The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-10-10
DISCIPLINE THE /.
PRINCIPAL DRILL
Recruits Of Eishty.sishth Division at
Camp Dodge Learn Nothing
but Discipline Now.
ARE 1s,os7 KINDS OF sALuTEs

but Discipline Now.
ARE 1s,o57 KINDS OF sALUTEs
General Pershins sends~Word From
France That American Soldiers
Must Know How to Salute.
Headquarters Eighty.eighth Divis'
ion. National Army. Camp Dodge, Oct.
9-(Special to the Review)-Discl'
Mine is the principal drill at Camp
dodge with the recruits OF the Eighty
eighth division.
if,tle men Of Iowa, Minnesota, North
Dakota and Illinois, who have aban-
doned the civil life to become profes'
sional soldiers for a time, learn notn'
ing else before they leave for France
they will have obedience down to lts
finest point. ,:
Obey orders and observe the mill
tary law. These things are Dems
pounded into the men. morning noon
and night.
The civilian naturally thinks that
the salute is the first and the simplest
thing that the recruit has to learn. II
ia the first alright, but it is by no
means the simplest. 1t is safe to say
that there are 19,O57 different kinds
of salutes being given at Camp Dodge
today among the 10000 odd men III
camp. Some of them approximate the
correct. Others are sad affairs, begin
ming with strong upper movement
like the upper cut OF a prize lighter
and ending lamely with a weak drop
OF the arm.
General Pershing has sent word to
America that the American soldiers
must know how to salute and how TO
march and drill before they can be
sent to France.
And so the army at Camp Dodge Is
drilling, drilling and saluting every
other step In order to be letter per-
feet. There are lectures in army etl'
Uuette, personal correction from SER
geants, critical comment from the com
missioned officers, bulletins sent out
by General Plummer, "the grand old
man of the camp" on how to be good
soldier, and the constant. never ceas'
ing grind OF army life in the process
OF nakinx Q man into q warrior in the
5shoft spece Of . few months.
,saa INF lot dIil b alatel ~
- e NJ tself maud 10 eOntend with
ibif ~ recruits ut Camp Dodge have
s0mething inst o. bad. il not, worse,
In the Ssvsr-preseft dust.
Unless . heavy downpour occurs De'
fore these lines are read the reader
can picture Camp Dodge In a blue
haze OF dust. II it happens to be a
windy day. the camp from u distance
resembles misty lake.
The men choke with it, the officers
throats become SO dry with it they
can scarcely shout orders, the. eyes
fill with it, and the clothing. we'll it is
4 perfect camoutlage when the men
end their days work in the open. They
are all an earthen color from head to
loot until the dust broom and the
shower baths remove the deceptive
coat '"
One barracks was forced to scrub
out three times in one day because OIL
the dust. The hospitals where clean
illness is on par with GOdliness, are
forced to shut doors and windows to
keep it out.
The dust is so bad General Plummer
has ordered captains to take their
companies off into the pastures and
the fields to do their drilling. even
though some OF them are forced to go
two or three miles to find solid foot
ing. 49,
II one had to live in such dust In
civil life 1t would be considered ex-
tremely unhealthy. The same Is true
in a military camp but all other
things are SO strict and so favorable
to sound bodies and healthy appetites
that the matter Of dust does not give
the authorities so much concern.
l,~ ~ ISoS n ".
good. The hospitals have
rs many as four hundred men in them
ut one time, but two things should be
In looking at these figures.
Soldiers 60 to the hOsitals for minor
ailments. And that is small number
to be sick out Of population OF over
10000 persons.
A man is considered sick in mill
When he is unable to drill he goes to
belief that when a person goes to a
hospital he is about to be operated up
on must be altered in the case of q
camp. Tho patients at Camp Dodge
hospitals include such diseases as
colds, constipation. dysentery, head
aches, tOOthaches. cOrnS, bliStered feet
and hOmesickness.
Three deaths have occurred, there
has been one case of measles, and
few minor operations have been per-
formed since the camp opened. "a
While Uncle Sam is spending money
like a~prodigal son in order TO-, send
an army of half million men to
he is not unmindful OF the lit.
tie details Of economy Recently an
officer. while inspecting garbage cans,
0 whole loaf of bread that
had not been touched. An investiga-
tion followed and ten men were pun
ished by being confined to barracks
rs result of the loss OF this loaf of
bread.
1t was explained that the loaf fell
from the tray into the dust as 1t was
being carried to the mess hall, but
this did not alter the fact that per-
fectly good loaf of fresh bread had
been wasted.
The adage that all work and no play |
makes Johnny dull boy goes with |
the soldiers as well as it does with
Johnny. For that reason recreation is
going to be emphasized in camp, in
fnct Il has already started. Base ball
teams have been org1nized In all parts |