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  ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

THE MARTIAN

Hommes 36-40

Chevaux 8

SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

Price: 30 centimes

 ..left column 

IN EXCHANGE

 .image.. 

Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

for one brand new steel helmet, never

used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


Medical Society

One of the important factors in the work of

the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

observations and discussions in relation to the

latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

are held the second and fourth Thursday

of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

President and the arrangement of programs has

been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

Other notices will follow later.


Patriotism At Home

The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

without the worries added by many landlords

back home.

Some of the married men are hearing from

their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

your husband a soldier?" When the answer

is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

that the vacant apartment has already been let.

The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

this experience in five attempts to secure an

apartment in New York City. The reason for

it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.

 ...Middle column 

ARMY TALK

"Yes, Joe, but you're in the Army now!"

That served to still your complaints but it

also introduced you, new recruit that you were,

to army talk and to the idiom that ran current

on the company street and in the mess-hall.

Somehow the phrases were wonderfully expressive.

And how they did stick in the memory!

When that detested bugle blew in the gray

dawn you learned to shake it off and at the

earnest command of the top soak you snapped

into it and swung down to the mess hall. Of

course the food-hound was first in line. The

slum was monkey-meat or perhaps gold-fish

or fish-eye pudding but we noticed you stood 

in line for seconds.

And remember the other morning you came

out of the Detachment Office trying to buck it?

Yes, you had received a bawling-out from the 

shavetail but you smiled rather wryly and murmured

something about "its' a great life if you don't weaken!"

You learned early to nip in the bud any 

rough stuff from your Buddy by shouting that

meaningful phrase "As you were". You

passed the buck in any dangerous controversy

by exclaiming "You tell him, - I stutter".

The hard-boiled birds you side-stepped.

"How do you get that way?"

What a world of approach this phrase contains!

It is the poor buck privates only come-

back after a panning from the sergeant.

Of course we all know that insidious wretch,

the hand-shaker. Equally in the public eye we 

always find the gold-brickers.

"Give him a couple of C.C.s' and mark him 

'Duty."

And the victim of flu goes sadly back to his

task, a wiser it not a happier man' or perhaps

he is tagged 'light duty' which means pick

and shovel on the company street.

So goes army speech. It is a new and valuable

contribution to the science of language.

And what would the army be without it?

                                                           L.Y. "35".

SONG LEADER

One of the interesting visitors to camp

during the past week was J.A. Hedges who at present

is working in the interest of the Y.M.C.A. in the 

establishment of classes in singing. It is part

of a project inaugurated by Professor Lawrence

of New York to give to the soldier in 

camp the instruction which is needful. Eighteen

songs are prepared that will meet all

demands and give to the man in khaki his

national songs together with home songs.

The officers heartily support the idea for it is

needless to say that songs do much to ward maintaining

the morale and efficiency of the army.

Incidentally it might me mentioned that none

of us are too sure what follows the first four

lines of our National Anthem!

                                °°°

One of our patients is still a trifle undecided

as to exactly what ails him. The other morning

the Ward Surgeon remarked that a particular

pain of which he boasted might arise from gas

on the stomach. A look of horror crossed the

face of the patient. "Oh, but I don't think

so", he remarked to the Captain, "you know

I haven't been near the Front!"

 ...third column 


Breakfast Dope.

There is always the one

Who the night before

Has indulged in the Vin Ordinaire.

And the talkative lad

Who got in bad

On a trip to Saint Pierre.

But of all the pests that infest the mess

And goes by the name of 'friend'

Is the guy who has talked with a prisoner Hun

And knows when this war will end!


CAMP RECREATION

Hospitals call to mind operations, suffering,

disease and cures, but a surprising amount

of recreation enters the life here chiefly

thorough the keen interest taken by our Commanding

Officer, Col. George A. Skinner.

The Band and Orchestra, the entertainments,

the camp newspaper, the wide scope of the Red 

Cross activities are among these. In addition

he has sanctioned the formation of a dramatic

organization, study courses, athletics, football

and various other competitive games.

The result of this is that the center is rapidly

becoming a self-contained city with every

opportunity for study and amusement.


LEAVE IT TO THEM

Private Stanger of "35" tells of an amusing

remark which he recently heard made by a 

colored corporal who was going over the elementary

principles of drill with a squad of dusky 

soldiers. It soon developed that he was supplementing

the Drill Manual by very vivid instructions 

of his own making. The climax was

reached when he suddenly shouted, "Here you

niggas! When I sez "mark time" I wants you

to move yo feet but don't you go nowhere!"


