The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 43, Ed. 1 Monday, June 24, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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Night Phone Rosedale 374
ARMY MEN
You Are Invited to Visit the
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At 909 Main St.
Metropolitan Hotel Block, City
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. Would’nt the folks back home ap-
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llifer
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THE RECONNAISSANCE
Monday, June 24, 1918.
A Visit with your Friends
and Relatives in
Dallas or Cleburne
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Full line of
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L. A. Barnes Company
Bet. Seventh and Eighth on
Houston St.
PHONE LAMAR 252
(Continued from Page 1).
and allowances and confinement at
hard labor for two years in the United
States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort
Leavenworth, Kans.
Private Earl W. Harrison of Com-
pany D, 143rd Infantry, was found
guilty of fraudulently procuring fifty-
five cents by collecting on a prepaid
telegram from a friend and was sen-
tenced to be confined at hard labor for
six months and forfeiture of two-
thirds of all pay and allowances after
deducting for War Risk Insurance
and dependents. The reviewing au-
thorities remitted one month of the
confinement sentence.
Private John W. Battiest of Corn-
Drill schedules are now being made
out to eliminate a portion of squad
drills during the heat of the day.
Many schools are being established
and details are working under the
shade of trees while perfecting
themselves in semaphore and wig-
wag.
CAMP BOWIE WILL BE
MADE INFANTRY CAMP.
Continued from Page 1).
Not only will Camp Bowie have the
big infantry replacement camp, but it
will have the largest army school for
bakers and cooks in the United States.
It will be in charge of Captain Mor-
rell. Officers are already arriving
to conduct this school, which will be
here as long as the war lasts and per-
pany E, 142nd Infantry, was found haps even afterward.
^ LET US“=S5®r
Figure With You On An Army
Camp Picture of Your
Organization
JERNIGAN’S
L. 48
Dundee Bldg. 7th and Hotisto nSts.
MASSED BANDS GIVE
PROGRAM AT CAMP.
Continued from Page 1).
assistance to the combined bands on
various occasions.
The regular weekly concerts were
instituted last Friday, at which time
the regimental bands of the camp
were graded according to their mer-
its. The band of the 132nd Field Ar-
tillery was awarded first place. This
band has long been conceded by prac-
tically every organization in Camp.
The 132nd band has some of the best
musicians in the state in its ranks.
The Headquarters Company of that
regiment was recruited on a. basis
of enlisting the best obtainable musi-
cians.
The band of the 133rd Field Artil-
lery was ranked second best in the
Camp. The Howitzer regiment band
has been steadily improving during
the past month and director Meyer
states that he looks forward to high-
est rating in the camp for his musi-
cal aggregation within the near fu-
ture.
BLAKELEY’ SBRIGADE
READY FOR OVERSEAS.
guilty of A. W. 0. L. for four months
and two days and was sentenced to a
dishonorable discharge from the ser-
vice, forfeiture of all pay and allow-
ances and confinement at hard labor
for two years in the United States
Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kans.
Private George Mau of Battery A,
132nd Field Artillery, was found
guilty of A. W. O. L. for thirty-six
days and was sentenced to be confined
at hard labor for six months.
Private Prattie G. Robards of Com-
pany D, 144th Infantry, was found
guilty of breaking confinement before
his proper release and also of deser-
tion, and was sentenced to a dishon-
able discharge, forfeiture of all pay
and allowances, and confinement at
hard labor for ten years. The review-
ing authorities mitigated the confine-
ment sentence to five years in the
United States Disciplinary Barracks
at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
Private Rufus C. Gibson of Com-
pany E, 111th Engineers, was found
guilty of refusing to undergo a nec-
essary operation for epigastric hernia
and was sentenced to a dishonorable
discharge, forfeiture of all pay and
allowances and confinement at hard
labor for six months.
Private Barney A. Gansler of
Company B, 111th Engineers, was
found guilty of desertion and senten-
ced to a dishonorable discharge, for-
feiture of all pay and allowances and
confinement at hard labor for five
years in the United States Disciplin-
ary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth,
Kans.
Private Sylvian Odom of Company
B, 111th Ammunition Train, was
found guilty of desertion and sentenc-
ed to a dishonorable discharge, for-
feiture of all pay and allowances and
confinement at hard labor for five
years in the United States Disciplin-
ary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth,
Kans.
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ALL ALIENS IN ARMY
WILL BE NATURALIZED.
The replacement force to come will
be separate from the base hospital,
remount station and quartermasters
corps, which remain, so Fort Worth
\yill have many thousands of men at
camp here, no matter how much it is
drawn upon for groups leaving for
Europe.
Camp Bowie is declared to be the
most ideal infantry training ground
in the country, having abundant and
even spaces for trench work, bayonet
practice and grenade throwing besid-
es other grounds for squad, company
and battalion work. The men are
able to practice within a short dis-
tance of their camp.
KEEPING UP WITH WILLIAM.
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The Additional Comfort and Wear
You Receive in the
SELZ RELIEF ARMY SHOES
Make them worth the slight additional
price you must pay to get them.
Your assurance of quality
The name SELZ on a shoe means all leather—your as-
surance of quality.
