The Springdale news., 1918-09-13
CAMP PIKE NOTES.
Csmp Pike Ark

l1 - af Camp Pike ls awaiting with tE- terest the outcome Of the fght ee- tween Colonel Miller and the Little RseE barber shops. The barbsrs an- rouuce that prices for hair cuts are b ibss advanced to 59 cents, ard sfla es ta 2 cents. Colonel Miller. camp eammaHdant. held that the pr1ee was unfair and said that lf an attempt sx2s made to enforce the rate Tor soldiers he would issue memoran- 5Um advising the soldiers as well as the officers t0 keep away from the Little Rock shops, saying that arraHg- nents would be made to accommodate them n the camp.
 Another recent order b Goiohel Miller prohibits the employment of ie- male helpers in the restaurants and amusement stands in Belmont, the IrtIe town at the entrance to the camp. The camp authorities Hkes2se book hand iu the settlement of Jltney problem and the rate is now 35 cents ts the gate from Little Rock. and then n cents more to any point in the camp Camp representatives are probing the matter of high prices h Izirtle Rock and action ls promlsed soon.
 Tie | Nj. (. A. report for August shows II to have been the busiest month ia the history of the camp. The total attendance d the sixteen buildings was 846,755, gain oFer Jafy ef 100000. The number of eR. xeIopes gwen away free by the secretaries was 378.9lg. Pieces of nal. handled through the " build 5Hgs. 463,334. The total amount of stamps sold. S30. 765. Total amount of money orders written. s5o,626. Nearly one hundred thousand men at tended the various religious services aHd they were gwen 4t54Z testaments upon their promise 10 read them daily
 i new feature of sport was intro 4geed T the camp the other day when 0aasal Co. Il, composed of the aeN recruits from western Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, sent 0veF U the Remouut Station for l half dozen of their widest horses. they proved s0 Nf!d that d half dozen men had been i thrown before an Indian. Thomas bon0ska from Co. 57. 0kmulgee, Okla aane along and r0de the buekIng aRi- ma. After that, couple of Okla h0ma cowboys tackled me iab with success
 \ Y" man had strenuous experi- ence q few nights ago when a tele- gram al late hour announcing the -4eatn 9f the mother of man from , Bartless He, Okla, who had been IT camp only day or two. Lights were 9ut and the company wis in one of the toughest part of the camp n the new emergency area. For an hour the man stumbled from barrack to barraek, calling out the sergeants te search for the name of the man want ! ea But his persistence was finally l rewarded when the man was located and a promise secured from the lieut. enant that the family would be n6ti- l fltd by wire next morning and the man started on the earliest possible train.
 l trade school has been installed I at Camp Pike where every man Who i has registered as haYng q special trade Is examined carefully as to his i experience and qualifications The ] government wants u tzn58 where the trade specialists of the army are b. eated, and the records Hlil be so hand. led that t can tany time call for sol dlers Nho qualified for any line of ] work that may be needed. The new men are examined as they come into eaup and the old ones with trades are being re-examlned aeeozafne to the new plans
 I L. smith, tausal Co. s8 Democrat a6m!hee for the legislature from Hot SpfHss county, pr6se ed himself some sItlntcr the other night when he won both the 5uyd and the l00-id dash l at the company athletic meet. Smith i is former 0uachita track man and i played g prominent part when the team won the state championship. As he #on the nomination i to l, Smith has proven himself an all around run ner
 ] Just how prifitable il may prove to run lp against military rules and regulations was demonstrated last
 Seek when Robert Berge. Co. F. Sec. gaa Training Regiment. was senteue- ed To 26 years imprisonment al Fort ! teaYenworth to forfeit all pay and then to be dishonorable discharged ] for refusing to drill with his company &hen ordered to do so by his superior l offieers- lie Was tried by court mar i tial.
 l concerted effort is being made l bE the secretaries Of the camp 10 keep the men in their immediate area l posted with regard to the war news from oversea both by bulletins and by maPs showing the progress of the Allied troops All too many of the tnen are apt to feel that the war k 14st about over and quite often one hears them predicting that they will be home before Christmas Everyone wishes II were possiblt but no one of intelligence thinks 1t probable, and the task $ to keep before the men a realization to the men for the jnten- sIFe trantng they are now undergoing here . 2'''e
 Among the new arrivals from New Mexico and Arizona are large nau- Der oi Meylcans who cannot under stand word of English and all con frTs@tons with the receiving and com baHy officers has been through the mefiIum of an interpreter. Al the feetfFlag station the other night the medical examiners were trying to separate the men who had measles rom those who had not yet experlenc- ed that joy but il proved an almost hopeless task Some of the Mexi- cans G3dnt seem 10 have any idea what measles" are and didn't know whether the officers were trying ta get their oNn names or that of their home town.
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