Fighting his Friends

War some times plays peculiar tricks, which

is illustrated by one of the Germans in a "48"

ward. He is 19 years old, and 16 of those

years were spent in England. neither he nor

his family had any intention of leaving England,

but when feeling ran high after the "Lusitania"

outrage, his family and himself, then

under military age, were repatriated.

Las year he was inducted into the Teuton

forces as a Medical man. In a recent Champagne

battle he was seriously wounded by a

hand grenade that exploded within a few feet

of him.

This prisoner speaks English perfectly; in fact

his accent is so thoroughly "English" that

he would be mistaken for a musical comedy

Lord in America. He has nothing but friendly

sentiments for the English people, and his

knowledge of Germany and things German is

quite limited.

Transcription saved

  ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

THE MARTIAN

Hommes 36-40

Chevaux 8

SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

Price: 30 centimes

 ..left column 

IN EXCHANGE

 .image.. 

Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

for one brand new steel helmet, never

used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


Medical Society

One of the important factors in the work of

the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

observations and discussions in relation to the

latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

are held the second and fourth Thursday

of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

President and the arrangement of programs has

been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

Other notices will follow later.


Patriotism At Home

The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

without the worries added by many landlords

back home.

Some of the married men are hearing from

their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

your husband a soldier?" When the answer

is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

that the vacant apartment has already been let.

The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

this experience in five attempts to secure an

apartment in New York City. The reason for

it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.

 ...Middle column 

ARMY TALK

"Yes, Joe, but you're in the Army now!"

That served to still your complaints but it

also introduced you, new recruit that you were,

to army talk and to the idiom that ran current

on the company street and in the mess-hall.

Somehow the phrases were wonderfully expressive.

And how they did stick in the memory!

When that detested bugle blew in the gray

dawn you learned to shake it off and at the

earnest command of the top soak you snapped

into it and swung down to the mess hall. Of

course the food-hound was first in line. The

slum was monkey-meat or perhaps gold-fish

or fish-eye pudding but we noticed you stood 

in line for seconds.

And remember the other morning you came

out of the Detachment Office trying to buck it?

Yes, you had received a bawling-out from the 

shavetail but you smiled rather wryly and murmured

something about "its' a great life if you don't weaken!"

You learned early to nip in the bud any 

rough stuff from your Buddy by shouting that

meaningful phrase "As you were". You

passed the buck in any dangerous controversy

by exclaiming "You tell him, - I stutter".

The hard-boiled birds you side-stepped.

"How do you get that way?"

What a world of approach this phrase contains!

It is the poor buck privates only come-

back after a panning from the sergeant.

Of course we all know that insidious wretch,

the hand-shaker. Equally in the public eye we 

always find the gold-brickers.

"Give him a couple of C.C.s' and mark him 

'Duty."

And the victim of flu goes sadly back to his

task, a wiser it not a happier man' or perhaps

he is tagged 'light duty' which means pick

and shovel on the company street.

So goes army speech. It is a new and valuable

contribution to the science of language.

And what would the army be without it?

                                                           L.Y. "35".

SONG LEADER

One of the interesting visitors to camp

during the past week was J.A. Hedges who at present

is working in the interest of the Y.M.C.A. in the 

establishment of classes in singing. It is part

of a project inaugurated by Professor Lawrence

of New York to give to the soldier in 

camp the instruction which is needful. Eighteen

songs are prepared that will meet all

demands and give to the man in khaki his

national songs together with home songs.

The officers heartily support the idea for it is

needless to say that songs do much to ward maintaining

the morale and efficiency of the army.

Incidentally it might me mentioned that none

of us are too sure what follows the first four

lines of our National Anthem!

                                °°°

One of our patients is still a trifle undecided

as to exactly what ails him. The other morning

the Ward Surgeon remarked that a particular

pain of which he boasted might arise from gas

on the stomach. A look of horror crossed the

face of the patient. "Oh, but I don't think

so", he remarked to the Captain, "you know

I haven't been near the Front!"

 ...third column 


Breakfast Dope.

There is always the one

Who the night before

Has indulged in the Vin Ordinaire.

And the talkative lad

Who got in bad

On a trip to Saint Pierre.

But of all the pests that infest the mess

And goes by the name of 'friend'

Is the guy who has talked with a prisoner Hun

And knows when this war will end!


CAMP RECREATION

Hospitals call to mind operations, suffering,

disease and cures, but a surprising amount

of recreation enters the life here chiefly

thorough the keen interest taken by our Commanding

Officer, Col. George A. Skinner.

The Band and Orchestra, the entertainments,

the camp newspaper, the wide scope of the Red 

Cross activities are among these. In addition

he has sanctioned the formation of a dramatic

organization, study courses, athletics, football

and various other competitive games.

