Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
THOUSANOMENAT
CANTONMENT ARE
LEARNING FRENCH
Camp Dodge Soldiers Are Being In.
structed TO "Parley Woo" I'm
der Competent Teachers.
NEXT QUOTA TO 60 AFTER JAN.
Final 81 Per Cent of First Group Sc.
lectiyes Looked for shortly
After the New Year.


Camp Dodge, la, Dec. 17.--Those
French girls won't have such hard
time talking to boys OF the Eighty
eighth division when the soldiers get
across the pond
For these fellows will be able TO
"parley VOC" as we'll as anyone, IL
attendance at the camp French
classes is any indication. They won't
even trip over verbs or adjectives, ana
those parts OF speech are the most
necessary for conversational purposes.
Especially for conversations with
petite girls,
During the week 1000 soldiers at
Camp Dodge attended French classes
The attendance at all cantonment
classes for that week was $3.50.
Illiterate Negroes, too, soon will be
able to read and write. For there
are classes for them under the direc-
ton of the staff from Y. M. c. A.
building No. 90. The attendance in
these classes during the week end
ing Dec I was S43.
Men who weren't able to speak OF
read English are learning fast, also
Several classes in English for for
eigners are being held at the camp,
with an average attendance OF about
ninety each week.
Besides these special classes are A
number of others with smaller at
tendance. Journalism, automobile re-
pairing, agriculture, psychology and
geometry are some of the branches
of study taught at Camp Dodge. A
number Of men also are taking cor
respondence courses for college
credit. that they need not lose their
degrees, even though they have
joined the army.
Soldiers at Camp Dodge can't be
called "dummkopf' by those boches.
Few Christmas Leaves.
Only those soldiers in the Eighty
eighth division Of the national army
az Camp Dodge who can reach their
homes by means other than the
steam railroads will be granted fur
loughs and passes for the Christ
mas holidays.
This is the ruling which has beer
placed upon "a recent order from thC
war department stating that steps be
taken 10 itlatft Ahh EGoAiN4A VA AAAN
railroads at this time.
All passes issued thus far which
will require travel on railroads arr
revoked.
The order affects officers and en-
sted men alike.
Electric lines. automobiles, wheel
barrows and baby carriage and tina
exercise familia. to all the soldier
u Nnown as walking, will be the popu
lar methods employed in reaching
home.
4 The order will not seriously affec
the plans Of Des Moines men or thos
from Jasper, Story, Boone and Web
ster counties who can reach thei
home on the various interurban line
running into these districts. In vie'
Of the fact that statistics show on
automobile to every IA persons
Iowa, Il is presumed many Iowa me
will travel home in this manner.
The greatest hardship will fall o
the soldiers from central Illinois an
North Dakota.
A large majority OF men from thes
districts have not been home sine
being indicted into the service.
Next Bunch In January.
The call to the colors OF the finf
"a per cent of the men selected &c
military service in the Lightweight
division of the national army at Cam
Dodge is looked for by division of
clals shortly after Jan. 1.
This is the conclusion drawn TO
towing a recent order from the wa
department asking that steps be take
TO eliminate as far as possible cor
gested conditions on the steam raj
roads during the Christmas holidays
oiiicers graduated and commits
stoned from the training camp &c
officers at Fort Smelling, which close
recently. are ordered to report fc
duty at division headquarters toda
There will be approximately thre
hundred Of them, IT is said.
Government inspection or Dc
Moiues hotels, restaurants, ice creai
parlors, barber shops and similar e.
adjustments, patronized by soldier
from Camp Dodge, is to be invoke
according to an order received /
Lieutenant Colonel J. X. Shook, div
sion surgeon, from the surgeon gel
eral of the army at Washington.
The letter says:
1T is desired that you make apprt
pirate recommendations TO the con
manding general with view to d.
barring soldiers from entering restal
rants, booths for the sale of food, ht
tells, barber shops, manicure parlor
ice cream psrlors, soda fountain e.
Establishments and places Of simila
character which have not been IL
spected and furnished a permit {
certificate Of inspection"
In Des Moines the work OF inspe'
ton will be under the direction
Mapor +. X. Sprague, in charge of II
United States public health serviC
here. ii was said by division sta
officers.
A bulletin to be issued at divisio
headquarters will direct the soldier
not TO patronize such establishment
unless they can exhibit permit.
The measures are TO be taken, it
said. to guard against the possibilit
OF the soldiers being exposed TO col
tagious or infectious diseases.