Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-02-13
NEWS NOTES FROM
CAMP DODGE
Interesting Information From tho
Place Where Our Boys
Are TRAINING {.

Division Headquarters., Camp Dodge,
Iowa, Feb. lit was the cry Of the
east when the war opened that the pa
triotism OF tho west was lukewarm; that
the blood Of tho middle west contained
some water.
The answer has been sivsn twice In
the last week by Camp Dodge.
More soldiers from Iowa, Minnesota,
North Dakota and Central Illinois SUBJ
scribed for government war risk insur-
anco than the men In any other canton
ment In tho United States.
More wheat -four has been conserved
per man by the soldiers Of Camp Dodge
since tho cantonments opened than those
of any other cantonment In the nation,
either national army or national guard.
There was four points difference be-
tween the conservation at Camp Dodge
and its nearest competitor and twenty
points between the Des Moines camp and
the cantonment that economized the least
Camp Funston.
And Camp Dodge Is going its COL
leagues in the business of war just ono
of the entire division, who 10 entitled to
q good share Of credit for Saving the
corners" IL now planning on whsatless
meals and possibly wheatless days.
From the war department at Washing
ton came a letter to Captain Morrissey,
In charge of war risk Insurance.. con-
graduating him upon the showing Of the
Dodge men. While the letter was directed
personally to Captain Morrissey it is the
pride of every off1cer and soldier in
camp.
The goal now is, Camp Dodge 100 per
cent.
The corps Of workers will keep ever
lastingly at it until every man within
the confines of the reservation owns q
government war risk insurance policy.
Camp Dodge is proud for another rea-
happen to have the right machine, the
boy in the next barracks has. Practical
ly every barracks In the cantonment has
a photograph of some sort It may be
a new cabinet machine or it may be a
scrawny and worn old timer. But what
ever it is, it goes day and night. The
men play 1t when off duty continually.
And it's great thing. Its no strange
thing to walk down q company street anu
son this week. Last governmental off,
c1al reports showed less venereal dis
ease per hundred men than in any other
cantonment
The east that doubted the west is cor
daily invited to take notice. OF course
the interest among soldiers now centers
upon the coming OF the last increment of
draft selectives beginning Saturday, Feb
ruary %. More than $4,000 men are
OIL
from the former state and the remainder
from the latter. And with their coming
the old localization plan will be abolish
ed. Men Of the first two increments
who came from the same section were
placed In the same regiments. Now, the
1900 will be sent wherever. quotas In
present organizations are incomplete, re-
CARELESS of the location of the county
from which they came. Qualifications
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qualified for engineering work will be
sent Immediately to engineering units.
Photographers. telephone men Of any
branch of the work and electricians will
go to the signal battalions.
The present units at Camp Dodge will
serve as skeleton organizations for the
| division. The raw recruits will be sand
wiched in with the men who have had
| training and supported until they get in
| to the game. The present soldiers have
a distinct advantage. The best will be
made non-commissioned officers to officer
| the new men.
! An opportunity has come to soldiers al
| Camp Dodge to attend the military acad-
envy at West Point. The war department
has instructed -regimental commanders
to select a number of the most promis.
| ing men of their command, none Of
whom must be over % years of age, tt
enter into a competitive examination fol
| the academy. They will be given an in
tensive course and will no doubt be turn
| ed out in time to officer the second, thir6
and fourth national armies. And agar
its q case Of the best man wins.
The men Of the eighty-eighth division
have just been given some object les
sons in discipline in the fighting forces
of Uncle Sam.
Sergeant Gail Jacobs, in charge Of thu
mess of company G, 349th Infantry regi
ment got drunk on duty. He was reduc
ed to the rank Of buck private, givel
three months at hard labor in the regi
mental guard house, and compelled t.
forfeit two-thirds Of his pay for a sim
liar period. The punishment was metes
out by genral court martial. The CAM
knows that drunkenness inside the reser
walton is a greater offense than outside
Private G. r. McEvers, Company
337th Machine Gun battalion, went t
sleep while on guard duty. He was sen
fenced to six months In the guard hous
and was ordered to forfeit two-thirds o
his pay for that time.
The first court martial OF the 313t
/ Engineers has just been held. Privat
: L. c. Reidy, Company D, was found gull
ty of passing six checks amounting t
, more than 500 on the regimental ex
change when he did not have money /
the bank to meet them. He was ser