The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-01-30
SPEEDING UP OF
TRAINING CAMP
Discipline Tightening Up at Camp
Dodge-Men Being Whipped In
to Line at Faster Rate.
MAY SOON START FOR FRANCE
Call From Europe is for Man Powe
at the Very Earliest Hour,
Not Next Summer.

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Dodge. Jan. 29-(Special to the Re-
view Discipline is tightening al
Dodge as the time nears for the arrlv.
al of the last increment OF Genera
Plummer's division.
And with it has come a general speed
ing up of the training program that Is
whipping the men through their daily
PAGES at a faster rate tnan command
ing officers anticipated when the six
teen weeks intensive training pro
gram was announced.
Until this week soldiers were given
two half holidays, one On Wednesday
afternoon and the other on SATURDAY.
A divisional order from Brig. Gen.
Getty, acting commander, abolished
the Wednesday holiday. At the same
time rigid regulations went out cut
ting passes and furloughs to the bone:
The private who gets OF during drlll
hours must have an urgent Justlnca.
ton. Every officer has been ordered
to be on duty in full military uniform
at revelle each morning, a. IN. Here.
tofore many of the officers have lived
in the city and reached the canton
ment at more leisure hours.
Officers in higher command see IN
the Tightening of the screws a fore.
cast of what is coming when the full
$4,000 men fill the barracks of Dodge
and the full division starts the war
game. The tightening now is 10 make
it part of the order OF things so that
the new men will accept it as mat
ter OF course. But in the offing high
er officers see deeper meaning.
The Eighty eighth division will start
for France the day General Plummer
tells Washington the men have had
enough drill and are sufficiently seas
oned to go.
The call from Europe is for man
power. not next summer. but at the
earliest hour the men are ready for the
front line. And officers here know
how the war department is preparing
to answer it. There is more about
speeding up" that the Camp Dodge
censnI~ s-anf pernait tosbc Drinte'e ''ssS
now.
There are many things going on at
Camp Dodge these days THAI the, gen
eral public does not know. Every
thing the public is entitled to know
everything that will not be OF aid to
the enemy--is passed by the censors.
Newspapers find no fault with the cen
sonship But the details OF training
the use of gas and gas masks, bombs
and grenades-they are not passed.
No one is permitted to publish what
the veteran French and Eng lish OFF,
GERS are telling the new American sol
diers. No one but the soldiers are
permitted to hear them.
There are some things published be-
cause they cannot be concealed or
kept within the borders of military
reservation. One of them is the artll'
lery practice. The battery OF three
inch guns boom daily out on the slope
of the rifle range as the instruction
goes on. The gray painted guns and
caissons stand III position relative to
the artillery point on the battlefield
and hurl the high explosive screamers
two miles away.
A puff of white smoke tells the
mark Sometimes when the wind is
right the report comes back. And II
you're back of the guns and close by
you'll see the men working away with
heavy mittens and the new shapeless
army caps, sewing shrapnell that costs
SIS a short in the corn fields. trying
ever to learn how to put the next shot
Il few yards closer to the objective.
Rifle practice also goes on despite
the weather. The soldiers now use the
new Enfield rifles, the standardized
guns developed by the war department
since war was declared There's a
rear peep sight on it that makes it
much better than the old gun for ac-
sake. The men OF the 35Oth
infantry have begun rapid firing prac-
tice
Students working for commissions
in the officers training camp are get
ting it harder than either contingent
at F't Smelling. Even their Sundays
are not their own now. The new
compels them to attend school
from I till 8 p. III. On week days
they 90 from daylight to dusk on phys
ical drill and then they study. after
evening mess. They are now getting
long hikes with heavy packs. 1t is
part of the speeding up program. More
officers are wanted. and soon
The real facts are at last getting
)ut to the parents and friends OF Dodge
soldiers about venereal diseases. Fig
ures were recently published broad
cast showing that Camp Dodge was
second nlgneSL III tne percentage VI
social diseases In all the national army
But it was found upon
of the report that 1t was
based upon full division.
There is now less than third Of a
division at the cantonment. The COR
rected report therefore places Camp
Dodge toward the bottom of the list.
Soldiers have been of great aid to
the police of Des Moines in the war
on crime While the regular army
private who terrorized the city for sew
,ral days with his daylight bank rob-
berry and almost nightly holdups. mil
tary police took over the regular
beats of the patrolmen, relieving the
after to trail the soldier bandit.
The men in khaki have also been
very effective in causing the closing
Of houses of i'll fame and bringing
,oytleggers within the grasp OF the
aw. Sixteen men We're indicted by
lie grand Jury that has Just reported,
u charged with selling liquor to the
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