Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-05
CAMP DODGE Is STRONG DENIAL
81 OPINION THAT PEOPLE
ARE uNPATRiorlc.
StlAiT OF sERNicE 4
MANIFEST AMONG GUARDS
Nearly 500 Men Doing Hard Work
Unssr Trying Weather. Conditions IN
Order . Fit Themselves For Harder
Service on serdsr-Bis Day at
Camp on Fourth.
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Des Moines. July 5.-The man wht
believes that patriotism in this coun.
try ii dead should visit Camp Dodge
He would and there between $500 ant
5000 men whose absolute and un
selfish devotion to their country ant
to their state Is SO evident and Sc
marked that IL impresses every visitor
1T the big mobilization camp.
There is p true spirit of service Al
] the camp. Altho the weather is ho
and the days are long and full Of hare
drilling. there is no tagging back bu
an eagerness to meet all the exactine
requirements Of modern day efficient
soldiers Tho men know they need
training, they know that if they; are
pitted against the shipping sharpshoot.
ing Mexicans they will have to ain
true and shoot quick, that there may
be marching and hard riding and heat
and dust and exposure. So they are
anxious to get as At and ready al
possible.
they welcomed the rigid program Of
trsining set out for them yesterday
4 and, which began at $3.50 yesterday
morning like young collegians train
inG Tor the football season. Day after
day now they will have to go thru
this long days program from $3.50 in
the morning until 8 o'clock at night
until the call comes for the troops to
entrain for the border. 4
The Fourth in Camp.
The Fourth Of July was observed at
! Camp DodgeswithF great enthusiasm
The celebration began at II a. M, with
a band concert There was a salute
Of forty eightSguns, one for each state
in the union. In the afternoon
Lafayette Young, editor of the Des
Moines Capital, and n. w. Byers,
former attorney general Of Iowa. gave
addresses. Then there was big re-
view Of all OF the troops in honor OF
Col George Morgan. U. S. A.
INQUIRY at the local weather bureau
as to the weather down on the Mexi-
can border yesterday showed that at
FL Paso on Sunday the maximum
temperature was 102 and the minimum
6s with lively breeze blowing. The
maximum temperature in Des Moines
Sunday wao - with a minimum OF ~.
Thare was q good breeze here Sunday.
Monday the early morning tempera-
tuSe st M Paso was IS. Local weather
bureau officials declare that the hot
wAether IL not SO noticeable down on
the border because the air is dry. 4
The adjutant generals Office here
Yesterday contracted with Charles
Hewett g Sons Company, Des Moines,
sYot groesries FOR the troops en- route
al folIowss 5000 pounds canned
beans, NJ cents; 5000 pounds to-
matoes, 40 cents; $50 pounds Of jam,
!. Is cents: $40 pounds coffee. u4x cents;
375 pounds evaporated milk, IN cents.
Maj. Smith w. Brookhart, chief in
spector Of ANAL arms practice Of the
Iowa brigade now at Camp Dodge,
yesterday declared that many OF the
rifles which have been sent to Des
Moines to arm the Iowa National
Guard are worthless.
The major has had time to inspect
only q small part Of the 5000 rifles
which have. been received at camp.
Those he has examined, he found not
/ TO be new guns as the Iowa troops had
expected. but rifles marked repaired"
Many of these rifles have been fitted
with new stocks, and turned out as
good weapons for the soldiers.
II have examined some Of the rifles
and ind that they are worn out and
worthless" said Major Brookhart. THE
guns have been repaired and have been
made to appear fine on the outside. But
we care more about the inside than
the outside.
Barrels Worn Smooth.
"Of the rifles which ! examined. the
inside Of the barrel has been worn