The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-30
About $500 Men Being Fitted for
the Navy at the Great Lakes
Station.
EVERY minute IS OCCUPIED
Keen Determination to Make Good Is
the Prevailing Spirit Of the Camp
plan 10 Make Station lare-
est Of Kind in World.

Great Lakes. III About S.2on men
are being fitted for fighting ia the ma
tionS first linz of defense al IA" init
cd States naval training station here.
Nut unlike thai in u biz c"ll"@"
football camp j. IA" ruuliH" 81 their
training chief petty officers ar" III"
coachcS who drill IN" men up and
down the fields ia rhc final days of
preparation for the hi- gaHr-war.
Every minute j. mad" 70 mean some
hing. ON dozen fields The air l.
filed with ia. authoritative commands
"f the officers and the pounding "i
thousands of hcaNily-~hod feet on ia"
turf CnmminClIng X the blair" Of IN"
bands. which are directed by Lieut..
John Philip S"usH, famous hnndInaS-
ter. who now has ~ musicians in
training aud expects =" develop tn"
finest military band in III" world.
Ruf the spirit Of IN" camp i az Scri-
Gus as that in II football camp. And.
~ evinccd by the last days Of Novem-
Der I'm any college. rhc statement i
not meant lightly. Ev"rywhcr" about
the station the sentiment seems 10 b"
To stick To the team aud make Il good
showing in the eyes of IN" coaches
that n permanent place may he OBJ
tanned in the greatest game of all. {.
g. Smith. captain Of this years foot
ball eleven al the University of Michi-
gan expressed this when h" said:
I'VE are going In with everything
we have. We ar" going I" win ana
make the commandment. capt. W. A.
Moffrtr. proud of ~ when "" e" Il"
sea or be ground Ia pieces trying
To Train 10000 Men.
Plans are under way Ia make the
station the largest of its Kind In the
world. Preparations hav" been made
to train upward of 10000 men during
the summer I'll" navy department.
upon the suggestion of Captain Mof-
felt. has asked congress Ia appropri-
ate funds for this purpose.
Constructed originally for 100 men,
the war and the resultant influx of re
cruitS has nccpSSitutrd tn" Springing
up of y white, tented city on the rcSer-
walton and adjoining leased land. Camp
Paul Jones. lying Immediately To the
north of the station proper has been
fully equipped and shelters 5000 men.
among them the naval militia from the
states of Michigan ana Missouri.
II is believed that the station will
a h.,
10 the navy during the war. Recruits
from practically every community in
the middle West urc expected. men
from Illinois. Indiana, Ohio. Michigan
Wisconsin. Minnesota, North Dakota
South Dakotn. Nebraska. Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Iowa. Kentucky and parts 0t
other states being sent her" Ia learn
the business of man-o'-warsman.
Men Of Every Station.
Virilr young Americans. from tn,
colleges. offices. farms and Factories
uf the middle West. the men at tn,
station seem Ia bc trained for aimoS
anything. Here one may see II ciyi
engineer. enlisted rs an apprcntic,
seaman. using his transit To mak'
bench marks. while over there on IN,
corner of the reservation are the tW,
slender. 100 foot wireless towers from
which man is sending wireless mes
sage Ia the government station i'm Ar
lngtun. Nn. In the heterogeneous per
sonnet there is II representative of nj
most every trade. profession and bust
Ness
mc-SiCkncSS j. Il disease that IN
little place nj the station. There i
not time for II. Lying in the sun