New Britain herald., 1916-07-06
CAMP OF PERSHING
 MARVEL OF ORDER
Peacefulness Is Keynote Of Head- quarters Of Punitive Expedition

Field Headquarters, Colonial Dub Ian, Chihuahua, June 29 (via army motor truck to Columbus N. M., July 6.)-COmpact, prepared and unosten- tatlous is the American field head quarters camp in Mexico.
 A walk through it showed no evil dence of the hurry, the curt com- mands, or military stiffness, som etimes asserted with an army ready for oc- tion. Instead, there was about men and animals sprawling around camp with the comfort of perfect health, each man knowing his duties 50 well that half an hours warning would be sufficient to empty the great camp and change 1t into an army on the march. Tents of Cavalry.
 Long rows of shelter tents marked the camp of the cavalry command, just in from 200-mile march. The tents stood in a three-inch dust, their tops the height only of a small child's head above the ground, their interiors ovens, because of slight space between the sun-heated canvas above and the equally hot earth below. In them tired men were sleeping. Hard mus cled and brown skinned, these men were prepared for any strain.
 Beyond, loomed refreshing bowers of green boughs, interiors darkened and cool, where kitchens showed food prepared in cleanliness as a part of the contribution of preparedness for keeping their fighting men in trim.
 Motor Truck Contingent.
 In the heart of the camp, rows of huge grey motor trucks were parked in geometrical desi gns. About them men crouched in the shade of their big bodies their olive drab clothing stained beyond washing, with road dust. On the steering wheels hung brilliant. red, green and blue hand kerchiefs, just washed and drying. These were the head gear of the truck drivers who have learned that they cannot hope to protect more than their heads and their mouths from the dust clouds.
 In the company streets g, few jagged tins were scattered in seeming disor- der. They were temporary washing utensils saved from what usually is junk.
 At the front of every soldiers tent lay an orderly array of ammunition belts, pistols, and fighting parapilerna- lia. But they were not conspicuous
 
 same position among the tent trap pings. The machine gun batteries and even the big field guns might be passed without attracting attention, so exactly was each placed, covered from dust, in readiness for action.
 Wagon and Pack Trains.
 Orderly lines marked the camp of the pack and wagon trains. Picket line after picket line of trained and tough ened mules was there, each the length of one city block. The drivers were giving the animals the most careful attention, for they realized that fre- quently upon the training and muscle of such nudes may depend the lives of soldiers In campaigns, especially as here in Mexico, where supplies have been outrun by the fighting columns.
 A pair of socks and a shirt hanging on the wire fence, which enclosed the camp of the signal corps, perhaps formed the only discordant note. For, from the point of view of prepaced- ness, the size of the soldiers washing might have been called lux ury. It meant the owner had an extra shirt which he was wear ing It meant he was carrying excess weight in contrast to others of the soldiers, who have carried no extra clothing for weeks. In this camp washing and bathing have been done simultaneous ly. the hot sun and winds drying the clothing by the time the bather is ready to dress