The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-08-29
ADDRESS LETTERS.
ANDPACKAGES
Relatives and Friends Should Know
How to Address Mail to the Boys
at Camp Dodge.
SECOND DRAFT is NEXT SPRING

SECOND DRAFT Is NEAT SPHiNO
Opinion Of Army otficers-Every
Available Camp Now Filled
May Amend the Law.
1t will only be a few weeks before
Crawford county's quota OF 1913 men
to the national army will be in train
ing at Camp Dodge, located at Des
Moines, and with the time drawing
near fond parents, sisters and sweet
hearts are wondering how to address
letters and packages to the man in
camp. OF course it will be some task
to handle the mail for $4,000 men
who will be located at Camp Dodge
without unnecessary delay and in
order to accomplish the task instruc-
tions have been ISSUED by the Des
Moines postoflice.
The instructions given out are as
follows:
".All men selected for service in
this state who are ordered to report
at Camp Dodge cantonment Des
MOines, Ia, should observe the fol
lowing regarding their mail:
III you know in advance the com.
pany and regiment you are assigned
to, you should inform all interested
to address your mail as per this sam.
pie:
Private John Jones,
"A Company First Infantry.
"CamO Dodge Ia
''If you do not know in advance to
what company and regiment you will
be assigned, have your mail addressed
as per this sample:
Private John Jones.
"Of Minnesota.
Camp Dodge, Ia.
Those from Iowa, Illinois OF North
Dakota insert their state instead OF
Minnesota.
When all troops are organized the
company and regiment. Until then
the mail will be separated into the
states the men are from and delivered
through his state section" s5 i
Crawford county men who are sub
\ ject to draft and whose numbers were
not drawn in the first four hundred
will be interested to know that there
will be no second draft for the nat.
ional army before next spring. This
is the opinion OF army officers and
was made public last Week.
Every available camp site will be
crowded by the GS7,O00 men called in
the first draft. and training and trans
portation facilities, they believe. will
not permit of the army using any aa-
dtional force OF men within the next
six months.
Gen. Crowder said the subject Of
a secand draft had never been taken
up at any conference at which he
had been present. Gen. Cowder is
understood to be repairing a COM
plete report on the draft and making
recommendations for possible future
drafts.
May Amend Law.
The general belief, moreover, that
the shortcomings of the first draft.
which cannot be ascertained entirely
until after the mobilization and the
first period of training, may make
it necessary to amend the selective
draft law before another call is Or
dered
Active preparations for the mobili-
zation Of the first increment of the
national army recruits on September
5th began today with the receipt by
the quarte:master generals corps of
the meal tickets to be furnished the
men enroute to their camps. Each
ticket is made out in triplicate form
and provides for meals not to en-
.ceed 60 cents apiece in value. The
local boards will issue these tickets.
D.. Vouchers Good as Cash.
Once the men are on the trains, the
new soldiers railroad fares and meal
tickets will be turned over to a lead
er selected by each local board. The
railroad officials will provide places
where the men can eat, or else fur
nish them lunch boxes.
The public is warned that the
vouchers that the leaders will turn
over for meals must be accepted when
properly endorsed and are as sgood
as cash when turned over to the near
est army quartermaster, whose loca-
tion will be stamped on each ticket.
The war department issued orders
today aimed toward economy in
clothing allowances and quartermas-
ters are instructed to fill requisitions
Only ucCcSSltlcS. HIS Will ulSCOIl-
tinue the former practice of giving
soldiers upon enlistment an extra al
lowance of $3.O5 in clothing.
-. No Roosevelt Army
The national army men when they
arrive in camp, will be examined by
army surgeons and will then he I'M
mediately provided with uniforms.
,: A report that Col. Roosevelt was
to lead 100000 men to Russia was
discredited by army officials today.
They pointed out that there We're
available neither the transports nor
training camp facilities for such a
large force II the troops are sent
to Russia. it was said, they will prob
ably be small force Of trained men
calculated to instill confidence in the
Russians.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fraser and
children and Miss Dorothy Gray, Of
OmgbA,e NOtOred to Denison Sunday
tOs ylltt Wth Howard Gray before he