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EVENING EEDGER-PHIIiADELPHIA', FRIDAY, OCTOBER S, 181?
'ONGUES SILENCED IN UNCLE SAM'S TRAINING CAMPS.
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ENGINEER UNIT
t'Jersey Infantry Split
.Organize New Force
. at McClellan
)LONEL CROSBY AT HEAD
pfcripus Regiments Raided to Get
Leaders for the Organ-
ization
Biz a Staff Corrttvondent
CAMP McCLKLLAN. Anntston, Ala., Oct,
Transfers tf prominent officers and com
panies of marked efficiency from the New
Jersey Infantry organisations to form a part
f tho regiment of engineers being organized
with the New Jersey battalion as a nu
eleus, will bo made within a few days.
Brigadier Oeneral 'W. C. llnfterty, pro
visional commander of the Btuo and Cray
division, has approved the recommendations
made by General Darger. commanding the
New Jersey Infantry brigade; nnd'Xhey have
also met with the favor of Lieutenant
Colonel W. V. Crosby, of Baltimore, who
'will be the lieutenant colonel of the regi
ment and who has had charge of the or
ganization details.
Major Aloxnnder MncQlashan, of the
ITourth Regimen), of Jersey City, has been
selected for commander of the Second Bat
talion, and Captain Stephen Barlow, of the
Second Infantry, one of tho most promi
nent captains in New Jersey, will bo tho
supply ofllcer for tho regiment. Captain
C. J. Calrow, of tho reserve corps, Is to bo
on tho regimental Etnff, and Captain Hugh
Gillespie, of Compariy G of the Fourth
Regiment, will be one of the battalion ad
jutants. Another Jersey City captain selected Is
P. J. U. Hogan, of Company I. who was
especially picked out to bo the topographi
cal oincer of the. regiment. Captain James
Madison Hare, for many years chaplain of
the Fourth New Jersey. Is to become chap.
lain of the engineer regiment.
Other officers recommended were First
Lieutenants James A. Carton, of the Fourth
New Jersey Infantry ; George li Wilkinson,
formerly of the Essex Troop, of Newark,
and William W. Troxcll. 'of the reserve
corps, and tho threo following second lieu
tenants of the icservo corps: It B. Jones,
C. R. Martin and a. II. Schlottercr.
Officers for the threo new companies
have been selected ns follows:
Company D, Captain Benjamin F. Day.
Newark: first lieutenants, Harold M. Van
Slyke, Trenton: J. II. Conover, Freehold;
Harvey C. Robins, Elizabeth; second lieu
tenants, James T Metzger, Fast Orange,
and Simeon F. Hauser, of Newark.
Company G, Captain M. Hurd, Leonla;
first lieutenants, Alexander L. Rogers,
Woodbury, Alvln W. Nichols, Woodbury,
Joseph C Fltts, Rldgewood ; Becond Lieu
tenants, William. F. Firth, West Hoboken j
Walter II. Carver, Camden-
Company F, Captain Harry J. Burling
ton, Jersey City; first lieutenants. Charles
A. Mohn, Jersey City; Frank Errlce, At
lantic City, and Richard A Smith. New
Brunswick: second lieutenants, Walter A.
Balevre, Newark, and It, Hanaman, Newark.
y; f Jr..h
AT HANCOCK SMALI,
Only Thirteen Men Out of
Every Thousand Require
Medical Attention
TRAINING IS HEALTHFUL
"Noncoms" to Be Recommended
i -at Once for Promotion
Second Lieutenants
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WAR'S VICTIM
Luther M. Shaar, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey M. Shaar, is Lan
caster's first victim of the war.
The soldier, who was an athlete,
died on the United States hos
pital ship Solace from spinal
meningitis. He was a member of
tho United States Marino Corps.
PASTORS BACK SUNDAY"
AMUSEMENTS IN CAMP
Federal Council of Churches Ap
proves Athletics, Concerts,
Movies, Baseball, Etc.
CAMP HANCOCK, Augusta, Ga , Oct 6.
An average of only thirteen men out of
very thousand soldiers at Camp Hancock
require medical attention dally. This Is an
abnormally low sick percentage and the
report which has been turned over to
Brigadier General Price, acting commander
of the Twenty-eighth Division, by Lieu
tenant Colonel Crookston, division surgeon,
Is a source of much satisfaction to officers.
It has a double significance; it attests the
remarkable physical qualities of the 26,000
Pennsylvanians composing the division and
the wisdom of selecting a camp site such as
Is offered on the sand hills abovo Augusta.
There Is virtually no sickness in camp, says
Colonel Crookston. Tho majority of com
plaints nro from major Intestinal disorders
and it Is regrettable they have to be listed
and spoil a report that otherwise would be
almost flawless. Surgeons of the various
units have been watching closely tho effects
of the rigorous physical training upon the
Bien and have agreed it Is not too strenuous.
Early In the sixties medical officers dis
covered, a "soldier's heart," an affection
developing from overexerclsa and tending
i to weaken cardlao muscles. Such plaints
i "were noticeable principally In men who
W(re sent to the army from offices, men
who were unused to rough and tumble life
to the field.
