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TRENCH AND CAMP

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WITH THE SOLDIERS AND RED TRIA

The Best Record
Can you Beat It.

Editor of Trench and Camp,

Dear Sir: Having noticed in
Trench and Camp that you wanted
information regarding the tallest
man also who wore the largest shoe,
the oldest enlisted man and the
shortest man. So I am sending the
names of the following men who I
happen to know:

Tallest man: 1st. Sgt. Frank Cline,
Supply Co. 113th F. A., 6 feet 7 3-4
inches.

Corporal Paul Heath, Battery F
113th F. A., wears 12 EE shoe.

Sergeant Major Berry of 55th F.
A. Brigade is 47 years old.

Private Houston G. Brown, Bat-
tery F. 113th F.A., is 5 feet 1 inch.

Yours truly,
JOE POWELL.
Sgt. Battery F. 113th F. A.

REMOUNT DEPOT.

Chaplain McSween, of the 105th
Ammunition Train preached at the
Remount last Sunday evening bring-
ing an intensely interesting and
practical message to the men. A
good crowd was present to hear him,
and the response was good.

A number of men have recently
made profession of their faith in
Christ, some of whom have at once
united with the churches of their
preference and others of whom will
do so soon. The men are realizing
more and more that religion is the
part of a strong men's life; meaning
in many cases the discarding of a
passive or effiminate type of re-
ligion.

The Proverbs Classes are meeting
once a week and are growing in at-
tendance. Two other classes one in
the Horseshore's School and one in
the Vetinary Corps are in course of
organization now.

The soldier boys served by this
unit love GOOD music last Monday,
they proved it by filling the building
and listening with marked attention
to the music rendered by the 113th
Field Artillery Band, led by the fa-
mous pianist Koyah. Ia was the kind
of music that soaks in and makes a
fellow feel good.

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THE CHARGE.

There are weaker hands than yours, soldier,
Shake:
Hands that rarely have been taken
In a friendly grip and shaken;
Hands that twitch some wrong to alter,
Take them warmly lest they falter:
Shake:

There are sadder hearts than yours, soldier.
Smile.
Hearts with sore injustice bleeding,
Wailing heart that none are heeding:
Bruised thro meanest circumstance,
Or some one's insolence, perchance,
Smile.

There are heavier loads than yours, soldier,
Lift.
Loads some fellow did inherit,
Blame him not for his demerit:
Give your hand and heart, my brother,
To make a hit, don't hit another:
Lift.

There are braver lives than yours, soldier:
Clap.
Battered lives all warped and twisted,
Mark how bravely they've resisted:
Watch they for the silver lining,
And they work with faces shining,
Clap.

Say, put this on your schedule, soldier,
Laugh.
What this sick old world is after
Is your handshake and your laughter;
All the theories, cults and isms,
Equals not your facial prisms.
Laugh.

Oh, yes! Let's not forget it, soldier,
Fight!
Fearful wrongs today existing,
Force us to a bold resisting;
Stay not till the task is ended,
And this broken world is mended;
Fight!

Popular Sunday Night Concerts At
Base Hospital.

The Sunday night concerts at the
Base Hospital are continuing to
grow in popularity and are proving
a very great source of pleasure to
the nurses officers and enlisted men.
The meetings are in charge of Capt.
Halton in co-operation with the Y.
M. C. A. social secretary. Last Sun-
day evening Sgt. Hudson of the Out-
post company sang several solos.
Rev. Troy, who has charge of the
Y. M. C. A. work in the hospital
made a very interesting talk.

On Sunday evening, March 24th,
the program will be in charge of
Miss J. Palmes, one of the nurses,
and no doubt the program will be
exceptionally good. Sgt. Crossan and
Corporal Donahus the intimitable
team from the 105th Sanitary Train
have agreed to take part. The con-
certs are held in the enlisted men's
mess hall located in back of the
nurses home.

