Evening star., 1911-08-21
Real Problems of Warfare
Confront District Soldiers
Special From staf Correspondent.

Special From Stan Correspondent.
CAMP ORDWAY, FREDERICK, Md,
August 21--The picture of war. with
rifles and khaki and the field wire
which can talk as fast as il can spin
from a reel, will be gradually spread
out. upon the very beautiful back
ground of country which surrounds the
camp Of the National Guard Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. beginning this very
day the men will be taken easily from
the first stage, where the company
learns to crawl IN its stomach through
the grass. up 10 the stage where the
entire brigade will be In action. regi-
ment against regiment. with the artil-
lery masked behind some hill tossing
it's shrapnel with a cruel bark over
thhe enemy's line. The Signal Corps
men viii put up their field wireless
and will be galloping. shouting and
working fast-ever so much faster
than you ever see man working on a
telephone line in the city. There will
be men squatting down i'm odd corners
with odd contrivances over their heads
and notebooks and pencils in their
hands They will be living telephone
stations ami could some riheman in
the army fthe opposition pick off cold
bloodedly one of these men he would be
doing one of the biggest pieces of injury
he could do witS a single bullet
Now for Zeal Business.
The first part of the camp is all over
now, the men are shaken together and
now comes the serious part OF tie busi-
ness. There isn't any more tin SOL
dier" atmosphere about this camp than
there is at Fort Myer. 1t is built, de-
signed, run and Instructed SO that ii
there Is anv need for fighting men I'm
the field the District Will have men who
will know what it means to be under
arms. The camp is designed, too, to
make the enlisted man a good soldier.
He'll know what a clean rifle is .wher.
ne gets back home, if he never knew
what II was before. and clean rifles mean
saving to the government and a better
defense VI around. of course. He'll know
how 10 be a courteous soldier. too if the
lesson OF Saturday and Sunday last are
of any value.
There isn't going 10 BE- any foolishness
aoout the maneurers and problems Of
the week. IL is proba ole they will not b,
spectacular. from the point OF view of
the untutored Philis.ine who calls them
sham battles" But they will teach I'm.
. men now 10 IRE "A shot and get under
cover; how TO find the enemy and get
away without being seen. in fact, this
coming week is designed and carefully
planned. each hours instruction being an
important link. TO teach the men OF the
capital who want to serve under the ma :
ton's flag just how to do il and how TO
get the maximum efficiency out OF him.
self and his rife.
The men started little skirmshing to-
day. and tomorrow they VIII be doing ad-
vance guard work, with, perhaps a little
problem or two TO make the thing inter-
esting The problem will be real enough.
IL will be statement of conditions. For
instance. a problem may state that the
enemys advance guard is known to be
on the top of a certain hill. Go head
him OF Sounds easy, does IL not? But
IL has been easy" propositions like that
which turned the tide OF battles and OF
nations the wrong way.
Camp Breakers Caught.
To the LIST Field Artillery, officers anC
men combined. must go the credit for
rounding up the forty-one men who go,
out Of camp Saturday evening i'll direct
opposition to the orders which permitted