Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-09-06

90 John I. Brown, Jr., and or.
vile Johnson Ncxieo.
Fred Prank Peek and Howard
CantOa Wayne VII be the first two
Aaaraia eouzty men 70 80 TO training
camp al Fort Riley for service in the
new seloc, army. On Monday notices
wsrC mailed to them to report al
headquarters Of the Board on Septem-
hsr ssA for military service. They
VII start to n. Riley Wednesday
Morning al l.Ss via the Wabash rail-
rad.
According to the mobilization in
s~rr0caons which the board received
some time ago, Peck and Wayne must
rport 70 the headquarters of the
board and march to the station Sin a
body Also, according to the N
suuctons, one Of the men must be
designated by the board to be in
charge Of the other(s) in the party.
The board has not yet decided which
one Of the men viii be in charge of the
other en- route to Fort Riley.
Before they leave the office of the
Exemption Board, a round of inspec-
ton is made TO see that nothing but
light baggage is carried. When they
get TO the station, one in charge of
the party" must conduct a roll call
to make certain hat all of the bal
ance Of the party is there. While
they 7 on the train en- route to
training camp he is in charge and will
be held responsible for anything
that might happen to the other man.
From time to time he must 20 thru
the train and check up on the other
to make certain that all Of him is
there. He viii have charge Of all
the meal tickets, transportation tick
cts, etc. Just which one of the Mex
leo boys will have to go to all that
trouble looking after the other has not
been decided, but the board will be
required to name one, according to the
law.
Two men will go every day for five
days-Septcmber 5 to 9~--inclusive.
At the end of that time s per cent Of
the quota will have been forwarded to
camp. The man the board designates
to be in charge Of the last one fifth
OF 5 per cent of the quota, will not
have such a hard time in checking
over those under his jurisdiction to
see if they are all there. He will not
have any n but himself to look af-
ter.
When a man gets on the train to
go to mobilization camp, he en-
tiers another lifeA His civilian asso-
Citations, his entire other world is left
=
behind. Nothing is now left to his
Judgment. Everything that he is to
do has been worked out in advance:
he is under orders every minute.
He reports at the camp. There he
is assigned to a tent and told to take
a bath and where to take it.
He goes to the showers, takes his
bath, is given something to eat, and
goes to bed. That is the end of the
first day.
Inc next morning the real military
life starts. After rollcall and break
fast the man is brought before army
surgeons for physical examination
If they confirm the decision of the
civilian physicians hat he is physical
ly qualified for military service, as IL
is expected will be done in 30 per
cent of the cases-he will be given a
uniform and a rifle, other equipment
and assigned to a company.
The men rejected in the aruy test
will be given tickets and sent home
Instructions will be wired to the local
boards from which they were drawn
to call up other men to take their
places.
The men chosen will 20 to the
baths that morning in multi. Thev
will emerge in khaki. In cases Of
slight physical d~eformity or under
development, which however, woulJ
not bar them from the army. snecial
exercises will be prescribed to rem
edy the defect. The men will be mn.
through these exercises under drill
masters and skeleton companies will
be formed and put through light mil
itary drill.
The men will be 'broken in" to the
camp life, cleaning up, and the hun
dreds of little daily labors for the
soldiers, so that they will be able 10
train the new men in these details
when the second quota comes.
The next movement will be IN San
TENDER 10, when 40 per cent of eaco
districts quota is called out. Army
officials believe the men already IN
der training in skeleton companio,
VIII be able to assimilate this influx
and there will be no confusion.
The third quota of 40 per cent
comes October 3. A fourth of TX
per cent will be called for a later
date.