Show MIDDLE M WEST BOYS g f. f KEEN IN TRAINING I v f J j o iBy y International News Service t. t IIi AGO July 21 ChIcago Chicago and J suburbs suburbs now of Ft Sher- Sher Wan and jand nd Ft 1 t Benjamin Harrison offer Harrison offer striking evidence e today against the thelm im- im prevailing in some parts of the East last East that the West Vest is not awake to the J realities of war Everywhere khaki khaki- clad young men are In evidence men evidence men who have volunteered for the task of training to become officers for Uncle Sams Sam's army array of ot a a. million On QI Chicago boulevards every third automobile seems to b b dr driven v n b by a clad haki-clad chauffeur Among Apon the officers In training therese there thee se seems ms to to be a large percentage of oJ yo young yoking ng men In comfortable financial clr circumstances or or or better The he trainIng training train train- 1 Ing camp news which h fills the papers and an r which Is read eagerly by thousands thousands thou thou- sands of families represented In Ia the training trenches contains the names name of many sons of the money barons of the West On On- t the e other Bother hand the streets are fuU of young oung men of a different station station sta eta tion tion- of life sweethearts on arms in inmany inmany many cases eases Their faces belie belle any Impression impression impression im Im- im- im I that they may look upon th their ir hakl haki and md their training as a lark or an I adventure ln Indianapolis streets do not contain so 0 many officer drivers of e expensive cars There the farmer boys and the recruits tom from th tho states host of small colleges are In large numbers in the swing of ot the shoulders shoulders shout shout- ders a slump that Is distinctly not military d a sun nt squint in the eyo eye and roughness ess of hands single out the I yr o tom the country That and the meet them on their Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day ilay half holiday in town I Saturday is the day for 1 l functions functions functions and the college bo s take possession posses posses- zion sion of ot hotel grill rooms for hilarious dinners and the like Ilke I But neither here nor In Indianapolis do does des s the casual visitor get the impression sion ston that the business of ot becoming an officer Is a social function These young men men from from all walks of ot life life life- have thought It over and the they are In deadly earnest about their Job and about the war The Tle meaning of th their lr decision has spread through the West On the street treet at business and In the home there Is la I evidence of real thinking and a a. ver very very- g great eat curiosity regarding America and th the wan wr |