TRAINING THE OFFICERS WHO WILL
COMMAND UNCLE SAM’S NEW ARMIES
Thirty-Five Thousand Bright, Earnest Young Americans Assemble
at Fourteen Camps Scattered About the Country to Be
Drilled in the Science of War— Picked for
Mental and Physical Qualities.
WiiNlilDKlon. — Thlrty-flv# thousand
"During the first mouth o f the
»rlKlit, energetic, earnest young Atner- camp those In attendance will be di
Irani are assembling ut 14 ramps. scat vided Into 15 companies, regardless o f
tered throughout the country, to form the arm o f the service for which the
tbo nucleus of Uudi) Ham’« new ur- Individuals are destined. During this
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month the qualifications o f curb man
From them will bo rhoarn tbroo will be studied, with n view to as
noritlii hone* tbo 10,000 subalterns signing the necessary numbers for fur
seeded for tbo tint unity Increment ther Instruction In tho separate urrns
tf fnto.ooo, wbo will begin training o f the service.
ibout tbo tint of August.
"At the end o f the first month men
Tbo war department called for tbo will be reassigned In due proportion
*n>oit experienced natural louder« tlio so as to form nine Infantry companies,
jountry possesses" to till tbo officers' three butteries o f artillery, two troops
training camps, nnd blub nillltury offi- of cavalry and one company o f engi
rials boro agreed to) to Ibo Due rubber neers. other men wbo will huve been
>f tbo niuterlul obtulnod.
selected for the coast artillery will pro
Kvery one of tbo 35,000, beside* reed to Fort Monroe, Vu., or Fort Win
> iixn I h k a rigid physical examination, field Scott, ( ’ill., f,,r the remainder of
n oltbor a college graduate or bau bad their training.
Those wbo remain at
i business career IndlratliiK his «pedal the division ramps will receive two
ntelllgcnce, pcrHouallty ami capacity months' training after the reassign
'or organization ami Inspiring leader- ment mentioned above.
ih Ip.
"A t the end o f the whole period the
Tbo 33.000 tbomaelvea are picked regular army officer In churge will se
non.
Even of tbouo wbo passed tbo lect from each compuny, troop and
*equlroinonta only a part, tbouo battery the officers for one regiment
loomed most promising, can be accom- of the corresponding arm. Thus we
tiodutod In tbo camps. And when It I h shall have carefully selected officers
tonsldered that only two out o f every lor sixteen Infuntry divisions and two
•even men attending tbo cntupH will bo cavalry divisions by the time that the
isslgncd n |w<<t In tbo new armies at | supply departments can furnish equlp-
‘.be c I oho of tbo three month«' grueling j incut for these troops and by the time
itudy and drill. It I k obvloua no drone«, i the necessary machinery can be put In
in "bonobeada” and no weakling« ; motion for procuring the enlisted men.
>by«lcally, mentally or morally, ubould
“ Each company, troop and battery
fet the coveted alignm ent«.
must furnish approximately 45 officers.
ISut tboHo wbo fulled to obtain en
Those wbo are not selected for lm-
trance to a camp, or wbo are not
| mediate use will nevertheless be coin-
tboacn at tbo end o f tbo first three
I missioned In the officers' reserve corps,
Month« need not give up hope of
I If found to be competent, nnd will be
irrvlng their country um ofllcera. An-
available fyr use In connection with
>tber net o f camp«, probably larger
any additional force thut may be uu-
ban tbo find, will Immediately follow
. thorized.
diene, nnd tbo facllltleH for turning
“ The totul number o f officers re
»ut leader« for the now troop« will be
quired for tho 10 Infantry divisions
ixpanded a« America gradually de
ami the two cavalry divisions Is ap-
relops the full force of her power.
i proxlruutely 10, 000 . These should be
Have an Advantage.
preferably mature men and the most
Many ot the young fellow « now at \ experienced natural leaders that the
tlie mobilization point« already have | country possesses. It la recognized
xmimlsslons In the o(fleer«' reserve I that there are thousands o f men
torpa, other« have bad good record* In throughout the country between the
‘Jie National Guard or other military agea o f twenty-one and forty-four who
irganlr.ntfon«, or «ebool training for have hud more or less military experi
wnr work. Tbeae men have an ad- ence, either In the regular army or
rant age over the reat, for no one I* National Guard or at nillltury schools.
jarred from the cumim by entire lack With the basic ex|>crlenee supplement-
it direct military experience. The j ed by nuturul aptitude for handling
More experienced, however, are ino«t ! men as demonstrated In business or
Ikcly to get their commlKHlon« llr«t. I otherwise, a splendid corps of 10,000
The re«t may attend n second or even reserve officers should be uvnllable by
i third camp and then be drafted Into the middle of July.
the new armlet.
