Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 3, 1917, Page 12

Special Correspondence . D._C- WASHINGTON, e ) 1917, = RAMP! Tramp! Tramp! The 66 boys are marching”— marching away in Septem- ber from thelr homes 'in every city, town and hamlet In the United States to get ready to do their part in winning the war for dem- ocracy. Whither are they going for this military training which will make more than a half million brave, stal- wart soldiers out of as many lads who have known little before of the real mecaning of discipline? What is to be the immediate life and environ- ment of the men who are to make up the first 500,000 draft of the. ten mil- lions who registered for military pur- poses on June 52 More than 500,000 mothgrs who sec, their sons march out may take com- fort from the fact that the Bovern- ment is making every possible pro- vision to safeguard the boys, physical iy, mentally and morally, who are to compose the new national army, while they are spending the autumn and pos- sibiy the winter in the sixteen army cantonments to which they will go and where they will remain until they are trained sufficiently to go overseas for final education as soldiers. = * * The first apportionment of men of the new national army, with the addition of over 150,000 officers and extra men Wwho will take up their serious military life on September 1, will make their homes in sixteen model army cantonments now in course of erection throughout the coun- try in sections where population is most dense. -The military towns containing their equal apportionment of the men will accordingly number over 40,000 inhabi- tants each. They are to be made as com- fortable’ and convenient -as is compatible with_their purpose and with the time at the disposal of the constructors. 1 The sites of the sixteen cantonments now being completed for the reccntion of their soldier citizens were chosen care- fully with a view to their general :itness of purpose, which meant that the ground must be high and well drained and lo- cality healthful, that a pure water sup. ply must be at hand or could be readil made available, that for transportation facilities and general convenience they ave accessible to cities or large towns. The locations of the cantonments zre Aver, Mass.; Yaphank, L. L: Wrights-! town., N. J.: Annapolis Junction, Md.; Petersburg, Va.; Columbia, S. C.: Atlanta, Ga.; Chillicothe, Ohio, Louisville, Ky.; Battle Creek, Mich.; Rockford, Il Little Rock, Ark.; Des -Moines, lowa; Fort Riley, Kan.; Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and American Lake, Wash. The areas of the cantonments vary with the topography, the minimum being from 1,500 to 2,000 acres. Canton- ment architects declare that the ad- justment of the architectural schemes to the land are -ameng the interesting features of the planning of the camp Provision - must be made not cities. only for the domestic life of the sol- die but suitable spate for parade grounds, maneuvering flelds, .target practice ranges etc., must be arranged for. Fach cantonment will be virtually a eity in itself, with streets, blocks. sewers, electric lights, its own railroad tracks and yards, water lines, a thou- sand houses for the men, beside officer: quarters and other nécessary buildings. The houses which will quarter the men during the comingiautumn are not the old one-story shacks of Napoleonic de- sign, but are large, two-story frame structures with modern ventilation sys- tems and abundance of wide window space. In many cases they have one- story kitchen wings which relieve the monotonous roofline and give an actual touch of homelikeness to the spacious barracks. The artificial lighting ill' be electricity, and for winter wa th they will have steam heat equipment in | the north and stoves in the soyth. In| every case what is described by army; officers as good pumbing has been fur- nished. - . * * - The building of these cantonments | for the new national army is one of the numerous herculean tasks the govern- ment has accomplished since its decla- ration of war, and as a matter of fact it is unique in constructive Hhistory. The work is under the supervision of the quartermgster’s depart¢ment of the | army, Col. I. W. Littell, U. S. A, being the officer in charge. ‘To supplement and advise the quar- termaster’'s department the council of natiofal defense has appointed an emergency construction committee “of its . munitions board. This committee is composed of probably the ablest men in construction work in this country to- day. They are workirig without pay and most of them nearer twenty-four hours