Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-19
BELIEVE DELAWARE
MEN ARE GO|NGOVER
Have Been Assigned to Fighting
Units Now at Camp
Dix.

Camp Dix. Wrightstown, n. j., Aug.
la.-Hundreds of courageous young Amer
leans who have been wondering if the war
was to be fought and won while fate held
them as slaves TO duty I'm training bat
talions are elated about orders transmitted
from the acknowledgement placing a SIN
months limit on the time the memherS
of a cadrc shall spend in depot com
panies before they are assigned To tght-
inc units. For months these soldiers,
who have won promotion to non-comm1s-
stoned rank by good military qualities
have been held TO form skeleton COM
panv in training the incoming recruits
They have seen quota after quota come
in as rockies and go out lew weeks
later to ioin forces bound for the scenes
of action from which they themselves
seemed indefinitely barred
But the new orders have cut the
bonds and. beginning about September
/. every member of training company
cadre. who has had six months ser
vice. must be transferred to line or
uanization Non-commisSloned officers
are not to lose their grade by the trans
fcrs to other units. Many OF them, TO
Judge from their elatlon, would be Will
ing to sacrifice their cheyrons, however,
to Join the boys who have passed through
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show" overseas.
Complete in war strength. trained and
fighting fit, the S7th Division will be
formally reviewed on the parade ground
tomorrow morning by Alajor-General
Scott. camp commandant, and Major
General Sturgis, commander of the dl-
vision. Every unit of the organization
will participate with full o quipment
Although the review will be held IN the
morning and ON a day when relatively
few visitors are in camp. It IS expected
that several thousand friends af the sol
diers will come to camp 10 witness the
thrilling spectacle.
The division has been in training
here for several months, having come
TO Dix from Camp Pike. Ark. where ITS
commissioned officers and most Of ITS
non-commissioned personnel had pre-
viouSlv had much experience IN tram
ing troops that were transferred 70 tll
other divisions With this long grind of
camp life they are keen 10 put their
strenuous training system to the real
test. and it is the hope Of every officer
that the division. with the thousands
Of recruits it has trained here, soon
NAV be permitted to JOIN General Per
Shing's force on tho western front
Cooperating with military authori-
ties Yesterday in tho reception and care for
relatives of soldiers who composed one
at the largest visiting crowds OF the
summer. the Travellers Aid SocirtY
adopted a new plan of adding q week
end group Of volunteer workers 70 ITS
staff These volunteers. working under
direction Of Miss Eiortense Rospn, head
OF the organization here. meet the IN
coming trains and assist women rela-
tives of soldiers in finding the men they
seek. Young women from Moorcstown
composed the group on duty Yesterday, in
cluding Misses Elizabeth Gillingham,
Esther Holmes. Sarah Haines, Mabel
Spencer and Esther LippncOtt
The effect of colors viewed with the
eve in frightening and cheering the
mental condition viii be applied in a
novel manner for the benefit Of the
base hospital detachment, through the
work OF prominent New York artists,
who have planned and are adapting a
clever color scheme for the interior
decoration Of the new y NJ c. A. hut
AT the hospital Their work throughout
the dav centred almost entirely in wards
amid scenes OF illness and suffering Y =
secretaries decided TO make the hut an
especially CHEEKY mecca for the hum
dreds Of soldiers employed about the
big hospital during their hours off duty.
The clever idea Of a decorated interior
was decided upon and some OF the most
prominent artists in the country worked
out a plan of color and shade blending
to produce the desired effect