next '' Chew'' their seats with his accent. He is an enter• his hand for silence, and announced the first Shepard, Battery D, 104th, sang a few paro• tainer par-excellence. The crowd would not bout. If Joe Humphreys the silver-tongued, dies of his own: '' The Gold Bricks in the permit him to leave until he had rendered of New York, ever heard Pete, he would Army,'' which was greeted with yells of de• his famous song, about "The Gallant Forty- grind his teeth with rage. By the way Pete, light by all the goldies present. Shep had twa.'' His original and clever little bit who took your hat? Finder please return become popular with the fellows through his made him a supreme favorite. Here is an said hat, as it has been worn by the Crowned style of entertaining. He also rendered "On entertainer that will continue in the lime• Heads of Europe. the Good Old Picket Line," a song that made light whenever a surefire hit is needed. The first bout brought together Broderick, even the stern features of General Phillips re• The next on the program was a three round of the 106th and McCormack, 104th. Both lax into a broad smile. bout between Keins of the 106th and Hard• ing of the 104th. This fight was won by boys were in excellent condition and seemed Things were humming along at a great pace, Keins, who by his superior ring ability and very anxious to mix it. Broderick led with songs and bouts following each other in rapid clean hitting easily deserved the decision. a left hand jab to Mac's eye, which almost succession. Between rounds the band had closed said optic, after which there was a everyone whistling and singing. When Smil• One of the star bouts followed. Jacques of lively exchange of blows. McCormack got ing Pete Morris announced Young Leach Cross the 104th and '1 Camouflage'' McSauley, of the over several heavy wallops, but did not fol• of the 104th, and Varcuzzo of the 106th, 106th, gave one of the classiest exhibitions of low up his advantage. He left his body open, would furnish the fire-works, a mighty roar hit- an d -ge t - away boxing of the evening. whereupon Broderick played a lively tattoo that made the hills echo, went up. No doubt Jacques outpointed his man, showing him sev• upon his ribs. a few of our own wildcats, up in the moun• eral punches that Mac never thought of. Broderick opened the second round with tains, decided to leave for parts unknown, on When '' Camouflage'' entered the ring his several clean snappy punches that soon took hearing this, because believe me boy, it was gorgeous green tights and yellow and black the steam out of McCormack, who was obliged some roar. The referee brought the men to banded jersey so dazzled Jacques, that he af• to leave the ring. the center of the ring for instructions. It terwards remarked he didn't know whether The next bout brought McGrath of the 106th was then apparent that Cross had the advant• to fight him or kiss him. vs. Arthur 104th. Arthur was certainly there age of height and reach, but their weights At the conclusion of this bout, ''Terry'' from the first bell. He chased McGrath were the same. Tarantino of the 104th, and Munce, of the around the ring, and at last caught up with In the first round Cross shot two left jabs 106th, were brought together. Munce tower• him, which in itself was some feat. Mc• and a wicked right to the head. Varcuzzo ed above little "Terry," and when the Grath was soon convinced that he was no retaliated with several body blows. They weights were announced, had an advantage of marathon runner and as a fighter, well. . . . battled toe to toe and had the crowd on. its thirty pounds. But at the beginning of the After his mess call had been well pounded, feet yelling for a knockout. first round Tarantino showed that he was he dropped his mitts, and ambled towards The second round found Varcuzzo feeling afraid of neither man nor beast, and firmly his corner, in a dazed manner, murmuring, the effects of Cross's terrific battering. It believed in the old adage, '' The bigger they "It's no Juice.'' He was certainly game, was only a matter of time before the game come the harder they fall.'' It was a fierce and everyone was relieved to see him walk little fighter was bound to be rocked to sleep. battle from start to finish. "Terry" contin• out instead of being carried out. It showed discretion on his part when he de• ually landed heavy body blows, while on the Wallace, from Battery E, of the 104th, then cided at the end of the round to quit. Al• other hand Munce seemed unable to touch the rendered a sentimental ballad, entitled "My though beaten, Varcuzzo was far from dis• (Continued on page 20) GAS ATTACK 19

I ON THE ROADS TO CAMP. I This illustration depicts clearly the two most prominent features of South I Carolina landscape as it scapes in these parts—namely, soldiers and pine trees. I How stately and picturesque the big pines loom at the side of the dusty road, I along which the soldiers are returning from a hike. Who knows how far they I have marched? Is it one mile or twenty? For the first correct answer sub- ? mitted, the Gas Attack will give a prize of a round-trip ticket on the P. & N. I railroad for the first day of the winning contestant's furlough. No fair I going to the artist and asking him to slip you the solution on the sly! 20 GAS ATTACK

FIRST PIONEER INFANTRY. organization, and there's a feeling of pride in the hearts of everyone of us that we are A Distinct Honor. where we are—in the FIRST Pioneer In• Have you ever stopped to think what it fantry. And we are going to have reason to means to be FIRST in anything! Of course become prouder every day of our lives. For you have. '' First in War, First in Peace, we are not only going to be the FIRST First in the Hearts of His Countrymen.'' How Pioneer Infantry, but likewise the BEST well do we all remember of whom this was Pioneer Infantry, that the world has ever said. To George Washington, the Father of known. Not only are we going to be best in Our Country and the FIRST President of these the military sense of the word, but in every• United States, went this distinct honor. thing we do or undertake to do. We refer But that was ages ago. We are now liv• to such things as athletics, social events, ing in the present. But the old FIRST still etc. So look out for ms. We warn you to remains a distinct honor wherever it is ap• clear the path for the FIRST Pioneer In• plied. And that brings us down to our sub• fantry, or the FIRST Pioneer Infantry will ject of today's lesson—the FIRST Pioneer In• clear the path for you. And we don't fantry. FIRST! That's us all over. make any promises that we will allow any• one to escape getting hurt if they are It's an honor to be First in anything. But in our path when we set out to ac• it's a Distinct Honor to be the FIRST Pio• complish our mission. neer Infantry. And we appreciate this hon• or, every one of us, from the Colonel of our A good example of this determination to be regiment down to the lowest private in the first in everything from now on was the ranks. We appreciate it and we are going baseball game played recently in which the to live up to it. First Pioneers licked the "stuffins" out of Owing to the fact that we were only a skel• the Second Anti-Air Craft crowd. The fra• eton outfit up till Thursday of last week, we cas ended with the score 3 to 0 in our favor 11 Huns? Hell no! Hornets!'' sort of held back, bashful like, and didn't but that doesn't begin to show how bad we want to talk about ourselves. Of course, all walloped 'em. Time after time we had three the time, we were thinking of this Distinct men on bases and could have knocked a home HOSTESS HOUSE NOTES. run or something and thus piled up a larger Honor and making preparations for living up score. But we took pity on the poor souls Wednesday, April 3, was "Albany Day" at to it. Now that some of our men have arrived and held our score down to a measly three the Hostess House. There was informal we are ready to make known to all other Pio• runs. The part of it was we showed class—• open house all day, and a large number of neer outfits, to all other organizations in real Big League CLASS. Without any prac• Camp Wadsworth in particular, and to the Albany men stationed at Camp Wadsworth tice beforehand as a regimental team we walk• world in general, that we are '' there with the and many Albany ladies visiting in Spar• ed out there on the field and licked those An• •goods" and ready to deliver it whenever call• ti-Air Craft boys with ease. It just goes to tanburg dropped in for what was almost an ed upon to do so. show that we have the spirit to carry us "old home" day. During the afternoon and The officers and men of the FIRST Pioneer through. And we are going to continue to evening the 106th Field Hospital orchestra Infantry are taking a keen interest in their have that spirit. We don't make any pre• played. dictions of never suffering a defeat or a set• A committee of Albany officers, headed by ENTERTAINMENT SOMEWHERE AT THE back. But we do promise you that in cases of Lieut. Root and Lieut. Reed, had a large ARTILLERY RANGE. that kind there will always be a counter at• share in making the day a success. tack, and. that we will come back just two or (Continued from page 18) It is planned to follow the success of "Al• three times as strong as we were in our ini• little scrapper, who bobhed about like a cork. bany Day" with other special days, such as tial drive. In the second round the referee, Jean Zan- New England Day, special days for officers gen, stepped into a wild swing, whereupon the In that first baseball game, which by the and wives, for enlisted men and their crowd voiced its approval. The pleasure in way was played between officers from the two guests, etc. this bout was somewhat marred at one time, organizations because of the fact that our when Munce clouted Tarantino while the lat• men had not yet arrived, our pitcher, Lieu• tenant F. S. Tavenner held the enemy to two LEARN TO ' 'PARLEZ VOUS." ter was outside the ropes. By his agressive tactics and bulldog rushes, Tarantino shaded hits and allowed only one free transportation Mile. Irene Jestier, through the courtesy his opponent. Little "Terry" later announc• to first. He was master of the situation at of the Hostess House, has made arrange• ed from the ring that he was looking for oth• all times. And his team backed him up to the ments to give lessons in French at the Hos• er worlds to conquer, and issued a defi to meet last ball. That's CLASS. And that's what tess House at such hours as wPl be conven• Heide, the present heavyweight champion of we possess. And that's what is going to make ient to pupils desiring instruction. Conver• the FIRST Pioneer Infantry the BEST Pio• the Division, for ten rounds, in three weeks sational French, with the idea of teaching neer Infantry. from that date. the soldiers to ask for the simple necessities Dance Easter Monday. of life, when they reach the other side, is the We might say at this time that Heide after• principle of Mile. Jestier's instruction. Pri• wards had a little workout with Arthur. The Easter Monday night the First Pioneer In• vate lessons 50 cents each, class lessons at big heavyweight's magnificent physique at• fantry will hold an officers' regimental dance prices depending on the size of the class. tracted much favorable comment. Everybody at Rock Cliff Club, Spartanburg. The commit• Address Mile. Jestier, Hostess House, Camp held his breath when little Arthur thought tee in charge of arrangements predicts a big Wadsworth, S. C. of collecting his ten thousand insurance by success for our first social undertaking. La• coming within reach of one of Heide's mighty dies, if you haven't already been invited it's wallops. However, it was all in fun, and this because we don't know you. So send in your The GAS ATTACK is the livest camp mag• brought to a close the first of what we may names at once so that you won't miss this azine in America. Are you a subscriber? If hope to be many pleasant evenings, in the splendid entertainment. It will be your op• not, hunt around in this issue for the sub• future. portunity to meet some of the finest men in scription blank printed on one of the pages. GEORGE CLARKE, the world—even if we do have to say it our• Then act in accordance therewith. Battery D, 104th F. A. selves. GAS ATTACK 21

