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JILL ARMIES AIM
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Standard Set by Medical Men of
\ U. S.'Fighting Forces.
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"No Needless Sacrifice of American
Lives in This War" Is Motto
j of the Medical Officers.
EDWARD A. EVANS.
Fort Riley, Kan., Dec. 31.?"There
1 must not be, and there will not be, any
{ Kjfc needless sacrifice of American lives
iMBj - in war."
V This is the message which Colonel
. W. N. Bispham, commander of the
fanny medical officers, has
to convey to the mothers and fathers
and wives of our soldiers.
At the medical officers camp here
1,100 doctor* gathered
of the country, are learning to Proteet
fighting men from disease. Similar
camps are In operation at 1-ort Og ethorpey?Ga.,
arjd Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Ind. ; . .nu.
In past wars, for each man killed
by the enemy, five more have been
killed by disease, army statistics show.
SBef.r For each man disabled by wounds,
four have been disabled by slckK?;
^Memory of the scandalous rate at
which American soldiers were wiped
out by disease in me aptuiuxi
' v still fresh.
Is disease to be a more dangerous
enemy than the kaiser's army in this
war? That's what I came to Fort
Riley to find out.
I am convinced that, thanks to mod,
ern methods of inoculation and to
the sanitary precations which the physicians
here are being taught to take.
-v' America's army will be the most
healthful?therefore the most efficient
y ?that the world has ever known.
Most of the doctors here have risen I
high in civil practice. Their average
age is 40 years. Not a few are grayhaired.
They have left their homes,
their offices and their automobiles and
% ? come here to live as ordinary soldiers,
" in order that they may learn how to
, keen the armv in good health.
Among them are such men as Major
Charles S. Williamson, professor
of medicine at the University of Illinois;
Major Ralph Webster, professor
of medicine at Rush Medical college,
and Captain Frederick R. Green, of
Chicago, secretary of the couhcil on
health and public Instruction of the |
American Medical association. Col- |
% onel Bispham and others in charge of
' the camp are officers of the regular
army.
'nbese dignified doctors learn to cook
their own meals, pitch their own tents |
and make their own beds. They learn .
to march long distances and to ride
longer distances on horseback. They J
live the same routine and go through 1
f"the same physical exercises that other j
soldiers go through.
They do all these things to gain a
perfect understanding of the lire or |
i - the men for whom they are to care.
! As an incidental result, many doctors ,
are finding second youth,
i "When I came here," one prominent
Chicago physician told me, "I weigh
ed 240 pounds and I never walked
anywhere. Now I'm trained down to
J 190 and I think nothing of a 10-mile
march."
But the process is hard. I was convinced
of that when I saw stout, middle-aged
doctors struggling to go
through exercises that are difficult for
younger men.
Each "day means a series of lectures
by medical instructors. At these leci
tures, held In outdoor classrooms, the
physicians sky-lark and chatter like
j youthful students. But a great and
serious purpose la evident behind their
"They v rill scatter freira this camp'
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JANUARY
COMEDIES OF CAN
Private Hobbs received "From Am
Christmas"?the following: One copy of
Art of Drilling"; one copy of "How to B
liniment; one roll of bundugc*.
to the many training camps for sol- A
diers. Later, most of them will serve fi
in Europe.
Great stress, I found, is put upon o
Inoculation against disease. Enlisted si
men of the army medical service also
train at Fort Riley, and the medical g
officers take care of the 4,000 soldiers g
now in- camp. ri
When a new soldier is received he tl
is immediately vaccinated againsi iy- ?<
phoid fever, para-typhoid and smallpox,
the three diseases whleh used to t<
be most feared by the army. p
As a result of this vaccination there tl
is now literally no* typhoid in the Cl
army, I was told. 8mallpox is exceed- t(
lngly rare. I was given the following
figures as an illustration of the ^
success of the fight against typhoid: a
In the Spanish war when no men tl
were inoculated against typhoid, there r<
were 1,729 cases and 248 deaths in one
division of about 20,000 men; recent- w
ly on the Mexican border. there was t,
only one case and not one death F
among 20,000 men, all of whom had ^
been inoculated. f,
Much credit for this wonderful record
also is given to better methods of tl
camp sanitation. ?
cal officers' camp, is regarded as a ti
sanitary model, and so I found it I h
was particularly interested In the tight
against the fly.
Kelly's kitchen?so called because |>
it is in charge of Mess Sergeant Kelly "
?Is in the center of the camp. From *>
500 to 1,100 soldiers are fed there at
each-meal.
I saw just four flies In Kelly's kitchen?and
I made a careful inspection
?although the kitchen is open to the n
four winds and is unscreened.
Imagine that, housewives. u
Bach mass house in the camp has n
four garbage cans outside its door. C
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A. C. A. by Courtesy of
It ?bsertie
5ENE Charlotte, N. C.
1, 1918
IP GREENE.
itic" with her wishes for a "Men
"How to Shoot;" one ropy of "T1
c Your Own Surgeon;*' one bottle i
.bout some of these cans I couldn
nd a single fly.
There are stables here for hundret
f mules and horses. And thei
tables are practically flyless.
Liberal use of crude oil daubed c
arbage cans and sprinkled* on tl
round about the camp kitchens,
"sponsible for part of the success <
ie fight on the fly. For the other pai
:rupulous cleanliness is thanked.
