The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-03

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men. Today it houses $4,000, and it
has had as many as $4,000.
The station is one vast school, with
a large number Of technical courses.
varied with a lot of outdoor drill and
physical exercise, and with more per-
sonal attention paid individual stu
dents than is the case at many COL
leges.
A man who goes into the navy goes
into a particular branch, and his ed
ucation for that work begins at once
When batch of recruits comes into
Great Lakes each man carrier an iden-
LITIGATION card. On arrival the men
are marched into big building lined
with desks. They pass down the line,
and when they are through, every
record has been made, and all neces-
sary instructions issued to them. The
rookie signs his clothing card, his
permanent record card, receives a
pay number, and makes out a '!.relig-
ious registration" card, which is turn
ed over to the chaplains.
Mentality Is Tested.
Then he is marched to the ware
house. where he receives two towels.
two blankets and mattress cover.
Next his company commander is call
ed, and he is. taken to his barracks.
and shown where he is to eat and
sleep. Then his clothing is issued to
him. Within "a hours he is given a
medical examination, vaccinated,
shot with anti-typhoid. and has
throat culture taken For u days,
he remains in the detention camp, a
d regiment in itself. =. -~
Here he is given psychiatric test
to determine his mentality. OF all the
men examined, about 10 per cent are
held for full examination Of their
mentality, and less than 'three-tenths
of per cent of these prove mentally
defective.
l don't know what a sailors life at
sea may be like, but on shore at the
Great Lakes it is the healthiest kind
of mixture of work and play.
- The men live As to barracks. "a
in each end. The barracks is divided
into sleeping quarters, living quarters
and scullery. Four men are detailed
each day to do mess detail-kitchen
work. -
| ! udu d LlNludy meal III Ddl IdCho--
big plate Of roast beef, baked pota-
toes, kidney beans, gravy, bread and
coffee. There are two meals like that,
and lighter breakfast. At one meal,
there is dessert also, and usually fruit
| in addition. The refrigerating plants
carry weeks supply of meat. car
ried out my own mess kit, dumped the
leavings into the garbage tin and piled
up the mess gear"-nOt dishes-in
the pans for the mess detail to wash.
The rules require all mess gear to
be boiled for 20 minutes. The balleys
are so clean that half of the mess de-
tail must spend all it's time scrub
bling them. -.
Laundry Is Dirt Cheap.
Every barracks is fitted with shower
baths, with hot and cold water-and
every sailor in camp must take bath
every morning.
Every regiment has laundry all
it's own, run by practical laundry
man. Most remarkable is the price
at which Uncle Sam finds he can wash
clothes. Any sailor can send as much
laundry as he likes twice a week for
13 cents! This includes anything he
wears but his blue cloth suit, and that
he can get cleaned and pressed for 20
I cents. And the laundries make money
at that! ~
The regiments are composed of men
who are taking the same courses:
There are courses for coxwains, gun
ner's mates, quarterma sters, signal
men, cooks, hospital corps men, radio,