The result of this is that the center is rapidly

becoming a self-contained city with every

opportunity for study and amusement.


LEAVE IT TO THEM

Private Stanger of "35" tells of an amusing

remark which he recently heard made by a 

colored corporal who was going over the elementary

principles of drill with a squad of dusky 

soldiers. It soon developed that he was supplementing

the Drill Manual by very vivid instructions 

of his own making. The climax was

reached when he suddenly shouted, "Here you

niggas! When I sez "mark time" I wants you

to move yo feet but don't you go nowhere!"


Fighting his Friends

War some times plays peculiar tricks, which

is illustrated by one of the Germans in a "48"

ward. He is 19 years old, and 16 of those

years were spent in England. neither he nor

his family had any intention of leaving England,

but when feeling ran high after the "Lusitania"

outrage, his family and himself, then

under military age, were repatriated.

Las year he was inducted into the Teuton

forces as a Medical man. In a recent Champagne

battle he was seriously wounded by a

hand grenade that exploded within a few feet

of him.

This prisoner speaks English perfectly; in fact

his accent is so thoroughly "English" that

he would be mistaken for a musical comedy

Lord in America. He has nothing but friendly

sentiments for the English people, and his

knowledge of Germany and things German is

quite limited.


Transcription history
  • November 1, 2018 11:50:43 Sara Fresi

      ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes 36-40

    Chevaux 8

    SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

    Price: 30 centimes

     ..left column 

    IN EXCHANGE

     .image.. 

    Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

    for one brand new steel helmet, never

    used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


    Medical Society

    One of the important factors in the work of

    the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

    organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

    observations and discussions in relation to the

    latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

    are held the second and fourth Thursday

    of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

    President and the arrangement of programs has

    been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

    Other notices will follow later.


    Patriotism At Home

    The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

    without the worries added by many landlords

    back home.

    Some of the married men are hearing from

    their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

    apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

    your husband a soldier?" When the answer

    is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

    that the vacant apartment has already been let.

    The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

    this experience in five attempts to secure an

    apartment in New York City. The reason for

    it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

    ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

    apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

    be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

    in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.

     ...Middle column 

    ARMY TALK

    "Yes, Joe, but you're in the Army now!"

    That served to still your complaints but it

    also introduced you, new recruit that you were,

    to army talk and to the idiom that ran current

    on the company street and in the mess-hall.

    Somehow the phrases were wonderfully expressive.

    And how they did stick in the memory!

    When that detested bugle blew in the gray

    dawn you learned to shake it off and at the

    earnest command of the top soak you snapped

    into it and swung down to the mess hall. Of

    course the food-hound was first in line. The

    slum was monkey-meat or perhaps gold-fish

    or fish-eye pudding but we noticed you stood 

    in line for seconds.

    And remember the other morning you came

    out of the Detachment Office trying to buck it?

    Yes, you had received a bawling-out from the 

    shavetail but you smiled rather wryly and murmured

    something about "its' a great life if you don't weaken!"

    You learned early to nip in the bud any 

    rough stuff from your Buddy by shouting that

    meaningful phrase "As you were". You

    passed the buck in any dangerous controversy

    by exclaiming "You tell him, - I stutter".

    The hard-boiled birds you side-stepped.

    "How do you get that way?"

    What a world of approach this phrase contains!

    It is the poor buck privates only come-

    back after a panning from the sergeant.

    Of course we all know that insidious wretch,

    the hand-shaker. Equally in the public eye we 

    always find the gold-brickers.

    "Give him a couple of C.C.s' and mark him 

    'Duty."

    And the victim of flu goes sadly back to his

    task, a wiser it not a happier man' or perhaps

    he is tagged 'light duty' which means pick

    and shovel on the company street.

    So goes army speech. It is a new and valuable

    contribution to the science of language.

    And what would the army be without it?

                                                               L.Y. "35".

    SONG LEADER

    One of the interesting visitors to camp

    during the past week was J.A. Hedges who at present

    is working in the interest of the Y.M.C.A. in the 

    establishment of classes in singing. It is part

    of a project inaugurated by Professor Lawrence

    of New York to give to the soldier in 

    camp the instruction which is needful. Eighteen

    songs are prepared that will meet all

    demands and give to the man in khaki his

    national songs together with home songs.

    The officers heartily support the idea for it is

    needless to say that songs do much to ward maintaining

    the morale and efficiency of the army.

    Incidentally it might me mentioned that none

    of us are too sure what follows the first four

    lines of our National Anthem!

