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have the right to volunteer. The re-
mainder have been or will be selected

mainder nave Deen or Will Oe SeIecLeu
by lot. ..
The change has played havoc with
the training of the Eighty.eighth di-
vision. To the men who are left, it
means going back to the beginning.
There are $4,000 more recruits coming
in about December 1st. (That's the
indication, according to General Plum
mer) They must learn what the men
now here have spent two months IN
learning. The recruits will outnum-
ber the drilled men two or three to one.
Which means that the entire division
must be started at the beginning. The
present soldiers will no doubt be OF
invaluable aid in whipping the re-
cruits into the A B C's or drill. But it
win be weeks before the recruits get up
to where the first men now are.
To those who hear stories of vice
conditions surrounding Camp Dodge,
these figures are given. In the official
report for the week ending November
9th, just issued, only IA cases of vener-
cal diseases were reported out OF a
total number of cases of sickness of
COS. There were cases of pneumonia
and three of measles. The remaining
cases were of other diseases. This re-
port is much better than other camps
of the middle west
General Plummer is on the trail of
those kaiser lovers" and unpatriotic
patriots who start or pass on wild stor-
les of debauchery and vice concerning
Camp Dodge. He has commissioned
Captain Quigley, commander OF head
quarters troops, as chief of that part
OF the counter-espionage bureau. Cap
tain Quigley has been instructed to
take up all reports of suicides, MUIR
ders, vice conditions, mistreatment
and similar terrifying pictures and
trace them down. Each person who
had part in the transmission will
be questioned. When the last person
can pass it on to no one else, he or she
will be hailed before the United States
commissioner to show cause why he
or she shall not be interned for the re-
mainder of the war.
Il won't have my boys libeled or
their mothers worried over untrue
stories," said General Plummer. "And
I'll appreciate any evidence can get"
Herb Hoover is getting loyal support
in saving food at Camp Dodge. Or
ders have been issued that soldiers
shall take in their mess kits only as
much food as they can eat. If they
have any left over, it is saved for
them for the next meal. And they
have got to eat it. There is nothing
left for the garbage can, except bones
and tin cans. It's strict order. And
General Plummer has strictly enjoin-
ed its enforcement.
Drafted men have a$ opportunity
now TO show their ability and win ON:
GERS commissions. Notice has gone
out that officers shall recommend sew
eralS thousand men for entrance into
the officers training school which
starts at Camp Dodge January 5th.
Politics will play no part. II man
wins a commission its the measure of
his own mettle.
No soldier at Camp Dodge will be
without a mother, even in his camp
life. One hundred Des Moines moth.
ers have been enlisted to mother the
entire division. They have but one
duty and that is to be mothers to the
men, to sew for them, to counsel with
them, to cheer and comfort them.
The largest theater in Iowa is being
erected at Camp Dodge. 1t will seat
more than 5000 men and will be used
by the stars OF the American and Euro
pean stage who come to entertain the
soldiers of the cantonment.