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LIFE AT TRAINING CAMP
Moving Future Commanders of Men
Out of Raw Material Glimpse In
to Camp Life at fort Uglethorpe
the morning without feeling the ' he takes it.
structors are selected from, among the
most efficient men in the service, and
having a particularly efficient man
in command doesn't always add to a
company's happiness m the begin
mug. Especially when it comes to
that most obnoxious duty of a sol
diers Tife, inspection, is this appar
ent. Woe then to the man who has
shall find him outand not only that
but all the company shall know of
it, and comment thereon with freedom
and sarcasm.
Fine Type of Men
Nevetheless, the man in the ranks
of No. 16 stands- in -no danger of
anything worse than good-natured
ragging, for lus comrades are gen
ty wen lagged that is to sav. ev-tdav. Tt.s rfrrmvri ka
eryboy except the company command-! ured by the company cook better than
er, detailed from the reerular armv. : hv a-nvhr. el
Robeson county has quite a number r,liV flw& "n aaisy, ai- can count on having perhaps 200
cf fine young men who are in train. "lol.p fle Kes mrougn worK prac- ( meals eaten, instead of 450; but af.
ine at ForrOglethorpe, Ga., for their tica."y as severe as any man in the ter that he had better count on at
nntrv's service, and the following ranliS- or endurance a regular ar. least 500 to 600 ordinarv meals.
special of the 2nd inst. from Chatta- my man nas Hercules backed off the ' The government has been generous
Eooga, Tenn., to the Greensboro Daily '. map' I to its future officers, in the matter
News will be of absorbing interest At 10 Comes "Taps" of rations, as well as in other things,
to many Robesonian readers: j But after dinner there will be a but its greatest piece of. generosity
"Advance and thrust! Front pass blessed hour, an entire 60 minutes,' is in the officers it has detailed as
and lunge! Re-tire and thrust! Rest!" during which company 16 will not instructors. Company 16 may have
Corrpany No. 16, Reserve Officers' have a thing to do except learn a s own opinion about that, for the in-
Training Camp, brings its rifles to ew pages of the Infantry Drill Reg
the ground, and wipes its streaming illations, the Manual of Interior Guard
brows, lamenting. Bayonet exercise Duty, the Plattsburg Manual, maybe
is something to test the stamina of a bit of the Signalling Manual, "and
hardened regulars, to say nothing of glance at a few other text-books for
a collection of college boys, clerks, outside reading. At 1:30 the com
merchants, newspaper men, et cetera, mander will take them off to some
such as compose the membership of shady spot whjere he will proceed to
tIia Fnrt Ocrlpthorno trainiTier rami, find Out how lamentablv little thev
and fnr that matter, all the nt.hers. have cathered from this course of , involuntarily carried the careless
To stick to the undiluted truth, there "Study, After some tjwo hours of methods of easy-going civilian life in
are only 15 companies in the Georgia cross-examination, No. 16 will gather , to camp with him. Verily his sin
camp; but let this one be denominate itself together for a hike, a pleas
ed No. 16, to avoid personalities. i ant little stroll of six to eight miles
At the command, "Rest", an aver- in a couple of hours; or if the lesson
age of perhaps 145 of the 150 men runs close to 4 o'clock, the company
composing company 16 roll back their will be taken back to the parade
sleeves and note with relief that their ground and put through more setting
wrist watches register 11:27. That up exercises. After 4:30 there is
means that the next command will nothing to do but take a bath be
te "Assemble," after which the com- fore supper; but as there is always
pany will be marched back to bar- a formidable waiting list at the bath
racks to wash up for mess, which in houses, it sometimes becomes an ex.
this case would be dinner, at noon, citing race to get back before 5:30
A paragrapher on one of the Chatta- when mess call sounds for. supper,
cooga papers recently pulled one to At 7 the whole regiment is gathered
thA pffprt that this -will h "no wrist, together and somebody makes a
watch war". Obviously, he had not speech "general cefcrference," it Us
been to the officers' training camp, called, and often it js the most val
or he might have observed that that uable part of the day's work. After
is precisely what it will be in so far the conference, it is study more books
as th equipment of the men is con- until 9:30, . when tattoo sounds; and
cerned. . The reason is simple, but .at 10 comes taps,
sufficient. The wrist is the only con- Decidedly, it is no life for a Syba
venient place for a soldier to wear his rite; and yet you might make a long
watch. With the cartridge belt on, journey without finding a more
the watch pocket just below the cheerful place than company 16 bar
waist hand of the trousers is ex- mcVs, That- is. tjou mic-Tit. unless vou
tremely difficult to get at. To wear had chanced to visit it on the day af-tnan any other trade-y-three teachers,
the watch in the shirt pocket means ter the company had been given its an., architect, a biologist recently en
that it is almost certain to be smash- second shot of the anti-typhoid se-; gaged in research work in a govern
ed the first time the company is or- rum. Then you would have found a mem moratory, several Associaiea
dered to advance by rushing, which, congregation of misanthropes of the;Pres telegraph operators, a college
deepest dye. All the world was processor entiueu w wear naii me ai
wrong that day. Company 16's arms ' phabet behind his name, and an eth.
