The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-12-27
LETTER FROM
CAMP DODGE,

has put in an appearance thus Tar ar
rived last week-5O0 Of them. The
men were from Fort Smelling, Minn.,
and Fort Benjamin Harrison, Of In
diana. They have been thoroughly
trained for service and they will take
rank with officers already on duty
upon the arrival Of the next incre-
ment Of selected men. These officers
were fitted out in new suits, with pol
ished leather puttes ard silver spurs.
When they landed at Camp Dodge
they were given cordial greeting by
the officers and men who had just
passed through ten-day siege Of zero
weather. The first severe jolt the Of
ficers received was that their fancy
overcoats, swagger sticks and some
other extraneous and useless account
rements are not countenanced at this
camp. The army regulations only.
permit two styles Of overcoats, one TIM
regulation issue and the other s jacket
lined with sheep skin. Many Of the
men had fitted themselves out with
expensive equipment which must be
discarded. A thousand enlisted men
from Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan
arrived the first of the week. They did
not wait for their numbers to be called
but took advantage of the order per-
mitting enlistments. They belong to
the ordnance division and are with the
depot brigade. Officers and men are.
here from all sections of the country.
Regulars from Ft. Douglas, Utah,
members Of the signal corps from
New York and New Jersey, officers
from about every state in the union
as we'll as from France and England,
all serve to give cosmopolitan aspect
to the military units Of the 88th div
ision of the national army. Owing to
the recent declaration of war upon
Austria, about three hundred soldiers
at Camp Dodge are now alien enem-
les. These men are drafted soldiers,
most Of whom have taken cut their
first naturalization papers and under
the federal law they are not qualified
to serve in the army. Just what will
be done with them is not known, the
most Of them having expressed a de-
sire to remain in the army and fight
for democracy ~~a sas
Gen. Getty had arranged for a ser
les of furloughs for the men for the
holiday period. Many of them had
made all arrangements to make a
journey back home but an order from
Secretary Of War, Newton D. Baker,
put an end to the contemplated visit.
The order reads as follows:
WAR DEPARTMENT
December 8, 1917.
None but lofty purposes and exalt-
ed motives could justify the keeping
of hundreds of thousands Of men from
their homes and families at this time
of Christmas, but the measure Of that
sacrifice will be the measure also of
the triumphant achievement that will
follow it. There is mighty comfort in
the knowledge that the history Of
these days will make a record not uD-
worthy of the proud tradition Of our
past when again there is peace on
earth.
NEWTON d. BAKER,
Secretary Of War.
It was not deemed best to permit
the congestion upon railway trains
that general exodus would have oc-
caisoned right at time when the car
rying capacity of the roads would be
taxed in bringing to camp another in
crement of conscripts.
French and English officers are CIV
ing the officers daily practice in the
use of gas masks and the theory Of
gas attacks. The officers will later
impart this information to the men.
are being made for the
most intensive drilling Of the men in
the use of the improved Enfield rifles
This is the last word in rifle deveI-
opment. Major Smith Brookhart, of
Washington, Iowa, a former member
of the National guard and an author
ity on the use of the rifle, will arrive
from Washington within few weeks
and will instruct the men in the use
of the guns that they are to carry
The rifle range will be the most pop
ular place about the cantonment when
Major Brookhart arrives.
An order from the war department.
makes it incumbent upon all who de-
sire the patronage Of the men to place
everything in a sanitary condition.
The following order has been posteds
Soldiers Of this camp will net patron
ize any restaurant, hotel booth for
sale of food, barber shop, manicure
parlor, ice cream parlor or soda foun-
tain establishment unlees the same
shall have q certificate OF inspection
This certificate Of inspection will be
issued by representative Of the u
s. Public Health Service Tor by tho
Division Surgeon) only upon compfi-
ance with the rules and regulations
governing sanitary inspection issued
by the United States Public Health
Service Tor by the Division Surgeon)
and shall be revocable at the discre-
tion Of the issuing anthority.
\ An inspection of Tho big bakery