The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-07-30
their period of convalescence at the
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| their perlOO OF COnValeSceHce d. IAe
hospital here, dt;,. ..,l,..sA.t.4l.,
"The, policy of the government ol
Iprepating these men for positions, IN
civiE lie is followed here TO- "a Ger
| tain stage. The men are given train
ing in . trades or vocations in which
their injuries will be, no hindrance
but there is no way here, to tell how
many, of. them are succeeding on the
positions which they, later obtain" n
As soon as the soldiers. recover from
their wounds and have cOnyalesced to
a healthy period they are sent from
Fort Des Moines to the camp nearest
their home, where they receive their
official discharge from the military
service.
| With them goes statement to camp
officials regarding the vocational
training they have received at the hos
pitaI and the securing Of position
for them is done from the camp.
Fort Des Moines will be perma'
nent regular army hospital even after
the war convalescences have been dis
charged in the opinion Of Maj. G. M
Watson, adjutant of the hospital.
| As yet no plans have been made
pointing to its discontinuance. There
are now $500 patients at Fort Des
Moines, the largest number since the
close of the war. t7; ~
Medical Train Starts Tour + Il
The largest medical recruiting party
ever sent out from Camp Dodge start
| ed out on q tour OF the; state July 22d.
The party; and their equipment is
transported in four trucks, an ambu.
lance and a touring car. The trip will
last about twenty-one days according
to the present schedule.
The equipment includes sixteen
tents, one for mess and one large one
for field hospital besides the tents
used to quarter the party.
Towns which will be visited are
Boone, Ogden, Fort Dodge, Algona,
Emmetsburg, Estherville, Spirit Lake,
Spencer, Hartley, Cherokee, Remsen,
LeMars, Sioux City, rSmithland, Ute,
Denison, Arcadia, Manning, Extra,
Guthrie Center, Dallas Center and
back to Camp Dodge. The distance Is
approximately 600 miles.
Federal Board Helps Disabled Men
The federal board for vocational
education has just completed an ar
rangement with the University of Ari-
zona at Tucson whereby a.training a
center will be established for the
benefit of disabled soldiers. Climatic
conditions in this part Of Arizona
make 1t particularly desirable place
for soldiers who have been gassed or
who are suffering with tuberculosis.
The training center will not, however,
limit its opportunities, to such men,
but will receive any discharged soldier
whose disability received while in
service marks him as q subject for re-
training. Students may be admitted
to the regular courses in agriculture,
engineering or commercial subjects,
or special courses will! be provided
when necessary for disabled men re-
quiring intensive. practical training;
leading to - employment. In a short
time. M T..
National Guard to be Reoroanized
Under recent act of congress it is
possible to reorganize the national
guard upon a limited scale. For the
first year Iowa is entitled to 5000 men.
1t was hoped that the old Third Iowa,
known as the 168th regiment, could
be organized at once into a national
guard unit, but this cannot be done
under the present plan, without dis
banding the regiment already formed.
The original allotment for Iowa is one
regiment Of infantry, one squadron of
cavalry one machine gun troop, one
battalion OF field artillery, one 'battal.
inn ~ rirnnpc aa1A hocrSto1
and one ambulance company. -
Adj. Gen. Lasher Is quoted as say
ing: I'VE do not want the cavalry
and can do without the machine gun
troop. We, will ask the war. depart
ment TO have these two units assigned
to one of the other of the states COM
posing district No. 62, and permit Iowa
another regiment of infantry. 4.
;; The. law relating to, ,enlistments pro-.
vides that men who served as enlist
ed men in the United States army, or
In the organized militia of the several
states, since April s, 1917, and who
have been honorably discharged, may,
within six months after July IL, 1919,
enlist in the national guard for peri
cd of one year and may re.enlist for
a like period. II discharged subse-
quently to July II, 1919, they may en-
list within six months after discharge
All other qualified men shall be enlist
ed for period of one year or for
period of, three years. In each organ
ization the proportion of one year en-
listments to three year enlistments
shall be that of one to two.
The eniistments in the national
guard for periods Of one and three
years carries with it no obligation to
serve in the national guard service.
4 Mrs. r. p. Conner was a passenger
to Council Bluffs Sunday morning,
where she is spending the week visit