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C amp Zachary

Taylor

SOUVENIR

Louisville, Kentucky

Edited by Maurice Dunn

Published by LAMBERTSON SERVICE BUREAU
406 Courier-Journal Building. Louisville. Ky.
738 Lemck. Building, Indianapolis. Indiana

PRICE ONE DOLLAR

Major General Harry C.
Hale is Commander of the
84th Division, National Army,
at Camp Zachary Taylor,
Louisville, Kentucky. The
division is composed of se-
lected men from Indiana,
Kentucky and Illinois.
General Hale took command
at Camp Zachary Taylor on
the sixth day of October,
1917, upon his arrival from
China where he had been sta
tioned for two years. He is
a most capable executive and
has an unlimited capacity for
work. He is a strict disci-

plinarian but is absolutely im-
partial and fair in administer,
ing discipline. He was born
in Knoxville, Illinois, July 10,
1861; graduated from West
Point at the age of eighteen
with high honors. He served
with distinction in the Indian
and Philippine Wars and has
since been assigned to some
of the most important posts
in the United States service.
He recently returned from a
visit to the European battle-
fields with a message of good
cheer for the people of the
United States.

OUR GENERAIL

General Hale's Message

When 'Major General Hale returned from Europe he de-
livered the following message to the officers and men of the
Eighty-Fourth Division at Camp Taylor:
To all Officers and Enlisted Mlen of the Lincoln Division:
i. The Division Commander is glad to be back wvith his
division and he notes with satisfaction manyv indications that
during his absence the command has not been idle.
2. Experience along the \Western front confirms the already
realized conception of the seriousniess of our jol) and the neces-
sity for great and continuous effort required for the successful
accomplishment of our eC!(1s.
3. I take this occasion to iml)ress upon the officers the mag-
nitude of their responsibilities under present conditions. You
are responsible not only) for the lives of y otr men, but also
for the success of our arms. In order that you may fulfill
your duties you will have to continuously and conscientiously
study thoroughly every ramification of your complex profes-
sion. The education of an officer cannot be completed in a
training camp. There lhe receives btit elementary instruction.
To perfect his military education he must take advantage of
every opportunity which offers for military enlightenment.
4. To both officers and enlisted men I wish to emphasize the
absolute necessity for the development and maintenance of a
high discipline throutghout every unit of the command. The

peculiar features of the war now being fought are such as to
have rendered more vitally important thil before thle existence
of perfect discipline as an e'sential to success. This is the
first great factor in the absence of which all our military drill
and maneuver will have been in vain. And this discipline must
be a disciplille not only for the l)ar tde. but it must be a dis-
cipline that enters into the very character of the man-it must
be a discipline moral, mental and physical.
5. Y'our comllrabdes abroadI and vmir allies in all tile fri mnts
are lo-oking firwar(l to youir arrival and assistance. This
should be a stirring thounglmt. bnt it carries with it the inunense
responisibility that rests ujxin you. l)snl vi r training. your
discililine and !'otr efficiency will tnit only yo)u yourselves, but
the great country to whicb v-onl beloig be weighed and judged
b!' those allies and by the world at large.
6. Let uts keep before uts then the two main objects i(f our
lives at this timie-the first to confront the enemy,. the secmiid
to defeat him. And let us realize that to attain these endds the
stern necessitv of constant and continuous work i9 forced upon
us. This is n1o holiday time. Every true A\mnerican call he
content these days only hell lie is at work, and that work in
the interest of his country.
HARRY C. IIALE.
Nlajor General N. A., Commaidiangi .igihty-FIom mrth )ivisii(in.

SELECTED MEN ARRIVE AT THE CAMP

Camp Zachary Taylor

By Maurice Dunn
(Accredited Correspondent to Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.)

