The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-10-16

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CAMP MISSOURI, FRANCE, Sept
20 (By maiD-Said a recent issue of
the Paris edition of the New York
Herald: "The camion sections of the
American Field Service will be taken
! over by the American army as we'll as
| the ambulance sections. This was an
nounced at the Field Service Head
quarters. Because there is no auto
mobile service in the American army
the sanitary transport belongs to the
medical service and other forms of
trasport belong to the quartermas-
terS department. The two branches
of American Field Service must there
fore be separated. The transport sec
tor and the work of medical examina-
tion and enlistment will not require
as long time as in the ambulance
division"
Among the camion sections thus to
be affected is Peloton 4 of T. M. U.
133 of the Reserve Mallet. Missouri
is represented in Peloton 4 by twen-
ty-four men, clear majority of the
forty in the camp, and Columbians
may therefore find a slight interest
in the Herald item, as it very prob
able means the dissolution of the Mis-
souri, unit of the American Field Ser
vice. which left the States in June.
With the taking over of the service
comes freedom of choice for most of
the men, and the only thing certain
right now is that several of them will
vote for other services, or home, sweet !
home.
MissOurians Had Their Own Camp.
The enlisting officers are expected |
here any day now, and consequently |
he uld-like-to-be's" are having
heir innings. Aviation is popular,
and the infantry isn't. Artillery gets
favorable mention, and some will take
advantage of the chance to get into
he ambulance work which the Mis-
'ourians originally came over to do.
The government gives a extremely
LIBERAL offer and S33 a month to those
who care to stay where they are; in
lddition, the present "camioneers"
will be preferred for officers in the
American Transport Service for
which the Reserve Mallet is to be the
oundation and training camp
It's a shame that this possible
should loom on the hori-
:on, for fortune has beamed on the
Missouri unit recently By dint of
ticking together in a re-arrangement
If the sections, we managed to get a
amp of our own (mostly our own,
hat isl and to have our camp called
~ the familiar name of Missouri"
when referred to by members of the
Princeton, the California and the Yale
amps, which make up the other three
ourths of the Groupe Erhard We
AVE had our own cook, our own off /
ers and our own affairs and have run .
ur own conveys here and there with
he best of them
In other words, we have established {
lissouri over here on the war front. ]
which was just the thing we left Co.
lmbia to do. After an even two
lonths of the real work out here, we {
an say pretty definitely that we have
arrived" I
They Live i'm Trailers. a
word about our camp, which is !.
bout a hundred yards up the road :
rom the Princeton barracks, where :
'e were quartered before. We live in
or trailers-little wagon :
ouses that will just accommodate r
lree men and which give wonderful
aiming for future bliss in a three
pom fiat-grouped in a horseshoe for
ation around a central tent-roof
hich covers our dining-table. This
GEMS to be standard plan for tenn