The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-18
TO CLASSIFY new ARMY
Officers To Probe Capabilities of Each
Man al Mead,'-Hard Work And
study Ahead.

E|,rI member OF the drafted ar
my from Maryland VINO j. 10 enter
Camp Meade this week would do
well 10 go over his past life. see
" has ne has done what he j. good
FOR, What he is not good for. and
jhen. after the examination. be ready
20 sum up his qualifications and dis
qualifications.
Every draftee Will be asked 10 tell
an abundance OF things about him
self, almost from babyhOod TO the
present time He is TO tell among
q her things what Kind OF an educa-
ton Tie has. whether or. not he knows
anything about electrical engineer
-ng. mechanics OF other similar bran
mes. In Il word every applicant Is
10 be classified. so that the govern
menl may be able 10 size him up ac-
cuiaieIy and use him 10 the best adj
vantage.
Every man who goes there viii be
gwen the OnCe-Oyer several times
The first thing he Will do will be to
take bath. Then If ii il meal time.
and he is hungry. he Will get some
thing 10 eat. AfterWard he viii be
given Il physical examination which
will be much more rigid han the one
to which he was subjected hen
summoned by the draft board. He
viii be Ydccinated and inoculated.
The new soldiers will learn from
the beginning that the camp Will be
a place where they must work and
study hard. They will have impress
ed upon them from the first day that
their task in life-at least their i'm
mediate task. is to learn quickly
how 10 fight the Germans TO help
them in this laudable ambition, of
icerS who have served in the war
zone with the Allied Army. who
know all the tricks of their own ar
mics as we'll as some of the effective
ways of making trouble which the
Germans have, Will be on hand to
help drill the rockies. The drafted
men Will have TO work hard many
hours of the day. They must make
up their minds for that-for most of
them will work harder than they er-
ct have worked before. They prob
ably will get used to it in d few
weeks, but they must be reconciIed
10 having some stiff muscles the first
10 days.
However, the army officials know
how TO season men. They lead the
rockies up gradually to the most diff
ilcuit part of the work. There will
be no overtaXing of the energies of
the men. The officers who have been
put in charge of the camp are men
OF wisdom and experience ana they
have been given the job OF superyis-
ing the training of these men be-
cause they have proved that they are
familiar with such work. Many of
the men who are TO lead in the train
ing of the soldiers have come from
Honolulu, the Philippines, from
across the continent and even from
across the ocean. There are many
non-cOmS from the regular army
now at the camp.
While the men will have the I'M
portance and seriousness OF their
work emphasized, the officers in
charge want the folks at home TO get
the same view of things. There Will
be nothing at the camp akin to a
county fair. 1t is to be military
school whose graduates are to go in
to the trenches to beat the Boches.
They viii need every help they can
get from the people at home, and
the best help they can have is non
interference with their work.
For this reason Burroughs TO the
men and passes to slip home will be
hard TO get. There must be some
good reason for them. By the same
token, though arrangements will be
made for the men to see visitors,
such visitors will not be allowed to
swarm through camp. A great part
of the work must be kept secret even
from those who have a special claim
on the affections of the men and who
Will be curious to learn their way OF
doing things.
The Government will take charge
of the draftees through the officers
at the camp. The officers will look
out for their military training, tht
doctors will take care of their physi-
cal health and the y. VI. G. A., the
knights of Columbus and the chap
lains of the various denominations
will attend to their spiritual needs
There will be no excuse for the peO-
PIE al home to worry or TO try to in
terfere.
The men will have plenty of
amusement. The officers viii see to
that. They will even have a chance.
many of them. to follow out the
lines Of work they did at home. The
singers will be given a chance to
sing and the actors 10 act, etc Even
the poor newspaper men who are no
good for anything else on earth, as
far as some biased people think, will
have chance to feel at home. There
is TO be camp paper run by news
paper men among those drafted.
There are several Baltimore scribes
in the Maryland contingent. While
Philadelphia, New York and Wash
ingtOn will contribute some. There
will be some cartoonists among the
men.