Six months ago Jefferson County, Kentuckv. contained
within its borders the largest city in the state. Today it em-
braces the two largest and most important communities in
Kentucky. One is Louisville anll the other is Canip Zachary
Taylor, one of the sixteen cantoniments erected for the instruc-
tion of tile nation's selected armiy.
)f the two it is easily conceival)le that Camp Zachary Tay-
lor is the more iniportant. In its wellbeing are entwined the
heart strings of the families of three states, Kentucky, Indiana
and Illinois. It is froni these states that the inhabitants of the
new city are drawn. Forty thousand who were formerly scat-
tered through the cities, villages and countryside of the three
states are today entering the preliminary stages of a new life,
mingling in the close communion of a newv brotherhood; an
order which has vowed not to return to the old life until the
objects for which they left home have been attained.
Camp Zachary Taylor was not a wilderness yesterday. It
sprang out of the most arable soil in the vicinity of Louisville.
Its products played a great part in feeding the metropolis of
the state. But today the cornstalks that waved over the hun-
dreds of acres have been replaced by so many rifles; farm
houses and barns have given way to headquarters and barracks
and the regular trim rows of potato vines have been succeeded
by clean, white ribbons of paralleling streets. Dirt footpaths

and rutted wagon roads have been erased to make way for
maca(lam and asplhalted pikes. the surfaces of which refuse to
hold vater. .A street car line which penetrates into the middle
of the camp is built over the graves of vegetable beds and the
vanished sod of pasture land. In short, a pastoral idyl has
l)een c' ilpletelv painted out by the l)rushl of a military artist.

Louisville Selected.
It wvas oil a Mlondav afternoon on June 11, 1917. that a tell-
ing message came over the wires nominating Louisville for
one of the sixteen cantonillents. For weeks before committees
of the Louisville Board of Trade headed by Mr. Fred M.
Sackett had worked hard in laying their offer before the gov-
erminent in an effort to obtain one of the camps. It was a joy-
ful day to all of Louisville when she learned that she had been
one of the lucky ones.
Camp Zachary Taylor is located just Southeast of the
Southern border of Louisville. It is reached by two main
arteries of traffic, the Preston street road and the Poplar Level
road. Along the former runs a street car line that was ex-
tended from the city and which affords excellent service. The
center of the camp skirts along the Poplar Level road to almost
the Eastern Parkway an(l is an ideal road for automobile
traffic. The big home for the fighting sons of democracy has a

DRAFTED MEN BEFORE GETTING UNIFORMS

total acreage of 2,730.72 acres. It is divided as follows: Main
camp, 1,151.39; hospital group, 105.56; warehouse group,
36.73; maneuver field, 1,234; parade triangle, 31.53, and ci-
vilian group, 9o.61. Nearly fourteen miles of smooth roadway
traverse the soldier city.
In the camp there are 1,45o buildings" of which 3665 are
barrack buildings, the sleeping and living quarters of some
44,ooo soldiers. When the camp is fully operated, i ,ooo ani-
mals are quartered at the Remount Station. From the head-
quarters of the Eighty-Fourth Division at Camp Zachary Tay-
lor, located at Poplar Level road and Taylor avenue, is 6.9
miles to the Jefferson County court house at Fifth and Court
Place. It is 6.7 miles to the Rifle Range from the same head-
quarters. This summer will be marked by the booming guns
on an Artillery Range situated between West Point and Eliza-
bethtown, Ky., a distance of twenty miles from Louisville. Here
long leases have been taken on 18,000 acres of land, of ample
size to fire field pieces at actual targets.
Made Quick Work.
Just fourteen days after the announcement was made that
Louisville had secured the camp site, the contract was let to
Mason & Hanger, a Kentucky firm. Major Frank E. Lam-
phere, U. S. R. C., became the constructing quartermaster and
Mr. James B. Wilson, the chief engineer of the Louisville
Water Company became the chief engineer.
On June 25 the first stake for the first building was driven.
At the time of the writing of this narrative construction is still
in progress on many buildings, including a medical officers'
quarters and medical enlisted personnel barrack buildings, ad-

