Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-10
COLONEL U. c. WORR|LOW
IN COMMAND OF 318TH.
Is Highest Officer i'm Division Wild
Has Risen From
Ranks.
MANY ALIENS BEING DISMISSED
OF 1000 in Depot Brigade, $50
Have Been Released From Ser.
vice, Although Many OF Them De.
sired to Fight Americas Battles.

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CAMP LEE. March o.--Colonel L. G.
Worrilow to-day assumed command OF
the 3isth Infantry. Tho enlisted per-
sonnet OF this regiment is composed
almost exclusively OF Virginians,
though within another week. hundreds
OF Pcnnsylvanians Will become menu
bers OF the command. Colonel Worri~
low succeeds Colonel 3. II. Wells who
left here for France shortly before
Christmas. He has safely arrived over
there" and is now in active service
with the American forces.
Colonel Worrilow is the highest offs
Ger in the division who has risen to
the rank OF colonel from the position
Of a private. Twenty-nine years ago
he enlisted in the regular army as a
private. Until October. 1894. he served
his country as an enlisted men. Since
that time his rise has been meteoric.
In February, 1901, he was made q cap
tain on the same day that Colonel
Wells. and Colonel George Jamerson. OF
the Sl7th Infantry. the other Virginia.
regiment. received the same commis>
sion. IL
ALIEN ENEMIES ARE
DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE
OF the 1900 alien enemies, who were
until recently segregated In the Depot
brigade, $50 have already been dis
charged from military service and re-
turned to the points where they were
indicted into the Federal service. Each
OF the number was first examined by q.
committee of officers. If the men eS-
pressed - desire 10 stay in the sers
vice, and the board did not believe
that it would work detriment to tho
army to have them fight for this coun-
try, along with the natural born, or
nauralized citizens they have been al.s
lowed to remain.
Several hundred OF the men werd
anxious to fight for this country. AL
though born in Austria, in many ire
stances their families had moved to
this country while the men wero
young. Accordingly the children have
known only America, and are willing to
Tight for it. Some asked for noncom-
Blatant service. because OF relatives.
while others asked to be given 'front.'
line duty. One German. who has lived
in this country since he was seven
years OF age. and who had been for
warded to Camp Lee by a Virginia
local board, asked to be returned to the
3lsth Infantry for active work. ~
WORK OF BEAUTIFYING
CAMP GROUNDS BEGINS
Although the division expects early
overseas service. the work OF beautify-
ing the grounds was begun to-day.
This will hardly be finished during
the occupancy OF the Eightieth, but
everything is being done for the sec
ond draft. The plans call for the
planting OF 5000 shade trees along the
roads and other points which would
tend to beautify the grounds. Particu-
lar attention will be paid to the head
quarters plaza. Immediately in front
OF division headquarters and at the
main entrance OF the camp. at tho
Petersburg and Hopewell concrete
roads.
The work is being done under the
direction OF Lieutenant Colonel A. w.
Foreman. division quartermaster. Major
George A. Totten, OF the engineers
officers training school, who was for-
merly a landscape gardener in charge
OF government property in Washing
ton, - aiding the, work OF Identifying
by suggestions as TO the proper places
to plant the trees. r
OF THE 31STIJ TO
SHOW IN RICHMOND MARCH "a
The Three Hundred and Eighteenth,
Ministries. with troupe Of seventy
soldiers. not inclusive OF their forty
piece band, will show in Richmond on
the evening OF March 90. The shows
will be exhibited under the direction
Of Captain s. j. Raymond. the regis
mental adjutant. who Is being assst-t
ed by John II. Driscoll. division song
director. The minstrels will appear
for the benefit of the reEimental fund.
That all military men agree that
soldierly discipline is necessary for
battle field service to-day. and that
the chief allied observers repeatedly
and conclusivciy call attention to the
fact that the two greatest weaknesses
In the American soldiers in training
are. first tho slovenly. Indifferent
salute and lack of uniformity In
dress and equipment, was the text OF
a letter received by the commanding
general from the acknowledgement OF
the United States and made public
here to-day.
Orders were issued to every officer
that sa!uting should be made fixed
part OF every drill.