Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-17
LITTLE EVIL
/. INFLUENCE IN
ARMY CAMPS
No Mother Should Worry
About Her Soldier Boy,
Says H. H. Antics.

Bismarck, N. D., Jan.' Ill nave
visited 500. 000. soldiers, and I have
yet to see a drunken soldier or fist
fight. They have been without excep-
behaved. have no yet interviewed
a police officer who knew of a girl
who had been ~insulted by a soldier"
These emphatic statements were
made by H. H. Antics. formerly chief
of police of Lincoln, Neb.. also a for
mer deputy warden of Nebraska state
prison. now a member of the war de-
partment's commission on training
camp activities. Although Mr.. Antics
ranks as a captain or major or
brigadier-general. or such, he comes
in plain "cits." .:There's too big a de-
mand for uniforms on the part of
those who must have them. l can
work as we'll as a private citizen he
said in explanation. His duty consists
Of visiting all the training camps in
his army division to investigate moral
conditions surrounding the boys IN
training and report on them to the
war department. To date he has
found nothing warranting a single adj
verse criticism.
Great Battle Won.
Without firing a single hostile
shot. America has already won the
R4SIOIy Ill dAA AAotOlJs OoAA
Commissioner Antics. "1t has raised
a big army, and it has raised it clean.
America has established a precedent
and set a new record for morality for
the man in uniform"
MIR. Antics m to Bismarck from
Camp Dodge. There the churches
have organized their young ladies in
to societies. who take turns in invit-
ing the boys from camp in for a
dance o r other social function
Dances are even held in churches. The
sic. ceases at,~10:30, when. the young
people go their separate ways. the
girls home with their chaperones, OF
which there is one for every six young
people and the boys back to their bar
racks.
"ln Camp Dodge I saw six fine y
NJ. G. A. buildings and a splendid
knights of Columbus building, all do
ing a wonderful work. There is a
neighborhood house there. where tht
boys may meet their sweethearts un-
There are fine clubhouses furnished
by the city, one exclusively for the use
of colored troops. Everything is OF
the best, and the atmosphere is of the
highest type.
mo mother should worry about the
influences thrown around her boy ir
training camp and cantonment.'
Commissioner Antics training ha:
been such as to qualify him to recog'
nize vice and immoral conditions wher
he sees them. He went into the Ne
braska state penitentiary as deputy
warden and took charge of the rebel
lious prisoners after the famou.
Shorty Gray outbreak which resulted
in the murder of the warden. severa
guards, an usher and other officials
He served two and a half years a.
chief Of police Of Lincoln and two anc
a half years as deputy sheriff Of Ian
caster county.
To Report on Lincoln.
He is in Bismarck to prepare a re
port on conditions surrounding For
Lincoln. He declines to say anything
as to the prospects of Fort Lincoln
being northumberland made q train
ing camp for the men in the new
draft. He does say that he has fount
nothing in Bismarck to criticise. n
he has consulted army officers ant
surgeons and others who were fam
iliar with conditions prevailing at For
Lincoln when it was peopled with ma
tional guardsmen in 1916 and in 1917
and that lie is highly gratifed witt
the result. He is pleased to learn tina
Bismarck has no saloons and hat /
has suppressed illicit selling o
whiskey to a minimum; that it has n,
segregated vice district and that l
does not c~ountenance the presence o
immoral ONE on it's streets, an
that the professional gambler ha
short shift in the capital city.
His report will indicate that moral
ly Fort Lincoln is splendily situated
He may comment. upon its physica
features; upon the mild, salubriou
climate which he finds here and tn
clear skies and freedom from heav,
snow, as compared with condition
prevailing at Camp Dodge. Fort Sheri
dan and Great Lakes training camps
In any event, his report a do For
Lincoln no harm.