9phoH' ia heads nrhertr Its hacKS . uuiugisi, juax, icmiucu xxum a s
,j " - --- av. wuiuttiiv J- J iLi-CKiiio w tiicnv mc ca in y tllllo LcU men. in STJlLfi
sxram, ana company 16 came in pret-1 take interest in life again the third! of their uniform courtesv to indi
viduals, are not greatly impressed
with the body of student officers, as
a whole. Compared with the math
ematical precision of a regular -regiment
drill, the formations of the
"Boy fecouts" are pretty ragged. But
they , are getting better every day.
There is a little mere smoothness of
alignment, a little more snan. a lit
tle less hesitation, every time com
pany it) iorms. The company com
mander almost daily expresses his
wonder that anybody should ever have
suspected the members of the
company of ability to be
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come . soiuiers, nut down m
his heart he is getting a little spark
of pride in his men in spite of the
seasons of despair that- occasionally
seize him.
For there is one thing about the
training camp that counts enormous
ly, although it may not show in the
beginning every man is working- his
hardest. After all, these men mean
Dusmess and it can be seen more
plainly every day. The college
songs and the laughter, and the end
less joking, are only the effervesence
of youth. Down at bottom nobodv
forgets what the gathering means for
a moment.
The parade ground where the com
panies do their daily drilling is Snod.
grass field, the comparatively level
have destroyed the Federal army.
They knew it, and the fury of their
repeated assaults' is attested by the
fact that when the fight was over
their dead were so thick on Snodgrass
hill that a man might have walke!
from, its foot to its top on their bod
ies. The companies' that are now form
ing at the foot of that hill are made
up of the grandsons of the Confede
rate dead. They lack the military
technique, but they know who they
are. None of them pretends, to be
much of a soldier as vet, but they
can learn, and it would be little short
of treason to America to doubt that
hey have the spirit that carried the
gray lines time and again up Snod
grass hill in that hopeless? endeavor.
telemen to a man. Here again the dis. ! space at the foot of Snodgrass hill,
crimination of the examining officers the eminence that General Wilder
is proved, for a finer type of roan
than the average student at the offi
cers' training camp America does not
produce. Collegiaris of the years
1915-16 and 17 predominate, but ev
ery profession is represented every
profession, that is, except medicine,
for the doctors need" no training of
the sort given at Fort Oglethorpe.
One man discovered in the course of
half an hour's investigation half a
dozen lawyers, a score of newspaper
men f or some unexplained reason
the fourth estate has contributed, in
proportion to numbers, perhaps more
held in September, 1863, when Wild
er's superior, Thomas, by his stand
was saving the remains of Rosecran's
defeated army during the battles of
Chicamauga. If the Confederates
could have taken that hill, they might
necessitates falling -to the ground at
the end of the rush, and falling
quick, at that. Consequently, there
are at least 10 wrist-watches in the
camp for every one of the ordinary
sort. It will be a wrist-watch war by
a huge maiority.
The Day's Routine
What the paragrapher meant, of
course, was that it will be no war for
mollycoddles, and in that he has the
hearty and unanimous indorsement of
the officers in charge of the training
camp. The training, especially for
tne urst live weeks?, has been so de
signed that there will not be a weak
ling left among the future officers at
the end of that period. It speaks
volumes for the discrimination of the
examining officers that after the
Iirst two weeks of trruellinc work on
ly 50 men out of the 2,500 at the camp
navf, succumbed.
To understand what that means,
iet us return to the mythical com
pany, 16, now back in the companv
street and dismissed. Thev turned
out at 5:15 in the morning, and at
ached; its commander was transform
ed from a pleasant, if unbending,
gentleman, into a monster of mcred.
years' tour of the world, made in an
endeavor t oprove that Egyptian civ
ilization had declined before a mulat-
ible viciousness; and the kaiser was to Pharaoh ascended the throne. He
sure to win the war. Anti-typhoid
serum is powerful stuff, especially
the second dose, which is the worst
of all. It is the essence of. gloom,
a distillation of despair; and the man
claim's to have proved it.
