Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-11-29
CONGRESSMAN HAYDEN
TELLS OF ARIz0NA'S
SOLDIERS IN CAMP

TUCSON, Nov. 2S.-Representative
Carl H. Hayden arrived in Tucson
yesterday en- route to Washington
| from a trip to the coast. On the
! way out from Washington he visited
Camp Funston and at Camp Kearney
he inspected the First Arizona.
There were about 1900 Arizona
men transferred from Camp Funston
20 the First Arizona at Camp Kear-
ney." he said, and there were about
| 500 Colorado men sent there, and
about 500 from American Lake. With
The original strength of the outfit that
made 5000 men.
Camp Kearney is beautiful camp.
1t is we'll equipped. They have three
inspections, | am told There is a
board of physicians that are going
! through the regiment listening 10
hearts. Then there is another board
going through that they call the nut
doctors. who are looking for insanity
After them comes an efficiency in
spection which checks up the men
according to their occupations in civic
life. with the idea of transferring en-
listed men back to their own trades.
but in the army service. A farrrier
would be picked out and sent to shoe
horses for the cavalry. and things like
that
over in Camp Funston | met Andy
Martin and he roasted me for sending
clipping about him from the Star TO
General Wood. / just sent it to Cen
eral Wood to show him what kind of
men he was getting from Arizona.
Andy read me a lecture on doing it.
did not know he would object.
could not help it, if it were about
Andy.
ANDY is not simmer; he is larger,
some say. Anyway. he is in good
health. He said his battery, which is
f, was in good health.
In Washington we hear a lot OF
the rumors from those who have men
at camps. We had one about an officer
OF a party of officers being shot at
American Lake as German spies. No
such thing could occur without the
authorization of the president after a
court-martial OF course. in a camp
it is impossible to prevent a man
with a cold or a disease from sleez
ing and scattering germs over anoth-
er man. And il is not possible to get
men to report themselves when they
have a slight cold as they should do
AL the rumors about German enemies
about the camps in the west have
been circulated about the camps in
the east and they are all of about the
same substance.
ANDY Martin was telling me about
some of the Mexicans in his battery
that could not speak Eglish and could
not write their names to a pay
voucher had to go month without
pay. Andy tried day after day to get
some sort of signature out of them
but had to give it up. One of these
Mexicans, according to Andy, said he
wanted to see the lieutenant When
he saw the lieutenant he said: L want
to say that | don't like my job
want to give YOU two weeks notice
that | am quitting
Copper prices now are up TO the
war board. Representative Hayden
said. They probably will stay there.
he thought, although they covered a
period of only four months.
As soon as congress assemblies the
Ii appropriation bills will be up. He
thinks congress is going to pare ap-
preparations to the limit Whatever
slips in will be by special agreement,
because some one left the door open.
or because II Is war measure.
I'VE have got to raise so much
money" he said. that ! think all 'oi
us have the idea of getting by on the
appropriations with just enough to-
keep things together until after the
war is over"
The diversion dam at Florence will
be built. however. to take care of the
ella river flood water. The money
was appropriated for it. II crop prices
are maintained they viii justify build
ing the larger project Anyway. some
thing will be done with the food wa
ter. which would raise the water table
and make some of the land available
The only thing that can get by
his session" he concluded. is war
measure II was only by making II
a war measure that we got exemption
oil assessment work for this year
and next"