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Give Ear to the Strange Tale of Oscar

Grumpus and Joe GoofusI

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Here to the left is poor Oscar Grumpus^ Grumblings complainings and down on his lucks Down in the mouthy and sad to behold. He never smiles^ and instead of a heart Beats a cardiac iceberg rigid and cold— And there is a reason soon to be told.

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Here to the right is happy Joe Goofus^ Smiles in his heart and smiles on his face., He's a good soldiers-far wiser than Grampus^ He laughs till he crumples up flat on his backs And the reason is simples he's always alert To invests every weeks in the Gas Attackl

Of courses there is a moral to this tales but not a drys uninteresting moraL

It means freedom from boredoms to get the Gas Attack.

You'll be an outsiders like Oscar GrumpuSs unless you do it. And the next issues the New Year's Numbers will be as bouncing a baby as the new year it ushers in. There will be feature articleSs cartoons a-plenty s another page of camp poetSs another letter to Mable in the Incinerators and lots of news from division units. What could be fairer than that?

And it's just a nickel! THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK anp RIO GRANDE RATTLER

rJESkGTXD VILLAGE PBiVATk CASE/'S "WE ADQU ACTEDS. "A CHRISTMAS HIKE AROUND CAMP" THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 3

NOTHING WORSE THAN COLD IN THE SNOWY SOUTH FEET.

Spartanburg Steals Siberia's Stuff and S. GLAUS, SUPPLY SERGEANT. But General Rumor Made It Rigor Soldiers Shiver, By. Charles Divine, Ambulance Co. 108. Mortis. tie may not have a soldier's build Those veteran members of the 7th and Around his waist or belly, The Wadsworth trenches have disap• 71st New York regiments will remember But he can serve his nation with peared. The snow has filled them and wiped the day they, the vanguard of the New His boxes, cakes, and jelly. out their winding course across the hills. York Division, arrived in McAllen, Texas. The uniform he wears is not The snow had plenty of opportunity. The trenches have not been occupied since the It rained! It rained as though amateurs Exactly regulation, Invasion of the Baffin Bay climate that pos• were running the waterworks—as though But he knows how to run the guards sesses these parts of the well known Sunny they didn't know how to regulate the fau• Into the reservation. South. cets. No such raining had ever been ac• complished upon the New York soldiers His cheeks are red, his twinkling eyes The last battalion to occupy the trenches before. See roads, though flat or hilly, was relieved from duty before the time scheduled for that occupancy had expired. You remember Mayor Archer and his fel• And he will reach the Sunny South This because it was cold—very cold and the low boosters standing- out in front of the On breezes warm or chilly. officers realized that little benefit was to be Postoffice and remarking* that they had Our chimney-tops may bar his way, derived from continuing that night's work never seen the beat of it? What with their spark arresters, But he will fill your socks with things under the existing conditions. "Ain't never rained no thin' like this From. Bessies, Janes, and Esthers, Yet, the next day, the camp was regaled sence ole man McAllen settled these parts/' From Aunt Annette, the Colonel's wife, with a series of those remarkable rumors gasped Mayor Archer. The Captain's niece or sister, that are never true and always uncompli• "Nup," agreed Pustmaster January. The girl back home who laughed and cried mentary in that they reflect no credit upon Well, you remember the rest of the un• The day you left—and kissed her. the intelligence and gameness of the origi• precedented weather in and around McAl• nators. len. His reindeers only prance at night, We were told that seven (or was It eleven) Now to Spartanburg, S. C. Ah! Here Invisible, these friskers, poor, Ill-treated soldier boys (they are was weather—weather that would make a But you can see his heart behind always soldier boys In such yarns) were California!! cut his throat out of sheer jeal• His camouflage of whiskers! carried out of the trenches frozen quite ousy. Balmy breezes, Indian Summer bliss, stiff. All of them died, either in the trenches Lotos Eater afternoons and all that sort TO DESTROY CAMP TRENCHES. or soon after being removed therefrom. of thing. Headquarters was covering up the truth—• Have you noticed anything balmy about Artillery to Bombard Them; Infantry to Re• denying the facts. It was outrageous! this neck of the woods recently? Have you build Them. Of course nothing of the sort occurred. noted anything particularly sunny or South• Colds, some heavy and some otherwise, have ern about these parts during the past two Now they're planning to bombard the resulted from trench occupancy. What did or three weeks? trenches over on the hills back of camp you expect? Steam heat and velour cush• Well, last Wednesday we met Beauregard just to see how well and how rapidly we ioned firing steps? What do you fellows Thomas, Justice of the Peace, of Fair For• doughboys and engineers can rebuild them. think this affair is; a clam bake? Men have est. It's going to be rough work—hard work died since the camp opened and more will "Beats all, stranger," cried the Judge, and lots of it. But it's going to be the sort follow. But the percentage of deaths here "this yere weather. Bo'n an5 raised 'roun' of work we have to get used to because we're has been no greater than it would have been yere and ah ain't never seen no sech snow. going to be called upon to do a great deal anywhere else where 30,000 men might be Ain't right, nohow." of it over on the other side. mobilized—in civil or military life. The plan is simple, like all good plans are. Some day, maybe, the 27th Division is go• Quit beefing! Nobody was frozen to death The artillery is to set itself a mile or so ing to encamp in a land where things run in the trenches despite the fellows who saw across the hills in front of the trenches. true to form; where the weather—good, bad the funeral of the man who, someone told The men detailed to repair the ruin, are to or indifferent—will stay put after we reach them, had been frozen to death in the be stationed somewhere to the side where, that place; where the natives will not try trenches. Such bleating can not be classi• although safe from the shells and from shell to shove off upon us the blame for freakish fied. The Boy Scouts are too game to be shock, they will be able to witness the de• departures from weather precedents. used by way of comparison. struction work. —W. A. D. As a matter of fact the greatest suffering- The bombardment will continue for an settled in the feet of the rumor mongers. hour or so. Then the infantry and the en• They did feel the cold terribly. It's a bit SANTA GLAUS TO THE M. P.'S IN TOWN. gineers, supposed to have been driven out pathetic to realize that you huskies stand The detachment from the Military Police by the artillery fire, will retake the trenches for these raw fakes. If you are going to that stays in Spartanburg- on duty Christ• and rebuild. lay down now—GOOD NIGHT. mas day will have a Christmas tree of its For the present trench work has been own. The Cowpens Chapter, D. A. R., is abandoned because of the inclemency of the going to be the particular Santa Clans in weather. But just as soon as the trenches CHANGES IN DIVISION STAFF. this case, and to defray the expenses the are again inhabitable the war game will be Major Allen L. Reagan has been trans• women in this organization held a silver resumed. ferred from the Headquarters Staff to the tea at which a melting pot was more im• 47th New York Infantry. portant than a tea-pot. Into the melting- 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all Capt. Cornelius W. Wickersham has been pot everybody present was asked to throw through the house: transferred from the command of Company broken trinkets and discarded novelties "Oh, Santa Clans, bring me a new woolen A, Military Police, to the post of assistant whose metal was of value. Mouse !s$ chief of staff. 4 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

And, it is more than likely, we will be bringing in logs Wadsworth Gas Attack and Rio Grande Rattler for some time to come to feed the rapacious appetite of Published weekly by and for the men of the Twenty-seventh Division, the omnivorous Sibley. U. S. A., at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C, under the direction of the Camp Wadsworth Young Men's Christian Association. The good old plea "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" falls on deaf ear-muffs these days. Honorary Editors—- We hoard our burnt matches for kindling wood. We Major General John F. O'Ryan. Brigadier General Charles L. Phillips. pounce on every vagrant chip. The man who finds a Lt. Colonel Franklin W. Ward. William J. Davison, Camp Y. M. C. A. Secretary. stray two-by-four won't speak to Rockefeller. Wood is Publication Committee—- as useless as guns are to an army. Dr. Paul Moore Strayer. Chairman; J. S. Kingsley, Pvt. Richard The squad that doesn't keep a cord of wood piled in E. Connell. its tent, and a reserve cord cached in a convenient cotton Editor—• field/stands about as much chance as a German spy caught Pvt. Richard B. Connell, Co. A, 102d Military Police. taking a nap in one- of the 12-inch guns at Sandy Hook Associate Editor— during target practice. Pvt. Charles Divine, Ambulance Co. 108. When it wakes up in the morning, if it ever does, it Art Editor—• will feel like a man sitting on an iceberg off Siberia in Pvt. Richard J. Kennedy, 102d Supply Train. January in his B. V. D. 's eating ice cream with the Business Manager— electric fan turned on. Many a good doughboy has been found frozen to his cot because he didn't keep the home Theodore F. Elworth, Y. M. C. A. fires burning. Associate Business Managers—• Private Mark V. Brady, 102d Supply Train, It will go hard with the cabaret singer on Broadway Regtl. Sergt. Gay lord W. Elliott, 102d Ammunition Train. who sings us one of these ''Take Me Back to My Home Editorial Staff— in the Sunny South" ballads. Lieutenant Edward Streeter, 52d Brigade Headquarters. Of course the kickers wave a critical tongue at this Lieutenant Joseph A. Brady, 10th Infantry. Ernest W. Leslie, Y. M. C. A. situation. Private Walter A. Davenport, Co. M, 107th Infantry. Private Fred J. Ashley, Headquarters Troop. They say the supply sergeant should issue them every Private Keppler A. Bisbee, 105th Field Artillery. morning a nice little pile of 0. D. wood, cut in two-inch lengths—the proper size for a Sibley stove. They also PRICE FIVE CENTS. holler for grapefruit at breakfast, and think individual Address, Wadsworth Gas Attack and Rio Grande Rattler, Camp bath tubs should be issued. They haven't tumbled to the Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. fact that they are in an army, and not in the Bayside Camp Fire Girls. They haven't absorbed the idea that we are down here to train, which means to get ready for EDITORIAL the hardships and hard work ahead of us. That's why the trenches aren't steam-heated. THE SAME TO YOU! Most men in camp don't want to be babyed. They are willing to go out and cut their own wood. There is plenty Christmas away from New York may not be the real of it. Indeed, there is little else in the country around thing but here in camp it is an Elsie Janis imitation of here. A little vicious chopping by a squad will secure the genuine article. enough wood for a week. Chopping develops the very We miss the folks at home, of course. There isn't muscles you will use when you park your rifle on some anything that can really take their place. But we '11 have Hun's wiener-safe. Out with the axes! Stoke up the a dinner that will take our minds off any fit of home- Sibleys! Bring on your sunny South weather! blueness. If we swing the squad axe the night before R. E. C. Christinas, we will have as roaring a log fire in our Sibley as' an imitation gas-log fire in the best flat in Harlem, As for the weather, it will be Christmassy enough to suit ABANDON BANDS? NEVER! anybody. Then there will be the boxes from home laden Some efficiency shark has figured out that the 27th with good cheer and possible indigestion. And we'll have Division would save a lot of money by abandoning its Christmas trees, which we might have missed in New bands. York. We don't like efficiency experts. Their veins are full But Christmas is like most things. The tinsel and the of red ink. They usually have million dollar heads and turkey don't really count. It's the spirit that makes the two cent hearts. day. Many of us will experience a feeling of satisfaction We are all for doing a job right and quick, and as for this Christmas we have never felt before. "We will feel, labor saving, we are for that strong. But your efficiency that at last we are doing a big work; that we are going man would reduce everything to figures, systems and forward with, a high aim and a strong purpose. Christ• schedules. If you can't show him the dollars and cents mas will mean more to us this year than ever before, value of a thing, out it goes. because we will understand the Christmas spirit better. That explains why he would turn our ban dm en into At Christmas time, the time of giving, we can truly feel cooks, because he sees real tangible value in a plate of that we are giving, and giving much, and there is more slum, whereas whoever heard of a man getting calories joy in one moment of that feeling than there is in a out of a Sousa march ? thousand years of selfish pleasures. R. E. C. Music has made more men soldiers than all the recruit• ing speeches and recruiting posters. When all else has A CHOP IN TIME. failed, the crashing, enspiriting notes of a band have The goode olde Christmas custome of bringing in ye cheered then on. The tune may be "It's a Hot Time in Yule Logge will be observed at Camp Wadsworth this the Old Town To-Night," It may be ''Tipperary.'' Or year. Indeed, we have been bringing in yule and other it may be the "Marsellaise." It's music. Soldier's music. logs nearly every day since we left the sunny North. And soldiers respond to it as they do to nothing else. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

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A SOLDIER'S LETTER TO HIS it might tell some way of moving the squad GOLD BARS FOR SECOND LIEUTEN• out of bed in the morning, but it doesn't. SWEETHEART. ANTS. All important dope like that is camooflaged Mon Cherry Mable: so the Germans won't get at it. HOW ABOUT MAHOGANY FOR THE That's the way the French begin their Camooflage is not a new kind of cheese, SERGEANTS? love letters, but it's perfectly proper. I Mable. It is a military term. Camooflage is * * * would have wrote you sooner, but me and French for cauliflower, which is a disguised my fountain pen has been froze for a week. Addition to ''The saddest words of tongue cabbage. It is the same thing as putting Washington will never know how lucky he or pen": Soldier at the telephone in camp: powder on your face instead of washing it. was that he got assigned to Valley Forge ''Give me Spartanburg four-three-seven-one You deceive Germans with it. For instance, instead of Spartanburg. It got us out of . . . Hello! . . . That you, Polly? you paint a horse black and white stripes drill for a couple of days, though, and that's . . . Say, whaddya think ? . . . . I and a German comes along and thinks it is something. I guess I'd rather freeze than gotta go on guard to-night!" a picket fence and goes right by. Or you drill, but it's awful when they make you do paint yourself up to look like a tree and both. Two of the fellows in my tent has then go out and stand near the Bosh trenches 'Twas the night before Christmas when gone home on furlows so me, being a cor• all clay and see what they are doin. from all the shelves poral, I took all their blankets. I got a Were hung all the socks that wouldn't Well, I guess it's time to say Merry Xmas squad of men to look out for, Mable, and stand by themselves. now, Mable. I guess it won't be a very my first duty is to keep fit. Duty first. * * * That's me, all over. I got so many blankets merry Christmas for you without me there, She was a nice old lady and very proud now that I have to put a book-mark in the eh? Cheer up, though, cause I'm goin' to of her lieutenant, so as she walked down place I get in at night or I'd never find it think of you whenever I get time all day Main street by his side each time he was again. long. Their beginning to find out I'm a saluted she bowed graciously. After this good man and I'm always in demand. One We spend most of our time now trying had happened about fifty times she beamed day main guard, the next fatigue. My to find something to burn up in the Sibley at him admiringly. "Harold, I think it's name's on the bulletin board every night. stoves. A Sibley stove, Mable, is a stove• perfectly wonderful how you keep in touch But I know what their up against and I pipe built like the leg of a sailor's trousers. with the men and make so many friends/' haven't never refused to do anything they Old man Sibley must have had a fine mind * * * to think it out all himself. The government asked me yet. That's me all over, isn't it, gives us our wood, but the man who de• Mable? 'Twas the night before Christmas when I cided how much they were going to give Don't send me nothing for Christmas, prayed "If you would, us must have had an office in the Sandwich Mable. I bought something for you, of Good Mr. Santa, leave a half cord of wood." Islands. I said the other day that if they'd course, but I'm not goin' to tell you 'cause * sjs * dip our allowance in fosfrus we'd at least it's a surprise. All I can say is that it cost From the wagon company wafts down have matches, eh Mable. I'm the same old me four eighty-seven ($4.87) which is more this telegraphic interchange: Bill, Mable, crackin' jokes and keepin' than I could afford and it's worth a lot Captain Blinks. everyone laffin' when things is blackest. more. But you know how I am with my Dear Sir: Business not finished. Want The ladies of Spartanburg are going to money. You ought to anyway, eh Mable? an extension of furlough. give each company a Christmas tree. I wish So don't send me anything, please, although Private Binks: they'd issue them now so that we could di• I need an electric flash-light, some cigar• Dear Sir: Neither is the war. You can't vide them up. I went into a dance the other ettes, candy and one of those stocking's that get it. night and I said to one of them, wouldn't you wear on your head. I'll spend my last * * « it be nicer to give each company a Yule log. cent on anyone I like, but I don't want to The P. and N. announces that in order Get the point. But I don't suppose you know be under no obligations. Independent. to take care of the Christmas rush a special what a Yule log is. That's me all over. train will leave Camp Wadsworth for town I was scoutin' round for wood to-day and You might read this part to your mother. sometime on Christmas eve night. There burned up those military hair brushes your I don't want nothin' from her, neither. are only a limited number of lowers left on mother gave me before we came away. I Write soon and plain, Mable, 'cause I this train, so get in your order early. * * * told her they'd come in mighty handy some don't get much time for studyin'. day. Yours till the South is warm, 'Twas the night before Christmas and They say a fellow tried to take a shower BILL. thousands . of men the other day and before he could get out P. S.—Your mother's present cost me Spent the night getting home on the old it froze round him something like that fel• three seventy-seven ($3.77). P. and N. low in the Bible who turned into a pillow of salt. They had to break the whole thing * * * Visit Spartanburg.-—See America Thirst. offen the pipe and stand it in front of a * * * 9Twas the night before Christmas, but all stove. When it melted he finished his 'Twas the night before Christmas and all joys will cease shower and said he felt fine. That's how through the street When you're posted the next day for hard we're getting, Mable. Not a sock was hung up; they were all on I bought a book on Minor Tackticks the kitchen police. * * * their feet, other clay. That's not about underaged * * * ticks that live on tacks, as you will think, The Christmas tree celebrations in camp Well-known women of the ambulance serv• Mable. It's the science of moving bodies will probably break up in riots—over who'll ice: Carrie Litter and First-aid Kit. of men from one place to another. I thought get the trees for fire-wood. —E. S. 6 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

