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Vol. 1.
OFFICERS’ TRAINING CAMP
HAS 482 ENLISTED MEN
Major Fuqua Announces Names of Men Selected from 1,600
Applicants—No Former Rank Recognized—Will
Start at the Bottom
Out of the 1,600 applicants for entrance
to the Officers’ Training Camp begun in
Camp Hancock last Saturday, 482 enlisted
men won the coveted honor and are now
Starting at the foot of the ladder, deter
mined to gain a commission if intelli
gence, experience and determination are
the decidng factors.
Major Stephen O. Fuqua, assstant chief
of staff, announced the names of the
successful candidates last week, almost
every branch of the service being rep
resented among the winners. As the
school progresses, an alternate list of
fifty men will be drawn upon. These
are considered the next best.
Il is an assured fact that the Camp
Hancock Officers' Training Camp will
have the finest personnel of any training
camp established in the United States,
for every man has been carefully se
lected. Company commanders first picked
the men to be examined and the weed
ing out process was conducted by the
examining board.
No police or guard duty will be ex
pected of the men, but they will be re
sponsible for the condition of their tents
and personal equipment. Civilian cooks
and waiters will attend them in the mess
hall and they will wear the regulation
training camp hat cord of red, white
arid blue. No former rank will be recog
nized and each man will start on an
equal bass at the bottom. The effi
ciency of the man will be the determin
ing factor in awarding the second lieu
tenantcy.
Quarters were provided for the men :
on the site of the old Sixth Infantry,
next to the old First Pennsylvania, cav
alry, on Pennsylvania avenue. The regi
mental infirmary of the old Sixth is be
ing used as headquarters for the camp.
Following are the instructors:
Successful Candidates.
These are the men who won their
spurs and are looking forward to a sec
ond lieutenantcy before summer smiles
again:
From Division quartermaster's de
partment: Sergeant Martin D. Fetter- i
olf.
Medical Corps, division headquar- 1
ters: William S. Kelly, Jr.
Personnel officer, 28th Division: Ser
geant Francis E. Leinback.
103 d Signal Battalion.
Headquarter's detachment: Kenneth
Bluffington.
Company A: Privates Helley S. Eden
and Alfred P. Nech.
Company B: Clyde A. Lutes, Donald
V. Sawhill and William A. Rattleman.
Company C: William S. Cooper,
Thos. P. Colburn, (Frank R. Kirk and
Hugh T. Atkinson.)
Headquarters, 28th Division.
./ James P. Kessler, Brewster C.
Schock and John K. Bender.
Military Police.
Headquarters: Ordnance Sergeant 1
Charles E. Cooper and Regimental '
Sergeant-Major Robert T. Goise.
Sanitary Detachment.
Sergeant Harold B. Currlden and
■Sergeant Wade E. Muldoon.
Second Company: Private Samuel L. ;
Loeb, Bennett I. Yarnell, Horace H.
Roebuck, William H. Diem and Cor
poral John E. Stevenson.
First Company: John J. Downs. '
103 d Troop, Military Police: Private ;
Lloyd V. Hayney. 1
110th Infantry.
Burton G. Duffy, Chauncey T. ■
Young, Walter E. Baker, H. Martin 1
Lee, James A. Devine, Frank H. High- ■
berger, Cloid S. Duck, Graham E.
Somers, John T. Wurtz, Arthur L. ;
Byrne, Sergeapt John Carrick, Ser- i
geant James Taylor, Sergeant John
Doolan, Corporal Daniel M. Maguire,
Corporal Elmer E. Caddell, Bruce R. !
Crissinger, Corporal Arthur G. Witt,
Joseph Malek, Alexander Hanna, Wil- •'
liam Caskey, Lawrence S. Little, D. R. ■
Finkenbinder, Donald T. Davis, Harry
E. Elston, Charles F. Pinder, William ;
F. Caldwell, Donald E. Shumaker, Rob
ert D. Bracken, Russell K. Davis, Fred 1
E. Bussard, Jamt» A. Lewis, R. E. 1
Goodbridge, F. R. Bridges, Thomas
Bridgon, Guy Day, Wilbert McColly, 1
Craig C. Hill, James R. Truxal, Thom- '
as W. Glennan, William W. Hague. H. 1
R. Crawford, Walter D. Riggle, Ser- 1
(Continued on pago ten.)
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
Edition for CAMP HANCOCK Augusta, Ga.
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JANUARY 9, 1918.
GENERAL MUIR
HITS BOOZE
Warns Candidates in Officers’
Training Camp Against Lewd
ness. Delivers Address of High
Moral Tone.