ditional wards to the Base Hospital, besides a rest room for
convalescent soldiers erected by the Red Cross and the Y. M.
C. A.
Some idea of the size of the task is had Mhen it is Conl-
sidered that for Camp Zachary Taylor there were required 25,-
ooo,ooo feet of lumber, ,7ooooo square feet of wall board,
37,000 window sashes, 32,ooo square feet of prepared roofing.
37,000 square feet of wire screening, 6,457 soli(l board doors
and 2,665 kegs of nails. For the water supply 8Xooo feet of
pipe ranging in diameter from one to twelve inches had to be
secured and laid; for the sewers over ioo,ooo feet of pipe of
varied sizes. At the first temporary homes for several thou-
sand workmen had to be provided.
The plans for the completion of the camp called for Sep-
tember I and predictions were frequent that this was impos-
sible. But behind the work there was the tremendous driving
force of necessity led by Major Lamphere, wvho is accus-
tomed to speed in construction. The government had the
absolute coolperation of every trade. Nlany Louisville firms
and others in the vicinity turned aside front other contracts to
furnish the materials needed in record time and the railroads
gave these materials priority over their lines.

Material Required.

Here are a few of the articles that were bought from Louis-
ville firms for the construction of the camnp: Twenty-eight
thousand square feet of roofing; twventy car loadsl of nails and
hardware; twenty car loads of plumbing. 192 car loads of
tanks, heaters and stoves, ranges, pipes, electrical equipment.

MARCHING THROUGH THE STREETS OF LOUISVILLE ON WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY-REAL SOLDIERS AFTER SIX
MONTHS' SERVICE
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refrigerators and the like; railroad material for five uiriles of
track, 114 car loads of ballast, ten car loads of electric light
poles and 175 car loads of sand. Those are a few of the
things that are required to make complete the home for the
comfort and health of the soldiers from three states.
Camp Zachary Taylor was built to hold one complete di-
vision plus certain additional units such as the One Hundred
and Fifty-Ninth Depot Brigade, the Quartermaster Corps,
Base Hospital, the Seventeenth Regular Brigade, recruit depot
and many other smaller organizations that when at full strength
will bring its population to nearly 44,ooo men.
Good architects designed the barracks that are now the tem-
porary homes of these sons of three states. But they were not.
allowed to exercise any of the flights so dear to the professional
house planner's heart. Instead they were ordered to a most
rigid simplicity. In this they have succeeded decidedly.
The barrack buildings of the camp are uniformly forty-
three feet in width and from 200 to 250 feet in length. Upon
their ground floor a broad hall with a door at each end divides
them across the middle. At one side of this hall is the mess
room, its backless benches designed to seat the entire company
at a single time. There is an open kitchen at one end of this
room with a serving counter which helps keep the hungry
rookie from overwhelming friend cook and his helpers.
Up to this counter three times a (lay march the soldier
boys, meat pans and drinking cups in hand. When both are
filled it is back to these benches and the long pine tables which
front them. The tables are bare, of course. Simplicity and
speed. The writer of the narrative was talking to a quarter-

master during tile early days of the camp construction when
lie said:
"Do you see those half-inch, cracks between the planks.'
I saw the cracks and thought some contractor was going to be
damned for his carelessness.
"My idea," said my friend, "I beat the sanitary officer to it
for once. If we had built those tables with green boards close
together the lumber would have dried out and there would
have been cracks to catch the food crumbs. That is one of the
forethoughts from the very start, to make Camp Zachary Tay-
lor a healthy place in which to live. This little precaution will
be one of the preventers of 'Mr. Fly during the summer
months,' concluded the officer.
"Sanitary officer is a sort of a bogy maan arounsl here," I
venture(l. But the officer was really serious whenl he replied:
"lie is the man to talk about. Everyboly believes hiii and lie
has done wonders. Hie got rid of the mosquitoes and for miles
around the camp ponids and streams have been oiled."

A Real Benefit.

You, my friend, can be sure that never was such painstak-
ing care exercised in making this home for soldierly instruc-
tion healthful for the man in uniform. And if your boy is one
of the many thousand, the benefit is going to be his in more
ways than I can tell here.
I have described the general plan of the home of your sol-
dier and will tell you something about where he sleeps.
The second floor of the barrack building and parts of the
first are used for sleeping quarters for about two hundred men.

