Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-19
NATION LOOKS ON WHILE
UNCLE SAM DONS
BATTLE GARB -
Sd QUOTA OCT. 5
PROVOST GENERAL WRITES GOV.
ERNoRs ADVISING THEM OF oc.
cAsloN'S SoLEMNiTY RECON-.
MENDs CLOSING OF SALOONS.

Washington, Sept 49, Approx
mately 274,S0O men are leaving their
homes beginning today in Americas
mobilization for war
They are the 40 per cent Of the
drafted $4,000 which make IN the
second increment to 20 to camp. The
movement will occupy at least I'VE
days.
| Never in America has such a force
been moved in similar time. All local
boards are ready with their contin.
| gents.
The next quota of 40 per cent will
mobilize October 5.
Only white troops will be mobilised.
except in states where cantonments
are located There colored troops al.
so will be mustered in.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
today issued this appeal to Cover
nors:
"A large per centage Of your
population is about to leave home
for the uncertainties OF q SOL =
| dier's life. While not an 0cca-
sion for sorrow, it is day for
solemnity 1t is. especially In
appropriate that 1t be marred by =
drunkenness.
Therefore, suggest you con.
slider closing the saloons during
such hours preceding entrainmsnt
on the next and subsequent mob
ilization days"
| The men will find sleeping. sGni-
tary. kitchen and hospital accommo.
dations Especial attention has been
devoted to equipping modern hospi
tails
There will be shortage Of uni
forms in some of the camps and Z
general lack of rifles. The uniform
shortage is due merely to transpor-
alton delays. The rifle shortage will
be filled by Christmas.
Rigid Test For Men.
Camp Logan. Houston, Tex, Sept
l9-An extremely rigid efficiency test
Is being applied to officers of the One
Hundred and Twenty-second Artillery,
formerly the Second Artillery. by Ma
lor w. Fl. Burt. instructor of the Fiji
ty-eighth Artillery Brigade.
| Every captain and lieutenant Is un.
Ter scrutiny Some may lose their
positions, but others will be recon-
mended for promotion. Two days of
instruction in artillery problems have
made plain to each of the former cav
airy officers that he is at the turning
point of his military career They are
all working with utmost vigor Intel.
ligence, mental alertness, mathemati-
,al ability and self-confdence are high
points in the test.
Lieutenant Colonel Wallace H.
Whigham of the One Hundred and
Twenty-second Artillery was appoint
ed president of the first general court
martial soon to convene to try TWEEN.
ty cases Major 3. NJ Chiperfeld, di.
vision judge advocate, announced q
policy of humane treatment Of Of
tenders.
General Bells Ideal Officer.
In the Thirty-third division no Of
tlcer will be allowed an overbearing
attitude toward his men. General
Bells ideal is contained in a state.
ment made by Major General John M.
Schofeld to West Point cadets in
1879 and printed in general order
to-day:
"The discipline which makes the
soldiers of free country reliable
in battle ia not to be gained by
harsh or tryannical treatment. On
the contrary, such treatment is far
: more likely to destroy than make an
.army.
:, , 1T is possible to impart instruc.
= tion and give commands In such man.
ner and in such tone Of voice a. to
inspire in the soldier no feeling but
. an intense desire to obey, while the
9 opposite manner and tone Of voice
4 canot fail to excite strong resentment
and a desire to disobey"