The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-08-03
BADGERS MAY GO
TO REGULAR ARMY
WISCONSIN BRIGADE OFFICERS
SEE BIG CHANCE IN SOL
DlERlNG AS PROFESSION.
GOOD PAYING POSTS OPENED
Guardsmen Become Eligible to Draft
for Positions as Second Lieu
tenants in Federal Service.
Pay Is $40 a Month.

San Antonio, Tex-A number of
officers of the Wisconsin National
Guard may not go back home when
service on the border. The indications
at present are that many of the Off
GERS of the state troops will join the
regular army and make soldering
their profession. Attention of the
the Wisconsin officers has been turned
in this direction by the announcement
that General Funston has received
permission from the war department
ia draft second lieutenants in the mill
tia service to second lieutenants in
the regular service,
Under the recent army bill all sec
ond lieutenants in the regular service
were made first lieutenants and the re-
suit was that the entire regular army
is at the present time without second
lieutenants. Officers figure that it is
great chance to be drafted into the
entire service and especially among
the younger officers that matter of
transferring is being seriously con-
sidered. Second lieutenant's pay is
$40 a month
The authorization from the war de
partment will make room for hundreds
of second lieutenants. In the regular
artillery especially there is great
need of lieutenants. 1t is not known
whether or not an examination will be
required of militia officers desiring to
enter the regular service, but it is the
opinion from the tenor of the advice
from Washington that no examination
will be required.
Sensational Stories Fakes.
kilograms and letters from distract
ed relatives have been pouring into
Camp Wilson inquiring about Wiscon-
sin soldiers who, they have read, have
been seriously hurt, are seriously i'll,
are starved or in some other equally
uncomfortable condition.
Investigation has disclosed there is
not a bit of truth to the majority of
the stories The rest of them are so
stretched that a Wisconsin man in
camp here could hardly believe that
they We're written at Camp Wilson.
Among the stories branded fakes by
officers and men We're:
MeXicans fire on two Wisconsin
guardsmen.
Two men in Company F arrested for
complaining about poor and INSULT
lent food.
Large number of men injured or Sc
riously ILL.,
Threatened mutiny because of food.
Fostering wounds.
Two men in hospital because OF the
heat.
The stories that are said to be ex-
aggerated are too numerous to men
ton.
Gen. Lorraine T, Richardson, com
mander of the Wisconsin brigade,
when asked about the story that Mex
leans shot at Wisconsin guardsmen
said:
That story is an absolute falsehood,
as were other stories published in the
daily newspapers. One of them had
man in the Third regiment being stab.
bed by Mexican. There was no truth
to that story either, for investigated.
One paper had story that two men
were in the hospital in a serious con
ditiOn as the result of the heat Upon
investigation learned that at the time
the paper had them in the hospital
the men were on active duty. And
the truth of the matter is that they
We're never in the hospital.
THE stries printed about men fail
ing out of ranks from heat exhaustion
were falseheoods, too. In some cases
men had to stop drilling and rest be-
cause tie effect of the typhoid inocu-
lation co.nhiNed with the heat were a
little too much for them. But none
of these cases were at all serious. The
men were all right in short time and
back to their duties"
Each correspondent in camp with
the Wisconsin brigade must give bond
to insure that he will send to his paper
nothing but correct reports of the
events in the Wisconsin camp This
is the order of Genaral Richardson,
commander of the Wisconsin brigade.
Every newspaper correspondent also
must file his credentials at headquar-
tiers.
Co. NJ, La Crosse. Third infantry,
has the most novel mascot in the Wis
consin camp, 1t is q goat, the gift of
a La Crosse woman. In honor of
Badly Bettin, a member of the com
pany for twelve years, who was re-
jected at Camp Douglas, the goat has