                                    °°°

    One of our patients is still a trifle undecided

    as to exactly what ails him. The other morning

    the Ward Surgeon remarked that a particular

    pain of which he boasted might arise from gas

    on the stomach. A look of horror crossed the

    face of the patient. "Oh, but I don't think

    so", he remarked to the Captain, "you know

    I haven't been near the Front!"

     ...third column 


    Breakfast Dope.

    There is always the one

    Who the night before

    Has indulged in the Vin Ordinaire.

    And the talkative lad

    Who got in bad

    On a trip to Saint Pierre.

    But of all the pests that infest the mess

    And goes by the name of 'friend'

    Is the guy who has talked with a prisoner Hun

    And knows when this war will end!


    CAMP RECREATION

    Hospitals call to mind operations, suffering,

    disease and cures, but a surprising amount

    of recreation enters the life here chiefly

    thorough the keen interest taken by our Commanding

    Officer, Col. George A. Skinner.

    The Band and Orchestra, the entertainments,

    the camp newspaper, the wide scope of the Red 

    Cross activities are among these. In addition

    he has sanctioned the formation of a dramatic

    organization, study courses, athletics, football

    and various other competitive games.

    The result of this is that the center is rapidly

    becoming a self-contained city with every

    opportunity for study and amusement.


    LEAVE IT TO THEM

    Private Stanger of "35" tells of an amusing

    remark which he recently heard made by a 

    colored corporal who was going over the elementary

    principles of drill with a squad of dusky 

    soldiers. It soon developed that he was supplementing

    the Drill Manual by very vivid instructions 

    of his own making. The climax was

    reached when he suddenly shouted, "Here you

    niggas! When I sez "mark time" I wants you

    to move yo feet but don't you go nowhere!"


    Fighting his Friends

    War some times plays peculiar tricks, which

    is illustrated by one of the Germans in a "48"

    ward. He is 19 years old, and 16 of those

    years were spent in England. neither he nor

    his family had any intention of leaving England,

    but when feeling ran high after the "Lusitania"

    outrage, his family and himself, then

    under military age, were repatriated.

    Las year he was inducted into the Teuton

    forces as a Medical man. In a recent Champagne

    battle he was seriously wounded by a

    hand grenade that exploded within a few feet

    of him.

    This prisoner speaks English perfectly; in fact

    his accent is so thoroughly "English" that

    he would be mistaken for a musical comedy

    Lord in America. He has nothing but friendly

    sentiments for the English people, and his

    knowledge of Germany and things German is

    quite limited.

  • November 1, 2018 11:50:35 Sara Fresi
  • September 14, 2017 13:50:24 Chiara Mantegazzini

      ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes 36-40

    Chevaux 8

    SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

    Price: 30 centimes

     ..left column 

    IN EXCHANGE

     .image.. 

    Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

    for one brand new steel helmet, never

    used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


    Medical Society

    One of the important factors in the work of

    the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

    organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

    observations and discussions in relation to the

    latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

    are held the second and fourth Thursday

    of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

    President and the arrangement of programs has

    been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

    Other notices will follow later.


    Patriotism At Home

    The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

    without the worries added by many landlords

    back home.

    Some of the married men are hearing from

    their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

    apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

    your husband a soldier?" When the answer

    is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

    that the vacant apartment has already been let.

    The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

    this experience in five attempts to secure an

    apartment in New York City. The reason for

    it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

    ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

    apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

    be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

    in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.

     ...Middle column 

    ARMY TALK

    "Yes, Joe, but you're in the Army now!"

    That served to still your complaints but it

    also introduced you, new recruit that you were,

    to army talk and to the idiom that ran current

    on the company street and in the mess-hall.

    Somehow the phrases were wonderfully expressive.

    And how they did stick in the memory!

    When that detested bugle blew in the gray

    dawn you learned to shake it off and at the

    earnest command of the top soak you snapped

    into it and swung down to the mess hall. Of

    course the food-hound was first in line. The

    slum was monkey-meat or perhaps gold-fish

    or fish-eye pudding but we noticed you stood 

    in line for seconds.

    And remember the other morning you came

    out of the Detachment Office trying to buck it?

    Yes, you had received a bawling-out from the 

    shavetail but you smiled rather wryly and murmured

    something about "its' a great life if you don't weaken!"

    You learned early to nip in the bud any 

    rough stuff from your Buddy by shouting that

    meaningful phrase "As you were". You

    passed the buck in any dangerous controversy

    by exclaiming "You tell him, - I stutter".

    The hard-boiled birds you side-stepped.

    "How do you get that way?"

    What a world of approach this phrase contains!

    It is the poor buck privates only come-

    back after a panning from the sergeant.

