The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28

udlOTy OH1y dS It dnSCtk pcl Sonc Ol religious creeds which contain definite announcements against arms bearing. That many industrial workers will be exempted is certain, but every means will be taken to determine definitely that the exempted ones will be of more use at home to the army and the country than they will be in service abroad.
 From some of the industrial centers where munitions, machinery and tex tiles are manufactured there have come reports that large percentage of the workmen expect the nature of their calling to exclude them from the army ranks. The percentages will not be heavy anywhere. It is only those whose services cannot be spared from the blow, the bench or the desk whc will be told that until another day they need not carry the rife.
 Army officials already are looking forward to the day of the raising of the second army. Washington real izes, if the rest of the country does not, that the strong probability Is America must send contingent after contingent across the water to make certain the triumph of democracy.
 For long time in the capital there was keen anxiety because of the re- curing evidences that the country as a whole did not realize the immensity and the intensity of the war that is to come. Since Registration day the minds of the officials seem to have been lifted from their depression.
 Washington officials desire that the work which began on Registration day shall be completed quickly. The pres ent spirit they say Is the spirit that honors, and quick action will help to keep the flame burning bright.
 South to Get Training Camps.
 Every man in the new National. army that soon is to be organized for service will go into tent or into barracks early in September. The original plans for the encampments have been changed. It Is entirely probable that later they may undergo another change. Climate eventually may prove to be the ruler In
 
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 There has been demand from near ly every section of the country that one of the training camps be given to the petitioning community. Selfish ness to a large extent is at the bot tom of some of the requests. Beneflt to local trade conditions has been the first consideration In many instances. The good of the service has been the second consideration if 1t has been given any thought at all on the part of the petitioners.
 Men cannot drill out of doors under bad weather conditions. Some persons seem to think that troops are harden ed by subjecting them to conditions which would send the ordinary civil ian on sick report inside of an hour. Troops are softened, not hardened, by adverse climatic conditions. In the northern section of the country the weather is bad In November. Outdoor drills cease at West Point on the last day of October or at the latest on November 15. Why? Simply because outdoor drilling is impossible.
 Can't Drill In Snow or Hard Rains.
 The recruits for the new National army of course cannot be hothouse re- cruits, nor on the other hand can they be icehouse recruits. They must be trained up to the point of resistance to climatic influences, but fitting the body to resistance in one thing while the drilling of the men so that they can take part in proper maneuvers is another thing.
 Infantry drill largely Is impossible when the snow is on the ground, when heavy rain is falling, on when the mud is deep. The new army must have quarters in places less likely than oth- CTS to experience sudden changes in weather conditions. The North Is an ideal training place for recruits from April 1 to November l. The South Is a fairly good training place from No always ideal by any manner of means.
 It is believed today that the army officials finally will determine that the new army should be trained largely in the South, where in September the weather Is indictment enough at times to give the men a certain amount of resisting power without being severe enough to put an entire camp of green troops on the sick list.
 Washington waited with little anx- iety but with deep interest the reports from the registration districts. As soon as they were received they were studied closely and there was particu- lar interest in the number of answers received to Question 12 which con cerns itself with the desire of the re- cruits to claim exemption at the out set.
 Not long before Registration day an order was issued that answers to Ques- ton No. 12 are not obligatory. This meant simply that no young man was compelled to say whether or not he claimed exemption. but could postpone his decision in the matter to a later day when the question of exemptions specifically was to be considered.