The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
CAMP FUNSTON NEWS

ent draft. Enthusiastic to a degree,
they could be heard cheering long be-
fore their train ran up to the station.
AS they marched out and lined up to
be checked in, hundreds of their fell
lows already in uniform, veterans
of several weeks training, gathered to
watch them. "Oh boy, you's gwine 20
git yours. AS you wuh. One-two-
three-four' and similar remarks greet
ed them and they marched off to the
tune of an unmerciful guying. They
as good as they took. Those are
the happiest birds on earth" remark
ed a white sergeant attached as in
structor to the colored troops.
They're laughing and joking all of
the time, but by golly, they make
good soldiers"
The white men, of whom over ff-
teen thousand are coming in this
draft, arrive differently. They come
Ill WILL lCSS HOlSt, dltllOu6u al OCNd-
sional contingent breaks forth. The
majority, however, detrain quietly,
line up in a fashion which, in many
cases, shows previous home training.
and march off to their barracks in
a business-like, m~atter-of-fact way.
They are as different in temperament
as in color, these new drafted men.
The white boys have the attitude Of
having thought this thing over, of
having seen their friends go, and now
hat they are on their way, of mean
ing business. And they too, make
good soldiers.
The detention camp on Republican
Flats has once more been enlarged
to care for the newly arrived men.
The present draft is the largest since
the opening Of Funston, and in Camp
Republican and Camp Pawnee over
twenty thousand men will live for the
next three weeks or so, unless for
some reason, the usual period of de-
tention is shortened.
All men from Arizona who are at
Camp Funston are to vote at a COM
ing election, the western state being
the first one to make al arrangement
of the sort for their soldiers here. A
bulletin issued here recently instructs
all Arizonans to forward their names,
county and precinct of their legal res
idence, and the designation of their
command, so that ballots may be sent
them.
The French day Of Independence,
the anniversary of the fall Of the bas-
tile, was noted at Camp Funston in a
ceremony in which all of the canton
ment bands formed at reveille and
played the national anthem, followed
by the Marseilles. A review of he
regulars of the Goth Infantry was re-
ceived by General Leonard Wood and
Lieutenant Alfred A. Boucher of the
French army, as representative of
Americas ally.
The kansas Brand hair cut is to
go at Camp Funston. The peculiar
trim affected by Sunf1ower state bar
bers, which leaves one shorn to the
quick below the tops of the ears, and
with luxuriant foliage in a toupee-like
effect above, is banned, according to
a recent order regulating the manner
in which army locks here are to be
cut. In old-fashioned days the lads
used to have their hair cut by mother,
who used a large bowl inverted over
his head and cut away everything
beneath. The Kansas barber, whose
Vaccinations are foiled by the new
army, order doesn't do it like the DID
fashioned mother debut the effect
is the same. He doesn't need the
bowl. Large clippers, usually power
driven, and guaranteed skid proof, do
the work in a jify. Two swipes and
the neck is bare as a new born babe.
A race around the back, taking the
curves around the ears on one wheel,
so to speak, leaves the clients head
looking like an oddly shaped egg wear
ing a toupee. It's a quick method and
BARRIERS in the huge shop on the zone
at Funston were making large sums
at piece work, it is said. No matter
where a Funston soldier vent, ne
could be identified as coming from
Kansas the moment he lifted his cam
paign hat, much to the discomforture
of many ardent boosters for other
states. With the enforcement of the
new regulation, however, all is well,
and soon, assisted by nature. a Funs-
ton man will be known only by his
insignia.
officer candidates to attend the Cen
trail officers Training Schools Will be
selected from among the men at Fun