GRADUATES OF OFFICERS ARE YOU GIVING THE SIBLEY DICKIE DOW, U. S. R. SCHOOL. ITS DUE? By Charles Divine, Ambulance Co. 108 How Many Hundredths of a Cord of Officers Capable of Acting as Instruct• He swings his arms from the elbow, as a Wood Do You Get? smart young officer should ; ors in Various Branches of He marches erect, with an air of pride, Military Science. The wood allowance for heating purposes that does my old heart good. He's First Lieutenant Dowlington, whom I has been increased. Here it is: For each used to call Dickie Dow, The first class has just been graduated from authorized kitchen fire, one-twelfth of a cord And I, who bossed Mm at college, am only the 27th division school of the line, and the of wood per day; for each authorized crema• a private now. student officers who have completed the re• tory, one-twelfth of a cord of wood per day; For some of us have to be officers, and some for each infantry regiment, maximum quired courses are being sent back to their of us have to be men, commands to act as instructors and assistant strength, for heating purposes, 12 cords of And I mind what he says when he tells me, instructors to the enlisted men. Another class wood per day for other units of maximum though he used to mind me then. is being formed in the school of the line, and strength, for heating purposes, one three-hun• dredth s of a cord of wood per man per day; A freshman was Dickie, a junior was I, it will not be long until there will be a force fraternity brothers, too, of trained instructors sufficient to teach the for incomplete organizations for heating pur• And he was as green and timid a fresh as entire enlisted strength of the division and poses, one hundredth of a cord of wood per ever walked into the "XL" man per day. I made him weather his college storms, I the drafted men who are expected to come helped him over the year, For officers: One-half gallon of mineral oil later on. Those who have just graduated, with And his frivolous mother scribbled her their grades and subjects, follow: per tent per day, or 20 pounds of soft coal thanks: 'Tie's such a baby, the dear!" Grenades. per tent per day, or one-fiftieth of a cord of wood per tent per day. When we woke to the war and its mission, Instructors—Capt. Charles A. McArthur, Try this over on your Sibley. I went by the shortest way 105th XJ. S. infantry; 2d Lt. H. C. DeLouiselle, And joined the Guard, and that's why, you 1st Lt. A. P. Guttzeit, 2d Lt. F. J. Jackson, see, I'm here in the ranks to-day. SECOND LIEUTENANT? S INSIGNIA. But Dickie—and I mustn't blame him—he 106th XL S. infantry; 1st Lt. F. D. Conklin, The Quartermaster General of the Army has went to an officers' school, 1st Lt. F. V. Jackson, 1st Lt. T. C. Dedell, notified military uniform manufacturers that And came out with a bar on his shoulder 107th TJ. S. infantry; 2d Lt. E. P. Brecht, and the latest bayonet rule. the rank insignia on the shoulder loops of 108th II. S. infantry; Capt F. I). McLean, 1st the service coats of army second lieutenants How I used to shout at him, "Dickie Dow!" N. Y. infantry. will be a gold bar. Also that the rank of whenever we chanced to meet; Assistant Instructors—1st Lt. E. C. Dreher, these officers will be designated on the sleeve Now, sir, it's Lieutenant Dowlington the 105th XL S. infantry; 1st Lt. A. M. Harp, 1st length of the company street, of their overcoats by a brown braid in the Lt. C. J. Donnecker, lOSth U. S. infantry; For some of us have to be officers, and some same design as the black loops of the first of us try to be men, Capt. Max Juffe, 12th N. Y. infantry; Capt. lieutenant. And I mind what he says when he tells me, T. A. Me I) on no ugh, 14th N. Y infantry; Capt. though he used to mind me then. W. J. Evans, 71st N. Y. infantry. So I do my bit, digging a pit, back of the Bayonet Fighting. William G. LeCompte, 107th XL S. infantry; old latrine, 1st Lt, A. L. Blades, 1st Lt. G. L. Wilder, 1st Instructors—2d Lt. E. W. Maxon, 105th While Dickie looks on with his head erect, Lt. E. E. Mahaffey, 108th U. S. infantry; TJ. S. infantry; 1st Lt. L. C. Brennan, 2d Lt. though once with a troubled mien Maj. Lewis Seymour, Capt. E. A. Roberts, He gripped my arm, and he looked away: E. II. Trask, 106th U. S. infantry; 1st Lt. 1st N. Y. infantry; Lt. Col. W. E. Downs, Maj. "It ought to be me instead." C. J. Walrath, 107th U. S. infantry; 2d Lt, But I laughed at him softly and sent him M. G. Addison, 12th N. Y. infantry; Maj. E. II. O'Kourke, 2nd Lt. W. DeF. Manice, away with a friendly shake of the W. II. Jackson, Maj. J. E. Schuyler, 14th N. Y. 108th IT. S. infantry. head. infantry; Capt. C. F. True, 71st N. Y. infan• Assistant Instructors—2d Lt. C. V. Degenar. try; Capt. B. C. Mead, Capt, E. J. Murray, For he swings his arms from the elbow, as 105th II. S. infantry; 1st Lt. I. I. Hodes, L. 74th N. Y. infantry. a smart young officer should, Peterson, 106th infantry; 2d Lt. E. K. Palmer, And he marches erect, with an air of pride, Musketry Section. 107th U. S. infantry; Capt. G. M. Taylor, 12th that does my old heart good. Instructors—1st Lt. J. J. Callahan, 1st Lt. Later—the scene was the trenches—when N. Y. infantry; Capt. E. A. Robinson, 71st II. F. Smith, 1st Lt, H. L. Conway, 105th we all landed "over there," N. Y. infantry; Capt. L. N. Smith, 74th N. Y. II. S. infantry; 1st Lt, A. J. Hook, 2d Lt, I stepped in the way of a bullet that crump• iu fan try. led me up for fair. F. W. Eozeck, 2d Lt. A. B. Elliman, 106th in• Automatic Arms. The enemy pushed us and trampled, as I fantry; 2d Lt. Clarence T. Baldwin, 2d Lt. lay there waiting for death, Instructors—1st Lt. F. K. Lovell, 2nd Lt, G. B. Daniell, 107th U. S. infantry; 1st Lt. When I felt an arm underneath me and Dick• M. L. Atkins, Capt. E. F. Potter, 105th in• A. B. Peterson, 1st Lt, L. II. Butt, 108th N. Y. ie Dow's gasping breath. fantry; 1st Lt. A. T. Brown, 1st Lt. T. D. "Now steady, old pal, and we'll make it," infantry; Capt, G. S. Keepers, Capt. A. I. lifting me, that's what he said, Cronan, 1st Lt, E. K. Comstoek, 106th U. S. Marshall, 1st N. Y. infantry; Capt. F. A. De- "Good God!" there were tears in his boyish infantry; 1st Lt. E. M. Vernon, 1st Lt. W. B. Peyster, 12th N. Y. infantry; Capt, F. A. eyes: "It ought to me instead." Penoyer, 1st Lt. John Kerr, 107th U. S. in• Sayles, Capt. II. J. Young, 14th N. Y. infan• fantry; 1st Lt, J. J. Eoos, 2d Lt. J. W. Vogt, He carried me back through the shell-fire, try; Maj. James Eben, Maj. Arthur E. Wells, the hell-fire, the shrapnel, the rain, 108th XI. S. infantry; Capt, Edward Cava- 71st infantry; Capt. A. L. Gillig, 1st Lt. E. G. To a doctor he browbeat with orders, and naugh, 12th N. Y. infantry; Capt. Herbert Zeigler. that's why I'm living again. D. Crounce, 14th N. Y. infantry; Capt. W. A. Liaison. Then, going back to his station, a shell burst Eenalds, 71st N. Y. infantry; Capt. C. E. right at his feet, Instructors—1st Lt. Frederick K. Long, 2d. And Dickie lay dead—and still were the Smith and Capt. C. E. McMichael, 74th N. Y. Lt. Grover C. Cleaver, 106th XJ. S. infantry; arms that had swung so smart and infantry. 1st Lt. Thomas J. Brady, 2nd Lt. Francis J. neat, Still were the lips that had murmured: "It Field Fortifications. Gould, 107th XJ. S. infantry. ought to be me instead," Instructors—1st Lt. C. II. Scott, Capt. E. Assistant Instructors—1st Lt, Frederick E. Still were the brave young shoulders that W. Strong, 2d Lieut. T. F. Brown, 105th U. S. Coudert, Jr., 1st Lt, Chester P. Jones, 1st Lt. held so erect a head. infantry; Capt, Either ford Ireland, 1st Lt. F. William II. Fuller, 2d Lt. Stephen F. Fifield, Though I bossed him once, and he minded me, the dear little Dickie Dow, D. Clark, 106th U. S. infantry; 1st Lt. H. W. 1st Lt. William A. Hunter, Jr., Capt, Eidgley I'd take the kitchen detail in hell—if I Hayward, 1st Lt. E. W. Bowman, 1st Lt. Nicholas, Capt, Raphael A. Egan. could be serving him now! THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 7

TOO COLD TO HULA.

The Hula of a Hawaiian Hennessy Becomes a Shiver Here. The Princess Kalcialus came all the way from Pukoo, Molokai, Hawaii, to Camp Wadsworth, last week, to dance in a tent and a sea weed skirt. The Princess, born and raised Bessie Hennessy, was accom• panied by six—count 'em, six—regulation O. D. Hawaiians armed to the teeth with ukuleles. She came here consigned to E!. A. Wickes, impresario and general manager of the com• bined Redpath and Red Triangle attrac• tions. Under the direction of Manager Wickes, the Princess was scheduled to dance the Hula as the Hula is danced on the beach at Wikiki. Arrives Night of the Big Wind. The Princess arrived the night of the big wind. Simultaneous with her arrival in camp, the two big tops wherein Manager Wickes and his colossal, stupendous, as• tounding and magnificent—not to overlook enormous, stupefying and ' marvelous— amusement productions hold forth, col• lapsed. That left the Princess and her O. D. sup• port without a place wherein to astound. But the Hennessy heart of the Princess was not dismayed. Manager Wickes staged a re• hearsal in a nearby mess shack. The Prin• cess, shy a tent or so, still had her sea-weed skirt. She wriggled around the mess shack floor for a spell but the Carolina breezes won. The Hula became a shiver and the ukuleles froze in the hands of their O. D. tormentors. A Hula in Trench Shoes. Still survived, however, the Hennessy grit. The Princess, it is alleged, swore a mighty Mauna Kai oath that she'd dance. Somewhere they dup up a supply sergeant who had a heart. Assisted by this stranger, they camouflaged the Princess with a few pairs of spiral leggins, an assortment of blankets—human and horse, a stray shelter half or so, a Sibley stove and a pair of trench shoes—those new tank-like affairs we got from the Bethlehem Steel Company. THE MORNING AFTER After thoroughly heating the Princess, they rushed her to Y. M. C. A. Unit No. 92 HOLIDAY FURLOUGHS FOR NATIONAL where she danced. The dance lost some• SLEEPING WITH TENT FLAPS thing of its South Sea Island flavor. There OPEN. ARMY LIMITED. was a suggestion of Bolsheviki about it and Men of the National Army will not be there were those in the audience who saw It is reported that the men of certain reg• given Christmas furloughs unless they live touches of frozen Fandango in the Princess' iments and companies have been ordered by within trolley distance of their cantonments, endeavor. But the Princess danced. Mean• their commanders to sleep with their tent the War Department has decided. while the O. D.'s beat upon their ukuleles. flaps open. The report was published by Secretary Baker assigned the harmful Such was the success of the affair that our friend and contemporary, the Spartan• effect a general leave-taking would have the Princess was prevailed upon, after burg Herald, which went so far as to say on camp discipline and the heavy burden thirty-eight seconds of argument, to hasten that some of the regimental officers "claim it would throw on the railroads as reasons that it is conducive to good health and to in to Spartanburg where she repeated her for the department's action. mighty success at the dance being conduct• comfort as well." ed in the Hotel Cleveland by the officers of There is another report, not as yet pub• Spartanburg merchants have a big line of the 102d U. S. Engineers. lished, that the reporter for the Spartan• high-grade Christmas goods. You '11 find After seeing the Princess' sensational burg Herald who wrote that sentence is their names in the G-as Attack. efforts, it is alleged, 300 of the 301 engineers going to be made to experience the adven• present applied for transfer to the Ha• ture himself, to determine if he can gain waiian Engineers. The other one was tem• first-hand information to support the phrase The biggest dollar you ever spent—the one porarily blind. —W. A. D. "comfort as well." that makes you a member of the Red Cross. 8 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

ETHELBURT JELLYBAOK, PRI• The Bewildered Lady. MAKE THE 27TH CHAMPION VATE, GOES ON GUARD. While walking my post a lady, who looked unhappy and bewildered, got out of an auto• OF ALL DIVISIONS. A Letter to the Editor. mobile and came up to me. She was look• By Sergeant James W. Beckman, 102d U. S. Dear Editor: ing for her son, she said, and she couldn't Engineers. Do you recall that bitter cold Sunday find the regiment he was in or the com• night—the ninth, I think it was? Dear me, pany. I , liked the well-bred tones of her To be a champion you first have to have the weather was egregious! And I, Ethel- voice, and my sympathies went out to her the qualities that make a champion. Then burt Jellyback, Private, was forced to go on at once. you must have the will to whip those qual• guard—I, the scion of one of the first families She begged me to go in search of her ities into championship shape and the spirit in the country, of gentle breeding and im• son, and volunteered to watch my post and determination to win. pregnable social position. while I was away. I went. The 27th Division has all the qualities Mind you, I express no dislike at being When I came back the officer of the day that make champions. It has just as keen kept up at all hours of the night. Back in was waiting for me, stern and denuncia• brains, just as sound bone, and just as lithe New York I often did it and enjoyed it, tory. In no uncertain tones he rebuked me and powerful muscle as any other army in what with dinner dances that lasted until for having gone on my altruistic mission. the world. These raw products can be breakfast, and not infrequently I kept James I told him that the lady had been very moulded and turned and hammered into a waiting at Delmonico's with the limousine insistent that I find her son. He replied finished product that will eclipse the best until dawn came over the roof-tops of the that that had nothing to do with it. I re• we will have to face. giant structures. Isn't Fifth Avenue won• torted, with my usual self-possession: The responsibility for the success of the derful at dawn? Dawn and reveille are one "Any gentleman would give up his post 27th Division, so far as you are concerned, and the same thing, in point of time, and to a lady." rests squarely upon the shoulders of one yet what a world of difference between The officer of the day went away mutter• man, and that is the man right under your them! There is something lovely, something ing. It sounded as if he said something own hat. The Commanding General and that appeals to my soul in the word "dawn," about being "against the rule." But a by• your officers can plan and prescribe regula• but as for ''reveille,"—well, as I started to stander said his words were: "The damn tions and training for you, but unless you tell you, dear Editor, I was on guard that fool!" Of course, the bystander didn't yourself get into the work with dead coldest of all cold nights. catch his words correctly. earnestness and determination to win, you will simply be one of those near champions Had to Sleep in the Guardhouse. He Must Have His Bath! who never arrive. Fancy my exasperation in finding that I Going back to the guardhouse that even• Don't depend altogether upon the men in had to sleep in the guardhouse, a tent im• ing, I told the sergeant that I desired to command to make this Division the greatest properly fortified against the weather. I bathe. He wouldn't let me leave the guard• in the world without your fullest support. told the sergeant of the guard that I pre• house. But I outwitted the horrid fellow. Take the measure of yourself, or the Ger• I have one of those little cans of Sterno mans will, and see how far short you fall canned-heat, you know, with its tripod, and from doing your share. When every man over this I heated a sufficient amount of does his part, the officers will have an or• water to achieve a superficial bath. I re• ganization which can not be shattered by moved my upper garments and, while the howitzers or hardships. other men in the guardhouse sat on their Let this be the slogan of every man in cots looking at me intently, I flipped the the Division: warm drops over my shoulders and torso. MAKE THE 27TH THE' CHAMPION The men openly marvelled at my courage, OF ALL DIVISIONS! bathing in such weather. But I realize that Then stake your life on living up to it, improving all sanitary conditions wherever or you will likely give your life if you don't. possible is next to Godliness. He Denounces the Wind. alert and observing that the stove was con• My turns on guard at night came from 10 stantly burning. p. m. to mid-night, and from 4 a. m. to 6 He Loses the Stove. a. m. What untold agony I suffered. I At the time the stove was handed to me wouldn't have minded it so much if I hadn't by a thoughtful fellow-private, who said he been betrayed by that seductive slogan "The wanted to do me a favor, I had no idea that Sunny South," or if the night had been it wasn't his to dispose of. What was my warm and moonlit, for then I could have surprise to be confronted by the officer ferred sleeping in my own tent, and that passed the hours composing one of those of the day at 3:15 a. m., demanding what as far as my being accessible whenever he exquisite little poems which I now and then in hell I was doing with his stove? I told wished to call me, I would be willing to hire dash off. But one can't write poetry with him I was unaware that it was his. He a messenger boy from town to go on duty good meter and regular feet when one's own then took it away from me and gave me all night and to carry messages from the feet are cold. so many new orders that they perplexed me sergeant at the guardhouse to me at my Tne wind—how I denounced it! It had to the extent of my forgetting them all. tent. But, strange to say, the sergeant de• none of those soft, gray tones such as one And I am said, by my friends, to be un• clined to accept my proposal. hears in the music of Chopin. It bit and usually intellectual. It wasn't regulation, he said. But it was cut, and the blasts were ice-coated. My life since that night has been one of convenient, you must admit that. I wore my Winter underwear, two O. D. numerous punishments. Oh, if I had only Of course, my guard duty began with a shirts, two Red Cross sweaters, a blouse, known that the officer of the day was going two-hour pacing of my post in the afternoon. and an overcoat. But even then I was to come bothering me like that. As I said It was a lonely two hours, and I am not rapidly succumbing to the wintry elements, to my chum and tent-mate, Dickie darling* fond of loneliness. I like company. Noth• had it not been for a unique scheme which what business has an officer of the day to ing appeals to me so much as to sit down I hit upon. I got a portable oil stove, and, be snooping around at night? with another dear chappie and have a good grasping it by the handle, I carried it Yours truly, old chat for two or three hours. It's com• swinging by my side as I walked my post ETHELBURT JELLYBACK, Pvt. panionable, you know. in military manner, keeping always on the —C. D. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

