Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-01
AT CAMP lee
FAVOR PAY SCHEDULE
Military Men Believe S15-u-Nionth
Rate Is Now Matter of
History.
sIEUTENANT IN sroCkADE
johnson, Who Attacked
continental System in Congress,
Was Stationed mt Cantonment for
Weeks Awaiting Commission.

sk.sS CAMP LEE, VA. February U.s.
Ss0hieers at Camp Lee have hcsitated
,sSeyen moderate sized standing army
L could not be recruited in America if
The 5a5 monthly wage was reduced to the
y heartily approve the efforts made by
the War Department to retain the
pay of the enlisted men at $50 per
month, and to otherwise improve con-
Editions. OF enlistment. It is considered
spiritually certain that this rate OF pay
memoranduni received today from the
kSid5utant- office. giving an
extract from bill which has passed
hoth national houses and only awaits
Ycome effective. 1t follows:
sAfter the approval of this act one
lar army of the United States shall
be- for a period of one year. and the
remaining two-thirds thereof shall be
as1or the period OF three years. Any
sSperson enlisting under the provisions
ssofS this act shall not be required TO
ssserye with the reserves.
tssThe pay of the men enlisted here
sander shall be the same as that pro-
sssSyided by the act entitled AN act to au-
4thorize the President to increase tenn
sfporarily the military establishment OF
ssthe United states approved May Is.
s1917. Provided further that after the
s%eSptration of one year, those enlist
I. be discharged in the discretion OF the
q secretary of War;
5sCONGRlGSSMAN JOHNSON
LIVED AT CAMP LEE
Many officers and men of Camp Lee
are taking especial interest in the
appearance OF Congressman Royal l..
3 Johnson, of South Dakota, before Con-
gress where he has been attacking the
personally acquainted with him. John
] son was at Camp Lee for several
1 weeks. coming here from training
4 camp at Camp Meade 10 await his
commission He attached The
" Twenty-fourth Company. Sixth Bat
TALON, One Hundred and Fifty-dfth
4 sion June ., and was then attached to
1.-the Replacement Camp until sent over
seas.
Major Swindell, provost marshal re-
d turned this morning from Aberdeen
y Proving Grounds, Md, with Lieutenant
Joseph A. Denault, North Adams.
! at Thirty-third Street. Denault was
Z held in camp on the charge OF being
absent without leave from his COM
mand, but broke his parole and was
Is apprehended by the Military Police on
4this latter charge. His case will come
E4np for trial shortly.
FIVE HUNDRED MEN
DISCHARGED FROM CAMP
With the receipt of 500 men. mostly
Pennsylvanians, in small units from
overseas, Camp Lee just about held
its own today. There were transfers
of 500. most OF the men being dis
charged and on their way back TO
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and va
rious sections of this state The
Z daily cbb and flow continues abou;
500, which is number that can be
| handled without difficulty by the mus
teI-ing- Office.
Many Camp Lee soldiers, who are
Il still making the monthly sum OF $50
arc wrestling with the income tax
statements which reached them this
week. While they are not contein-
plating having 10 pay out tax when
they figure up the amount OF their
income since they have been in the
army. they APPRECIATE the honor thus
DIR. c. Alfonso Smith. professor o;
English Annapolis Naval Academy.
formerly of the University OF V!r-
ginia and American exchange pro-
lessor at University of Berlin, VIII
speak here sunday nigh: a; the Big
~" Hut.