The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-02-13
THE west NOT
LUKE WARM
Camp Dodge Soldiers Lead All Other
Cantonments for Government
Mar Risks,
Camp Dodge Soldiers Have Also First
Place on Amount Of Wheat Flour.
Conserved.

Place on Amount Of Wheat Flour.
Conserved.
DIVISION HEADQUARTERS, Camp
Dodge, Feb. Pit was the cry OF the
east when the war opened that the
patriotism of the west was luke warm;
that the blood of the middle west con-
tanned some water.
The answer has been given twice in
the last week by Camp Dodge.
More soldiers from Iowa, Mime
sofa, North Dakota and central Illinois
subscribed for government war risk
insurance than the men in any other
in the United States.
More wheat -four has been conserved
per man by the soldiers Of Camp
Dodge since the cantonments opened
than those of any other cantonment OF
the nation, either national army or ma
tional guard.
There were four points difference
between the conservation at Camp
Dodge and it's nearest competitor and
twenty points between the Des. Moines
camp and the cantonment that econo-
mized the least-Camp Funston. 9.
And Camp Dodge is going it's col
leagues in the business OF war just
one better. Captain Easton, the chief
baker of the entire division, who is
entitled to a good share Of the credit
for Saving the corners is now plan
ming on wheatless meals and possibly
wheatless days.
From the war department at Wash
ington came letter to Captain Morris
sey, in charge of war risk insurance,
him upon the showing
of the Dodge men. While the letter
was directed personally to Captain
Morrissey it is the pride of every Off
Ger and soldier in the camp.
The goal now is, Camp Dodge 100
per cent.
The corps of workers will keep ever
lastingly at it until every man within
the confines of the reservation owns a
government war risk insurance policy.
Camp Dodge is proud for another
reason this week. Last government
official reports showed less venereal
disease per hundred men than in any
other cantOnment.
The east that doubted the west is,
cordially. inxitedstfs IKE snattee :. ]. ), +
or course interest among the sol
lliers is now centered upon the coming
of the last increment of draft select
ives beginning Saturday, February
23d. More than IA 900 men are coming
from Iowa and Minnesota, 6l84 from
the former state and the remainder
from the latter. And with their. COM
ing the old localization plan will be
abolished. Men of the first two incre-
ments who came from the same section
of the state were placed in the same
regiments. Now, the $4,000 will be
sent wherever quotas in present or
are incomplete, regardless
on the location of the county from
which they came. Qualifications will
be the primary consideration. Men
qualified for engineering work will be
sent Immediately to engineering units.
telephone men Of any
branch of the work and electricians
will go to the signal battalions.
The present units at Camp Dodge
will serve as skeleton organizations for
the division. The raw recruit will be
in with the men who have
had training and supported until they
get into the game. The present sol
diers have a distinct advantage. The
best will be made non-commissioned
officers to officer the new men.
An opportunity has come to sol
diers at Camp Dodge to attend the mil
itary academy at West Point. The
war department has instructed regi-
mental commanders to select a num-
Der of the most promising men in their
none of whom must be over
20 years of age. to enter competitive
for the academy. They
will ho u;yop on ipfapcivo cpurco and
will no doubt be turned out in time to
officer the second third and fourth ma
tional armies. And again it's case of
the best man wins.
The men OF the eighty.eighth divis-
ion have just been given some object
lessons in discipline in the fighting
forces of Uncle Sam.
Sgt. Gail Jacobs, in charge Of the
mess of Co. c, 349th infantry regi-
ment, got drunk on duty. He was re-
duced to the rank of buck private,
given three months at hard labor in
The regimental guard house and COM
PEELED to forfeit twO-thirds Of his pay
for similar period. The punishment
was meted out by general court
The camp knows that drunk
eness inside the reservation is far
greater offense than outside.
Private c. r. McEvers, Co. C, 337th
machine gun battalion, went to sleep
while on guard duty. He was SEN
fenced to six months in the guard
house and was ordered to forfeit two
thirds of his pay for that time.
The first court martial of the 313th
engineers has just been held. Private
L. c. Reidy, Co. D, was found guilty
Of passing six checks amounting to
more than 500 on the regimental ex.
change when he did not have the
money in the bank to meet them. He
was sentenced to nine months at hard
labor in the guard house and to forfeit
1ne-third of his pay for that period.
A top sergeant came to the writer
md said:
"The next time you get chance,
slip in little piece for phonograph
II folks want to send us
tell them to send phono-
graph records. We want good ones
and we want plenty of them.
So there it is. You mothers and
fathers and brothers and sisters who
want to do something for the Dodge