"It Is necessary that ‘the flrst ten
Training In (he rnmpn will he In thousand' should be the best that the
tensive n* possible, but will be severe country baa. In planning our military
ly handicapped by a lack of suitable ! forces we must assume that the war Is
Instructor*. Ofllcera o f the Itrltlsb and by no menus drawing to a close, and
French armies, some o f them wounded, tbnt the country must expand Its mili
have been coming back from the wo«t- tary forces as rapidly and effectively
?n> battle front In the last few weeks ns the resources o f the country per
tnd It 1« expected the Niimll corps of mit. The 10 Infantry divisions nnd
regular army Instructor« at each camp j two cavalry divisions aggregate ap-
Will fie materially assisted by these | proxlroately half a million men. The
veterans, wbo nre fresn from the most ' officers o f these forces must receive
iw ful struggle In history.
substantial promotion to meet the de
The eyes of the whole nntlon will mands o f forces to be raised Inter. It
be on these camps, a unique establish Is conceivable thut many men who nre
ment In American history. Every town appointed In ‘(he flrst ten thousand’
ind almost every village bus furnished must be promoted one grade with each
» camp member, and his career will be successive addition to our nillltury
rloNely watched by bis friends and force. For this reason the war depart
relatives.
ment hopes that mature men will seek
The beat account o f how the camps appointment In ‘the flrst ten thousand.’
will be conducted Is given In an order
"Other similar camps must follow
Issued by the adjutant general ,at tills flrst enmp. Young men must be
Washington, brigadier general II. H. admitted to the flrst camp, but not to
McCain. The details will have to be the exclusion o f maturer men. In the
worked out at each enmp nud It will second nnd following camps youug men
be a strenuous business, for minutes will predominate.
count. General McCain says:
“ In making provision for Instructors
at these training camps the resources
o f the war department have been taxed
to the utmost. The number o f Instruc
tors la not nearly us great u* It should
be, but It Is hoped and believed that
many reserve officers him ] candidates
for uppolntinerit as such who would be
In attendance ut those rumps will have
special qualifications to teach certain
subjects and In this wuy will be o f
materiul assistance to the regular army
ofllcera. This depends so much upon
the personnel of each Instruction com
pany that the mutter must be regulut-
ed by the regular army officers In
charge o f each company.
Book Will Be Furnished.
“Tho outline o f the entire course of
Instruction will be prepared In the war
department and furnished to the com
manding officers of the camps.
"Hooks, maps und printed matter In
general will be furnished by the gov
ernment. Those who attend the cnrnps
should bring whatever books they pos
sess, but the authorized and necessary
books for Individuals will be fur
nished on arrival In camp.
“The minimum nge of those who at
tend is twenty years and nine months.
This enables the war department to
appoint suitable young men who are
twenty-one yeara o f uge at the end of
the training period. The maximum age
Is forty-four years. It Is expected that
students at colleges who nre members
o f the Reserve Officers’ Training corps
nnd who nre especially fitted to become
members of the ‘flrst ten thousand' will
be selected by the regular army officer
on duty at the college and admitted to
these camps.
Much students should
preferably go to the cnrnp that per
tains to their home states. It Is be
lieved that college* In general will
graduate seniors who attend these
camps.”
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Yoakum, Tex.— Nuvnl recruit-
Ing officers here were forced to
look for an Interpreter when G.
Ilolm eg of Shiner personally
brought In his seventeen-year-
old son, Otto, for enlistment In
the navy.
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Ilolmeg, a farmer, was born
In Germany nnd cannot speak
the English language. Through
the Interpreter he said: "Please
uccept my son. It Is my offering
to America."
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ICE CREAM MAKERS RAP LAW
Protest Against Provision Requiring
14 Per Cent Hutterfat.
Ice cream makers o f the Northwest
at a conference at Spokane with E. F.
Benson, commissioner o f agriculture,
entered a vigorous protest against en
forcing the law passed by the last leg
islature regarding butter fat content
for ice cream.
The law provides that the commis
sioner shall enforce a standard not be
low that o f the Federal department o f
Agriculture’ s regulations regarding
foods. I t was contended that the state
law reads that the state authorities
shall follow the Federal standard.
The Federal standard calls for 14 per
cent butter fat.
The ice cream men
contend that the government never has
enforced the 14 per cent standard, be
cause it was found unwise to do so. It
was said by several speakers that 8 to
10 per cent butter fa t gave a better
quality o f ice cream than the higher
standard.
Coos Bay again is threatened with
an invasion by I. W. W. and prompt
measures are being taken to prevent
the organization obtaining a foothold
there.
The referendum petition directed
against the Gill bill o f the last legis
lative session has been filed with Sec
retary o f State Olcott by the Clack
amas Fishermen’s union. The petition
contains 16,160 names.
