Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-16 | Page 30 | Soldiers Being Made with Dizzy Speed by U

FT f i BEING BENG MADE WITH DIZZY SPEED BY U. U U- U If J t t these thes pictures a doctor in the upper left lef is ex examining mi t the e teeth of s le for ts' ts U Uncle cle Sam doesn't take the word of the district boards boards' physicians th that t the men are fit In the next view are seen new soldiers after a ce from the quartermasters quartermaster's office their first uniforms on and their cIvIlian clothes in sUItcases or cloth bundles to be sent back home or given away And at the right is a group of S.-S. S. men at bayonet pra J. J W in in t the o opinion of the new new men Evins in interviewed ervi wed is t the e most interesting thing they hive have yet seen They spear straw dummies with their b bayonets a and long o g for the hastening of the day when they can try out th their theirl it 11 l ability on on the Hun I fr w i r. r 4 A Z y d w i j I i t 4 f j r rI I I. k J 4 Camp Sherman while the cantonment cantonment is building is something like lile lAn And AnS I th the feat that that has has been performed here her has been duplicated in all Vie fio other camps Most of the selects seemed bewildered dered by the immensity of the camp I didn't blame them I was staggered myself First on the program for the soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers after reaching camp was was mess The word came a little awkwardly awkwardly awkwardly awk- awk to some of the boys but they quickly learned that in the army breakfast dinner and supper have one I common name name mess Never ate better grub in our lives a crowd of Cincinnati selects assured me After mess which mess which in the case 01 or ormy my soldiers happened to be the noonday noonday noonday noon noon- day me meal meal came came l-came came the first real work Dishwashing it wasI wasI wasI was I didn't know that dishwashing was part of being a soldier grinned I Private James Mullen of Cl Cincinnati But I am game I want to learn this war business fast so that we can lick I the kaiser and get back home GRINS ON THE FACES OF THE MEN I That's the tho spirit I found among all the selects Army officers remarked remarked re re- re- re reI I marl marked d on it too Most of the men grin grin grin-grin grin when I they plunge their arms to the elbows in greasy dishwater grin when a training sergeant gives them a dressing dressing dress dress- ing down for turning to th the left when the order Is right face grin while they are going through the rigid physical examination that is the last step before they are formally accepted as Soldiers If I ever had any doubts of the success of the selective service plan they the theare are gone now says sa-s Major General General Gen Gen- eral oral Edwin F. F Glenn commanding of officer officer officer of- of at Camp Sherman The se selected selected so- so men are going to give us that cooperation that we need to make them into first class fighting men I And it is going to be a fast Job There will be no loafing The men will have to put in eight hours a day at hard work At first one hour a day will be spent in marching and another in physical exercises Trench work will start soon The drill in discipline will be con con- The men have to learn the lesson of instant unquestioning obe obe- thence of strict conformance to I rules I asked Private Andrew Nelson of 1 1 Toledo which of the things seen at Camp Sherman most vj 1 The bayonet fighting heI he heI I found he had been w tchi of the Ohio guardsmen on pol pal at the camp making attack attach their bayonets on straw stuff vas dummies 1 J I II want ant to learn that sa ea son Then I want to get c c France and practice what learned on the Germans f rj 1