The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-24
Q. M. SWEET CORN
Officers and Soldiers Enjoy
Army Grown Article.
Idle Plot of Land Used for
Crop.
PUMPKINS BEING GROWN, TOO
Reclamation and Conservation
Division Directs Planting.
Special Board Holds Quarter
master Tests.

diers for Funston officers and soldiers
that popular food. has been a part
of many messes recently in this can
torment Some of the corn went to
Major General Woods quarters. Some
went to the S05th regiment of colored
infantrymen. 1t was sold and is still
being sold at prices 10 per cent be-
low the local general wholesale mar
ket price, altho it's the best sweet
corn obtainable anywhere.
That's fine many officers and SOL
diers and soldiers doubtless have COM
mented after partaking of Funston's
army grown sweet corn. II they did
not stop to make inquiry it is not yet
too late to learn that the corn was
grown under the supervision of
branch of the quartermaster corps of
the army, the reclamation and con-
servation division 1t was produced
near the southeastern corner of the
cantonment on river bottom land not
suited for drilling purposes or for bar
rack sites. But for the dry weather.
which is unfortunate, the sweet corn
crop would have been much larger
than reported by the reclamation and
conservation division of the quarter
master corps.
Soon-some of the soldiers are
counting the days to harvest tinre-
the reclamation and conservation divi-
sion will have a crop of pumpkins,
to offer to the messes of Camp Fun
ston. 1t. too, will be army raised.
And. SO it is reported. the reclamation
and conservation division will in the
future enter the business of raising
such crops on a larger scale. The men
leaving the farms and gardens of the
Middle West, which is the worlds
greatest food grower, will be glad to
turn for few moments from the ac-
Invites of intensive army training to
hi ~ t.fe H..
success. Nobody doubts their abil-
fty to help make it succeed. The
sweet corn crop in the face of drouth
emphasizes that confidence.
1t has been asserted that food will
win the war. Camp Funston's SOL
diers want to win the war. and they
are ready to help with army raised
food as well as with heroic feats on
| battlefields- The sweet corn crop of
1918 is only a forerunner. Wait until
| the alfalfa and the other feed and food
| articles to be planted on vacant plots
have reached maturity. Won't Fun
ston's soldiers then be doing double
their bit?
A large number of soldiers have
| been examined this week by a special
| board to test their qualifications to
| receive commissions as second slieu-
tenants in the .quartermaster corps
| or to enter the officers training camp
of the quartermaster corps at Jack
sonville. Fla The board Is composed
of Lieutenant Rucker, executive Off
| Ger of the Quartermaster detachment;
| Captain Windle. assistant camp quar-
termaster. and Captain Rodecker. sur
! geon of the quartermaster detachment
infirmary. The large number of can
| didates, many of whom have spent
| long evenings studying for the exami-
nations. reflect favorably upon the de-
sire of the men of Camp Funston to
assume greater responsibility in the
! United States army
Sergeants Gallup and Hirsch and
Private Jones of the reclamation and
| conservation division received commits
sions as second lieutenants the past
| week.
In a recent article in Trench and
Camp relative to the rise of enlisted
| men to lieutenancies in the quarter
master detachment. the name of Lieu
tenant Schwarting was inadvertently
| omitted. Lieutenant Schwartfng is
one Of the able new officers of the
camp utilities division. and this is not
said by way of apology for the recent
omission. for many friends of this Of
ficer. not the officer personally. have
called attention to his rise and ac-
complishments.
Pvt. Henry ]. Bohn-no, Pvt, First
Class. Henry j. Bohn-is an admirer
OF John Doe. In the past week. a
general notice was circulated in the
quartermaster detachment as to the
new order under which no distinction
is made between regulars or other
classes of men and officers in the
army. AS an example of how an Off
Ger should sign his name, the notice
cited Col. John Doe, quartermaster
corps. as the model. Bohn read the
notice.
My" said Private. First Glass
Bonn. John Doe has been goine
some. When I came to Funston, John
Doe was cited as model for a pri.
waite and his name was signed Pvt
John Doe. And now he's Col. John
Doe Can you beat that"
After this. Bohn was nominated for
a place as comedian on the Y vaude-
vile circuit.
The secretaries of Y are -happy
over the progress they are making
They have succeeded in organizins
four Bible classes. and have set az
their mark an active Bible class 70,
each barracks in the unit Besides
the quartermaster detachment, the
men of the 210 field signal battalion
one of the new units of the new 1 9th
division, are enjoying the privilege.
land entertainments of this 7. Severa