The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-07-25
1900 new MEN
TOCAMP MEADE
Will Hail From Maryland and
Other States.

| OA"i nA GaDG, Ouiy HIS CdulOu-
ment must make room within the next
few days for 1900 new selects.
The coming contingent of draftees
will be the largest to be sent in this
direction since the initial quota of the
first draft at the opening of the camp
last September. The newcomers will
find themselves in a slightly different
position from the majority of the Sc
lects who have arrived here within the
last few months IN that some special
legislation is to be enacted for their
benefit. What this scheme is, will be
announced later.
Big attachments from New York
State will arrive with the coming batch
as will big contingent of negroes
from Virginia. There will be other
white selects from Maryland, District
of Columbia and West Vlrgi mia. There
will be colored rockies also from the
first three sections mentioned.
Many of the colored selects will be-
come members of the Eight Hundred
and Eighth Infantry regiment, now in
the course of organization. Colored
men of education, clerks, stenograph-
ers, college graduates who are within
the draft age and who have not been
called, but who will be called soon, will
do we'll to make application at once to
get into this new organization. They
may do so by applying to their draft
boards and asking to be advanced along
the list. Such applicants will have
splendid chance of being made nom
CONS right off the reel-that is, of
course, if they measure up to the mark.
Military experience will not be neces-
sary. Colonel H. L. Klnnison, COM
mander of the regiment, is anxious to
get such applicants as he is DESTROYS of
building up his regiment. Colored
musicians are wanted at once for the
regimental band.
The seventeen thousand now coming
will be the advance guard of that .eat
body of soldiers which is to make Meade
the biggest contonment in the country,
bringing up the normal population of
this camp to between 55, eco and 90, COO
men The work of erecting the bar
r ks for the II, 600 members of the
signal corps who are to be here has al
ready started. and will gain decided
impetus this week. Work is progress
'1g rapidly on the big ware houses in
the neighborhood of Admiral and every
/ y who has anything to do with the
work, either from military or civilian
point of view, is busy up to his ears.
Several hundred new second lieuten-
ants from Camp Lee are expected to
show up before many days have gone
by. 1t has practically been settl-d that
Meade is to become the home of a new
division. but not until the Seventy ninth
Division has been moved across. These
young lieuteIe1ts will not assume their
official duties here until Major General
KIhn's crowd has been moved out,
though it is likely that the new officers
will take few days to get the lay of
the land. Many former members of the
Seventy ninth Division Will be sent here,
including number of BaltImoreans.
who were sent from the Three Hun
bred and Thirteenth to the Officers
Training School and afterward COM
mssioncd.
Apropos of officers and men. that is
an interesting story that comes out this
wav from Washington to the effect that
h" dr. Is of privates and non-coms
were placed IN guardhouses in that city
for not sautirg. There is no excuse
for the neglect of soldiers to salute their
officers. They deserve all the punish
ment that is coming to them through
breach of such military discipline
opinion of outsiders to the conf :,
notwithstanding. Men who fail to
( lutte their officers at this cantonment
are severely punished. AS ole there
are few such breaches of etiquette by
the men either here or IN Baltimore,
though 1T has been noticed repeatedly
by officers from this cantonment that
many soldiers not from Meade fail in
this respect back in the home town,
There's another side to the story in
Washing ton, however, that the mill
tlry officials there should investigate
That is the lack of military etiquette
on the part of many officers in that city.
Meade men have repeatedly complain
ed that while they were in Washington
officers refused to pay the slightest
attention to their salutes; that the
officers either deliberately turned their
heads or stared straight ahead. The
refusal of officers in that city to ac-
knowledge salutes has been particularly
aggravatlng in some of the big military
officers in that town. In the War De-
partment building itself, officers have
repeatedly failed to return salutes
either before or at the end of discus
sions with privates from this canton
ment. Men from various branches of
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