j News From Division Units

FIRE IN 107TH. FIELD HOSPITAL CO. 108. HEADQUARTERS CO., 102D ENGI• Kranshaar, the 11 champion whistler of NEERS WILL HAVE BIG New York State and the New England Residence of Co. K.'s Top Sergeant Destroyed, CHRISTMAS. States (at least that 's what we learn from, The Christmas dinner and program being But Without Loss of Life. qualification record), was in the Sergeant 's arranged by Sergeant Rosenberg and Dietz tent one Sunday and was induced to prove and Goldberg, the crack cooks of the regi• A ten alarm fire having its origin in Ser• his ability as a 1 i champ whistler.'' Segt. ment, will make everyone in the Headquar• geant Raven's residence on "K" St., 107th Seth D 'Aran was sleeping, he at once awoke, ters Company of the 102d Engineers forget Inf., stirred up the neighborhood in the and on hearing the boisterous noise, gave that he is sorry he is not home for Christ• vicinity of Park Ave. (Park Ave., Camp the signal: 1' Heads under'' and "lights mas cheer and good things. Wadsworth, of course) early Tuesday morn• out,'' just then the i 1 champ whistler'' brave• There will be songs, recitations and in• ing, December 11, and threatened that entire ly (oh, so bravely) turned the Sergeant, cot strumental music, all by the talent that ex• section of the city. and all on the floor. All of the boys real• ists right in the company. ' ' The cause of the fire is as yet unknown, ized that Sergt, D 'Aran would keep cool and William J. Lacy will give some of his but due to the recent increasing number with these remarks he solemnly went to clever impersonations, John J. Conners will of fires in that locality an incendiary is sus• sleep: "All right Kranshaar, I'll see that reel off some of his dry mirth-provoking pected. As there are in Co. K several Ger• you are detailed to 'K. P.' all week for monologues, Joe Johnson promises a soft- mans—at least a well-informed person "up that." shoe dance—probably padded foot, and North" has written down to say that their It was the topic of the day for a whole everyone will watch his watch.' names are pure German—this explanation is week, finally some one suggested that the two Adolph Badinelli, Pete Carderelli, Chris very plausible. combatants have a new novel duel, some• Newman, Mitchel Bienenzucht, and Charles thing on the following style: both to be At the time of the fire, Company Clerk Fromm will render some of their song spec• equipped with a rubber hose (it's very easy to Scannell was heating water for his first ialties, while Louis Goldberg will treat the draw them from Q. M.) attached to our "hot" wash since the frost set in and Pvt. Van crowd to a bass solo. showers, with good soapy water running Rensselaer, one of the German suspects, Michael Tracy, Joseph M. Carey, William through them. It is needless to say that the Van gives him dead away, was appar• D. Garcia and Frank Levendowsky, the the entire company will root, and pray, if ently innocently engaged at the company's company quartet, will punctuate the even• necessary, that Sergt. D 'Aran win with typewriter. ing's entertainment with their song hits. honors. The first warning of the danger these William B. McGowan, Dan J. O'Leary and Sergt. McDaid to Sergt Buff: "We should two were in came when a large cinder fell Charles Lennox will do monologue stunts. buy some lumber to make our new tent the from the burning hood of the sergeant's Curtis, the clever violinist who gave the real cheese, just like tent No. 1." Sergt. Buff tent—a pyramidal, large—upon the waiting boys a delightful surprise Thanksgiving now speaking: "Ah! Go on, what do you cranium of Clerk Scannell. Be it said right Day, will be on hand and Sergeant Fink and want that for, we'll show them we're real here that Clerk Scannell did not lose his Stark will add to the pleasure of the even• soldiers and can rough it, all they need in head; he jumped slightly—we admit—but ing with their duets. that tent to make it a sea-side bungalow, is who, crowned with a sparkling cinder, an electric tea server." All this feast and festivity will take place would not? in a decorative setting arranged by Herbert Lieut. Smith explained to the men at re• A. Dietz, with the aid of a force of volun• His first thought was that Pvt. Van Rens• treat one night that General O 'Ryan remark• teer decorators from the company. selaer had indulged in a practical joke and ed that the men with the long overcoats fired a pea-shooter. You know how a well- would feel more comfortable than the men COMPANY A, 102D ENGINEERS. aimed pea will burn. with the short ones, when they get "Over Street Commissioner Casey finds it hard As soon as he realized his mistake and There.'' Then we noticed our good friend, keeping the boys on the job these cold morn• saw the flames making rapid headway, Clerk Segrt. Willy Bechtold, send his overcoat to ings. Scannell turned in the ten alarms imme• the tailor to have it shortened. After ques• Company Clerk—Have you eight men in diately by shouting "Fire" an equal num• tioning him on this, he said: ''The suggestion this tent? ber of times and rushed to the telegraph may be good, but a guy with a short over• Corporal—No. Seven men—and Ginley. key to which he stuck until the tent col• coat can run better, when he gets ' Over The boys feel highly elated in having the lapsed, sending reports to the C. O. who, There.'" world renowned pugilist, Frank Moran, eat• unfortunately, was not at home, but out Note: Don't laugh! Our little sergeant ing his mess with them. drilling the company. is not "yellow," he doesn't mean what you Everybody is saying, "Hello" to Q. M. Sgt. Clarkson, Company K's popular sup• mean. What he has on his mind is that if Sergeant Holligan since appearing in "0. ply Sergeant, took charge of the bucket he happens to see Kaiser Bill, he will be the D.'' woolens. brigade and did heroic work rescuing the first on his neck. Mess Sergeants please note: Several new Sibley stove and a pair of the Top Ser• Bill Schenck was one of those lucky boys combinations of food have been discovered. geant's breeches, woolen O. D. to receive a pair of woolen socks from one Information regarding them may be obtained Realizing, after futile trials, that buckets of our patriotic women. Bill said he is go• from Private Mack ay. of ice were not the best things with which ing to acknowledge the gift thusly: Private Eagan was able to navigate back to extinguish a progressive fire, Sgt. Clark- "Your socks received dear lady, they 're to camp from his ten-day furlough without son ordered the tent tore down and the fire some fit, the assistance of any camp posts. stamped out. I wear one for a helmet, the other for a mit, An interesting entertainment has been ar• Everything was saved but the tent. Sgt. I hope to meet you when I've done my bit, ranged for Christmas Eve by Buttsy Hodgins. Van Schaick, another obviously German But where the dickens did you learn to The chief performers will be Privates Hod- "Van," is being watched closely by the knit?" gins, Smith, Keighly, Geelan and Gannan. authorities. I. P. E. —0. A. K. IO THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

COMPANY A, 104 MACHINE GUN An innovation in hiking was introduced by CO. A, 105TH INFANTRY. Lieutenant McCahlin yesterday when he led BATTALION. The company has shown a decided in• the whole company into town, and to the Y. crease in the amount of insurance which This organization was honored by the pres• M. C. A. We were all agreeably surprised the men have taken since the cold weather ence of Senator James W. Wadsworth, of when he told us we were permitted to have has set in. New York, on Thanksgiving day, who spoke a swim and a hot shower. We all hope this We wish to thank our Supply Sergeant to the men of this command at dinner. is a weekly happening, for hot water is a Murray for his promptness in issuing the Senator Wadsworth, who was formerly a luxury. new comforters to us. He is an angel. first lieutenant in Company M, 1st New York Owing to the high price of beans, we are Cavalry, visited the camp for ten days around now only allowed 56 beans at lunch instead The fighting fourth squad of the third platoon, otherwise known as the dizzy Thanksgiving time, and peculiarly enough, of 57, which we formerly had. squad, is wondering where their wood dis• last year at that time he visited McAllen, One of our lads dropped into the Red Cross appears every night. Suspicion is centered Texas, and he said emphatically that no mat• headquarters the other day in Spartanburg, on Corp. "Mush" Ryan and his squad across ter where the erstwhile 1st New York Caval• and feeling liberal dropped a quarter toward the street. ry happened to be he would be on the job to that fine organization's finances. He was tell• renew old friendships and acquaintances. He ing Bill Coppinger about it, and Bill compli• The squad is thinking of detailing Pvt. 1 took dinner in the mess shack with the en• mented him about doing his bit. ' Doing James Morris to stay up all night and guard 1 listed men, and was the guest of honor of my bit?" the lad replied, ' 1 done my two the wood. Jimmy does nothing but sleep Captain Donaldson and his staff. bits." all day, so it is thought a good plan. Why, In the morning he attended the football the other day he wanted to take his cot game between the 104th and 106th Machine COMPANY M, 107TH INFANTRY. out to drill with him so he could sleep dur• ing the rest periods. Gun Battalions which resulted in a thrilling Only 195 of the 250 men in the company The men of the company were greatly and unexpected victory for Lieut. Andrews' applied for Christmas furloughs. Looks as pleased with Mess Sgt. Geiser's turkey din• team by the score of 14 to 7. The 106th though the fellows were no longer homesick. ner. came on the gridiron heralded as world-beat• Top Sergeant Jack Keily has returned from Pvt. Ben Friedman, the matinee idol, ers, but they had to battle an unconquerable New York after a brief furlough. So has claims he personally knows all the show spirit as well as eleven men. The 104th Private Cecil Arthur. girls at the Harris Theater this week. He team worked as a machine, and under the Corporal See and Privates Kretchmar and tried to crash the show but was unsuccess• guiding hand of Lieutenant Andrews, who Sprung have ba-ba coats that they will now ful. demonstrated his sterling worth at quarter• exchange for a cord of wood or anything Sgt. Aquino has a new hat cord. It's back, went through the 106th team as though else serviceable. about time. they were paper. The stars of the game were Nine men from the 10th New York Infan• Pvt. Woodward, the ex-regular (so he the Leonard brothers, Irwin, Hasbrook, Cur• try became members of Company M last claims) must be about 150 years old. So ry and Morton. After the game the whole week. They are excellent soldiers and we 're 104th team was cheered to the echo both in• glad to have them. it seems, anyway, according to his stories of where he was all over the globe. dividually and collectively, and carried off Corporal Willing has been transferred to the gridiron on the shoulders of their almost the Quartermaster's Corps, National Army. I. R. demented partisans, who went wild with joy He left for Fort Thomas, Kentucky, to await over the triumph. permanent assignment. CO. C, 74TH INFANTRY. Private Tom Healy laments the fact that After the snow had ceased, cameras all A rookie from the 106th Artillery was the frozen water pipes have prevented his along the line clicked merrily in order to transferred to the 74th Regiment. While i washing his hands for four days. Tom is the reproduce the fact that the ' Sunny South'' he was on guard this scene occurred: The only existed in popular songs. Our folks in first Greenwich Villager we have ever known commanding officer was riding by. The the North will be surprised when they get to regret being unwashed. rookie, seeing that he was an officer, im• these photos of tents covered with the well- mediately came to attention and rendered known snow. AMBULANCE CO. 108. a right-hand salute with his rifle on his left A rookie was enlisted in this organization Capt. Frank W. Sears has returned from shoulder. The officer then sternly asked: the other day and was immediately placed on Binghamton, N. Y., after a brief leave of "Don't you know how to present arms?" kitchen police. He did not understand his absence. The rookie said, "Yes, sir," and offered his job thoroughly, and went up and placed one He came back after personal interviews rifle to the officer. of the cooks under arrest. with some genial agents of Santa Claus. One Coming off guard Private Strachan wanted The soccer game between the 2nd and 3rd of these agents, Mr. Alonzo Roberson, of to know why there wasn't any fire. Private platoons resulted in a deadlock, but the good Binghamton, gave Capt. Sears $1,060 for the Mueller replied: "I can't put any wood in old 2nd grabbed off the relay race, which was Binghamton boys' Christmas. Another, Mr. the fire because the door is froze to the promoted by Lieutenant Andrews, by a George W. Johnson, head of the big shoe stove." whisker. How's that, boys'? manufacturing firm of Endicott & Johnson, Two of the coon laborers around this sec• gave $1,000, not as a Christmas present ex• tion were conversing the other day regard• actly, but to be expended in purchasing a MACHINE GUN CO. 14TH IN- ing each other joining the colors. One was supply of cigarettes and tobacco for the am• FANTRY. berating the other, and told him he was a bulance company to take to France with Last Saturday morning, as usual, Private slacker. The little coon finally said, i' Look them. The gift of $1,060 from Mr. Roberson Macrery was asked by Major Schuyler, the heah, niggah, I'm going to join Company B." is to be divided among the soldiers from inspecting officer, why he didn't clean him• The other one said, "What's Company B?" Binghamton in the various units in camp: self up, and this conversation was over• and the little darky replied, " I '11 B heah Battery C, 104th Field Artillery; Co. H, 1st heard by Corporal Lavin: when you go, and I'll B heah when you come Infantry; Headquarters Company, 1st Infan• Major: "Why don't you dress and clean back.'' try, and the band of the 1st Infantry. yourself better than this?" The furloughs are starting and all the boys Besides, Ambulance Company 108 has re• Macrery: "I have been working on Cap• are looking forward eagerly to what will be ceived Christmas boxes from a Binghamton tain Thompson's car, sir." their last visit home before we are off* for committee and the wives of officers # in the Major: "Where is your corporal?" France. Here's hoping we all grab off 15 Sanitary Train have arranged Christmas tree Macrery: "I don't know, sir. I haven't days in the old home town soon. celebrations for every company in the train. been issued any." THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 11

LEAVES OF ABSENCE. Capt. Howard E. Sullivan, 105th field artil• Private Arthur G. Smith, Company I, 107th lery, 10 days, beginning December 21. infantry, is transferred to the quartermaster Commissioned officers have been granted First Lieut. Harold E. Hornhart, 106th field corps, national army, and assigned to duty leave of absence as follows: artillery, 10 days, beginning December 17. with truck company 331. First Lieut. James R. Harbison, 104th ma• First Lieut. W. Wr. Acklerly, 102d ammuni• Private Harry Beebe, Headquarters Compa• chine gun battalion, 10 days, beginning De• tion train, now at ordnance instruction school, ny, 106th field artillery, is transferred to the cember 24. Kenosha, Wris., 10 days, beginning December enlisted veterinary corps, national army, and Second Lieut. E. L. Cashin, 104th machine 18. assigned to duty at the remount depot. gun battalion, 15 days, beginning December First Lieut. Henry A. Del any, 104th field ar• Private Daniel J. Ryan, Company C, 102d 29. tillery, 10 days, beginning December 24. engineers, is transferred to the aviation sec• Major A. W. Slee, 71st infantry, 10 days, Maj. Edmund P. Fowler, 107th infantry, tion, signal corps, and will proceed to Camp beginning December 23. 10 days, beginning December 22. Kelly, San Antonio, Texas, for duty. Capt. Wm. A. Ronalds, 71st infantry, 15 Lieut. Floyd W. Hayes, 106th field artillery, Private Moses Kanowitz, Company E, 106th days, beginning December 15. 10 days, beginning December 20. infantry, is transferred to the Quartermaster First Lieut. William F. Brady, 105th infan• Capt. J. C. Tucker, 47th infantry, 10 days, Corps, National Army, and assigned to duty try, 15 days, beginning December 10. beginning December 28. with the remount depot. Capt. II. G. Montgomery, 106th field artil• Lieut. George W. Beaman, lOSth infantry, Private Percy H. Long, Company A, 104th lery, 10 days, beginning December 18. 10 days, beginning December 24. machine gun battalion, is transferred to the Second Lieut. Albert F. Reinert, 106th in• Lieut. James II. Carol], O. R. C, un as signed, aviation section, signal corps, and ordered to fantry, 10 days, beginning December 23. 10 days, beginning Dec, 24. proceed to the school of instruction at Prince• First Lieut. Charles R, Carroll, 108th in• Lieut. Michael Stapleton, 47th infantry, 10 ton, N. J. fantry, 10 days, beginning January 2. days, beginning Dec. 23. First Lieut. Colgate Hoyt, Jr., 105th ma• Capt, Clifford E. Branch, 74th infantry, 10 Lieut. Leo F el dm an, 47th infantry, 10 days, chine gun battalion, is detailed as aide-de• days, beginning December 23. beginning Dec. 11. camp on the staff of Brig. Gen. R, E. L. Capt. Edgar C. Miles, 10th infantry, 10 Lieut, Norman D. Richardson, 102nd engi• Michie, commanding the 53d infantry brigade. days, beginning December 23. neers, 10 days, beginning Dec. 23. Lieut. Col. James M. Hutchinson is trans• Capt. A. M. Barager, 108th infantry, 10 ferred from the 107th infantry to the surplus days, beginning December 20. CAMP PERSONALS. list and assigned to temporary duty with di• Capt. J. P. D. Schiebler, acting assistant Private H. B. Triest, Company F, 10th in• vision headquarters. adjutant, 10 days, beginning December 24. fantry, is transferred to the quartermaster Capt, IT. II. Battenberg becomes assistant Second Lieut. Ezra A. Barnes, 108th infan• corps, national army, and assigned to duty division adjutant, having a desk adjoining try, 10 days, beginning December 11. in the office of the camp quartermaster. Lieut. Col. Franklin W. Ward, the division Maj. L. F. Sherry, 102d ammunition train, Private Joseph H. Bennett, machine gun adjutant. Capt. Battenberg has been tempo• 10 days, beginning December 20. company, 105th infantry, is transferred to the rarily on this work for some time. Lieut. W. L. Baird, 102d ammunition train, 104th field artillery. Major Gabriel G. Hollander is transferred 10 days, beginning December 20. Mess Sergeant Jacob Piatt, Company C, from the 106th infantry to the 14th infantry. Lieut. Col. J. C. McLeer, divisional staff, 14th infantry, is transferred to Company A, Major Charles W. Berry is transferred from 10 days, beginning December 23. 107th infantry. the lHh infantry to the 106th.

