New Ulm review., 1917-10-10
BROWN COUNTY MEN ]
GIVEN PROMOTION.
LOCAL DRAFTED BOYS PROMPT
LY RECOGNIZED AT CAMP
DODGE.
MINNESOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA
INDIANS ARE AMONG THOSE
TRAINING.

Promotions Of drafted men are being
made daily at Camp Dodge, and some
of the Brown county boys are being
recognized by the military authorities
along that line. So far these have been
made corporals: George J. Glotzbach,
of Sleepy Eye and John Christopherson
of,New Ulm.
Recommendations are being made
daily by company commanders, and the
full quota of sixteen sergeants and
thirty-two corporals in each company
probably will be made before the arrival
of the third increment, or at least short
ly after they reach the camp.
According to newspaper reports a
large number Of the drafted men now
at Camp Dodge are being exempted, /,
having failed to pass the final physical
examination. Whether any from this
city or county have failed to pass is not
yet known here.
The Three Hundred Fifty-frst regi-
ment, to which the Brown county boys
have been assigned, is made up OF
Southern Minnesota and St. Paul men
and includes five Northern Iowa counties.
Men q Many Tongues.
There is surely veritable "confus-
ion of tongues at the 18th Army Can
tonment. In a single barrack saw
five Mexicans, four Greeks, six Itali-
ians, one Turk, an Armenian and two
who claimed to have been born in
Egypt. I am told that some of the
cities in Illinois are furnishing "a
greater variety Of international blood
than this. Each of the states furnish
men of German, Irish, English and
Scandinavian extraction. At Pierz,
Mimi, the whole community is Ger
man and the farewell address to the
six men from that town was delivered
in the German language by Father
Lastrup. The entire village and many
persons from the surrounding coun-
try turned out to bid the boys God
speed and cheered patriotic speeches.
The Three Hundred Fifty-frst. regi
ment, made up Of southern Minnesota
men, reported a list of twenty-seven
men in that organization not able to
understand English sufficiently to re-
%o1>o c4c,
The list includes four Italians, one
Hungarian, four who speak nothing but
Hungarian, four who speak nothing
but Russian and five Russians and
Polish, three Syrians, one Bohemian,
one Greek, one Jew, three Swedes and
four Poles. By an order OF Brigadier
General Beach, of the One Hundred
Seventy-sixth infantry brigade, these
men will be given group or individual
instruction, as the case may require,
by trained interpreters. In the Three
Hundred Thirty-seventh regiment Of
field artillery, all Minneapolis troops
are eight Hungarians who speak no
English. The difficulty experienced in
drilling these men in battery of Eng
disappearing soldiers was greatly over
come by night schools. Lieutenant
Hanzlic, former lawyer, assigned to
this regiment, was found to speak
practically all of the Slavic dialects.
He is a Pole. Lieutenant Hanzlic, by
direction of Colonel Greene, the COM
mander of the regiment, now takes the.
eight Hungarians each night and pre-
pares them for the next days drill.
The officer first explains a movement,
to be executed. Then he gives the
command for it's execution in English.
By this method the men associate the
movement with it's English order in
such manner and with such success that
the following day, in various battery
groups, they go through the drill as
well as their English comrades. The
lieutenant has found the foreign soldiers
eager to learn and especially apt and
willing.
Indians Report for Duty.
Several full blood Indians have been
assigned to proper regiments. Mes
quakies from the Tama reservation. and
red-men from Minnesota and North
Dakota. From the latter state came
a Chippewa whose Indian name is
Rain-in-the eye, but whose every day
cognomen is Fred Bender. He was out
with threshing crew and did not know
that he had been drafted until too late
to join the other boys from that state,
so he came alone. He is a brother of
Charles Albert Bender, the famous base
ball pitcher with the Philadelphia Ma
tional League. Dewitt Rhodes of Red
wood, Mimi, was mistaken for negro
in the rush Of enrolment and was ordered
to stand back until called. ct am an
Indian, not Negro" declared Rhodes.
Il know my skin is dark, but look at my
hair my ox,,c owl fooos - III.