E. B. MacNaughton, an architect o f
Portland, has been named by Governor
Withycombe as a member o f the In
dustrial W elfare Commission to suc
ceed Father E. V. O ’ Hara, o f Port
land, who has submitted hiB resigna-
toin. The appointment becomes effec
tive June 1.
The State Highway commission w ill
hold a joint session on June 1 at Fossil
with the Wheeler County court and
award a contract fo r six miles o f im-
| provements between Fossil and the
I Wheeler County line on the John Day
Farmer Operates Tractor He Invented.
highway. It is expected the improve
Winlock— A tractor designed espe ment w ill cost about $10,000.
cially for use on the Pacific Coast,
The past week has seen several mad
where the excessive rains make all dogs in Lakeview, and it is feared that
other types useless except in dry an epidemic is about to break out. A
weather and dry ground, has just been dog belonging to F. M. Duke went mad
completed and a patent obtained for it a short time ago and had to be killed.
It is feared that this dog ran at large
by Henry Korevaar. Mr. Korevaar, during one night and infected a num
who is a prominent farmer livin g on ber o f dogs throughout the town.
Cowlitz fta irie , has a full sized work
Bids fo r contracts for paving the
ing model in operation on his farm.
The motive power is supplied by an Siskiyou Highway from the summit of
eight-horsepower gasoline engine. It the mountain to the California line are
has a harrow
attachment behind, to be advertised for at Ashland, ac
which cuts out the necessity o f a sec cording to State Highway Engineer
ond operation for harrowing, end will Nunn, who is in the valley to attend
plow a 17-inch furrow eight to nine the tri-state good roads meeting.
inches deep. The tractor can be man Work is to be started immediately and
ufactured in normal times for about finished this summer i f the money
holds out, according'to Mr. Nunn.
$350 and weighs about 1400 pounds.
Hog Cholera Found On Tieton.
North Yakim a— A case o f hog chol
era was discovered on the Tieton re
cently and steps are being taken by
R. P. Bean, agriculturist for the proj
ect, to check the spread o f the disease.
The stock belongs to M. U. Brady,
who is a tenant on the Thomas Fear
place on the north end o f the project.
Tw o shoats out o f a herd o f 20 have
died. There was cholera on the same
place two years ago.
Vaccine has
been ordered and w ill be administered
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as soon as it arrives.
Governor Withycombe has appointed
the men who w ill serve on the State
Lime board under the provisions o f
chapter 397, enacted at the last session
o f the legislature.
The appointees
are: Benton Bowers, Ashland, recom
mended by the Taxpayers’ League;
B. G. Leedy, Corvallis, recommended
by the State Grange; John Simanek,
Crabtree, recommended by the Farm
ers’ union.
W ith the business streets o f Rose-
I burg gaily decorated with carnival col
ors and patriotic emblems, the citizens
entertained several thousand people at
the festivities attendant on the open
TESTS RECRUITS WITH FISTS
ing o f the Ninth Annual Strawberry
Festival Thursday. Although a “ straw
Tom Riley Made Sure That the Men
berryless” Strawberry Festival, there
He Recommended Were Real
was no lack o f enthusiasm on the part
Fighters.
$2.67 o f the visitors, and the first day’s pro
Wheat— Bluestem
2.64 gram was pronounced the best ever
Chicago.—Tom Riley o f West F if F o r ty fo ld ...........
2.63 witnessed in Roseburg.
teenth street was told at the recruit Club....................
2.62
ing station that he was too old to Red Russian . . . .
A number o f farmers are making ap
Vght, although he begged for an op Oats— No. 1 w h ite .....................$50.00 plication to come under the Workmen’s
portunity to enlist.
Barley— No. 1 fe e d ..................... 48.00 Compensation act, since the recent
“ I guess I'm too old to fight,” he
ruling o f the Supreme court, which de
Cattle—
Steers, p rim e... $10.50(311.25
suld as he twisted his gnarled and
clared farm hands were protected un
bony hands, “ hut mayhap 1 can send Steers, g o o d ................... 10.00@10.50 | der the Employers’ Liability act when
Steers,
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ed
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m
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9.50(3
9.75
ye lome lllaely lads. Whin they come
engaged in hazardous occupations. A t
In, cap, und tell ye they're fr'rn Tom Cows, choice................... 9.50@ 9.75 the present time, a statement issued
Cows,
m
edium
...............
8.75@
9.25
Riley, take me wor-rd they'll be all
by the commission recently says, an
Cows, fa ir ......................
7.50@ 8.50 !
right."
average o f 11 employers are daily
H
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7.00@10.00i
Tills was one day last week. Since
bringing their operations under the
then more than 25 huskies have come Bulls................................ 6.00(3 8.50| act, and during the last 20 days 215
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7.50@10.00
! In, saying they were "recruited" by
additional employers have been listed.
