Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-20
BAKER WILL CALL
100000 TO COLORS;
ASKS LARGE FUND
SECRETARY OF WAR SEEKS s2s7,.
$4,000 WITH WHICH TO PAY
EXPENSES or SECOND VAST
ARMY OF FIGHTERS.

, ARMY Of 10 n 6Ho.
Washington. Sept 20--While mo
bilizatiOn of the first major incre
ment of the National army was pro
ceedng late yesterday thfuout tht
country secretary Baker and the
chiefs OF the War Department appear
ed before the Senate appropriation
committee TO present requests Cor an
additional 1887 .4l6.0 600 with which 10
provide equipment for total force of
1900, 900 men.
Included among the items is the
ordnance equipment for the next
500 900 men of the National army. al.
though the 800 900 or more men on
the move today toward the training
environments are only half of the first
call
Dispatches from all parts of the
country indicated that mobilization
was being carried forward smoothly
and amid scenes of popular enthusi.
asm The National army men re.
ceived tremendous send off as they
trooped TO their trains led by the
local board officials who found them
qualified to join the ranks of the ma.
tons defenders. Almost the entire
a. per cent. of the first call force of
$4,000 men will be under military
control and training by Saturday.
Every essential for the health and
comfort OF the men has been pro.
vided for They will be fed and shell.
tered without difficulty, and arms,
uniforms and other details of their
war equipment will be ready for them
as rapidly as they are ready to use
them.
There are busy days ahead at the
environments Not only must the
men be examined by military physi.
clans and be finally accepted for
army service, but they must be or.
ganized Immediately into provisional
companies for administrative pur.
poses and to make possible their
f1nal assignments. The qualifications
or each man are to be noted and his
ultimate duty as far as practicable.
VIII bear some relation to the train.
ing he has received In civil life and
his own inclnations.
Pending the time when the fighting
forces OF the National army begin to
take shape, 1t is not essential that
full uniform equipment be available
for every man.
Many OF the young reserve officers
who are to command units of the Ma.
tional army are not at the canton
ments, still being under instruction.
Regular officers assigned to command
regiments of the National army are
regarded as fortunate by their com.
rades who remain with the regulars
or 60 to the National Guard. The
task Of training the absolutely new
forces Is inspiring to man who likes
to see his men develop. The National
army men are all nearly of am age.
They have no old theories of soldier.
ing to unlearn They are ready to
put all the vim Of their youth imme-
diately into the lessons of today from
the battle fronts.
Freedom from old pre- 'udces or
from internal political factions which
beset some guard organizations and
many other things also are on the
side of the new army. There are
many officers who believe it will be-
come, as fighting force, the finest
body Of troops in the world
Report at Camp Dodge.
Des Moines, Sept 19-The second
Increment of approximately $4,000
selected men from the thirteenth dis.
trict began to report to registration
officers OF the eighty-eighth division
of the National army at Camp Dodge
today When the mobilization is
completed next Monday about half
the men who will train at Camp
Dodge will be assembled at the can
Torment.
All arrangements for messing the
new arrivals have been made, quar-
ters are in readiness, and the quar-
termaster officers are prepared to
issue available equipment without
delay.
Twenty-Five hundred men from
Iowa and Minnesota will be assigned
to the depot brigade and sent TO
Camp Cody, Deming, n NJ. to fill or.
CARNATIONS in the twentyfOurth
division. The remainder will be as
signed in accordance with the local.
lzation plan used in handling the