    Of course we all know that insidious wretch,

    the hand-shaker. Equally in the public eye we 

    always find the gold-brickers.

    "Give him a couple of C.C.s' and mark him 

    'Duty."

    And the victim of flu goes sadly back to his

    task, a wiser it not a happier man' or perhaps

    he is tagged 'light duty' which means pick

    and shovel on the company street.

    So goes army speech. It is a new and valuable

    contribution to the science of language.

    And what would the army be without it?

                                                               L.Y. "35".

    SONG LEADER

    One of the interesting visitors to camp

    during the past week was J.A. Hedges who at present

    is working in the interest of the Y.M.C.A. in the 

    establishment of classes in singing. It is part

    of a project inaugurated by Professor Lawrence

    of New York to give to the soldier in 

    camp the instruction which is needful. Eighteen

    songs are prepared that will meet all

    demands and give to the man in khaki his

    national songs together with home songs.

    The officers heartily support the idea for it is

    needless to say that songs do much to ward maintaining

    the morale and efficiency of the army.

    Incidentally it might me mentioned that none

    of us are too sure what follows the first four

    lines of our National Anthem!

                                    °°°

    One of our patients is still a trifle undecided

    as to exactly what ails him. The other morning

    the Ward Surgeon remarked that a particular

    pain of which he boasted might arise from gas

    on the stomach. A look of horror crossed the

    face of the patient. "Oh, but I don't think

    so", he remarked to the Captain, "you know

    I haven't been near the Front!"

     ...third column 


    Breakfast Dope.

    There is always the one

    Who the night before

    Has indulged in the Vin Ordinaire.

    And the talkative lad

    Who got in bad

    On a trip to Saint Pierre.

    But of all the pests that infest the mess

    And goes by the name of 'friend'

    Is the guy who has talked with a prisoner Hun

    And knows when this war will end!


    CAMP RECREATION

    Hospitals call to mind operations, suffering,

    disease and cures, but a surprising amount

    of recreation enters the life here chiefly

    thorough the keen interest taken by our Commanding

    Officer, Col. George A. Skinner.

    The Band and Orchestra, the entertainments,

    the camp newspaper, the wide scope of the Red 

    Cross activities are among these. In addition

    he has sanctioned the formation of a dramatic

    organization, study courses, athletics, football

    and various other competitive games.

    The result of this is that the center is rapidly

    becoming a self-contained city with every

    opportunity for study and amusement.


    LEAVE IT TO THEM

    Private Stanger of "35" tells of an amusing

    remark which he recently heard made by a 

    colored corporal who was going over the elementary

    principles of drill with a squad of dusky 

    soldiers. It soon developed that he was supplementing

    the Drill Manual by very vivid instructions 

    of his own making. The climax was

    reached when he suddenly shouted, "Here you

    niggas! When I sez "mark time" I wants you

    to move yo feet but don't you go nowhere!"


    Fighting his Friends

    War some times plays peculiar tricks, which

    is illustrated by one of the Germans in a "48"

    ward. He is 19 years old, and 16 of those

    years were spent in England. neither he nor

    his family had any intention of leaving England,

    but when feeling ran high after the "Lusitania"

    outrage, his family and himself, then

    under military age, were repatriated.

    Las year he was inducted into the Teuton

    forces as a Medical man. In a recent Champagne

    battle he was seriously wounded by a

    hand grenade that exploded within a few feet

    of him.

    This prisoner speaks English perfectly; in fact

    his accent is so thoroughly "English" that

    he would be mistaken for a musical comedy

    Lord in America. He has nothing but friendly

    sentiments for the English people, and his

    knowledge of Germany and things German is

    quite limited.










  • September 11, 2017 13:51:24 Chiara Mantegazzini

      ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes 36-40

    Chevaux 8

    SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

    Price: 30 centimes

     ..left column 

    IN EXCHANGE

     .image.. 

    Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

    for one brand new steel helmet, never

    used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


    Medical Society

    One of the important factors in the work of

    the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

    organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

    observations and discussions in relation to the

    latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

    are held the second and fourth Thursday

    of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

    President and the arrangement of programs has

    been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

    Other notices will follow later.


    Patriotism At Home

    The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

    without the worries added by many landlords

    back home.

    Some of the married men are hearing from

    their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

    apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

    your husband a soldier?" When the answer

    is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

    that the vacant apartment has already been let.

    The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

    this experience in five attempts to secure an

    apartment in New York City. The reason for

    it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

    ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

    apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

    be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

    in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.

     ...Middle column 

    ARMY TALK

    "Yes, Joe, but you're in the Army now!"