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102D AMMUNITION TRAIN. Headquarters welcomes Joseph F. Flana• FIELD HOSPITAL CO. 107. Lt. Col. Cleveland C. Lansing, of the 102d gan, the famous American horseman. Acting During the recent cold spell the kitchen Ammunition Train, has been transferred to Buck Private Useless S. Grant is now aspir• police were having considerable trouble draw• the 107th Infantry. Lt. Col. Lansing is the ing to the rank of High Private or may be ing water as the water was frozen in the pipe. man directly responsible for the organiza• better, who can tell? Hennessey, after listening to Pierce's com• tion of the 102d Ammunition Train; it was —G. A. Y. plaint, in reference to the ice in the faucet? his efforts and military knowledge that said, "Why don't you let the water run—* brought the Ammunition Train up to the AMBULANCE COMPANY 107. the exercise will keep it warm.'' high point of efficiency which it has attained. Private Graham, the entertaining and gen• Someone upset a pail of water in No. 1 Lt. Col. Lansing has always been very pop• ial undertaker, possesses an ambition which tent one night last week and the occupants ular with the men of his command, and in outranks any of the week. That is, that he were surprised to find a sheet of ice on the taking up his new duties with the 107th Inf. may officiate when the Kaiser of all Ger• floor around the Sibley stove. he carries-the best wishes of every man of many is followed by slow music and meas• Jim Malcolm, detailed as office orderly, was the 102d Ammunition Train. ured tread. awakened from the slumber, usually indulged Lt. Col. J. C. McLeer, who has been assign• The corporals take this war seriously. That in by orderlies, and was called to answer the ed to the lieutenant colonelcy of the 102d fact was expounded during the week of the 'phone. The following conversation took Trains and M. P., is a soldier of the highest Siberian Christmas. The weather was pro• place: type. Formerly with the 1st N. Y. Cavalry, he hibitive of considerable training on the out• Deep Bass Voice (a la General)—'1 Who's established a reputation for fairness and dis• side but was prolific of attempts from within. this speaking? " cipline such as to earn for him the respect Provoked by Corporal Beirne, who has an Malcolm (sleepily—"Office orderly, Field of every man of that organization. In wel• awful propensity for work which is condu• Hospital Company 107." coming Lt. Col. McLeer to the 102d Ammu• cive of disorder, the boys sawed a trap-door D. B. V.—"I understand that thoroughly, nition Train, it is with the assurance that he in their hardwood floor and seriously under• but who ARE you? What's your NAME?" is among friends who will offer him every mined the tent, making a modern, up-to-date Malcolm (now thoroughly awake)—> co-operation. dugout. Enough dirt was passed out of that "Private First Class James Malcolm, sir." Sergt. Tompkins, of the Wagon Co., the tent to dam up the raging torrents of Niag• D. B. V—"That's the stuff, Jimmie, old biggest sergeant in the 27th Division, says ara. Corp. Smith, the lightning calcula• boy, speak up. Listen, Jim, this is Mess anybody can drive a motor truck but you've tor of the company, estimates that the entire Sergeant Burger; go over to the kitchen got to know more than a mule in order to command can find refuge in the "basement" and ask Cook Rhodes if those frankfurters drive a mule. in case of aerial attack or further Govern• came on time. Will you, please?" One of the mess sergeants in the motor ment allotment. Malcolm—'1 ?-XZ&—-! ?'' section is blowing about the extra fine cof• The winter caps have been issued and de• Montgomery, not having heard from his fee he serves to his company. He claims it spite the comfort they beget a fellow can't numerous fair correspondents in the last few costs a cent and a quarter a pound. Yes, perish the thought that he looks like a cross days, is still doubtful as to whether the postal Felix, right you are, the bill says 26c per between a coal miner and a Tennessee squir• authorities are at fault or whether the ladies pound. rel hunter. Anybody heard any of the natives say, all belong to the same sewing circle an"d are "Jack" Phillips, C. 0. orderly grandiose, "This is the worst snow storm we have had in reading each other's mail as part of the who is on speaking terms with all the top- ten years?'' evening's entertainment. notchers in the fistic limelight, is training Sergeant George Killian received an item• Unless the Paymaster gets on the job pret• "Freddy" McDermott, a speedy boy with ized list of articles ranging from smokes to ty soon, it looks as if Christmas this year the 2nd Field Hospital of Albany, for a series comfy-kits from his friends in New York will just be the 25th of the month. of bouts in the Y. M. C. A. tent under the City. Instead of acting upon their sugges• We wish to announce to all friends who direction of Frank Moran. "Jack" and his tion and marking an "X" along side of the have been anxiously inquiring about high protege are out on the snow covered roads most acceptable gift, he "voted *a straight Private Carroll that he is still with us, hid• every morning long before first call is sound• Democratic ticket'' and mailed the list back ing behind a beautiful jet black moustache. ed, and the old war horse takes to the three to his friends. To date he is still waiting a Private Bridget Clarke still reports every miles or over like a soldier to a home-made reply. morning for reveille but between retreat and dinner. reveille (Ah! That's the question). Sergeant Bruger received a box containing Sergeants Pasco and Kellerman, Privates Corporal Trainor, the bewhiskered exhaust a few jars of preserves and other things. Sheridan and Downey were ordered to New pipe, is still reading dime novels in feverish The preserves will remain under cover until York City December 11th on special detail, gas masks are issued as they were two weeks haste. to be away five days. Seemingly, the men en route to this camp and look suspicious. Sergeant Constantine, the Russian without in question had no reluctance to prompt the Caviar accent, is envious of the Bolshe- obedience, and they hurried for the first train Society Notes—The men in No. 8 tent^ viki guards who are drinking Kummel from going North before the delectable order could quarantined, pending investigation of "meas• jardinieres in the royal palace. be rescinded. les," are having little to do, and less to worry about. Judging by the care free life Sergeant Welsh and Corporal Johnston are The Q. M. Dept. was swamped with de• they are leading it will be a sad day for them the inspirers of our worthy S. O.'s famous mands for O. D. snow-shovels and snow-shoes when the quarantine is lifted. expression, "Can't geta damn thing done." when the snow intended for Alaska stopped Our over-worked Sergeant Major Toomey is off here. N. B.—The gentleman who composed the back in camp after a much needed rest in song entitled "Keep the Home Fires Burn• Elaborate preparations are under way for the North. Welcome back, Jack. ing '' evidently wasn't referring to the ''Sib• the Christmas show, and this extravaganza ley Stove." Our mud gutter blonde, Steno. Cackett, still is going to eclipse by far the two shows al• Mill on. insists on smoking butts in the office. She's ready staged in our mess shack. The new getting positively awful. piano will be installed by that time, and the Sergeant McCusker, the fighting Syrian, is stage changed somewhat by new drops and LIEUTENANTS TRANSFERRED. now visiting New York. curtain. Special music and new red hot stuff First Lieut. Donald C. Strachan has been We regret the loss of double time 0 'Grady, have been obtained from Broadway, and the transferred from the 108th infantry to the the famous wind-jammer who has transferred woods hereabouts are giving forth strange 106th infantry, and First Lieut. Frank A. over to the Q. M. N. A. in quest of more noises as the actors prepare for the festivity, Bayles goes from the 106th infantry to the laborious duties. outside gun range. G. F. B. 108th. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 13

AMBULANCE CO. NO. 105, 102D SANI• Time: 5:30 a. m. TARY TRAIN. I A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM As a result of a division order hot off the griddle, sheepskin coats may be picked During the frigid weather last week the f SECRETARY BAKER. up very reasonably by officers from Sergt. company street was as bare as a desert most Landis, Mechanic Johns, and our very good of the time and none envied the doughboys I "None but lofty purposes and exalted friend, Pvt. Bill Creagh, of Headquarters as they drilled in the biting cold. f motives could justify the keeping of Co. We especially recommend Bill's as be• The snow storm Tuesday evening brought I hundreds of thousands of men from their ing an unusually fine one. memories of toboggans and skiis to all and I homes and families at this time of Christ- It has been noticed by a number of the the next morning Private First Class Fred * mas, but the measure of that sacrifice men that certain non-coms are no longer "Stretch" Wells proved a jaek-of-all-trades f will be the measure also of the triumph- eating in the kitchen. We wonder why. by building a sled (at least, that is what he % ant achievement that will follow it. We might also inquire if a certain Supply called it) and Corporal Guy Mendell was 4 "There is mighty comfort in the Sergeant has cleaned the dust off his mess- soon merrily "belly-slamming" down the hill ? knowledge that the history of these days kit. at the end of the company street. f will make a record not unworthy of the Private First Class Jack Layden, the J. I proud tradition of our past when again Rufus Wallingford of the 105th, and his able I there is peace on earth." 102D FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION. Major William S. Hollohan, commanding, assistant, Bert Moss, are busy as a couple of I NEWTON D. BAKER, who has been in Washington and New York bees these days promoting a Christmas en• f Secretary of War. tertainment for the men of this company. on business since December 3d, returned Financial support has been secured through to camp on December 13th. He reports the kindness of the Ladies Auxiliary of this 106TH INFANTRY. much cold weather at home, but less snow company in Syracuse, which has forwarded Having noticed a strange lack of contri• than here. a check for $25.00 for the benefit of the men butions to The Gas Attack from our Six of the eight motorcycles with side at Christmas time; and the talented enter• Regiment, we are anxious to start things cars assigned to the battalion on the tables tainers in the company, notably Prof. Alber• going in true Supply Co. style. We hope have now been delivered, and are found to Urinosio Flint, are busily preparing a pro• that the other companies will try to over• most helpful in Q. M., Paymaster and Head• gram that they confidently assert will put come their bashfulness and follow our ex• quarter errands. The Spartanburg roads the entertainment given at our anniversary ample. are believed to offer the riders good prac• dinner in the background. Prof. Flint will Our esteemed Captain, S. O., has relieved tice in negotiating the shell craters to come. long be remembered for the splendid manner us from our great suspense of a week ago. Lieut. Steeves, detailed to the Gas School,, in which he rendered "There's A Long, Long- After much consideration he has decided not has completed the course and commenced Trail '' 011 this occasion. to apply for transfer to the Aviation Sec• to instruct the battalion. With seven Privates Edgren and Lewis, who had been tion of the Signal Corps, as per recent letter classes a day the forty-eight box respirators, absent on furlough, dropped their newly ac• from the War Department. We might re• on hand are working full time, and being- quired seriousness as they smilingly argued mark that he is already an expert at flying disinfected hourly. that two could live as cheaply as one, thus up in the air—without the aid of an aero• The battalion turned out on forty-five informing the boys that they had turned the plane. minutes' notice for review by General trick on their recent vacation. Lucky lads. We all wish to congratulate Lieut. W. H. Michie on Thursday morning, December Corpl. Kompe, Mechanic Miller, Private McMullen upon his promotion to 1st Lieuten• 13th, and is believed to have made a credit• First Class Jack Stanton, and Privates Scam- ant. With his promotion came his transfer able showing. The glazed surface of the mell, Frawley and LaValle have left for to the 105th Inf., but we are glad to an• roads caused the animals of the mounted Syracuse on ten-day furloughs. Scammell nounce that he is with us again. In the Companies A and B to slip and sprawl in took "Booze" back home with him and the short time he was with the 105th he had dangerous fashion, but happily, the parade affectionate bull pup will be missed by all. to serve twenty-four hours in the trenches, went through without an accident. That magician of modern cookery, Cook which nearly broke his heart. Quite a Wives of officers and enlisted men of the Fred Glahn, brought back memories of home change from the Supply Office, we dare battalion now in Spartanburg have, under and mother when he presented biscuits, light say. the able direction of Mrs. Hollohan, taken as a feather, at mess Tuesday evening. Wheat A variety of inflammable materials have vigorous measures to make the Christmas cakes next, Fred, you're doing fine. been missed from under our store-houses celebration a success. By means of a per• Private First Class Carl B. Re a, has recent• these cold nights. Said materials apparently sonal letter to veterans, the home auxiliaries ly been appointed Chief Record Clerk of this walk right away in the dead of night under and mothers and fathers of the personnel, organization. C0ngratu 1 ati011 s, Carl. the guard's nose without being seen. We contributions have been obtained for lights While at their armory at Syracuse, the men fear the buildings themselves will soon be and additional decorations, and various se• were promised woolen clothing and under• on the move, piece by piece, if a warm cret plans for home boxes are being laid. wear "soon." We are pleased to announce spell doesn't come along soon. Discipline is strong in the 27th Division. that the underwear arrived in sufficient The other night the Top Sergeant was A corporal of the battalion obtained ten quantity to give each man three suits the aroused from his slumbers at an ungodly days' furlough to go home and be married, early part of this week. Supply Sergt. hour by a terrible commotion under the but found difficulties in the mind of the Arthur Gwynn says that the quartermaster store-house, where several choice bits of maiden when he reached New York. So has promised him woolen clothing the last wood were known to be reposing the night fearful was he of possible consequences of of this week. Praises be! before. Armed to the teeth with pajamas, a court martial for false pretences that he —A. K. M. boots, and a night-stick, he stealthily crept wooed, won and wed another lady within out and encircled the building, an evil his leave period, and returned smiling to gleam in his eyes, with intent to kill, only report the event to his benedict captain. CAPT. NICHOLAS HEADS M. P. CO. to find the two mascots, the goat and the First Lieut. Dudley C. Hughes, Dental Captain Ridgely Nicholas has been made sheep, playing leap-frog under the building Corps, has moved into walled and heated captain of Company A, 102d Military Police, to keep warm. quarters to our east, and transferred his to succeed Captain Cornelius W. Wicker- Membership is now open to the "Polar stump-pulling activities from the rear of sham, who becomes assistant chief of staff. Bears." our C. Q.'s tent to the Sanitary Building Charter members: Regimental Supply of the 107th U. S. Infantry, assisted thereto Our advertisers have a big assortment of Sergt. Cornell, and Mechanic Johns. by S. O. No. 123, Div. Hdqrs., Dec. 4th. Christmas presents. Rendez-vous: The shower baths. G. I. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

| News of the Y. M. C. A. I • EDITED BY ERNEST W. LESLIE.

NEWS OF THE UNITS. is hoped that he can be induced to come back to Unit No. 97 and give a series of Unit 92. lectures on this subject. This has been the busiest week at this unit with two cracker-jack movie shows and AN APPRECIATED CHRISTMAS GIFT lively religious meeting and a "Stunt Night." An innovation was tried at this FOR THE BOYS. building this week in putting on an athletic What the boys would really appreciate at stunt night, which consisted of tumbling, this time of year is a bed boot made from wrestling, boxing and general athletics, and cotton flannel or blanketing, any color. it proved such a winner that it is to be These should be sixteen inches long and tried often. A number of reserve officers thirteen inches for the length of the foot. from the 10-26. Engineers accepted the inv -They should be slit at the top and a tape tation given them to occupy sleeping quar• attached thereto so that they can be tied ters at the Y. M. C. A. until their barracks to the upper part of the leg so as not to are erected. slip down. These would be appreciated Unit 95. more than sweaters at this time and can The outstanding feature in Unit No. 95 be made in a very little time. for this week was the charming entertain• ment given by a party of Spartanburg peo• UNION COMMUNION SERVICE. ple consisting of Mrs. A. G. Blotcky, con• A successful innovation at Camp Wads- tralto ; Miss Ried and Miss Epton, violin. worth was the Union Communion Service The boys are always glad' to have someone in Building No. 9G, last Sunday. It was ar• from town to entertain them and this en- ; ranged for with the full approval of the tertainment was especially appreciated. It chaplains. The Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, r^./U, 3!".:"002-:3:: STOA'.TE^. 'D. "?>, is hoped that the visit can be repeated soon. D. D., of Broadway Tabernacle, Congrega• Dr. Paul Moore Strayer was minister of Unit No. 95 are busy preparing for moving tional, New York, presided and made the the Third Presbyterian Church of Rochester day, when they go into their new building. Communion Address. He was assisted by when he went into Army Y. M. C. A. work. We hope this will be done within the next Rev. George R. Baker, Baptist; Rev. E. J. He succeeded Rev. A. C. Beaven, as Camp day or two and the dedication service take Jordan, Presbyterian, and Rev. J. W. Religious Work Director at Camp Wads- place the early part of next week. Frazer, Methodist. Dr. Jefferson has spoken worth. Unit 96. in every Y. M. C. A. unit, and has addressed Dr. Strayer was born in Maryland. He This unit considers itself particularly for• several meetings in Spartanburg. was educated in Baltimore City College, tunate in having as one of its speakers dur• University of Chicago, Yale University and ing the week, Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, of DEDICATION OF UNIT 93. University of Edinburgh. He has received the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, On Sunday evening another of the Y. M. degrees from Yale and the University of who speaks to the boys Sunday night. The 0. A. buildings was dedicated with elabor• Rochester. He served for a time as acting movie shows continue to be very popular ate ceremonies. This building serves the pastor of a large Presbyterian church in and Mr. Bareham, the new social secretary, men of the 106th, 1st and 14th regiments, London, England. has instituted an innovation at this unit by and is in charge of the following secre• For the past fifteen years Dr. Strayer having a band concert each Saturday night. taries: "Ted" F. Elworth, "Jimmie" Moore, has been pastor of the Third Presbyterian This is popular and it is hoped that it will "Johnny" Johnston and "Shorty" Davis. church of Rochester. He is the founder be continued. Dr. F. N. Seerley, of New A band concert by the 106th regiment and leader of the People's Sunday Evening, York City, an expert on sex matters, was band preceded the ceremonies, which con• a public forum which has run for eight scheduled to appear at Unit No. 96 Monday sisted of speeches by Colonel Howlett and years. He is the author of "The Recon• evening, but was unable to appear and Dr. Major Schuyler, of the 14th Infantry; also struction of the Church" and in part of Paul M. Strayer, of the Headquarters Staff, speeches by T. F. Elworth, W. J. Garrison, other books. took his place and addressed the men and Dr. R. M. Strayer, of the Y. M. C. A. upon "Sex Problems." staff. Bandmaster Kasamac, of the 14th A HEW Y. M. C. A. UNIT. Unit 97, Regiment band, played a violin solo, and The Y. M. C. A. authorities, in response Unit No. 97 has been a place of activity Robert E. Clark and Corporal Waite, of to an insistent demand that something be all the week, the movie shows and stunt the 106th Infantry sang. All told it was a done for the boys of the Supply and Am• night by local regimental talent being es• most enjoyable and entertaining program munition Trains, Field Bakery, Remount pecially popular. The new plan of having and the building was packed to capacity. Station, Quartermasters Crew and others in in connection with the religious service On Monday evening, under the direction the rear end of the camp, have decided to during the week a fifteen-minute song serv• of John N. Johnston, Social Secretary of open a new unit to be known as number 98. ice, led by R. E. Clark, Camp Musical Di• the building, a fine entertainment of four• At present a large tent will be used with rector, and the talk followed by a reel or teen vocal and entertainment numbers, was the hope that later on a building can be two of current events movies, is proving staged, nothing but regimental talent being erected to serve that section of the camp. very popular. On Tuesday night Mr. W. J. used. The 700 men present all voted it It is planned, hpwever, to install a movie Davison, Camp Secretary, spoke at the unit, the best ever. machine and other Y. M. C. A. comforts at taking the place of Dr. F. N. Seerley, of once. New York City, who was scheduled to talk Your name may appear in the next num- Mr. H. C. Bank, formerly of building 97, on "Sex Problems." Mr. Davison was a , ber of The Gas Attack. Be sure to get one is slated to take charge of the new unit. very able substitute for Dr. Seerley, and it !—out a week from to-day. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER i5

