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Show MEN TESTE! FOE FITNESS IT CAMP; I i Camp Lewis Cook Found to Be bxpert Automobile Mechanic 4,000 Men Examined. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma. Wash., Oct. S. "As a cook ho is an expert automobile auto-mobile mechanic." was the memorandum memoran-dum sent by oflicersin charge of the trade lests here to the commanding officer of a company to which a certain cer-tain cook was attached who had been sent to take ihe tests. The trade tests for men arriving hero was established to learn the fitness fit-ness of men for the various occupations occupa-tions needed by an army. Already nearly -1000 men have been examined In the fow weeks since (he tests were established and it is estimated approximately ap-proximately 00 per cent of the men arriving ar-riving here will be given them. Through tho tests It is possible for tho personnel office to know exactly what a man Is fitted for an his degree of efficiency. In case of the cook above referred to it was discovered ho had been assigned as temporary cook. He did not' care for his task and made application ap-plication for a position with an auto-, mobile unif. He was tested in both cooking and with automobiles. According Accord-ing to the tests he was a novice as cook but expert with an automobile. He was assigned to a motor truck unit Every trade and profession is included in-cluded in the tests given hero and at the present time particular attention is being given to automobile and truck u.i"tii3i "".xuuunis Hiiu sicnugrupuers. !Many of these are needed to fill dc-Imands dc-Imands of the 13th division. I Through the trade tests t Is not j necessary for commanders of various I units to train men for special occupations occupa-tions as the tests tell wh,at men arc proficient in each line. Thus a call may come for 300 carpenters and from the record cards kept in the personnel office of-fice these can be drawn from organizations organiza-tions to which they wero assigned pending a call for special duty. Alaska's Sourdough Contingent. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 1 (By Mail.) "These men, I believe, are made of tho finest material in the world," declared tho commanding officer of-ficer at a farewell celebration held at Fort Gibbon, Alaska, recentlv for the drafted men of interior " Alaska's "Sourdough Contingent" on their way outside to join other forces of the United States army. Men from several interior points were in the contingent made up at Gibbon. At he celebration civilians from sections up and down the Yukon river and from far back on tho hills and crocks came to bid the boys fare-' i well. There, was an all-night dance, a vaudeville entertainment, a baseball came, dinners and exhibition drills. The commanding ofilccr was high in his praise of Alaskans as soldiers. He spoke of the raising of the draft ages to forty-five years and said he believed believ-ed a company of "young sour-doughs" could not be surpassed for endurance and resource. |