Evening journal., 1918-08-23
GOV. TOWNSEND
WITH SOLDIERS
State Executive Creets
Delaware Fighters In
Camp at Dix
CAPT. VAN SEWER
NAMED ADJUTANT

CAMP DIX, Wrightstovn, \. j.. Aug
23-Govcrnor. John G. Townsend. Jr.,
Of Delaware paid an informal visit to
home State men OF the 59th Pioneers
Yesterday when he motored up with
friends and spent few hours at Camp
Dix. The governor after call at regi-
mental headquarters where he met
Colonel Reed and his stan, visited sew
nal Of the barracks and greeted many
Of the soldiers he knew personally.
Captain II. b. Nan Solver, Of VIII
mington, Del. has been maze personnel
adjutant OF the 59th. succeeding Cap
tain w +. Cam, who becomes com
msnder of D Company.
Thirty-fve young women from At
lsntic and New England States COM
pose the first class OF the Army School
OF Nursing. which was opened at the
Base Hospital yesterday with Miss Caro-
line Milne, for % years head nurse at
the Presbyterian Hospital. Philadel-
phia, as principal. Additional classes
will be formed as rapidly as arrange
ments can be made for them here.
The fair young patriots made their
debut in true army stye when this
afternoon each received her shot" as
the soldier rockies" designate the inoc-
ulatlon against typhoid and smallpox.
They apparently had faced this particu-
lar experience with the same dread as
do the new recruits in The draft quotas
and seemed to care as little about IL
when Il was all over, and the entire
class, all smiles, were out for hike
under direction Of Miss Bertha Wilder,
OF Utica, n. Y: director OF social ac-
tivities Of the new school.
The candidate nurses are enlisted for
the period of the war, or a three-year
course, which includes two years in an
army hospital and one year in civilian
hospital as necessary TO win a diploma.
Following their preliminary training
they will be assigned TO assist graduate
nurses in the big hospital here. which
has accommodations for more than 20O0
patients. Later their advancement will
make Il possible TO release many grad
uate nurses to meet the great demand
for overseas work.
Their school life will not be all work.
Under direction OF Miss Wilder there
will be a continuous program of social
s0tivitles, entertainments and athletics
for their leisure hours. Living cOndi-
tions will be made as homelike as pos
sible. Miss Wilder will also chaperOne
visits TO the main camp, such as the
students enjoyed last night. when they
were guests at an entertainment pre-
sented by soldier talent at the Y. NJ C.
A. auditorium.
''Never knew much about this White
albion crowd except that they helped
out the rope around old John Barley
.orns neck inf the South, so l sort of
iized EN- up as a bunch of Carrie Ma
ion crusaders But friend, it's all
Arongl They're the finest lot of honey
olks you ever met" The young Mis-
,issippi "dougnboy" pointed to an old
fashioned dwelling set at the angle OF
'oads at Pointville. Just on the edge Of
ne military reservation.
THAT little old Cold Water Inn has
,een the only touch Of home TO hum
lreds OF us camp pikers for the last two
months" ne said, giving the soldiers
slub. of the Women's Christian Temper
ince Union dts pet nickname among the
troops. ''Wed like to take the club,
White Ribbon ladies and all, right along
with us over there"
Further inquiry among the boys OF a
nearby infantry regiment disclosed the
fact that the club which the white
Ribbon ladies" OF Burlington county re-
Gently opened at the POintville end Of
the cantonment has won a warm place
In the affections OF the soldiers training
IN nearby regiments. The women have
made II actually a home center for their
soldier guests. many Of whom are from
the Mississippi valley States. Hungry