Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-04-27
TO Train RECRUITS.
TWENTY OR MORE BIG CAMPS
WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN
UNITED STATES.
LARGE AREAS ARE NECESSARY
Members Of Officers Reserve Corps
Already Are Receiving instructions
CLEARING Contrast Between Amer.
lean and German Preparedness.
BY EDWARD 8. CLARK.

/ ~ EGW%nG .. GLANNs
shington.-Recruits for the Ma
tionah army, whether 1t be yolun-
teer or a conscript army, will be
| trained for service in a score OF camps
To be established in different parts
of the United States.
1t Is possible that the number of
| camps authorized will be increased
beyond the number given. This will
| depend upon the facilities which the
selected places offer not only for dill,
but for the caring for troops in a saa-
itary sense.
An army of half million distribut-
ed in twenty camps would mean about
| $4,000 soldiers TO camp. Ii will be
seen that the ordinary army post will
not be large enough in the area of its
drill grounds TO accommodate such a
multitude Therefore it is possible
that some of the existing posts which
are we'll situated will receive a com
paratively small number of troops for
instruction, and that at some great
open spaces in the land the training
of the greater numbers, equivalent In
some eases to army divisions, will take
place.
Army men who have made q study
of conditions throughout the country
| believe that less than one-quarter of
| the young men gathered together for
instruction viii have had any preliml-
nary instruction. There will be in the
ranks of course, many men who have
| attended private military schools, and
others who have received some first
soldier lessons ia the state universe
| ties or I'm the high schools of the
+, cities, but the great mass of the re-
cruits win be green, and will need
complete lessons in everything from
the position of soldier to maneuyers
in extended order.
Instructinp the officers. =
In these dispatches prior to this
time the need of officers for the great
army which is to be raised has been
discussed. II is understood to be the
intention to establish officers schools.
| Already men who have taken or who
are To take examinations for the Off
GERS reserve corps are under inStruc-
ton at some of the posts of the cOun-
| try. At the engineer barracks in
| Washington som thing over hundred
young men from the departments who
are skilled in certain lines of work
necessary for the supply of an army
In the field are taking lessons in the
| duties of Junior officers.
II is expected that in the ranks of
the new army will be found enough
men who have been given military in
structiou at good schools to enable
the officers In charge to select mate
rial for the nOncOmmissioned ranks.
| The army of 100000 men. whether
raised by the volunteer method or by
conScription, ought to contain some
fairly wel-seasoned material The
thing that must be done, however,
even TO those who have had some
yenrs of military drill at private in
stitutious. is 10 teach them the spirit
of the regular army discipline, the
| self-relance and the knowledge of
how to enforce orders without arouS-
ing the resentment of men unaccus-
toned 10 receiving orders.
The camps which are to be estab-
ItSHtN VIII HtFStbi at tiiE III ct ~ diHGi
motley appearance. Presumably men
will he sent direct from the recruit
ing stations or the conscTipt stations,
whichever they are 20 be called. to the
encampment grounds.
What difference there will be be-
tween the condition of John Smith,
American, who reports for military
duty. and Hans Schmidt German, who
reported for military duty lu Germany
three years ago. John Smith will re-
port In civilians clothes and probably
Will continue to wear them for long
time while he is learning to square
| his shoulders, depress his toes. make
an about face and do the setting-up
drill. Hans Schmidt, although he may
| have been out of service for years,
reported direct To military depot.
where he found uniform from shoes
TO cap which had been made for him
personally, bearing his name and
ready to put on. In addition. Hans
Schmidt found his military equipment
In place and in order and intended for
him personally. Hans, with his pre-
vious military training, was ready
within week TO take his place in
the fighting line
That was Germany's preparation 50
far as IT'S man power was concerned.
Uncle Sans preparation is about to
begin.
Recruits Can't Be Sent Yet.
Some of the opposition which de-
veloped in congress TO the plan to
raise an army by CONSUMPTION in order
that rio hand poor. high and low, might
share alike the duty of service, was
based on II feeling expressed by mem
hers that American youth would vOlun-