Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08
Latest Information From the
Trenches viii Be Used in
Training Draft Army.
TOF0LLOW CANADIAN SYSTEM
New Soldiers In Dominion Are In.
structed to the Accompaniment of
Actual She'll Fire-Won't Aban-
don Springfield Rifles.

Washington, ID. C.-SOldiering will
take on an aspect entirely new to
American military science when train
ing of the forces to be assembled I'M
der the draft bill begins at the 16
training cantOnments. Careful ar
engagements made by war department
officials provide for the application
Immediately of every lesson learned
from European battlefields, and much
of the work to be done will be new
even to men recently in army instruc-
ton camps.
The army war college has prepared
new training manuals based on the
latest information from the trenches
of the fighting fronts, gathered from
many sources. Supplemental regula-
tons will cover even more detailed
information brought by the British
and French officers here as members
of the war missions.
The American training system prob
ably will follow to some extent that
used in Canada, where the instructors
have made every effort to reproduce
as closely as possible conditions at
the front. Sections of trenches have
been built at the Canadian camps eX-
actly duplicating important parts of
the lines in France held by Canadian
troops. Training in extending those
works and running SapS or erecting
entanglements has gone on to the ac-
compartment of actual shell fire so as
to harden the nerves of the troops as
well as their muscles.
Days of Toll Ahead.
For each element of the army there
are days of endless toll ahead. The
signal men, engineers, aviatOrs, bal
loon. men, the men who work the great
guns far behind the fighting lines, the
personnel of the transport trains and
ambulance cOrps-every cog in the
intricate machinery of modern war
fare must be taught its place and
trained TO coordinate to form a great
fighting machine.
Newton ID. Baker, secretary of war.
said that many problems involved in
raising, organizing and training the
new army could not be solved until
actual cases were presented. He said
it now seemed unlikely that the entire
100000 or more men who will be
liable for duty in the selective forces
could be enrolled, physically exam
.ined and otherwise passed upon for
exemptions, before the process of call
ing to the colOrs began.
Mr.. Baker is inclined to favor the
jury wheel system of choosing the men
to be called first. When any town.
ship is called upon for it's quota to
fill the first 100000 increment, the
names of all of its citizens previously
registered for military duty would be
placed in the jury wheel and the prop
er number drawn. Examination of
that number then would be carried
out and enough additional names
drawn TO fill up the quota with pro-
vision made for exemptions.
Within month after enactment of
the bill the secretary expects to set
the registration date for the selective
forces. A proclamation will be issued
notifying all men affected to appear
at the registration places. The cleo
ton machinery of each community will
be used to facilitate registration, and
the police forces will be employed to
bring in those who fail to appear vol
UNFAIRLY.
Exemption boards will be localized