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Show WHAT BEAVER COUNTY SOLDIER BOYS WILL DO AT CAMP LEWIS Washington, Sept. S. With the first 34,350 draft rookies in or Hearing Hear-ing the country's sixteen cantonment canton-ment training camps today, the task of making them over into fighting men began. The first thing every recruit did on reaching camp today was to take a bath. From the bath houses, one by one the boys were taken before be-fore medical examiners of the regular regu-lar army. As a result of this final and most rigid physical examination, many of the boys who closed the door on civilian ci-vilian life and left lonely mothers, wives or sweethearts inside less than 3 6 hours ago will be back home tomorrow to-morrow maybe. Those who pass the physical test will be vaccinated for typhoid, para-typhoid and smallpox. Recommendations Rec-ommendations will then be made to company commanders for special exercises for each individual to correct cor-rect any slight physical defects. The first two weeks of physical training will be occupied almost entirely en-tirely with these special exercises, light setting up drills and schooling of the young soldier to be. During the second two weeks regular reg-ular training will begin. The rigor-orous rigor-orous work will be increased gradually. gradu-ally. The division surgeon and his assistants will keep a watchful eye on the general condition of all the men. Thorough instruction in personal hygiene, sanitation and first aid will be given them during the first two weeks. These boys in short, will be put into the best physical condition they ever were in in their lives. Should anything intervene to keep them from going ahead toward France, at-ter at-ter their three months of training, they will return to civil life sound as nuts, physically hard and fit for work. As they arrive at cantonments today, to-day, the men are assigned to sections sec-tions of the camp reserved for recruits re-cruits from their own local section of' the divisional area for which each cantonment is established. In other oth-er words, the men who know each other and who come from the same states will be put together. As other shipments arrive Sept. 19, and later, the same rule will be followed, so that when the entire first draft of 687,000 men are finally in camp they will be among fellows they know. As soon as all the men are in camp however, those from the same town will be separated, though they will remain in the sectional division from the general part of the country from which they come. This will be brought about by the segregation of men by occupation. According to what their previous occupations oc-cupations have been they will be transferred to difierent branches of the service, such as artillery, machine ma-chine gun, infantry. Thus will the regimental and battalion bat-talion organizations be kept intact though shifting the makeup of the companies to get all the men of similar sim-ilar bent together. George Martin. United Press Staff Correspondent. |