Tom Riley. Hurrlng black eyes and Hogs— P a c k in g .............. $15.50(316.25
Jacob Trott, o f Echo, who was ser
j bruised faces, they were Ideul recruits Rough h e a v ie s ............... 14.50@15.0u
Pigs and s k ip s ............... 13.00@13.75 iously burned Wednesday while start
and were gladly uecepted.
Old Tom himself appeared again at Stock hogs...................... 12.00(313.00 ing a gasoline engine, died from the
the station, nnd was Informed that all Sheep— W ethers............. $ 9.75(3,12.00 burns at a Pendleton hospital.
o f his recruits hnd been nccepted. The E w e s ..............................
9.00(311.50
Damage from the cloudburst at
sergeant In charge desired to know | L a m b s ............................ 10.25(313.50 Heppner probably w ill reach $100,000.
why all of them bore marks o f having
Crops, roads, bridges and fences are
Flour— Patents, $12.90.
horn thoroughly manhandled. Old Tom
M illfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $41 ruined, and wires are down. Some
chuckled nnd rubbed Ills hands.
per ton; shorts, $45; rolled barley, stock was killed.
"'T Is a little way of me own,” he
$58; rolled oats, $56.
Though the weather has been show
I confided. "I knew ye wanted good,
Corn— White, $72 per ton; cracked, ery, the majority o f the farmers o f
two-handed scrappers, and I wint
$73.
the Gaston section have taken advant
about the streets lookin' for thlm. 1
Hay — Producers’ prices: Timothy, age o f every available moment to get
' engaged In n thrifle o f an nrgument
wld every wan of thlm, to make sure Eastern Oregon, $30@32 per ton; val their plowing done and get their grain
they was scrappers. Afther It was ley timothy, $22(324; alfalfa, $20(323; crops in. There is no scarcity o f help
valley grain hay, $18(320.
so far, and plans for a larger acreage
over I slnt thlm In.”
Butter — Cubes, extras, 36Jc per than usual are going forward.
pound; prime firsts, 35Jc.
Jobbing
The stigma o f “ deserter” w ill be
prices: Prints, extras, 39c; cartons,
lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 39c; No. removed from the National Guard rec
ords o f Carl von der Ahe and Arthur
2, 37c.
Eggs— Ranch, current receipts, 33c Lofts, the Hood R iver young men who
recently were posted as deserters when
per dozen; selects, 34c.
Poultry— Hens, 16J@17c per pound; they le ft the Tw elfth company, Oregon
broilers, 18(320c; turkeys, 22(324c; Coast A rtillery, and enlisted in the
navy without first having obtained
ducks, 18((> 22c; geese, 12(313c.
their discharges from the Tw elfth com
Veal— Fancy, 143(14 Je per pound.
pany.
Pork— Fancy, 19Jc per pound.
Vegetables — Artichokes, 85 (3 90c
Crumbling like tinder when the abut
per dozen; tomatoes, $4.25@4.50 per ments gave way, the county bridge at
crate; cabbage, 5(3,6c per pound; eg g Island City, three miles
from La
plant, 25c; lettuce, $1.65(31.80; cu Grande, dropped into the Grand Ronde
cumbers, 90c(3$1.50 per dozen; cel river Monday, and now rests on the
ery, 75c<3$1.25;
cauliflower, $1.00 bottom o f the turbulent stream. Some
per
dozen;
peppers, 20(335c per estimates place the total land under
pound; rhubarb, 2(33c; peas, 5(36c; water in the Grand Ronde valley fo l
asparagus, 5(36c; spinach, 4(36cj>er lowing the recent high floods and pres
pound.
ent inundation at 20,000 acres.
Potatoes — Buying prices, $3.50(3
4.00 per hundred.
A box factory and sawmill located on
Green- Fruit — Strawberries, $1.75 N eil creek, seven miles south o f Ash
per crate; apples, $1.35(32.75 per box. land, form erly operated by the Ashland
Hops— 1916 crop, 3(36c per pound; Manufacturing company, but which
1917 contracts, nominal.
have been in the hands o f the First
Wool— Eastern Oregon, fine, 45(3 48c National Bank o f Ashland for the past
per pound; coarse, 50c; valley, 45(3 year, have been sold to a group o f Los
50c; mohair, 55@61c.
Angeles capitalists, who expect to
Officers of u National Guard regiment enrolling new members as the regiment mobilizes In response to the presi
Cascara Bark — Old and new, 6Jc have 100 men at work in the woods
dent's call.
per pound.
and at the mills inside o f 30 days.
SPEEDING UP NATIONAL GUARD RECRUITING
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT!