South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-25
READY FOR 5000
At CAMP TAYLOR
New Draft Army to Begin Ar
irving This Week at
Louisville.

CAMP ZACHARY TAYLOR. Feb.
Is. - Detailed arrangements have
been made for the reception Of
5000 selectives at the camp here.
Everything will be in readiness
whether the men come all on one
day or strung out over five days. as
previously. Between $4,000 and 10
600 men are due at camp as the 80
per cenS remainder of the first
draft. The recruits will be put in
the 159th depot brigade to be train
ed and listed according TO their ca
pabilitieS Then they will be trans
ferred when equipped and partly
trained to the division proper to be
assigned to the units where they
VIII best fit in. Four boards of fin
ger print experts and medical Off
GERS have been appointed 10 make
out the records of the recruits in
the shortest space of time possible
They will conduct physical eXamina-
tons, vaccinate the men. inoculate
them against typhoid and take fin
ger prints and Identification marks.
Representative of the personnel Of
flee will classify them according 20
their qualifications
More latitude will be allowed in
the physical tests and the examina-
tons will not be as rigid as those
given other increments Selects
having slight physical defects dis
qualifying them for general active
service may be accepted for special
and limited services. Those rejec--
ed Will be returned TO their homes
promptly and equipment will not be
issued to a man until he has been
found tit for service. So far as s
feasible the policy Of keeping men
from one locality together Will be
followed out, but this system will
not be allowed to interfere with
the men being placed in the posi-
tons for which they are best fit
ted.
Field mice are becoming trouble
some pests at the camp, Driven
from the fields by the severe wealth
e. they sought shelter in the build
ings Of the cantOnment and have
been the bane of cooks lives for
two months. Apparently they have
thrived and multiplied indoors. for
their raids are growing more bold.
The principal theater of their opera
ton has been in the y. NJ. G. 4.
buildings The ~" workers pre-
pare their own breakfasts at the
service huts and there is usually
food about, attracting the rodents.
Less severe rules pertaining 10
the sending out of news or other in
formation from this camp have been
made public by the division com
mander. By the provisions Of the
censorship regulations, persons i'm
the military service are permitted.
under certain restrictions, 10 write
freely for publication both in news
papers and ma gaines. However.
they may accept no pay nor other
remuneration for their services or
contributions.
In the future regular newspaper
correspondents in camp Will not be
required TO submit their copy 10 any
officer or other person for any form
Of censorship. The order. provides
that they shall be guided by the re-
quests for secrecy published by the
committee on public information
and if those are ignored, the privi-
leges of the camp may be with
drawn in the discretion Of the camp
commander.
All letters from enlisted men OF
officers. intended for publication.
shall be submitted 20 the camp cen
sor, the order reads, who viii be an
officer detailed for this duty n
every organization. The object Of
the order is TO satisfy as far as is
compatible with the protection of
military interests the natural desire
OF the people to keep in touch with
their soldier representatives
Mai Clarence A Dougherty. sig
nal officer OF the Lincoln division.
is organizing a pigeon detachment
10 be composed Of II soldiers ex-
perienced in handling pigeons An
order announced at division head
quarters transfers several enlisted
men 10 the detachment Each divi-
sion OF the army will have such a
unit and about 200 trained carrier
pigeons. Men within the draft age
who have had experience handling
the birds may enlist for the work
They should apply 10 Maj. DOugher-
". A shipment OF six dozen birds
arrived here from Boston this week
and are in lofts erected over barns
at camp. Trial lies already have