Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1917 — DOESN’T LIKE SITE IN MISS. [ARTICLE]

DOESN’T LIKE SITE IN MISS.

SENATOR WATSON MAY ATTACK SELECTION OF HATTIESBURG CAMP. • A dispatch from Washington says that Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, who is opposed to the war department’s plan to send the IndianaKentucky National Guard division to camp at Hattiesburg, Miss., has compiled some rather sensational facts, which he may embody in a speech in the senate. He has found by examining the government’s health records that there were 2,000 cases of malaria at Hattiesburg in 1916. The town has 10,000 inhabitants, and therefore, according to the senator, one-fifth of the population had malaria. Hattiesburg is far south and in a region that is largely cut-over land, where the soldiers probably will have a rather extensive experience in pulling stumpy as part of their daily routine. Senator Watson has received the following telegram from A. E. Boyce, "president of the Muncie, Ind., Commercial Club:

“Muncie citizens generally are very anxious to secure the location of a central training camp for army cooks and to render every possible assistance to the army. In this particular we heartily indorse and agree to co-operate in making plans of Muncie National Institute successful in case of favorable response to proposition submitted to secretary of war May 17.” ... - In reply Senator Watson wired: “I shall be greatly pleased to co-oper-ate with Senator New and the other republicans of the Indiana delegation in congress to have a camp for training army cooks established at Muncie. It should be remembered, however, that the administration is democratic and practically all matters of this kind go south of the Mason and Dixon line. In this connection .witness the order to train Indiana’soldiers at Hattiesburg, Miss., and the location of the cantonment at Louisville, Ky., etc.”