Weekly journal-miner., 1918-02-27
LAST 0F FIRST DRAFT ARRIVING
 AT FUNSTON
RECRUITS FROM THE 2 MIDDLE STATES INCLUD- ING ARIZONA, MAKE UP THE NEWCOMERS; HARD COURSE OF SPROUTS.

CAMP FUNSTON, Kan, Feb. Z3. Again Camp Funston is opening
 its doors to incoming national army
 men, this time to those of the last in-
 crement of the first draft Men from
 seven middle States-Arizona, Colo
 rado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska,
 New Mexico and South Dakota win
 make up the newcomers.
 When the movement of this incrc-
 ment of troops IS completed, the seven
 States named above will have their
 complete quotas. called on the first
 draft in camp. The movemHnt of men
 will continue until March 5. Follow
 ing arc the quotas to be sent from
 each State at this time: Arizona, 490;
 Colorado, 656; Kansas, approximately
 700; Missouri. l,33l; Nebraska, L.
 l30: New Mexico, 330; South Dakota, 39o. Total, 5,036.
 Extensive preparations have been
 made at Camp Funston for the new men. who will find accommodations vastly better than did those men who came to the cantonment with the first incrcments last fall. A special receiving camp has been prepared fof the new men and here they will re. ceivc clothing and equipment and be instructed in the rudiments of miIi> tary training. The men will be kept in the detention camp for two weeks. TI,;- ;- a ,-o-art,or ,,-b,rb ,,-ac moi taken with earlier movements of troops and is expected to result in better health conditions at the can tonnrent. Men found to be carriers of contagious disease will be sent to isolation camps.
 The incoming recruit will find him self being assembled. He will leave the train at Artillery boulevard, on the west line of Camp Funston proper From this point he will be conducted to building No. 430, where the curtain will be lifted on new life, and the first act will be staged After bathing at building No. 43O. the recruit will check in his civilian clothing, then proceeding through boarded gangway to building No. 421 where he will undergo his physical examination. If he is rejected, he will be dispatched to a nearby of' flee where a discharge will be filled out for him, after which he may take the train home. The man passing the examination successfully, how ever, goes to lower floor to the out fitting rooms, where he receives his complete outfit. Clothed as a sol, dier, he then proceeds to building No. 43O. Arriving here, his service record is made out at one table; at another his enlistment and assignment cards arc filled out, while at a third he will be given an opportunity to allot a portion of his pay to home folks. The recruit then proceeds to floor above where his qualifications along cer, tain lines are ascertained and card filled out accordingly. Downstairs he goes again. this time to an cx- press office where he may make parcel of his civilian clothes and send Ihcm home.
 After making the foregoing rounds, Inc recruit is ready for the detention camp. Here, perhaps, will come the first unpleasantncss of his new life, for here 1t is that the vaccinations md inoculations arc administered. Examination also Is made for con agious disease, and if the man IS ound to be a carrier he is sent to an solation camp. When the man is finally assigned to an organization, lc is ready for duty and then it is hat his military training begins in 'arncst. Orly ono thing remains to ,c donc-stakc advantage of the gov ,rnment war risk insurance. Inc army man subscribes for this through his company commander.
 In conducting tests recently ot this yStcm of receiving new men, It was ound that 400 men could be handled day. A soldier a minute, fully quippcd and with records filled out. $ the goal