Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-04
LIMITED SERVICE
MEN At CAMP DIX
Physically Unfit to be Trained 10
to Take Places Back OF
the Line.

Camp Dix, Wnghtstown, N. j., sept;
ITO all appearances Ks vigorous, ana
certainly as enthusiastic, ms their proue-
cessors in regular selectve service quo
tas. the first 500 men of the limited
service call reached Camp DIX yesterdny
Physically DISQUALIFIED for overseas ser
vice. according to the estimate OF their
home examining boards, these men will
be trained to take the places OF able
bodied soldiers now holding permanent
pocitions in the training camp and for
draft board secretaries and other semi
military duties. The spirit of this IN
coming quota is best shown by the fact
that many of them were boastIng that n
few weeks of training camp life would
make them physically fit for overseas de-
tails.
Yesterdays arrivals were composed of
details from New jersey and Delaware
The Pennsylvania contingent will arrive
Fnday A new plan is to be followed
for this and future quotas in the mat
ter Of quartcring the new arrivals. In
stead of being assigned to the various
training battalions of the l53d Depot
Brigade, recruits will be held in a de-
tcntion camp during the period of quar-
antine. Today's arrivals go TO a deten-
tron camp at the Pointvillo end of the
cantonment, and included in the area Of
the 10th Battalion.
The personnel department will select
from the limited service recruits, men
who possess the best qualifications for
leadership, and they Will be fitted for
service as members of permanent train
Ing cadres for depot brigade companies.
Others will be assigned to camp and
outside duties, as far rs possible IN inc
with their previous experience.
Another evidence that the army holds
men to higher standards than civil life
n the sentence in theft case announced
yesterday by the general court-martial
board, in which Private George III.
No. 300, O. NJ c., stationed AT Phila-
dclphia, stole the sum of $l4 from a fell
lov-mernbcr of the company He was
sentenced to dishonorable discharge, and
Private Sydney l.. Bamberser of the
same company, accused Of receiving tho
money, which he knew TO be stolen. was
gwen like sentence as an accessory.
II is prisoners now in the camp stock
ade thought to evade overseas duty
by absenting themselves from camp
when the organizations with which they
were training were preparing TO embark,
they learned their mistake yesterday, when
they were transferred from the guard
LSuse TO q company of overseas cssuals
at an embarkation port. Some are said
TO have expressed the thought that they
might get only light prison sentence,
which in itself would save them from
exposure at the front, while others were
merely absent without leave when the
moving orders came and were not in
territorial slackers; but one and all
they will have a chance To redeem them
selves by real bravery after replacing
heroes who have bcc1 mt out of action in
earlier battles.
Dieappointmcn for hundreds Of
New Jersey farmers who have been
hoping for chance 70 employ soldier
help during the height Of the harvest
is contained In an order Of the War
Department reaching Camp Dix that
disapprovcs the project. Agricultural
organisations and the State Department
OF Agriculture advocated the plan and
were especially hopeful that il would 60
through after Major general Scott, com
mandant here, had Endorsed the PROPOSE
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