Q. M. C.

The following men arrived at
Camp Sevier from Camp Joseph E.
Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., the
Quartermaster's training Camp Fri-
day, March 1, 1918, to take up the
Quartermaster's duty at the base
hospital:

Corp. John Frame, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Corp. C. Vogel, Rock Island, Ill.
Corp. A. Waterhouse, Boston, Mass
Corp. F. S. Rogers, New York City.
Pvt. R. L. Skinner.
H. L. Rice, Omaha, Neb.
Pvt. Bert Jameson, Dorchester,
Mass.
Pvt. H. E. Bropky.
Pvt. J. A. King, Nasheville, Ga.
Pvt. C. E. Carl, Chicago, Ill.
Pvt. C. Christ, Dector, Minn.
Pvt. E. J. Herndon, Bennettsville,
S. C.
Pvt. B. Dalliday, Indianapolis, Ind.
Pvt. S. J. Mikolyezyk, Warrior
Run, Pa.
Pvt. V. J. Evans, Philadelphia Pa.
Pvt. J. J. Dowd, Charlestown,
Mass.
Pvt. J. J. Custin, Daverhill, Mass.
Pvt. F. A. Dofer, Jr., U. S. A.

S. J. Mikolajezyk has just return-
ed from a 10 day pass visiting his
folks in Pa. Welcome back to our
midts Mike. Pvts. King and Custin
went to Greenville for a visit for the
firswt time last Saturday.

COMPANY H, 118TH INFANTRY

I notice in reading the Trench and
Camp that H. 118th never has any
items whatsoever in that newsy camp
paper. I am going to attempt to put
H. company in the limelight also. To
begin with our baseball team has
been greatly hampered by some of
our best players being in the mumps
camp. But we are soon to be out and
then is when we make all of them
sit up and take notice. We have some
of the best players in the 30th and
we are going to put them in the
game soon.

Our company is also out of luck on
account of five of our best Sergeants
being quarantineed on account of the
mump. Our top is among those quar-
antined and we need him badly on
the company street. Our captain is
back with us after a delightful trip
to his home in Rock Hill.

One of our 1st Lieuts has been
home on furlough in Tennessee and
he says if one wants a good time just
go to old Tennessee. First Lieut. Hu-
tchison after a long stay in Fort Sill,
Okla., is back on the job and full of
Pep. All the boys know him better by
his nick name. Ball of Fire. But he
he sure is military from the ground
up, and then some. We have about
fifty men in quarantine now, but are
expecting quite a few back by the
time this goes to print. We have lost
some of our best boys in the past
month through transfers to other
units. Old H Company claims to have
the best bayonet instructors in hav-
ing Sergeants Brice Knox and Frank
Roach. One of our best squads con-
sisting of "Dummy" Overby,
"Goldie" Mathis, "Gray" Connell,
"Frog" Bargiche and "Handsome"
Ligon, corporal, are confined to the
mumps. Battalion, Heres hoping
none of them will catch the mumps
as we need them on the Company
street for "detail" work. Old "Don-
nie" has been busy all week mailing
his handsome mug to some of his girl
friends. "Donnie" claims he's love
sick and wants to hurry and go to
France to avoid so much "Blues,"
and Memphis Blues at that.

Our Mess Sergeant Black is cer-
tainly a great "Hooverizer" these
days, he claims spring is here and we
don't need much. If that's true we
surely don't want to see summer
come he may say its too hot to eat
then. Put Johnnie Byres claims it
takes a quart of "Electric Bitters" to
put plenty of "Pep" in him. Gee,
Johnnie here's hoping you won't need
any more "Pep" soon if you have to
take Electric Bitters.

Corporal Peter A. Crutcher is
confined in the base hospital at pre-
sent. He has all our best wishes for a
speedy recovery as he's one of our
best corporals. This is about all for
this week though I will try and have
some poetry next week. Quite a num-
ber of our boys are subscribing and
sending Trench and Camp back
home. H Company boys send their
best wishes to everyone.

"DONNIE"
H. 118th Infantry.
Camp Sevier, S. C.

Remount Depot Educational Work.

A large number of the men who
have been attending the classes,
which meet three times during the
week have been to hospital with a
"Swell" case of mumps. We are glad
to see them returning eager to take
up their work again.

A boy who has been working pret-
ty hard for about two months trying
to learn to write a letter home told
one of the teachers the other day he
had really accomplished the task and
presented an enveloped addressed
ready for the mail. He related his ex-
perience with a bit of pride and en-
thusiasm.

