The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-30
TALES OF WAR
PUT new LIFE
IN SHAM GAME
National Guardsmen Show
Enthusiasm in Digging
Trenches With Therm0me-
ter at 101 Degrees.
EAT WAR RATIONS
EAT WAR RATIONS
General Organ Banishes
Servants at Officers Beck
and Call From New York
Camp.

WASHINGTON. July 30.-This is
the time of the year when Uncle Sam
does what little preparing for war he
has brought himself to. In four
camps at widely separated points col
lege boys are receiving. months In.
struction In military science, young
business men will gather next month
for a similar practical course, while
the National Guard of the States Is
holding its summer sham fights and
encampments in conjunction with de-
tachments OF the regular army.
The most imposing military display
OF the summer has just come to an
end near Fishkill, New York, where
5000 guardsmen and about 500 regu-
lars have been fighting (theoretical-
ly) sanguinery campaign with ton
paper) 100000 troops engaged in each
OF the two contending armies (sup-
posedly the kind they have in Europe)
=, People Visit Camps.
The people of Pomona, California.
and Walla Walla, Washinf1ton, would
do we'll to pay as much attention to
Camp Whitman as the inhabitants OF
The Bronx, for in time of war the New
York National Guard will take Its
place with their regular army as
complete division, this being the only
state militia organization to possess
such honor.
According to the United States army
officers in this city, the manoeuvres
near Fishkill were carried out with
more completeness than anything or
the sort seen before, even the famous
war games held in previous summers
in southeastern Massachusetts and In
southwestern Connecticut.
Much skill was shown in scouting,
pointoon bridges were built, rivers
were forded or crossed by swimming
and thousands Of rounds OF blank am
munition we're shot off.
AS Major General John L. Organ,
the commander Of the state forces ex-
planned, it was no ice cream soldier
ing" His declaration that the men
were there for business only was
heartily echoed by nearly every
guardsman. A years reading about
real war across the ocean. besides sun
dry fiction describing coming invas-
ions of the United States, had put
them all on their mettle. Even the
work of trench digging. not especially
inspiring with the thermometer at 101
IN the sun, was done with real enthus-
iasm,
Enjoy Entertainments.
Now that Puritan lives were enforc-
ed throughout the twenty-four hours.
In the evenings there were sparring
and wrestling matches, amateur vaude-
Vile entertainments. and the newt
able movies, while the nearby roads
were dusty with automobile parties
going to visit the soldiers"
In order to simulate war conditions
as nearly as possible. the militiamen
foreswore even store bread. The bri-
gade brought to camp remarkable
well equipped field bakery, which
turned out three thousand loaves of
bread daily.
Ordinary or garrison bread was
served regularly and was bread, which
will keep flesh for long time, was
baked twice a week. The men declar
ed the war bread the better.
Many of the men at Camp Whitman
came from prominent families of New
York. Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius
Vanderbilt being an especially assid-
uous militiaman, but by Gen. Organs
orders no personal servants were al
lowed. He said:
This is no parlor camp. You don't
see any men standing around at the
back and call of officers. The colored
servants are no more"