yells from the boys Mr. Hackett responded ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES. with a buck and wing that surprised the K-C has laid in a full supply of bats, balls, j K. of C.News | oldest of the stagers. After that he sang gloves, volley balls, quoits and general ath• one of his own songs and then to meet the letic paraphernalia, and now that Spring insatiable demands the boys made him re• has stopped being at the doors and has JAMES K. HACKETT VISITS K. OF 0. cite Kipling's Mother o' Mine in a way that actually come in for a little visit any one James K. Hackett, the well known actor- won approval from every one. who longs for any kind of out door games manager, paid his expected visit to the After a while he began to feel that some and lacks the means can drop in and ask Wads worth Knights last week, and the re• one should do a bit toward entertaining him the man at the desk and have his wishes sults of the visit exceeded the most sanguine and so Private Oberbird of the 108th In• gratified. The drill fields on all sides fur• expectations.'" fantry, Co. H, came up and sang two songs, nish ample space at all times, and with a Mother Machree and The Little Gray Home volley ball going no one can well be left Not only was the usual capacity crowd in the West. If he is willing, Overbird will out. The more the many-ier, so come every present, but the new stage and the outdoor be a feature of the K-C shows in the fu• one, an,d remember the big signs on the end theatre received a real baptism of fire. ture. Then Nick Furiati played one of his walls. Generally when the hall is filled that ends enjoyable cornet solos and dependable Jack it; or it used to under the old regime, but Tresize played a piano solo, and after that that night there were men standing on the NEW PICTURES FOR K. OF C. one on his trombone. The trombone came Arrangements are well under way for a outdoor stage peeking and peering through as an afterthought. The 47th has been new series of pictures to be shown on the the windows striving with might and main getting inoculated and poor Jack having Hilltop, in addition to those which have to get an inkling of what was going on, (or gotten his shot in the arm feared for the been furnished through the generosity of as some one less careful of English might false notes that might be struck and "dast" Gov. Whitman and many other friends at say, coming off) on brightly lighted inside. not trust to the piano alone, but his fears home. The Washington offices are co-oper• There were men on the porches like the were groundless, for both of his pieces were ating with a number of large film service water of which the ancient Mariner so splendidly executed. feelingly speaks, and Mr. Hackett appre• agencies and with the motion picture com• ciated it. panies direct, and before long the new pic• A NEW SONG- LEADER DISCOVERED. tures will be coming . with the same regu• Responding to an outburst as he walked K-C ran right into one of those gems of larity as of . yore. Archaic language we forward after the introduction by Mr. Sex• purest ray serene the night Mr. Hackett freely admit, but get down a good bet the ton, general secretary, he remarked, "Well, spoke in their hall. It happened like this. pictures are in a different class. Right up boys, that's a pretty nice greeting," and in• Of a sudden came the dull note of dark to the minute in every detail. And a new deed it was. After a few friendly remarks despair. There was no song leader. What machine to show them with. Therefore, he got down to real business and explained to do. There was no answer. Then like a twenty-secondly and in conclusion watch the purpose of his appointment as Director bolt from the blue, straight to the breach the bulletin and when K-C starts the pic• General of Dramatic and Musical Activities he rushed. Dashing on the stage, dismount• tures start coming. It's better to come than under the auspices of the Knights of Colum• ing rapidly and throwing his courser's rein to wish you had. Don't wish it. Come. bus in all the camps here and abroad. He to the waiting orderly came Jimmy. It was told of his visits to the other camps along no other than J. J. Carter, J-R- late of Bos• the Eastern coast and spoke of the success ARE YOU FROM 5TH ASSEMBLY DIS• ton, Albany and points North. Stepping to which had attended his visit to Camp Up• TRICT, NEW YORK? the footlights with one graceful gesture and ton, and as a sort of encourager he noted Request is made for the names and city a sweep of his hand he had silence and then that the spirit and pep at Wadsworth were addresses, also company and regiment num• swiftly, but not silently rushed into the .greater and the esprit de corp stronger bers, of all • men who come from the Fifth swing of pack up your troubles. After a than at any other camp. Finally he called Assembly District, New York City. while a dispute arose between the two for volunteers with dramatic or musical ex• Deputy F'ire Commissioner Chas. W. Cul- sides of the house as to which could sing perience and seventeen men responded. kin will visit the camp about April 5th-18th better or maybe it was louder—or longer. And this on the night that the dress re• and would like to have the names as above. To settle it Jimmy directed one side to hearsal for the divisional show "You know Kindly send same to start on Over There. In the midst of a me, Al" was being held in Spartanburg. JAMES L. BIRD, mighty shout he ordered the other to start He had brought, he told the men, quite a Supply Co., 107th Infantry. Packing Up Their Troubles, and goodness number of one and two act comedies and knows they felt they had enough, so off they farces and these he wished the men to THE SURGEON'S ORDER. started. Milton called a similar occasion read, discuss and select from. The volun• "The surgeon of the regiment was both "confusion worse confounded" but this was teers are to meet Secretary Sexton and or• professional and military in the order he something the editor would not let even ganize as many dramatic clubs as possible, gave the men when he wanted to vaccinate Milton call it, much less me. The boys choosing men from each branch, or from them." enjoyed it though and the singing, judged each regiment if there be enough, as char• "What was his order?" from the standpoint of swing and pep was ter members. Each club will start on its " 'Present arms.' "—Baltimore American. better than anything that K-C has seen plays and produce them on one of the K-C these many moons. It was a grand and stages. It is hoped that the best of the particular corner where we are decorating glorious success. Thanks, James. productions can be sent to New York and or ornamenting the South Carolina. land• the plays given there. From the proceeds scape,—well that's us all over. Go down of the entertainments it is purposed to es• BLACKSTOCK ROAD ADORNED. by the artillery camp, beyond the Hostess tablish a fund to maintain similar work in It is up. And under roof. And ready for France which will also be under Mr. Hack- OCCUPANCY the new K-C building is what House just across from the old farm house ett's direction. the allies call a F'ait Accompli. Who will and have a look. One long, lingering, lan- There was another side to the evening be in charge is as yet (as this is written), gorous look. That, mes amis, that is the undetermined, but that, as Ashley would that came later. The 53d Pioneer Band led K-C Hall No. 2 and EVERYBODY WEL• by Jack Tresize had been furnishing the say, is a mere detail. Far be it from us to COME, from Reveille to Taps, and the other music and suddenly Jack, who was presid• gild the lily or paint the rose or any other ing at the Pie Anna started on a. snappy such impracticable and hypothetical thing, way too for the matter of that—IF you have Jig and in acknowledgment of the insistent but when it comes to brightening up the a pass. GAS ATTACK

CAMP SPORTS Edited by F\ ASHLEY

BIG LEAGUERS HERE. 106TH WINS BASEBALL TITLE OF CAMP JACKSON HAS EDGE ON On Monday, April 8th, the New York Yan• 53RD INFANTRY BRIGADE. LOCAL BOXERS. kees will be seen in action against the strong Boston Braves. The game will be played at the Spartanburg grounds and will Scores 8 to 6 Victory Over 105th. Wadsworth Fighters Take One Deci• start at 3 P. M. Special arrangements have sion, While Home Scrappers Go been made to let all the men in camp, who The 106th Infantry won the baseball cham• One Better. can possibly do so, attend the contest. Two pionship of the 53rd Brigade last Tuesday days later, on the 10th, the Pittsburg Pirates by scoring an 8 to 6 victory over the 105th. cross bats with the Athletics, on the same* Heavy hitting in the pinches and continual Frank Moran, Division Boxing Instructor, diamond. The proceeds of both games will loose fielding by the losers helped the Brook- took four of his knuckle pushers to Camp be devoted to the athletic and theatrical lynites to pull out in the lead. Jackson last Wednesday. While they did funds of Camp Wadsworth. Artie Muddell started on the mound for not clean up the Columbia camp, they The Pirates look particularly strong this the 106th, but after three innings was forced season. No outfield, with the exception of to quit. He was touched for six runs in his showed their gameness at every period. the New York Giants, can show more class brief stay. Jack McAuliffe took up the bur• The first bout brought together Murphy, in every department, including hitting, field• den then and showed an airtight delivery, of Jackson, and Cudcley, Company F, 107th ing and base running, than the Smoky City holding the 105th hitless while his team• Infantry. It was a four-round affair, both outfit. The gardens are covered by Carey, mates came from behind and took the game. men weighing in at 120. There were no idle the best base stealer in the National League The score: moments and while Murphy was awarded last season; Stengle, another speed mer• 105TH INF. R. II. PO. A. E. the decision, Cuddey left him a few souve• nirs of his visit. chant, and Hinchman. In the infield they Sulzer, 2b ... 0 0 5 2 0 have Cutshaw at second, and Mollwitz, one Thomas, cf ...... 1 2 0 0 2 Kiddie Diamond, of the 105th Infantry, of last year's finds, at first. Hoffman, If ...... 2 0 1 0 0 met Moore, of Jackson, in the 135 event. The Athletics will have several young col• Kemp, c 2 0 3 3 0 Moore is an old hand at the game and had lege players in their ranks this season. Both Simpson, p 1 2 0 2 1 met Battling Nelson, but that did not stop Boston and the Yanks have been displaying Thuon, ss .. . 0 0 3 6 1 the Wadsworth battler. He went right after more than their usual speed at their train• Denton, lb 0 1 9 0 0 Moore and almost had him out, near the end ing camps. Groom, rf . 0 0 0 0 0 of the first. The Jackson scrapper rallied in the third but Diamond had too big a start Admission to the games is 50 cents, grand Lynch, 3b 0 1 3 1 0 stand, $1.00. Tickets are now on sale at the on him. Diamond got the decision. Soldiers' Club, the Athletic Store and the TOTALS 6 6 24 14 4 The third fight was at 145 pounds. It was a draw between Moffo, of Jackson, and Jack Cleveland Hotel, in Spartanburg, and at the 105th Infantry 303 000*000—6 O'Toole, of the 56th Pioneers. Both men Knights of Columbus and all Y. M. C, A. 106th Infantry 021 300 11*—8 went to it with a will, making it the best units in camp. 106TH INF. R.H. PO. A. E. bout of the program. Liddell, If 1 1 0 0 0 ARE YOU ONE? Shyloe, cf 2 2 3 0 1 The heavyweights were kept for the final. Men in the 27th Division, who have played Cleaver, 3b 2 2 1 1 0 Buck Ehman, of the 105th Field Artillery, on college baseball teams or in the major Sullivan, ss 0 1 2 2 0 was matched against McCann, of Jackson. Ehman started like a house afire but a or minor leagues, are requested to send their Onderdonk, rf 0 0 0 1 0 healthy right to his jaw quenched his am• names to Lieut. George McNulty, 105th Field Formosa, rf 0 0 0 0 0 bition and sent him down for the count in Artillery, chairman of the Division Baseball Multy, 2b 0 0 1 0 2 the first round. Committee. Zackman, 2b 0 0 0 2 0 Hawthorne, lb 2 0 9 0 0 GAMES WANTED. Cotter, c .. 0 1 11 1 0 MIKE DONOVAN DIES. To Sporting Editor, Gas Attack: Muddell, p 0 0 0 2 0 New York, March 24.—Mike Donovan, for• Co. I (10th N. Y.), 51st Pioneers, would McAuliffe, p 0 0 0 0 0 mer middle weight champion pugilist and like to book games with any company or Merry *.. 1 0 0 0 0 widely known as boxing instructor of Theo• regimental team in camp, on Thursday and dore Roosevelt when the Colonel was Presi• Sunday afternoons. Co. I has strengthened TOTALS 8 7 27 9 3 dent of the United States, died of pneu• her team this year and expects to put up as * Merry ran for Onderdonk in second in• monia at a hospital here early today. He good a showing as last fall, when they met ning. was 71 years old, a Civil War veteran, and and defeated all teams played. Games can Left on bases, 105th Infantry, 5; 106th In• for thirty years boxing supervisor of the be arranged with Sergeant Fritz. Lieutenant fantry, 9; two-base hits, Thomas, Simpson, New York Athletic Club. Clark is looking after the boys and expects Cotter and Liddell; home run, Shyloe; dou• Mike Donovan, Jr., is a member of the to have new uniforms in a week or two. ble play, Cotter and Multy; base on balls— 102nd Military Police and takes after his The team will line up as follows: Fountain off Simpson, 5; off Muddell, 2; off McAuliffe, father in pugilistic ability. He ranks as one and Hennsley, pitchers; Lewis, catcher; Mc- 2; struck out by Simpson, 2; by Muddell, 2; of the strongest heavy-weights in camp. Leod, first base; Zackery, second base; Fitz- by McAuliffe, 9; hits—off Muddell in three simmons, shortstop; Starr, third base; Sim• innings; off McAuliffe, 0 in 6 innings; hit The GAS ATTACK office has been increased mons, Fritz, Peters, D'Amato and Nidds, by pitcher—by Simpson, Onderdonk and Sul• in its dimensions from three and a half feet outfield. livan ; wild pitch, Muddell; sacrifice hits, by two feet to four and a half feet by two SERGEANT FRITZ, Kemp 2; stolen bases, Cleaver, Hawthorne, and three-quarters feet. This, of course, Mgr. Co. I B. B. Team. Sulzer, Hoffman and Kemp. means a bigger and better paper. GAS ATTACK 23

PIONEER PILL TOSSERS. The Crack Baseball Team Made Up of Officers of the 53rd and 54th Pioneers.

WADSWORTH WALKER SECOND IN PIONEERS PLAY FAST BALL. ATHLETICS AT THE STOCKADE. CHAMPIONSHIPS. In one of the fastest games of the season Lieut. George McNulty, athletic director among the Pioneers, Company I, 51st Pio• of the 15th field artillery, and Frank Moran, After a lay-off of many months Corporal neers, champions of the Camp last Fall, put Joseph B. Pearman, of the 105th United a crimp in the record of the 56th Pioneers boxing instructor of the camp, have organ• States Infantry, a prominent heel-and-toe by winning 5 to 2, last Wednesday. It was ized a Mutual Welfare League for the in• walker of the Metropolitan district, made an the first set-back of the year for the Maine mates of the division stockade prison. They excellent showing in the National Champion• ball tossers. At no time were the Flushing visited the prisoners Saturday afternoon, ships of America, held in the Twenty-second youngsters behind. and after handing out friendly advice on the Regiment Armory, New York. He competed Slim Fontain had the Lumbermen eating- importance of paying strict attention to mili• in the two-mile walk, matching his strides out of his hands and was aided by armor- against the best walkers in the East. He plate fielding, Company I tallied in the first. tary regulations and discipline, staged the finished in second place to Dick Remer, of Fitzsimmons hit safely to left, stole second, first of a series of athletic events. The pris• the New York A. C, last year's winner. and came home on Levesque's bad throw. oners took great interest in the sport. The winner's time was 14:28, while our LeConte's triple, followed by Frazier's sin• Moran gave the prisoners an exhibition of representative from the 105th Infantry cov• gle, evened matters in the second, but after his prowess and demonstrated that he still ered the distance in 14:83, only a few yards that the New Yorkers forged ahead. has a lot of fight left in him, although he behind. Rolker, of the Irish-American Club, The score by innings: R. H. E. announced his retirement from the hempen finished in third place. 51st Pioneers 100 100 200— 5 13 3 arena after the recent defeat at the hands Corporal Pearman led the bunch from the 56th Pioneers 010 000 010— 2 8 6 of Fred Fulton. At the conclusion of the three-quarter mile mark to the mile and one- Batteries—Fontain and Lewis; Levesque, festivities the prisoners thanked Lieutenant half, and then Remer went to the fore, fol• DeGrasse and Winch. McNulty and Moran for the interest taken lowed by Pearman. Several times down the in them and gave assurance that their con• straightaways, both men fought it out for 104TH FIELD ARTILLERY ON DIAMOND duct in the future would be of such a nature the lead and it wasn't until the last lap that TOO. as to again win the respect of their com• the winner could be picked. The 104th Field Artillery has hurled its manding officers. hat into the baseball ring, too. Private Neu- On account of being called into service back, of the Medical Detachment, is the man• one year ago, Pearman, formerly of the 71st VOLLEY-BALL GAINS FAVOR. ager and wants to hear from all the local New York, has been unable to pay much at• magnates. Over fifty volley-ball nets and volley-balls tention to athletics. The wet weather in R. H. E. have been distributed by Mr. Jenney, of the Spartanburg, prior to this race, made the Co. A, 106th M. G. B. .330 012 010—10 11 2 Physical Department of the Y. M. C. A. for athletic field track difficult for training pur• Co. B, 106th M. G. B. .110 200 210— 7 8 3 use at his units, at the officers' quarters and poses and under the circumstances he de• Batteries—Sonville and Kyritz; Carroll, in company streets. A growing interest in serves much credit for doing so well in the Richardson and Ocelik. the game is evident. Leagues have been championships. All the competitors had R, H. E. formed in the 51st Pioneers and in the Ma• months of indoor training for this race, on 106th Field Hospital. .000 110 100— 3 6 2 chine Gun Battalions. the armory floors in New York. Wofford College...... 011 010' 30*— 5 5 2 In the Millrose athletic games in New Batteries—Forbes and Frey; Martin and York last year Pearman did 14:10 for two Rivers. OFFICERS OF 1ST PIONEERS WANT miles, and there is no telling how much GAMES. faster he could have gone with two weeks ACTIVITY ON TENNIS COURTS. more of indoor practice this year, especially Eight tennis courts are being constructed The officers of the 1st Pioneers have their with his added strength and weight. by the Y. M. 0. A. Physical Department. bats all polished up and are willing to tackle We are glad to state that his is the best F'our of them are located at Unit 271, two any commissioned outfit in camp. Get in record made by a representative of this di• at 96, one at 97 and the other at the 102d touch with their manager, Lieut. Waldo vision in the National Championships. Sanitary Train. Burnsicle. 24 GAS ATTACK News of the Y. M. C. A. EDITED BY RAY F. JENNEY.

"WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?" SUBJECT OF "THE DAWN OF FREEDOM" IN TUNE

CAPT. ANDERSON'S ABLE ADDRESS. WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE. Last week at "97" was ushered in with The high standard of the usual program the picture "The Dawn of Freedom," worthy at TWO-SEVEN-ONE has been maintained beginning, and the whole unit was put in with marked variety. Every department tune with the spirit of the age. Tuesday has been represented with a feature of nota• night fanned the flame with a miscellaneous patriotic program rendered by a sextette of ble importance. Spartanburg people. Their voluntary pro• An evening's entertainment furnished by gram was not only greatly appreciated but Mrs. A. G. Blotcky and party from the First proved an incitement to a number of the Presbyterian church of Spartanburg was en• local boys to get into the game with solos thusiastically received by a large crowd of and chorus singing. Patriotism ran high. The following night Mr. Clark, Y. M. C. A. men. The singing of Mrs. Blotcky deserves Camp Song Director, took up the spirit al• special mention, and the spirit in which the ready rife and swept it into a perfect storm. whole program was rendered made for its He had the boys singing forward, backward, memorable success. sideways and every other way. Dr. John R. Dr. John R. Mackay, of New York City, Mackay, of New York, was then introduced and for half an hour gripped that great au• was the speaker of a recent mid-week reli• dience with his message on "Play the Man." gious service. To the many who have heard Thursday night brought its composite Dr. Mackay comment is unnecessary. He is "Movie Program," and with it an enthu• a real man with a real man's message, and siastic, cheering crowd. Mrs. J. E. Lambie, the close attention accorded the speaker's of New York, paused in her world itinerary Friday evening to look in on our boys and E. S. FITZ. every word attests this tribute. bring them greetings from her rambles Mr. Ernest S. Fitz, recently appointed Mention must be made of the improvement abroad. They loved the womanly and ar• Building Secretary of Y. M. C. A. Unit in the mass singing. The fellows are tak• tistic touch she gave her story. Saturday a No. 96, was born in Waynesboro, Pennsyl• ing to it with all sorts of gusto, and we were normal crowd was present to witness a few in splendid trim for the coaching of Mr. vania. He was educated in the public and local bouts under the direction of Mr. An• Robert E. Clark, Y. M. C. A. Camp Music guish who was kindly loaned by Unit 92 for high schools of Waynesboro, later attend• Director, who was with us one evening and the occasion. ing business college in Baltimore, Md. ably demonstrated his ability for leadership. Palm Sunday dawned slowly neath drip• Since graduation, Mr. Fitz has been en• The results were instantly effective, and he ping skies; but Chaplain Keever was on gaged in business in Baltimore specializing received gratifying co-operation on the part hand for the Regimental service accompa• in credit and accounting branches. of the men. nied by the Trains and Military Police Band. Two hundred men listened almost breath• Mr. Fitz has always been active in church Building Secretary Bonk has been absent lessly to the message so applicable to the on a ten-day furlough, the time significantly and social service matters and is intensely day, while all felt that under the vivid de• spent in Ohio, Mr. Bonk's native state. Mr. interested in all out of doors activities. scription the Chaplain gave of the present Richard V. Crane, a new Secretary from Mr. Fitz came to Camp Wadsworth as a crisis through which we are passing they New York, has been assigned to assist the could almost hear the thunder of the big general assistant at Unit 97, later being Staff during Secretary Bonk's leave. gun that at that hour was shelling Paris. promoted to the position of Building Secre• Dr. Libby's lecture on "Germany in 1914" Passion Week services were announced and tary of Unit 96, which appointment he now was unanimously voted the best of the Edu• men went their way in reverent and thought• holds. cational lectures we have had so far. Dr. ful mood. Libby is a member of the Wofford College Mr. Allen led the singing for the evening faculty, Spartanburg, and a man of unusual service and Dr. Ayres the local Religious CAMP SHERIDAN FAVORITE ADDED TO personality. His wide travel and fluent dic• Work Secretary, seemed to get near the men Y. M. C. A. STAFF. tion provoke superlative interest, and he has with his address on "Living in Sight of Morris H. Issacs, who has been the main the ability to present intimate details in Jesus." The spirit of inquiry was in evi• a telling fashion. Dr. Libby was in Berlin factor in boosting Y. M. C. A. athletics at dence in the requests for personal inter• when war was declared, and the story of Camp Sheridan, has joined the local physi• views at the close. his escape from Geremany is a thrilling one. The Personnel of 97 is constantly shifting, cal staff during the past week. For twenty- Slides, at the close the lecture, gave inter• not that men do not love the management or five years he was boxing instructor at the esting sidelights on Germany. can not stay with the unit, but because their Cincinnati Gymnasium and Athletic Club Ours was a rare privilege when Capt. An• training somehow puts them in immediate and since donning the Red Triangle he has derson of the 52nd Pioneers spoke to the line for promotion,—Ford to a Chaplaincy,— continued his good work. Because of his Sunday night meeting, choosing as his sub• Burgh to Overseas,—Fitz to Building Secre• ject, "What is your life?" Capt. Anderson tary for 96, etc. The latest acquisition to perpetual good nature and willingness he is a born orator with an individuality that fill depleted ranks comes to us from Han• was dubbed "General Sunshine" by the Ohio must perforce "drive home" his message. cock, New York—Mr. T. D. Crary, a man of soldiers. Mr. Issacs is the father of Captain His appearance here was an inspiration, and rich business experience and special train• Stanley Issacs, Company F, 54th Pioneers. we look forward to his coming again. ing for "Y" work. GAS ATTACK 25

EVENTS AT UNIT NO. 96. ORPHEUS FOUR TO SING AT ARMY Y THE PRISONERS' EXHIBIT. The outstanding event of the week has been BUILDINGS. the transfer of Mr. Shutt to headquarters as The Orpheus Four, famous prize winning Maj. Sharp Conducts Class in Physical Camp Social Secretary, and the coming of quartette of San Francisco, are to be in Training in the Stockade. Mr. E. S. Fitz to be our building general sec• camp from Saturday, April 6th to 9th, in• retary. Mr. Fitz has had four months of ex• clusive. This quartette sang at San Fran• Maj. J. B. Sharp and Sergt. Maj. Tector, perience in Camp Wadsworth as a member of of the British military mission here, gave cisco Exposition, in open competition with the staff at No. 97. In civil life he is a suc• an exhibition with their class in physical hundreds of quartettes from all over the cessful Baltimore business man. training before Maj. Gen. Carter and Brig. There was a rousing sing-song last Thurs-; country, was awarded blue ribbon for male Gen. Mann, who were visitors to camp last day evening under the leadership of Mr. quartette work. This is a return engage• week. General O'Ryan and a number of Clark, and a most impressive address by Dr. ment to camp for this well known musical other officers were present. John E. Mackay of New York. Wednesday Major Sharp some time ago offered to give evening the band of the 57th Pioneers was organization. They are to be routed through physical training to the prisoners in the greeted by a crowded house, and rendered a the Army Y. M. C A. Buildings in camp. camp stockade, and his offer was gladly ac• really wonderful program. Their programme is planned to suit all cepted. He and Sergt. Maj. Tector ,go to The joint regimental service Sunday was musical tastes. These men know the songs the prison every afternoon about 4:30 and in charge of Chaplain Jaynes. An unusually that will please soldiers, for they have vis• give the prisoners about three-quarters of large number of officers were present, nearly ited nearly every training camp and can• an hour of training of various kinds. The all from the 53rd Pioneers. Their good exam• tonment in this country. men seem to appreciate it. The work they ple is commended to officers and men of other The quartette is composed of Messrs. get in this way will keep them from growing regiments. Samuel B. Glass, J. T. Fraser, Berner A. stale physically during their confinement, Perhaps the most interesting gathering of Campbell, H. M. Dudley, of Los Angeles, and also makes them feel that they are not the week was that of Sunday evening, when Cal. entirely forgotten or outcast. Many of those after a song service, Dr. Chas. Tyndall, of Mt. now in confinement will yet make good Vernon, N. Y., delivered a lecture on ether ARMY Y. M. C. A. NOTES. soldiers. waves, illustrating it with numerous experi• E. Reed Shutt, who has served for several ments. He carries with him an elaborate ap• months past as Building Secretary of Unit A LETTER TO THE EDITOR. paratus, some of it rare and costly. Not only No. 96, has been transferred to the Army 1 There has come to my attention lately was his address a treat to those of scientific Y. M. C. A. Headquarters Staff and will take a condition which I think should be brought tastes, but it was of inestimable religious on the work of Camp Social Secretary, hav• to the attention of all officers of this divi• value, and many a man went back to his tent ing in charge the routing and detail of gen• sion and some definite plan of action decided with new reverence for the Creator of this eral activities throughout the Army Y. M. upon. I refer to the saluting of Army offi• marvelous world and Author of his own life. C. A. buildings. . cers by the students of Wofford College. Father Kelly, who was to have been the Mr. E. S. Fitz, the able Business Secretary Some students do it and some don't. If it speaker at the first Holy Week service Mon• of Unit No. 97 for the past four months, has is a matter which is to be left to the discre• day night was detained by his duties at the been transferred from that unit to the Build• tion of the boy himself, I feel that all offi• hospital, and Chaplain Harper corning in his ing Secretaryship of Unit No. 96. cers should cease returning such salutes. If place delivered a strong and practical mes• We wish both of these gentlemen the one young man will salute, why don't they sage. The movie program Tuesday evening largest measure of success possible in their all do it? I have no knowledge of what the drew the usual crowd. Chaplain Foreman was new work, which we are sure they will have, college regulations may be in this connec• • the speaker at the religious service Wednes• with the co-operation of their associates. tion and of course it is not compulsory that day night. they salute Army officers. However if Army officers are courteous enough to return such A BIG NIGHT AT UNIT 93. SOLDIER BOOKS. salutes, then surely all students should be In a programme replete with many inter• The GAS ATTACK is getting to be such a equally so to give them. esting features, Corporal William Casey and humdinger that it is having books sent to 2. Let's have some more views on this "his boys," as they are known, from the it by big publishers to be reviewed. subject and I feel that all of us would be Third Pioneer Infantry, scored heavily at We have just received from Funk & Wag• better satisfied to have the thing adjusted Unit 93, Y. M. C. A., on Thursday, March nails, New York, two books. One is "Health to one method of action. 21st. An elaborate bill of music, song and for the Soldier and Sailor," by Professor LIEUT. GEO. F. WALLACE. comedy had been arranged by the corporal Irving Fisher and Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, and much credit must be given the boys for both well known authorities. It packs a lot TEN—SHUN! the clever way in which they put their num• of useful information for a soldier in a small What kind of men make up the great bers over. "Casey and his gang," as they volume. Read it and avoid the O. D. pill. American army? What kind of men are are familiarly known throughout the camp The other book is 4'The Soldier's Service we sending to wipe out the Prussian scheme and at Charlotte, N. C, where they were sta• Dictionary," edited by Frank H. Vizetelly, of power ? tioned before coming to Wadsworth, are Litt. D., LL.D. which is a short cut to Have a look at your hidden enemies, the from New England and many of them have French. Phonetic pronunciations are given. greatest menace to your health and life. appeared on the vaudeville stage from time The words are the words we will need to Get wise to the BEST WAY to keep your• to time. use when we want to order ham and in self free from disease and to "keep in fight• Building Secretary James A. Moore, who Paris. The book is convenient in size and ing trim." has become deeply interested in the work can be slipped into a pocket. With it, a man of the men of the 106th Infantry and the can venture forth into the realms of parlez Watch out for the posters announcing 2d Pioneer Regiment, was largely instru• vous with impunity. when the Health Exhibit and Steremotor- mental in getting Corporal Casey to appear graph will be in your regiment. before the Brooklyn boys. Without detract• OUTDOOR RING AT UNIT 95. ing anything from previous stunt nights held "First Aid" is the title of the illustration at this unit, it can safely be said that the An outdoor boxing ring and entertainment that the GAS ATTACK will bear upon its cover program put on by the Third Pioneer men platform is now under construction at Y. M. next week. It is an unusually striking draw• was one of the best ever staged at this end C. A. Unit 95. Some good bouts will be ing from the pen of Private Ray Van Buren, of the camp. staged there in the near future. Co. E, 107th Infantry. 26 GAS ATTACK