„ The Officers’ Reserve- Training
School of the 28th Division opened
auspiciously with nearly 500 men pres
ent on Monday morning last with an
address to the aspirants for shoulder
bars by Major, Geneapl Muir, in com
mand of the division. The speech,
which dealt with the all round develop
ment necessary for the commissioned
officer, is applicable in large part to
the rank and file generally.
The general spoke approximately as
follows:
Following the recommendations by
your organization commanders, and ex
amination by boards, you have been
selected for the further competition
you have entered upon. The further
competition immediately at hand will
consist of three months’ intensive
training; will call for the best efforts
of which you are capable; and will in
large measure decide whether you are
fit subjects for further selections.
For the time being you •will all be
placed upon the same footing; the va
rious grades you hold in your own or
ganizations will be in obeyance. Such
prerogatives and duties as you may
enjoy or perform among your fellow
competitors will cotne from temporary
details you are called upon to fill in
the training camp.
Surely, each must be alive to the op
portunity now presented to fit himself
to serve in a more important capacity
the government to which he owes alle
giance. In order to determine relative
fitness it is necessary that a standard
of measure be applied, as it will be in
this training camp, constantly, care
fully and impartially. It must take
into account your php's»cal, mental and
moral qualifications. To most of you,
in the pride of youth, it may seem an
easy matter to measure up to the phys
ical standard; but remember that slight
difference in the phsical may count for
much when competition is close, and'in
the end may spell the difference be
tween success and failure.
Not Only should the successful can
didate be in good physical condition
himself but he must be able, through
force of example to impart to those
under and .about him something of his
own physical vigor in all matters of
physical or manual skill in physical
training, bayonet fighting, bomb throw
ing, and in that erect, alert maniier of
standing, walking or marching that
distinguishes the trained, developed
and disciplined soldier from the raw
recruit, or the half-trained, sloppy, lax
idaisical man who mistakenly thinks
himself a soldier.
To become such model requires con
stant and intensive effort. This is il
lustrated by a rustler who carried on
his vocation in the early days in the
state of Texas. In such days the only
law applied was Lynch Law, and that
was applied by self-elected posses of
Vigilantes. This particular rustler
plied his vocation • successfully and
many times he had been pursued by the
Vigilantes, who always empty-handed
and with bo tales of success. Often
they could find the fresh ashes that
marked th* place where he had passed
the precedißg night, but that was the
(Continued on page six.)
PRESIDENT DISCUSSES
PEACE PROGRAM
Washington.—President Wilson
today addressing congress deliver
ed a re-statement of war aims in
agreement with the recent declara
tion by the British premier, David
Lloyd-George.
The president presented a defi
nite program for wor'd peace con
taining fourteen specific consider
ations. l .
The president presented the fol
lowing as necessary elements of
world peace:
1. Open covenants of peace with
out private international under
standings.
2. Absq.luts freedom of the seas in
peace or war except as they
may be closed by international
action.
3. Removal of all economic bar
riers and establishment of
equality of trade conditions,
among nations consenting to
peaceand associating themselves
for its maintenance.
4. Guarantees for the reduction of
national armaments to the low
est point consistent with do
mestic safety.
5. Imperial adjustment of all colo
nial claims based upon princi
ples that the peoples concerned
have equal weight with the in
terests of the government.
6. Evacuation of all Russian ter
ritory and opportunity for Rus
sia’s political development.
7. Evacuation of Belgium without
any attempt to limit her sover
eignty.
8. All French territory to be freed
and restored, and reparation' for
the taking of Alsace-Lorraine.
9. Re-adjustment of Italy's fron
tier and on clearly recognizable
lines of nationality.
10. Freest opportunity for auto
monous development of the peo
ple*, of Austria-Hungary.
11. Evacuation of Rumania, Serbia,
and Montenegro, with access to
the sea for Serbia and interna-*
tional guarantees of economic
and political independence and
territory integrity of the Bal
kan States.
12. Secure sovereignty for Turkey’s
portion of Ottoman empire but
with other nationalities under
Turkish rule assured security of
life and opportunity for auto
monous development, with the
Dardanelles permanently open
ed to alt nations.
13. Establishment of an independ
ent Polish state, including ter
ritories inhabited by indisputably
Polish populations with free
access to the sea and political
and economic independence and
territorial integrity guaranteed
by international covenant.
14. General association of nations
under specific covenants for
mutual guarantees of political
independence and territorial in
tegrity to large and small
states alike.
“For such arrangements and cov
enants,” said the president in con
clusion, “we are willing to fight
and continue to fight until they
are achieved but only because we
wish the right to prevail and de
sire a just and stable peace.”