a day than twelve. Every resource of those connccted with the work is being strained to the utmost. - To quote the words of a clever writer, they are doing it “by trampling down _all of the orderly ways of doing things, amenities and the red tape, or by using orderly ways so scientifically that the amenities and the red tape naturally fall into line.” No sueh task as the building of these soldier cities was ever undertaken be- fore in twélve ~weeks. - In the three months between June 1 and September ) more money will have been spent than went intoathe Panama canal in the course of any one year, a moderate es- timate of the .amount being $40,000,000. The count of materials used nearly s rs the imagination when it is cal- Culated that over 4000 freight carloads | of materials will be used in the con- | poles, wires, insulators, etc. Iwhereby the fees vary from 10 per cent o Be PROGRESS OF WORK AT CAMP GRANT, ROCKFORD. ILL. THIS CANTONMENT WILL HOUSE 40,000 TROOPS ; FROM THAT STATE ON SEPTEMBER 1. - struction of each camp, over 1,300 car- loads of lumber, something like 26,- 000,000 feet, going-into the buildings alone. Here are some of the other items: Over 28,000 squares of roofing, sixty cars, twenty carloads of nails and hard- ware, 20. carloads plumbing, 192 car- loads tanks, heaters, stoves, ranges, pipime, refrigerators and the like; rail- road’ materials for five miles of track, divided into -thirty carloads of ties and other timber, twenty carloads of spikes, -rails, etc., and 114 carloads of ballast; 10 carloads of ‘electric light Materials for 12,000 cubic yards of concrete will take seventy carloads of cement, 350 carloads of stone and 175 carloads of sand. The men of the cantonments will sleep in double-deck bunks. ‘This means that there will be 40,000 separate bunks, each with a mattress. To trans- port the mattresses 125 cars will be required and the bunks will take sixty- two more. Water and sewer lines will take sixty-five carloads each, and 150 carloads of hospital equipment will be necessary. Three carloads of screens are also included in the estimate. = * * To handle this vast quantity of ma- terials and the work of actual con- struction, nationally known town plan- ners and landscape architects are now on the job both in Washington and at the cantonments. Contractors are on the ground with their forces, number- ing something like 4,000 men for each camp, and the houses spring up over night. The one great aim is to do the best possible job in the time allowed. Many general features of the canton- ments have been provisionally adopted by the specialists who are co-operating with the military authorities. The losses in the French army due to in- adequate housing and sanitary pro- visions in the concentration ~camps were carefully tonsidered in planning the American buildings. The difficulty of making untrained men obey - the sanitary regulations of the regular army was fully recognized. The scheme of payment for this work is another of _the unique arrangements worked out by the committee on emer- gency construction and contracts and ac- cepted by, the quartermaster’s depart- ment. It is a fee system of contracts Ho on small contracts of $100,000 or more tc 6 per cent on contracts of $3,500,000, with an upset limit.of $250,000. The fees in ail cases cover both profit and overhead expenses, so that.clear profit in any con- tract will rarely exceed 3% per cent, the modest accrument on a liberty bond. The contractor furnishes a bond for $250,000. A recent statement made by Col. Littell is_interesting in connection with this matter of payment. He says: “In decid- ing on the cantonments contracts we have had to consider three main points of prac- tically equal importance. The first has been the absolute necessity of speed; the second, proper construction, including sanitation and communication and trans- portation facilities; the third, economy. Taking all three into consideration and also the fact that time will not permit the completion of drawings and specifications COL. I. W. LITTELL, Q. M. C., mes of qualified to do rials. which would be necessary in order to ask for competitive bids before the work must be acting in conjunction with the emergency construction committee, decided to make contracts on the percentage, or cost plus, bases, at the same time using all possible safeguards in the shape of guarant from the contractors as to their capacity and integrity. started, the Quartermaster Corps, zes ““The profit system was decided on only after weeks of study to find a basis for the fees which would assure the.country of the