World Brevities Edited by J. S. KINGS LEY

FIFTY YEARS OLD, and had intended to form a great empire, have sacrificed all and for what?—Nothing The University of California is fifty years but had crushed innocent nations and had but hunger, and cold, and nakedness, dis• old and claims to be second in size of regis• committed the most terrible crimes ever ease and death, and the hatred of all man• tration in America. This university has one committed by civilized man, said: "You kind.' " of the most beautiful groups of buildings of can't talk peace with us now. Either you This pamphlet disturbed the German any educational institution and the campus smash your autocracy, or by the gods, we papers greatly. is called the finest in the world. will smash it for you. Before you talk peace terms get back from France, get back from TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR TARS. MASONS DEDICATE SUN DIAL. Belgium into Germany, and then we will Our nation is building a great fleet which talk peace." In Camp Johnston the Masons in camp will require 12,000 new officers and 85,000 construct and dedicate a fine bronze sun men. There will be great need to have THE MIDDLE CLASS IN RUSSIA. dial mounted on an artistic pedestal. Noted trained men for these positions and many Russia long ago changed her attitude to• Masons within and outside of camp partici• schools are introducing the science of navi• ward the war by ceasing to oppose the Ger• pated in the impressive ceremonies. gation in the course of study. In early mans and to begin to oppose all who have American education nearly every New Eng• either personal or real property. It is said WAR RISK INSURANCE STILL OPEN. land boy studied navigation; later this cus• that now former generals and bankers being- tom was discontinued, but now there is a On April 12 the war risk insurance will reduced by the loss of all their property are demand for a revival. The new schools are close and the greatest opportunity ever of• earning their bread by cleaning streets and located both on the Atlantic and on the fered by any community, company or nation by becoming railroad porters. Women who Pacific coasts and on the Great Lakes. will have passed away. The cost of this once were in homes of abundance are now insurance is about one-tenth that charged by in their old age selling newspapers on the AMERICA'S GREATEST ATHLETE insurance companies. It insures in case of streets, while thousands of the middle and DEAD. death or in case of disability besides pro• higher classes are murdered by the soldiers Martin Sheridan, one of the greatest ath• viding for renewal after the war so that it who once were a defense to Russia. This is letes America has had, died one week ago. can be continued like any life insurance at democracy run wild. Russia needed reforms He was America's greatest athlete at the a cost lower than the rates of any existing but the reforms could have been acquired Olympic games when measured by points. insurance company. by other means than by riot and murder. He also held till recently the discus record President Wilson hopes to reach the Rus• ENGLAND ENFRANCHISES EIGHT of 141 feet. sian people and to get their attention in MILLIONS. order to show them that the whole world, ADVISES ALL PARTIES TO BACK The new electoral reform act of England excepting Germany, wishes a greater democ• WILSON. not only gives the ballot to women, but also racy and a greater equality among classes. to a large number of additional voters. It Colonel George Harvey, who was once a is the most sweeping measure of enfran• THE SEIZING OF THE DUTCH SHIPS. great friend of Wilson, but who became es• chisement in British history. This measure As is generally known, about twenty tranged from him and has bitterly opposed will double the number of voters in Eng• Dutch ships in our American harbors and him in his paper, The North American Re• land, increasing the number of voters from about half as many more in entente harbors view, asks both parties to unite in support• 8,000,000 to 16,000,000. have been seized by the Allies. Necessity ing Wilson and advises that there be no Men who serve in the army may vote at is the ground for seizure, the Allies will pay election contests this fall. the age of 19; if not in the army the age is for the same or will return them after the 21. Women must be thirty years of age to war. Holland has more ships than she can LLOYD GEORGE SENDS HURRY UP qualify as voters. use lying idle in her own harbors and CALL. In England there are several kinds of America will allow her plenty of food; be• Lloyd George cabled to this country call• plural voting, for instance a university grad• sides will see that trade is carried on be• ing for reinforcements in the shortest pos• uate has two votes, one in his own town tween Holland and her colonies. sible time. He states that the British are and the other for the university candidate, Americans quite generally approve of the attacked by an immensely larger force than or a business man having a business in one act, while opinion is varied in Holland. This they have, resulting in the retirement of section and living in another section, has seemed the only way to feed Holland and the British. He says that this battle is the two votes, one at home and one where his yet to carry on the war, besides the act is greatest and the most momentous in the business is located. Women do not have so justified by international law. history of the world. He believes that it many plural votes as do men. has just begun and is depending upon the In England proxy voting is allowed in case A SEDITIOUS GERMAN PAMPHLET. American troops to hasten across the At• a person is necessarily absent on election There have been hundreds of pamphlets lantic. day. circulated throughout Germany, one of which All candidates must deposit $750.00 as a was smuggled to Liverpool. It was printed MANY ARE LOSING THEIR FURLOUGH. forfeit if he does not receive an eighth of and distributed before the last great out• In four states laws have been passed all the votes on election. break. It says, in part: "Peace will come which will require all men between 18 and when the lesson is learned by the German 50 either to work or to go to jail. This law GOMPERS TOLD THE FACTS. people that the voice of Europe can not be includes millionaires and street loafers. Al• An effort was made by the laborers of denied with impunity. Peace will come ready the law is being enforced in several Germany to have a meeting of the laboring when the German people will say to the communities with good effect. Several other men of all the fighting nations and talk Emperor: 'We have obeyed you, we have states are considering the passage of similar ways and means of peace. Gompers, feeling sacrificed ourselves and dear ones and even bills. Many a loafer will lose his job if that Germany had not only caused the war our ideals and beliefs and traditions—we these laws become effective. GAS ATTACK 27

DR. MUCK RUNS AMUCK. Dr. Karl Muck, the musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which is no doubt the greatest musical organization For Sale or Rent in America made himself obnoxious to the American people by refusing to play the Na• tional airs at the concerts he was giving. IN THE BEAUTIFUL j Dr. Muck finally avoided further trouble by playing the Star Spangled Banner at a con• cert, but the secret service man went to his "Land of the Sky" home and found some papers which caused his arrest and retention in the Cambridge Located in the wonderful "SAPPHIRE COUNTRY" jail till the papers are further examined and Dr. Muck's activities investigated. 6 MILES FROM HENDERSONVILLE On the Toxaway Railroad, at Horse Shoe Station, I have • WAR- AND PEST-CURSED ARMENIA. 2 DWELLING HOUSES and about 14 ACRES of land (land I In Armenia it is claimed that already one million children have starved to death, enclosed with wire fence) which I will sell or rent. while 200,000 mothers were unable to lend Both houses are very close to the Depot. The upper a helping hand. Besides the suffer• building, located on Horse Shoe Mountain, has two bath ing of the children there are 2,000,000 women rooms, hot and cold water, toilets complete both upstairs and | who are perishing at a horrible rate. Ar• downstairs. The other house has toilet and bath rooms, with menia has been the scene of more and greater suffering during this war than has hot and cold water, on the first floor only. The house on the any other country; in fact poor Armenia mountain is decidedly the prettiest location in Western North | has been devastated, plundered and her peo• Carolina. The property is located opposite the Vanderbilt ple have been murdered scores of times dur• Estate. Good automobile roads from Spartanburg to Horse ing the past decades. Shoe. IF INTERESTED WRITE TO DEPRECIATED MONEY. The cost of the war is beyond the numer• ical conception of any person. The cost for JOHN D. COLLINS a single month is greater than the cost of any great war previous to this world war. SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA Already the paper currency in Russia is selling in New York at a discount of 80 per [ cent. A ruble worth 52 cents is selling for A CIGARETTE CAUSES EXPLOSION. OUR ORDNANCE WORKERS. ten cents. German currency is not for sale In New Jersey a million dollar loss was We have nearly 100,000 persons of which in this country, but in Switzerland it sells caused by an explosion caused by the care• 10,000 are women who are working day and at a discount of 50 per cent, the currency of lessness of a workman who threw a lighted night in two government and three private France and of Italy is also at a considerable cigarette on the floor covered with chlorate plants manufacturing rifles and in one gov• discount. United States and Great Britain of potash which exploded, thus destroying ernment and nine private plants manufac• have the advantage over other great nations the factory, the Erie machine shops, be• turing cartridges. due to their great gold reserves besides be• sides wrecking many other buildings. The They are turning out 72,000 rifles a week ing great gold producing nations. careless workman and the tenants of the and 7,300,000 rifle cartridges a day. Soon building who allowed illegal storage of ex• there will be turned out 100,000 rifles weekly CALLS FOR TRAINING- OF FIVE MIL• plosives have been arrested and are out on and 10,000,000 cartridges daily. The United LION AMERICANS. bail awaiting trial. States has now nearly 1,500,000 rifles. This General Wood expresses a hope that is the world's record in producing ammuni• America will select and train 5,000,000 men THE FIRST KHAKI. tion. immediately. The American Defense So• ciety approves his suggestion. General The word Khaki means "dust colored," U. S. STEEL RAISES WAGES. Wood says that 40,000,000 men have been un• so says Trench and Camp. The coloring- der arms at some time since the bgeinning agent was discovered by two Englishmen The United States Steel Company has de• of the war and that America hopes to fur• who were experimenting with coal tar dyes. cided to raise the wages of its employees nish 500,000 men soon. He feels that this They immediately set to work to apply their $45,000,000 beginning April 15: This will will be far too few to do much good and invention to the clothing of the British affect 200,000 workers who will receive an far too few to represent this great nation. army which first occurred in 1885. The advance of 15 per cent, to their present sal• Americans took the custom from the British ary. A NEW SPEED LIMIT. and further used the same color for the A new telegraph apparatus which has been American woolen uniforms, but gave the SECRETARY BAKER TO PHONE OVER devised but which is a military secret as yet, uniforms an olive color. ATLANTIC. will transmit over a single grounded wire There is being constructed in France a 6,000 words a minute. This Is nearly as THE SUBMARINES GET BUSY. wireless station costing $2,000,000, which much matter as is in some daily papers. The past week has been a German week will be powerful enough to send and to re• The utility of the invention can well be seen in nearly every respect for not only was her ceive messages to and from Arlington, which when one takes into consideration the fact attack on the western front successful to a is at Washington, D. C. It will then be that a person can learn to operate this new considerable extent but the U-boat sank 28 possible to phone across the Atlantic. The machine in a few hours while the receiv• British, six French and three Italian ships voice breaks up the air waves and the high ing apparatus is automatic and will receive in one week. Besides the number sunk electrical power drives these broken air codes or any foreign language as well as there were nineteen ships which were un• waves across the ocean. the language of the receiver. successfully attacked by the U-boat. (Continued on page 40) 28 GAS ATTACK

