The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-02-20
FIRST IMPRESSION
NOT PLEASANT
New Recruits Who Report at Camp
Dodge viii Not Enjoy Privileges
Until Carefully Examined
PREVENT FURTHER coNTAeloN
Next Two Weeks Promise to be Onin-
teresting to Old Men Of Camp
Return to Simple Drills

Dodge, Feb, 18-The first impression
of military life that the 14,9S4 new re-
cruits will receive when they report
during the five day period commencing
Saturday, February 23d. may not be
all pleasant.
The moment each contingent of ci'
vilians arrives 1t will be slapped Into
quarantine barracks for period OF not
less than two weeks. The men will
not be permitted to 60 to the Y. M. c.
A. to entertainments. to the big Lib
erty theater 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 Col. J. +. Shook.
division surgeon, and his aides, whose
first injunction from the war office at
Washington is to nip in the bud all
diseases that might spread through
out the cantonment. The men will be
questioned by Colonel Howell who
has charge of the assignment OF men
to the various branches. Tie same
system will be followed OF sending
specially qualified men to the higher
and technical divisions Of the service.
But the $4,000 rockies will not re.
main idle In quarantine. They will be
taught the rudimentary parts OF sol.
facings, salutes and
calisthenics.
Complete equipment is waiting. The
quartermaster's department Of the
eighty eighth division saw to that
weeks ago There is a uniform and
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 simple
drills of the beginner because their
new comrades in arms must start from
the first. But commanding officers
believe that by sandwiching the old
men i'll among the new the recruits
can be whipped into shape far more
quickly than the first contingent
Soldiers were apprised this week of
the equipment they will have when
they go to France. Their fighting
outfit" is as follows: One bag. bar
rack; one bed socks, three blankets.
wool; one belt. waist. two breeches,
wool o. d.; two coats. wool 0. D.;
three drawers. wool o. d.; one pair
gloves. wool o. d.; one hat, service
with tying cord; two pairs lcggins,
canvas; one overcoat; one ornament.
collar U. s. N. A.; one ornament col
lar. organizations; two shirts, flannel
o. d.: two pair shoes. field; five pairs
stockings, heavy wool required from
October LIST to April 30th. and light
wool required from May 1st to Sep
tcmber goth: one slicker: two tags.
identillCation: one tape for itlentifica-
tion tag; three undershirts; wool; two
pairs shoe laces extra; two pair laces
for leggings, extra: five pins; shelter
tent; one shelter tent, half; one comb:
one hair brush: one toothbrush; two
towels
Mosquito bars, headncts and cots
will not be taken for foreign service.
Heavy tentagc will be taken only for
divisional field hospitals. ambulance
companies. bakery companies and for
estry regiments.
Division headquarters have been ad.
vised of important changes in medical
rules for eXenlpting men from military
service. Hereafter men suilering. from
ear, nose and throat diseases will not
be rejected but will be sent to camp
to see whether the cause of the trouble
cannot be removed. Men with defects
that can be cured by operation, such
as herna will also be taken. Their
acceptance is conditional. however.
and those found unfit after various
tests will be sent home.
Thirty.six dental surgeons will take
charge of the teeth Of the new recruits
when they are out of quarantine. No
man will be permitted to continue with
a single bad tooth. to show what the
dental corps of the Hunhuskers divis-
ion is accomplishing. 2,OS7 persons
were treated in January. A total OF
2491 silver aud G97 cement filings
were put in.
Camp Dodge today is pointing to the
first war hero Of the Hunhusker divis-
ion. He is Sgt. George F. VOltz, of
st. Paul. MINI. He came to Camp
Dodge as a member Of the headquar-
ters company. 351st infantry. He was
transferred to the forestry division
and was on the Tuscania with the
Twentieth engineers when that great |
ship was subbed.
Boyd E. Hancock. also soldier on
the boat, declares he owes his life to
VoltZ. who rescued him after he had |
been in the water for more than two |
hours.
Lieut.. Col. Parrot. in command OF
the Camp Dodge officers training camp, !
declares his students, the men select |
ed from the ranks of Hunhuskers as
particularly fit material for officers,
will be 'in the trenches by March !
18TH" He means to have them so far |
advanced in their training by that time
that they will be ready to begin intens- |
i've study of trench warfare. Camp |
Dodge soldiers will be spectators when |
that time comes. to mimic attacks. The
student officers will stage realistic |
rushes over the top, and amid smoke |
screens and imitation gas shells, |
barbed wire defenses and with |
bayonets fixed.
Lieut.. Col Charles s. Lincoln, chief |
of General Plummer's staff, reached !
Camp Dodge several days in advance |
Of the general ON their return from
France. They spent three months on !
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