    That served to still your complaints but it

    also introduced you, new recruit that you were,

    to army talk and to the idiom that ran current

    on the company street and in the mess-hall.

    Somehow the phrases were wonderfully expressive.

    And how they did stick in the memory!

    When that detested bugle blew in the gray

    dawn you learned to shake it off and at the

    earnest command of the top soak you snapped

    into it and swung down to the mess hall. Of

    course the food-hound was first in line. The

    slum was monkey-meat or perhaps gold-fish

    or fish-eye pudding but we noticed you stood 

    in line for seconds.

    And remember the other morning you came

    out of the Detachment Office trying to buck it?

    Yes, you had received a bawling-out from the 

    shavetail but you smiled rather wryly and murmured

    something about "its' a great life if you don't weaken!"

    You learned early to nip in the bud any 

    rough stuff from your Buddy by shouting that

    meaningful phrase "As you were". You

    passed the buck in any dangerous controversy

    by exclaiming "You tell him, - I stutter".

    The hard-boiled birds you side-stepped.

    "How do you get that way?"

    What a world of approach this phrase contains!

    It is the poor buck privates only come-

    back after a panning from the sergeant.

    Of course we all know that insidious wretch,

    the hand-shaker. Equally in the public eye we 

    always find the gold-brickers.

    "Give him a couple of C.C.s' and mark him 

    'Duty."

    And the victim of flu goes sadly back to his

    task, a wiser it not a happier man' or perhaps

    he is tagged 'light duty' which means pick

    and shovel on the company street.

    So goes army speech. It is a new and valuable

    contribution to the science of language.

    And what would the army be without it?

                                                               L.Y. "35".

    SONG LEADER

    One of the interesting visitors to camp

    during the past week was J.A. Hedges who at present

    is working in the interest of the Y.M.C.A. in the 

    establishment of classes in singing. It is part

    of a project inaugurated by Professor Lawrence

    of New York to give to the soldier in 

    camp the instruction which is needful. Eighteen

    songs are prepared that will meet all

    demands and give to the man in khaki his

    national songs together with home songs.

    The officers heartily support the idea for it is

    needless to say that songs do much to ward maintaining

    the morale and efficiency of the army.

    Incidentally it might me mentioned that none

    of us are too sure what follows the first four

    lines of our National Anthem!

                                    °°°

    One of our patients is still a trifle undecided

    as to exactly what ails him. The other morning

    the Ward Surgeon remarked that a particular

    pain of which he boasted might arise from gas

    on the stomach. A look of horror crossed the

    face of the patient. "Oh, but I don't think

    so", he remarked to the Captain, "you know

    I haven't been near the Front!"

     ...third column 


    Breakfast Dope.

    There is always the one

    Who the night before

    Has indulged in the Vin Ordinaire.

    And the talkative lad

    Who got in bad

    On a trip to Saint Pierre.

    But of all the pests that infest the mess

    And goes by the name of 'friend'

    Is the guy who has talked with a prisoner Hun

    And knows when this war will end!


    CAMP RECREATION

    Hospitals call to mind operations, suffering,

    disease and cures, but a surprising amount

    of recreation enters the life here chiefly

    thorough the keen interest taken by our Commanding

    Officer, Col. George A. Skinner.

    The Band and Orchestra, the entertainments,

    the camp newspaper, the wide scope of the Red 

    Cross activities are among these. In addition

    he has sanctioned the formation of a dramatic

    organization, study courses, athletics, football

    and various other competitive games.

    The result of this is that the center is rapidly

    becoming a self-contained city with every

    opportunity for study and amusement.


    LEAVE IT TO THEM

    Private Stanger of "35" tells of an amusing

    remark which he recently heard made by a 

    colored corporal who was going over the elementary

    principles of drill with a squad of dusky 

    soldiers. It soon developed that he was supplementing

    the Drill Manual by very vivid instructions 

    of his own making. The climax was

    reached when he suddenly shouted, "Here you

    niggas! When I sez "mark time" I wants you

    to move yo feet but don't you go nowhere!"


    Fighting his Friends

    War some times plays peculiar tricks, which

    is illustrated by one of the Germans in a "48"

    ward. He is 19 years old, and 16 of those

    years were spent in England. neither he nor

    his family had any intention of leaving England,

    but when feeling ran high after the "Lusitania"

    outrage, his family and himself, then

    under military age, were repatriated.

    Las year he was inducted into the Teuton

    forces as a Medical man. In a recent Champagne

    battle he was seriously wounded by a

    hand grenade that exploded within a few feet

    of him.