The division at Camp Hancock Is com
posed of men of dhergent occupations and
the surgeons have been anxious to see how
they would withstand the physical course.
- There hasn t been a single case of a man
-who suffered, from calisthenics or arduous
work of till) drills, said Colonel Crookston.
There was a general stiffness among men
at first, but now they are limbered up and
we can't give them enough work
A number of noncommissioned officers In
the Infantry o.ganlzatlons of the twenty-
' eighth division stand a chance of winning
commissions as second lieutenants Immedi
ately Brigadier General Price has tated
, win recommena 10 me war Department
jihefore the end of the week a sufficient num
Ifctr to fill the necessary complement of
iunlar lieutenants for the two brigades. He
7(Mld the men would gain his recommenda-
w& wC" tion solely on the ground of meritorious
i-f - ". aervlce.
"JJo social distinction will Influence my
recommendation," declared the General,
"and wire- pulling will do no good. I don't
intend that worthy boys be kept In the
. ranks holding down noncommissioned jobs
-cwhlle some fellow walks into a commission
through a political pull."
Captairt Lee A. Stone, who will Bchool the
division In gas defense, gave his first lecture
hr to the ranking medical officers -o the
troua unuu.
Colonel II. C Fisher, of the Medical'
Is Inspecting the camp. Colonel
r V'sHed the camp about a month ago,
st Lieutenant D. L. Houston., of Gen.
Price's staff, has gone to PhtladelDhla
lvo of absence. Lieutenant Houston
In .France as an American ambulance
d was decorated by tho French
wyoe ror distinguished work.
6 ar eelectlng their mounts at the
atatlon. . A dark 'bav 'honie. abour
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anos.nvaa ncitcjea ior urigaaier uen.
rretieriCK w. BUUweu. commander of
Fifty-fifth Infantry Brigade, by First
4uiMiant Randolph W Chllds, one of the
mU, Th horse will go nameless until the
war develops American naval hero. Gen
ial Mtulwail i named his horses for
n&vr k)')W and now alta rncma action bv
t:. Amcfiraanitft that pfofctbly will altw
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. C Urging the In
stltutlon of Sunday baseball, moving
pictures, dramatics, band concerts and other
amusements for soldiers In training, min
isters attending tho Federal Council of
Churches here, assisted In tho framing of
an unprecedented report on lnterchurch
war work.
The report was read by the chairman of
the Federal committee on wartime work,
and It urged tho ministers and religious
organizations to unionize their efforts for
the recreation and spiritual education of
solders. Tho soldiers must be taught -by
soldier methods, the report stated, nnd the
soldier must not bo put on a pedestal nnd
made believe that he Is different from the
ordinary person.
Cautioning the ministers that American
koldlers will come back to this country
moral and physical wrecks, unless they are
fortified spiritually ngalnst temptations, the
Rev. Paul II. Strayer, of Rochester, N. Y.,
addressed the conference
"If we want to win the war, we must
protect tho morale of our soldiers against
the Immorality of France," he said. He
declared precautions should bo taken nt our
local training camps and advocated a com
mittee to look Into this moral issue. A
committee was appointed to drnft a resolu
tion to the President protesting against the
modification of tho flvo-mllo limit for
saloons nround tho cantonments.
ALIENSDROPPED
AT CAMP MEADE
Units Re-formed of English-Speaking
Draftees
to Speed Work
BABEL HALTED TRAINING
Foreigners, However, Will Be
Kept in Camp 900 More
Arrive Today
LANCASTER, Pa., Oct. 5.
A telegram received from Camp
Mcadc, Admiral, Md., this morning by
Rudy Herr, near Lancaster, says his
son Paul, ono of Lancaster County's
first draft men, fell dead yesterday
from heart trouble while drilling. He
was 25 years old.
7)1 a Staff Correspondent
CAMP J1KADK Admiral, Md., Oct. B.
To speed up tho work of training the Sev-cnty-nlntlf
Division and make It ready for
actual fighting In the shortest time possible
alt men unable to understand Ungllsh nre
to be dropped from active military units.
This order, which becomes effective today,
Is perhnps the most sweeping that has been
given since General Kuhn started to whip
his division into shape, and that means that
hundreds of earnest nnd willing Italians,
Poles. Slavs and other men uho havo but
little knowledge of the English language
will be left behind when tho division sails
for Frnnce.
Although not dropped from the National
Army, these men who have been neglected
In civil life will berninc members of train
ing battalions, nnd beside getting military
Inntructlotj will be grounded In the funda
mentals of Kngllsh nnd other branches that
arc essential In the life of nn American
holdlcr.
As conclusive evidence that this rule Is
to be applied, and very lgorously, rank
ing officers at Little Penn today pointed to
what Is considered the reorganized and re
vitalized ,114th Infantry.