CAMP SPORTS EDITED BY F. J. ASHLEY

McDERMOTT SHOWS CLASS AS COMPANY K'S MAN FRANK MORAN TO CONDUCT BOX•

THUMPER. WINS LONG RACE ING BOUTS. Frank Moran, the boxing instructor for New Fistic Light Discovered Already by Vic Voteretsas, of Seventy-First Infantry, the division, already has his plans under way 'for many contests among the men. Frank Moran. Finishes First in Cross Country Run. He met several hundred of the soldiers at a meeting presided over by Capt. E. W. A number of earnest young men wagged Vic Voteretsas, Company K, 71st infantry, Moore, of the division staff, who told the their padded fists at each other in a number showed his heels to a classy field of hill and men that General O'Ryan was much inter• of bouts at the K. of C. Clubhouse Satur• dales in the initial cross-country run of ested in boxing and wanted to encourage day night, December 15th. It was the first the 27th division over a four-mile course, the sport all he could. of a series of soirees to be given by Frank Saturday, December 15th. Voteretsas Moran has already booked preliminary Moran, the tawny topped gladiator who is breasted the tape at the finish just two bouts. Seven contests were staged last in camp to help us develop a punch. seconds ahead of Nick Gianapolus, of the Saturday night in the Red path tent. Others The bouts were to have been held in the 106th. The last mile and a half developed will be held soon, to try out the men and Red Triangle Tent, but the tent blew down into a duel between the two Greek runners. determine to what class they belong. so Frank took his battlers, and a large Voteretsas displayed the greatest stamina of audience, to the K. of C. building. the two, and managed to come through in a thrilling finish. Frankie Zuna, of the 14th COMPANY I BEATS COMPANY M, 105TH McDermott Stops Coldgrave. infantry, landed third place. The prize for INFANTRY. The star of the evening was Fred Mc• the company finishing a squad first went to Dermott, a very able bodied young man from the B company, of the 102d engineers. A On the initial attempt for gridiron honors Albany, N. Y., who came south to spend score or more of valuable prizes, donated Co. I, 105th Infantry made good by defeating the winter with what used to be the 2d by the merchants of Spartanburg, were dis• Co. M of the same regiment 6 to 2. Field Hospital Co. He liked it so well tributed among the runners. The team The game was played Saturday afternoon, down here he decided to stay. The climate prize was a silver trophy. December 8th, and although the field was evidently agreed with Fred. He brandished The runners finished in the order named: in a sloppy condition from an all-night rain, as mean a collection of knuckles as any Name. Regiment. Time. there was an abundance of good, snappy man has shown around this camp for many Vic Voteretsas, Company K, 71st 22:56 plays that made the fans forget the cold. a moon. His first opponent was Billy Cold- Nick Gianapolus, Hospital Corps, The stars of the game were Gibson, Byrne, grave of the 108th Infantry. Remember 106th 22:58 Parker, Sabo, Hind and Lieut. Maxim for Co. that name—Coldgrave. Fred laid Billy low Frank Zuna, 14th 23:53 I. Slocum and Riley played a fast game in the second round. R. Williams, Base Hospital 24:20 for Co. M. Then Fred, who is an amateur champion C. F. Blankenberg, Company F, 102d Lieut. Maxim proved to be an ideal center, up in the sunny North, gave an exhibition engineers .. 24:32 being surprisingly fast for a big man. Gib• with Frank Moran, in which he did very Frank Davey, Company B, 102d en• son and Byrne made good ground-gaining creditably. Frank didn't trot out "Mary gineers 24:38 runs and Hind at tackle showed some of his Ann," the justly celebrated clout with which Jerry Flynn, Company B, 102d en• old-time college form. he used to knock Jim Coffey for a shower- gineers 24:42 bath shack, but he showed an appreciative G. Swartz, Company D, 102d infantry. 25:14 Co. M was the first to score, the wind car• audience that he would be a mighty danger• Lemberg, 14th 24:59 rying the ball on the kickoff over I Co.'s ous man to pick on. DeSilva, 14th 25:26 goal-line for a touchdown. From that time E. F. Naylor, Company F, 102 en• on Co. I held the upper hand and in the Other Bouts. gineers 26:05 third quarter by line-bucking and end runs Jack Collins, 106th M. G. Batt, convinced Sergt. L. Webster, 71st infantry 26:11 managed to get the ball over their oppon• Billy Bryman of the 102d Engineers that J. Duffy, Company L, 105th 26:15 ent's line, Parker carrying the ball. Billy was better at building roads than wal• C. Duror, Hospital Corps, 107th 26:31 loping in an argument that lasted two C. J. Lilly, Company L, 105th 26:15 rounds. They weighed 145 lbs. Charlie Davis, 14th 26:52 Even a second class private can give orders. Al Shannon, M. G. Co., 47th Inf., was too Henry Hare, Company H, 102d en• To whom? To the Gas Attack advertiser. much for Billy Freeman, Co. E., 106th Inf., gineers 27:02 125 lbs. Shiftman, Company B, 102d engineers 27:19 R. G. Fisher, Company B, 102d en• L. Caldwell, Company B, 102 engineers 27:33 Freedman Pepper, Co. H., 106th Inf., 150 gineers 29:12 McLoy, Company B, 102 engineers. .. 27:38 lbs., failed to live up to his last name and Milo Robetor, 54th infantry brigade.. 29:18 Powell, Company B, 102d engineers... 27:40 lost to Jesse Robinson, 3d Ambulance Co. Freshler, Headquarters Company, Ackerley, 106th infantry 29:22 Jimmy Stewart, Hdqts. Co., 106th Inf., and 106th 27:41 Tom Forster, 107th 29:27 Frank Clump, of the same company, 133 T. E. Pierce, 107th . 28:12 R. Crook, Company F, 102d engineers. 29:48 lbs., fought a good draw. Hotk*ss, 107th 28:19 Joe Flynn, Company B, 102d engineers 30:17 Scott, 106th 28:24 The bouts were most exciting. They Williams, 107th 30:18: Corporal Hall, Company K, 105th 28:25 were so warm the soldiers forgot the chill Longnecker, 106th infantry 28:39 Peabody, 107th 30:34 breezes. There will be more of them, under Phil Murdel, Company B, 107th 28:57 T. Pierce, 107th 30:53 the direction of Frank Moran. Heilni, Headquarters Company, 106th. 29.03 W. L. Douglas, 14th 31:01 i6 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

Mrs. Charles P. Loeser, Editor. Mrs. Walter Montgomery, Mrs. J. W. A lien, Associate Editors.

THE CHRISTMAS TREES. The army women, with the members of the local chapter of the American Red Cross, worked hard on their task of pro• viding Christmas trees for the men in camp. Many of the friends and relatives of the soldiers back home sent presents to go on the tree, and boxes of ornaments. Others sent cash contributions, to be used by the committee in charge. Mrs. James M. Andrews has secured attractive electrical decorations, with which the trees will be illuminated. The coming Yuletide bids fair to be a happy one, and the friends of the soldiers are all working with the hope that each and every man in camp will have cause to rejoice.

' ' THE ROCK CLIFF CLUB. A new dancing club has been formed in Spartanburg. The organization is to be known as the Rock Cliff Club. The first dance will be held Saturday evening, De• cember 22d and will be followed by dances every Wednesday and Saturday evenings, also dansants Wednesday and Saturday , ARMY WOMEN WORKING f&- CHRISTMAS TREE CELEBRATION » CAMP i afternoons. The membership is limited to i < WADSWORTH^ leR ifc R£^-Mks-HENRY A RILEY, MasLIVINGSTON ^ 300 men, and is dependent on presentation : WATERBURY, Miss MARGARET MOIE,Mrs-JOSEPH bSEUQMAM)MR5-S-LKW6AIIS*' by a member before a board, who passes on the matter, and on payment of a fee. Most of the members are. enlisted men. Admission will be charged for each dance MRS. W. Gk LEE ENTERTAINS AT A COL. HOWLETT SAVES OFFI• attended, and each member is entitled to SILVER TEA. bring an out-of-town guest. The pavilion in CER'S WIFE FROM FIRE. Cowpens Chapter, D. A. R., are planning which the dances will be held is owned by to have a tree for the members of the Com• J. M. Crawford and has been remodeled, pany of Military Police, that will stay in enclosed by glass, warmed by two large fire• Brooklyn Officers in Danger But Their town on duty Christmas day. To help pay places, and made very attractive. It can expenses, Mrs. W. G. Lee, on East Main Coolness Prevents Damage. be reached by the East Main street car- street, entertained at a silver tea. The fea• line. It has also been planned, beginning ture of the affair was a melting pot, in soon after Christmas, to reserve Thursday Col. James R. Howlett, of the 14th In• which each guest was asked to deposit a evenings of each week, for officers' dances. fantry, rescued the wife of Lieut. Charles broken trinket or discarded novelties of Music will be furnished by the military Ostberg, of the lOGth Infantry, from a fire metal value. bands and orchestras. The ladies who are in the house at 335 South Church Street assisting in the organization are: Mrs. E. H. in Spartanburg on the night of December Haughton, official chaperone; Mrs. Walter OFFICER OF 102D ENGINEERS WEDS. 12th. Montgomery, Miss Mildred Hudson, Miss The announcement of the marriage of The fire occurred while officers from Kate Lois Montgomery and C. Andrade III, Second Lieut. A. R. Garland, Co. C, 102d Brooklyn and their families were at dinner. formerly of Co. K, of the 107th. Engineers, to Miss Agnes Shay, of New Lieut. Matthew J. Wilson, of the 106th In• York City, who was in town on a visit, fantry, was the first to discover the flames CAPTAIN VAUGHAN WEDS MISS ZABEL. caused surprise amongst his many friends. coming from an upper part of the house. After a short honeymoon, the happy couple He told the diners to go out into the street. Miss Ruth Zabel, daughter of Mr. and will return to Spartanburg, where Mrs. Gar• The officers then proceeded to remove from Mrs. Otto Zabel, of this city, was married land will remain until the division leaves. the burning building all the personal and to Captain Vaughan in the Methodist par• household effects possible. sonage. The bride's family and a few Send your social notes to the Society It was during the carrying out of these friends of the groom were present at the Editor, Mrs. Charles P. Loeser, 502 Con• belongings that Mrs. Ostberg made three wedding ceremony. Captain and Mrs. verse Campus, or to the Gas Attack. She trips into the house to get some of her will be glad to give all information her per• things. On the third trip the smoke over• Vaughan left for a northern trip. sonal attention. came her. Col. Howlett, who lived next door, saw her plight. He made his way What are you going to send HER? Our What shall I get them for Christmas? Let through the smoke and carried her out to .advertisers have it. our advertisers answer. the street. She soon revived. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 17

CAMP POETS! FRONT AND CENTER!

The prize contest conducted by The Gas Attack for the best humorous verse by a soldier in camp closed December 15th. On this page we present some of the results. Other contributions will be published next week, at which time we hope to announce the winner of the contest and the five dollar prize. (Who says poetry doesn't pay?) Some of the humorous verse submitted in the contest was terribly tragic. Some was meant to be tragic and was humor• ous. But we were glad to get them all, even if we didn't discover any Kiplings or Services or Lord Byrons. Perhaps they will come out of their dug-outs later. Many of the poems submitted in the contest were put back on the "dead hook" because they failed to follow the rules. There is discipline in poetry as well as in the army. One rule that was broken was: "Thou Shalt Not Steal.'' Whenever it was possible for the Poetry Editor to detect a theft he threw the contribution out. In one case Jthe same poem was sub• mitted by six different authors. But, never mind, here goes the first platoon in review. You can wear your gas mask if you want to. And the worst is vet to come.

DECEMBER MORN. WILL IT EVER BE SO AGAIN? III.

It is a frosty morning, cold and damp. I. "Line's busy;" you hear, "I refund you No sound disturbs the calm tranquility ; Some time ago, as you all know, your money." The light that lives is but an ancient lamp You hang up the receiver and say it's darn We lived a life that then seemed slow. That guides the wanderer, ere he steps on funny. We went to work on cars and trains, thee; You go home and doll up and then gobble But hark! The mighty bugler is awake, And tried so hard to use our brain; a feed, And doth with his infernal weapon make And coming home so tired at night, Then from Papa's cigar box you light up a A crashing sound like thunder. "Bay Ridge, West End trains to the right." weed. Rookie! If thou remain unmoved by such The platform man in a voice that kills "Hey, Sis, where's my tie-pin, please let a noise, things alone. Yells "Fulton Street or Cypress Hills." To-morrow's sun will find thee out of luck. No. I can't tell you just what time I'll be You fight your way through the angry mob So up, brave boys, and with thy guns and home." toys, While some dame's umbrella wallops your Down to the hang-out you dash like a streak, Go forth and start to earn another buck. knob. It's the fastest you've travelled in over a Private Howard A. Herty, The seats are scarce but you grab one, week. "Hello, kid, you're here, I see, what'll you Co. A, Military Police. And the other contestants growl "son of a have? gun!" You're off it? Say, Bill, please don't give Oh, there's Cholley, the fellow who quit at ON GUARD. me that salve. your place, Here's luck! No, no more, let's go up to (Editorial Note: The author of this poem Who holds his newspaper in front of your the hall. sent in a letter accompanying it, in which face. This is the night of our club's annual ball. he said: "I composed this poem while on Do you want to break those two, Bill, you're guard one night. It seemed as if the stars II. a good dancer?" "Oh, hello, Bill," he says, when your eye in the sky were sentries on guard, just as And you wink at the nice one, she smiles meets his gaze, I, and as I watched one particular bright for an answer; "I'm thinking of asking the boss for a And you dance and you shout, star, it gradually faded away in the dis• raise," You have a good time 'til the lights all go tance, and I saw another take its place, Or, "they say the bill's good at the Empire out. which also disappeared as dawn came.") this week. Do you see those two wrens ? Don't look IV. Silent spectre of the night yet! Take a peep! And so, you know, some time ago In the Heavens high, Our racket's to-night, here's two tickets for We lived a gay life, and we thought it was Patient, grim, with starry light, you. slow. Standing, just as I. May called me up, she says she's going too. Cook Robert R. Dilks, Co. M, 106th Inf. Faithful watchdog of the sky, So long, Bill, be sure now to meet me at Guarding with his light, eight Boon companions, he and I, On the gin-mill corner, no kiddin', that's Sentries of the night. straight!" IT'S GREAT TO BE A SOLDIER.

You battle your way to the nearest way Oh, it's great to be a soldier Changing, like a guard-relief, out. Forlornly he leaves, And wear the old 0. D., Why don't they run more rush hour trains As if, gives me the belief, And have the girls all crowding 'round on this route? He, it also grieves. And asking you to tea. The telephone next seems to be your best bet Then, as dawn begins to break, Oh, it's great to be a soldier To see if your steady made any dates yet. With his waning light, And fight mid battle roar A message: "Keep cheer for my sake, After patiently waiting to get four-three- And kill and kill and win a trench Sentry of the night." ten, You've never had before. Private Alexander Sussman, Central says: "Five cents please," and you Co. A, 47th Inf. wait again. (Continued on page 23) i8 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

HOSTESS HOUSE TO OPEN. Captains were stumped to saw stumps. It has been said that Captain Papen agrees with the old saying 1* Early rising and plenty i Men nt e 27th DivisioStafnf of Women Officers Already An• of exercising before breakfast is conducive s iiiiiiiiiiiiiii nounced. of good health,7 7 especially since the Cap• tain has been enjoying (?) his new fire place. CThis enterprise was Work on the Hostess House at the en• Speaking about open fires, we would suggest launched by reason of trance to camp is progressing, and it is that any officers contemplating the erection your coming to camp hoped that it will open soon. of one, dispense with the use of a Sibley stove for an outlet. Lieutenants Reed and here, and its success de• The men who have been at Plattsburg or Nealon will agree with us, no doubt. pends in a large measure other camps with Hostess Houses, already '(Snow Shoes77 Jackson feels that the know something of what they mean—of the on your patronage. world is against him. He finds it impossible little touch of home which the opening of to purchase a banjo string for his banjo. CWe have made an this one will bring to camp, and of the '1 Snow Shoes7 7 finds much pleasure in be• comfort and convenience it will afford the earnest effort to serve ing company serenader and travels all even• women guests of the soldiers. you to the best of our ing from one tent to the other playing- his It is at government request that these ability, handicapped as banjo and singing to his comrades-in-arms. houses are established, to serve as centers "Deacon77 Bender is very much pleased we have been by the of home life available for all officers and with his new detail as Assistant to Lieutenant help situation as it ex• men of the camp. Here will be found a Reed, in. caring for matters having to do with welcome for all; a pleasant, home-like ists in Spartanburg to• the canteen. place to visit with mothers, wives, and day. "Ibbsie77 Balm is in hard luck this time sweethearts; a well-equipped cafeteria, and of '' Hooze-gow.7 7 His fiance has been in dWe appreciate the a wide-awake information and emergency town for ten days and "Ibbsie7 7 has been secretary ready to be of service. Men are liberal patronage you in camp for the last four days, and K. P. welcome at any time to drop in to read or have given us and be• too. Gee, this is a tough war! write, or for a quiet talk. speak for ourselves a "Doc77 Pedlow seems to find much pleas• continuation of the The Staff, appointed by the War Work ure in the lobby of the Cleveland, smoking Council of the National Board of the Young- his Cinco Centavus cigar and conversing with same. Women's Christian Association, includes: other '' Colonels.7 7 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimuuiiiimiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Director, Miss Bertha M. Loheed; Informa• Captain Hacker and a detail of men are tion and Emergency Hostess, Miss Bessie now at Glassy Rock Rifle Range for ten The Wadsworth Restaurant I R. Kingman; Business Hostess, Mrs. David• days. Of course, it is expected the Captain son; Receiving Hostess, Mrs. Caroline and the men will be real mountaineers when Brooks; Cafeteria Hostess, Miss Mary I. they return. Mulford. "Broncho77 Franklyn Pomeroy expects to <$> j receive in a few days a contract from Bar- FIELD HOSPITAL COMPANY NO. 106. num & Bailey's Big Circus, booking a sea• I Soldiers It might be of interest to members of this son's engagement for his trained flies that division to know that Private Walter Reilly he has painted green so as to distinguish Accessories of this company has the agency for "Motor• them from other flies. ized Bunks.77 Private Reilly derives much "No Seconds77 Mike McCormack has a pleasure during his spare time on the latest hard task every day we have liver. Mike model bunk. says the bone in the liver is worse than that Shoe Brushes, Daubers and A football team has been organized and is he received in beef we had once. under supervision of Major Gaus. All chal• Now that the snow covers the ground and Griffin's Polish. lenges to be considered will be sent to Pri• the facilities for washing are very bady 7 7 Leather and Leggin Laces vate Joseph Bigley. '' Soap Suds Anderson has taken in his shingle and has laid aside his laundry busi• No we are not "Movie77 stars, nor any• Collar Ornaments. ness for the time. thing of the sort, but expect very soon to see "Philosophy77 Bill Dolan says he is just Coat Buttons. a demonstration of our "K. O. V7 work as tickled that he is one of the detail for the Flashlights and Batteries, a camera-man, he having purchased a movie Rifle Range. " 1711 learn to shoot injections camera very recently and is now experiment• Rifle and Revolver Cases. while I 'm there,7 7 says Bill. ing by taking pictures of the company in —J. V. B. Wrap Leggins and Regula- our daily routine work. First Lieut. Reed, now in charge of the lation Leggins. ASSIGNED TO DUTY ON THE DIVISION Chevrons. Field Hospital and Ambulance Company can• teen, promises the men of the Sanitary Units STAFF. Overshoes, Rubber Boots that the stock of the canteen will be of the Maj. Andrew E. Tuck, adjutant general 7s and many other necessities best and the supply unlimited. department, is detailed to duty in the office of the chief of staff and Capt. Edward B. Our new '' Top7 7 Sergeant First Class Har• Thorne, 10th N. Y. infantry, is detailed to too numerous to mention, ry L. Folsom, has the good will of all the men. He succeeds Sergeant First Class Wil- duty in the office of the division adjutant. lard G. Walsh, recently transferred to the Remount Station of the National Army. MIDNIGHT MASSES. Captains Papen and Hacker can. be found There will be midnight masses in the Globe Sample Co. § every morning in back of officers 7 row sawing Knights of Columbus hall in Camp Wadsworth stumps of trees, which have been recently on Christmas Eve night, and in those regi• 109 W. Main Street. dug up from the drill grounds in the rear ments whose chaplains are of the Roman of the Sanitary Train. It must be that the Catholic faith. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 19

