New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
Cuardsmen
German In
Name Only
Some Jerseymcn in South
Had Sour Applications
Wished on Them, but Are
First Class Americans
Major Brown Turns Camp
Into Sahara Bootleg
gers" All Expelled in Inter-
ests of Physical Health
fs,sh Correspondence


CAMP MCCLELLAN, Admission, Ala,
Oct. 13.-Kayser, Hauser, Denelsbeck'
Feigenspan, Frundt, wilhelm, Kroos'
Kruitbosch. Rohrbsch, Heinzmann,
Schlaepfer, Schultz, Vredenburgh,
Zumbusch-sound5 like a Boche cas-
ualty list, doesn't it, But the names
are those Of a group of Jerseys most
prominent commissioned officers SOL
diering in the South--hsrmless now,
but keep them in mind when they get
their Dutch up" "over there" They
have had German names wished on
them some time in the dim past, but
they are ell good Americans.
Uncle Sam may not have taken the
prohibition law into consideration
when he decided upon this forty square
miles IS an army training eantonment,
but there are those among the thirty
thousand men stationed here who sus-
pect tina. ne had something OF the
sort in mind. In every big group Of
able bodied men-Amerieans as well as
Germans-there Is bound to be that
element which demands its constitu-
tional nip or morning appetizer. but
the law Of average ras decreed that
all men are better OF without aico-
holic stimulsnts. and Uncle Sam has
enlisted valuable assistant in the
prohibition law TO aid him in whipping
his soldiers into shape for Europe's
trenches.
Made Admission a Sahara
Major Hobart Brown. of Newark
has been placed in command OF the
military police Of the "Blue and Gray
Division and MS efforts have been
largely responsible for making Annls-
ton the Sahara Of the South. They
won't even let publications carrying
liquor advertisements come through
the soldiers mails for fear the south
erner will become intoxicated through
reading about the beverages.
Even while they are engaged in mas
tering the arts Of bomb tossing, bayo'
net strokes, trench defence and artil-
lery offence and Jerseymen find time
to fill the army cantonment with the
usual quota of wind" rumors.
"I've got tip well be out OF here
in month"; confdentially remarks
one "rook" to his terminate. We've
got orders TO sail for France in three
weeks" writes the terminate 70 home
folk. The homefolk impart the news
to other homefolk and il is not long
before the family OF every boy In the
company hears that father, son or
brother is Que for q sea trip in the
near future and in a few days the SOL
der mail at Camp Mcclellan becomes
clogged with fat letters bidding good
bys. Then comes the homes:ck dose,
the infrmary and the sudden smack
Of realization that the world is all
wrcrg and Dame Rumor is just as dan
gegcus as an artillery bomOsrdment.
Picnic Idea Dies
Jerseymen who came South with the
idea that they were going 20 experience
a duplication of the Mexican border
picnic have had their hopes shot to
pieces. They have had the meaning OF
real work impressed upon them and
they are all ready to agree that Uncle
Sam is getting his full dollars worth
out of every one OF his enlisted en-
ployes. Outside Of drilling eight hours
a day, keeping quarters IN shape. an
swering a dozen or more calls, satisfy
ing ones appetite, keeping guns and
equipment in tip-top shape, writing q
few letters home. reading about the
half-irch gain made by some army on
the other side and getting In eight
hours with an ear TO bedsack the
soldiers of the Goth have nothing 10
occupy their thoughts during the TWEEN
ty-four hours.