The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-28
.CHAPLAINS WAR
ON DAN CUPID
IN FORT RILEY
Men in Kansas Regiments
Warned of War Weddings.
But Love Smiles and Won't Re-
spect Camp Rules.
MEN ALL IN LOVE, IT SEEMS
Visitors Rush to Camp at News
of Early Departure.
Governor Stirs Soldiers to
Cheers With His Speech.
By p. c. POWELL.
(Staff Correspondent for the state
JOurnal.)

JournaI.)
National Guard Camp. Pawnee
Flats. Fort Riley, Kan. June IS.
Real heart throbs have entered inc
canp since the news was flashed
through the state Tuesday Kansas
'-freorss probably would begin moving
10 the border Friday. Evening branch
trains from neighboring towns ~d
brought hundreds of parents ana
llsweethearts. Junction City ana Man
ahsftsn hotels were filled Tuesday
nigbt The crowd can't be accom-
FInodated by the hotels tonight
with lovers in the evening So were
TfiFe hundreds of vacant porches de
Fort Riley and the military ROADS run
ming from Fort Riley out TO Pa"hee
eFlats. ,,,r ,e-,
ReveilIe blew only a half hour ago.
syet from the tent headquarters can
<l,e seen a proud country lass ana hel
colder lover who are strolling across
the parade grounds. They have raised
- nsrasol but il has fallen down over
me girls shoulders as she partlcl-
-@pates in one of those long nerve
Tracking kisses. ..+;,,.,
In short. Dan Cupid is ge5ting
EfriTbtened. He is shooting his darts
- an directions in mobilization camp
7-rhe little fellow is having other trou5
--ries. too. The Almighty has declared
war on him here
chapIains Warn Men,
rhaplains in both regiments are
ovarning men against marriage WINE
lrt;y,e service. Bread and butter
es,+s are arrayed against youthful al.
- a summers moon and the love OF
..It'S inst this way" said Chaplain
<-.tnsooir when he denied six ditterent
-,,,,..srs of marriage circulated during
- offernoon Il know good many
az the boys are in love and uozens
ti,a1ye called on me to ask my auElce-
1SkJtfIe war brides and war panles
make the best copy in the world TOT
-ev,zra perrnen and furnish sensation
Io.-ing public a few minutes topic OF
nnnversation in the evenings on
front porch. they aren't very praGCical
.Dropositions and we're dong all we
fa,, 10 combat an epidemic OF wal
iS,,arriages which is spreading over
Its A happy bunch of men, though
The long. hot days, months and may ne
.-ears on the border on food which
stS=n now causes good natured com
lF,laint has no terrors for them They re
Shouting. 'Hurrah for Arizona.
In Battery camp Tuesday night
r NJ. RAIDER, who announced upon ms
arrival that he wouldn't shave until
they were sure OF going to Mexico
.scraped a safety razor over his face
RAIDER worked at the Ford hospital or
Jackson street. They all take 1t fol
Granted nothing will occur to post
Not Grand Trip
II isn't going to be such a grand
frip after all when they quit Kansa:
md the waving. cheering hundreds a
Railroad stations Col Perry NJ Hois
dngton, commander of the Second In
fantry has outlined the tentative plaI
for the trip
The Second infantry will be moved
IN four sections. three sections tt
comprise from twelve to fourteen car
and the other from eight to ten cars
It will be several cars short OF tn
average train equipment of an infan
try regiment because ordinarily Their
are I55 horses attached to a regiment
The animals will be supplied when tn
Regiment reaches Arizona.
Every commissioned officer vii
make the trip" said Colonel Hoising
ton I'VE have telegraphed to Canad
fer Lieut. Howard NJ. Randall of tn
machine gun company of Newton
Charles c. Stewart. formerly of indie
pendence, now of Dewey, Okla, ha
autographed to me twi-- asking if h
could get back his old commission a
lieutenant"
Thirteen hundred and fifty men wi
make the trip. accoring to Colone
Eufsington. There will be a kitche
car on each train Bread and came
meat will comprise the principal ra
ions. Coffee is the only article pre-
pared en- route over a fire.
About one hundred rounds of an
munition will be supplied to the me
before entraining. Also each man wi
carry an entrenching tool, a spad
about three feet in length.
Men Are Vaccinated.
Only one feature of preparation
Worrying the men They are bein
given their first typhoid vaccine. Hun
dreds OF arms are disfigured wit
iodine this morning. II may make