4 AMERICANS H ACKlE DRILL oar fr Ji tr ITH GRIN 1 T ton Are Arc Cities 3 r f. f J- J 13 files Long Built by arl in 60 D Days r ays TJ f YBy Edward A. A Evans Correspondent of The Tele- Tele iram ram Who is Touring the National Army IE-Army HArmy Army Training Cantonments and iN National Guard Encampments JI AMP IP SHERMAN Chillicothe fI 0 Sept 15 Ive I've Ive I've been watching watch watch- s ing ipg the cogs and gea gears s of one of Uncle Sams Sam's great soldier j factories ties get into action 1 p- p py y are r making soldiers here Awhile hile you walt wait and you wont won't have it to w wait i long Every indication Is that J t new w. w selective service army is is' is to tov v be l-e trained at dizzying speed y 1 What I saw here at C Camp mp Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- mim man today is being done at fifteen q Jh her cantonments scattered over i the the nation from Yaphank L. L I. I to American Lake Wash The things 1 I shall describe army men told me are happening in every m one e of those fifteen other camps j f five Five ivo per cent of the new national army is in camp now Ive I've seen that per cent turned from an ill assorted as assorted as- as sorted sorted mob Into a body of f men that is beginning to know the tle lesson of discipline and obedience obedi obedi- ence S SIZE OF UNCLE SAMS SAM'S h JOB REALIZED Its It's a tremendous job Uncle Sam has nas undertaken I did not realize how tremendous until I got my first rl r look at ata a body o ot of selective service f Soldiers It was at the little railroad station j. j jn jn Chillicothe A A train puffed In every car window protruded a h head d or two The train had no sooner ground o a stop than the selects selects that's that's the o. o camp damp name nama for the men of the new national army began army began piling of off y F. F Some had come in their shirtsleeves BD they'd have no coat to throw throwaway away c rw men ell they got into uniform 4 i 4 i Some ome came in overalls i There were wore many boys from the he theof t. t of Ohio and there was every f Ii tt type typo A few carried suitcases l j APy o others hers lugged bandana bundles bundies P teat many had no ito baggage at all l. l few clutched tiny flags tt ii mrs of some town farewell c A They rhey lined up on the station lawn law faS as as varied an assortment of American Ameri Ameri- t c can en boys as you could wish to seeThen see Then Than things began happening to them They were f led fed d as it were 1 to the hopper of this one of Uncle 1 Sam's Sams ms m's soldier factories Their exoe- exoe 0 will be the experiences with wIth- 1 4 p. p a il few weeks of the other 95 per pert 1 i t 1 cent of tho the national army not yet started to camp Up and down the lines on the wn c passed army surgeons Each man was to open his mouth so so the turg ons might see whether he had serious defects in his teeth This brief examination over themen the themen themen men filed past tables on the station platform At the tables army ers took down the names and the assignments of the selects hen the men were loaded into i. i Then c army uny trucks trucks the the same trucks that x 5 saw v V service in Mexico u tt year ago ago ago- j niI d hauled out to Camp Sherman CITY ITY BUILT BUILT BY BY MEN N IN SIXTY DAYS i Imagine a city two miles wid wide and three miles long in which every house I of Is of yellow pine painfully new that new that j Js Camp Sherman c Imagine a country road suddenly om to carry traffic heavier that of most city streets streets that's that's j High street the thoroughfare over which the new soldiers are h hauled to amp rJ A f It is two months almost to a day t ince j the first yellow pine building J. J ya erected at Camp Sherman Now tre re are are 1200 of them complete and O more to be finished at the rate fot dt twenty or thirty a day so that 42 42 soldiers and officers may be a acIf ac- ac pm If U all alI the buildings were put end to tt end contractors told me they would make a a line twenty-six twenty miles Each has electric lights and sewer ewer and water The avera average e number of workmen at