All* about the camps are incfnert
)rs, built of stone under scientlf
rinclples, which are being taught i
le meaicai omcers. some 01 inese 11
Inerators are large enough to bur
jns of refuse.
And Into them goes every bit <
lth, and even every cigarette stu
nd scrap of paper picked up aboi
ie camp, to be purified by Are an
aduced to ashes .
I peered into great refrigeratoi
'hich seemed almost painfully cleai
leir wooden sides scrubbed whit
loors were kept equally spotless. I
ie storehouses cans and boxes <
aod were stacked in exact order.
It's evident to me that living cond
ons in the training camps are g<
ig to be as good as, or even far be
sr, than they are in the soldier
pmes.
Mothers, fathers and wives may re
ssured that their fighting men wi
ot have to suffer privation and neec
IBs discomfort; that their health wi
e safeguarded to the fullest extent.
TO ATTEND K. OF C. MEET.
A considerable number of soldier
lembers of the order, are expectlr
j attend today the initiation cer
lonies of the Knights of Columbusi
PDonoghue hall, Charlotte.
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ARMY NEWS .
X FOR ARMY MEN
THEIR HOME FOLKS |j inM
No. 13 |
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1RF Nil IF RIHIS II
:Camp Greene Seen as an Amer- (
ican Army "Melting Pot." flat
i Roster of One Company Given as
Illustration of the Heterogen- iftf n}
ousness of Camp Population. I yr"
J America as a "melting pot" for the \\ L'j
i nationalities of the world has recelvj
ed considerable advertising of recent
j months. dfwlllt
| The American army for many ffiTnTll
j years has been composed of men I^Jinj
j from many climes?it has a well es- BTH
[ tabllshed reputation for cosmopoli- ILflR
tan Ism. Today, lbs rosters contain u
the regular ariny containg many men
who as yet hardly can speak Kiiglish SgSt
; so they may be understood. There Lj| g
; are men out at the camp from a majority
of the leading countries of the
| world, and each enlisted voluntarily
to. aid the land of his atloption. A
: fair illustration of the scrambling of B Wnn
the nationalities in the composition M nl M
j of the l.'jiited States army is shown M UK M
! of the companies at the camp, and M FvS
j reading it perhaps with surprising W ljV n
The roster 6f enlisted men of that Mil i|
I company was published as follows:
i Kurt C. Angenbroich, Leo Ilalllar- U7Ml M\
geon, Amodto miroieri, nr> r' ilw K
I Bennett. Pasquale Bisecco. Joseph
J Brodski. Kecsc A. Bush. Nicolis Ca- ClfM]
I picotte. Joseph L Ohristinan.^ Patrick
ConneBy! George \V. Davis. .Michael P ff,
ry i Dena. John Divivo. Peter Gallagher.
le ] Bartolomeo Giacolome. Paul Graffeo. If? n\l?
)f J Joseph I*. GruRsett^ George^ A ^ I loop - WJT^'
,-t MaVw'u. "'Si ^rinJJSs
iu Muthard* William' K. McClenathan.
" Bartlett T. McGarvey. Millard I. <
Neale. Wilbur Nlckerson. Jr.. liarol-.l /hUQ
' Payntar. Nicholas Pinto. I eter Mlffiffl
"> Poches. John Price. William L- Itauff. *W/7jy^
ie Joe Homanelli. George Sandor. Sisto
la Simone. Walter Streethart. George
J' Theodore and John Zett. all privates.
t. and Harold C. Barnhardt, Percy B. VVI I t
Brown. Frank G. Burt. Carl G. Berg- pW | V.
i- man, Eugene P. Canty. George Catm
to Fletcher B. Ferrlll, Ernest T. Olasby. \ \Vti
i- Charles E. Ham, George F. Halloran. V l ^
n Brayton C. Johnson, Johan I\ John- \ 1 f
son, Joseph McCollum, Cecil J. BusH. Y f
. Edward Ryan. FloytJ M. Scott. John - 1~ fJ
. Stover, John H. Swimelar. Henry c\
Thompson, Albert S. Weebs. all firstJ*
class privates, and John W. Brown.
. and Adolph A. Ricks, buglers, and BftM
Everett J. Knight and Dewitt Cavett. KfrlW f
re mechanics. ^
n. Cooks: Nicholas Caramalis, Lawe.
rence F. Quilty, Ole Camp.
n First sergeant, Charles Maisen.
it mess sergeant, Michel Lcjcar; supply
sergeant, Jackson C. Banks: scrI
geants, John Vitt, Howard W. Mo pjffi
t- ton. William P. Dwelly, Patrick It. fTP jWiHj
s> McCabe, Antonio Natale. Corporals.
Gust Heidelberg, Walter Beyer. Abel
Bt E. Pierce, Henry C. Walter. John K. ?| rl If (I
j] Yandel, Henry F. Collins. Alex B. M H If It
l_ Taylor, Alexander E. Trudell, Edward II H || If
jj J. Walsh, Stephen^Llss} .
COMPANY A, EIGHTH MACHINE |j |( il
GUN BATTALION. | U [I |
We all wish Sergeant Smith a happy I I I U
marriage.
s. Sergeant Stockton returned from :i n I I ill
lg furlough spent with his girl in Han- | I j Ju *
e" Corporal Holm received a nice white Y
a* Christmas box that he has longed for.
It came from ltoanokc.