Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-23
PREPARING FOR The 10th
New Division to Be Trained at
GfeeRVllle.
Army Men Very Much Interested In
the Probable Effect of Increasing
the Draft Age UP to Forty-Five
Qassed by the Censor.)


Correspondence Of The Gorkville Enquirer.
/ Camp Sewer. Aug. l6.-Camp Sc
vier, which has been without q di-
vision OF the United States army for
several weeks past, Is soon 10 have
another. The new division which Is to
train here is to be known as the
Twentieth. and the understanding Is
that il will be built around a nucleus
consisting OF the 4Sth and 50th regi-
ments Of infantry. Quite number Of
officers to be connected with the new
division have recently arrived here
and also few troops. Some 1000
negro drafted men, which number, by
the way, is about the largest contin-
gent OF negroes who have been sta
toned at Camp Sewer since the train
ing camp was established more than a
year ago, arrived two or three weeks
ago. They are hard at work and are
being developed into pretty good SOL
dicrs mighty fast. Judging from
their appearance, their talk and their
attitude generally. they are more in
tclligcnt negroes than were the 9TH
ers who were here. Quite q number
OF them are former students and
some Of them are graduates Of Har-
ward and other great schools that
don't object to making highbrows out
of negroes along with white folks.
Ini hn liStr rfs
bia, naturally most Of these negroes
are residents OF the city OF Washing
ton. Some of them doubtless have
been pretty close TO congressman and
senators before they entered the SER
vice One shiny black one originally
from Georgia; but a resident OF
Washington for several years past.
upon being asked what he did before
he went to war. said he was "chauf-
feur for Mistah Scnatah Hokc Smith
of Georgia: | reckon go all has hearn
tell oh him."
Whether these negro drafted men
will compose part of the new Twen-
tirth division or whether they Will
he sent away along about the time
the new organizations arrive In full
force Is not known. There Is no hard
feeling or antagonism on the part Of
white soldiers OF Sewer to the pres
encc Of negro soldiers. II there Is
have never observed any indications
thereof. My eyes are good. The
whites take the position that all are
fighting In common cause, white
and black and red and a few Chinks
mixed in where they have been natu-
rallied. OF course no white soldier Is
going to chum up with the colored
|aehtsrss sssad> rA,t 81 aa ~:
vite 'em to nave a dope" and all that
sort of thing. AS for the negroes,
they don't expect any such treatment
and don't seem to want 1t. It used to
be said out in civil life that II you
gave a negro an inch. he would take
a mile. He doesn't seem to want
quite an inch in the service-I mean
so far as racial equality while he Is
training. Is concerned.
Glad to See Them.
Everybody out at Camp Sewer and
everybody in and around Greenville.
will be glad to see this new division
come In. To tell the truth. 1t has
been pretty dull around since the
last crowd was sent elsewhere. or
course there has been plenty OF work
for the several thousand men who
remained In the depot units. There Is
always plenty Of work In the army.
But the presence Of only hundreds Of
thousands. naturally makes its i'm
preston. The number Of entertain
ments around camp was diminished
after the last big bunch went out.
The best theatre in Greenville closed
down because there were not enough
soldiers to support 1t. The best res
taurGnt announced a month or 80 ago
that 1t was closed temporarily.
haven't eaten a soft-shell crab since
for the reason that no other restau-
rants serve them and the restaurant
| mentioned first closed because there
were not enough soldiers left who eat
soft shell crabs and other sea foods.
The smile that won't come of Is on
merchants faces since positive an
nouncement was made that the Twen-
tieth will soon begin to come in.
All United States Army.
Announcement was made this week
of an order from the war department
which has proved Of very peculiar in
terest to every soldier Of Sewer as
well as every other camp throughout
the country. There Is to be no more
National Guard. National army and
regular army. All land forces Of this
country engaged In the fight for hu-
man rights are hereafter to be known
as the United States army" That
soldier who enlisted in the National
Guard might as well forget 1t. 1t
isn't. The same with the National
army and the regulars. Soldiers have
been very proud of the branch Of the
army to which they belonged. That
is. IL a man were a guardsman, he
wanted everybody to know It II he
were a regular he felt he had a shade
on the soldier who wasn't, and II he
were a National army man, away
down in his feet he entertained a pet
faith that he either had or after a
few months Of training would have 1t
on both the regulars and the Nation
al guardsmen. But since the publi-
cation of this recent order, all are
regulars or members Of the army OF
the United States. It y Of vast I'M
port In many particulars Is this new
order. and in the opinion Of the writ
er, Is going to bring this great wal
machine OF OURS to a greater Click
IN the cause.
| Poor company clerks and personnel
officers viii hail the news with great
Joy. Where an outfit included mer