Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — DAILY LIFE AT CAMP TAYLOR [ARTICLE]

DAILY LIFE AT CAMP TAYLOR

Eight Hours of Drill and Little Idle Time Left. Camp Taylor, near Louisville, Kentucky, where the thousands of drafted men from Indiana and nearby states will be trained for war service, will soon be one of the busiest places in the country. At the present time but 5 per cent, of the first quota is at the camp, but they will be joined next week by tbe next 40 per cent., and a little later by the remainder. Jasper county now has three men at Camp Taylor—Carroll Leatherman, Othel Caldwell and John Kriz —and the next contingent of twenty-two men will go next Thursday. 7 One of the first things the soldier experiences after arriving at camp is inoculation with both typhoid and smallpox vaccine, and sore arms are his lot for several days. Active and strenuous training is not indulged in until he is relieved from the effects of the inoculation. Eight hours each day is given over to military training, and this added to their other duties leaves little time for idleness. The daily program begins at 5:25 a. m., when all men are summoned to arise, and concludes with taps at 9:30 p. m. The hourly arrangement of the program is *vs f dilaws r 5:25 a. nr.—Get up. 5:40 a. m. —Assembly. 5:45 a. m,—Reveille. 6:30 a. m.—Breakfast. 7:30-11:30 a. m.—Drill. 1 2 noon—Dinner. 1:15-5:15 p. m.—Drill. 5:25 p. m.—Assembly. 5:30 p. m.—Retreat. 5:35 p. m.—Supper.” 9:00 p. m.^—'Tatoo 9:3p p. m.—Tapps. The camp covers between 15,000 and 20.000 acres, and to the inexperienced rookie presents a maze of similar looking buildings. Everything possible to make the men contented, and at the same time do the work necessary, is done, and the camp is far from the desolate place it (might be.