Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-02
Local Organization Still
Needs Sons Before 1t Can
Leave for Front.
NAME MOBILIZATION
CAMP FOR GOVERNOR
World Correspondent Tells
of Officers of All State
Guards in Camp.
BY COL. BEN @. WHITEHEAD
Especial staff Correspondent &.

(SpeClal starr Correspondence -
II ORT SILL. Okla. July 1.-When
Il DR.. Fred NJ Boso of the United
States medical department arrives
here early sunday morning with four
more recruits for Company {. the
Tulsa organization will still lack
forty-five men OF being up to war
standard. according to officers here
tonight. Word that the medical at
tache would leave Tulsa Tor the
camp. where he will remain during
the rest of mobilization activities,
late saturday. It is understood that
the Tulsa recruiting station Will be
paced in other capable hands, now
ever. and that the work of recruiting
will continue uninterrupted. .
Along with Company c, the rest OF
the organizations here are still under
the regulation, 1t Is announced. Last
night IL was officially given out that
the First infantry was still some five
hundred men below war strength.
This number will be considerably de-
creased the first OF the coming week
Governor X. l.. Williams was
honored Saturday by the First regl,
ment Of tho )klahoma National
Guard when Colonel HOFFMAN Issued
an order naming the camp the Bob
regiment. o. n. u.
heretofore the collection Of tents
and the assemblage of lighting men
has been known merely as The
Camp" Now that the camp has been
put into real military shape ana
named for the governor Of the state
there will be more dignity and indi-
viduality in affairs of the regiment.
Real Pain, Zoo.
Peal hO\yls of pain intermingled to-
day with the shouts of exuberance
about the camp. The boys have sore
arms where the medicOs have been
shooting in the stuff that viii ward
off typhoid, the bane of all camps
and smallpox, the scourge of Mexico.
Any soldier that reports in the
morning with a headache has an abibi
now. The anti-typhoid serum pro-
duces a headache that lasts for sew
eral hours.
pr. George u. Mclean Of Oklahoma
City. who saw service in the field
hospital in the European war last
winter, has joined the regiment. He
will become lieutenant IN the feSl-
mental infirmary.
Tho troops here are rapidly being
drilled into a complete organization.
There is more OF the real war-lilSe
precision than ever before. And that
is because the men are learning that
great fundamental truth Of military
life cooperation.
Team work is the greatesa asset OF
the aggregate company. Every man
must bear his part. Orricers Of expo
rierce can direct their men, can pro-
tect them from useless danger many
times. The behavior Of the company
tells pretty clearly what the officers
are. After the captain OF the COM
pany there comes the first and second
lieutenants. Then there are the non
commissioned officers, who carry out
the orders of their superiors and who
Aattend to much detail. The sergeants
Md the corporals are either good or
Dor officers. The priVates of the
Company tell that story, too. The men
who like their officers show II while
on duty or off. f'or the good man
wants to be fit at all times for any
need that may arise.
At another time | want to write
more intimately Of the higher officers
Of the regiment but today | want you
to know the captains, the Eeutenants
and the sergeants and the corporals
as well as other officers who do St
much for the good of their respective
companies. And in this statement
will add something of the men who
make up the companies.
Company A of Clinton.
Captain, Wyllis; first lieutenant.
Ernest s. Roach second lieutenant,
Ernest II. Merrifield.
Captain Wyllis is dentist Lieu
tenant Roach is a druggis, and Lieu
tenant Merrifield an electrician. Ser
geant Shirley is a teacher. Clinton
people raised $3.50 for their canteen>
fund This will for Il shor. time sup
ply the members with those things in
the kitchen which are not furnished
by the quartermaster. Private Gull
berth Of this company has been in
the hospital with stomach trouble.
Then mustered in with So men and
three offiArs. Editor Wasson of the
Clinton Chronicle will be with the
troop as q private.
Company Il or Chandler.
Captain, Harry b. Gilstrap; first
lieutenant, Arthur J. Matheny; second
lieutenant, James A. Embry.
Captain Gilstrap was formerly a
newspaper man and later went to
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