HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-09-05, Page 3EDITING IN
THE TRENCHES,
THE.3FIENCH PAPER HAS REQOME l
AN INSTITUTION.
Here Are Given Some of the Incident
and Humors of Editorial Life
Under Fire.
•
It lies before me an Illy desk as I
write—a few mad -stained remota of
Soiled typewritten manuscript, a num-
:her of the clench newspaper which It
wee my pri-rllege to Tenni and edit in
Free ,e, e;,s 0 British officer, "Trench
luelvepaper" is really a misnomer, for
many of the eunterous periodicals
conducted by units at the Front; for
they are produced far from the
trenches.
But our little "rag" was a real
trench newspaper, born on the fire -
step of a front-line trench in the Yeses
salient one hot afternoon when I sat
and discussed the idea with a brother
oificer wile -was destined to become
the poet of our literary venture. The
poet woe incidentally the intelligence-
offlcer,ef. our battalion.
Some very ambitions efforts used to
to produced 11y the troops in France
In the wily of trench newspapers,
printed In London on glazed paper
and illustrated with sketches and
photographs. These periodicals used
to vary very greatly in'style, "some be-
ing brilliantly clever, others abjectly
silly. A South of England Territorial
battalion ran for a long time one of the
best of these magazines. It was
printed in the nearest large town— of-
ten at Amiens, I remember --anti con-
tained somo'of the most charming and
touching war poems—the work of a
corporal who has since been killed, I
believe --which I have seen anywhere.
It was a crisply and wittily written
journal, never pompous, never coarse,
and imbued with the fine fighting
spirit that made its founders the fine
battalion tlhey were.
He Quite Agreed..,
Our little street had very modest
pretensions. in addition to our tame
poet, the staff consisted of a captain,
who contributed the serial story (he
tried of wounds before his blood -and -
thunder yarn reached its denouement)
my company commander, who pro-
vided the humour in various personal
paragraphs; a subaltern, who wrote
' column of gossip; -and myself as
bditer, leader -writer, amanuensis, and
business mmnager• And in his spare
moments the orderly -room sergeant
used to do the printing on the battalion
typewriter.
To the uninitiated the greater Part
of our trench newspaper would be.
-meaningless. Written by a low for a
few, ft bristles with cryptic allusions
and nicknames, the very significance
of which has almost passed away.
Parts of it read like a libel editor's
nightmare, so scathing are the per-
sonalties, so unblushing the ridicule
heaped on the individual. The com-
manding officer retained the right of
censorship, but heonly exercised it
once. That was when he despatched
me to submit to a fairly senior officer
a "Lament," supposed to have -been
written by one of his subalterns, on
*0 -bitter fate in being in his officer's
company. The editor returned in
course of time to the censor, with the
paragraph in question endorsed, "Read
-and approved," by the officer who was
Its subject.
The shortcomings of 'the staff, the
life of ease led by, the A.S.C.—_which
as matters for' lest at the Front are
as evergreen as the mother-in-law or
the lodger on the music -hall stage—
these topics figured not in our Pages.
Our theme was the narrow life of our
ettn particular battalion, and affairs
dxtraneous to it counted not at all.
When our poet bestrode his Pegasus
it was not to exalt the greatness of`
England, or proclaim the imminent
downfal'I of the Pioche. "Night Fatig-
ues," or "Feet Inspection" was more
likely to be his subject.
A Short Life and a Merry One.
In the vein and nature- of the
Rubaiyat he wrote in elegiac strain
!' of a subaltern who lingered •at his
breakfast and was thus ` late for
parade;
"'Ah me!' sighed he, 'and had I but
' forsaken
That most delicious dish of eggs and
bacon,
And eke had shunned the• Seville mar-
malade!
Ah! Then my name would never have
been taken!'"
I suppose the camaraderie of our
literary circle was too good to last.
The fact remains that within ten days
the whole staff became casualties, and
so our trench newspaper died an um,
timely deatth. And now for a conies -
pion. • It expired on the threshold of
Its third number!
Where. It Was Needed.
Sweet William was being measured
for a suit of clothes, It was his first
made to order suit, and he was very,
proud of the fact. ilia mother, after
the, shopman had made all the neces-
sary weird passes with the tape, walk-
ed over to another counter to inspect
some goods.
"This will be a nice suit, my little
fellow," smiled the counterman to
ee little William, "Would you like the
shoulders padded?"
"Don't matter about the shont-
deri," was the significant reply," "but
you can pad the trousers,"
Never sweeteai a z r bread •
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CONTAINS NO ALW'I
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MADE IN CANADA -
"In Flanders Fields."
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing, liy
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The tore; be ,yours to hold it high.
It ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies
grow
In Flanders fields.
—Lieut. -Col. Jelin McCrae.
LEMONS MAKE SKIN
WHITE, SOFT, CLEAR
Make this beauty lotion for a few
cents and see for yourself.
Wbat girl or woman hadn't heard of
lemon juice to remove complexion
blemishes; to whiten the skin and to
bring out the roses, the freshness a11(1
the hidden beauty? But lemon juice
alone Is acid, ,.herefore irritating, and
elloulq be !nixed with orchard white
this way. Strain throngh a fine clot4.
the juice of two fresh lemons into a
bottle •containing about three ounces
of orchard white, then shake well and
you have a whole quarter pint of skin
and complexion lotion at about the
cost one usually pays for a small jar
of ordinary cold cream. Be sure to
strain the lemon juice so no pulp gets
into the bottle, then this lotion will re-
main pure and fresh for months.
When applied 'daily to the face, neck,
arms and hands it should help to
blench, clear, smoothen and beautify
lb* skin.
