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Show Recruit Spends Busy Day at Ccr.p ' ...-. ' e Here's .'Progrca, Revcillo to Tcps Food .Ample and Highly Intcrccting Editor, Th Telegram, ' Salt Lake CltyUtah. Dear 8tr: , I am th mother of a boy 17 year oln and b la vary- anxious to at-tend at-tend a cltlsene training camp next summer, bavins; heard a great deal of the camp at Port Douglas from some of our neighbors' eon who ar attending this year. If It la not too much trouble I wish you would tell me what tha boy do In thee camps and whether or not they ar aafe places to send a boy who baa been carefully raised. Sincerely, ' - MRU. FRANK J. PEYTON, ; . . Pocateilo, Ida. at aa lc cream eon and a chocolate choco-late bar. At noon, fighting hungry, he ate large quantities of boiled frankfurter, frankfur-ter, boiled potatoes, cabbage, sliced beets, bread podding and cream mure, bread, butter. Iced tea. He called for "seconds" on the entire bill of far. He finished this meal at 11:24 and did "bunk fatlgu" until 1:U, when he fell out for Instruction In-struction In th uaa of th Browning Brown-ing automatls rifle, a very wonder' ful weapon shooting twenty rounds at one loading and yet so light that It la carried by one man. - - - At I: Is o'clock h went with hi company to the athletic field, where th member of hi company competed com-peted with those of C company in a track- snee-t Following this h' hurried to hi tent to dress for th parade, which waa held at 4:M o'clock. In Oil parade all th officers were students stu-dents and h was proud when h heard word of commendation from, th camp officers for th excellence of th drill. He had sopper at o'clock and fortified himself against th coming night with Irish stew, sliced tomatoes, toma-toes, cinnamon rolls, hot cocoa, JeUy bread .ajid buttar Jiat three "helplaga" of th atw.' STUDIES RADIO. . From (:( to o'clock he studied radio under Lieutenant Mlnckler, thla being a course for which he had volunteered, rle finished fin-ished thla lesson In time to see the end of ths baseball gam between B and A companlea, and rejoiced when hi company was proclaimed th victor. . At I o'clock he attended th open-air open-air movie show and saw a good dramatlo picture and a rollicking comedy which put him In good humor hu-mor with all the world. Following i this hs daahed to tha bath house, where he took a howr, with plenty 1 of soap. Th water waa cold and ' he howled while he waa bathing, I but he survived. perhaps your very natural ques--tlons can beat be answered by a deT scrlptlon of what one student did yesterday. August . In th training camp at Fort Douglaa. - Hugh Marlon Morris; 17, registered regis-tered from Baker, Mont., Is a member mem-ber of the baale red, or first year, course and Is assigned to company B for duty. Hugh Morris heard the buglee sound th first call for reveille at 6:41 o'clock yesterday mm iimgr-Vpot! fti tmmdtng of th first not of thi call he should have bounded from hi cot to make hi preparation for roll call at i o'clock, but he found himself just at this time very, very ateepy and figured that he could fold the handa In slumber for another ten minute. Thla he did, with th mult that he barely made Iris place In the ranks when the sergeant called the roll. He was not very much dressed, but he managed to pas muster for this one morning. After roll call he took his towel, comb, soap, tooth brush and powder and repaired to the company -wash -house, where Tie made a verv thorough toilet, giving especial attention to his teeth, the Importance of thi having been Impressed Im-pressed on hi mind every day since bis arrival. BREAKFAST NOT- SO IAD, , At t o'clock th light in th camp went out. At 10 o'clock th ser-geant ser-geant took bed check and at 11 o'clock th sadly sweet notes of "taps" sounded from the camp bugles, but Private Morris never heard that sail. He was under hi blankets, dead to th world, tired, happy and contented long before h had order to go to sleep. Thla, madam, 1 what on boy did in training camp yesterday and It I what all of them did and what they will continue to do until August Au-gust U. Keepoctfully, ' THK TELEGRAM. At o:l he ate hi breakfast, con-slstlng con-slstlng ot stewed aprloots, fried hominy, - fried bacon. potatoes bread, butter and coffee with real cream and white eugar. He at liberally of thla food and called for "reconds on hominy. From :1S to f:15 young Morris was buey about his tent. He aired his bedding, then made up his bed In mUltsry fsshlon and policed around his tnt and along th company com-pany street. Then he dressed himself him-self for the field, for which serv-kce serv-kce k wore khaki trousers, olive drab shirt,, spiral lrgglna, field shoes, campaign hat and a black tie. At T:ll h fell In for "setting up- eierclses, whlah ar somewhat misnamed, as he sat down fully a many time as he sat uptwhll he waa going through them. By the time he had completed thla task every muscle la- hie body had been exercised and quickened, hi lungs had beea tilled to capacity and bis joint vastly limbered. At I o'clock ho shouldered hi Springfield rifle and marched to the rifle range about a mile dlatant from his quarters, where he had Instruction In target practise until 11. to. Yesterday he shot ball ammunition am-munition at a target too yard distant. dis-tant. Whila shooting hs lay prone on th ground and had a sandbag rest. He made a fair score, but nothing to. writs hom about. CklANS BIFLt Back at quarters at U.-to o'clock he swabbed out his rifle and placed It In Its rack. Chen he waahed off the duet accumulated during the morning and finding that he atlll had ten minutea to spar before nner hewent to the csnteen and 1 |