highest grade of work from the contractors and at the same time prevent extravagance through the payment of ex- cessive profits. It is a pleasure to pay tribute to the loyalty and patriotism of the great majority of contractors who have come here to discuss the question with us. With a few exceptions they have acquiesced willingly in our conten- tion that the profits must be kept down to the lowest level consistent with high- grade work. do the work on a cost basis, but we have considered economically and nationally. The utmost Some firms have offered to this an unwise policy both speed and efficiency must be developed in these and, future building jobs for the government, and the acceptance of of- fers of free service might easily disrupt the highsgrade, contracting firms best e work effectively.” Steps are being taken by committees also to safeguard the government from paying unreasonable prices for mate-| These committees are mobilizing | the resources of materials in the ous branches, co-ordinating the supply and ;)_vfl'l give the material interests a fair, ow vari- ‘demand and fixing prices which margin of profit, but with a ten In charge of the -comstriiction of the|dency in all cases to make these prices somewhat lower cantonment camps for the traiming of the new National Army. I than the prevailing i market rates for each commodity. The War Department bespeaks of the 'Nati onal country in this great undertaking both its sympathetic understanding and its active.co-operation. It must get out of the way while materials and men are rushed to the sites of the camps. Its useful suggestions will be welcomed. This is the country’s work and the whole country should combine cour- ageously and understandingly to see that it Is put through, as far as essen- tials go, on time. It recently has been decided to name the cantonments of the new national army after American military heroes of past wars. In each case thé name se- lected is that of a man from the section represented by the troops concerned. Short names . were chosen for conven- jence,’ and names of immortals like Washington and Lincoln were omitted because of the temporary nature of the camps. v * * * The name of Camp Devens is given to' the cantonment at Ayer, Mass., In memory of Gen. Charles Devens, U. S. V.. of Massachusetts. The troops will go there from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Camp Upton, at Yap- hank, L. I, in memory of Maj. Gen. Emery Upton, U. S. V., a native of New York, will care for the troops from New York city. Camp Dix, Wrights- town, N. J., is named after Maj. Gen. John Adams Dix, U.S. V., and will take troops from New York state and north- ern Pennsylvania. Camp Meade, An- napolis Junction, after Gen. George G. Meade, U. S. A., is for troops. from southern Pennsylvania. The camp at Petersburg, Va., bears the name of Camp Lee, in mamory of Gen. Robert A ONE OF THE TWO-STORY HOUSES FOR THE NEW ARMY NEARING COMPLETION AT CAMP CUSTER, MIOH. E. Lee, and will care for men from New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and . the District of Columbia. Camp Jackson, at Columbia, S. C. is named after Gen. Andrew Jackson, U. S. A. and will have troops from Tehnessee, North Carolina and South. Carolina. Camp Gordon, Atlamta, Ga., for. troops froth Georgla, Alabama and Florida, is named after Gen, J. B. Gordon, C. 8. A Camp- Sherman, at Chillicothe, Ohio, caring for troops from Ohio’' and West Virginia, is named after Gen.. W. T. Sherman, 1 A. Camp’ Taylor, at Louisville, Ky., is called after Maj. Gen Zachary Tayior, U. S. A., and:will hold the men from Indiana and Kentucky Camp ~ Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., named after Maj. Gen. George A.Custer, is for troops from Michigan and Wis- consin. Camp Grant, Rockfoxd, IiL, s named after Gen. U. S. Grant, U. 5. A., and will care for troops from Illinois. Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark., s named after Brig. Gen. Z. M. Pike, U.\S. Az-and will contain troops from Arkunsas, Ioulsi- ana and Mississippl. Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Towa, is called after Maj. Gen Grenville M. Dodge, U. S.A., and will care for troops from Minnksota,, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota |and: South Dakota. Camp Funston, at|{¥ort Riley, Kan., is named after Maj. Gen. Fred- erick Funston, U. S. A., and will take care of troops from Kansas, Missourl and Colorado. Camp Travis, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for troops from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Okla- homa, is named after Lieut. Col. W, B. Travis, the defender .of the Alamo. Camp Lew American 'Lake, Wash., for troops from Washington, Opegorn. California, Nevada, Utah, 1daho,’ Mon- tana and Wyoming, has had no peason announced for its nam Healing Mutilated BY ALICE ROHE. 3 Epecial Corrcspondence’ 3 66 LL fear abandon, ve who enter here These are the invisible words, suspended beside the Italian tricolor, over the gateway. of an American villa at Rome. It is the Villa Wurts, beauty spot on the Janiculum, and within its flower- filled grottoes and shady walks the blind are made to see, the lame to walk, the mute to speak. It is the garder of hope, the oasis where the human will is supreme, the haven where wreckage of war, men cast into the waste of life, are saved from the refuse. When men pronounced blind open grateful eyes A REPRESENTATIVE GROUP OF CONVALESCENTS WHO COULD NOT STAND ALONE A SHORT WHILE AGO. RIGHT IS THE CONSTANT TREMBLER. TALL FIGURE ON it is uvon a paradise of | working with unflagging. devotion to anesthetic and ‘skilled surgeon’s knife. The American villa, given _with a “starting fond” by George Wurts to the Italian government as a hospital, is the Neyrocomic Militare, scientific institute, ‘where psycho-therapeutics Jdemonstrates the. reality of miracles. Here the “false blind,” the “false imute,” - who, having been given the ordinary cure for physical wounds, | had been. passed on to the inevitable human wreckage of war, are being rescued through the power of sug- gestion. . The results which the director, Dr. Giovanni Fabrizi, famous alienist and psichiatra, has attained give a com- plete cure of two-thirds of the mut lated ‘who have passed beneath his | skilled eye since Mr. Wurts ‘turned | over his villa -for this work five months ago. Italy already, has 30,000% of these “mutilatti,”” men Wwho should ccme under the psycho-therapeutic cure. The Villa Wurts has accomm dations for eighty and Dr. Fabrizl is { Italian Soldiers by the Power of Su rizi. There were those who, on crutches, dragged seemingly useless limbs and those who ~came - proudly forward, crutches thrown aside, -stalking like tiny children, glorying in their newly found motor ac- complishment. There -were thoSe whose limp arms, showing bullet wounds, were but lifeless lumps of flesh, others who, re- sponding to Dr. Fabrizi's suggestion, Taised supposedly useless arms to their foreheads in military salute. : “Stop trembling!"” cried Dr. Fabrizi, as an unfortunate, shaking as with the palsy, took his turn in the line.of inspection. The man whose ever-moving arm showed a bullet” wound, continued to twitch and shake. Only by Keeping his hand in his coat over his chest was the violent trem- bling less distres-ing. “I tell you to stop trembling, vou know you ‘can, ‘there’s nothing the matter with your arm.” The ' ‘man _whimpered. as the doctor seized the offending member and held it firmily.. “Now you see you don’t have to tremble,” 'he cried, looking into the sol- dier’s eyes. “See, you are all right now. NOW ALMOST CURED. tranquil beauty, such as to_wipe out fcrever the scars of war. Here is a vision to renew hope as they look through flowering avenues toward the great panorama of Rome stretched at their feet against a background of graen Campagna and distant purple, mountain. < * - x In this lovely spot the generosity of George Wurts of Philadelphia has made. it possible for ome- of Italy's most vzluable and to be effected. The miracles performed are not by interesting cures save all the big number from the fate of going through life physically dis- abled, when the real trouble is merely functional nervous disturbance. It is a rescue work of double value to the scldiers and to the Patria, to separate these victims of nervous disorders from those organically crippled. There were fifty of these interesting cases called from the cool workrooms, where they were making toys, to pass be- fore us, showing their respective wounds and progress of recovery. They were in all varying_degrezs of cure or helpless- ness, those from whose struggling lips and throat came no sound and those with only -an ocecasional hesitancy. the stories of their grajitude to Dr. Fab- And don't put your hand back in your coat; let it hang free.” * - * “There with his arm,” said Dr. Fabrizi. the trouble is organic or functional. hospitals.” The man in question had been wounded by shrapnel after several hours’ cxposure. He had been given first aid at the field hospital and then sent is nothing organically wrong “Indeed, the first thing we ascertain when the wounded are brought here is to see if, 1 organic we turn the men over io other found on to] CAPITANO-MEDICO FABRIZI TEACHING TWO “FALSE CRIPPLES” TO WALK. cally wounded. He had been given the| accepted treatment and had ba-n passed OO e SR RO i eabis S i et o war. continued the doctor, " As he called out a handsome boy of twenty-two with soft brown eyes shaded by thick lashes, came forward, feeling his way with a cane. “How many fingers before asked the doctor. “Five,” replied the boy. ‘And now?’ ‘Two.” Right again. For nearly a year I could see noth- ing” he told me. “After I had been here a week Dr. Fabrizi made me dis- cern light and shade—then objects—. row—well, you just don’t know what it means to a fellow who has been con- demned to blindness to see again. He's making me see. Yes, it was gas that you?” did it. When the projectile exploded I was blinded. I shut my eyes--" “And he kept them closed six months, said Dr. Fabrizi. _“Until he underwent the examination here it was supposed he was really blind, but there is nothing whatever the matter with the optic nerve. He merely has to will to see now. He takes the usual psycho-therapeutic treatment and he will be completely cured.” A gentle-visaged man with suffering marked upon his face came forward. He seemed about forty-five, but when I asked he told me he was only twenty-eight. * - “For fifteen months I could not speak a word and now”—his eyes filled with the frank tears of a grateful Latin —tthanks to the wonder Dr. Fabrizi has brought into my life, my little children once more can heal their father's voice.” > “Tell me what you experienced when you discovered you could not ‘speak,” 1 suggested. “A” bomb exploded. another hospital for the care of the physl-| beneath dirt and debris. I was there perhaps three hours when I regained consciousness. Then I realized what had happened. I could hear our men moving about. I tried to call to them. I knew they were stretcher bearers. 1 called, but no sound came. I couldn’t understand, then 1 screamed—nothing —nothing! It was horrible to know they were so near and not be able to make them hear. Then once more I lost consciousness. The next I knew I was in the field hospital. And then, after fifteen months® silence, I was given my voice again.” The man suddenly caught the hand of Dr. Fabrizi and kissed it, trembling with emotion. “There, there,” said the doctor, along back to your work.” But it wad plain to see that the grati- tude of these simple soldiers who had fought and suffered for the Patria was more to him than the praise and Te- muneration of wealthier patients. Dr. Fabrizi, now capitano-medico the service of his country, is one of Italy’s alienists, famed in celebrated criminal cases. It was his expert opinion that saved Cifariello, the sculptor, from paying the “run penalty for wife murder. At the out- | break ‘of the war Dr. Fabrizi gave hi: services to Italy. It was Gen. Cadorna who, realizing the greater need of his skill in saving the nervous victims of the war, insisted that his place was not in the field hospitals. On a recent visit to Rome the’ commander-in-chief of Italy’s army visited the institute in the Villa Wurts, and to Dr. Fabrizi's sug- gestion that perhaps he could serve bet- ter at the front he gave a definite re- fusal. 3 “You are fighting one of our big bat- tles here on the Janiculum. My soldiers can’t spare you.” And as, they came forward these sol- diers proved how they could not spare him. * * * A wiry little Sicilian, whose hands had been frozen in the Adamello, | | | doctor's was something that brought a | | valuable documents in the field of sci- proudly | I was buried |picked up a pencil and put it in hisitunnels through. " pocket to show his new power. A one- time debonair Neapolitan, whose jaunti- ness had for months given way to mel- ancholy brooding over his affliction, bared a wounded arm, condemned a8 use- less, which was now working with re- turning power. A nerve-shattered little man, enunciating painfully, asked me if I had heard his friend, Fausto, who had re-learned to use his voice here in the Villa Wurts, sing at the big benefit at the Constanzi. All “tried to do their best as they stood before their beloved doctor. The mutes offered perhaps the most vivid demonstration of suggestion’s power, es- pecially the newcomers. When finally a sound came from their bravely strug- gling throats the joy and gratitude which shone in eyes that sought the | mist to one's own. “A sort of Lourdes here Janiculum—same _ prineiple,” doctor, ap the blind saw, spoke ‘and the lame walked. f you will step into this room you will see that we have a splendid equip- ment with radioscopic