Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-02-20
news NOTES FROM
CAMP DODGE
Interesting Information From the
Place Where Our Boys
Are Training.

NV sSUsSsUs g.
Division Headquarters, Camp Dodge,
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 18.-The first
of military life that the
l4,9S4 new recruits will receive when
they report during the five day period
commencing Saturday, February 23,
may not be at all pleasant.
The moment each contingent OF CIV
ilian doughboys arrive, it will be slap
ped into quarantine barracks for per-
iod of not less than two weeks. The
men will not be permitted to go to the
Y. M. C. A. entertainment, to the big
Liberty Theatre or the Camp Dodge
movies or get town leave during that
period. They will be kept close while
military physicians keep constant Wig
il for the appearance OF some contag-
ious disease.
In the meantime every man will be
carefully examined by Lieut.-Col. j. R.
Shook, division surgeon, and his aides,
whose first Injunction from the war Of
fee at Washington is to nip in the bud
all diseases that might spread thru
out the cantonment. The men will be
questioned by Colonel Howell who has
charge of the assignment of men to the
various branches. The same system
will be followed of sending specially
qualified men to the higher and tech
meal divisions of the service.
But the $4,000 rockies will not re-
main idle in quarantine. They will be
taught the rudimentary parts of sold
iery,-position, facings, salutes and
calisthenics.
Complete equipment is waiting. The
quartermaster's department of the
eighty-eighth division saw to that
an overcoat for every man.
The next few weeks promise to be
uninteresting to the old men of the
camp. They must return to the SIM
pie drills Of the beginner because their
new comrades in arms must start from
the first. But commanding officers be-
lieve that by sandwiching the old men
among the new, the recruits can be
whipped into shape far more quickly
than the first contingents.
Soldiers were appraised this week OF
the equipment they will have when
they go to France Their fighting out
fit" is as follows: One bag, b2rrack
one bed socks, three blankets, wool
one belt, waist, two breaches, wool
o. D., two coats, wool, o. D., three
drawers, wool, o. D., one pair gloves
wool, o. D., one hat, service with tying
cord, two pairs leggins, canvas, ont
overcoat, one ornament, collar u. S. N
A., one ornament collar Organization
two shirts, flannel o. D., two PAL
shoes, field, five pairs stockings, heav.
wool required from October LIST t.
April 30th, and light wool required
from May LIST to Sept. Both, one slick
er, two bags, Identification, one tap
J. for Identification tag, three under
shirts, wool, two pairs shoe laces e.
| ira, two pair laces for leggins, extra
? five pins, shelter tent, one shelter tent
I half, one comb, one hairbrush, on
toothbrush, two towels.
a Mosquito bars, headnets and cot
will not be taken for foreign service
a Heavy tentage will be taken only fo
q divisional hospitals, ambulance con
panies, bakery companies and forestr
4 regiments.
o Division headquarters have been al
vised of important changes in medics
rules for exempting men from militar
r service. Hereafter men suffering fro1
:. ear, nose and throat diseases will nc
be rejected but will be sent to cam
!. to see whether the cause of the tro,
l. BILE cannot be removed. Men with d.
, fects that can be cured by operation
n such as hernia, will also be takel
? Their acceptance is conditional, how
l. ever, and those found unfit after va
J. ious tests will be sent home.
j~fr riv %n1 1+o1,
J. charge of the teeth of the new recruit
|. when they are out of quarantine. N
a man will be permitted to continue wit
single bad tooth, to show what til
r dental corps Of the Hunhusker divisio
e is accomplishing, 2,087 persons we1
t treated in January. A total of 249
silver and 697 cement filings were pl
q in.
Il Camp Dodge today is pointing t
> the first war hero of the Hunhuske
division. He is Sergeant George !
Voltz, of st. Paul, MINI. He was tran
ferred to the forestry division and wa
on the Tuscania with the Twentiet
" engineers when that great ship wa
', subbed.
n Boyd E. Hancock, also a soldier O
,r the boat, declares he owes his life
e Voltz who rescued him after he ha
IS been in the water for more than tw
" hours.
, Leut.-Col. Parrot, in command {
the Camp Dodge officers training cam
a declares his students, the men sele
y ted from the ranks of Hunhuskers a
y particularly fit material for officer
will be lin the trenches" by March i
=: He means to have them so far advan
ed in their training by that time thu
they will be ready to begin the inten
i've study of trench warfare. Cam
Dodge soldiers will be spectator
when that time comes to mimic a
tacks. The student officers will stag
realistic rushes over the top, ami
smoke screens and limitation ga
shells, thru barbed wire defenses an
with bayonets fixed.
Lieut.. Col. Charles S. Lincoln, chic
of General Plummer's staff, reache
Camp Dodge several days in advanc
of the general, on their return fror
France. They spent three months O
the west front studying the moder
methods of warfare.
! Colonel Lincoln would have but on
comment. I'VE have much fighting t
do over there" The War department
has forbidden detailed statemen,
But 1t was quite evident that Colone
Lincoln was deeply impressed wit