Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-12-14

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the personnel of the regiment or TO
create another regiment of the same
kind outright, in order TO meet the pos
sibIe requirements i'm the case.
Rear-of-the-line troops. as they are
sometimes called. are often under fire
and no Stacker should seek position
in Uncle Sans new engineer regi-
ment because most of the roaos to be
built and repaired will be well within
the firing zone. The Twenty-thrd
regiment of engineers it is TO be hoped
will be able to maintain all of the
roads Travelled by the first half million
American troops in France.
For every additional half million TO
be sent over seas there will be an adj
| ditional road regiment of 10000 men.
From this it will be seen that there
probably will be 10000 American road
builders in France by the time the
United States has 100000 within or
nearly within the sound of guns. 1t
must be understood that these Ameri-
cans will not be compelled to do all
of the road building, for in time of
stress German prisoners will be COM
PEELED to help with the work.
| Today the nucleus of the road build
ing regiment, about $500 men, is re-
ceiving intensive military training at
Camp Meade, Maryland. Recruits are
arriving at the rate of about 100 day
and it is the belief of the government
that all the really expert road builders
needed for the outfit under organiza-
ton will be enlisted by Christmas day.
Only the experts will be drilled after
the military manner There will be
| about 1000 of them, while the addi-
tional 5000 men needed for the regi-
ment will be chosen from the various
! National army environments. In the
main they will be unskilled labOrers.
The $500 men now at Camp Meade
need little instruction in the art Of
road building.
At present it is said the regiment
needs machinists, compressed air men,
and experts in the use of steam rollers
and steam shovels. 1t does not seem
to have anything to do with the road
building, but musicians are in demand.
Music is one thing which is deemed
absolutely necessary by the govern
ment for its organizations.
Ousting the Pro-Germans.
! A grateful word comes to the effect
that the government seriously is con-
sidering the wedding out from the
government service of men and women
who while native or naturalized Ameri-
/ cans are nevertheless pro-German in
their sympathies. How does the gov
eminent know that they are pro-Ger-
man? Well, the answer is easy.
There were hundreds of Americans
in Washington who, prior to Uncle
Sans declaration that war existed be-
tween him and the kaiser, were SYM
pathetic with autocracy as against
democracy and made no bones about
saying so. This country was neutral
and these persons, it is held, had every
right to their views. When this coun-
/ try entered the war did these persons
in the capital change their partisanship
| in the war? Some of them did so.
Most of them, however, simply have
shut. up, fearing apparently to speak
their real sentiments and trusting to
silence to keep them from suspicion.
Some of them are as much prO-German
| today as ever they were still lovers OF
the gospel of frightfulness.
It is supposed now that there has
departed from Washington every en-
envy male alien above the age of four
| teen years who had come here since
/ Uncle Sans declaration of war. Prob
ably, however, there are some alien en-
emies of recent arrival who are still
here. Maurice Splain, former Wash
ington correspondent, is now marshal
Of the District of Columbia. He has
no love for enemy aliens. Those who
have remained behind to take chance
will get what is coming to them.
There are other alien enemies still
in Washington. They are those who
came here prior to April 6. They are
given until December Is to clear out.
There are still other enemy aliens
here, many of them, who have not been
told to clear out. They are German
women, and Austrian, Bulgarian and
Turkish men and women. In the mind
of some officials who ought better than
others to know the truth i'm the case,
| the subjects of these countries with
which we are not formally at war and
who are now in Washington, are just
as dangerous as the Germans. while
| the enemy women folk are perhaps
more subtly dangerous than the men,.
| Some High Officials included.
Some men holding high government
official positions today are suffering be-
| cause of their public eulogiums OF the
kaiser and his cause when it was the
entente allies only who We're fighting
| for democracy. One or two members
of the inner circle of oficialdom who
were pronouncedly prO-GermaE up TO
| early April last had the sense and the
heart with it perhaps, to turn against
the kaiser as soon as their country had
turned against him.
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