But the college boys . predominate,
It is the youth of America that is go
ing out to try conclusions with the
kaiser, as is proved by the innum-
i ,-o.,i4.Qi a rno-n heroft erabie meetings' oi aiumni ot every
of friends, a man with no joy m nie.j wucge i me uuw own,co, uiU v.
His last doer is dead.
One Blue-Eyed Doctor
The reputation of the serum went
before it, and many and various as
autumn leaves were the excuses that
company 16 had framed up before its
visit to the hospital. Few members
there were so lacking in ingenuity
that they were not provided with
what was, in their own estimation, a
perfectly legitimate excuse to pre
sent to the doctor for not taking the
dose. But company 16 did not know
what it is to, go up against an army
ran:
5:25 fell in for the first time. The! surgeon, especially a surgeon with
tKbUll U .AX V0O I A ftJ&AgA&V Wiu " J Z
occasion was
nefore breakfast a strenuous 15
minutes in itself. Breafast earnest
6, in the mess hall opposite the com
pany barracks, for each- company is
a separate entity, eating and sleep
ing t0 itself. After breakfast, the
company street was "policed", that
i? 10 say. cleaned up from end to end
tfeds also were maria tin and the bar
racks sweDt out. At 7 e Hav's work
started and it was a continuous drive
from that moment on. Tha moraines
are given over to drill in squads, pla
toons and companies, to bayonet and
gnalling exercises and to instruc
tion in thft use of small arms. Not
Hercules himself could go through
blue eye, . but withal the most in
credulous, the most skeptical, the
most sophisticated blue eye in the
world. Alas for company 16! The
blue eyed doctor had heard each and
everv one of its 150 excuses so often
that he could have repeated them as
easilv as the multiplication table;
and his answer to each was the same
a jab of the needle and a dab of
iodine. Company 16 went to the hos-
nital with hirii hopes; it came back
in a mined community.
But fortunately 24 hours sees the
end of tha worst of the anti-typhoid
treatment, unless? there is something
radically wrong with the man before
FEWER PEOPLE GROWING OLDER
The Public Health Service reports that more people live to
the age of forty years to-day, but from forty to sixty years
mortalitv is increasing from degenerative diseases.
Thousands of well-informed men and women to-day are
learning the true .value of
OF NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL
as a powerful blood-enricher and strength-builder
to ward off the headaches and backaches that mean
weakness. SCOTT'S helps fortify the body against
grippe, pneumonia and weakening colds, through
its force of medicinal nourishment. t .
Refuse Alcoholic Extracts That Do Not Contain Cod Liver OU.
Scvtt Bwm. BlooBfUU. N. J. . - "
EMULSION
FARM-HELP PROBLEM
man, in turn, reports any deficit or
sarplcs to the "State man", who can
vasses Ihe situation for the States as
a whole and reports to the Depart- -ment
of Agriculture, which, in close
cooperation with the Department of
Lrbor, is charged with the distribTH
tion of mobile labor for the country
as a whole.
Thus each unit in the system acta
as a clearing house for its own ter
ritory, reporting to the units higher
up only when it needs ' help or has
help to offer. The plan provides that
supplemental reports shall be sub
mitted by each community man when
ever changes in the local labor sit
uation makes desirable further ad
justments that can not be met with
the material at hand or when a sur
plus ef labor develops which he can
not use.
- A great many retired farmers, of
whom there are 700,000 in the coun
try, may be available for emergency
service under the plan of farm labor
mobilization. The plans contemplate
also the drawing of emergency labor
from the cities under the immediate
direction of the Department of La
bor, the effective utilization of col-
legestudents and school boys, and,
singing of cojlege songs everv time
more than two or three are gathered
together. Somebody garnered tre
mendous applause on the first night
by perverting one of the college dit
ties to such effect that the last lines
SICK WOMAN HAD
CRYING SPELLS
v - -
Restored to Health by Lydia
E.Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Enhaut, Pa. "I was all run down and
weak inwardly. I had female troubles
and nervous feelings
and my head both
ered me. I would
often have crying
spells and feel as if
I was not safe.. If
I heard anyone com
ing I would run and
lock the door so they
would not see me.
