The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-09-04
Much Water REQUIRED.

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The water supply of the camp is
capable Of furnishing 55 gallons OF
water per day for each man when the
camp is filled to it's capacity. Yet Of
|ficers and men have been cautioned
mot to waste the water, as emergency
cases might call for great supply.
The-water supply is from a series
!of wells in the sand near the Des
Moines river. A large pumping plant
forces the water into the great &C.
ment reservoir on the hill, the location
affording excellent pressure.
Feeding a Soldier for Year.
We have previously stated that it
costs $4,000 to put man on the fir
ing line in France. And after he is
ready for trench warfare it takes a
lot of food and clothing to keep him
going. 1t is officially announced that
a years rations represent the follow
ing for each man: Beef, ATS pounds,
or bacon, 275 pounds; wheat -four, Alb
pounds; potatoes, 45S pounds; beans,
IS pounds; prunes, 81 pounds; coffee,
rs pounds; sugar, 70 pounds; syrup,
7 pounds; condensed milk, liz
pounds; butter, liz pounds, lard
liz pounds; vinegar, 81 pounds;
salt, 1874 pounds.
An Arctic Traveller and Guide in Camp
Lyle Darling. who served Robert D.
Service as a guide in Alaska and ad-
jacent country northward and who is
the hero Of one of his poems in the
character of "Athabasca Dick" is
soldier at Camp Dodge along with
several thousand other notables of
greater or lesser degree. Darling is
now in the orthopedic ward at the
base hospital trying to get relief from
an injured hip that was occasioned by
dead tree falling upon him during
an arctic storm. Expert surgeons are
trying to make amends for lack of
care at the time of the accident sew
eral years ago. 1t is doubtful If he
will be able to see service on the fir
ing line.
Robert D. Service was gathering
material for his poem. Rhymes of a
Rolling Stone" when Darling served
as guide. ... ,..l.. .a ~
Draft Evaders Take Advice to "Be
Good"
From fifty to sixty draft evaders
have been brought to camp this week
aid placed under the care OF the mill
tary police until they could be drafted
into the service. Some of these men
who haze voiced objections to serving
n the army, have been convinced by
the advice of Capt. Per Lee and Lieut..
9. w. Crippen, commanding officer
and adjutant Of the provisional mill.
tary police organization Of the camp,
that the best thing they could do
would be t0sobey orders and Join the
service. n 7
New Hospital officers.
New officers who are to go on duty
at the base hospital are: Maj. Warren
Dennis, Capt. Jefferson Blything, Capt.
Gilbert Gotham, Capt James A. Down
ing, Capt. George W. Kirby, Capt.
s. Little, Capt, Velpeau H.
Ragsdale, Capt. Harry B. Wilkinson
and Lieuts. G. H. Faggart, Milton M.
Miller, Claude Moore, Finis Suggett,
Carl Hudson and David Natinson.
Standardize Work for Army Pastors.
Recent legislation increasing the
number of army chaplains in the
military forces of the United States
will result in the gradual elimina-
lion of representatives of various
;reeds now known and authorized as
army pastors. according to an an
louncement from division headquar-
.ers at Camp Dodge. Since the or
sanization Of the SSth division there
nave been from fifteen to thirty men,
he majority Of them ordained minis
,ers, conducting religious work among
he soldiers. A letter from the war
department. received last week direct
ng that these men be notified Of the
departments intention Of relieving
hem of this work and placing the en-.
ire religious activities of the camp
md the new 10th division in the hands
If commissioned chaplains, resulted
n a meeting Saturday at which Off
,ial notification of the departments
policy was communicated to the pas
:ors. There are representatives of
thirteen different sects here, number
ng between twenty-five and thirty pas
ors. The work these men have done
S said to have been of considerable
lid and benefit to the men and Off
,ers. At the meeting Saturday rep
'esentatives of the following sects
we're present: Presbyterian. Baptist,
ucIlUuloI, lAuLHeIdu, IplSCOpdl, SUll-
Swedish Evangelical,
Swedish Evangelical Free Church,
Christian Reformed, Christian Sci
'nce, Seventh Day Adventists and
Catholic. In directing that the SER
ices of these army pastors be dis.
,ensed with the department points out !
he provision which recently was
made for placing three chaplains in
avery regiment, or one to every 1900
nel. A training school for army chap.
aims also has been established at an |
EASTERN post where men commissioned |
or this work are given special in
;truction in the work.
: Taking Care Of the Deinquents.
All of the men mentally deficient, |
hose who can not read and write, the |
oreigner who can not speak English,
hose in poor physical condition be-
.ause they do not know how to take
ARE of themselves and in fact all of
he human driftwood that has been
,athered into the army from the oper-
.tions Of the selective draft, have been |
ormed into classes, placed in proper |
trades and are being educated by men
delegated for that purpose from among
he soldiers. This work is under the
of the Y. M. G.. A., headed
" Prof. Harry L. Eells,, member of
he faculty of the State Teachers col
age at Cedar Fails These fellows