The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-03-26
lar army commissions all class one
and class two officers at Camp Dodge
will be released at once from the SER

lar army commissions all class one
and class two officers at Camp Dodge
will be released at once from the SER
vice states the war department order
',just received. Glass one officers are
those who made application for imme-
diate discharge and class two officers
are those asking for prompt dis
charge and permission in the reserve"
The order further states that those
who elect to remain in the army and
were sent to school for further train
ling will be released from such schools
and returned to duty to replace class
one and two officers.
Exchanges Were Profitable.
Sales for ten months at the Camp
dodge exchange store total 1858, 1868
according to figures made public Fri
day. On a 10 per cent basis the profits
are s32,746.63. Doughboys were the
principal customers.
The Camp Dodger, owned by the ex-
change store, paid dividend of $S2.-
452.68, and a warehouse also operated
by the exchange shows profit of $l0,-
|129.69. The total exchanges profits
since last May are $75.329.
| Advisory Board Finish Work
The 112 local, two district and
thirty.six medical advisory boards in
Iowa, who had charge of the draft
work under the direction of the ad-
|jutant general of Iowa, have received
Iorders from the provost marshal gen.
teral to close their work and ship their
records to Washington not later than
March 31st. This order is general and
lis being carried out in every state In
the union. ..:
Iowa will ship to Washington at
least thirty car loads of records, max
ing a fair sized freight train. The rec.
ords will be gathered at each county
seat and will be loaded in. freight cars
which will start from the Missouri
river points, stopping at county seat
points for installments. The train will
be made up in Chicago and go direct
to Washington without stop. except
Ito change crews and for water and
coal. The records will be delivered
to the adjutant general of the army.
Iowa had over 100000 registrants
and probably there will be between
1900, 900 and 100000 documents in
1.-The various shipments.
As soon as the reports have been
inspected in Washington and board
members have been cleared of proper
responsibility they will be discharged
from the service. All clerks of Iowa
boards are to be discharged March
31st.
Pathetic Scenes in Hospitals
There are gray headed men and
l kxyf hn
their time to father and mother the
poor, downhearted soldier boys in the
hospitals who have no relatives to take
an interest in thep, The men wound
ed, or gaesed, OrS broken In health
from shell shock or exposure get
lawfully blue at times and the pres.
ence Of fatherly men and motherly
women affords the best antidOte yet
devised. Sympathy without making it
offensive touches spot that nothing
else reaches. There are all kinds OF
amusements for the men in the wards
suited to their condition Of course.
i Visitors are always around The Red
i Cross, the, Y. M. C. A., the K. C.'s and
Jewish Welfare workers always have
Representatives present with song and
cheer and all manner of knicknacks
but even with all of this the personal
touch of men and women passed mid
die life has wonderfully bracing up
effect. ~. =.
Excellent surroundings have been
provided the shell shock, nervous and
mental cases now in ward At, base
hospital. Through donation Of fur
niture and rugs by Mrs. Jarvis, camp
mother, the sun porch has been con-
verted into an ideal den" The porch
is covered with we'll arranged rugs,
while chairs, tables, rockers and 9th
er pieces of furniture have been in
stalled. a,'.ss5
College pennants, flags and pictures
have been placed on the walls. At one
end of the porch table for patients
who do weaving, etc., has been in
|stalled. A victrola furnishes enter
ltainment for the patients. a5.... .s..a
The neat appearance of the sun
lporch, Office and ward has won, the
recommendation of officers and other
ward visitors. 5 ..- "-ep. /
Lieutenant Kinney has succeeded
Captain Nairn, transferred, as sur
IgeOn. NH = "
Miss Ada Kolb is the wards chief
nurse while Sergeant Gaines has sue
ceeded Corp. Paul Hill, discharged,
las ward master The ward orderlies
are George Larsen, Fred Kohlsheen.
James McInerney, l.. Neson, Martin
L. Stafford and Jess Peters.
Camp Dodge to be Demobi'izing
Center
i With discontinuance Of Camps
Grant, Taylor and Funston as demob-
|ilization camps the territory served by
Camp Dodge as a mastering out cen
| ter is believed to be larger than any
Iother camp covers. States to be in
|cluded in the Dodge territory are In.
Idiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, North
land South Dakota. Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, Nebraska and Kansas.
If Camp Dodge does not already hold
the lead in the number of discharges
lit soon will with the added territory.
i Up to last Sunday there had been ap'
|proximately 10000 men put through
the Dodge rehabilitation machine.
Speeding up of rehabilitation is ex'
Ipected following the visit of Secretary
lof War Newton Baker, and General
Peyton G. March, chief of staff. =,>,
Both officials praised Dodge for its
I,o,;+or,, condition hnt declared men