COMPANY B, 107TH INFANTRY. Now we wouldn't give a good continental, We have with us an institution founded on ding-busted darn if he got up at mid-night IF he would only condescend to allow the peace• the uncertain pedestal of New York's ancient ful and law-abiding members of the company political days known as '' Tammany Hall.'1 to slumber on in restful sleep. But such is Its various members are mysteriously un• IIIHtIS; not the case. The corporal begins to feel a known although the suspicious are wont to little lonesome for want of company so he speak their minds now and then. At present starts in at the head of the street and wakens Designed and Tailored consternation reigns among these tigers of you with a lusty yell "Come on me brave by a New York Tailor lads, up and at 'em!" Complete Assortment of old due to the strange but indisputable hier• Materials to Select from oglyphics recently discovered on the 1' Bump When he has traversed the length of the street with his morning call he awaits the For Board." (London papers please copy.) outcome with indomitable courage and un• . The past two weeks were very much occu• blinking eyebrows. Uniforms pied between the trip to the range, which was We are not making any threats nor do we new and interesting, and the three day '' house contemplate the shedding of blood but we re• Breeches party ' in the trenches which was nothing peat the motto of the ancient priests ef Overcoats new, thus failing to attract our attention in Rome, "Beware the Ides of March." the least. Note:—All formal notices must reach us is now ready for your inspection Certain young men who allowed the god before 8 a. m. Morpheus to overcome them with his hyp• Please omit flowers. , First-class Alterations notic ways while they '' took charge of this J ' and Repairing There was a time when we would believe post and all government.property, etc., etc." most of the rumors floating around. But now All Uniforms Made at My will agree that the trenches are a great mis• with the recent issue of blue "jumpers" we Establishment are Guaranteed as to Fit and Workmanship take. are inclined to be skeptical. Corporal MeLellan has left us to be a ser• As Ted Murphy says, "Why didn 't they Ash Your jBrother Officer geant at Division Headquarters. Good luck, tell us that in the first place and we could I He Knows Mac! have brought our old clothes down with us." We are still laying for that mongrel be• The company was very much grieved to longing to Corporal Irvine. Already the front hear of the illness of First Sergeant Hutchin• lawns of a good many squads have suffered as son, who was sent over to the Officers5 Train• a result of the pedal extremities of this ing School last January and had been doing shaggy looking member of the canine race. very well there when he was taken sick. We Now the question is: trust that he will get back to his normal 107% East Main St. One Flight Up Where did Sergeant- Schoen have those health very soon. blond hairs cut off? And why? CORPORAL D. VAN R. HILL. Did you know that Woods was in the trenches? Why did Holmes go South instead of North COMPANY E, 51ST PIONEER INFANTRY. See on his furlough? Of late "fall in" means with saws and Is J. J. Riley any relation to J. G. Riley? axes. If so, why? Mrs. Daniel J. Cassidy and son, wife and As far as we know there were no riots on son of Captain D. J. Cassidy, of this Company, St. Patrick's day. However a near-riot al• are visiting in Kingston, N. Y. umney Rock most took place the other afternoon when Corporals Pousant and Woodruff are at• Corporal O 'Brien, who was lately transferred tending cooking school and soon expect to be to the Headquarters Company, went galloping full fledged "chefs." First by us on a milk-black steed of wavering gait Sergeant Charles Pauly and Private Rob• and tearful eye. It was only by means of ert Norton are enjoying their furloughs in fixed bayonets that the crowd was kept back. Catskill, N. Y., and vicinity. Speaking of Camouflage, why does Fitz- Cook Hugh Glenn on has been transferred to pa trick have to take it up as a special study? our headquarters where he will act as able Then If we remember correctly Fitz could make a assistant to First Cook "Poppy" Roe, also pick-axe look like a 500-ton girder with the formerly of this company. throttle wide open. First Lieutenant Albert C. ^Fredman is _ ance Under the guise of what might be called a spending a furlough in Brooklyn, N. Y. society news item, Jim Aimer and Ken Day Our company comedian, Thomas Genteel, have taken the week off to distribute pro• better known as "Charlie Chaplin," is unde• grams at the Division Show down at the cided whether to be a bugler, mule skinner or Harris Theatre. take an S. C. D. 18 Miles by Motor Democratically speaking they are the per• Cook Christiana made fritters for the boys from sonification of "Free Lances in Diplomacy.'; recently. Mess Sergeant Kerr stood by him We have in our midst a certain corporal in while mess was being served but much to the Hendersonville the 4th platoon who is the only man in the surprise of Cook Williams, no riot occurred. history of the United States Army that ever CORPORAL JEAN L. BAPTISTE. gets up before the blood-curdling notes of "First Call7' ring out on the morning breeze Next week there will be a fine example of at 5:45 a. m. artistic photography in the GAS ATTACK. It Chimney Rock Co. No, he -s not on any special detail nor is Hendersonville, North Carolina lie a member of the Shower-Bath Club; hence will contain, among other features, the sort the cause for this early rising on his part is of picture you would like to have in your still a mystery. den if you had a den. Don't miss it. GAS ATTACK 29

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COMPANY I, 106TH INFANTRY 15th New York Infantry, in a conversation COMPANY H, 51ST PIONEERS. with Captain Langer. At seven 0 'clock P. M., March 16th, Com• The "Worst Serious" Quoit Tournament is Phil Maguire, during a conversation, "What pany I marched into a handsomely decorated now on. The "vodeville" team of Lowe and is the difference between Captain Langer and mess hall to a rollicking march rendered by Weeks are prancing along in the lead, closely the piano? No difference. They are both a good part of the 106th Infantry band. The followed by the "Robin Red Skin'' team of square, upright and grand.'' Wild applause mess hall was appropriately decorated with Sergeants Burtis and Mangan. Bridgie from the men. generous clusters of holly and green crepe Webber and Rheumatics Mack are sure of Sam Ellis, female impersonator, flirting with paper under the supervision of Sergeant Hum• finishing "A la Pittsburgh.'' our First Sergeant. The First Sergeant was phreys. Bugler Tieman killed and skinned a high• actually blushing, can you imagine a First land moccasin snake about five feet long. Needless to say, the repast made up by the Sergeant blushing? After drying it will be sent to somewhere in cooks and Mess Sergeant was a world beater Fred A. Clark in his little song entitled New York. It will make a swell hat band, (in the army). Lieutenant Colonel M. N. Lieb- 1'Just a Trifle," accompanied by his banjo. Beatrice. mann, 105th Infantry, former Captain of Captain Langer in selections on the mando• Company I, 23rd New York Infantry, was lin. Very few men knew that "The Skip• Wonder what that postal card was that the guest of the evening. Captain J. F. per" could tickle the strings and he took the Apple-0 Joe received the other day! He's Langer succeeded in enticing Colonel Lieb- crowd by surprise. been counting on his fingers and talking to ma 1111 away from his duties long enough for For a company entertainment and dinner, himself ever since. us to own our old commander for the entire of the several that I Company has had, Saint Second handed knives, checker boards, pen• evening, greatly to the satisfaction of the Paddy's Eve took the prize. cils, rubber heels, etc., for sale. Apply Ar• men. Captain Langer, Lieutenant Elwood M. S. E. thur Goodwin, Company Clerk. Groesbeck and Lieutenant Samuel D. Da vies We.; expect-to stage a fast bout in the near were the only other officers present. COMPANY L, 105TH INFANTRY. future between 11 Drug Store" Caravetta and The entertainment: Carney O'Donnell and Every man in Company L feels proud of "Slivers" Thorne. : . Phil Maguire in their new sketch imperson• the record that we set for the Division on the We hope Sergeant Schopp is enjoying his ating colored comedians, Carney O'Donnell range. We have hung up a record that will furlough. Bet it's rye bread and limburger, and Sam Ellis, female impersonator (she had be hard to beat, and we feel that we are with a cold bottle every night. Go to it, Bob, a certain Lieutenant's eye) in songs and "some shooting outfit.'' The last day of the we 're all licking our chops with you. dances, Billy Travis at the piano, Dick shoot was one that we will never forget, we Saw Privates Miller and Feeney having a Grover in songs and stories, Fred A. Clark in only lacked a few points to beat the high• real lesson in Pioneer bridge work today. songs and banjo selections and the surprise est company to date and a few more to place Keep it up, boys, we are short one team of of the evening, Captain Langer in mandolin us in a position that, we think, will never mules just now, and you are both going selections. The band played selected songs be beaten. Every one showed tension, al• great. all evening and the boys deserved the enthu• most to the breaking point, even the offi• Corporal Lane is all set for that furlough. siastic applause. The entertainers were also cers could hardly stand still the strain, After Mount Vernon it's all aboard for Troy. a big and welcome surprise to the men as but we brought home the bacon. It was al• Let's see,—where did we hear that name be• showed by the frequent recalls for encores. most pitiful to see the expressions on the fore? : Col. Liebmann gave a very interesting and men's faces as they were disqualified on the This 5:45 reveille stuff is great. Corporal energetic talk on team work and discipline, a fourth table. They looked as though they Fleming is now in his glory as he can lead talk that was heard and appreciated by every had lost their last friend when the Skipper the gang in a good hard day's work, al• man in the silent mess hall. When Col. Lieb• crooked that little finger of his towards the though he has worthy opponents in Corporal mann was finished, the M. P. 's at Spartan• rear. It reminded me of Silk Hat McLaugh• O 'Brien and Private Skan 11 el. burg turned out for what they thought was lin, starting Johnnie Mac towards the show• The members of the storm tent spent about a riot, but it was only the loud and lasting ers. Here is the record, give it the east and an hour yesterday posing for various pic• applause by the men. Captain Langer then west. tures. Now, girls, get ready to pick out the talked to the company, dwelt on the very good Grand total for week of course of instruc• one that looks best to you. record made by the company on the rifle tion: After having all of our issued property range and hoped after seeing the wonderful Qualifications. checked up, we hear Freddie Merritt is short improvement in the company since last Oc• Instruction—167-100%. about $74.36 worth. Who said "Gimmie?" tober, that they would keep on improving un• Table 1—167-100%. beware—you may not even hear that much. til we were the best company in the Division. Table 11—166-99%. The latest rumor—"We leave in a week Hits of the evening, Carney O'Donnell's Table 111—141-84%?. for Bathgate Oval.'' impersonation of a colored member of the Table IV— 83-50%. - - •• ' L. A. HEITZ. 30 GAS ATTACK

BATTERY E, 105TH FIELD ARTILLERY. HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, 3RD

Ed Sullivan, known as the grappling kid, PIONEER INFANTRY. has started intensive training to meet all Well, we'll say that Corp. "Billy" Casey comers at the wrestling game. If Ed wres• went over the top with his 'i Jazz'7 Band tles the way he eats porterhouse steaks he "Let's Go to the Saturday night up at Y. M. C. A. Unit No. will make the Bigtimers look like cripples. 95. Tommy Slosson, of "Borstarge Fame," MOVIES!" Doc Gallagher took a flying trip to Gaff• was also in the limelight, not forgetting our ile y to look conditions over and came back John McCormack, Jackie Lynch, and the re• with a smile. What's the idea, Doc? maining members of the old '(Dandy Fifth" What do you want to see? We have with us one K. P. Bob Cowles, who contributed their share to the program— Thrillers, Love Dramas, Cus• who has talked many a mess sergeant out taking into consideration the show had been tard Pie Comedies, Wild of a meal. If appetites were promotions he arranged on a short notice. Once more we 711 West stuff, Vamp-Pictures, would be a general. have to hand it to you, "George Cohan Mystery Photoplays? We Casey," you're there, and with the rep you Pete Forsman (The Buzzer Kid) got a tip have them all. are now making the old '' Nickel'' back home he was an athlete and started jumping and in Laurence will shoot up to a quarter. And they are all running. He is a good runner and I hear he new and fresh! got his experience by being chased by cops. The boys on the street are more than Our corps consists of 29 men, 5 officers and anxious to get some of the oatmeal Hughey We know what soldiers want ambitious Private First Class Pierce Aroix. passed out Saturday morning and ship it, P. and we will see that you get Private John Farrell, otherwise known as Q. D. B. V. D. Berlin, Germany. Neverthe• it. A good show not occa• Cork-leg, who was transferred here in Jan• less 1 i Hospital Annie'' Chad wick, was as sionally, but EVERY TIME! uary, has been raised to an orderly to one usual right there for seconds. You can't beat Come In Tonight. of the officers. Some record for a young that boy, pass him the rubber boots bill, he man. never fails to come in on the second relief. Fred Mitchell is very desirous of entering Admission Price 15c Private Joe Quigley was a little peeved on the balloon school at Omaha, Neb., as he account of seeing his intended brother-in- law -\s name in a recent copy. Don't be jeal• feels that he should be way above some of The Bonita ous Joe, she '11 love you just the same. the fifers in "Shevrons" Drum Corps. Will some kind reader please inform us as Notion Picture Theatre Private Walter Shields, a former student of the Long Island College Hospital, is with to how we can keep "Annie" away from (Opposite Cleveland Hotel) us. He claims that he is learning to be a 'i Cardinal'' Newman's barrack bag? Joe doctor. I pity the poor patients. says he doesn't object to Chad's touch sys• Gloomey Lon Nolan has just returned tem, but fails to see the idea of keeping his from a short visit to Brooklyn, where he soiled clothes there, there just naturally went to visit his mother, who was reported to be sick. All the boys are glad to see him dirty, not soiled. back with that winning smile of his. i1 Adorable Mary,'' Mother Evan and Soldiers Oakfield 's pride, Bill Stevens, is working Dainty Marie greet thee. This is what we in the office now. Bill can be found any look for in that letter to the maiden in Ja• of Camp Wadsworth night in his tent with Barney Williams amus• maica Plain, who posed with the little Pil• ing the boys by telling them some of his grim not so many months ago. Should jokes, but Barney can always go him one better. Things that never happen. Stand At Attention Private Wauchop, the regular army man, One of the Graveyards Hall Eoom boys who claims he went into Mexico, is always passing the smokes or the eats. Before My Camera telling us that when he was at the border how The boy from the Boston Post failing to they used to do things. He was Sergeant in write Montreal nightly. the Infantry at that time and all the boys Send Home A Photograph Our stable sergeant failing to stand rev• hope that it won't be long until he is wear• eille or retreat. ing the stripes again. "Tell 'em I say Hell-o" Dornlas passing Our Work is Unexcelled Harold Blaisdell is back from the Base Hospital, where he underwent a slight opera• up a good smoke. tion. Chadwick paying that bill at the Chardon THE WITTE STUDIO Bunk fatiguer Neuback can be found all St. home. day long in the '' Gimmie tent'' holding down Tweet refusing a furlough to Winthrop, his cot. Who thinks I'm lucky, boys! Mass. Panorama and Enlarging Olive Hessing, the kid from Indiana, is Our good looking horseshoer admitting that getting quite tough lately chewing tobacco a Specialty he comes from Novie. and keeps Barney pretty busy calling him down for shooting the juice alongside his Jigger paying that dollar he cheated his cot. Are you afraid that "you will float out dark complexioned friend out of the other P. E. WITTE some night, Barney? day. 12VA Magnolia Street Swakee Thompson must be a roof-painter Our Pill Doctor "Kid Hurley" with the on the outside, he is handy swabbing iodine. Spartanburg, S. C. thousand dollar smile getting his money. The Siggey sisters can be seen each day Formerly of Troop "I," First New- The world famed "Gloom Chasers" los• York Cavalry before meals walking up and down giving the Batteries the once over. What's the matter ing their reputation and the brotherly love Phone 1402 with Battery E, Sig, have they lost their that they have for each other. reputation ? E. F. H. "SCOOPS." GAS ATTACK 31

