Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-24
kill" FIRST WORD IN GRENADE PRIMER
TAUGHT SOLDIE2BOYS In TRENCH CLASS

learn kind Of jiu-iitsu and they prae-
tice quite freely on each other.
It's the easiest thing in the world
to miss ones aim and punch friend
officer in the jaw or eye instead OF
twisting back his wrist.
just because an officer wears
nice serge suit, with insignia on the
collar, and gold hat cord, isn't any
sign that he doesn't work.
After working hard ali day drill
ing the new soldiers, then doing
more or less clerical work in the
company office, the officers must
all attend a school from to 8
o'clock every night, except the holt
days and Sunday.
Camp Dodge has new name.
1t is known among the soldiers
as the western pittsburgh"
Maybe you won't understand that
if YOU haven't visited the camp. but
if you have you viii understand it
only too well.
Coal smoke pours from the myriads
of chimneys out at the cantonmenS
and that, combined with mixture of
wind and dust, is guaranteed to
I camouhage any natural person.
! So if YOU are going to camp to
see him" you had better take along
plenty Of cold cream
/ There aren't going to be any lone
some or forgotten soldiers at the
cautonmen this Christmas if the
school children at Shickley, Neb.,
can help it.
Notice has been received at Camp
Dodge that the children are prerar-
ing packages to be sent to the can
torment and distributed among the
men who have no families or rela-
tiYes to remember them
+ Seventy-fve soldiers of the Eighty
eighth division will be royalty enter
tanned Thanksgiving day.
The citizens entertainment com.
mittee Of Mitehellyille have asked
permission Of Major General Plum
mer to invite the men from thC
Eighty-eighth division TO a regular
feast.
,, Boys Of headquarters troop, CAM
Dodge, met their mother" the othel
day,
OF course, many of them have moth
! ers Of their own in nearby states. Ant
: there are some WHO have no folks a
all. to write them cheering letters, o
send them little rememhrances from
time TO time And those who hav,
, families rack home have wished NOR
. than once that mother was here il
! Des Moines to hear their troubles, o
give them a little advice.
, But they've a company mother now
) to whom they can go with their con
, fidences. She's Mrs. Zoe Pearl Parl
! I Des Moines, and she adopted her boy
Wednesday noon when she went /
mess With them at Their barracks.
Mrs. Park is the originator OF tn
company mother" plan which ha
: been adopted at Camp Dodge. Ever
: company at the cantonment wi
. have mother" and the boys won
: have much opportunity to get Ions
|. some for the folks at horae. Fl
: there will be dinner parties, little n
: membranes, letters, social times an
:, friendly advice when the soldiers nee
. counsel
y You should have heard those DO,
, OF the headquarters croop applar
# when Captain J. H. Quigley, troop con
mander, introduced tteir new guar,
y ian. Mrs. Park was Just as pleased
: they were, for she has hoy in Il
= army, too, and knows how loneson
L these soldiers get sometimes. And
:, her little talk to the soldiers yesterd;
- she urged them to come to her wi
- their perplexing problems and to ca
on her for any service she might re
der.
: Des Moines women think that Il
4 company mother idea viii be adopt
u in other national training camps. MI
~ Park has written to friends near 9th
~ cantonment reservations telling the
y of the plan. She is confident that {
= Of Uncle Sans rockies will have mot
=, erly advisors before long.
Isn't that a good idea?
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