To whip this orgnnlzatlcm Into workable
form It was necessary to weed out nearly
900 men who were sent here from tho
mining regions of Pennsylvania nnd other
sections that art thickly populated with for
eigners. The efficiency of this unit was so Im
paired because of the large number of men
who could net understand army orders that
Colonel Thomas W. Darrah and Brigadier
General Nicholson demanded a reorganiza
tion. That It was Impossible for them to de
velop a fighting organization until the men
who could not speak English were removed
from the unit or taught the language was
obvious, and General Nicholson, wishing to
participate in the present war, decided upon
tho former course
As a result thcro was a big shake-up. and
today tho regiment goes on a war footing
An Idea of what tho commanding olllcers
of this regiment were up against can be
had when one considers that In ono com
pany of 118 men thirty-four of that num
ber could not speak 'Hngll&li.
Although that was n high average, many
companies had as many as twenty men
unablo to grasp tho simplest orders and as
many more who knew to little about the
language that their services were va'ue
les3. These men were weeded out and,
thanks to the fact that Philadelphia sent a
crowd of willing youngsters, the gaps have
been filled.
A crowd of Phlladelphlans from tho
Forty-sixth Draft Board who had been do
ing service In the Twenty-seventh Training
Battalion was called Into the 311th and dig
trtbutcd among tho various companies. Com
pany G got thirteen men, Company A fif
teen. Company C thirteen. Company K
thirteen, while men from tho Fiftieth Draft
Board In Philadelphia wcro distributed in
Companies F II I K arrti L.
This morning the regiment, which Is vir
tually a new organization, buckled down
to business nnd with good work will prob
ably catch up to other Infantry units.
Tho arrival of about 900 draftees from
various sections of Pennsylvania will not
create much of a stir at Little Penn today.
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IN BAYONET WORK
Art of Puncturing Other
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thusiastic Reception
DEVELOPS ENDURANCE
Various Military Exercises and
Plain Food Have Greatly Im
proved Rookies' Condition
Du a Staff Correspondent
CAMP DIX Wrlghtstown, N. J., Oct. 6,
Camp DIx now boasts of two bayonet
courses that In appearance look like a small
bit of European battlefield. Theso bayonet
courses Includo a trench, wlro entangle
ments, hurdles, ditches, crater holes and
other obstacles. Tho courses aro about
100 yards long and dummies are placed
In every position that an enemy would' be
found In nn actual charge. Tho dummies
lie In tho trenches upright on stake") and
hanging from gallows, prostrate on tho
ground In tho crater holes. The men nre
sent over this a dozen at a time and they
nave to stab eery dummy In their path. A
piece of paper representing n vital spot Is
Mipposed to bo pushed up by tho bayonet.
In going over tho bayonet course tho men
learn how to apply the Jabs and thrusts
that make up tho modern manual of the
bayonet, but. Just ns Important, they learn
alHo how to withdraw their bayonets with
out breaking tho blade. It Is quite nn art
to withdraw n bayonet from a body, and
If jahhed Into any bony part of a man's
body It can bo withdrawn only by pulling It
out In n direct line. To accustom the men
to withdrawing tho bayonet somo of tho
dummies called fascines, are mado up of
bundles of small branches, which give a
condition similar to the bony structure of
tho body that a bayonet encounters.
Stated In bald terms, bayonet work u
appalling In Its cold-blooded fjl8lu,n"?
and Is a shock to tho rookies t "ret Uut
tho men nro Impressed with tho absolute
necessity of acquiring tho aggressive spirit,
of realizing that bayonetry Is a game i or
get tho other follow before ha gets ou,
In splto of Its cold-bloodedness there s a
sporting thrill about bayonet work that
nppcals to men, and develops their aggres
siveness nnd self-confldcnco.
Kvcry man gets a half hour a day actual
work with tho bayonet. Ir. order to bo
better ablo to instruct the men In the r
commands officers who have charge of th i s
work havo to nttend a bnyonct school them
selves. There they nro Instructed by Lieu
tenant II. C. Bush, who recently camo to
Camp DIx from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, whero
ho specialized In bayonetry.
In addition to nccmtomlng the men to tho
use of tho bayonet, tho bayonet courso de
velops tho physical endurnnco of tho men.
If thero Is nny one feature that Is empha
sized in training here It Is physical con
dition, nnd tho men aro going through a
hardening" process very similar to the
methods of a prlze-flghter training for a
championship bout. All the work seems to
dovctnlt to tnnko tho men physically per
fect. Tho marching, setting-up exercises, the
bayonet courses nnd tho athletic recrea
tions, tho wholesomo food, havo mado dif
ferent men out of tho rookies who camo
here a month ago.
An Innovation In physical training will
start next week, when tho men will bo sent
over a cross-country courso, which Is being
laid out now. An order Issued this morn
ing prohibits tho entrnnco of automobiles
Into tho camp on Sundays hereafter. Thou
sands of automobiles havo choked up tho
ronds and impeded tho progress of the con
tractors on Sunday, which Is a workday
In tho camp. Visitors will havo to park
their cars ou'sldn tho reservation nnd visit
their soldier friends on foot.
The V. W. C. A. li building n large shack
for tho comfort of tho women visitors to tho
camp The building will Includo a cafeteria,
rest rooms, dormitories, emergency rooms
and a nursery Miss Kllz.'ibctli H, Curtis,
field worker for Camp nix and v iclnlty, will
have charge of tho building
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