55TH PIONEER INFANTRY NOTES Have you acknowledged your Red Cross Captain John II. Knuebel, Company I, has articles as Quartermaster property yet ? departed for the range at Glassy Rock, S. C, "Doc" Kendall, Regimental Supply Ser• geant, rides horseback about every five days. to test rifles found unserviceable and which He would devote more time to riding but he require the range test. The following officers and his horse don't seem to be able to strike and enlisted men were detailed to assist Cap• a mutual agreement as to who owns the sad• tain Knuebel at the range: Captain Gillig, dle. The horse keeps it but Frank is hovering Headquarters Company; Captain Meyer, Com• just above it most of the time. As a result he rests up about four days before venturing pany F; First Sergeant Benjamin Gossett, again. First Sergeant Harry May bank, First Ser• Color Sergeant " Jud" Strunk claims he geant Earl Borron, Sergeant Frank Gudenkoff, always understood that the Colors and the Sergeant William Olson, and Sergeant Thomas Color Sergeant would be perfectly safe far Charlton. back of the front line but since shells can The pancakes that Sergeant Joe Stone of L be hurled eighty miles now the same grade in the Coast Artillery doesn't look bad at Company made the other morning were sure all. Or as Band Sergeant Major Schneider enough SOME pancakes; but you didn't use says: "All that's required is your address.'' enough eggs, Joe. Note to Company Supply Sergeants: No, Band Sergeant Major Kenneth Davis and Regimental Supply Sergeant " Jimmie" Cor• Sergeant Herbert A. Helwig, Company K, re• nell doesn't own all that property he has in ported for duty this week after enjoying a his care even if he does give you that impres• three months furlough for the purpose of sion occasionally. But you will find that the studying for the entrance examinations at the regiment is never short on anything just the United States Military Academy, West Point, same. "SOME N. Y. Both Sergeants claim that they studied After camouflaging the big ditch that wan• hard on an average of at least six hours every ders through this camp the boys are certain day, including holidays. that they are eligible as instructors in that Clothes, Shades of Sir Walter Raleigh! And he ac• branch of the service. tually laid his coat down in a mud puddle for Lieutenant Arnstein of Company K has Old Boy, the vision in white shoes to walk on. been announced as athletic director for the The "Gas Gang" still hold together on 55th Pioneers and he is looking around for Headquarters Street, but Sergeants Palmer, material for a crack baseball team. Boxing Where did you Griswold and McLernon threaten to pitch a and wrestling shows and a track team are also tent nearer the stables if stable call is sound• on the way. Lieutenant Arnstein has pro• get that Outfit?" i ed any earlier. moted many big athletic events all over the Sergeant of the Guard: "Do you know country and is looking forward to a success• your general orders?" ful season here. Sentry: "Yes, sir." "Why at GOLDBERG'S where :; Sergeant "Bub" Murray of Company C is Sergeant of the Guard:. ''What are they?" they give special attention to :| on furlough in Buffalo and Company C mourns Sentry: ''The same as last night." the loss of its champion solitaire player. us fellows in the OFFICERS' \\ Echoes from Skull Practice. Work is progressing on the tennis court and TRAINING SCHOOL, in the se- || What is a Parole? Ans.—It's given to a photographs of the detail in charge of the lection of our clothes and equip- \ | prisoner for good conduct so as to encourage work will be published soon—providing of ment." !! other prisoners to try for same. course that those First Sergeants don't de• The "Cootie Club'' paraded on St. Pat• stroy the evidence in the meantime. "I thought so, for I have seen || rick 's Day-—to the Canteen—where cheer lead• Band practice is again being held daily and GOLDBERG'S equipment worn \\ er "Cutie Close'' set 'em up for the members. aside from the fact that it takes '' Monty'' Although the "Cootie Quartette" hasn't as from his "garden duty'' so much the practice by scores of Officers whose j; yet secured an invitation to perform at the is welcomed by the bandsmen. Band Leader judgment is right" \\ "You Know Me, Al" show, they continue to John Bolton is wearing a smile again, too. put in a few good licks nightly on their latest First Sergeant Ed JIahn, Company K, the "I'm sure when the other |; Tonawanda outfit, has almost recovered from acquisition in popular songs: "How I Love a soon to be Officers see the se- Pretty Face, Take Yourn Away.'' the effects of the vaudeville show in town lections I've made they'll lose 1 M%ss Sergeant Hunter Crooks, Company I, last week and has been laughing ever since makes quite a few trips to Saxon lately where but then the Keith shows never even hesitated no time in getting to GOLD- j; Mrs. Crooks is visiting from Buffalo. at Tonawanda. BERG'S to obtain these essen- First Sergeant Ben Gossett, Company E, has Lieutenant Gilbert in charge of the Canteen tials." \ been relieved from special duty at Headquar• passed the cigars last Saturday on his way out ters Provisional Depot in order to accompany of the Canteen. the detail inspecting rifles at Glassy Rock Musician Joe Ball, trombone artist and jazz range. player of fame, is a big hit with the boys Revised I. D. R. Left Face. Carry On. when the orchestra performs. Joe tells fun• Carranza Canizaro, big boss and all around ny stories too, but he just tells them—he don't athlete among the pots and pans in Head• explain any of his jokes. Goldberg's quarters kitchen, has changed his mind about Sergeant Bugler Drake was heard quietly Everything for the Officer who |! getting a furlough to visit his folks in Italy. getting his "pay-day" call properly dressed He is betting that he will be turning them up one night last week and as 11 Cliff'' always demands correctness in dress |! "sunny side up'' for the Pioneers in north• has the inside dope on the joy day there is ern Italy before many moons. much to be thankful for. 32 GAS ATTACK

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Second Battalion of the 105th Estab• lish New Hike Record.

The old vets of the National Guard can DR. L. C. MINTER remember without effort the many stories DENTIST of wonderful accomplishments that usually followed the old familiar phrase "Now . . . Rooms 305-6 Third Floor Florists for 44 Years at the Connecticut war game!" More re• Chapman Building at Madison Ave. ^ cently, within the past year or so, "When we 'and 44th St. were on the Border" has been borne with Phone 147 (Opposite Biltmore) patience and suffering. NEW YORK SPARTANBURG, S. C. Now, however, the second battalion of the 105th Infantry has completed a little cam• paign of its own which is the pride of every Telegraph your order officer and man in it, and, as far as we can learn has established a new record for hik• direct to Dards and ing. your flowers will be de• On Thursday afternoon, just after three livered any place in o'clock, in the midst of a heavy shower, the the world within a few battalion under command of Captain W. A. H. Ely (of Co. G) left the rifle range at DR. J. M. NESBITT hours. Glassy Rock for a two-day hike to Camp DENTIST Wads worth, each man, of course, carrying Successor to Dr. J. Af. Wallace complete equipment A. Rooms 305-6 Third Floor Two days sounded like pretty strenuous traveling, for it meant cutting off a whole Chapman Building day from the schedule that was in effect on Phonel47 the trip to the range. SPARTANBURG, S. C. Telegraph and Cable"Address Seven o'clock that evening Motlow Creek Dardsflor, New York was reached and after supper the march was resumed. One A. M. Wingo farm came into view and a short rest and hot black coffee put the men in such good spirits that the remaining nine miles looked easy. To the tunes of the old familiar hike songs the march was carried on. A cold sharp wind that blew up put snap and vim into the men as they swung along. Canteen Managers! Dawn was just breaking and the buglers : lowing first call as the men, tired and happy, Give the Boys the Best stood at attention in their company streets. Their Money They swore a solemn oath that "bunk fatigue" would be in order until after Will Buy Easter, but that night the officers signed just as many passes for town as ever, which Is a pretty good criterion of the condition OUR LINE OF of the men. General Michie, Lieut. Col. Liebman and Cigars Rheumatic Aches Capt. Ely complimented the battalion for Drive them out with Sloan's its record of thirty-one miles in nine hours Liniment, the quick-acting, Cigarettes and fifty-five minutes of marching, for its soothing liniment that penetrates without rubbing and relieves the perfect discipline and for the excellent con• Candies pain. So much cleaner than dition of the men at the completion of the mussy plasters or ointments; it evening—er—stroll. G. P. McC. AND does not stain the skin or clog the pores. Always have a bottle Drug Sundries in the house for the aches and "Nymph-hunting at Chimney Rock" is the pains of rheumatism, gout, lum• title of a feature story in next week's GAS bago, strains, sprains, stiff joints ATTACK. It will be remarkable. It will be and all muscle soreness. the best article published in this magazine Generous size bottleo at all druggists, Means quick sales and 25c, 50c. $1.00. since last week. satisfied patrons WANTED TO KNOW. Sloans "What is this stuff anyway?" asked one of the new ordnance men examining the •immeni "mess." GEER DRUG CO. KILLS PAIN "Taste it and see," snapped the mess ser• geant. Wholesalers of Quality Products "I did," said our hero; "that was what aroused my curiosity." GAS ATTACK 33

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COMPANY D, 102ND AMMUNITION Hank Kelclner and Jim Riley do not play COMPANY O, 55TH PIONEER INFANTRY.

TRAIN together any more. Hank has graduated and Supply Sergeant Daley (our Irish terrier) now drives a truck all by himself. Never before mentioned in the G-as Attack; has been detailed to the "corral." The Sta• Sergeant 11 Chappie'' Johnson made the re• feeling lonesome and neglected, must make a ble Sergeant has been wondering why the mark that he wouldn't mind a mild case of ap• few remarks about the boys. Our new skipper mules were so restless lately. pendicitis so as to get acquainted with the Captain Ralderis, and Lieutenant Parker, Mess Sergeant Rogers of the 2nd Battal• nurses over at the Base Hospital. That's ion Officers mess has ordered a lounge placed both formerly of the New York Cavalry, are h im all over. in the kitchen for the use of Private Hunt. making 86 willing soldiers of the 86 men of "Marty" Gannon won $114.00 with the Sergeant Gudenkoff has been detailed to the the company. We welcome Captain Ralderis cubes marked one to six, but immediately an• rifle range to clean the rifles being tested and Lieutenant Parker. Much pep shown chored $113.75 and now carries a check book. by Captain Kneuble. We miss the little since their arrival. We are safe in saying that Wise boy, Marty. "frenchman" but enjoy the contents of the we now have the best little mess shack to be Goose Gaskel is now living at the camp Q. boxes he receives from Alfred, N. Y. found in the division. That takes in a lot of M. doing guard duty. We now have peace There are some beautiful ladies visiting in the tent. Come and get it, Goose. territory but drop around and look us over. our officers street on Saturday afternoons. Grease Ball Maher is going to leave the We are wondering what the attraction is— Ceiling and sides painted pea green, floor and officers' mess. Claims that he is putting on Our Captain or his rustic furniture? seats camouflaged as mission furniture. Large too., much weight. You will miss those pork Lieutenant Johnson says lie will make an double 100 buck stove installed.in the kitchen chops, special steaks and eggs, Willie. "avenue" of our company street if they will and we are now going to fatten up on flap Clifford Decker thinks that the White truck let him do it. Go to it, Lieutenant, we never jacks, cakes and pies (?). I have an idea that will run on its reputation. Be sure that your did like to handle a pick. the officers' mess shack will be put in the dis• >'as line isn't shut off, Cliff, the next time that Our Top-Sergeant says he will have to bor• you want to go anywhere. card. Fifteen foot cement floor all around the row Lieutenant Busch's jitney to carry Lieu• We would suggest to the Fire Marshal that incinerator. We should stand 100 per cent on tenant Garland's mail from the post office. he add 1' Rookie'' Decker to his force of fire sanitary inspections. We are thinking of in• The non-coms have been invited to a chick• eaters as "Rookie" is yearning for his old job stalling a roof garden on top of said mess as fire chief of Hudson, N. Y. en supper to be given by company G, 108th shack for the summer months. We are open 11 Barney Oldfield '' Snyder is becoming Infantry, as soon as they return from the for the loan of some one 7s Jazz band. _ Ad• quite proficient in the art of steering a White range. We will be glad to renew acquaint• dress offers to Corporal Burns, as he has truck but still grinds the gears while shifting. ances with our old "Skipper," Captain Don't give up, Clair. charge of all issues. Kean and the old boys. WANTED—A book on how to put an Over• Sergeant Zett of Zett's Brewery, of Syr• G-. F. L. land together. Sergeant Lusk has the Cap• acuse, while rolling a couple of empty oil tain's car all picked to pieces and laid under barrels out of the truck office, remarked as to his bunk. There was a loose bolt on the COMPANY A, 53RD PIONEER INFANTRY. the amount of business done on the previous chassis some where which hasn't been located Adrian admits he can pass a non-com test, day. You are not in the brewery now, George. as yet. lie promotes himself upon his own request. Pete White, the company gold brick, wants Ran key and Lappies have decided not to dodge any more details as there will always to learn how to drive one of the new Nash Corporal Al Court is the brains of the crowd, be more latrines to dig, the company street Quads. Try to remember Pete that the accel• You'll find him wherever debates are allowed. always can stand policing and we always need erator on a motor truck is for a different a fire in the showers. purpose than the brake on your old motor• Top-kicker Yon Osten, you all know him Sergeant Murphy is still trying to find out cycle, although in somewhat the same posi• gents, just how to use his bayonet on the Hun. Keep tion. - lie ought to write music to' " Outa them it up, Bill, I'll follow right behind you. Bugler Gould has laid away his Gabriel's tents.'' Quite a change, Co origan, from playing ser-* trumpet to draw the small stone made from AL SUSSMAN. geant at the Q. M. transportation and using the big ones by members of the Stockade un• ion. Give her gas when coming out. of the a pick and shovel around our mess shack. Our subscription list is growing. The quarry, Freddie. A. G. P. longer the better, for suffering humanity. 34 GAS ATTACK

