The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-01-24

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man amounting to only 1887 cents.
Now the price has advanced 70 that
it costs to feed each man 4O.8 cents
per day. Bread has come down a lit
tie but butter and beef have advanced
and this accounts for the slight adj
vance. While the advance over De-
cember is less than a cent for each
man yet it amounts to around 80
cents for each man a month and that
small amount in the aggregate reach
es $4,000.
Still Selling the Soldiers Insurance.
The Governments plan Of insuring
the soldiers is meeting with much
favor. The men at Camp Dodge have
taken out about $132, 0O0, 900. Eighty
per cent have taken advantage Of the
liberal plan. An effort is being made
to increase this number.
Maj. L. J. Ainsworth Of Des Moines
commanding the Three Hundred and
Thirteenth field signal battalion at
Camp Dodge, has been detailed as the
officer in charge Of a divisional sig
nal school to which hundreds of men
from the division will be assigned at
different times for courses Of instruc-
tion. It is probable the total num-
Der of men to receive instruction will
exceed two thousand. Men in this di-
vision are from every state in the
union. Major Ainsworth, before en-
tering the army, was superintendent
Of the Western Union Telegraph
business in Des Moines. The officers
on his staff are Capts. Royal H.
Drummond, Earl C.. Brown, Edmund
r. Simon, William H. White, William
| w. Bloome; First Lieutenants Robin
s. Niche, Harvey Shelton, Jas. O. Doe,
John c. Toohy, Ray w. Bischoff, de-
pot brigade; First Lieutenant Arthur
T. Leslie, Three Hundred F~orty-ninth
First Lieutenant Paul F. Schlick,
Three Hundred Fifty-frst; Second
Lieutenant Tom D. Nelson, Three
Hundred Fifty-second.
No Place for Christian Science.
Refusal of a soldier to submit to
a necessary operation will in the fu-
ture be regarded as a violation Of the
96th article Of war, dealing with fail
ure to obey orders of a superior offic-
er. A courtmartial will follow any
such refusal. An Interpretation Of
the order, as issued by the secretary
of war is that medical officers decide
on the necessity Of surgical action.
| Thu cn1lSnre - %ho~ f11l If thu 1onSc-
ion to operate. If he refuses to un-
dergo such treatment, a board of
three officers of the medical corps
then examine the man. A report by
this board, that the man must be
operated on to make him fit for SER
vice, and if he still refuses to submit,
makes it compulsory that courtmar-
tial proceedings follow. But one
man at Camp Dodge has refused to
take medicine, stating that it was
against his religious belief. He was
given slight punishment and a prom
Use of more if he was too persistent
in his refusal.
The short course for bakers given
by the domestic science department at
the State Agricultural college where
in substitutions for flour were given
much prominence, attracted the at
tention of the department of Agricul-
ture at Washington and DR.. j. A. Nc
Clere, who has done much research
work, was sent to Ames to study the
methods employed. At the invitation
of Brigadier General Getty and Lieut.,
J. C. Fogarty, command of the bak-
ing company atCamp Dodge. the en-
tire equipment for the bakers short
course was loaded on trucks and tax
en- to the camp, where it will be re-
peated for the army bakers. There
are 100 bakers in this company and
the same ground will be covered fol
them as for the commercial bakers
attending the short course at Ames
There are several hundred men
whose duties are to look after the
thousands of horses and mules. These
men are being trained in horseman-
ship with great care by some Of the
most noted horsemen in the regular
army. A library of 1000 books has
been installed in the new "Y" build
ing opened for the men of the re-
mount station. The new building is
well patronized by the remount men
who must stay at their post on the
western edge Of the camp caring fo1
the large number Of horses and mules.
The men from "Y" building 90 have
charge of the new building and there
will be two entertainments a week as
we'll as service on Sunday.
Special Home for Army Phone Girls.
Women are being recognized by
Uncle Sam as a necessary part of
this country's war program.