I I

REVIEW OF THE PARADE ON WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
Mayor Smith of Louisville; Brig. Gen. Wilbur Wilder; Mayor Galvin of Cincinnati; Brig. Gen. Frank D. Webster.
12

In these two big rooms the boys bunk, their neat iron cots as
in a fire house. Each man is given 500 cubic feet of air for
his own, so that the cots are not too near each other. The
barracks are lighted by electricity and great stoves are used to
heat the buildings. The officers' quarters are heated by steam
drawn from small heating plants in the rear of the buildings.
The officers' quarters, a single story in height, are similar
in general construction to the barracks. The men at Camp
Zachary Taylor are thoroughly democratic. Your boy or any
other boy will be sure to have the same treatment, the same
housing, the same fare when they reach this cantonment. There
are neither bulldogs nor privately kept motor cars here. It is
theoretical democracy reduced to plain hard practice.
As I said before, the camp was built for one full division
and many other units. When this was written there was the
skeleton organization of a division in training at the camp. A
division at Camp Zachary Taylor consists of four regiments
of infantry, three regiments of artillery, two of which are
light artillery and the other motorized heavy artillery; three
machine gun battalions, a field signal battalion, four train,
supply, ammunition, sanitary and headquarters troop and mili-
tary police, three brigade headquarters, the division head-
quarters and its staff. The infantry regiments are composed
of 250 men to a company with twelve companies to a regiment.
One machine gun company of 2oo men and smaller organiza-
tions known as the headquarters and supply companies and
medical detachments. The artillery regiments are made up of
six batteries of igo men each, while the engineers' regiment
has 1,o98 men and officers.

What It Cost Uncle Sam

This military city for the soldiers has been a center of great
activity and Uncle Sam has spent close to 6,ooo,ooo in con-
structing it. The number of employes working on it one week
jumped to ioooo men and special trains were required'to carry
the men to and from the camp to their homes in the city.
After ninety (lays of hard work, including Sundays, the
first lots of drafted men reported for military duty on Sep-
tember 5, 1917. I was one of several newspaper correspond-
ents who witnessed the entrance of the first drafted men from
the three states to pass into Camp Zachary Taylor. The honor
went to Lester C. Mlonk, a twenty-two-year-old farmer from
Jersey County, Illinois. It was just 9:03 o'clock on that Sep-
tember morning when this young son of democracy became a
member of the camp. -Next came Ward H. 'McCormack, a
Shriner from Bedford, Ind., the first Indianian to report, and
soon afterwards came John Lee Herbert of I717 Payne street,
Louisville, and the first Louisville and Kentucky man to report
for military service under the selective service law.
These men were pleased with their reception and com-
mented on how the stretches and surroundings of Camp Zach-
ary Taylor impressed them. On that day these soldiers ate
their first food in military life. The menu was palatable to all
and consisted of sirloin steak with brown gravy, mashed po-
tatoes, stewed tomatoes, peach roll, bread and butter and ice
tea. That was the food the government served the selected
man on that day.

F`IRST MAN EXAMINED IN KENTUCKY FOR THE DRAFT

School For Cooks.
When these men first arrived the great problem was to feed
them. Taking a lot of raw men strange to military service and
make good cooks out of them offhand was an impossible thing.
So the government enlisted the aid of many large hotel pro-
prietors to recruit chefs and professional cooks to establish a
cooks' and bakers' school for the training of men in the drafted
army. Today there are young men who were in the selected
lot who are excellent cooks and can prepare food with economy
and make it palatable to the soldier. The graduates of the
school were scattered out among the various regiments to carry
their learning to others.
The first human that faces a young soldier when he strikes
the camp is always the medical officer. He gets acquainted
with him before he does with his captain. Because Uncle Sam
insists on his children being protected against any disease that
can be prevented. Then come the inoculations for typhoid,
para-typhoid and vaccinations. Every soldier nmust take three
injections of the vaccine, or as it is commonly called "shots."
These inoculations come every ten days until three are given.
He must also be vaccinated until successful results have been
obtained.
The wonderful success of the inoculations as a preventive
against typhoid at this cantonment is marked because not a
single case of typhoid fever has developed since the camp
opened. The same is true of small pox vaccinations. Not a
case of small pox has been discovered where the man has been
successfully vaccinated.
I saw these young selects during the first days they spent
at the camp and witnessed the start of their training. Today

they do not appear to be the same men. I heard the follow-
ing instructions given the raw recruits on the correct manner
to stand at attention. This is the very first instruction given
you in the army: The feet are turned out equally forming an
angle of about forty-five degrees; knees are kept straight;
without stiffness; hips drawn back slightly, body erect and
resting equally on the hips; the chest is lifted and arched,
shoulders squared and falling equally; the arms and hands
hang naturally with the thumbs along the seam of the trousers;
head erect and squarely to the front; eyes straight to the front
and the body resting evenly on the heels and balls of the feet.

