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His Good Humor Is an
Asset of War, and the
Government Is Fostering
Music and Fun as a
Means of Producing
Efficient and Effective
Fighters
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Wrestling in the Air a Hilarious Sport in Which Contestants -Are Carried on Shoulders.
trawn Up for a "Sing" at Camp Kearney, San Diego, CaL Song Leaders Are Holding
Up Sheets Bearing the Words.
Training Camp Men Playing an Exciting Form of "Medicine Ball.".
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Billiards in the Amusement Zone
(Near Camp Lewis, Wash.)
BT EDWARD FRANK ALLEN.
mHE successful man Is the one who
I keeps interested in his Job. When
the' United States was drawn into
the world conflict the War Department
realised this fact and laid its plans ac
cordlngly. How have these plans
worked outT Look to the western front
for your answer. The men who, in
camp and cantonment, had time and
opportunity for healthful diversion.
athletic and otherwise, and who kept
Interested thereby, are now successfully
coins tnelr part toward beating Prus
ianism to its knees.
One afternoon at Camp Kearney, near
Ean Diego, CaL, I saw 300 soldiers play
Ing on the parade ground. Every one
of them was stripped to the waist.
Their guns were stocked in ions rows
of threes, and beneath these were
shirts, blouses and service hats. Lieu
tenants were standing by looking on.
Men and officers seemed to be enjoying
the fun.
The camp director of athletics ex
plained how these men happened to be
having such a i:ood time during a pe
riod of what was technically military
drilL 'The commission on training
camp activities, which is under the au
thority of the War Department." he
said, "is behind this. They have demon
strated the value of not only body
building, muscle-hardening games, but
also of what have been called fun
efficiency games.
HmTlMn a Good Time.
"I don't need to tell you that every
one of these men is having a good
time." He didn't, indeed, for they were
all shouting and lauKhing like a crowd
of schoolboys at recess. "But," he con
tinued, "it may be less apparent that
they are getting real military benefit
from It. Look at those parallel rowsof
men bending over. They are engaged
In a medicine-ball race. The ball is
being rolled between their legs down to
the man on the end of the line. He
grabs it now watch him! runs 100
yards up ahead of the line, returns to
the front of the' group and rolls it
back again to the . rear man. mho re
peats the performance. The team that
finishes first wins the race.
"Games like this keep alive the spirit
of competition and teach the men ag.l
ity and alertness. That Is why they
are considered a part of military drill
The men need these qualities in flght-
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A Lively Form of Laughing Athletics in Which a Man Is "Passed" Like a , Ball
ing the German.. The good humor that
goes with them Is recognized by the
Government as a valuable bv-Droduct.
On another section of the field men
were doing second-story wrestling.
Seated on the shoulders of their fellows.
they tried to throw each other to the
ground, generally with the result that
all four men engaged in the bout piled
up in a heap after the first onslaught.
doubled up with laughter, but eager for
another go.' I .thought of the 2.000,000
men in France who had gone through
this training in all of the camps of
the united States men who could not
only fight but laugh, and fight the bet
ter for It.
The relaxation furnished by the com
mission on training camp activities
plays a big part in the stimulation of
morale. It gives more than athletic di
versions; it puts a song-leader in camp,
for example, and encourages musical
expression. After a drill on the parade
ground the regiment Is drawn up in
front of the reviewing stand, or in the
armory, and from 15 minutes to half
an hour of singing follows. This is also
a fun-efficiency exercise, but with the
addition of inspiration. General Per
shing recently cabled. "Sen.d more sing
ing regiments." because he knew that
singing raises men's spirits and in
creases their powers of endurance. Sol
diers on the march step more briskly
to such a chorus as:
We're on the way to Heligoland
To ret the KaiseHs coat.
Up the Kiel Canal we'll float
la a rood old Yankee boat.
I'm a son of a son If I sea a Hun.
I'll make him understand
We'll knock the Heiigo into Hellgo
uui ot Heligoland."
It Isn't so much a matter of what
they sing, as Raymond B. Fosdick.
chairman of the commission, said, as
that they sing. And they certainly do
sing on every possible occasion, with
the same Joy with which they play-and
with the earns snap .with which they
fight.,
After the mud and boredom of the
trenches, after dreary days of being
billeted in forlorn villages, there are
entertainments for the soldiers by .pa
triotic actor folk who have gone to
France for this very purpose. It keeps
the men in high spirits to be able to
hear Elsie Janis sing the latest songs
of home, to see E. H. Sothern in im
personations of some of his famous
characters and to be diverted by dozens
of other well-known players. From
their . dramatic everyday work these
soldiers turn to the drama for recre
ation. They even put on their own
amateur- shows with the help of the
1. M. C. A.
Picture a khaki audience in a train
shed somewhere on the western front.
On an improvised stage a spirited play
let is being given. The men are re
taxed and. for the time being, war is
forgotten. It is better than the movies,
for they are being entertained by the
spoken word and in their own language
as well. Suddenly there is a whispered
order from somewhere in back of the
hall znd men begin to leave. The per
formance continues. The military
drama must not interfere with that of
the make-believe word and so the
order for solemn matters is whispered.