COMPANY D, 2ND ANTI-AIRCRAFT MA• CHINE GUN BATTALION. Second Corps Troops. The Ultimate in Peanut Candy Besides the ordinary calls of the day on the daily grind table of C Company appears one known to all the members of the 2nd Battalion as coffee call. Any one desiring to hear this particular call, which is by no means a new one, need only to walk a short distance due east from the Y. M. C. A. Liberty Tent any hour of the day or night. We understand that Headquarters Company has a new method of disposing of stumps, GEORGIA CAROLINA CANDY CO which they are carefully guarding, as they SPARTANBURG, S. C. work only under the cover of darkness. How do you do it? Drive them into the ground with a sledge or draw them out with pencil and paper? WARD 24 BASE HOSPITAL. 53D PIONEER INF., HEADQUARTERS CO. Make the world safe for Democracy, says our Topper. "Stop throwing water out of the All the boys here wish Lieut. Galvin a This company has again had the pleasure pleasant and enjoyable time, while on his tent door, without looking." of trimming Co. A, 53d Pioneers at our na• ten-days furlough to visit his home in Ken• In answer to the suggestion that D Com• tional pastime, baseball. They decided to tucky. pany make requisition for a trolly to bring quit the game after the fifth inning and Everyone in Ward 24 has to carry out the them to mess on time, in last week's Gas At• tack, we wish to state, that we have the cars orders of i' High-Ball Parker" under direc• have come to the conclusion that Hq. Co. can and track, but as the batteries are at the tion of '1 Kid Flaherty'1 in co-operating on not only play their band instruments, but range at present we are at a loss to find juice the cleaning and scrubbing of the ward each can toss the "ole pill" around some. The morning. We all regret that '1 Kid Flaherty" enough to run same. score was: Hq. Co. 19, and Co. A, 2. Our is confined to his bed after his operation, Sergeant Paul of the Canteen is arranging manager, Musician G. Carmine, would like to but nevertheless, the '1 Kid'' is right there a marble-shooting contest to be held in the every morning sitting up in bed supervising hear from other teams in the camp for the near future, the winner to receive the Ser• the cleaning of the ward. purpose of arranging for a few games. geant 's congratulations and 2 D. B. Co. dough• nuts, complete with holes and guaranteed '' Levine,' ' the clever Jew from Williams• 1st Sgt. Allen had his cotton uniform serviceable. burg, is trying to believe his friend Ethel, cleaned and pressed. When asked why he whom he mentions in his sleep, takes up had it done so early he replied: "I need it quite a lot of his leisure hours. for ' over there.' I expect it will be pretty Boomers side-partner, McAuliffe, is always Soldier's Rosary hot at times and my O. D. Suit is too heavy." the receiver of a pink envelope. We are trying Most appropriate gift to the boys going— Band Master Mode of the 5th Pioneers to find out if he has two correspondents, or to the girls who don't go, too—Tom Thumb, did the color change? He gets a blue one now. paid 1st Sgt. Allen a visit last Sunday night an exquisite bit of a 10-inch rosary (ster• We are all glad to see 11 Loury McCarthy" and sprung some of the jokes he expects to ling silver or rolled gold) in same-metal on his feet again. We do not think he will deliver at the minstrel which Hq. Co. intends case of the size of a 25c. piece. In plain frequent Asheville any more. case,> $4.25; engraved, $4.75. A solid 10- to give in the near future. After hearing Our Ward Master 1' Gus'' is certainly de• karat gold, hand-made, soldered-link rosary, Joe deliver the goods Allen said that Mode serving of a commission if any one is. With• in oblong same-gold case, $25; 14-karat, out him, patinets would not feel contented was losing time. Believe us Joe, you're $30; sterling silver, $10; best rolled-gold, in here. there. $12. Sent on approval on receipt of price; Our Mess Sergeant Arnold has by no means The Orchestra of the 53d Pioneers is fur• to be returned if not wanted. When a going man, or the girl he leaves a pleasant job. But his two worthy K. P. 's, nishing the music at the Y. M. C. A. while Banberger and Worme, make it very hard behind him, gets such a gift—any one of moving pictures are being displayed. It has for '1 Form 17," he regrets he is losing so 'em—all are happy over it. a big effect, especially when Jack Trezise much money in the army. He is the best- VATTI ROSAKY CO., 108 Fulton St., New York. liked patient here. puts in a few of his barber-shop chords on We all wonder how it is that fellows ac• the piano. If you are lonsome and wish you customed to eating in "Maxwell's Busy wrere at some New York cabaret, take a trip Easter Rosary Bee" can afford to criticize the meals they to the Y. M. C. A. any Tuesday night. get in the army. The Vatti new-"pearl" rosary is as fine Sgt. Miller was defeated as champion bunk (to look at and for wear) as real pearl We can not find out how much per hour fatiguer by Sgt. Mj. Mordey, as it was costing thousands of dollars. White, with Flanders charges to talk to him. We wel• noticed by some of the amateur bunk come his sweet face every morning like a a gleam of pink in the "pearl." It's a won• fatiguers that Mordey has Sgt. Miller beat rainy day. der. You can't imagine the beauty of it. by forty ways, and when Sgt. Mordey wakes Our famous horn-blower Bugler Burns finds Its only defect is its cheapness! Rolled gold up he looks like Eip Van Winkle, as it was it very hard to get out of bed, but when he or silver, $10; solid 10 kt. gold, $25; 14 proven when they found Sgt. Mordey sleep• sees a poker game, oh my, he is like a two- kt. gold, $30. It puts mother-of-pearl to ing in Heavy Marching Order. This means shame and is guaranteed a lifetime. The year-old on his feet. ideal Easter, First Communion, Graduation Can anyone tell us why Eoome is always that Sgt. Miller, who has held the title belt or Wedding gift. writing! We have one clew: he receives a lot for some time past, has bowed to defeat and You can see it by sending the price; to of mail, but we are more inclined to think turned the belt over to Sgt. Mordey, our new be returned if not wanted. the work much lighter. champ. May you never know defeat, George.

J. P. McA. WM. DOMABATIUS. . VATTI ROSAKY CO., 108 Fulton St., New York. GAS ATTACK 35

COMPANY B, 3RD PIONEERS. Sergeant Nate Hurvitz, after a layoff, has had a chance to develop an appetite that is almost fair. At Arcadia last Sunday he man• aged to eat 36 biscuits, 8 pieces of pie and a few pounds of meat and vegetables, while Corporal '1 Fat7 7 Smith and Corporal Fred Irving gazed on and talked to the boarding mistress to cover up his sin. What will Hoo• ver do, Nate, when your appetite is fully de• veloped? Handsome Harry Boushell, the dare devil from Eoxbury, Mass., is getting to be a regu• lar husky. When he came to us from Fort Banks he weighed 104 pounds, now he is tip• ping them at 118. Watch out, Frank Mo• ran! Somebody told Kid Sharkey that since ev• ery one with that name is a natural born We understand that Sergeant Pay Taffe se• BATTERY D, 105TH FIELD ARTILLERY. hitter so he hereby challenges any Civil War cured a Ci try-out77 with the Band last Satur• One glance at our daily bill of fare will veteran in the camp or in the world for that day. If we remember right Sousa started his signify the return of our Mess Sergeant from matted. career carrying the bass-drum too, so stick a furlough. It has been suggested that he be Sergeant Fryett, our only blonde Sergeant, to it, kid. granted another. Why? has a cute little mustache. He says that if Sergeant Breen objects to a certain individ• Mechanic Galvin returned from his fur• it is not there in quantity the quality is good. 7 77 ual who practices '' Annette Kellerman s lough in a very nervous condition; at least Keep it going, Sam. over his bunk every time he comes into the the Sanity Experts claim so. What}s the Sergeants Wood and Hogan, formerly of the tent. Why discourage progressiveness, Bill? matter, Eddie? M. G. Co., are now trying to master the man• We will admit that the estimable gentle• A steady file of members of this Battery is ual of arms. Pretty tough, eh what ? man Sergeant Hennrikus, better known as going by the 1' office77 tent all hours of the For the champion chatterbox of the camp 1 (Happy,77 is a clever boy, but when he start• day to take a glance into the smiling counte• we defy anyone to beat Corporal Bliss, our ed making the rounds of the married men in nance of Mickey Doyle. Mike is booked to Company Clerk. He can talk more and say the company recently, seeking information meet a promising white hope in a three round less than any one we have seen yet. about the cost of marriage licenses, etc., we battle within the next twenty-four hours, and Mechanic Walter Mattan, Corporals Smith are beginning to suspect something. You it is the promise of his opponent to camou• and Irving and also Sergeant Fred McQuaide know he goes on furlough soon, and—you can flage his face. are making quite a few trips to Saxon. Al• never tell. though there are some churches there, it is The fondly anticipated Easter morning cele• A remark overheard: "I never feel at possible there might be another attraction. bration is off! Some fiend in human form home unless I have some dam pick or shovel (as Newton Newkirk would say) stole the on my shoulder." Who said this? Mac. COMPANY C, 3RD PIONEER INFANTRY. '1 necessary.7 7 Sleuth Phillips is working on Joy is reigning in one part of the office. The Company is very fortunate indeed in the case and promises convictions. Mrs. Top Sergeant is coming down from New York. having assigned to it an officer of long ex• We won 7t venture a name for the stew perience in the person of Captain Charles I. served to us last Friday, but it is a curious Signs of Spring in New York: Furlograms. Bard, formerly of the First North Carolina In• coincidence that the skins of two rattle snakes One of the happiest men in the Battery is fantry. Although our acquaintance is still of were found in the garbage can by Bugler Supply Sergeant Everett. After trying to short duration, we are confident that with him LaEock. How about it, Mess Sergeant Nord• obtain a furlough since the first of Novem• at the steering wheel, this company will main• strom? ber, he has finally been granted one so that tain the high standard of efficiency that has Will some girl write to Sergeant Bob Cun• he may go home. Guess we miss the C. & G. been characteristic of it in the past. Our ningham, please. He is getting gray wonder• E. this month, Ed. What do you say? earnest support is yours, sir. ing when he will get a letter from his little There seems to be a difference of opinion Now, we don't object to your paying a nurse in Canada. Maybe she is in France, in the Battery for some reason. What is it, tailor $2.76 to refit your blouse, Honorable Bob, smoothing some other soldier 7s sweating Pat? First Sergeant, but when you make us stand brow* Sergeant Philp and Corporal Wagner can retreat with ours on, just to show us how you We are daily expecting to hear from Ser• now stay in camp at nights. Respectively, look in it, we do object most strenuously, es• geant MacClellan, who is home on furlough. sister and wife, were down on a "furlough'7 pecially as it was a hot afternoon. 11 77 But then, he is pretty busy, and it is a and are going home to-night. Farewell, la• We would suggest to Sergeant Pendergast long walk, unless you catch the last car, "Jack. dies. that the next time he sends Bobbie to the Post If you don7t return soon, the First Sergeant Corporal Ed Rodin kept "D7 7 Battery in Exchange for tobacco and apple-o that he will have to install a mail pouch to hold all the running last Saturday. He won the 12 give him the exact amount required. Mr. the letters that have accumulated in the pound shot put. Keep up the good work, Ed. Gaw has a keen sense of humor, and takes a last week. At least eight a day, my boy, and '' TUEKEY7 7 SHEA. great deal for granted, including the dispo• all postmarked from a different place. sition of the change. According to our figures A. L. T. a quarter out of a dollar leaves seventy-five FLEEING- DESERTER SHOT. cents, but "Bobbie77 somehow or other figured The German-American Alliance has a The Military Police took eight deserters it differently. membership of 3,000,000 in America. An off one freight train passing through Spar• Harry Acton, senior First Class Private, is investigation held in U. S. Senate to con• tanburg last week. One of the deserters, on the sick list with a bruised foot, the re• sider accusations that this organization has Private J. A. Gash, Co. C, 11th Machine Gun sult of getting too ambitious at the wood• received funds from disloyal sources and Batt, Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala., made pile. This means that the remainder of the that it has been active in formulating op• a break for liberty. He was shot in the hip, privates will have to work overtime, and it position to the policies and institutions of and taken to the Base Hospital with a flesh will be hard on the poor fellow. the United States. wound. 36 GAS ATTACK

