The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-04
EDWARD A. EVANS
(staff Correspondent of The Times who, with Staff
Photographer Dorman is touring the training camps
of America
FORT RILEY, Kas., Oct. 4.-"There must not be
and there will not be- any needless sacrifice of Amer
can lives in this war"
That is the message which Col w. N Bisphan.,
commander of the country targets training camp for
army medical officers, has asked to convey to the
mothers and fathers and wives of our soldiers
At the medical officers camp here 100 doctors,
gathered from all parts of the country, are learning
to protect fighting men from disease. Similar camps

are In operation and Fort Ben
jamin Harrison, Ind.
Here also are scores of Tacoma, Aberdeen and 9th
sr Southwest Washington young men, members Of the
ambulance corps, among them Leonard Lang glow, for
mery assistant secretary of the Tacoma Commercial
club, and Leonard Sanders, until few months ago
with the Tacoma street railway.
In past wars for each man killed by the enemy, five
more have been killed by disease army statistics
show. .Nor each man disabled by wounds, four have
been disabled by sickness.
Memory of the scandalOus rate at which American
soldiers wiped out by disease in the Spanish war
Is still fresh.
Is disease to be more dangerous enemy than
the kaiser's army in this war? That's what I
came to Fort Riley to find out.
I AM CONVINCED THAT, THANKS TO MOD
ERN METHODS OF INCUBATION AND TO
THE SANITARY PRECAUTIONS WHICH THE
PHYSICIANS HERE ARE BEING TAUGHT TO
TAKE, AMERICAS ARMY WILL BE THE MOST
Observation-Disclosures THE MOST Eff
FICIENT - THAT THE WORLD EVER HAS
KNOWN.
DR.. @. e. Laws Of Tacoma, who at Fort Riley
for time, has been transferred to Chicago. DR..
Robert Allen, another Tacoman has been somewhere
or the Atlantic coast for the last two weeks, his
friends have heard and probably will be in France
soon. Still third Tacoma doctor whose name did
not learn also has been transferred.
Most of the doctors here had risen high in civil
practice. Their average age is 40 years. Not few
are gray-haired They have left their homes, their
offices and their automobiles and here to live
ordinary soldiers in order that they may learn how
to keep the army in good health; ,,.
professor Of medicine at the University illinois, Major Ralph
Green the on
pSs os of the M n Medical % Of tSos I
their own tents and their They learn march
physical sol
they u, perfect understanding of the
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told sn ".ss s %sss sas
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struggling thru exercises that
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this the training for
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soldier received he !. immeasey vannatsd
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told % Inns rsr Il given
In the Spanish war. inocuaated
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among 10000 msn all Of whom had been inooniated
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interested in the fight against the ny
The s.s..s s q e.. " FROM rs % Mess
are Saw 1s JUST FLIES
MADE CAREFUL INSPECTION-ALTHO THE KITCHEN IS
OPEN TO THE FOUR WINDS UNSCREENED
IMAGINE THAT, HOUSEWIVES
MESS HOUSE IN THE CAMP HAS FOUR GARBAGE
OUTSIDE ITS DOOR ABOUT SOME OF THESE CANS III
COULDN'T FIND ONE SINGLE FLY
| THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF MULES
AND THESE STABLES ARE PRACTICALLY Fly
LESS
oade OIL daaesd garbage sprnslsd
the fly For the other scrupyous
s
built sen
principles which being taught the medical officers Some
eveHevey stub
picked about the to be purified by fire
reduced ashes.
pecred which painfully
clean their equally
stacked in
order.
that living conditions in the training camps
better the
soldiers homes.
their fighting
their health will be safegusrded to the fullest extent