The American soldier wants to have
fun and his Uncle Sam is making it
possible for him 'to have it at every
available opportunity. But best of all,
he has the will to play and the will to
sing and these, in combination with
his indomitable will to fight, are what
are making the United States Army ln-
vinctDie.
He generates most of his own fun
that may be the best of all but pic
tures, on the screen, in the "funny
sheets," cheery reading and every other
source of wholesome Jollity that lifts
the strain aad keeps him healthy and
normal la a welcome source - at this
hour, i
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mWO weeks ago in answer to an in-
Xquiry I treated of the conditions
justifying the overcall of one's
partner's no trump bid with a suit bid,
major . or minor. Last week under s
somewhat' different guise I treated to
some extent of the same subject, my
policy in this case being suggested by
Lieutenant-Colonel Richardson's letter
from London with reference to tne
American 'practice of denying suits. To
day I treat of the practice of denying
a suit bid with a suit; in other words,
of the overcall of one's partner's suit
bid with a suit, of higher or lower
value than the one bid. .
This occurs somewhat less frequently
perhaps than the overcall of the no
trump bid with a suit bid, and I am not
sure that the practice or its importance
is generally understood.. While this
overcall or warning of danger is of
greater importance at a no trump bid
than at a suit bid, its usefulness in
the latter respect admits of no dis
cussion, and many a hand through its
agency has been turned from threat
ened defeat to assured victory.
There are many things to be consid
ered in connection with such overcall.
In-the first place, if-it be in 'a better
suit than the' one the partner has bid,
it does not necessarily mean that the
hand is without help1 for the partner's
bid; such may be the case, but, on the
other hand, it may mean simply that
the player is strong in the suit called
and desires to adopt as the trump the
suit which win go game in fewer
tricks; to use the suit-of greater -value
as the trump suit and the one of
lesser value as the side suit. For in
stance, if a player bids a minor suit
which at love score would call for five
tricks to go game the controlling de
sire or each player, be it borne in mind
is to make game on his bid and his
partner overcalls with a major suit,
hearts or spades, either of which would
go game at one trick less, or four, it
by no means says that he, the over
calling player, has no help for the
minor suit, and the original bidder
should not of necessity so construe it.
What it does say is strength in the
suit bid, sufficient strength to justify
the bid, and the wish so to inform the
partner that if in his judgment it seems
best, the hand may be played at this
rather than the- minor suit. In a case
of this nature the thing of prime im
portance is to inform the partner of
the major suit strength! whether, or not
the hand has help for the minor suit
becomes in a sense non-essential, so far
as informing the partner is concerned.
If it have-help, so much the better; if
it has not, all, the greater reason for
the, hand being played at the major
make.
When the overcall is. made in- a suit
of less value than the-one the partner
calls, it says absolutely no help in the
suit, but strength, possibly four honors,
in the overcall suit. Such overcall is
distinctly- a - backward ' policy, and in
the words of Miss Irwin, "no sane
player will - walk . backwards, t except
with a reason." - " .
"Let it be distinctly understood,;-then,
that when the overcall is in a better
suit than the one the partner has called,
there may or may not be help for the
partner's suit; when it is in a poorer
suit than the one called, the hand is
absolutely without help for the first
suit. By help is meant not necessarily
high cards of the partner's suit, but a
sufficient number, at least two or three,
to insure the side holding the majority
in case tne nana be played at the suit.
There is danger otherwise that the
opposing side may hold- the majority.
In either and both cases the overcallinrv
suit must have genuine strength, both
numerical and high card. -
Under no circumstances' should one
make a weak overcall bid. The partner
must have strength in the suit he has
named or he would not have named .it,
and it is better that the hand be played
at his good suit, though one has no
help for it, than at your poor suit in
which your partner may be equally
without help.
The overcall of a suit with a suit is
of course no more binding upon the I
original bidder than the overcall -of
his no trump bid with. a suit bid. It
is simply a precautionary measure
taken by the partner to inform him, as
far as possible, of the condition of his
hand, and then to leave It to him,' the
first bidder, to decide whether or not
to act upon it. While he should re
view the conditions carefully and well
before making his decision, he has a
perfect right to persist, with his bid if
in his Judgment it promises best for
the two hands. It may be - that he is
exceptionally strong in the suit he has
called, or js without help in his part
ner's suit, in either or both' of which
cases he may deem it best to go on
with his own .bid.. If he elect to do this
he takes the full responsibility of the
hand upon himself, and absolves his
partner quite from any share of blame
in case the hand turns out disastrously.
The overcall bid, or. warning of dan
ger, should not as a rule be given more
that once. If the partner choose to
disregard -It he must have some good
reason for so doing and as a general
thing should not be further interfered
with. It happens occasionally, how
ever, that each partner persists with
his own .bid, the two virtually bidding
against each other. This suggests an
interesting and somewnat. unusual
phase of bidding which I will bring up
in some future .issue.
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It doesn't do much good to try to
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This simple remedy never fails. Adv,