Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-02-06
news notes FROM
CAMP DODGE

Place Where Our Boys
Are Training.
Camp Dodge. Iowa, Feb. s, (De
Moines): Here is a picture Of tho boy,
at Camp Dodge to keep and treasure. 1
was tho night of the opening concert O
that great united band. that 1t happene,
the bands Of the division-marshalle
by the celebrated director, Bohumir Kry
In the big Y. M. c. A. auditorium.
1.-The The band l., was gEcoupsd under blazin.
platform with the bare rafters pnpaint
ed overhead. The lights shimmered OF
the polished scores Of Instruments. AM
one spot Of blue in the center. the darl
serge of the directors uniform.
Then from the very edge Of the plat
form to the doors was another cont1nu
wa. the boys Of the eishty-eiehth diyis
ion, General Plummer's command. The!
filled the row after row SO close tina
they looked like a brigade standing a
wave was not quite solid khaki.
In the front of the officers section
just dash of sky blue with flicker
out in its contrast from the bacSsfo 'ane
United States. It was the row Of ter
officers of the French army, veterans Of
Sammy how its done. Everyone bears
the mark left by Hun in battle.
Just It, a asc from them on the other
a bit darker (or was it darker), perhaps
olive drab. It was the row Of British
aa em o the OF f xpgs snd
where Tommy failed to break thru
There were ten of them also.
The concert was near the end: It had
suddenly raped his baton. The music
shifted his glance for the moment to the
raised his baton as he he WATCHED io them M
Then it came down and the great band
struck up the battle song Of France,
The Marsellaise."
their feet. Their heels came together
attention. In another moment the entire
mand, came also to rigid attention: The
SHOULDERS Of the sons Of the the tri-color
Glory paid this tribute to their. flag.
and seizing his baton between his teeth
plunged into the direction with both
hands He said afterwards that he knew
whsn he lara the Mresh 1pen
statue of Lafayette in France and, COM
ing to salute, said:
Lafayette, we have come"
q slight; pause and then came 'Brittania
Rules the Waves" 1t was the British
ers, ,, turn and their chins seemed to raise
of France and England.
The band played the anthems Of Bel
fhraa and Italy The The soldiers of the
fore the strains of the Italian martial
air had finished, there burst from behind
g. raft ter, oyer the band: huge American
and the Union Jack. The band rose and
the great hall rocked with the vibrant
notes ties. Of the Star spangled Banner.
Not NOT q man in the ranks stirred. d.
and watched it until the end. The az
lied soldiers sat down. One might have
expected mighty cheer. But there was
There was moment of silence and then
a buck private somewhere In the back
began to clap his hands. The tension
broke and the rafters rocked the echoes
a minute. And the concert was over.
TO those newspaper folk and few civil
lans who saw it, it will always be a
m nor that revealed to them the spirit
break the Hindenburg line
n kr ~ +h united daI band marked the open
Of has Hf besg at
the government playhouse, Liberty The
atre." with a seating capacity Of more
than 5000 will be opened within a few
is the comedy, Fair and Warmer" the
real professional production. It will
play Liberty Theatre for four days be-
ginning Ginning February 10 and the price of ad,
cents. They will see the regular 500
be foll9 2" ID BY Cheating Cheaters.
Cowl in Lilac Time" So the Dod dg
men will be we'll cared for in entertain
wv, Whe s you hear a soldier called a
he is an Iowa, or Minnesota or North
Rak4ta or Illinois boy from the eighty
Fer the name was officially selected
by General Getty this week. It was
suggestions as the name for the divis-
Getty 5sys hs the Bows sf 5a
soldiers "over there" just as hundred @a Of
them from this corn belt have been
name will go to France with the divis-
ion.
There is reason to believe that Mai.
Gen: Edward II. Plummer will not return
to Camp Dodge. All major generals in
command of divisions have been sum-
moned to France to study battle methods
at close range: All have returned ex-
cept Generals Wood and Plummer OFF,
GERS at Dodge believe General Pershing
intends to keep them there and make
them part of his staff. In which event
Brig. Gen. Getty. now commander at
Camp Dodge, is expected to succeed Cen
eral Plummer.
Colonel Harrison J. Price, commander
of the 350th Infantry, Iowa men was
asked the question whether the boys
from the farm or the city make the best
soldiers. He answered that "The man
from the country is as good a soldier
as the man from the city and the man
from the city is as good a soldier as the
man from the country, and these middle
west boys are the best soldiers in the
practically no difference in their ability
to take to" the army work and military
life. But he does find this difference
that the younger men from the country,
while oft1mes stronger and heartier, are
more susceptible to kids diseases as
the army calls them--chicken pox, meas
i tG;,s m, NJ Ip etc; Colonel Price declares
them like the kids in the city. The CITY
kids have had these diseases and the
country kids have not.
Work has been rushed to the limit in
the ttnas nope oP .s OF completing hospital addi-
rival Of the last increment Of the divis-
ion. The quartermaster's department
has been authorized by Washington to
procure lumber from any source possible