HEADQUARTERS 105TH INFANTRY VS. CO, I, 10TH INFANTRY. It was some game! There were two We Have Enlarged our Plant at a Cost of $30,000.00 \ bands and nearly a thousand spectators. — There was a terrible wind and it was very ~ ' ' ——— = « cold. And I Company won the battle 7-0, t and with it the street championship. The To cater to the boys' business of the 27th division. t teams were evenly matched in every way and fought every instant with the fiercest Our plant has the approval of your Sanitary au- « desperation. The contest opened with Headquarters kicking off to I Company, who thorities. ^ with line drives forced their way to first down. In a wild mix-up Dooley lost ground Our quality and service is of the highest standard, < •on a trick play and suddenly the ball and we are the largest Pie Baking Concern in the \ bounded out of the melee into Hundt's hands. On the very next play came a fum• South. ' < ble, restoring the ball to the 10th Regiment men. Quarterback Runge ripped out his Our daily output 36,000 Pies, 12,000 Crullers and < signals, there was a sudden shift and he bucked through the line for twenty yards. Doughnuts. < The quarter ended with the ball on Head- quarter's twenty-five yard line and the 10th SPECIAL CHRISTMAS PIES. < rooters highly jubilant. Headquarters came back with a rush at the start of the second period and Arndt crashed through the line for twenty yards. Vannier and Schaible made steady gains, and when Company I was penalized for hurdling, things looked pretty rosy for the DIXIE PIE BAKING COMPANY 105th. The whistle blew with the leather PHONE 1711 in Fs territory. The third quarter was fierce and decisive, with the ball moving back and forth around I South Liberty St. Spartanburg, S. C. I the fifty-yard line. Conant repeatedly smashed his opponents' line and caught the runners with hard tackles before he had even started. Black made fifteen yards through the line for I Company. Then IF YOU WISH TO EAT AT A Vannier took back ten for Headquarters the same way. At this point the 105th was I New York Prices BROADWAY RESTAURANT forced to kick and then came tragedy and FOR victory for the respective teams. The pig• skin soared high into the air against the heavy wind over the lOth's forty-yard line New York Boys and from this was blown with a swoop and For good service in bounced back to Headquarters' ten-yard line. The 105th fought with such strength We have the real goods a clean and sanitary that no gains were made for several downs. FELLOWS place Conant repeatedly tackled the runner in his Chevrons all Ranks tracks. At last Black carried the ball within a few feet of the goal and Lewis Sheepskin coats, rubber boots went over in a flying scrimmage for the and shoes. score. McCloud kicked the goal, making Insignia all Ranks. the score 7-0. THEN VISIT Headquarters, getting possession of the Military books for all branches ball, lost through bad luck two forward The Royal Restaurant passes to left end, but undiscouraged tried a Officers Insignia With Numerals throw to the right, which Colleson nabbed Broadway Style for a long, sensational run and here the Bed Rolls, Web Belts, Folding Broadway Cooks whistle blew and the game ended. Tables and Cots, No Name Hats. Broadway Waiters Largest Stock of Leather Leg• LT. COL. TUCK COMMANDS SCHOOL OF gings in Spartanburg. THE LINE.

Owing to his other heavy duties, Brig. Gen. Phillips is relieved from duty as com• Army & Navy Equipment Co. THE ROYAL RESTAURANT mandant of the division school of the line, 137 E. MAIN STREET 132 North Church St. and Lieut. Col. John B. Tuck, 106th infantry, NEXT TO BIJOU THEATRE Just a block from Main St. is detailed to that position. 20 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

The ROLLER SKATING! II ALTO GOOD MUSIC Tltaeatre NEW PRINCESS RINK FORMERLY THE ONE BLOCK WEST OF CLEVELAND HOTEL Old Rex Theatre Busses Stop at Door MOW ON THE SAME CIRCUIT DIVISION HEADQUARTERS TROOP. of his superior neatness. His run of six WITH consecutive times as super will probably Considerable interest has been aroused by stand for some time. BIJOU the return of Sergeant Jack Johnson and Ttte Corporal Bruenig from the French front. Because of the aptitude shown by some STRAND Both non-coms were members of the party members of the beginners' class in French, that accompanied Major General O'Ryan on they are allowed to leave the cumpulsory HARRIS his visit to the scene of hostilities, and have lessons half an hour before the others. It been in the front line trenches. Johnson is expected that there will be a big clamor OUR USUAL 100% was in the British battle area during the in the mess hall next session when the em• advance of three weeks ago, while Bruenig bryo Poilus endeavor to display their wares. ENTERTAINMENT WILL accompanied the commander of the 27th to Private Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., has just BE OFFERED the French sector, the week before. Their received a letter from a twelve year old tales of Paris and the few facts they are North Carolina lady asking- for $12.98, the willing to disclose about the actual fighting cost of a new dress she would like to pos• All the Stars in Filmdom have made them the Mecca of the troop sess. The young lady promises to return street. the money after the war and when she has Bobbie Vincent, one of the medical men grown up, explaining at the same time that attached to Headquarters, has also been she really hopes Van will be able to collect more or less the object of professional jeal• then. Who is she, Neil? I f ousy recently among the men who have yet Lead by Private Crowley and the Muzzier, to see their first real enemy and dodge real the medicos at Headquarters have taught shells. Although the youngster has made the troopers how to decide all disputes. The Best very little mention of his past deeds, he When a private battle is being waged in is the hero of one of the latest war stories. their tent, they display a single red flag at Film Service In Town When only sixteen years old, he ran away the door and when they hold one of their from a preparatory school in Boston in frequent "free for alls," two flaring pennants DEVELOPING PRINTING 1915 and smuggled his way to England are in view. where he attempted to enlist. Failing, be• On last Saturday, December 8th, First cause of his youth, he managed to get to Lieutenant Douglas T. Cameron was mar• Gold Filled Knives $2.50 to $3.00 | France where he joined the French scouts, ried to Miss Margaret Payne at her resi• an organization corresponding to the Didenc• e in Montclair, New Jersey. Mrs. Cam• Christmas Candy) $1.00 the pound % vision Headquarters Troop. For over a eron was a visitor to Camp Wadsworth three Safety Razors $1.0 .00 I year he was busy right in the thick of the weeks ago. Lieutenant Cameron returned fray. Because of his powers as a linguist Manicure Sets $5.00 to $15.00 f home on furlough recently after he had he was used most of the time to carry dis• fractured his ankle while practicing for the patches between the French and British Division polo team. The officers and men staffs. Several of these trips were by aerial of the troop extend their heartiest congratu• ^ Military Souvenirs, Silk Handker• route. One day while talking to a German lations. prisoner, Vincent displayed his knowledge chief Cases, Service Pins and F. J. A. of the Hun lingo and he was promptly Flags, Fur Trimmed Moc• placed under arrest as a spy. Only after con• casins, Regimental Pil• siderable work by the American State De• BAA-BAA BENNIES BANNED. low Tops and Flags. partment was he able to secure his release. The Baa-baa Bennies, i. e. short canvass, Vincent now carries a scar on the right knee fleece lined overcoats, must go. They were ^ Up To Date Line of Christmas Goods f from a bullet wound received at Arras. presented with the raspberry by a recent general order. They may still be worn as Percy Davies, the professional supernum• pajamas, however. erary of the guard, met his first setback last week when Private Stange showed up, to Kaminer's Drug Store Watch for the Gas Attack posters in your better advantage at guard-mount. However, canteens. 159 EAST MAIN STREET Davies was right on the job four days' later

<$><»^<$><^^ again securing a good night's rest because Join the Red Cross. One dollar does it. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 21

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE, ETC.

Spend It With the 105th Infantry. I Sensible Christmas Gifts

The 105th Regiment is planning a Regi• At Sensible Prices mental Gala Night to be produced Christmas FOR HER FOR HIM

Eve at the Harris theatre. Arrangements Great Assortment of Manicure Sets, Scissor Cameras - $2.50 to $29.00 have been made with the Keith interests to Sets, and Sewing Sets in French Ivory and Cigar and Cigarette Cases $3.50—$3,75 supply special talent of note. Pearl at $2.50 to $22.50 Cigars (per box) $2.25 to $4.50 Tobacco (1 lb jars) $1.00 Cameras $2.50 to $29.00 Captain R. F. Hodgdon is in charge of the Cigarettes (all brands) Lowney's Chocolates in attractive entertainment committee, and is being Stetson Hats $6.00 Boxes at - 80c to $6.50 assisted by Sergeant Wm. Woolfendon and Sleeveless Sweaters $3.50—$4.00 70c to $1.40 Mary Lincoln Chocolates - $1.00 to $1.50 Sergeant Harold Kemp who are guarantee• "Eversharp" Pencils Complete Boxes of Stationery - 50c to $4.00 Fountain Pens $1.00 to $1.75 ing to put on an entertainment that will Service Pins and Brooches 25c to $1.50 Electric Flash Lights 75c to $3.50 equal any yet produced in any Southern Service Flags - $1.25 to $1.70 Swagger Sticks 30c to $3.00 city. Service Rings - $1.00 to $7.50 Safety Razor Sets $5.00 10c to 75c Bill Folds and Pocket Books 50c to $1.00 The chairman of the ticket committee is Souvenir Handkerchiefs Photo Albums 35c to $1.25 Money Belts - 40c to 75c Lieut. J. J. Callahan, of Company A, and Memo Books (loose leaf) 40c to $1.65 <•> Calendars with frames for your photo 10c to 30c Jack-Knives - 75c to $3.00 reservations for seats should be made to Souvenir Pillow Tops $2.50 Gold Pen-Knives $1.00 to $7.00 him in writing. Fountain Pens $1.0$ 0 to $1.75 Poker Chip Sets $3.50 Wrist Watches - $3.50 and up Frank Moran, the well known pugilist, Photo Albums 30c to $1.25 $1.30 to $3.50 boxing instructor for the 27th Division, will Shell Souvenirs, with flags Service Rings $1.00 to $7.50 French Ivory Clocks $10.00 50c to $4.00 render the monologue which he used while Stationery - Bridge Whist Sets $5.00 Box Candy - 70c to $6.50 on his tour in vaudeville. Members of the 105th are taking a keen Complete and Attractive Line of Christmas and New Year Cards interest in making the affair a success. of the Better Quality at 5c to 20c each 48 Hour Service on Film J. A. WHITE HERE TO LOOK AFTER Developing. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. Finest work. J. A. White, who has been associated with We will wrap and mail the Southern Railway for 35 years, is the your Xmas Gifts 108 KENNEDY PLACE « for you. agent assigned to Camp Wadsworth by the SPARTANBURG < American Railways Association to look after the movement of troops and supplies into or out of camp. He has his desk in the building with the camp quartermaster. Mr. White's coming here is the result of MERRY CHRISTMAS, MEIV ! f the recent decision of the railroads of the country to pool their resources and equip• ment in order to help the country prose• Creighton Clothing Co. | cute the war more efficiently. THE ARMY STORE §

HARLEM AND YORKVILLE CLUB. The men comprising Camp Wadsworth will find a hearty welcome * An Enlisted Men's Club is being organ• at this popular man's store. # ized at Camp Wadsworth. It will be known We have made provision for the soldier's wants, and it will be a | as the Harlem and Yorkville Club. The pleasure to have the men call while over here and look our stock over. * purpose of this organization is to keep in touch with the relatives and friends of sol• WE HAVE EVERYTHING FOR THE SOLDIER'S | diers, and to let them know weekly what the COMFORT IN CAMP LIFE t boys from Harlem and Yorkville are doing. There will be a plea made to "the folks Officers' Overcoats .. §40.00 to $50 00 back home" for woolens and knitted wear• Sleeveless Sweaters, to be worn under shirt, at $3.50 and $5 00 ing apparel, which will be distributed equal• ly among the members. 0. D. Woolen Uniforms ...... $30 00 Among those who have already sent in 0. D. Woolen Uniforms , .. $35 00 their names for membership are: Albert High Grade Serges $35.00 to $50 00 Hoffman, Co. M, 107th Inf.; Ray S. Lid- 0. D. Serge and Cotton Odd Breeches $3.50 to $10 00 dane, 242 West 112th St., Supply Train; Stetson and Schoble Regulation Hats $5.00 to $6 00 Sergt. James Smith, 362 W. HGth St., Sup• All Insignia for all branches, including regimental number. ply Train; Corporal Andrew J. McGinity, 104 F. A.; John O'Keefe and Dan Lenihan, Sheep-lined Coats...... $15.00 and $18 50 102 Sanitary Train; Professor Joseph P. 0. D. Regulation Wool Sweaters...... $6.50 and $7, 50 Quinn, 107th Infantry, and Joseph W. Ver- We make Uniforms and alterations on Suits mily, 102d Field Signal Battalion. We want more members! Send in your Helmets of Wool, Wool Hosiery, Gloves and Cooper's Spring Needle name to— Union and Two-Piece Underwear, Bed Rolls, Lockers, and everything for DICK J. KENNEDY, the soldier's comfort in camp life. Care The Gas Attack, Camp Wadsworth, S. C. 22 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

THE PENALTY. iTODD DRUG CO. How Thirteen Soldiers Paid It. Last August a hundred, gin-crazed negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry shot up the town of Houston, Tex., and killed twenty-two persons. I Not Too Late To Get Those At dawn, December 11, in a lonely mes- quite thicket near Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, thirteen of these negroes were hanged. They rode to their death singing I Christmas Remembrances "When the Roll is Called, Up Yonder." I And they made the nine-foot plunge to t death together. It was the most drastic act of punishment I If you will drop in we can show you ever meted out by American military au• thorities. Never was a punishment more I GIFTS of TASTE justified. Forty-one other negroes are in prison serving life sentences for their parts | < in the Houston crime. Four others re• ceived lighter sentences. I Maillard's, Park & Tilford and Nunnally's < The story of the hanging provides an unforgettable picture—a picture that should | Candies in Gift Packages ] have its effect. It took place fewer than < a hundred yards from the Camp Travis <•> < Barracks, wherein nearly 40,000 National t _ _ _ \ Army rookies were sleeping. Yet not one % S^rtistic Christmas 'Post Cards < of these men knew what had happened until the story was published in the news• ^ < papers that afternoon. A squad of army motor trucks trundled I SOUTHWEST CORNER CHURCH AND MAIN STS. < cut to the thicket soon after midnight. Each bore lumber from which the scaffolds 4 «x^<^x$><^>«*^^ < were made. The scaffolds were built to• gether into one long platform. Each trap was to be sprung by the movement of a heavy pine trigger. And to each trigger Military was detailed six husky soldiers. YPEWRITER Hanged at Daybreak. A heavy wood fire had been kindled a Uniforms and dozen yards away. The condemned negroes New and Re-Built had been moved from the cavalry barracks that had been their prison, to separate Overcoats buildings. With the exception of one of Buy or Rent the men, whose name is not made public and around whom much mystery settles, AT WE DO ALL KINDS OF the negroes had called in Army Y. M. C. A. ALTERING ON UNIFORMS workers for spiritual comfort. Prices That Are Right Dawn was just breaking over the mesa. The first gray streaks of daybreak were A full line of supplies corning out of the east. A chill wind was RIBBONS blowing. The heavy guard, bayonets fixed, for Soldiers moved along their posts, twenty yards from CARBONS the long scaffolding. Talking Was Forbidden. SUPPLIES Make our Store your head• The officers stamped up and down the quarters while in Spartanburg. length of the little clearing, their coat col• lars turned up. The mechanics who had EXPERT REPAIRING We will be more than glad to keep your packages for you. erected the scaffold under the direction of the sheriff of Bear county, were hurried back to camp in one of the trucks. L. C. SMITH AND BROS. Dressed for Inspection. Merry Christmas to All A motorcycle dispatch bearer came TYPEWRITERS through the lines. The trucks, bearing the prisoners were coming. It was less than an R. F. LEE, Dealer CANNON & FETZER CO. hour before reveille. The big motors, 167 N. Church St. 118 E. Main Street throttled down until their combined noise was no more than a sonorous hum, rolled through the opening in the thicket. The THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 23

^•X* *!• •!* •I" "I thirteen negroes, dressed in their regula• tion O. D.'s and as carefully as for inspec• Enamel ^W^are tion, stood in the swaying vehicles. Six armed guards rode in each motor with The Quality Shop ^ Tin ^SXfare them. The negroes were singing the fa• 129 E. Main Street I ^fflooden ^SXfare miliar camp-meeting hymn fervently, but in an undertone. Over and over they re• % Galvanized ^SXfare peated the chorus: A "When the roll is called up yonder, of Every ^Description. Til he there:' Quickly they were lifted from the trucks. CAFE They were shackled before leaving their several places of imprisonment. Each in• I Large and Complete Stool sisted upon walking to the scaffold floor. Good Things to Eat And the request was granted. They mounted the steps in column of files. Their step was as even and firm as HARDWARE though they were on drill. A chaplain was praying. The singing had ceased. Each man was SPECIAL ATTENTION seated in a chair, his feet only on the trap• • door through which he was to be shot. One Oil Stoves For Tents TO SOLDIERS AND of them leaned forward. • • "Good-by, boys," he chanted in a low THEIR FAMILIES tone. And the twelve men to his right and left repeated the farewell in chorus, but almetto Hardware just as quietly. Their last Attention. An officer stepped out from beneath the & Supply Company heavy structure. His face was white— ghastly white in the glare of the now roar• 154 N. CHURCH ST. HOME COOKING ing log fire over on the edge of the clear• SPARTANBURG ing. He made a sharp about face. He POPULAR PRICES looked at the row of black men in the chairs. "Attention!" he snapped. And the thirteen men sprang to their feet, like automatons and with the same machine-like precision. Rapidly they lashed PRESENT the legs of the men on the trap doors. The caps were jerked down below the chins PIEDMONT GROCERY HUoiju 31. Htu>a ©0. and the strings drawn taut. The nooses were slipped over the thirteen heads and OPPOSITE CLEVELAND HOTEL the knots yanked up beneath the left ears. COMPANY The guards stepped back. The arm of the STORE OPEN EVERY NIGHT white-faced officer fell. The men at the IN THE WEEK UNTIL 10 P. M. trap triggers lunged forward. And it was over. W. A. D. WHOLESALE GROCERS