apparatus, elec- tric diagnosis, electric therapeutics, vibro therapeutics, physical cure, but above everything else psycho-thera- peutics.” The doctor led the way through an office where two medical lieutenants and a secretary were busily tabulating the data of each particular case, in- on. the said the the mute ence. Through dining room and spot- ggestion less dormitories, through supply de. partments furnished generously by the American Red, Cross, we passed again into the workrooms. “Occupation, congenial employment— that is one of the special points in curing’ these nervous cases,” said the director. Over the work tables bright-colored toys were coming into being, the faces of the workmen lighting up with pleasure as goose girls drove their wards over green fields and brave ber- sagliéri made their charge on Austrian foe. Some designed, others carved, some painted, and the finished products were the new art toys such as delight the childish h rt “Naturally, this is not a competitive factory—just an occupational cure for these soldiers,” explained Dr. Fabrizi ““The boys have tw ours here in the morning and two again in the afte noon—not enough to tire them Their days are well planned for treatment, work and recreation—all three equally important parts of the cur. We walked through cypréss alleys where haughty peacocks spread their gorgeous plumage, past a swan-deco- A Sponge. | 46 "HE way the Germans treat the Austrians and Turks,” said a publisher at a dinner at the Players’ “reminds me of Club in New York Skinner. “‘Hello, George! said Skinner one evening. ‘Got a clove? “I gave him a clove. “Yes, old man, here you are,’ said I. ““Thanks,’ said Skinner. ‘Now have you a match? “‘Sure thing, I said, fetching out my matchbox. ‘Help yourself. ““Thanks awfully. Lend me your cigar-cutter, will you? “‘Certainly, Skinner, old man, where's your cigar? I asked. “*Why, George,’ he confessed, ‘I was just going to ask you for a cigar. “I handed him my cigar case with a harsh laugh. ““The match you borrowed was to light your cigar with, I suppose, but, Skinner,’ I inquired, ‘what did you want with that clove? “ePhe clove, George’ he mildly ex- plained, ‘is to chew after I take the drink you're going to buy me. The Fool Minister. ! SWALD GARRISON VILLARD said, in a New York address: “The new .German war minister de- clares that mankind can never get along without war and armies. He re- minds me of the Nicois. ““A Nicois emigrated to the prairies of the west. In his mountainous home untry the railroads are all tunnels— 's like traveling through a flue—and so, when the denizens of the flat west- ern prairies told the Nicois that they were going to bufld a railroad, he laughed at their ignorance. “*You can’t do it he said. ‘Why not? said the prairie people. “‘Country's too flat,’ said the Nicoi: “You ain’t got no mountains to run your but rated lake, toward the gateway of the American villa. Before us lay history- haunted Rome, glowing in the gold of approaching sunset, with the glories of the past, *“All the glories of Rome are not of the past,’”” I thought as I looked back at Dr. Fabri bowing farewell from the gateway the villa of miracle.. Fooled. C. FRICK said in Birmingham, H. where he had come to attend a liberty loan meeting: “The crack troops of the kaiser— some call them ¢ cked troops now-— are hiding in caver forty feet under ground. The man who now .thinks German militaris a wonderful thing is as badly dop Cal Clay of Nola Chucky. “Cal was escorting some ladies from Nola Chucky to Paint Rock, and & they passed a planter's the planter was play ing with a powerful new searchlight he had just put on his,K water tower, and he happened to tur it down the road, where it streamed into the eyes of Cal and his two girls, “‘Here come one o' dem powerful racin’ cyahs, to jedge by dat 'ere head- light’ sald Cal.” ‘We'll jest hustle to de side o' de road fo' safety till she's parst, ladies.” 'So they hustled up against the hedge, and the ;{mnu\r, after playing the light along the road for about a minute, suddenly turned it off. M “Cal gave a grunt of astonishment ‘Jee-rusalem!” h said ‘How fast dat cyah muster been a-goin'! Here she's done parst us by, an’ we didn't even see her!” The Retort. { [13 ‘WO wrongs don't make a right. i1k . A senator was discussing theé food control bill, “While the bill has its drawbacks,” he went on, “thére would be worse drawbacks without- it face our opponents like “‘My love,’ her husband lady, ‘vou spend all your money gpt- ting your palm read.’ “She smiled swectl ““And you, dear,’ shé retorted, ‘spond all yours getting yeur nose red, "