The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-01
Heir to $50 Millions Works Hard AS
Sergeant In Uncle Sans New Army
BY Edward A. Evans
(Staff Correspondent The Times
Who Is Touring the National
Army and Militia Camps.)

VINO Is touring the National
Army and Militia Camps.)
CAMP LOGAN. Houston. Texas.
Dot. There was nothing about
the young sergeant TO distinguish
him from the other soldiers near
by. He lay stretched on a camp
cot reading diligently in a blue
covered manual of army drill.
And he provided what is to me
the best proof that our army now
training to fight the battle of
democracy is a really democratic
army.
The young sergeant Is
Marshall Fieid Ill, grand
son of the great Chicago mer-
chant, ana heir to $50 mil
lions.
Photographer Dorman and J
found him in the section of Camp
Logan that is occupied by Battery
b, Second Illinois Field Artillery.
of which he is member.
Among members of the same
organization are former employees
of Marshall Field & Co., work
men from the Chicago stockyards,
clerks, a chorus man from a Chi
cago theater and even cabaret
singer.
They Respect Him.
The other artillerymen, found.
have wholesome respect for
Sergeant Field as an efficient
non-commissioned officer. AS a
multimillionaire, they simply
don't think of him.
He won't let u.s. one of them
explained. "He doesn't spend
more money, wear better uni
forms. eat better food or have any
easier time than the rest OF us.
The only difference seems to be
that he studies more"
Sergeant Field had this to say
when | asked him why he hadn't
entered an officers training
camp:
~ saw so many others try
ing to become officers that
thought a few privates would
be much needed. SO l en-
listed and served two months
as a private before was
made corporal and later n
sergeant"
81 enjoyed it, hard work and
ALL"
That's the kind of army Uncle
Sam is getting ready, here in the
training camp of the Illinois Ma
tional guard as we'll as in the
many other camps and canton
ments scattered over the country.
1t is an army in which one an
is Just exactly as good as another
man; its officers as well as its
soldiers are drawn from all ranks
of civilian life.
It's my opinion that the history
of America 8 share In this war
against kaiserism will have much
to say of the part played by these
boys from the officers training
camps.
Camp Logan. eventually to hold
more than 10000 men, is in a
dense forest of south pines. To-
day the Illinois men are cutting
down many of the trees, laying
out streets, pitching tents and
going thru the many activities of
army life.
We saw army engineers digging
out a roadway, artillerymen num-
bering and repairing saddles. in
fantrymen cleaning up their COM
pany streets.
In that section Of Camp
Logan most distant from the
city of Houston we found one
company of negro soldiers
from Illinois. They are the
only negroes now I'm the
camp.
They have been segregated
because of the feeling stirred
up by the Houston riot, I'm
which negro soldiers OF the
regular army took part on
Aug. D.
Maj. Gen. George Bell, jr..
commander of the camp, told me
there is no danger of further
rioting.
But 1 find It the belief of many
in southern cities where training
camps have been located that
negro troops from northern states
should not be encamped in the
south.
This belief is shared by many
negro soldiers.
We've shown our patriotism
by enlisting," one of them told
me today. Eve think we should
be left to train in the north,
where we understand the people
and their ways"