Got Pads, Blankets, Pil• IT'S GREAT TO BE A SOLDIER. CIGARS lows, Sheets, Towels and (Concluded from page 17) TOBACCO Pillow Gases. Oh, it's great to be a soldier, CIGARETTES Leather, Spiral and Can• And win your shoulder bar, And get a medal fine to show CANDIES vas Puttees. What sort of a one you are. CAKES Ghevrons, Hat Gords and Yes, it's great to be a soldier, Insignia. But remember this, my son, A soldier's more than a uniform, Sheep Lined Goats, O. D. A pistol or a gun. Sleeve and Sleeveless Sweat• Yes, it's great to be a soldier, ers. But the battle you must win Is fought with "Old Fatigue," my boy, Christmas Greetings to our So fight him with a grin. friends n khaki. Yes, it's great to be a soldier, But its meaning you must scan, 124 Ezell Street And the end of all your seeking is ALL AT FAIR PRICES You first must be a man! SPARTANBURG, S. C. W. J. B. . 52nd P. A. Brigade. 24 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER

JEWS CELEBRATE FESTIVAL YOU CANT SWITCH DRINKS OMMY HARRISON'S OF"CHANXJKA." ON BROADWAY. Sgt. Major Goodman Writes of Services Every Day is Grogless When a Khaki- I EATING PLACE In Benai Israel Synagogue. Clad Figure Sits at a Table.

| The only Restaurant at Camp EDITOR THE GAS ATTACK: Broadway has decided that there'll be no | Wadsworth On Sunday night, December 9, 191.7, within more switching of drinks when soldiers or the portals of that splendid Jewish Temple, sailors sit down at a restaurant table with | BETTER VALUE—BETTER FOOD ''Benai Israel," in the city of Spartanburg, civilian companions. The Society of S. C, was celebrated the Hebrew Festival Restaurateurs, meeting at Reisenweber s, | At the Camp Wadsworth Station of "Chanuka," which commemorates events made the new rule. "For too long a time"—this is the way f of the P. and N. R. R. made glorious by that ancient Jewish hero, Judah Maccabbee, who with his brothers The SUN presents the plaint of the restau• fought to maintain the freedom of Jerusa• rant men—"have the soldier and sailor lads, | OPEN lem against the invading Syrian. or some of them at least, horned into res• | 9:30 a. m.—10:30 p.m. (Daily) It may be said for those who are not in• taurants and then after a curtain fire of formed, that the Jews of Great Britain and soft drinks or water orders have switched i France are magnificently represented in the the hard stuff on the table in front of their | Drop in for a plate of wheat ranks fronting the Von Hindenburg line, and own plates. I cakes and cup of the best are in the van with their Christian brothers "Waiter, gimme a lot of attention," says | coffee in the county. behind the British banners in Holy Land. the soldier or sailor. "Waiter, gimme for J My Turkey dinner every Sunday Many crusades have been preached and the lady a long, cold, juicy green mint | from 2 p. m. to 8 p. m. prosecuted during the past centuries against stinger. And, waiter, gimme for myself a the heathen in the Land of Judah, but it gill of ginger ale or something—any old | is a corker remained for the crusade of 1917 at last to stuff that you don't need for window clean• § raise the flag of freedom upon the turrets ing. But see that you bring me—I mean f WELCOME ON THE DOOR of the ancient Jewish metropolis. the lady—Blabla's green mint and lots of f After the "Chanuka" services in the syna• fine ice shavings, or I can't drink—I mean I Tommy Harrison gogue, "Benai Israel," an address was made the lady can't drink it." to nearly 500 Israelites by Major Llewelyn Then it sometimes occurs, say the res• I BUFFALO, N. Y. Sale, of the Base Hospital, 27th Division U. taurant men, that when it comes to clearing S. A. Many of the 27th Division were there. off the table after the pair have departed Samuel Limine, of the 105th Infantry, was the ginger ale glass, which may or may not the presiding officer. have been emptied, is resting in front of the The religious services were followed by an chair which the lady had occupied, whereas entertainment and reception given by the the green mint stinger glass, always as• Ladies Auxiliary of "Benai Israel," under tonishingly empty, is beside the military \ "Soepy, Soopy, Soopy" the auspices of Mr. Isidor Dominitz, the man's napkin. Spartanburg representative of the Jewish Only One Way to Stop It. Board of Welfare of the Army and Navy. C I. Emm To those of Jewish faith who desire to "If a soldier orders a drink, even if it's avail themselves of its services, the temple really for the girl accompanying him," ex• "Benai Israel" is open on Friday nights plain the restaurant men, "and sticks to the most harmless soft drink himself, even then I BEST COFFEE AND TEAS and on the Sabbath, and Kadish services for the memory of those who have gone to the the fact remains that' the soldier pays the great beyond, will be gladly accorded. check for the girl's drink. In other words, I SERGT. MAJOR LOUIS GOODMAN, we are selling a drink to a soldier, and I Scented blends 18c. to 28c. 12th N. Y. Infantry. whether he drinks it or not himself we are violating the law." S Rio blends 15c. to 20c. <$> WHERE SANDWICHES ARE A NICKEL. So set are the restaurateurs on stopping f the drink switching that they also voted to hold waiters, aisle captains and bartenders A Real Canteen Opened for Enlisted Men in S Kenny special responsible for the enforcement of the new % MESS coffee 21c. wholesale Spartanburg. rule. The restaurant men agreed at their meeting that if any employee is found guilty A real canteen for enlisted men, where f of breaking the rule about grogless tables for sandwiches are a nickel, coffee a nickel, and the army and navy the offending employee t Only exclusive wholesale tea other prices in proportion, is now under will be discharged promptly and then turn• way in the W. 0. W. Hall, opposite the Cleve• ed over to the proper authorities for legal and coffee house in the city land Hotel. punishment. It is being run by the Spartanburg Com• mittee on Training Camp Activities. Mrs. The man who wrote the song, "Waiting Sloan C ran ford is the commandant, and she 127 Morgan Square at the Church/' must have had in mind the has a corps of competent assistants. soldiers who would look for an automobile SPARTANBURG in which to go to Spartanburg in the even• 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all ing. What has become of these public cars Phone 747 through the camp that thronged camp during the warm days Not a soldier could stir, for the cold and of October? Have they gone South for the the damp. winter? THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK and RIO GRANDE RATTLER 25

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The first sleeve on the left shows the Each additional chevron stands for six insignia of a captain, three gold stripes. months' service at the front. The sleeve TOOLS AND TOWELS STER• Next is the sleeve of a colonel, five gold shown above indicates that the soldier has ILIZED. stripes. A lieutenant-colonel (not shown), been in active service two years. has three gold and two silver stripes. A. The sleeve with three stars is that of a commandant (not shown), which corres• general de division, which corresponds with BATHS—HOT OR COLD. ponds with our major, wears four gold our major-general. A brigadier-general stripes. A lieutenant (not shown) has two wears two stars. A marshal wTears six. gold stripes, and a sub-lieutenant (not YOUR PATRONAGE APPRE• Two diagonal bars on the sleeve indicate shown), has one gold stripe. CIATED. that the wearer is a sergeant-major if they The third insignia indicates service. If worn on the right sleeve each chevron are gold. If they are cloth, he is a cor• stands for one wound. If worn on the left poral. One gold diagonal bar stands for a WELCOME VISITORS. sleeve the first chevron indicates that the sergeant, if it is gold, and for "first soldier," wearer has served one year at the front. i. e., first-class private, if cloth. 127 NORTH CHURCH ST. ENCOURAGEMENT FOR CAMP trial in the division and for consideration of the war department. INVENTORS. "Communications presenting suggestions and devices should be addressed to Col. Vanderbilt." Board Appointed With Col. Vanderbilt as Chairman to Consider Sugges• tions as to Military Services REGULATIONS AS TO GRANT• in 27th Division. ING FURLOUGHS.

Officers and enlisted men are to be given Everybody Wants to Go Home, But every encouragement in working out de• Only Five Percent Can Go. vices of military value, and a board has been appointed to receive and consider sug• The other thing money gestions of this nature. The following an• With the approach of the Christmas can't buy—more motor car nouncement was made at division headquar• holidays there have been innumerable re• ters yesterday: quests for leaves of absence, and all com• service than the Ford gives. "In the armies abroad it has been found manding officers have been greatly embar• that many excellent military devices have rassed. Army regulations provide that not That is why persons of been conceived and developed by officers more than five per cent of the organization and enlisted men in the field. For the pur• can be away on furlough at any one time, wealth are buying Ford cars pose of stimulating officers and enlisted and, as one officer put it yesterday, if ail men of this division in developing devices requests for leave were granted it might in larger numbers every day. of military value in the present war, the be that not more than five per cent, of the following board of officers is appointed to men would be left here for Christmas. This receive and consider suggestions and de• memorandum was sent out from division vices of this character and to determine headquarters yesterday: their practicability: "The responsibility for granting leaves of "Col. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 102d engi• absence and furloughs rests with the com• neers. manding officers of regiments or equivalents ELWOOD F. BELL, "Maj. Joseph J. Daly, division ordnance or equivalent units. It is assumed that all officer. requests for leaves or furloughs forwarded Exclusive Dealer for "First Lieut. Thomas Crimmins, 102 engi• to these headquarters for approval are neers. within the limits of five per cent of the SPARTANBURG "The board will conduct tests of devices respective commands, and the division com• submitted to it, and report to the division mander approves them under that assump• commander such as are recommended for tion." 26 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER

DON'T GRIEVE, LITTLE MOTHER. KIND WORDS FROM A PUB• Young & Germany LISHER. Christmas Message to a Soldier's Loved One. Company He Nominates Gas Attack for Place in Did your boy join the army, little mother, the Sun. and are you grieving about it until your heart Groceries is nearly broken % Wilson D. Youmans, head of a printing Did you kiss him good-bye that morning and publishing house at 135 Lafayette street, he left, and suppress the tears by a great New York City, writes to THE GAS ATTACK Fruit and effort, so he would not go away feeling so as follows: badly because he knew you cared so much? "A copy of your issue of November 27th When you were packing his grip and had was sent to me. To-day being Sunday, I Produce all of his things spread out upon the bed to decided to look it over thoroughly and see be sure you had forgotten nothing, did you if it was as good as it looked. Before a drop> to your knees and ask God to watch cheerful grate fire I spent three hours in its Officers and enlisted men are over and care for your boy through the dan• company. Enough said, for we never spend gerous days that were to come? particularly welcome in our estab• three hours, voluntarily, in company that Did you retrace his steps hack to child• does not please. lishment. We want them to feel hood, to the days in the little cottage, when "I write to congratulate you upon its there were just John and you and the boy— that our office is their headquar• appearance and contents, and to express my your own wonderful son? ters while they are in town. surprise that anything so elaborate could be Then did you follow him as he grew, day produced in connection with an army camp. by day, until you told his dad one evening "I venture to say that it is probably the after he had gone to bed that he was big finest camp magazine ever produced at any enough to wear pants! Immediate Attention Given to time or place; the wit and humor, general Verbal and Telephone Orders And did you remember how proud you both news and camp items, all so well written were of your boy—your only son? and of such interest to both soldiers and Then did you see him the day he just civilians, give you a 'place in the sun' of started to school, with his book that you had journalism at the very outset of your career. Cor. EzeV and Choice Sts. covered with a gay piece of calico held tightly in his hand? 'Your opportunity for almost unlimited good for the army has been seized by you, one 1351 Little mother, did you think of the great feeling of thankfulness and pride that welled and I can not commend you too highly for up in your heart that morning as your boy your good service on behalf of our boys." turned around and waved his hand as he disappeared around the corner? Little mother, your boy has answered the Did you remember how long the morning call of his country in its time of need and MOBILOILS was, and how you clasped him in your arms how proud of him you must be—proud to when he came home at noon? You remember, know that your son—flesh of your flesh, was A grade for each type of motor you were watching for him long before time not afraid to go, and did not shirk his duty! for him to get home; and all the time you When the greatest trial of all comes to AUTOMOBILE LAMPS were thinking: 'i Ah, suppose something should happen to my boy, and I should" never you, when you stand in front of the bulletin in stock for every make of car see him again!11 boards and watch, dry eyed, as the list of the killed and wounded is posted up, you will Do you remember that even when other still feel a thrill of joy that your boy, your STORAGE BATTERIES children came, your love for your first born CHARGED AND REPAIRED did not grow less; but that it grew greater first born, was not afraid to go when his and greater all the time? country called. Little mother, it is to you and your kind TRUCKS TO HIRE And then, when you traced his whole life and back again to the present, and the reali• that America owes its greatness to-day. You • either with or without seats zation came upon you once more that he was have always showed the dauntless spirit in going to war, did you throw yourself across time of danger; and have stood shoulder to • RACINE TIRES the bed where his things were and cry out in shoulder with your husband and sons when• anguish? And, little mother, did you repeat ever it became necessary. every tire a good tire over and over, 'cOh! I can7t give him up; I In the days of the Indian Wars, even be- . can't give him up?" fore the Revolutionary War, you, or other FLASH LIGHTS AND And" did you finally steel yourself to pack little mothers loaded the rifles and passed his clothes in his grip, carefully, examining BATTERIES them to your men folks as they fired through every sock to see that it was properly darned, loop holes to drive back the painted savages. and examining every garment to see that no buttons were missing? Little mother, throughout the width and breadth of our land to-day, your spirit is the + And then, a week after he was gone, did * spirit in your boys—the brave soldiers who you go with his father and sisters and brothers • R. S. AUTO CO. I to see him where he was encamped with his are gathering to defend freedom throughout the world—the spirit that knows no defeat, Phone 455 company? And did you feel proud of your; son in his new uniform, of his country? And' the spirit of American sons of American Next to Post-office do you remember how pleased he was when mothers! you gave him the cakes and pies and jellies PRIVATE J. P. MALONE, you had fixed for him? Batt. A., 105th U. S. F. A. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER

A NIGHT'S LODGING IN THE SONGS THAT MAKE US ILL. TRENCHES. Songwriters Still Insist- We Are 'SaL Uniforms dier Boys In Blue." Pvt. Theodore B. Korony, Co. H, 107th Tailored by Infantry. The man we'd most like to use as a target for our bayonet practice is the curly-haired hero, who, clad in a near-officer's uniform, Tie Mouse if Kuppenheimer Yes, Company H, of the 107th, has visited sings patriotic songs in cabarets. the trenches. We were all glad to get in The man who would be our second choice them, and likewise all glad to get out, for as a bayonet dummy is the fellow who there are some features which do remind writes those songs. one of General Sherman's famous version of what war is like. The country is flooded with them. Have Cotton Khaki $15.00 up : you heard the one that is being sung in Of course it is just the training we need, every vaudeville house in southern Missouri? 16 oz. 0. D. Serge 42.50 up [ and one can not "stay in" long before the It is called, "Don't Tell Mother I'm a Non- supreme value of absolute discipline among Funston Cloth 32.50 up Com; She Thinks that I've Geen Gassed." troops in trenches can be seen. After leaving (Heavyweight) <> Have you heard "I'm Only a Second-Class the company street for the trenches the order English Whipcord 55.00 \\ Private in the Volunteers, but I Love You was that not a word was to be uttered, and Like a Major in the Regulars." Or, "Good• not a word was uttered. Without perfect bye, Third Avenue, Hello, Yap hank." Or, James A. Bannister » discipline however, even this would not be "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Stump accomplished. Digger?" • Genuine Cordovan The trenches are only about two feet wide, The song writing bards are still laboring Puttees : $16.50 \ and upon entering the rear trench the walk under the impression that soldiers are "boys through the ever-turning narrow walls to in blue," by which they do not mean fatigue our post, made one think of one of those dungarees, but a species of uniform seen "Palaces of Mystery" at Coney Island, now only in musical comedies. But calling where it is easy to get in for - a dime, but us "boys in blue" has its advantages. It it's harder to find your way out. In fact is easy to find rhymes for blue, whereas PRICE'S! the trenches are so narrow, just how Corpo• rhymes for khaki and olive drab do not rals Saalfield and Connolly, both 200 pound• 116 E. MAIN ST. I spring to the tongue. ers, managed to pass each other is still a mystery with the boys. Possibly their, prac• Here is a typical patriotic song, which, tice in leap frog helped them a bit. like all patriotic and other songs, is the biggest hit on Broadway since "Poor But• Two men were kept on each firing step terfly": throughout the night, and with friend moon in our favor our "enemy" with the white ''Nellie, the Longshoreman's Daughter and hat bands, found it impossible to take our Her Soldier Boy in Blue.'' trenches. After sun-rise the guards on the firing The golden sun was sinking by a camp-fire steps were removed and not a man could in the West, WIDE CHOICE show his hat or head above the trenches, As a handsome young lieutenant pulled a but of course guards stood along side of watch out of his vest; OF each firing step. In their tents the boys were singing, and they drank their evening beer, A dark dug-out was our resting place, But he sadly smiled while gazing on a face and an indignant protest of "Hey, that's to him so dear, me you're sitting on" could be heard very XMAS GOODS 'Twas a picture of his sweetheart, who was often. many miles away, The food was carried from the rear by de• And the soldier boys grew quiet, as they tails, and the fact that it received added heard him softly say: DISPLAYED flavoring by falling chunks of red clay-like dirt, didn't affect our appetites in the least. Chorus—• One of our famous exponents of the bay• "She's only a longshoreman's daughter, On 2nd FLOOR OF OUR BUILDING onet art, Sergt. McCarthy, heard that chew• But I know that she'll be true; ing tobacco was in order in the trenches, She'll be waiting by the water, so proceeded to devour four packages with• For her soldier boy in blue Tti® Most Varied out blinking an eyelash, much to the disgust And, boys, I'll do my duty, of our insurance peddler, Segt. Phillips. For the sake of Nell, my beauty, Selection In Nine P. M. found our 24-hour stay at an And I'll meet my darling fairy, oh, end, and we all filed out in perfect order, By the shores of Lake Ontario." Town and marched back to our mess shack to en• —R. E. C. joy some hot apple sauce and cocoa. The following clay, Thanksgiving day, was SUMMARY COURT OFFICER. one spent mostly in bunk fatigue, and Cap• Second Lieut. L. M. Thibadeau, Quarter• tain Tompkins said that anyone who had master Corps, National Army, is appointed The DuPre Book Store nothing to be thankful for would at least be summary court officer for all cases arising thankful that there was no morning assem• in Truck Company 331 and the detachment Spartanburg, S. C. bly. camp, Quartermaster Office. 28 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER

"When Under the Mistletoe Bough"

At the old Yuletide dance in Merrie England, years ago, the young men were entitled to kisses, if the girls could be caught under the mistletoe boughs with which the dance halls were decorated. We hope when the American boys get "Over There', they will be fortunate enough to catch some of the bright-eyed Britains or those of La France, "Under the Mistletoe Boughs/' I hope, too, that when the war is over the American boys will safely return to every day business. In the meantime it is nec- essary for us to economize. Remember that the dollar you spend fool• ishly is a lost friend gone forever. If you are going to send Ghristmas presents, send substantial gifts like COLLINS offers at the BEE HIVE, that will be useful after Ghrist• mas is over. I want you to know that the BEE HIVE can save you money on every purchase. I buy direct from manufacturers which places me in the position to save you paying middlemen's profits. I buy for cash and sell for cash which places me in a position to sell for less. I own my own store houses so that I am not compelled to tack on extra charges for store rents. Here's wishing you a Merry Ghristmas and a Happy New Year. J. D. COLLINS.

