The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-25
Dire Calamity AwditS Man
Who Bredthes Secrets Of
Nation S Military Machine
Censorship Lid Clamped on Camp Greene Will Be Eff
4 fective and Far Reaching-No Word of Troop
Movement of Any Kind Will be Permitted

trees is parted, you view the camp
The company streets have been
laid out. two tents wide, in q great
natural swale on the side Of a hill
a wide and level vale which leads
down to the river. II was necessary
to clear away a wealth of underbrush
before tents could be pitched but this
took very little time when 1000 men
were put at work, spurred by the
thought that the quicker done, the
sooner camp would be pitched and
beds made up. 1t is impossible to
see the camp. the little tented city
larger in point of population than
any county seat towns back home.
until one rounds a point Of a wooded
lane. Pines, great giant trees of
hoary age, surrounded the tents,
while underbrush already painted by
the hand of nature in wonderful
tanes of brown and red form a fore
ground. For 1t Is fall in North
Carolina and while during the day
the weather Is ideal, a perfect Indian
summer, the night are chilly and
breezes bear the moisture of the
ocean and put a tang into the atmos-
phere which makes overcoats -. a
necessity and a fire in the center Of
the squad tent a delight.
In Camp Greene the boys had cots
and straw ticks to sleep on, many
too, having purchased mattresses,
but they have found a substitute
which pleases them far better. Their
beds are made of the fragrant soft
pine needles and company command
ers gave them permission to gather
or cut as many pine boughs as they
needed. And the sentinel pines hav-
inc criUnF1 ~ fhnrnan1Nrnn 70 f,V~n taH.
comfort to the strangers from the
northwestern prairie state, seem to
murmur lullabies to them after the
sweet sound of taps" has echoed
from hill to hill. Yes, it is a beauti-
ful camp and 1t would be hard to
realize the tremendous import of the
camp there, were ii not that looking
down the company street of the wide
stretch of sands on the river bot
tom, one can see the trench some g.
900 feet long in which the boys will
stands as they go at abe business of
learning war, learning how best to
use and sight rifles and gauge wind,
so that they may slay human beings,
beings however, who have failed to
learn or appreciate the principles of
justice.
Three great trenches have been
The first just below the
camp in the sands OF the river bot
tom, is for long distance firing. The
butts where the targets and the
scoring will be, are 500 yards
Or more up the river. Bullets,
unless wide Of their mark
from a carelessly aimed rife, will
end their swift Journeys in an en-
Oankment thrown up beyond the
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whine their way into a wooded hill
side. Another trench provides a |
shorter firing range.
The trench firing practice will start
and the boys will have
plenty of opportunity to make up
'or the hunting they are missing
shoulders will become equally as
sore, for the army rife has a kick to
t that out-kicks that old shotgun. |
According to Col. J. H. Frame the
boys will receive at least two weeks
on the rife range.
BOYS of some of the companies,
members of volunteer fire companies
back home are keeping in practice.
Over in Wahpeton Company ] yes
terday a match was dropped in pan
IF gasoline that one of the boys was
using for cleaning clothes. The tent
vas destroyed by the resultant fire,
LII but one cot was removed and
saved. Dickinson Company K lost a
tent when a hot stove pipe touching
!. canvas fly cap started blaze. A
SQUAD of the Devils Lake boys, form ,
srly in Company D of the Second
now with headquarters
Company of the 1S4th, saved their
tent because they had toted a bucket
Of water from the bathhouse for use