New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-27
.D0BSN' TAKE LONG
TO MAKE 4 SAMMY
CHANGING YOUR BOY INTO :
SOLDIER REQUIRES ONE
HOUR OF TIME
LITTLE ITEMS OF INTEREST
CONCERNING NEW HOMES
OF THE BOYS

New soldiers are arriving daily. Some
are coming from Minnesota, some from
Illinois, and number from Iowa.
By another week there will be regulE
rush for the big cantonment. By the
time the $4,000 have reached the camp
the officers in charge of enrolment
will have handled 100000 different
papers. There is lot of red tame to
unwind when it comes to joining IEncle
Sans fighting forces. Twenty-four
hours after a man arrives in camp the
mastering officer, Lieut.. Col. J. j. Nc
Connell, will be able to give anyone his
address and company designation. Eight
officers and 13 enlisted men are at present
assigned to the mastering office. An
additional rs officers and a number Of
enlisted men will be temporarily detailed
to assist when the big rush is on. La
order that the boys who are to report
from time to time may know something
of what is required OF them l want TO
take them with me on the journey
through the "mill'' I was standing
near the place where a group of meH
were to be detrained.
Making A Soldier
Officers were. waiting for them rs
they left the train.
Line up in single file, and follow
me, . was the command of the non
com who took the fellows in tow.
Suit cases in hand, they hep heped
to the entrance Z Of the Registrations
building half a block up the concrete
road. There other officers took Them
in charge. With the line still unbroken,
they were fed into the receiving roam
like meat into sausage mill. As they
passed thru the door, each man was
handed a card, upon which he was Ia
structed to write his name, address and
civil occupation. Tables are provided
inside at which this work is done.
With cards prepared, they entered
a long chute which discharged them
one by one in front of the assignment
officers desk. A glance at the card
and few questions suficed to mform
the officers the organization to which
they were to be assigned, and they were
passed on to the room in which unit
commanders were waiting to place them
in smaller organizations within their
own commands. These instructions were
written on the cards and the lines moved
on to the exit, where still other officers
were waiting.
They had been in the army about
three minutes.
AS they emerged from the building
they were again formed in single file
When about Is had collected, they
were marched away up the street ied
by another non-com to barracks only
a few hundred feet away.
Just within the door of this building
sat a busy captain. The line passed ia
front of him. AS it passed he took the
name of each man.
Eight men passed him and were
lined up facing a lieutenant at the
other side Of the room
11The last man of squad 28", the cap
tain sang out as the eighth man passed
him, and paused to allow the ieutm-
ant to do his bit.
HAS anyone here had any military
= 2..- 49,.
experienced was the ieutenant's fr
question. Usually no one responded
The lieutenant scanned the faces II
each Of his new squad.
Making an Officer
GU will act temporarily as cor
poral, in charge Of this squad, : said
the lieutenant, singing out one Of the
number. This is squad % renem
Der the number: %. Whenever squad
% is called remember it means you.
Get your mess kits as you pass,
and follow me- was the next cun-
mand, given by non com who had
been waiting for the lieutenant to fn-
.ish his job. A soldier dealt out cup.
knife, fork, spoon and mess pan as the
new army men filed past him and TINA
the door they had entered.
About 10 minutes in the army, now.
Marched upstairs IN the building
next door, they were instructed TO
leave their baggage and return 10 The
building just left where foed awaited
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