Any druggist wi111 supply three
ouncesof orchard white at very little
cost and the grocer has the lemons.
RUSKIN ON HUN TRAITS
How the Great English Writer Sums
Up German Character
Ruskin in 'measuring the Germans
in peace and war times, gives the fol-
lowing in "Fors Clavigera":
"Blessing is only for the weak and
merciful, and a German cannot be
either; he does not understand even
the meaning of the words. In that is
the intense, irreconcilable difference
between the French and German,
natures. A Frenchman is selfish only
when he is vile and lustful:. but a
German, selfish 1» the purest states
of virtue and morality. A Frencl't-"
man is arrogant only in ignorance;
but no quantity of learning ever mak-
es a Gern_an modest.
"Accordinly, when the Germans get
command of Lombardy they bombard
Venice, steal their pictures (which
they can't understand a single touch
of) and entirely ruin the country,
morally and physically, leaving be-
hind them misery, vice and intense
hatyed of themselves wherever their•
accursed feet have trodden." '
War.
Where war has left its wake of whit-
ened bone,
Soft stems of summer grass Shall
wave again,
And all the blood that war has ever
strewn
Is but a passing stain.
Me Wear arncl
Tear on that boy
of yours during
the active years
of childhood and
youth necessitates
a regal buildingfood,
GrapeNuts
supplies the
essentials for
'vigorous minds
and bodie8a at
anya$e, '
"There's 2► Reason"
Canada Foca Bo rd1147,4 2-920.
Il ooes.
Typically :German, ! fa
A Manor 111 Belgium sawn German
approaohini: her home. She hid her
01111.d1eui '111'3 Qe1'(11an demanded Rep.
per, lodging end beeald'ast. Ilb3 wants
were
satistied.the morning, to tile _ - -• i
surp0150 of the gd111. od lvomall, be paid
11or. She said: "How strange.- I
thought all Gorinans were bad. 1 (1111
1)1050811 to knee, that y031 aro a gentle-
man. Do you 1111030 that when 1 fleet
145w you I 111(1 1)1y ((3111drsn?
"So?" replied the German, • "1 toe
have children. Let 111e 1400 yours."
Whereupon the fond mother called 00
the treasures of 31er heart from` the
cellar, only to see 1118111 both shot
dead at her feet.
111 her grief later she told the storyA
to her neighbors --but now elle tells
it to the bars of her window h1 .a
n10(111ouee,
Attractive
Modelo
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YES! t.IFT' A CORN
OFF WITHOUT PAIN
Clnclnnetl man tells how to dry
Up a corn or callus so It lifts
off with fingers.
• You corn -pestered Men slid women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
Cull nearly killed you before, says the;
Cincinnati authority, because a few
drops offreezone .applied directly on a
tender, aching corn or callus, atoms
soreness at once and soon the corn or
hardened callus loosens so it eau be
lifted off, root and all, without pain.
A. small bottle of freezone costs very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
tively take off every hard or soft corn
or callus. Thie should be tried, as it
is inoxpeneive and is said not to irri-
tate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
toll him to get a small bottle for you
from his wholesale drug house. It is
fine stuff and 13015 like a charm every
time.
"Can All You Can, Canada"
Canadians are asked to can, dry
and store the gtteatest possible quan-
tity of vegetables and fruits this
summer. August is the month for
currants, plums, apples, beans, cauli-
flower, corn,carrots and beets. Make
the most of the abundant garden crop
this summer.
Ylnard'. Liamout Curse Dlatomnen
Germany's Last Word.
Arthur Train, the novelist, put down
a German newspaper at the Century
Club, in New York, with an impatient
gaunt.
"It says here," lee explained, "that
it is Germany who will speak the last
word in this war."
Then the novelist laughed angrily
and added:
"Yes, Germany; will speak the laet
word in the war, and that last word
will be 'Ramrod!'"
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"Cheap food to -day, if it means
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British Ministry of Food with the
United States Food Administration
and the Canada Food Board.
Lachute, Que., 26th Sept., 1908.
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Red Cross Dogs
A letter from a young' Harvard man
in the American Ambulance Service
in France, which Is quoted in the New
'York Sun, gives an interesting glim-
pse of the wonderful cleverness of
the war dogs.
Last evening, he writes, a couple
of fellows came round to see us bring-
ing with them two of the famous Red
Cross dogs. We were anxious to see
them work, and so I ran off and hid
in some bushes.
Lying down, I placed my cap under
me eo that the dog could not find it.
They sent one of the dogs out to find
me. ,He finally discovered me; and
as he was unable to find my cap, he
put his nose in my pocket -and pullbd
out my handkerchief, which he took
back'. A few minutes later he led
his owner to the place where I lay.
They told us that this dog 'saved
one hundred and fifty lives in one
day during the battle of the Marne,
Making Q eam of Her
A gentlenlau complimented a lady
op her improved appearance.
"You are guilty of flattery," said the
lady.
"Notno," replied the gentleman, "for
I vow you are as plulnp as a part-
ridge,"
"At first," `replied the lady, "I
thought you guilty of flattery only,
but now I And you are actually mak.
ing gaine of me "
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The papers used to tell how the
bride was dressed, ;but now they tell
what Bort of uniform the groom wore.
ISSUE 35— btlhara'■ liniment acuses Coldi, Mtn,
An attachment ha&een invented
for conne'c'ting A rocking chair with
a Churn so that ata occupant of the
former eon operate the 1Rtter, with lit'
t13 04 4 FS,orjb
Glass spoons with tubular handles
have been invented for use in place
of etrawa in cold drinks.
ll'tinard'o Ltaimont Carbo. Gergot so. Oottil