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Show 5 SlA. T, C. Boys- ; I r :,To Be Demobilised Plana hare been made the past weelfcv to demoboliie- the six hun-dredand hun-dredand fifty young men from tteji. A. T. Ci at the Agricultural Cotlege and they will be a valuable acqWsltton to the cltlsen ranks ot the atati. In their tew months train-tngwhloh train-tngwhloh kas gone on constantly' In iiU ot the "fin," they hTe ae-' Quired bodies "that respond laame ntelr to an order and minds that art. alerts to whatever work they may undertake. un-dertake. As one man remarked, he ' had learned to obey orders and keep ' his siontk shut, a valaable quality tn ' any walk ot life. The easy going wee-termer wee-termer has neror had this kind ot ' training t'etoro ami at first kU wkole ' I ' soul revolted against It Bat now he I 4 has it, ho is going to pass it on to ' L(iitner" and tna cno1 Dd f,mi,'r f) 'M'ifSv.'M well as public, will bo the ti"' for thje toucb ot tai,,ur7 I i W which a student army will I . sfBj abroad. The Utah Agrtcul- I I UraliJfJe.'ltge has become known not I , onlyj Ptah, .bit far and wide,-for ,B Its 41a T. C. work, heeanse the col-K, col-K, 1Ksm. kelktUilHi last KJuaevl375 men coming freni' Wro- ,R ntWUtah, Idaho, Nraek t4 V ilBB'Tiftodr of men now departing Jitt.'J.t-to; the 'hearts of, ;iinKti ? nd motbern for they "l.aarlr all Utah men. The parents have worried over their sons being away from home during an epidemic but if they had realized how well) their 'children were cared tor they . would have rejoiced that they were not' at kerne. The collego had four hospitals, one for "flu" and pneu-j monla patients, one for all other sick ' men, one for convalescents and one for lncueatlot Besides the watchful care, over the health ot the. men they r - j were weU.fod la tho mess hall and no complaints were made either as to quality or quantity ot the food.' But boat ot all was tho rigid mental and nkystoal training wklck each man revived. Besides drill and "aettiag-p" exercise the men. stud-led stud-led war Issues and French to make tkem good cosmopolitans, ready to eater a league of nations; they also . "r had mapping, mathematics and mlll-I mlll-I tary hygiene' that they enn put fnQ use the moment they, return to the farm. 4s Captain Abbot remarked they hare had given them Ideas on camp sanitation which, it applied to country life, will alone make worth while All tho expense of tht, S. A. T. C. . . The fnon who took vocational work' will so3n be "doing things" on the farm. They, have had actual exper-r exper-r lence ''eVreitry. telephones, electricity, elec-tricity, machinery, auto mechanics, and concrete, and hare even learned to handle farm tractors Involving the same kind of engines as aro found in battle tanks. The time has been mainly spent in work but the men havo bad recreation through the Y. M. C. A. and a well equipped library and a post exchange, under the direction of Prof. Hagan, has been managed cooperatively for their benefit. The departing soldier) leave the Agricultural College much the richer by their sojourn. The college has acquired, during, their stay three new. I buildings, one for dairy work, one I for plant, Industry and one for ag-.ricnlUral ag-.ricnlUral engineering. Its skops I have been so enlarged and the col-.lege col-.lege equipment eo Increased' that It jean now handle 600 men in carpentry and the mechanic arts and do more t extensive work in all other departments. depart-ments. Most Important of all, perhaps, per-haps, the students of the S. A, T, C. have bad, besides a taste ot military life, also a taste ot higher education and there will be many who will want to continue their studies when the college 'reopens on January 1, 1919. |