The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-03
PAY DAY CHEERS
UP OHIO SOLDIERS
Soldiers Pay Little Attention to
RUmors For Moving For
ward Of Troops
Columbus Merchants Are Reported
To Be Charging Excessive Prices
To the Soldiers And In Some
Instances Refusing To
Sell Them At All.
Special Western Newspaper Union
Service.

Special Western Newspaper Union
Service.
Circulation of reports that the war
department really will send Ohio
troops to the Mexican border together
with the announcement that pay
day is at hand put new life into
the soldiers at camp Willis. Yet, so
often have rumors or orders for NOV
ing been circulated that the men are
inclined to pay none too much atten-
tion to tales. Not move was made
in camp to show that the troops are
to leave soon. No additional equip
ment was issued to those regiments
which are waiting for the material
that ''is coming" that they might be
equipped as prescribed in the well
known schedule C, which is about as
popular around here as schedule K
was in the Taft campaign. Every
body appears settled for a good stay
here, but none knows what orders
the war department. might send any
minute. The troops may go to the
border and they may go home. Any
way pay day will cheer them up, al
though the men are to be warned
about expenditures in Columbus. Of
ficers are getting reports, in fact are
running into incidents themselves, of
high prices being charged soldiers by
Columbus merchants. One Cleveland
man returned to camp and told how a
Columbus druggist even refused to
serve him ice cream. The establish
ment of the camp here has been a
big thing for Columbus merchants, as
thousands and thousands of dollars
have been spent by the men. 1t is
considered unlikely that the troops
will be moved from here to camp
Perry, as it is probable the 1st and
7th regiments and the 9th battalion
will be taken there for their annual en-
campment and glad to go to camp
Perry that they might take advantage
of the rife range to give their men
rife practice they need so badly. The
men are getting hardened for the
Texas climate but are not prepared
for real action without rife practice
Just A Few Questions That Are Asked
What they doin' now?" whats
that for?" where's that bunch
goin'?" "Now, what'r they gonna dc
with that?" These are four utteranc
es that are as common to guardsmen
at camp Willis as Good morning
and Good night" Even a well-sea
soned rookie finds new puzzle daily
in some of the maneuvers Of drill
squads, camp orderlies and just plair
everyday privates. The ms and outs
of military routine offer, possibly, the
largest percentage of odd performanc
es, from the civilians viewpoint. Then
soldiers, alone or in squads, march
ing, running here, there and every
where, with peculiar-lookilg packages
bundles, paraphernalia and oddities
furnish the rest of the days puzzle
1t all goes in camp life under the
head of routine" which only a mill
tary encyclopedia could explain. Rule:
of the game are many and are con
stantly being gagged by new standards
fixed last year or some other year BY
the war department. Many an Olt
timer will descreetly dodge some o
the questions put by curious civilians
because he dislikes saying truthful.
that he doesn't know for sure.
Poor Treatment Given Troops.
Tales of discrimination in Columbus
against guardsmen have begun to re
Ceive the attention of officers in CAM
Willis. The result is that members o
several units Of the state guard hav'
declared boycott on number o
merchants, hotels and restaurants, al
a means of retaliation. Regimenta
officers have complained of unfai
treatment and discourtesy show
them, and this, with the feeling tina
is growing among the enlisted men
is making Columbus merchants un
popular and has started reminisence
of the days at camp Perry, where tn
guardsmen were accorded the best O
treatment The latest complaint
come from officers who have brough
their wives to Columbus for fey
days visit at the camp and hav