Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — MEN ENTER BATTLESHOP [ARTICLE]

MEN ENTER BATTLESHOP

CAMP TAYLOR, HOME OF INDIANA DRAFTED MEN, AN INTERESTING PLACE. Oamp Zachary Taylor, of Louisville, Ky., home of the Indiana drafted men who have been called up to date, presents a most busy and interesting sight. Men from all walks of life are quartered in this battleshop. Big, stout, hearty farmer lads from the rural districts of Indiana and Kentucky are lined up with the raw-boned Kentucky mountaineers. Sandwiched in between these two types of soldiers stands the city youth dressed in a suit of the latest cut and wearing shoes of white. However, the clothes made no difference to the officers in charge and in a very short time when the military togs are distributed it will be hard to tell the different types apart. Hundreds and hundreds of men have been arriving at the Kentucky cantonment for the past several days. Faces, faces, faces —will they never .cease passing, in half smiling, half grim procession through the big chute and then on across the hills to the miles of wooden barracks that Wait to become their war impressed homes? There marched into Camp Taylor Friday from a southern Kentucky county a company of young men, each with a bow_of red, white and blue ribbon tied "about their wrists, and in his ribboned hand a beautiful bouquet of fall flowers, tributes from the girls back home. Would they lick the Kaiser for those girls? You bet your life they would. As the men arrived in their quarters they were registered and the officers made out what is styled their identification cards. Among the items on the card is the question concerning what the soldier would wish done with any money he might leave were he rendered inactive by a German shell. Lieutenant Hank Harper, of South Bend, bobs up with a story to the effect that one young man found considerable difficulty in disposing of his property. Of oourse, first of all he would give his property to his wife. “But,” said the lieutenant to the newcomer, “you are required to name a second person in the event your wife dies during your service. Have you no other friends to whom you would like to give the money?” “No, I have no friends. You might as well give it to my mother-in-law. Yep, go on, just let her have it I lave no friends.”