The Salute.

That's the set-up these soldiers learned before anything
else, for it is the basis of all drills. Next came the mark of
respect to the uniform. The salute. It was a common sight
those days to see a lone soldier standing to one side learning
individually the proper manner to bring his arm up with a
snap and bring it down just as sharply.
In those first days I wondered if it was hard work. It is.
There are sore arms, the legs ache. the feet become sore and
blistered and the whole body seems weary and tired. But the
men soon learned to execute the commands with perfect ease.
Drilling hardens the muscles and the aches quickly disappeared.
No, dear mothers, you have no cause to worry, for out at
this camp they are making strong and stalwart men out of
weaklings.
Here is the daily routine of a day's work in this camp. You
can readily see there is not much time for any loafing. It pre-

FIRST INDIANA MAN REPORTING TO HIS UNIT

vails every day with exception of Wednesday, Saturday and
Sunday:
Reveille ................... 5:45 a. m.
Assembly .... ............... 6 :oo a. m.
Breakfast .... ............... 6:30 a. m.
Sick call ................... 7:oo a. m.
First drill call ..... .............. 7:20 a. m.
Assembly drill call ........ ........... 7:30 a. m.
Recall ................... i1:30 a. m.
Mess call .. ................... 12:oo noon
First call afternoon drill ......................12:50 p. m.
Assembly for drill . ................... i:oo p. m.
Recall ................... 5:oo p. m.
Retreat ................... 5:30 p.m.
Supper ................... 5:35 p. m.
Tattoo (call to quarters) ................... :30 p. m.
Taps .1................... IO:3o p. m.
You can see how busy the soldier lad is during his eight
hours of the twenty-four. Of course he is not only out learn-
ing the formations in extended order and closed drill. As he
lived longer in the camp there was formed many schools, each
that gives instruction for every angle of military training for
the modern soldier. Even the physicians that gave up their
civil practice have daily schools and devote a greater number
of their nights to careful study of modern surgery and sanita-
tion, many new points that have been developed by the great
war. It is all done so that the fighting forces of the United
States may be fully protected by the most modern methods to
preserve their health and lives.

The Sanitary Train.
The friends and relatives of the soldiers of the Eighty-
Fourth Division can rest assured that when the division does
its bit on the front line it will be protected by an able and ef-
ficient ambulance corps. There is assigned to the Sanitary
Train, a tactical unit of the division, two ambulance companies
officered by capable officers and a fine personnel of enlisted
men. These companies have already won laurels many miles
from the battle line by their thorough and valiant service in the
caring and handling of a railroad wreck that cost forty-nine
lives near Louisville.
So that every soldier will learn the best method to beat the
brutal Hun every man is detailed to a school of some kind.
This includes the intensive training with the bayonet, the
grenade and machine guns. The bayonet and grenade work
is considered two of the important phases of the modern school
of fighting. The officers and men alike are detailed as students
to this class, which is a sub-class of the Infantry School of
Arms. Here they are taught the fine points of bayonet work
under the eye of graduates of the Cambridge School of Bayo-
net Work.
The classes usually last about fifteen days. During the
second week the classes are taken into the training trenches
where there is actual combat with bayonets with the students
wearing the safety plastron, steel gloves and wire helmets.
These husky soldiers find it great fun to get down in the
bottom of a trench and there fight a real battle with another
soldier. Of course wooden bayonets are used but many are the
telling blows that are given and taken by the participants.
This class also has a French officer who has seen action and
been wounded, who acts as an adviser to the chief instructor.

