Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-07
WORK [A|D OUT
FOR men At CAMP
RECREATION ALSO 70 BE PRO-
vtpED FOR EMBRYO SOLDIERS
ssAT cANroNMENT.
TWO AFTERNOONS EACH
WEEK FOR ATHLETICS
Real Training Of Men Not start Until
First Week in october-Nisht Scout
ing and Other Work to Occupy
Eveninss-offiesrs Schools to be
Held ResuIarly--Morais Are Safe.

Held Neutrality-suspicious. Are 6afe.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept T9.-Forty hours
of work each week is the schedule for
the drafted men out at the big canton
mental Camp Dodge. Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons the men will have
off for recreation. Some big athletic
contests. including football game, are
in contemplation for the afternoons
off. especially Saturday, when the
camp organization is perfected. There
is to be inter-regimental games.
The time of the men this week will
be largely given over to getting settled
Following their registration and as
signment to barracks the men are be-
ing put to work cleaning up their par
racks. The rooms are being swept out
and thoroughly scrubbed or mopped'
all of the debris left by the builders
is being cleaned up from about the
buildings and the grounds put in con-
dition.
Training in the arts Of war VIII
start for the first arrivals next Monday.
1t is expected that by the time the sec
ond quota men reach camp, about tne
third week in September, these first ar
rivals will be sufficiently schooled to
act as non commissioned officers TO
assist in the training of the new men.
The officers state however that the
real training probably will not start
until the first week in October after
the second 40 per cent has arrived.
Then all but the last ten per cent Will
be in camp and the big cantonmen-
will be in full training order.
Considerable Night Work.
There will be considerable amount
of night work in tbs> training OF the
drafted men. Night scouting. control
| ling marching. occupation Of trenches
! trench raids, relief party work, trenen
! combat and practice in getting thru
| wire entanglements under cover 81
darkness will be a part OF the nlgh'
work which the men must learn.
fhere will be frequent tests and the
men or troops which are not keepins
up in their work will lose their Satur'
day afternoons off and viii have tt
study up.
The reserve officers and the non
! commissioned officers as well as the
men will have an abundance OF worp
| to do. They must study when they IRE
not with their men and learn all OF tbs
new methods Of warfare developed
since this. war came on so as to be abe
! to competently instruct the men. Oni
/! GERS schools will be held regularly ano
much of the time these schools viii
meet in the evening.
|. Officers and men appear to be- get
ting on finely together The onlcess
are doing all they can to make the, men
feel at home and the newcomers evf-
IDENTIFY appreciate 1t. The army oni-
GERS are instructed to see to 1t tina;
| the soldiers get good wholesome food
and plenty Of IL and that they be made
as comfortable as possible.
The men. too, seem to be in excellent
spirits. The companionship 'of theiE
fellows the new experience in an out
door life and the interesting expert
ences which come up in the days work
Of the soldier are evidently appealins
to the young men of spirit who are
now entering on their duties in the ma
tional army
morals Are Safe.
The officers in charge say the men
are as safe from any demoralizing in
fuences at the camp as they would De
at home The, army Of camp followers
which it has been predicted would
come to prey on the young soldiers Is
not in evidence now. according to the
deputy sheriffs who are in charge out
at the camp Three deputy sheriffs
have been on duty at Camp Dodge and
in the territory adjoining for several
weeks. They report that they have
checked up on every single resident
in the vicinity Of Camp Dodge and That
only reliable people are living in that
vicinity. It has been necessary to or
der few characters who would have
camped in that vicinity to move on
but the officers report the district Is
free from bad characters.
1t is the estimate of the officers thai
about one out of every ten or twelve
mon to report, or at least 10 per cent
OF the men sent to Camp Dodge. will
be rejected for physical disability.
The experienced army physicians have
little different way OF sizing man
TN and examining him for army serv-
ice from that OF the average physician,
A man must show evidences of endur-
ance or. bottom in order to pass the
army. physicians.