The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-07-13
READY FOR THE
MEXICAN BORDER
Ohio National Guard at Camp
Willis Pushing Preparations
for Active Service.
Eighth Regiment the First to Complete
mastering In and to Receive lts
EquIpment-ArtilIery Camp
Bars Visitors.
Special Western Newspaper Union
Service.

Special Western Newspaper Union
Service.
Camp Willis.-The mastering in of
the Eighth regiment by regular army
officers has been completed and this
Is the first regiment of the Ohio Ma
tional Guard to begin to receive its
equipment.
Camp Willis, 1t is understood, is to
be permanent institution. Plans for
permanency are shown in the sub
stantial buildings which are being put
up for the mess halls and the quar-
termaster's department. 1t is under
stood that when the troops which are
here now go to the border a reserve
battalion will be formed for each regi-
ment which goes away.
These battalions will be quartered
here and sent south to fill whatever
vacancies might occur in the ranks
Of those gone ahead. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars are being spent
on the Ohio troops, and it is believed
to have considerable service, even if
in the end it only proves a gigantic
mobilization.
Visitors Barred.
The artillery camp is not going to
be bothered with steady stream of
visitors, as is the infantry section
Maj. Harold M. Bush has issued Or
ders prohibiting the admittance of
civilians. Guards are established at
every few feet along the camp lines
and the camp is maintained Just as
though in war time.
The only persons admitted are
those bearing passes issued through
orders Of Maj. Bush. These are made
out by Capt. Q. A. Kulish of Cleve-
land, who is battalion adjutant.
The troopers of the artillery are get
ting busy drill periods under Mai.
Bush. They have about 60 horses at
the camp and these were used for
carting caissons about the camp in
drill formation. There are more
horses for the artillery at Ell Paso,
and this branch also thinks this means
1t may be called from Ohio early.
Rigid Medical inspection.
Fifteen specialists, under the direc-
ton Of Maj. e. L. Ruffner, army sur
geon in charge of all examinations at
Camp Willis, are conducting the
physical examinations.
The men are taken in companies,
each company being lined UP at the
entrance to tent one, where eye spe-
cialists are waiting. The eye test in
cludes ability to read half-inch type at
20 feet and a general examination of
che eyes.
In tent two the men are examined
for ear and throat troubles by more
specialists. Then they are stripped
to the waist and examined for heart
and lung trouble by still more spe-
cialists.
The next phase of the examination
takes them inside one of the commits
sary buildings, where each man is
stripped, thumped, measured, weighed
and otherwise man-handled.,
Now get up on that chair" "now
Jump of, lighting on your toes" NOW
Aex your wrists" "now your ankles" !"
were some of the commands given.
The men who pass all these tests sat-
fsfactorily are accepted and pass
along to other surgeons, who paint lit
tie square spots on their arms with
iodine and pass them on to other sur
geons for the first "shot in the arm"
This is an anti-typhoid serum.
Other hypodermic injections will come
later.
Men Eager to Serve.
Most of the militiamen, now that
they're under arms, will be disappoint-
ed If they don't get something like ac-
tion. So they're in state of mind to
Join the regulars"
Officers in charge of camp construc-
tion and Columbus city officials, who
mapped out and installed water mains
on the camp, have been forced to re-
vamp original plans and lay more and
bigger mains.
A shortage in water supply has re-
suited in orders abolishing all day use
Of shower baths.
Hot and dusty militiamen hereafter