The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-16
Soldiers Start on Intensive Training
Some of the Men are Stubborn
Soldiers are Anxious to Learn-Y.
M. G.. A. Activities.
MORE TEACHERS ARE WANTED
Wives of Soldiers Cannot Obtain Di-
vorce While the Husband Remains
in the Service-Health Conditions
at the Base Hospital Improved.

transfers to other cantOnmentS 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 cantonments. 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
proficient in military tao
tics and discipline a call for these
men to 60 elsewhere was issued and
away they went. With the present |
enrolment and the new men soon to
report it is believed that the required
18 weeks Of intensive training will be |
allowed and that a fine army will !
leave Camp Dodge all ready for duty
across the sea. In furtherance of this |
belief comes the order from the war
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 report will have been
well seasoned and ready for hard
work. The addition of twelve thous-
and the latter part of this month will
give sufficient number with those
who have remained to form the di-
vision 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 Missouori will send
7,257 men to Camp Dodge under this
call. Nebraska will furnish 1873 men
and Iowa 1864. The men eligible
froga ::his draft from Minnesota and
Nortk Dakota will be sent to Camp
Lewis, Washington, and Illinois men
will be sent to camp in the south. Un-
der revised ruling of the war de-
partment farmers will not be exempt
ed 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 Is. Lieut.. Col. r. B.
Parrott has been assigned to the de-
pot brigade and all other third camp
instructors have been relieved. A
board Of officers has been appointed
to select enlisted men of the 88th di-
vision to attend the camp. Members
of the board are: Lieut.. Col. F. O.
Wickham, Lieut.. Cal. C. B. Stone and
Major D. G. c.. Garrison. Expecta-
tions are that about 800 men will at
tend this camp from the division and
from schools and colleges Of Iowa.
Some Men Are Stubborn.
With the fellows who refuse to wear
the military uniform because of re-
ligious scruples, the slackers who re-
fuse to obey orders out of contempt
for obedience to constituted authority
and men who refuse to submit to mil
itary requirements simply to be stub
born the officers are called upon fire.
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 J. Brennan,
Daniel H. Egli, Clarence I. Fisous, AL
bert Jones, Ortis Miller, Walter w.
Oliver, Amos Brunk, Ray Buchanan,
Earl D. Burns, Bernard Carlson, FIR.
Diddicker, Edward R. Bragg, Albert
Fryenberger, Abram w. Cell, Chas.
Knupp, Guy H. Little, Ray B. Miller,
David K. Nebel, William H. Hofzinger
Geo. A. Pittman, Christian S. Reeser
and Eli Salzman. Privates Duane Nc
Cracken and Raymond E. Mendehall
also conscientious objectors, have
been assigned to the medical depart
ment as noncombatant branch of the
service. Rev. ]. A. Robinson, pastor
of the church Of the Brethren in Des
Moines, was arrested at Camp Dodge
by United States agents for violation
of the espionage act. Robinson is ac-
cused Of going about different bar
racks preaching the evils of combatant
fighting, urging the soldiers to raise
conscientious objections. Robinson
admits that the teachings Of his church
are against combatant service. But
the most astute case Of stubbornness
is that Of Elmer N. Olsen, Of Good
rich, Mimi, who positively refused 70
submit TO vaccination. A court mar
tial passed upon his case, the charge
being IT, violation q army rule No.