WHY? 105TH INFANTRY. Private Pat Murphy says of his original conception of the sunny South, that, "'Twas I ;ve tucked fourteen blankets round both my Private Thomas Burke was seen at drill truly an Irishman's Dream." feet last Friday morning. There really must be Private Ed Farrington says he finds it Quite neat. something to the boy. easy to be good now,—there are so few And pulled them all tightly quite over my Monday, December 10th, the regiment pretty girls around. head took a long, fast hike all around the camp My bed and saw the soldiers and everything. The All first sergeants' tents and supply tents Is apparently warmer than toast trip was made in record time. are now equipped with board walks and floors. Add so much as a sheet and I know I should Private William Turner, the tenderfoot of roast the mounted orderlies, denies the "foot" The regimental canteen now includes a The Sibley stove, thumping red, choked up part, but not the "tender." He says the short order restaurant where wheat cakes with wood saddles here aren't much good. and sandwiches can be secured at reason• able prices. AlPs good. Private Vincent Lofters, of the Ford Artil• lery Force, disabled his steed last week Insurance policies are being written for the men already to prevent a rush at the I wake with a tingling all down the line jumping a ditch. final date set for taking them out. Of spine A sentry at post on turning over his My body ?s congealed and my nose and my orders to the relief, said to stop all "gal• O. D. sleighs were issued to all the men toes loping automobiles." No doubt there was after the furious blizzard of Tuesday night. Quite froze; an order to "dine all the horses." Wednesday was spent manicuring the streets and piling the snow at the end of The stove has gone out and all over the tent The bath houses are now at bay against the streets. Every freezable thing is like Portland cement, the great drive of the Sibley stoves. But Watchful I wait for the reveille horn they can't last much longer. Sergeant Behan, of the signal attachment To get warm. Private Rodney Willis, of Headquarters last Sunday played the leading part in a Company, is on a ten-day furlough. He was grim tragedy entitled "The Villain Still called home by business matters. Pursued Them." He got his eagle beak Then just at the time when I fall in a doze working after some real, live "moonshiners," It blows, Corporal I-Iarry Munberg has returned but true to tradition, they eluded him. When And now I discover that I want to sleep from a ten-day furlough in Troy, N. Y. questioned Bill merely murmured, "Hist!" Deep, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Con- Lieutenant Walsh, of Headquarters Com• And I wonder why as I stretch my tired form nery has received his commission as second When I have to get up that the bed is quite lieutenant, to the satisfaction of the entire pany, has been transferred to the 307th In• warm 105th. Lieutenant Connery has had years fantry at Newport News as Regimental In• Yet a few hours ago it was colder than hell, of experience in the army game, being a telligence Officer. Lieutenant Harry Handy, Oh well, veteran of the Spanish War and many former adjutant of the third battalion, has What V the use. other campaigns. , taken his place. D. S. B. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 29

THE NEW OFFICER BUYS A CONVERSE CORRESPONDENCE. >.»M«..»..><.>..».^.^..»<^<.a«.>..»M>..0..>..>>.>..0..>t.0.^.m..0..i UNIFORM. (By Special Wire to The Gas Attack.) Each Converse girl has fixed up a box of "Christmas" that Miss Gee will take care OFFICERS' A True Story. of until Christmas and then she will see that these boxes get to boys at Camp Wads- worth, who will not have so much Christ• I had just been made a Reserve Officer mas as some of the others. These boxes and sent to Spartanburg, you know. I OVERCOATS are filled carefully, each girl giving her own wanted to cut a bit of a dash among the individual touch to it, so they will be differ• Guardsmen, so I bought myself a ripping JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN ent from the usual Christmas boxes. good uniform in town. Then I strolled into ANYTHING ELSE IN TOWN Smink, the outfitter, for some haberdashery There was an open meeting of the Spar• and the like. Old man Smink was standing tanburg Woman's Music Club in the Con• at the door. He took the corner of my verse Auditorium on Saturday evening. The 145°° blouse between his thumb and forefinger duet from "Samson and Delilah," "My Heart and began rolling it into a ball. All the at Thy Sweet Voice," sung by Mrs. Blotchey, time he kept clicking his teeth and shak• of this city, and Judson House, of the Re• Funston Cloth Uniforms ing his head as if he had just dropped a mount Station, Camp Wadsworth, was one nickel in the phone without getting his of the most enjoyed numbers. The selec• number, you know. tions sang by Corporal P. LI. Bonner, ac• $18.50 companied by Miss Simpson, were also en• "What's the matter?" I said. "Isn't the joyed greatly. blooming thing any good?" A Complete Line of "Where did you get it?" he asked. The same number of Converse College It occurred to me that perhaps I had girls who have been going out to the camp Whipcord and been done, you know, so I told him. to sing, went out again on last Friday He looked alarmed. "You want to be care• evening. This time they sang for the 92d Serge Uniforms ful of them," he warned me. "What did Y. M. C. A. Unit. The chorus, "Estudie- they sell it to you for?" tina," with the solo part sung by Miss Lucy "Serge," I said. Dinwiddie, and the different entrances of the "We make overalls out of that stuff," he guitar, the triangle, the tambourine, and the GOLDBERG'S said. "What did they charge you?" I told castanets, made the whole chorus most "ON THE SQUARE" him again. effective. "Peep again," and "When the SPARTANBURG, S. C. "We have some real serge uniforms," he Boys Come Home" had to be sung over and said, "fifteen dollars cheaper." over again. The solos by Misses Fannie Of course that made me feel like a bit Spain, Sarah Pryor and Kathleen Connor, of an ass, you know. I had a new Stetson were also greatly enjoyed. hat on. He pulled it off and crumpled the brim until he had ruined the thing entirely. The girls will continue going out until VISIT they have sung in each Y. M. C. A. shack. "How much did you pay for that?" he The only Basement Cafe in asked. I told him. anyone on that particular uniform. A week Town. Good things to eat "I could have sold you the same thing later I went in to take a bath (you can't or better for half the price." at reasonable prices. keep too clean even if you are in the army). After he got through with it any hat in I had on the whipcord. Afterwards I drop• Everything clean. You the store would have looked better, so I didn't contradict him. ped into Smink's. He was standing behind will feel at home the door waiting for me. Before I was in• Then I went out and bought some boots. here. Regular din• I thought them pretty swanky even if they side he was making pills out of the corner did hurt at the heel a bit. Later in the day of my coat. ner every day. I hobbled into Smink's. Old man Smink met "What kind of material is that?" he me at the door and began scratching at my asked. boot with his thumb-nail, which made me "Whip cord," I replied. beastly mad. Before he could ask me I He shook his head like a father whose told him just where I had bought them and only son has gone wrong. There were tears how much I had paid for them. "And they are not cordovan," I added, "and you could in his voice. have given me the real stuff at 50 per cent "What is it then?" I asked, for I was get• less." ting sick of this thing, you know. This took him off his feet for a minute, "We make cheap horse blankets out of you know, but he got his second wind right that stuff," he said. "How much did you away. "They're not a bad imitation," he pay for it?" said, "that painted cowhide is all right un• I told him with one hand behind my less you get it damp. I could have given back. you real cordovan, of course, five dollars "We could have sold you real whip-cord cheaper, but you'll need two pairs, eh?" THE MAIN STREET CAFE eighteen dollars cheaper," he said. I began to think that old man Smink Located in Basement The Military Police saved the beggar's might be up to tricks at that, you know, NEW REX THEATRE BUILDING so a few days later I borrowed some money life, you know. and bought a whip-cord uniform from the Now I buy all my uniforms from the EAST MAIN ST. rotter. I noticed that he didn't undersell Quartermaster. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER WORLD BREVITIES 11th HOUR Edited by J. S. KINGSLEY

SUGGESTIONS A WEEK OF WAR, Venezuela Pro German. During the past ten days the war has 'been Venezuela has suppressed all newspapers <3> more uncertain and more active than usual. which are not pro-German. In return our OFFICERS' Italy, which had retreated and had reorgan• government will not allow any newsprint • DRESS BOOTS ized her lines, has been put to her supreme paper to be shipped to Venezuela. test in keeping back the assaulting Teutons, British Take Jerusalem. DRESS SHOES who, for eight weeks have been aggressive. Jerusalem after having been centuries' Italy still holds the mountain passes which I PUTTEES in the hands of the Turk, has fallen into are keys to her interior. She has held back the hands of the British and the British it vastly superior force which was moving <$> TENT SLIPPERS flag is now floating over the city, which Southward and was gaining inch by inch will be under control of the Allies till the toward Venice. Although large numbers of end of the war, when its future will be Shoe Blacking Kits Teutons have probably come from the East• settled. ern border of Germany, yet they have not Germany's Modest Demands. U. S. RED RUBBER BOOTS crushed nor defeated Italy. Italy is reform• ing her lines; she is getting supplies; she is A Petrograd correspondent says that getting more forces. Each day makes her Germany demands the following from Rus• Anything and Everything position safer. In this Teutonic assault 12,- sia before concluding peace: in Footwear 000 Italians have been captured and several Russia must give Germany control of the guns were lost. Even so it has been a small Russian wheat market for fifteen years. Teutonic victory and will have little influence Russia must admit all German goods into on the results of the war. Russia duty free. Russia must allow Ger• Two weeks ago the British had gained the many the right to hold all territory held by heights around Cambrai and were threaten• Germany. This would be a defeat most humiliating <•> ing Cambrai itself. It seemed as though the 126 Morgan Square Germans had given up hopes of regaining the to Russia and advantageous to Germany. Spartanburg, S. C. lost ground. All seemed to indicate that It is doubtful whether Russia, even under I Ypres would be the scene of the next Ger- the extreme party, can accept such terms. r':r.i assault. The Eussian move toward peace Such a peace would be most disadvantage• the fact that the Germans must hasten ous to the Allies and would stir up a revo• before the American forces get over in large lution in Russia. numbers probably have urged the Central Chinese Soldiers. Powers to make a strong assault. Cambrai is Ten New York Chinese have joined the very important to the Germans. They must army by selective draft. They are in Camp not lose this sector if they wish to keep in• Upton. COOL NIGHTS tact the submarine bases. These combined in• Teutons Lose 100,000 at Cambrai. fluences and conditions have caused the un• The German losses at the battle of Cam• usual German activity all along the Western DOWN SOUTH brai are estimated at 100,000. The Ger• front. mans attempted to crush the British lines Fierce artillery duels have been fought but failed. The English gained several im• for ten days along the English-French and portant heights while holding all important Italian lines. This seems to indicate an at• positions and had gained without losing Do you sleep warm? tack in the near future. The Allies are ap• more than a small portion of the total parently preparing to meet the enemy all losses. If not call on us for along the lines. Great navy yards covering more than Submarine Activities. 1,000 acres are planned for Norfolk. More Submarine activity has been noticeable than 40,000 men will be employed here in during the past three months. The menace naval activities. COT PADS is now confined to the smaller and slower A bill was introduced into Congress last craft. Even now the weekly toll is large, week which would allow Chinese farmers BLANKETS being from three to four ships daily. The to come into this country during the period of the war. COMFORTS Allies are not only holding the submarines in check by convoys and probably by several Viva, Italia. other secret means but they are also captur• Italy has been placed under her greatest ing and destroying many submarines. Some trial this past week. The Teutons have WE TREAT THE SOLDIER BOYS RIGHT say that the Allies are destroying as many used their greatest efforts in order to drive submarines as the submarines are ships. Ger• the Italians south of two mountain passes. Although the Italians have lost nearly 20,- many can not furnish the submarines to keep 000 men, they have held fast these mountain up this pace. One thing is certain and that fastnesses. Those who believed Italy is is the submarine has been a failure In end• Hammond-Brown-Wall fo. becoming discouraged and disorganized to ing the war in favor of Germany. The Al•an extent that would cripple her for the 145 North Church St. lies have not been able to entirely eliminate rest of the war have been surprised and the submarine yet they have reduced the even amazed at her wonderful defense under peril to a positive failure. so great odds. THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER 3i

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The presidents of the Eastern railroads is one of the principal British marine sta• 107TH GOT FOR CHRISTMAS. met in New York recently to consider the tions on this side of the Atlantic. A sec• 1. A nice, new, black and gold hat cord railroad problems in the war. It was recom• ond munition ship was in the harbor; the from Auntie Belle, with a card, saying: "I mended that the government assist the shock had killed nearly all the crew, the noticed some of the boys wearing faded blue railroads financially in order to increase rest had fled. The ship was anchored very cords. I'm sure this one will be more be• the railroad efficiency. The Railroads War near the city. It was on fire and soon a coming to you. I've seen a lot of soldiers Board was commended for its present man• second and more terrible explosion was wearing them. They look so much more agement of the roads, but the roads can about to occur. A British sea captain, see• dressy than the other ones." not run at a loss. Either government man• ing the flames shoot from the ship, sent agement or government aid is necessary. In messengers to warn the people of the 2. A cocktail shaker from Uncle Peter. England the roads are run as efficiently as threatened section of the city, while he cut 3. A bathing suit from Aunt Tessie, "so possible and the government guarantees the ship loose and alone went adrift upon that you may enjoy a dip in the river at profits equal to those the year before the her. He turned the hose upon the fire, Spartanburg during your Christmas recess war. The conference also advised the dis• opened the valves and put out the fire, from army duties. And don't forget to send couragement of passenger traffic by in• which in a moment more would have de• me some ripe oranges and pineapples. Just creasing greatly the passenger rates. stroyed millions of dollars of property and pick them on your way to town someday." killed thousands more. To aid the suffer• U. S. Destroyer Sunk. 4. A copy of Ivanhoe from Uncle Luke, ers at Halifax a boat loaded with every re• A copy of Ivanhoe from Uncle Jake, On December Gth an American destroyer lief possible made a record trip from Bos• was sunk by a torpedo launched from a ton to Halifax, carrying a cargo valued at A copy of Ivanhoe from Uncle Peleg. submarine which was not seen until after $300,000, sent by the Red Cross. A tennis racket from Sister Susie, the disaster. The destroyer, having 110 A large picture of a sunset on Lake men, sank within twenty minutes. One- Erie from Grandma "to hang in your tent." half of the crew are known to be safe; one DID YOU GO TO P. S. NO. 8? 9. An oyster fork from Cousin Felix. member was taken prisoner by the sub• All men who attended Public School No. 8, 10. A copy of Ivanhoe from Cousins Lucy marine. A gunner, Harry Wood, of At• 29 King St., Manhattan, are asked to send and Carry. lanta, Ga., of the destroyer, was killed by their names, and organization to the Princi• the explosion. pal. LOST NEAR GAS CHAMBER. The Halifax Horror. Lost near Gas Chamber or in trenches a Next to the Service Flag comes the Red During the terrible disaster at Halifax bunch of keys. Return to Major Sheehan, Cross Flag. Every home can have one. one of the most heroic deeds on record oc• 1st N. Y. Inf. curred. A French munition ship had col• lided with a Belgian relief ship causing an Don't waste that dollar. Join the Red Get in the bi'g Christmas drive for mem• explosion which killed over 2,000 and de• Cross. bers. Join the Red Cross. 32 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER A. CALL

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You are wanted. 15,000,000 members are wanted by Christ• YOU! mas. A big Christmas membership drive is on. You should be in it. Already about one- You are wanted now. third of the 15,000,000 members have joined. You are wanted in an army that is doing im• And the dues they paid are helping keep some mense practical service to our country and our soldiers warm and happy. country's soldiers. Do this. If you are already a Red Cross You may be above the draft age, or below member, present some soldier with a mem• it. You may be a man, woman or child. No bership for Christmas. Or write to half a matter. You can enlist. Your enlistment will dozen friends and tell them that you have en• not take you away from home. It will not rolled them in the Red Cross. cost you your business, nor will it mean hard• No dollar that you spend this Christmas or ships. It will cost but One Dollar. It will any other Christmas will buy so much as the be the BIGGEST DOLLAR YOU EVER dollar you spend to become a member of the SPENT. American Red Cross. You are invited to You'll be proud to become a member of show the Red Cross the American Red membership flag in Cross. The dues are your window. It is ONE Dollar a year. second only to a serv• That is all.. There' ice flag. are no further obliga• tions. This Red Cross Flag is shown on this Just think - what page. One should be YOUR dollar will do! in every home. Every It may save the life home can afford one. of someone you know THE SERVICE FLAG It shows that you are Three extra crosses have been added to the flag shown above standing behind your and love. It is sure to indicate that four persons in the household are Red Cross members. The crosses are red on a white field, and the border men. Every cross to be put to immedi• is blue. means one member. ate practical use for Every home in which there is at least one member of the Red Cross is entitled to display the Red Cross Service Flag Junior memberships some soldier. Every bearing the large red cross. Additional small crosses mean addi• tional members in the home. for children are 25c. penny paid in by ^ members is used for much needed things— Enroll today. Enroll at the Spartanburg bandages, comfort kits, sox, helmets, etc., County Red Cross Headquarters, Magnolia which are given to the soldiers of our country. Street, Spartanburg, S. C, or at your local Red Cross Headquarters. Men who are enlisted in the army may en• list in the Red Cross army, too. The dollar There's a Reel Cross Chapter in nearly they invest will bear them big interest. every county and town in the country. Join this Army of Mercy and Help To-Day

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