    This prisoner speaks English perfectly; in fact

    his accent is so thoroughly "English" that

    he would be mistaken for a musical comedy

    Lord in America. He has nothing but friendly

    sentiments for the English people, and his

    knowledge of Germany and things German is

    quite limited.










  • September 11, 2017 13:20:23 Chiara Mantegazzini

      ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes 36-40

    Chevaux 8

    SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

    Price: 30 centimes

     ..left column 

    IN EXCHANGE

     .image.. 

    Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

    for one brand new steel helmet, never

    used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


    Medical Society

    One of the important factors in the work of

    the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

    organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

    observations and discussions in relation to the

    latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

    are held the second and fourth Thursday

    of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

    President and the arrangement of programs has

    been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

    Other notices will follow later.


    Patriotism At Home

    The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

    without the worries added by many landlords

    back home.

    Some of the married men are hearing from

    their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

    apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

    your husband a soldier?" When the answer

    is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

    that the vacant apartment has already been let.

    The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

    this experience in five attempts to secure an

    apartment in New York City. The reason for

    it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

    ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

    apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

    be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

    in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.

     ...Middle column 

    ARMY TALK

    "Yes, Joe, but you're in the Army now!"

    That served to still your complaints but it

    also introduced you, new recruit that you were,

    to army talk and to the idiom that ran current

    on the company street and in the mess-hall.

    Somehow the phrases were wonderfully expressive.

    And how they did stick in the memory!

    When that detested bugle blew in the gray

    dawn you learned to shake it off and at the

    earnest command of the top soak you snapped

    into it and swung down to the mess hall. Of

    course the food-hound was first in line. The

    slum was monkey-meat or perhaps gold-fish

    or fish-eye pudding but we noticed you stood 

    in line for seconds.

    And remember the other morning you came

    out of the Detachment Office trying to buck it?

    Yes, you had received a bawling-out from the 

    shavetail but you smiled rather wryly and murmured

    something about "its' a great life if you don't weaken!"

    You learned early to nip in the bud any 

    rough stuff from your Buddy by shouting that

    meaningful phrase "As you were". You

    passed the buck in any dangerous controversy

    by exclaiming "You tell him, - I stutter".

    The hard-boiled birds you side-stepped.

    "How do you get that way?"

    What a world of approach this phrase contains!

    It is the poor buck privates only come-

    back after a panning from the sergeant.

    Of course we all know that insidious wretch,

    the hand-shaker. Equally in the public eye we 

    always find the gold-brickers.

    "Give him a couple of C.C.s' and mark him 

    'Duty."

    And the victim of flu goes sadly back to his

    task, a wiser it not a happier man' or perhaps

    he is tagged 'light duty' which means pick

    and shovel on the company street.

    So goes army speech. It is a new and valuable

    contribution to the science of language.

    And what would the army be without it?

                                                               L.Y. "35".

    SONG LEADER

    One of the interesting visitors to camp

    during the past week was J.A. Hedges who at present

    is working in the interest of the Y.M.C.A. in the 

    establishment of classes in singing. It is part

    of a project inaugurated by Professor Lawrence

    of New York to give to the soldier in 

    camp the instruction which is needful. Eighteen

    songs are prepared that will meet all

    demands and give to the man in khaki his

    national songs together with home songs.

    The officers heartily support the idea for it is

    needless to say that songs do much to ward maintaining

    the morale and efficiency of the army.

    Incidentally it might me mentioned that none

    of us are too sure what follows the first four

    lines of our National Anthem!

                                    °°°

    One of our patients is still a trifle undecided

    as to exactly what ails him. The other morning

    the Ward Surgeon remarked that a particular

    pain of which he boasted might arise from gas

    on the stomach. A look of horror crossed the

    face of the patient. "Oh, but I don't think

    so", he remarked to the Captain, "you know

    I haven't been near the Front!"

     ...third column 


    Breakfast Dope.

    There is always the one

    Who the night before

    Has indulged in the Vin Ordinaire.

    And the talkative lad

    Who got in bad

    On a trip to Saint Pierre.

    But of all the pests that infest the mess

    And goes by the name of 'friend'

    Is the guy who has talked with a prisoner Hun

    And knows when this war will end!


    CAMP RECREATION

    Hospitals call to mind operations, suffering,

    disease and cures, but a surprising amount

    of recreation enters the life here chiefly

    thorough the keen interest taken by our Commanding

    Officer, Col. George A. Skinner.

    The Band and Orchestra, the entertainments,

    the camp newspaper, the wide scope of the Red 

    Cross activities are among these. In addition

    he has sanctioned the formation of a dramatic

    organization, study courses, athletics, football

    and various other competitive games.