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AMBULANCE COMPANY NO. 106, SOLDIERS! TEETH! 102ND SANITARY TRAIN. Lieutenant Pierce, after tolerating the Any old thing in the way of a dentifrice will not do for a soldier. He nee< alignment of ambulances for a few days lias the best because he needs good teeth. requested that all drivers before leaving their ambulance, bring them to the '1 right dress." Private S. J. Hicks is now engaged in lec• Albodon Dental Cream is considered by dentists and the public the best tooth cleanser and polisher on the market. Ask your own dentist about it. Easier to use than pastes; more turing on '1 The Value of first aid.'' His convenient and more economical than powders. The ideal Dental CREAM for a soldier's kit. services are in such demand that he finds it Never hardens in the tube. necessary to visit Spartanburg every evening. And reveille at 5:45. We don ?t see how he PRICE 25c A TUBE. FOR SALE AT does it. Ligon's Drug Store and K-W-N Pharmacy, Privates 11 DocJ' Early and Roy Thorpe have been assigned to duty with Sergeant 152 W. Main St., Spartanburg. Flannery and for one month will study con• Ask Your Post Exchange. ditions about the mess hall. When this course is completed they both will have earned the AMERICAN CHEMISTS. which would be beneficial to the art of war. rank of ''Incinerator Engineer.'? When the war began America depended It has taken three years for this country Privates (First Class) Charles F. Coyle and upon Germany for most of the finer chem• to find itself, but now we can meet Ger• Arthur Hunt Cropsey have been assigned to many in competition. It was Germany's duty with the '1 Dressing Station'J because icals and most of the better chemical, phys• monopoly in the production of chemicals of their especial qualifications for this work. ical and optical instruments; but now there that gave her such an advantage in the be• Conforming to his usual custom Private are few chemical processes and combina• Louis Israel celebrated St. Patrick7s Day at ginning of the war. She had made' those tions which can not only be duplicated, but the home of one of Spartanburg ?s prominent chemicals which would furnish by-products have even been improved by Americans. Gallic citizens. from which explosives were made, besides '1 Abie'; Brestmeir who lately has entered We are manufacturing our own medicines, furnishing skilled scientists whose knowl• Spartanburg 7s '1 society whirl/1 has been en• our own coloring agents, our own explosives. edge became a great asset in time of war. gaged as instructor in dancing at the En• We now produce our own chemical glass• In the future the Allied nations will not al• listed Men's Club. He will be assisted by ware of a better quality than that formerly low any nation to prepare for war by hoard• a Spartanburg young woman who has won imported from Germany. Germany had for ing by-products which in reality are paid fame in the terpsichorean art. years fostered those chemical industries for by other nations. Private Burrill Coppon has returned from his furlough and will again be found stretched out on his bunk. This information is for the benefit of those who do not receive their mail ' ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES Iregularly . Privates First Class Dewey Delley and Charles Hinclt have been assigned to duty at the hospital. IIindt \s recent stay at the hos• pital makes him duly qualified to perform rip* the duties expected of him. J. F. H.

ETHELBURT JELLYBACK. (Continued from page 7) band, playing in quick time one of those Offer Four Days' Service and dashing tunes which never fail to thrill a First Class Work fellow, passes in front of the line of offi• f\ 'i* cers, stalwart and resplendent in their uni• forms but not half so cultured as a Jelly- back. See the sunlight catch the silver of • m the band's instruments and sparkle in the Leave Your Package at big bass horns. Hear the infectious rhythm The Following Places of the music. Isn't it delightful?' " I stopped. "That, sir, is the way I would depict the regulations." Sanitary Train Canteen "And you'd probably want a battle stop• ped in mid-action to serve tea and cakes. 107th Inf. Post Exchange Yes, Jellyback, it's a grand little idea, but I wouldn't recommend it to the authorities 108th Inf. Post Exchange at Washington if I were you. It's too good for them. They wouldn't appreciate it. I'd keep it to myself if I were you." American Field Hospital South Carolina Light, Power & Railways Co. And, do you know, I believe he was right. E. S. Reeves—Linen Room SPARTANBURG, S. C. ETHELBURT JELLYBACK, Private. —C. D. GAS ATTACK 39

HEADQUARTERS 54TH INFANTRY BRI• G-ABE. General Lester has returned to Saratoga on A Dependable Guide leave of absence. He was suddenly called back In Daylight or Darkness due to the illness of his brother, Judge Lester. Lieutenant Colonel Taylor assumed command of the Brigade by virtue of seniority. Carpenters have finished their work at Bri• gade Headquarters and the result is a very well arranged office in one end of the mess Ceebynite shack and an officers' living room in the oth• er. The room for the officers is indeed very lompass attractive. The walls are lined with beaver board and painted with a stenciled effect of The very last word In Compass crossed rifles and fancy designs for a bor• der. A unique lighting system in the form construction. of lanterns containing electric bulbs is a fea• Thin model; white metal hunting case, ture. The room has all the appearance of a strongly hinged; jewelled, floating aluminum real homelike living room and the large read• dial; cap automatically lifted off point when ing electric lamp on a table in the center case is closed, eliminating unnecessary wear The north and south points of the room adds greatly to the appearance treated with luminous radium material, enabling points to be read at and comfort. night: does not have to be exposed to light to become phosphorescent as do other compounds. A storeroom or refrigerator is being in• stalled in a dugout under the mess shack *q» 50 AT DEALERS OR PREPAID which will be a great convenience for the $ O GOLD FILLED CASE $6.50 cook. It ought to make a good place for Go to pour local dealer first. If he cannot supply or will not order for you, don't 'i Ducking Details '' says 'c Gajer Paley.'' be swerved, remit direct to us, the sole manufacturers. One will be promptly for• Cook Baumann is master of ceremonies in the warded, safe delivery guaranteed. kitchen and with the aid of 1 c Oil Bryce'' is doing very well in slinging out hash during the absence of Cook Leveille who has been uyior Instrumen. antes confined to the Base Hospital. SOLE MANUFACTURERS Sergeant Major Laid!aw has returned from Rochester, N. Y. No. 157 a furlough with his game arm still in the splints. He says he sure did have some time despite his handicap and would have stayed SUPPLY CO., 53D PIONEER INF. COMPANY A, 105TH MACHINE G-UN several days more but for a very particular '' Monk'' O'Neill has been scanning the BATTALION. reason. He claims the banks of Albany were '1 Lost and Found" column to see if he can Major Wright, for twenty-two' years con• short of funds and rather than inconvenience find his long lost furlough. Cheer up, old top! nected with Squadron A, has been ordered to his bank by drawing on his account he came back to camp. You '11 get a leave in a year or two. the Inspector General's office at Washington. James Vincent Deegan, our ex-horseshoer, He leaves with the regrets of officers and I do not know how it is that Flanagan doesn't seem to be able to get strainghten.ed breaks into print so much but the latest one men. out. He certainly has some load to carry is that a female friend of his came down Ward Farnham, formerly First Sergeant of around with him. from Asheville in a machine the other day to this company, has been commissioned as Sec• see him. She returned without accomplish• A. P. Jones, our mess-sergeant in the corral, ond Lieutenant, and attached to this Bat• ing her visit. A few days later a very much has been worrying about seven pounds of talion. He receives congratulations of all. hay and a quart of oats that are missing. He perfumed, note arrived stating that this fair Lieutenant J. Faliys Carp has been, made says he doesn't care if the mules got it, but damsel with several others in the party, drove adjutant, and Lieutenant Wooster is now at•

1 he has his suspicions. Watch out, Duffy; all over the camp trying to recognize ' Our tached to Company A. Jones says you are getting too stout. Jim" on the road and drill fields but to no John Macklin M. O 'Callaghan and J. J. 1' Luke'' Broderiek won 't notice any of his avail. She did not remember the organization Martin are in New York on furloughs. old friends any more since he joined the he was with therefore her visit was fruitless, This company commenced a new schedule 104th Machine Gun Battalion. He left an although she inquired at the Division Stock• of training Monday, March 18th. ade. Perhaps this incident was the means of order with Goldstein, the tailor, for a pair of William Lesher has been made First Ser• him falling from, his horse on. Friday last at Pink Pajamas. Oh, you, Luke! geant of this company, to replace Lieutenant the maneuvers, who knows? He may have Tom Cody, our ex-mess sergeant, had him• Farnham. had the disappointm.ent on his mind and for• self reduced so that he could find more time Sergeant Sill's condition at the Base Hos• got to tighten up his cincha strap. to practice on his tenement-house piano. If pital is much improved, and the company he doesn't learn soon, he and his accordion Lieutenant R. J. Easton is making great hopes to see him about very soon. are going to be separated for life. progress with the School of Equitation for en• Lieutenant Seligman gave the company an listed men which is being held daily on the W. L. L. interesting talk on Thursday, on '' rumors parade grounds in front of Brigade Head• and messengers ?' doing lias on work. quarters. The whole class has graduated into signed to the 54th Infantry Brigade. Erhart the saddle instruction and before long many has had considerable experience around horses Now is the time for all good men and of the men will become accomplished eques• and will make a very valuable assistant for sweethearts to subscribe to the GAS ATTACK. trians. Lieutenant Williamson, the Brigade Veterina• Sergeant Leslie Erhart formerly of Head• rian who has been very busy improving the Send in a cheque for $1.50 and you can quarters Company, 108th Infantry, has been sanitation of the Brigade. become a regular subscriber to the GAS AT• transferred to the Veterinary Corps and as- Mac. TACK. Good cheques are preferred. 40 GAS ATTACK

ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER. Germany, after having made a peace treaty with Ukraine has broken the treaty There's no by keeping her army in this state and by capturing Odessa, the greatest port of all Russia, where the great wheat graneries of in the Trenches Russia are filled with wheat. Germany took possession of the 2,700 ships in the harbor SWAN TABLET INK There's plenty of water. and took charge of all the shipbuilding in the and water give you a perfect writing ink! port where several dreadnaughts are being- It comes tucked away in the end of the barrel of every built. Germany demanded eighty-five per cent, of all the grain and sugar; she also demanded a loan of $5,000,000 from the bank• ers. These extra terms have enraged the inhabitants who are beginning to resist the W/T4RY FOUNTAIN PEN Germans. It is hoped that Russia even yet can be won as an ally to the Entente. &w —an ample supply for six or seven hundred sheets of writing. One tablet—plus water makes a barrel THE GERMAN LONG RANGE GUN. full of ink. A gun expert who has examined the shells A great combination — a famous from the long-range guns claims that the pens perfect ink tablets. calibre is nine inches, that the shell has The Swan Safety Military Pee is non- two compartments, divided by a diaphragm leaking is dependable, has a smooth which is pierced at the first explosion, thus gold pen-point9 and it always writes,, causing the second explosion. The shells are about twenty inches long and weigh under 200 pounds. A German military authority claims that this trial . was only preliminary to an attack on London, which, by the way, is now 125 miles from the near• est German line of battle.

CANADA PRACTICALLY BONE DRY. On April 1st all the provinces in Canada became bone dry during the war and for twelve months after the war. Even before the national legislature so decided nearly all of Canada had passed prohibition laws. Only a few localities in Quebec are wet and these will become dry on December 31, 1918. Ink Tablet Ammunition An effort now is started to make the law permanent.

JAPAN SELLS SHIPPING. Japan, after nearly ten months of hesita• WAR PROFITS TAXATION. GERMANS DESTROY Y. M. 0. A. HUTS. tion, has decided to sell to the United States Our country will derive $1,225,000,000 this At the request of the former Russian 150,000 tons of shipping and will receive year from excess profits in war industries. government there were started in 100 cen• for the same 300,000 tons of steel which The war profit tax is new to this war, origi• ters in Russia Y. M. C. A. service. These will be used to rebuild other ships. At first nating in one of the neutral countries, but men have remained in Russia during all the Japan considered the sale of 300,000 tons of rapidly spreading throughout the belligerent changes there and have had much to do shipping, but after the Siberian question countries. The tax on war profits ranges toward keeping a good will between Russia arose she refused to sell more than 150,000 from 20 to 80 per cent. The United States and America. When Germany invaded Rus• tons. Japan will also carry on trade be• does not have a war profit tax as such, but sia particular pains were taken to destroy tween Honolulu and our Pacific ports which has a tax on excess profits which ranges these huts, but the Y. M. C. A. secretaries has been closed to them till now. from 20 to 60 per cent, on profits above will not abandon Russia at this time. At 15 per cent. This form of tax in this coun• several times along the western front the TROTZKY'S PROPOSAL. try, although far from being as heavy as Germans have taken particular pains to de• It is reported in France that Trotzsky is that in most other countries, yet will raise stroy these huts, feeling that by destroying about to make a proposal to the Entente in an amount greater than the income tax. these centers they can injure the efficiency which he will propose that his party will aid of the men. the Allies in opposing all German propa• FIFTEEN YEARS FOR HIS PRIDE. ganda in Russia. France has expressed a Harold Mackley, of Holland, Vt, was sen• MUST CUT WHEAT RATIONS. willingness to aid all parties in Russia in tenced to the United States Penitentiary for Food Administrator Hoover says that the opposing German intrigue. fifteen years because of his disloyal utter• consumption of wheat flour in the United ances. He had said that he was proud of States must be cut to 1% pounds per week MARSHAL JOFFRE AN IMMORTAL. his German descent and if he were forced per person. The supply must be less than The Academy in France has elected Gen• to fight against the Germans, would kill the half what it was before the war. This is eral Joffre one of the forty French im• Americans before he was shot. Rev. Clar• due to the fact that after having shipped mortals. Although the Academy is pri• ence II. Waldron, also of Vermont, was sen• the wheat which is necessary for our Allies marily a literary institution the agreement tenced to fifteen years for his disloyal utter• there will be so great a shortage that we on Marshal Joffre was universal and all ances and for attempting to obstruct the must cut our consumption as stated by Mr. France enthusiastically joined in the selec• operation of the selective draft. Hoover. tion. "Who I'^ked -Jif yPU ;7aS Cu r*' % ' """H/ <*

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