Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-23
0R,JECTOR CONVERT
TO CAUSE OF WAR
,oaves Dunkard and Menno-
mite Comrades at Meade
n to Become Orderly
liberty LOAN BOOMING
Total Subscription Now 81 1,167,-
OOO, 315th, of Philadelphia,
Leading With S15O,OOO
,1pERTY LOAN BOOMING
Bya StoG cor 'cspondrat

,,,,tp MEADE. Admiral, Md. Oct %.
go weeks in an isolation camp has
ilInced one of Little Penn's conscientious
eonsN'a,ors that army life is not so wicked as
ep'Sod been led to believe and as result
n n .S,s conversion. Homer f. Bible. OF
vlinstone. Md, has deserted ms bunkard
Mennonite comrades to become
AM thu,.d orderly to Major J. =. Barney,
ns,..ont 10 Brigader General Nicholson.
~ damned an olive drnb uniform today
-. ant ot his work with an earuestness
S, ,,on praise from commanding officers.
mi. is the second conscientious objector
t0.ve his comrades. although the convert
~ militarism experienced change ot
VI after wearing a uniform four days
sS re,urned to the barracks, where the
.nti.war religionists are housed.
.i don,t think that ] shall go back said
n,,is today. 81 am opposed TO war, but
shall do my olt .pa,,,,,a.a.. ,,,,.,, o,
- won the honor Of being the first Ma
,,onsI Army organization to leave the con-
."nr,ent for the purpose of participating in
/. home parade. This regiment viii go to
I Baltimore tomorrow afternoon and head a
A1iberty Loan parade in the evening More
,han 1900 men will participate.
Today's parade Of civilian workers was
..ied of this morning after 1t had become
Tnown that the army of mechanics had
snbscrbed more than $4,000 to the loan
within twenty-four hours. This' amount
swals the camps total to Sl,167,60Q
The 3l5th Infantry-Phiadelph own
Is leading i'm the free-for-all with a to-
al that ia near $15O,O00 and growing like
weed The Philadelphians arc hard
,rsssed by the 3l3th Infantry, of Balti-
more. but Colonel Rosenbaum Is confident
hat the regiment will finish in front of
the Maryland outfit.
Satt 1pU of nf
liberty Loan boosters viii overshadow all
other doings at the camp and occupy the
tlme Of every man. Although today's drive
an the part Of civilian workers promises to
sarner a substantial pile Of subscriptions,
ne star performance is scheduled for to-
morrow when the division assemblies on the
parade grounds and makes its final yell
for funds.
"We are going to whoop it up" said Cen
Stal Nicholson this morning. until every
man in camp buys a bond. What we want
10 report to Washington is that Camp
Meade has made S2,0O0,000 subscription,
and such a report will put us in first place
among the cantOnments.'
Little Penn established one record to-
day and a record that will he difficult for
any camp to touch, for Lieutenant Colonel
Huntington, division surgeon, reported that.
despite the fact that nearly $4,000 soldiers
are living in the camp, not one man is
seriously ILL.,
Many of the regimental hospitals" said
Colonel Huntington, are empty and the
few that have patients are doing a mighty
I smau business for their patients are af-
flcted with only minor troubles Reports
gathered at Washington show that Camp
Meade has fewer men in its hospitals than
any cantonment in the country. We have
had but one death in the camp and only
Ave serious cases of illness to deal with.
Two weeks ago five men developed symp-
toms Of pneumonia, and as the army con-
sders that disease as communicable the
patients were sent to the Walter Reed Hos
pital in Washington. They are doing
well and entirely out of danger I'm fact,
not one of the FIVE suffered vlrulent at
tack"
Announcement was made at division head
quarters today that every Sc eCted man I'm
camp will be given an opportunity to obtain
q commission, for an officers school is to
open on January and / 40 per cent of
each organization will be permitted to at
tend. Application for admission to the
school must be filed before December /.
Candidates are to be selected by regimenal
! commanders.