New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-10
CAMP DODGE LETTER

CAMP DODGE LETTER
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i Officers at Camp Dodge are now hope
[.ful that transfers to other environments
will not disturb the large force Of men
now on duty but that they will be per-
mitted to fit them out for service in
France. This cantonment has been
the recruiting station for numerous
! other environments. The result has
been that the officers have been deal
ing with new men most of the time.
AS soon as one group was becoming
somewhat proficient in military tao
tics and discipline call for these men
to 60, elsewhere was issued and away
they went. With the present ENROLL
ment and the new men soon to report
/ it is believed that the required 10 weeks
of intensive training viii be allowed
and that fine army will leave Camp
Dodge all ready for duty across the
sea. In furtherance of this belief comes
the order from the war department
that no more half day holidays will
be allowed and the men wishing to visit
the city must procure individual passes.
This indicates that intensive training
is to be the order Of the day. BY the
end of this month the last men to re-
port will have been we'll seasoned and
ready for hard work. The addition
of twelve thousand the latter part of
this month will give sufficient num-
Der with those who have remained to
form the division to it's authorized
strength and no time will be lost in
whipping the new recruits into shape.
Another call for men to assemble the
latter part of the month, will bring
12,484 conscripts to this camp. For
the first time it has happened Missouri
will send 1887 men to Camp Dodge
under this call. Nebraska will furnish
1873 men and Iowa 1854. The men
eligible from this draft from Min
nesota and North Dakota will be sent
to Camp Lewis, Washington, and II
linois men will be sent to a camp in the
south. Under a. revised ruling of the
war department farmers will not be
exempted under this call as in a previous
one.> Occupation will make no dis
tinction. )
, Lieut.. Col. J. de Camp Hall will, be
appointed commandant of the fourth
officers training camp at Camp Dodge,
which opens May 3D., Lieut.. Col. r.
B. Parrot has been assigned to the
depot brigade and all other third camp
instructors have been relieved. A board
of officers has been appointed to Sc
lect enlisted men of the 88th@ division
to attend the camp. Members of, the
board are: Lieut.. Col. F. O. Wick
ham, Lieht. Col. C. B. Stone and Major
D. G.. C. Garrison. Expectations are
that about 800 men will attend this
camp from the division and from schools
and colleges Of Iowa. l.
Some Men Are Stubborn
With the fellows who refuse to wear
the military uniform because OF re-
igious scruples, the slackers who re-
fuse to obey orders out of contempt
for obedience to constituted authority
and men who, refuse to submit to mill
tary requirements simply to be stub
born the officers are called upon ire
quently to invoke the disciplinary fea-
ture of the court martial. The Men
nonites and Brethren are insistent in
their refusal to do anything that looks
like combatant service. For this rea-
son they will not put on the khaki UNI
forms provided by the government. A
group of 80 such men have been placed
in a company by themselves and as
signed to the~-depot brigade. These
men are Privates Daniel ]. Brennan,
Daniel H. Egli, Clarence I. Fisous, Al
bert Jones, Ortis Miller, Walter w.
Oliver, Amos Brunk, Ray Buchanan,
Earl D. Burns, Bernard Carlson, Frank
Dmdicker, Edward R. Bragg, Albert
Fryenberger, Abram w. Cell, Chas. =.
knapp, Guy H. Little, Ray B. Miller,
David X. Nobel, William H. Hofzinger,
George A. Pittman, Christian S. Reeser
D.: and Eli Salmaan. Privates Duane Nc
Cracker and Raymond e. :Mendehall
also conscientious directors, have been
assigned to the medical department
as a noncombatant branch of the ser
vice. Rev. j.. A. Robinson, pastor Of
the Church Of the Brethren IN De
Moines, was arrested at Camp Dodge
by United States agents for violation
of the espionage act. Robinson is &C
cused of going about different barracks
preaching the evils of combatant fight
ing, urging the soldiers to raise con
scientious objections. Robinson ad
mits that the teachings Of his churcl
are against combatant service. Bu