New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-10


fcation cards. He was sentenced to.
10 years in the federal prison at Fort.
Leavenworth. J, q
Soldier. Anxious i. \, 10 Learn
s Campo odges hasebecome virtuallyta
university. Men are 50 anxious for
lessons in typewriting, French, Eng
lish, even animal hushandry, that the
facilities of the army X. M. G. A. edu-
cational department are being taxed
to the limit. More than $500 enlisted
men and officers are now enrolled in
the Y. M. C. A: educational classes,
according to a report issued recently
| by A. c. Trowbridge, educational sec
rotary. Company: clerks and others in
army clerical work are taking type
writing lessons. To meet the edu-
cational demands, Secretary Trow-
bridge has had to increase his staff
and is hoping to acquire number of
paid teachers. At present eight pre-
fessional teachers are employed and
others are selected from among the en-
listed men and Offices. Twelve hun
dred men from the ranks of the mill
tary police, the renol MT station, and
tae ammunition and sanitary trains
are attending classes in animal hus-
bandry being conducted by the Y. M.
C. A. These men are much interested
in the proper care of their horses.
Activities of the Y. M. c. A.
Secretary Fred H. Hansen has made
his report for March. 1t shows the
large place the Y. M. c. A.. is filling
in army circles. The total attendance
at Y. M. C. A. buildings for the month
was 355,O65. In the same time there
were fifty-eight educational lectures
held in the eight buildings; 1,065 ses-
sitions of educaonal classes; 1902 books
| circulated from the, libraries and 401
religious meetings. There were 1913
sessions of Bible classes within the
month. Entertainments during the
month aside, from the moving picture
shows numbered 1854, and there were
1O8 moving picture shows. The desks
for lette- writing, for which paper,
pencils, pen and ink and envelopes are
furnished by the Y. M. C. A. is by no
means the least popular phase of the
service of they. Nj. C. A. During the
month there were AL, 450 letters writ
ten in the buildings. Money order
sales amounted to $27 ,128.57 during
the month. In ten days when the new
recruits were shipping home their CT
william clothing, the Y. M. c. AS fur
nished $50 worth of wrapping paper,
helped the men to bundle up their old
clothes and weighed and addressed
hundreds of packages for the men.
The whole cost of all this service to.
the men of the division cost only fifty
cents per man per month. H.. ,~
No Divorces While in Service
By virtue of a law passed by the
9th general assembly men, in the
service, of their country are exempt
Efrom all litigation, the limitation ex-
tending to six months after being dis
charged, from" the army. A soldier at
Camp Dodge was served with notice
issued by an attorney that his wife
would ask for a divorce at an ap-
preaching term Of court. The attorney
for the soldier Immediately invoked
the stipulation Of the new law. Up to
that time nobody had thought that the
enactment, related to matters other
than suits to collect debts and to e, =
force contracts, but the new order
was upheld by the court. No divorce
until the war ends.
= Prominent Negro Here
Emmett Scott, called Americas fore
most negro, was the guest Friday Of
Capt. G. G.. Kelley of Company G.,
366th Infantry, at Camp Dodge.
T Scott is special advisor Of Newton
D. Baker, secretary of war, in matters
pertaining to the negro soldiers.
He for 20 years secretary Of
Tuskegee Institute, where he and Cap
Etain Kelley were friends for Is years,
and was private secretary to the late
| Booker T. Washington for many years.
My purpose is to put heart into the
NEGRO soldiers and keep up his enthus-
iasm" !, was Scott's statement. 1t gives
the men heart to know they have a
Representative to look after their in
|terests in Washing ton
Negro Training Camp to be Held al
is. Dodge