Such a program, he said, removes
chief provocations for war.
110TH BASKET BALLERS
BEAT 109TH INFANTRY
A very interesting game of basket ball
was played at Y. M. C. A. Building No.
79 last week between teams from the
109th and 110th Infantry, the latter prov
ing victorious. The spectators were on
their toes all the time, as play after play
was made by both teams, showing pass
ing and shooting ability of unusual skill.
The score was 24 to 12.
FT’eniir—na-nnßWWr— ■ Ut ■—ll'* Isl I- IL I' •~ T ~' "'I
ARMY NEWS
FOR ARMY MEN
AND
THEIR HOME; FOLKS
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ALLIES READY
FOR THE GERMANS
Secretary Baker Says British
and French Will Withstand
Expected Offensive.
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Washington.—The expected Gertnen of
fensive in the west. Secretary Baker’s
weekly war review today says, "will pos
sibly be their greatest assault,” but “the
British and French armies can be relied
I upon to withstand the shock.”
I Summarizing the situation on the eve
of a possible great offensive, Secretary
Baker confidently points out that through
sixteen fierce battles of great magnitude
the British and French steadily have
pushed ahead with methodical and cumu
lative gains. The expected offensive, he
points out. probably is being delayed for
massing great supplies of munition guns
and troops and the Germans-may be ex- -
pected to “strain every fibre of their re
maining strength.”
On the Italian front. the secretary
points out. French successes have turned
the scale against the Austro-Gen lan In
vaders and the west bank of the Piave is
being held firm. Hampered. .by heavy
snowfalls tn the Alps, he Says, the in
vader now is confronted with a tremend
ous handicap of maintaining his trans
port which, neutralizes the advantage of
holding higher ground.
The period of adjustment. Secretary 1
Baker says, has passed and it may now i
be expected that “the French, British and .
Italics, fighting side by side will be able ;
t mawr the situation.”
The review, this week makes no men
tion of American troops.
NEW COURSEi OF
TRAINING AT GAMP
Au aeroplane picture of Camp Hancock
yest'erday would have resembled a huge
ant-hill.
Bustling and hustling, working and
persevering, the 28,00 men of the Twenty
eighth Division as well as the 6,200 men
in camp in the Motor Mechanics regi
ment., commenced the week with more ac
tivity than ever. The Pennsylvania boys
commenced another course of training,
which, according to program, will con
tinue for twelve weeks, their sixteen
weeks of training commenced last Sep
tember having ended.
The new course of training is mere
comprehensive than the one just con
cluded. The first part of it. will review
the work contained in the last course
while the latter part will deal with spe
cialized subjects and problems peculiar
to the European situation.
Today was spent in the greatest va
riety of work. ’Hikes, riding schools, mule
training classes, lectures, range lessons,
field practice, and drill marked the day’s
program. The camp site was a hurry-up
scene. It was activity. Groups and
groups of men forming companies, bat
talions aind regiments studded the par
ade grounds. The young officer students
prepared in actual officer practice with
batteries and companies to practice on.
The Pittsburg artillerymen of thelo7th
Field Artillery, left early Tuesday morn
ing for the artillery range. They expect
to continue their work of firing for the
next few days. Battery C, which is the
Phoenixville (Pa.), organization, has been
detailed to the officers’ training camp as
a practice organization.
The following resignations have been
announced frorr) division headquarters;
Major Theodore R. McLain. One Hundred
and Seventh Field Artillery; Captain Jo
seph A. Wagner, One Hundred and Ninth
Infantry; Captain William H. Fantom,
One Hundred and Tenth Infantry; Lieut.
Charles 11. Chambers, Eighth Pennsyl
vania Infantry; Lieut. Abram Barner,
One Hundred and Eleventh Infantry;
Lieut. Elmer A. Keyser, One Hundred
and Eleventh Infantry; Lieut. William M.
Heiman, One Hundred and Eleventh In
fantry, and Lieut. Hat lan Bucher, One
Hundred and Ninth Infantry.
Major Sidney A. Hagerling. division
signal officer, has received five pairs of
binoculers from various parts of the state
of Pennsylvania. The binoculars will *be
carefully engraved with certain designa
tions. to indicate the donor. They will
then be distributed to the men of the di
vision having need for them. It is the
intention of the soldiers to use them dur
ing the period of the war and to return
them after they have served their pur
poses in the trenches. ;
“One pair of binoculars might save
many a life.” said Major Hagerling. “We
can use old-fashioned spy glasses, tele
scopes, opera giasseA and anything of tha 1
nature. Even the worst is better thar |_
none at all.”
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