Show DANIELS GAMP AT BREST Cheerfulness of Men Striking He J By Associated Pre Monda March Sec ot the Nav Danl ls atter hIs In- In at camp conditions at gave the Associated Press the toll owing statement I havo spent a p ot two rainy days In the camp at and It rains days out ot the year here I have h n more than American Ameri- Ameri can troops encamped here waiting for embarkation home and havo with scores ot anti many men just from the front morning I for miles on ona a solid lioard walk tent to tent In which the marines are quartered and In the wOoden barrack where the soldiers sleep I visited the modern kitchen and dining rooms and saw where dInner tor marines was prepared In one at the twelve kitchens This number Is ted In minutes and just as are fed In the eleven other kitchens MEALS ARE GOOD I sat upon the beds ot the and 1 ate my midday meal with them The meal was well cooked palatable and The bigness ot camp Is hard to understand until you see the tented and barrack covered city Speaking at tents 1 went Into a score ot them Not a drop of water an fall Into any of them The tents are well drained and each one has a stove and warm and comfortable As an ot the magnitude at the camps camp's operations as many as eight thousand troops are received fome days and as many as thousand are In n single day thousand embark on on the Leviathan alone CHEERFUL The outstanding Impression I brought me out at the rainy days at Is the buoyant and cheerful spirit ot the thousand men 1 aw In camp thereIn there In two trips over the camps here I walked about while It was raining but miles or board walk made It possible pos pos- sible to an parts 01 the camp without Inconvenience very man In camp has a and five blankets Every tent is squared by wooden and has a wooden and stove I an ample supply sup sup- ply of fuel available for an the stoves In the camp I found bathing facUlties ties ample tor clean underwear twice a week AMUSEMENT PLACE I found twelve amusement places In operation which last week entertained men I the water supply ample I can see no reason for criticism of this camp but more to praise than thanIn In any camp I have visited In the United States I the Uon ample and above cism I found the camp wen lighted and saw the beginning of operations for u. u complete lighting Eoy temI tem I wish to congratulate the war department de- de on the ability of Major General Gen Gen- eral E A. A Helmick who Js the commanding com com- manding general at the base section at atthe the American expeditionary He has executive ability vision and discipline dis- dis with sympathy The commandIng command command- Ing general 01 the camp Is General Smedley D. D Dutler He Is a steam engine In breeches and his work here Is monumental the gener- gener als have done Is only by the ex- ex service of Admiral Halstead and the naval personnel In charge ot naval operations on the coast at France |