The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-09-14
CAMf%EWIS IS
AN d. PLACE
American Lake Cant0A mt is
One of the Finest Cab
in the Country.
ACTIVE TRAINING Being STARTED
First Draft Contingent Used to Form
Skeleton Regiments. Major
General Green in Command.
Ready for Next Bunch.

Valley county's first draft contin-
gent are now we'll settled in the huge
$7,O0O,0O0 cantonment at American
Lake, Washington. Men from Alaska,
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming,
Utah, Nevada and California are there
ton organization into which all the
to reorganization into which all the
$4,000 soldiers will be taken during
the next month.
Camp Lewis offers convincing proof
that democracy is at war. A tangled
mass of Christmas trees, a slightly
refreshing lake, and 10000 acres of
land as level as kitchen floor. The
first men to reach there say that the
wonderful beauty and novelty of it
will chase away homesickness of the
first few weeks, and mountains of
"chow" prepared by the best army
cooks in the west, will tickle hungry
stomachs almost as much as the ia
nous food "that mother used to
make"
Major General H. A. Greene is in
command there, and he has made the
following announcement to assure the
parents and relatives of boys, that
they will be in good hands:
"The fathers and mothers of draft
ed men need suffer no apprehension
on the score of physical, mental or
moral degeneracy, due to the influ-
ences which will surround them in
the military life.
"Temptations and opportunities for
vicious indulgences will probably be
fewer than in civil life, and the re-
straints of discipline will be greater.
"While the intensive training
means hard work, there will be some
hours of leisure, and facilities will be
given for harmless, innocent but in
teresting recreation. The Y. M. C..
A. will be an active agency in the
latter particular.
No Better Place in Country
"There is probably no better place
in the United States than this camp
at American Lake as far as health
conditions are concerned. The camp
is very sanitary and will be kept so.
"Modern improvements in SANTA
tion and hygiene have wiped out all
camp diseases which formerly pro-
duced greater mortality than Incl
dents of battle. Under the enforced
prophylactic treatment, typhoid fever
has for some years become practical
ly unknown.
"The water supply here is 100 per
cent pure, and there is no possibility
of it's becoming in any way contain
mated.
Bathing facilities are adequate.
The food supply is excellent in quality
and ample in quantity.
No immortality in Camp.
"Under the existing federal law, it
is made a penal offense to- dispense
liquor within five miles of any en-
campment or to establish immoral re-
sorts. 1t is also a penal offense to
sell at any place, at any time, intoxi-
eating liquor to officers or soldiers
in uniform. And the law requires
that the uniform be worn at all
times.
"In cooperation with the civil au-
thorities it is the intent and purpose
of the cantonment commander to see
that these laws are strictly enforced.
War Department on Guard.
"The moral and physical welfare of
the men of the national army, as we'll
as of the other armies of the United
States, is matter of great solicitude
to the secretary of war, who has by
many agencies entirely unprecedented
sought to safeguard the men in every
particular; not only by removal of
vicious influences, but by the sub
stitution of innocent means of recre-
alton.
There is no doubt that the men
drafted into the regular army will re.
turn to their homes improved physi-
cally, mentally and morally, and with
broader ideas of life and feeling OF
stronger devotion to their country
In short, they will be better citi.
zens."
Camp Lewis is officially known as
the Ninety-first division. Information
regarding the location and size OF
this new military city is given as
follows:
Troops-Quotas from Alaska, 69s
Washington, 1896; Oregon, III; Cali
fornia, $4,000; Idaho, 2,2s7; Nevada
1861; Montana, 1877; Wyoming s05
Utah, 1870. Total, 46,510.
Officers-Maj. Gen. H. A. Greene
commanding; Lieut.. Co. H. J. Brees
chief Of staff; Brig. Gen. H. D. Styr
One Hundred and Eighty-frst Infan