The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-08
'4r'pl lNE M CAMP DEvENS
 IS MADE LOSER IN ORDER TO
 ELIMINATE FURTHER DIFFICULTY

q Camp Devens, Nov. 8-Recruits no ionger, but soldiers now. the men of New England's national army today were informed that a rigid tightening fof discipline marks official recogni- 'tion of their transformation into sol- dters. Like so many children, pass .ing from the playgame-study stages of Kindergarten into the discipline of the public schools, the recruits were notffied that their preliminary train 1ng is over.
 { From now on it's to be strict so1- .diery, with the selected citizens re- tquired to observe all the ethics and .discipline of army life.
 No more will CT didn't understand" lave soldier from discip1ining for in- s1raction or failure to observe the rules 55f army life when he is called to ac- Mount before an officer or company isommander. "I didn't know he was Ian officer will no longer be cause for tt 1enient commander allowing soldier to escape punishment for failure to dsalute And, the saluting has hence North got to be done with snap, too. iH Overstaying of leave on account Of fsserious illness in my family will not, In the future, save national army man from the guardhouse. All of the hundreds of te1egrams and telephone nessages-mOst of them fake-that have flooded the, camp asserting that
 "Mother is dying or '.Auntie is .dead' are hereafter to be investigated before special leave is granted, and all fraud .1lent cases are to be summarily dealt with.
 "sistef Anne very low. Come at
 once. will meet you in the same I-- hG-r- sogs will be cause for special furlough from now on. Furthermore, when a soldier is given a 24-hour pass he'll be back fn z4 hours, hereafter, or take the penalty, no matter how urgent the
 11eed for him at home or if mem Der of his family is dying. All these rulihgs and many more were spread broadcast among the men today
 < The new rulings do not mean that the army officials are to forbid a man to visit the bedside of a dying
 reiatfve or to attend the funeral of a family member. But it is to stop the
 actions of hundreds of men who, like so many. schoolboys at boarding school. have been offering a hundred
 and one bogus excuses to obtain fur loughs that the new disciplinary orders
 have been issued a,
 '| In a0ulLlOn COmpduy- COAl1Alo'AANCtN N'
 were notified today that they will be held strictly to account for the dress of their men; that the little details that go toward making up the correct appearance of a soldier must be lived up Ito. or the commanding officers themselves will be disciplined With the new regulations will also come a sudden increase in the intensity of the trafning. Men have been overstaying leave and 1enient company command CTS have allowed them to escape with 2 a. few hours or a day or two of fatigue | duty. % The s.epidemic'' of serious illnesses and deaths that has swept New Eng Hand has been smiled at by the off, { ciaIs and men allowed to believe they were deceiving their officers with fake I feleeranns and letters. Now all this 1s past w The new rulings regarding. dress pro-
 vide that enlisted men are forbidden to wear caps, leather leggins and spfr- al pattees The wearing of sweaters outside of uniforms is also forbidden
 and the wearing of colored sweaters at any time away from barracks is strictly taboo.
 Governor Carl E. Mi1liken of Maine came here today and voiced his ap- s proval of the cantonment and it's of Aficers and men. Three weeks ago the
 Pine Tree States chief executive sent
 his Ad5utant- General George Mel
 Presson to visit the camp and to in
 vestfgate the hundreds of false rum ors of i1l-treatment and insufficient food that had swept the State. Or Ltoday's visit the Governor came di 5rect1y to Divisional Headquarters ant Ifhen went to the 3o3d Field Artillery ,comrnand. where practically all of the } Maine men are located.
 There Colonel A. S. Conklin had tho entire regiment lined up on the pa Trade field and with their band at tht
 haad the men marched in review pas SfAe Governor. "Fine, great they're Muf1y,s he said. After the review thu sreximent marched to the Y. M. c. A ta1sdfforfum, where Governor Millikei tad1rsssed the men.
 Ike told of a thousand dollar appro eprfatdon which had been made fo l1he bene<it of the mess fund of tn zreeimsnt, and said that the Maine citi kxaus were anxious and ready to gfv tfhe men anything that they might de tsire. Sergeant Cunninghafn-he wa b@Private Cunningham" until Colone rConkiin arose to introduce him as newly appointed non-comfnlsslone' >offfcer-led the regiment as they gay
 their yell with three rousing Milliken' on the end.
 ~ am much pleased with the sit
 and theway the men appear and tn i i-way in which they are being trained,
 sGovernor 1dilliken said. after he ha,
 inspected barracks and mess kitchens X Tile was much interested in an exhi
 Fbit fn c. Battery, where the men hay
 f at the head of their mess table a snaal Ipine tree topped by an American flae NJ Balmy weather and out-of-doo mess in many of the regiments gay the camp picnicky appearance a Snoon today. The training with tn
 sbuzzy-cots'' or field kitchens was i
 Ifull swing and in the S01st Field Sig
 nal Battalion eysry man took his mes
 Kit at noon and obtained his meat, pc
 ltatoeA souR. and pudding out of door