Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-12
HARMON|CA BAND
At CAMP DIX
Mouth Organ Players Among
Soldiers Forming an Organiza-
ton,

C~mp Dix. n. j., Feb. 12.-Organ-
Sxnt.on of the largest mouth-organ band IN
America has been started among soldiers
~ Camp Dix by Camp Song Director
W Stanley Hawkins, who announced
TODAY that friends ut home desiring TO
send gifts to the boys in camp should be
uryed To include a hsrmoDica. Musically-
inchnel recruits among the 1000 Jersey
men forming the balance of the first draft,
who are due next week, are also invited
to bring harmonicas with them and JON
the band
IAN mouth-organs purchased for or
hy soldiers for camp use should De "
instruments. said Director Hawkihs.
Most of our songs are sung ip the u Key
and We want the mouth-organ music 10
harmonic with the singing.
The general use of mouth-organs 10
providc melody in camp was suggested
by Colonel Cootes, chief of staff, Tort
night ago as result Of observations
made on European fronts, where, he said,
be found that mouth-organs and tin
flutes were relied upon for musical enter
tainment hy men IN billets where tneir
rcrimental bands could not follow theii-
Egorts will be made to organize a double
Quartet of harmonica players IN every
COMPANY and battery IN camp. lhey
will be taught To play IN time ana tune,
IN order that their music may be masseu
for special occasions. -
Fathers will take precedence over all
other visitors 90 Camp DIX this week Wneh
following President Wilson's $ prociaInatloh,
the hig cantonment will celebrate fatner
and Son Week" Army Y. NJ. G.. A.
icsd.rs who are directing the weeks pro-
cram along this line, have suggested that
evcr,y soldier with father living write to
him during the week. Fathers are
invited "a visit or write to their boys IN
camp.
QUARANTINE LIFTED.
IL ;s anticipated that several thousand
fathers will come 10 the camp to see
their bows during the week, with the
largest crowds on Wednesday and Sat
urdav With the quarantine hgted yes
tcrday. many BOYS are asking Tor passes
~ 90 home and see dad" over the week
end 4 special attraction for those visit
ing the camp on Wednesday afternoon
uiIl be another spectacular demonstration
bv the tank Britannia The big land-ship
will be tried out on some unusual man
ellvers on 'Marne Hill,' and efforts Will
ba made 10 group the crowds so that
machine gunners may with safety shoot
AZ the tank from the trenches. Captal
Uaich and officers of the machine gun
cornpanies and battalions are especially
ANXIOUS TO arrange this latter feature OF
the demonstration.
To assist and advise women relatives
Of foreigners called IN the next draft, the
Young Women's Christian Association
has arranged to open a special depart
ment of service for aliens at the Hostess
House. with Mrs Emmaline Trapanl, OF
New York. in charge. The "Y. W..
has found that many foreign women are
utterly ignorant as to the cause OF the
drafting Of their husbands and IN hundreds
nj cssss.s do not know how to correspond
With their men IN the camps. Mrs-
Trapani has been associated recently
With the International Language Bureau
in its work of aiding foreigners TO properly
fill our questonalreA-
Chaplains ordered to report for service
at Camp Dix will in the future be COM
PEELED TO pass rigid examinations before
8 Board of division officers. Orders
appointing this Board and designating Its
duties were issued by Major General
Scott today.
With the war risk insurance drive
ending yesterday, Camp Dix expects to go
'over the top with the best per capita
record of any cantonment, retaining a
distinction IL has held for several weeks.
Records up to, but not including, today
show a total of s221 ,677 800 written
bere, with policies issued to 90 2-3 per cent
OF the men in camp. In 1S3 organiga tions
every man is insured, and 90 companies
have every man insured for the maximum
Of $4,000.
The newest division school, which vii
prerrare officers 10 instruct their men IN
the art of boxing, found to be an ideal
preparation for bayonet work, was opened
YESTERDAY afternoon, with athletic officers
from every company In attendance.
Captain W N Howard is senior instructor
and Jeff Smith, camp boxing director,
assistant instructor.