French and English Officers Are Very Much Pleased With Efficiency Of Officers At Camp Cody

I am perfectly delighted with the splendid work of Camp Cody officers. Everything is first class, and we have received such royal treatment here,” said Maj. L. C. Eckenfelder, chief of a group of French and English officers, assisted by Lieutenant Col. H. H. McGee and Maj. S. J. Sutherland, who has just returned from the French front, detailed by the war department to conduct a three-weeks’ school for senior and staff officers.

Major Eckenfelder’s party includes Maj. E. L. McKine, D. S. O., British general staff; Maj. L. C. Benns, British army; Maj. Bertrand, French army; Capt. E. C. J. Muntz, French general staff, Col. McGee and Maj. Sutherland being detailed from the American army.

The school will continue until about the middle of July, when the foreign officers will proceed to other divisions of the southern department. In a very pleasant interview with the editor of Trench and Camp, Major Eckenfelder said many kind things concerning the 34th division. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918

French Officers at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

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Comfort and Pleasure of Soldiers.

The war department, through the camp chaplains and the great American institutions of the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Knights of Columbus, Red Cross, War Camp Community service and the churches operating through camp pastors and representatives, are doing all that can be done for the morale and comfort of the soldiers and those who come to live near them. The class of men and women who administer these affairs are among the best to be found under the Stars and
Stripes.

Voluntary athletics form a very interesting part of camp life and no father or mother would want a son under better influences along this line than Camp Cody affords. The Y.W.C.A. has placed a travelers aid at the union station to assist strangers, particularly women and young girls, in securing accommodations when they reach Deming. She meets all trains. Soldiers, who are unable to meet their relatives on arrival, may secure her services free of
charge by notifying the Y.W.C.A. when the visitors will arrive. The war camp community service maintains for all enlisted men the finest community club house of any camp in the United States, and the finely furnished Deming club is the free home of all officers. The Y.W.C.A. hostess house and girls’ club house are situated midway between the business district and highest type of service. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, September 1917

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All Real Roses Have Thorns.

The Trench and Camp is not violating any “army orders” when it says no real roses grow without thorns, the chief thorns on our American Beauty bush being the fine particles of sand that have too intimate a relationship with the wind that sweeps the Pacific microbes toward the Atlantic seaboard. Mud is always a minus quantity at Camp Cody.

Part of Finest Army Ever Known.

It is a source of tremendous satisfaction to know that the officers who have the great responsibility of administering the affairs of Camp Cody, from the commanding general down, represent the best type of American citizenship, which earns the cream of Christendom, and it is pleasing to note in this connection that the rank and file form a part of the finest army known to the civilized world. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918