    The result of this is that the center is rapidly

    becoming a self-contained city with every

    opportunity for study and amusement.


    LEAVE IT TO THEM

    Private Stanger of "35" tells of an amusing

    remark which he recently heard made by a 

    colored corporal who was going over the elementary

    principles of drill with a squad of dusky 

    soldiers. It soon developed that he was supplementing

    the Drill Manual by very vivid instructions 

    of his own making. The climax was

    reached when he suddenly shouted, "Here you

    niggas! When I sez "mark time" I wants you

    to move yo feet but don't you go nowhere!"










  • September 11, 2017 12:32:50 Chiara Mantegazzini

      ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes 36-40

    Chevaux 8

    SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

    Price: 30 centimes

     ..left column 

    IN EXCHANGE

     .image.. 

    Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

    for one brand new steel helmet, never

    used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


    Medical Society

    One of the important factors in the work of

    the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

    organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

    observations and discussions in relation to the

    latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

    are held the second and fourth Thursday

    of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

    President and the arrangement of programs has

    been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

    Other notices will follow later.


    Patriotism At Home

    The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

    without the worries added by many landlords

    back home.

    Some of the married men are hearing from

    their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

    apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

    your husband a soldier?" When the answer

    is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

    that the vacant apartment has already been let.

    The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

    this experience in five attempts to secure an

    apartment in New York City. The reason for

    it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

    ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

    apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

    be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

    in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.

     ...Middle column 

    ARMY TALK

    "Yes, Joe, but you're in the Army now!"

    That served to still your complaints but it

    also introduced you, new recruit that you were,

    to army talk and to the idiom that ran current

    on the company street and in the mess-hall.

    Somehow the phrases were wonderfully expressive.

    And how they did stick in the memory!

    When that detested bugle blew in the gray

    dawn you learned to shake it off and at the

    earnest command of the top soak you snapped

    into it and swung down to the mess hall. Of

    course the food-hound was first in line. The

    slum was monkey-meat or perhaps gold-fish

    or fish-eye pudding but we noticed you stood 

    in line for seconds.

    And remember the other morning you came

    out of the Detachment Office trying to buck it?

    Yes, you had received a bawling-out from the 

    shavetail but you smiled rather wryly and murmured

    something about "its' a great life if you don't weaken!"

    You learned early to nip in the bud any 

    rough stuff from your Buddy by shouting that

    meaningful phrase "As you were". You

    passed the buck in any dangerous controversy

    by exclaiming "You tell him, - I stutter".

    The hard-boiled birds you side-stepped.

    "How do you get that way?"

    What a world of approach this phrase contains!

    It is the poor buck privates only come-

    back after a panning from the sergeant.

    Of course we all know that insidious wretch,

    the hand-shaker. Equally in the public eye we 

    always find the gold-brickers.

    "Give him a couple of C.C.s' and mark him 

    'Duty."

    And the victim of flu goes sadly back to his

    task, a wiser it not a happier man' or perhaps

    he is tagged 'light duty' which means pick

    and shovel on the company street.

    So goes army speech. It is a new and valuable

    contribution to the science of language.

    And what would the army be without it?

                                                               L.Y. "35".









  • September 10, 2017 19:29:32 Chiara Mantegazzini

      ...blue stamp top left   2.N.518

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes 36-40

    Chevaux 8

    SUNDAY, October,20, 1918.

    Price: 30 centimes

     ..left column 

    IN EXCHANGE

     .image.. 

    Wanted: One partly used umbrella in exchange

    for one brand new steel helmet, never

    used. Address Private Base Hosp., France.


    Medical Society

    One of the important factors in the work of

    the Center is the Martian Medical Society, an

    organization for the purpose of lectures, clinical

    observations and discussions in relation to the

    latest methods of medicine and surgery. Meetings

    are held the second and fourth Thursday

    of each month. Colonel George A. Skinner is 

    President and the arrangement of programs has

    been made by Captain Souder of Base "35".

    Other notices will follow later.


    Patriotism At Home

    The soldier's burden is hard enough to bear

    without the worries added by many landlords

    back home.

    Some of the married men are hearing from

    their wives that it is very difficult to obtain

    apartments. The first question asked is :"Is

    your husband a soldier?" When the answer

    is affirmative, profuse regrets are expressed 

    that the vacant apartment has already been let.

    The wife of one of our Mess Sergeants had

    this experience in five attempts to secure an

    apartment in New York City. The reason for

    it is said to be that  the law prevents summary

    ejections of a soldier's family, and some of the

    apartment owners and agents in their efforts to

    be intensely pro-pocketbook, succeed very well

    in being pro-German in spite of hoisted flags.


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