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FROM CAMP DODGECharles H. Pamp Sends Interesting Dlt; Information Concerning Expens- ers’ es at Big Soldier Camp | FraifornterHoitherivjFieFrcCharles H. Ramp, who is in the decl Quartermaster’s Corps at Camp tory Dodge, as is also Roscoe Hacker, an- neitother Lacon boy, sends The Journal havi some interesting information concerning the expense of conducting the big E military camp where many Marshall county boys l ave been and are being II trained for service in Uncle Sam s ded: army. The information is contained stai in a clipping from “The Camp Dodo Spr er,” r. weekly paper published at th: the! camp and is as follows: theIt costs Uncle Sam more than a com million dolars a month to provide con for the officers and enlisted men of ingthe 88th Division. tiorSince Camp Dodge was complete;! i and has been populated by soldiers, it 1 has cost just $7,457,766.60 for what the Quartermaster’s Department calls T “S. S. T.”—or service, supplies and HH; transportation. This includes the pay | Tht of officers and enlisted men which run Hlb on an average of more than $1,000,000 Six each month. 123The total disbursements by months Wei by the quartermaster's department | con are as follows:September 20 to Oct. 31, $1,052.-367.93; November, $1,043,279.60; December, $750,812.41; January, $888,-734.82; February, $1,733,023.79; March $935,600.22; April, $1,053,947.83.The average monthly payroll for officers of the division is $330,000, and that of the enlisted personnel approximately $1,000,000.With the addition of the allowance for commutation of quarters to officers with families or dependent parents, the amount of money spent on this item will be increased materially.It means a great deal of work just to pay the bills incurred in running the camp and paying the salaries of the fighters of the Hunhusker Division.Capt. E. C. Mears, in charge of the finance department of the Quartermaster Corps, signs his name with pen and ink to checks and othervouchers approximately 8,000 times | careach month. All the other details of checking up accounts, making out the | ^vouchers and keeping the reports forthe cffice here and the department inWashington is being handled by a I ^ group of forty men. These have been \^0T picked for this work because of their previous experience and special ability I for this sort of work. j ycAnd they have achieved a record in the finance office that many othei camps would like to beat. Not one month since the camp has been es- I tablished has the payment of salaries | '6l * to officers and men been delayed. Promptness characterizes the work j ^ of the men in the office and they stay by the job until they have caught up to the schedule. jThe other details, too, such as mak- j ^ ing out the pay vouchers, the deductions of the allotments for dependents of soldiers and for insurance and the Liberty Loan must be handled each month by the finance office. Records of each man in the division are received and these deductions made, all of which takes time.“You see, we are organized just like a big bank with forty clerks and cashiers,” said Captain Mears, who under this system is the president of the bank. “The men in the office are either expert accountants, ban); cashiers, or clerks, or have had experience in this line of vrork. One man in this office owns a bank, but is now in the army and is serving best in this office.”Cpariteiwh:er,canmaGolt;whdri:CaivillhisCaibutcaianmiioithlt;brlt;tinthiT *rrV* OFaseiatu:bei a g no re-th
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Lacon Home Journal
Lacon, Illinois, US
Thu, May 30, 1918
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