I tried several doc
tors and they did not
help me so I said to
my mother 'I guess
"Oh, we'll twist the kaiser's tail
And we'll ride him on a rail,
Illtf I tit 1 1 I II I 111 till I
No Cliques and Castes
But it is to be ddtibted whether the
promised mahem and indignities vis
ited on his imperial majesty were re
sponsible for the ear-splitting yell that
went up as much as the single word,
"Carolina". More than two-thirds of
the camp is ready to cheer at the
word in fact, just aching for an op
portunity. At a general conference
the other night a speaker made ref
erence to the fact that the medical
records of the Confederacy show that
30 per cent of the casualties suffered
during the war between the sections
by the South were borne by the one
State of North Carolina, and the
shout that came up must have been
heard in Rossville. '
Headquarters, however, is1 not perr
ticularly anxious to emphasize any
sort of local pride. Great pains has
been take nto distribute the men from
each State, and, in fact, from each
of the principal cities, throughout the
camp. If a group of men came m to
gether it was a certainty that each
of them would land in a different
company. Under such a system there
is small danger of the formation of
cliaues and castes.
How it fares with your neigh
bor there is no way of knowing, un
less he does something so conspicuous
as to attract the attention of his
whole company, and so to furnish
food for erossip. The Tar Heels
are by far the biggest men in the
camp, take them as a whole.
That statement perhaps demands a
little modification. The whole
company grows lean and lank, as the
days go by; but where fat encumbered
jir. t. i - jic
me men ueiure, mustie is iiviiik
place. They are growing hard.
Drill on Historic Snodgrass Hill
The regulars come over from Fort
Oglethorpe and look with a humor
ous, not tn sav cynical, eye on the
'Bov Scouts' as thev call the cadets
on account of the red, white and blue
hatcord. It is not to be wondered at
I will have to die as there is no help for
aie. ' She got me one of your little
books and my husband said I should try
one bottle. . I stopped the doctor's
medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. It soon made a
change in me and now I am strong and
do all my work." Mrs. Augustus
Baughhan, Box 86, Enhaut, Pa.
Why will women continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out a sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths of the joy of living, when they
can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound?
If you would like free confidential ad
vice address Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
Government Pan for Organization of
Farm Labor Provision Made for
NaMonWde Co-operation
Washington Dispatch.
Under the government plan for the
organization of farm labor, the de
tails of which were announced by the
United States Department of Agri
culture this week, provision is made
for nation-wide co-operation in the
The work of organization already , j,
has been started in about 40 States ' women ana giris xorarai s3
and it is expected that eventually ev- connecxea parxicuiany wiui leeoong
cry cemmunity in--the United States and canng for harvest hands or other
will be reached. It is believed that extra labor, or with farrn canning ot
the resultant utilization of emergency frying of surplus perishable products,
labor will begin to have an apprec- In. other words, the plan contemplates
iable effect on the farm labor situa- supplying assistance not merely for
tion before the season has far ad- eld operations, but to farm women
vanced. Meanwhile, the immediate during their season of heaviest do
and acute problem of supplying labor mestic duties.
for the harvests, now beginning in'
the southwest is being handled, so far ,
as the United States government's ,
3 1- XT
services are concerned, mrougn me
existing employment service of the
U. S. Department of Labor, which
will continue to handle Such prob
lems of mass mobilization under the
new plan as it has in the past. j
The plan is based on close co-operation
on the part of the U. S. De.'
partment of Agnculture and the U.
S. Department of Labor with State
committees on national defense
charged with labor matters, with the
State agricultural colleges, with thej
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county agents anu wuu me
local or township labor committees
or representatives to be established
in every locality. The Department of
Agriculture will represent the Fed
eral authorities in determining farm
labor needs and in assisting in organ
izing all available farm labor in the
rural districts. The U. S. Depart
ment of Labor will devote its atten
tion to organizing labor in urban
communitaies- and industrial regions,
and will co-operate with the farm la
bor forces "where necessary by ob
taining extra labor for the populous
centers.
The plan provides for strictly local
handling of all labor probems that
can be adiusted locally. The funda
mental unit of the organization is
the "community man',' who, with the
assistance of such committees as he
may appoint, canvasses his own
neighborhood, finds out what farm
ers need help, and what men are
available for supplying the local need,
and effects such adjustments as can
be made locally. Ifi after all local
adjustments have been made, there
remains either a deficit or a surplus
of labor, he reports to the "county
man" whose business it is to effect,
... . it i
5,000,000 Corns
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Sect Jnat 2 Drops of 'Geto-It.' Nov
Tomorrow I'll Just Peel That Coxa
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