The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-03

and does away with the necessity
of using one Of the hands to properly
adjust the butt Of the piece.
DETECTION and elevation correction
drills are known in army regulations
as sighting bar exercises.
Use Boxes As Rests.
One method Is to rig up boxes,
placing the rife upon rests. AT a
distance of about twenty feet blank
cards are tackled against q wall or
an obstruction that answers the pur-
pose. Black targets about the size of
quarter are then made. and are
held by a soldier.
Other soldiers lie down behind
the rife and without placing their
hands on the piece, or its rest, line
up both front and rear sights and
then advise the man at the target
which way to move II.
After the man has his sights lined
I'D properly, he instructs the man at
the targets to mark. A tiny hole in
the center of the movable targets Is
punched with the point Of lead
pencil, making a mark on the paper
on the wall.
Three times the man at the target
moves 1t around. and when the SOL
der at the rife thinks he has the
same spot located again. calls for
mark. The cards are then taken of
the wall and turned in to the COM
pany commander.
If a man has the proper sense
of sighting, a small triangle will be
formed. in some cases very small.
Men who have difficulty in sighting
will make large triangles.
BY going through such exercises,
officers can decide which men are
poor at sighting and can correct
each man. so that when he Is on
the rifle range and firing bullets, he
will stand a better chance to make I
a good score than IL the sighting
exercises had never been used.
First Aid For Wounded.
First aid to the wounded will be
taught. Methods of binding up
wounds and the manner in which
wounded men should be carried !
come in for much attention in this
work.
Whistle and arm signals will
bring forward to soldiers the neces-
sity for keeping quiet when behind
the trenches and when actually in /
defensive positions.
Learn Signal System.
The United States army has a !
system OF signals that is extensive |
while simple, so that any man can |
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with other signals. BY means or |
arm signals, companies can be put |
through every movement in close |
and extended order. without sim
gle spoken command or order.
Members of the national army |
will be trained as football squads |
were never trained. In addition to /.
setting I'D exercises, one and one
half hours a week will be devoted to
running.
Soldiers will be taught how to
run in an effort to save themselves,
and their wind. Lessons taught long
distance college track men will Nbe
given soldiers. so that when they
get to Europe and make a charge
thew will not be tired. but will have
enough energy to put up good
bayonet fight, or enter a hand to
hand encounter and have splendid
opportunity of coming through the
victor.
Four hours a week will be de-
voted to bayonet training. In every
battalion a bayonet instructor has
been assigned. and offensive move
ments will be given soldiers. The
new style of bayonet exercises takes
i'm only offensive measures, the old
regime Of defensive and offensive
having been discarded, in preference
for the sort now used by the allies.
To Prevent Pneumonia.
First steps to safeguard soldiers
from cold weather have been taken.
Heavier clothing has been issued to
the men and details are appointed
each day, to start fires in the bar
racks early in the morning.
Elimination of danger OF cold Is
- to rah
call mornings. instead of forma-
ton outside the barracks. which has
been held every morning since the
arrival of men at the cantonment.
This order was issued upon rec
of Lieut.. Col. j. X.
shook. division surgeon. He felt that
after netting out of warm beds in
The morning and going into the cold,
10 stand at attention while the roll
was being called. about hve min
utes in length, men might catch SCI
we're colds.
heaters in all layatories IN the dlYl-
sion. at all times, to prevent men
from catching cold and also to keep
pipes from freezing.
Keep Overeoats On.
Other precautions against pneu-
monia and severe colds will be TAX
- while drilling and hiking. It Isl II
likely that men will not take on
overcoats after a hike of q mile TO
their drill grounds. After walking
that distance, men have become
quite warm, and in taking OF over
COAT are liable to chills and illness.
CAPTAIN Giertson Dies.
Cant Frederick r. GiertsOn. 50. Of
81 paul. Mimi, a member of the
Three Hundred Thirteenth engineers.
died q few minutes after being struck
By an automobile.