South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-22

NEW YORK. July 21.-what q huge task confronts
the var department in building by September /. Is
great environments for the national selective
draft armies Is scarcely appreciated by Americans
almost all OF whom unfamiliar with the intricate
details military life.
To construct these Is cities will cost 100000 TO
$6.0000.oOO each 100000 II adjust twice
much as il costs to repair and operate the Panama
The running expenses of the camp will be 10000
600 month each. $4,000 900 i'm all for the
year. initial outlay o s8O.OOOOOO. the
amount he the camps the first twelve
month foOts up 20 $200.2O0O00.
Those obstacles that hindered actual work being
started the camps history work
being rushed TO a point where many OF the canton
ments giving indications just how
plete and complex they will
Besides the actual construction OF the camps mani
fold problems affecting sanitation. housing
the places where the $4,000 men called for duty will
train for service.
Remember that each camp will house 40 600 men
and but 80 cities in the entire country have larger
population.
SIXTEEN CITIES HAVE CAMPS
The 16 camps situated Aver, Massachusetts
Yaphank. Long Island; Wrghtstown New Jersoy;
Annapolis Junction. Maryland; Petersburg. Virginia.
Columbia. SoOth Carolina, Atlanta Georgia. Chilli
Gothic. Ohio; Gle, Kentucky; Battle Greek.
Michigan; Des Moines. Fort Riley. Kansas;
Houston Texas: Rockford IlHonis Little Rock
Arkansas and American Lake washington.
In each camp there must be 1000 houses The
buildings being erected are not the nmsy sort that
mieht be expected under the circumstances Every
roomy. two-story affair, with perfect ventila
ton and sanitation and electric lighting Every
Of these houses will line the streets.
Imagine furnishing 1000 houses and then multiply
that by t6i That the details the task
officers had their hands. II that $1,000
separate hunks. a mattress every single
the cantonments-roughIy 100000
tresses. Two thousand freight viii be required
TO transport the mattresses to the camps
Twenty-six million feet Of lumber necessary
every cantonment, while the total equals
about four per OF the entire lumber output of
the country for year
Nails roof the buildings in cautonment will
fiji freight car while crushed rock for the roads
be constructed In of the will require
than 500 for transportation
EVERYTHING COMPLETE.
Roads, Certainly. Every city viii be independent
excent for food and that will be supplied from the
outside. Fire departments to be established in
every OF the camps there viii railroad yards
with complete transportation facilities complete
garbage tncnerating systems and hundreds OF
other convenences necessary in well-Organized
modern settlement
result these complete plans, perfected not
only by regular army officers, but by sanitation and
city planning experts. is that dangers arising from i'll
sanitation reduced 10 negligible factor.
Drink and immortality have been the bane of soldiers
all countries. This a fact that ofd-
always regarded selecting sites camps
and although the majority Of the environments have
been carefully placed cities. nevertheless
there has been appointed a federal commission
training camp activities safeguard the morals Of
men I'm the camps.
also planned withdraw the attention the
soldier from rigid restrictions by organized recreation
and enjoymest