FIRST QUOTA OF SELECTED MEN FROM KENTUCKY ARRIVES AT THE CHUTES

The Grenade Class.
The same can be said of the grenade class. Through the
originality of Col. Hugh D. Wise, commandant of the school,
Camp Zachary Taylor had the first live grenades in the coun-
try. Smarting under the delay the class was suffering in not
having explosive grenades, Col. Wise constructed a grenade
made of black powder and cement and had it made so that it
would strike on a match box. In this manner the classes have
had some valuable training in the "wafting" of these grenades
in barrage fires and night raids. The physical culture class of
this school should not be forgotten either. Here an able in-
structor assisted by Packey McFarland, noted boxer, teach the
men the manly art of self defense. This is not the only thing
that is taught the men, however. Every sort of sport that wvill
tend to make the men afraid of nothing and that will develop
the muscles is indulged. They have a plan hour each (lay the
same as the rest of the division does. One hour each dlay the
men are allowed to play baseball, football and handball, be-
sides many other new games that help the man's physical fit-
ness.
In closing this narrative I may say that Camp Zachary
Taylor is commanded by a man that has won his way into the
hearts of his men, a man that in every sense is a true and brave
soldier and one that the soldiers of the big camp should be
proud of. That man is Major General Harry C. Hale, who
came all the way from China to take command of the Eighty-
Fourth Division.
It has been shown that every possible care has been taken
to safeguard the health of the men who are being trained in
Camp Zachary Taylor. But to make a good soldier you must
keep him happy as well as healthy, and to this side of the

problem the War Department has devoted a great deal of at-
tention. The Commission of Training Camp Activities is a
voluntary body composed of men known in philanthropic work
and social service, and on it devolves the task of watching the
moral conditions in the environs of the camp and of reporting
to the department at WVashington when steps must be taken
for their betterment.

Entertainment Features.
In Camp Zachary Taylor the sub-committee of the War
Recreation Board works with the Y. Ml. C. A and other agen-
cies in providing the young soldier with all forms of healthy
recreation and amusement during the periods of training.
Every regiment has its own buildings. Here writing material
and reading matter is provided. Here educational classes
under competent instructors are held anl entertainments such
as lectures and moving pictures are offered. In the main
audlitorium and Liberty Theater such entertainments are of-
fered on a much larger scale. A number of well known the-
atrical managers have arranged bookings of their best plays
which are being sent to the camp for the benefit of the soldiers.
Clean sports of all kinds are fostered, the outdoor games be-
ing under the supervision of men prominent in the athletic
world.
Those who have been called to the colors, those whose hus-
bands, whose sons and brothers must soon leave home to serve
in their country's armies, will find cheer and comfort in the
preparation that has been made for the wellbeing bf our sol-
diers in the first stages of their training that will not end until
they have "gone over the top" in France. Certainly the gov-
ernment has spared no effort to provide properly for them.

THU3
THEY CAME-
SAD-GLAD-POOR-RICl
HOMIELY AND HANDSOMIE-
THE PICK Or AMERICAN
MIANHGOOD-

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THE rl R5T THWIG UWCIX
SAM DID NOS TO H4AND (Wr
A HOT HEAL-:BUT IT
WAS NOT LIKE
"OTHERS

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Ar_LY ATTEMPTS AT
Thr 'AsovT FACE'
WERE' VERY C0HMU!IIhG

THE FIRST NItMS -5LUER
ON bARE aPRImS
MtADE A VEEP 1IMPRE3WKN

THE ROOIOE I5
EARLY IJISTIATED
NllTOHM YST!R-
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VARIALLY FuWPPED
TIHE oMBRYo
SOLDIERS
LIME UP
FOR THE FIRST TIME

THEN AND-

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-AND HIIDLE A JbAYONCT WITH
AMAtINQr FORCE AND
t ,t ,1 .DEXTERITY.

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'SQUAD5 RIGHT AND LEFT -

AT FIRST
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CHASED
UP AND DlO
THEIR .smr
WH"EN THEI
1UOD SENT
ON A LONEL
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AMONG- THEIR MANY
OTHER ACOIPLIS"E.NTS
THEY LEARNED To DIG-
TRCNCHS AND WITH-
-STAND
HARDSHIP.
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By Bouthworth, the Camp Cartoonist.

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