Continued from Page 1).
among the best. After learning the
workings of 3-inch guns the 133rd
was shifted to the class of a howitzer
regiment, to use 6-inch guns. Despite
the handicap created by lack of ord-
nance the regiment made a study of
6-inch gunnery from text books and
when guns finally were furnished
them it took but little additional time
to gain from experience what they
had studied from the books.
General Blakely has worked untir-
ingly in his efforts to get his three
regiments in readiness for actual
warfare and it is gratifying to him to
note the efficiency of the brigade at
the present time. He will command
the brigade overseas when orders to
move are promulgated from the war
department. The brigade is in fight-
ing trim, ready for action with just
a little more practical experience in
firing the guns.
The 61st has worked under a much
more handicapped condition than has
any other brigade in the camp in that
ordnance was late in arriving. Ob-
stacles were quickly overcome, how-
ever, and General Blakely is to be
commended on the efficient morale of
his men.
“I hereby declare on oath that I ab-
solutely and entirely renounce and ab-
jure all allegiance and fidelity to any
foreign prince, potentate, state or
sovereignty and particularly to
(name of ruler) of whom I have here-
tofore been a subject; that I will sup-
port and defend the constitution and
laws of the United States against all
enemies, foreign or domestic, and that
I will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same, so help me God.”
Following the oath Judge Meek
gave every soldier who so wanted to
change his name" opportunity to do so
and about twenty ,of them accepted.
Some of the Slavic names were out of
reach of the American tongue and it
was some of these that were chang-
ed. Several Germans, however, were
among the group. One Russian nam-
ed Mandelvitvmy made it Mandel. One
Russian wanted to make it very Am-
erican and he is now Michael Wash-
ington.
“In civilian life,” Judge Meek said
in addressing the men, “it takes three
years to get their first naturalization
papers, but here you men are receiv-
ing this priceless boon at one time. It
is because you are offering your lives
to defend this country, its constitu-
tion and laws. Perhaps none of you
ever had read the constitution, a great
and sacred document, and I advise you
to read it. Civilian aliens are always
questioned on this before they are
granted citizenship.”
DRILLS CONTINUE THROUGH
THE HOT SPELLS
ESTABLISHED 1886
Continued from Page 1).
willing to show even more than the
usual amount of pep while the sun
shines down at 103 in the shade.
From the Medical detachments
comes the report that only one case of
sun stroke has resulted. This one
(By Irving Bacheller).
(Copyright by Red Cross Magazine)
In this sketch, Mr. Bacheller has re-
cast and added to an article which he
contributed to the Outlook. In its
new form as a monologue of Soc Pot-
ter, the famous character in “Keeping
Up With Lizzie,” the ideas have fresh
vigor and drollness.—The Editors.
The sun had set at the end of a
wheatless day. I found that famous
lawyer—the Honorable Socrates Pot-
ter—sitting in the warm glow of some
blazing logs, by the fire-place of his
inner office, with feet upon the fen-
der, reading war news. He had lately
returned from the battle front in
France.
“What do you think of it?” I asked.
“I have got through thinking and
gone to swearing,” he answered. “A
man that’s too old to fight has got to
do something to help—ain’t he?”
“Stop swearing and give me a mes-
sage to the boys at the front.”
“Stop swearin,’—gosh almighty! I
haven’t time to stop. I’ll do anything
in reason. What kind of a message do
you want?”
“Something that will help them to
understand why they’re fighting and
what they’re fighting.”
“Williamsism is the thing they’re
fighting and if you’ll take that poker
and agree to keep me decently res-
pectable while I talk about it, I’ll do
my best. What I have to say will be
as much for the folks at home as for
the boys at the front.
“The rank, deep-rooted, hoggish-
ness of European imperialism has
blossomed. Its perfect flower is Wil-
liamism.
“One of the greatest perils of this
world is the swelled head. It ranks
above alcohol and drugs as a ruiner of
the human intellect. Our Yankee an-
cestors understood this. They drove
Conceit from their homes as they
would have driven a serpent. They
knew the value of humility.
“The average prince is ruined by
praise.
“Young Bill Hohenzollern began
life with a swelled head and an over-
whelming sense of inherited superior-
ity. There are two kinds of super-
iority—real, and inherited. All the
troubles of this world have come of
inherited superiority. Of all the de-
fects that flesh is heir to, a sense of
inherited superiority is the most de-
plorable. It is worse than insanity or
idiocy, or curvature of the spine.
There are millions of acres of land in
Europe occupied by nothing but a
sense of inherited superiority; there
are millions of hands and intellects in
Europe occupied by nothing but a
sense of inherited superiority, while
billiohs. of wealth have been devoted
to its service and embellishment. A
man who has even a small amount of
it needs a force of porters and foot-
men to help him tote it around, and
a guard to keep watch for fear that
some one will grab his superiority and
run off with it when his back is turn-
ed.
“A full equipment of inherited su-
periority, decorated with a title, a
special dialect, a lot of old armor and
university junk, stuck out so that
there wasn’t room for more than one
outfit in a township. Most of the
bloodshed has been caused by the
was very slight and the victim is
again doing duty on the drill ground, blunders of hoggishness of the inher-
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Watson, Kent. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 43, Ed. 1 Monday, June 24, 1918, newspaper, June 24, 1918; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846973/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.