The following men who have re-
ported at the Horseshoers school for
instruction have recently been de-
tailed by Lieut. Gillmann to take the
work of the Night Schools; Earnest
Moore, Saughee Young, Robt Work-
man, Joe Godfrey, H. W. Garner and
Louis Eberhart, who has been trans-
ferred from the 105th Field Signal
Battalion to the Remount has also
reported for work in the reading and
writing classes.

The demand for teachers is con-
stantly being supplied by men who
have had considerable experience in
the teaching profession. We are
glad to have Private Waggoner from
the Vet. Corps as one of our teachers.
He has had several years experience
in teaching and is glad to help those
less fortunate than himself.

First Lieut. Harry J. Worthing,
Medical Corps, N. G., is at Camp
Sevier for a week's duty under the
division psychiatrist.

Second Lieuts. Alvin Freiberg
Bluthenthal, David Jerome Topper
and Earl W. Felker, all of the Quar-
termaster Corps, N. A., have recent-
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YES, HE GOT IT
AT THE "Y" FREE
LIBRARY
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WRITING
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ENTE
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OVER AT THE BASE HOSPITAL.

"Over there" may generally mean
at the front in France, or somewhere
along the firing line; but to some of
us the phrase goes not outside the
limits of Camp Secier. When we use
the familiar term, to indicate the
Base Hospital, with seeming prom-
iscuousness have no exaggerated vis-
ions of what we are going to say--
for truly a great many of us have
been over there and to the vast ma-
jority this experience can be sum-
med up its one word "mumps." Of
course there are other experiences to
be had over there and some of them
more serious than mumps strange
though it may seem, while it is easy
enough to understand that there may
be experiences minor in importance.

Yes this world is full of adventure
and romance--even though the prev-
aiilng color be khaki, the prevailing
talk war, and the prevailing sex man,
and the prevailing experience
mumps. You question me? Well it
may be that you were unwise and
took up mumps at an inopportune
time and they were forced to put
you out in one of the "mumps tents"
where never a red-cross nurse is seen
nor any other fair one, except she be
skirting the area of contagion guided
by her soldier scort. And yet once in
a while a representative from the
K. of C. or the Y. M. C. A. did in-
vade.

You may be saying "I don't like
the Base Hospital I don't want to go
there again," but one moment my
friend ask Dr. Holtzclaw. Ed. Sec'y.
of Y. M. C. A. or any other man
who was wise enough to have mumps
at a time he could go into one of the
wards and I am sure they will tell
you a different story from your own.

Try it again and at a more op-
portune time. Come over and get in
a ward where you will have a nurse
to look atfer you, and besides some
of your fellow patients or you your-
self may be fortunate enough to have
visitors from the realm of ladydom.

To be a patient at the Base Hosp-
ital is to learn patience. And this
great lesson once learned, you will
surely come again: if for no other
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UNIT 85 DEDICATED

of Tennessee and the Carolinas. The
men from each state cheered in turn
as he paid them tribute. Tennessee
had by far the largest representation.
In the name of the fathers who
fought to the last ditch for the Con-
federacy, in the name of our great
united nation, in the name of Christ
and humanity, he urged the righte-
ousness of our cause, and the duty of
every patriotic American, to help
make the world safe for democracy.

Preceding this splendid address,
Sergeant Hudson favored us with a
fine vocal selection. He was enchor-
ed, and reluctantly responded, but
did himself full credit. Following
the lecture ,all rose while the orches-
tra played the "Star Spangled Ban-
ner." Then followed the benediction
by our other beloved chaplain, Lieut.
Lyons.

Thus ended a Red Letter Day in
the life of Unit 85. As we paused a
moment to think it all over, we were
glad that we had been permitted to
work in a unit where from the first,
the spirit of harmony and desire to
serve had prevailed in an unusual
degree And may the present group
continue to build strongly upon this
splendid foundation which others
have laid.

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reason than to see the old ward
where you lay ,the doctors or order-
lies who took care of you, and it
might be you will have learned to
smile at the nurse who waked you
up to give you a dose of medicine or
to take what she called your "tem-
perature." There is really much to
draw you back and we hope you will
come.

Speaking again of mumps, the sea-
son is not yet over, and you can find
some of our most enthusiastic pa-
tients at Div. Hdqrs., Y. M. C. A.
Hdqrs.. any company in the 30th
Div.--inquire of these and come
while you may.