The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26
INTEREST CENTERS
ON OVERSEE men
Men Who Saw Active Service Over
seas Return Home Loaded With
Plenty of Paraphernalia .
WOUNDED MEN ARRIVE DAILY


WOUNDED MEN ARRIVE DAILY
Iowa National Bank Receives Big
check-$3, SOC, ,000-for Paying %
Men and Other Expenses
CAMP DODGE, Feb. 22-With the
close of the past week 56,457 soldiers
had been discharged at this canton
ment. During the formative period OF
war activities about 100000 different
men were received at this camp. II
those who we're mustered in here and
transferred to other camps are
brought here for discharge this will
mean that nearly 100000 men are yet
to be returned here. Every day large
numbers arrive and depart a steady
stream coming and going.
Interest centers largely in the over
seas men who have been returning by
the thousands in recent weeks. Many
of these men saw active service and
they return loaded with all kinds OF
paraphernalia. Great haversacks con-
tain their surplus clothing and var
ious and sundry,, equipment. Along
with these things are number OF
souvenirs of various kinds. The most
common is a metal helmet which US
ually bangles from the outside of their
heavy bundles. They also have pieces
of shells, discharged grenades, bullets
from the battle fields OF France and
occasionally some remnants of cloth
ing discarded by hardpressed German
:. soldiers. Swords, bayonets, revolvers
and other reminders Of the bloody as
saults in trenches or while going over
the top have place among the inter-
esting collection.
Hundreds of sWounded men arrived
the past week. Government hospital
No. 26 at Fort Des Moines is full and
the new arrivals are brought to the
base hospital in this camp. Equip
ment has arrived for training the
crippled men to work and everybody
is busy with some branch of industry
or is taking special training in school
that he may be better equipped for
duty. Several hundred men who are
confined to their beds are busy with
such work as they can perform. Any.
thing to keep them employed and
therefore divert their minds from their
injuries. a sg-sg-ss. -..t.s,S g..sj, ,s,ass.- ~
Red Cross Training School for Nurses
The question of whether army train.
ing schools for nurses will be con-
tinued is still undecided, according
ito Miss Garret, chief nurse at the
base hospital, who has returned from
Washington, where she attended a
conference of directors of the army
training school. The first course was
started at Camp Wadsworth, S. c.,
last July and there are now 20 camps
giving similar courses.
The training school directors were
addressed by Surg. Gen. w. w. Ire
land, who welcomed them; Colonel
Smith, of the surgeon generals Of
fee; Miss Ann Goodrich, dean of all
the army training schools for nurses,
and Miss Dora Thomas, supervisor
of the army nurses corps. About 50
attended the conference. ..s
Girls completing full three-year
course in colleges are given nine
months credit in the army training
school, Those having taken one or
two years of college work are given
credit, too. The candidates for the
schools are required to be high school
gradutes and take two years instruc-
tion in hospitals and one years work
in civilian hospitals. -
Camp Dodge has two classes Of
student nurses, numbering 55 candl-
dates. The first class here started
on Sept l, 1918.
Men Coming to Dodge
Three transports enroute to the
United States from Brest, France, are
bringing back men who will be sent to
Camp Dodge for discharge.
They are: Rhode Island, due Feb
26 at Newport News, Va, with 147th
machine gun battalion; Virginia, due
Feb 81 at New York, with trench ar
tillery units; Manchuria, due Feb. rs,
at New York, with members of the
10th and list coast artillery units.
Will Dodge Become Permanent Camp?
One complete division of regular
army troops will be stationed at Camp
Dodge, under the 100000 standing
army plan, if the suggestion made to
congress by Secretary Newton Baker
recently is carried out.
This is thesopinion Of several staff
officers at Dodge, who say that the
peace strength of division probably
will be approximately $4,000 men.
Bakers plan is to have Dodge made
one of the 16 permanent cantonments
in the United States. This would ne
cessitate the purchase of a large por-
tion Of the ground from the state Of
Iowa.
1t is doubtful if private owners Will
have to sell their land to the govern
ment, as the $4,000 men could be taken
care of in the southern portion Of the
cantonment, all of which is owned by
} the state.
Captain G. F. Mullenock, in charge
of transportations at Dodge, said Fri
day that the present barracks will last
at least five years.
His idea is that if the camp is made
permanent, brick barracks will replace
the wooden shacks erected for the ma
tional army. ~
The war department Thursday start
ed returning unused ground at the
cantonment to private owners. Ap-
proximately 232 acres of land used for
drill PURPOSES was turned back Off,