Show SHALL WE HIRE OUR ARMY NO CRY SCHOOL BOYS OF WYOMING AS THEY TRAIN BY THOUSANDS THOUSAND 11 Ui Authorities Capital Authorities Capital Labor and Educational Officials A Agree e That Western States State's Adapting of S Swiss iss System System tem tern Making Is fo for Healthy Citizenship and Preparedness Prepared i n ness ss of Most Democratic Quality By CHARLES H. H NEWELL CHEYENNE Wyo March 16 Are Ar An Americans going to l lure Hire ire marit and refuse to be their own army N 1 NOI Not if the boys of the state of Wyoming can help it For the SWISS ARMY PLAN proposed by many as the solution of Americas America's problem of preparedness prepared At t ness less has has already be been n. n AD ADOPTED I y in m Wyoming And is IS T TODAY DA Y being being being be be- ing practiced in a slightly modified form This state is giving OFFICIAL OFFICIAL OFF OFF- CIAL FIN FINANCIAL AID to cadet I corps in the HIGH SCHOOLS SCHOOLS- and providing an object lesson for forthe forthe the lation I 7 S Seven Wyoming cities citie have cadet S corps The movement is is the outI outgrowth out out- I growth of df f the original corps established in Cheyenne the capital five fiveS S years ago This first corps corn com cornA comprised A fifty students student volunteers students volunteers I came here for TH THE E TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELE TELE- GRAM expecting to find some someS S su such h or miss cadet system as that in which I drilled at Oklahoma 4 City high school fifteen years years ago I was amazed to find military 5 2 training as carefully provided for in inthe inthe S. S j the high schools of of this state as St other training Cheyenne high has added fundamental military training to those studies commonly offer offered d din S in most high schools The cadet cadett system began as a 1 purely voluntary t ry organization The fir first t corps was organized by Edgar Z of th the regular tr lY detailed to instruct the Wyoming national nation l g guard ard His ils natural ability to lead made mide it easy for him to interest i fifty boys DOYs They bought their own paying 15 15 each They showed such earnestness earnestness' and profi proficiency cI ricy that that soon was able abl to get et the use of militia arms arms for foi their S The Cheyenne cadets cadets' steadily won recognition and support from the i chool authorities and the state militia Then Uncle Sam stepped in and offered offered of of- ered them regular army guns if it a member of the school schol board and the superintendent of schools would give I a 3 bond guaranteeing their return Uncle Sam also offered to give the cadets rounds of ot ammunition an an- for target practice Students at Casper Laramie and Rawlins high schools organized cadet corps before state aid for the work wa was available Newcastle Douglas and Lander organized last fall The Tue state now pays 6 toward each cadets cadet's uniform providing he refrains from the use of tobacco during the school year injected ted a a. strong element of or sport Into the drill work from the beginning He made it seem seeni like play instead of work You kids dont don't have bave to Join this corps unless you want to told them I want as a corps as possible but I wont won't stand for any monkey business The indoor work today consists of thorough drill in the manual of arms arms arms- same as the regular army uses uses uses-in in Butts Butt's manual said to be the most thorough system of physical exercises ever devised and a perpetual monument menu menu- ment to Maj 1 Archie Butt who died on the Titanic and in exciting wall scaling contests In In Inthe the fall and spring the cadets indulge In outdoor d ill and marchIng march march- Ing and maneuver evolutions evolutionS' In the spring cadets g get t t. t their target target tar tar- get practice one of the most fascinating fascinating fascinating fasci fasci- and exciting phases phase of of their education They shoot at targets at lOa and 1000 yards and show averages that beat the mi ml- litia Crowning the ye years year's rs r's military schooling school ing the c cadets are taken on a two weeks weeks' hike or camping trip to the Pole mountain military reservation twenty six miles from here Funds FUlds to defray the expenses of this trip are raised by tournaments during the win win- ter The Wyoming cadet system is a modification of ot the Swiss army plan pIano said Superintendent Ir Ira B B. B Fee Yee It is noncompulsory democratic in thorough thor thoI ough keeping with the policy of ot th the nation and It works because fundamentally fundamentally funda funda- mentally it appeals to the boys At first the cadets drilled in their own time outside school hours I soon found that kept some boys wh who worked outside school hours from participating ing so T I persuaded the school board to set side aside two minute forty school periods periods' a week for cadet drill Next we suggested that each squad of ot eight have a sponsor selected from among the high school girls girts The sponsors sponsors sponsors spon spon- sors give parties In honor of their squads and see to it that the boys commit commit commit com com- mit no breaches of ot etiquette A common criticism of modern scholastic athletics is is' that it provides provides provides pro pro- vides healthful exercise for only a small percentage of the students The cadet corps provides fine physical exercise exercise exercise ex ex- ex- ex for the majority three Sixty boys out out- of an enrollment enroll ment of are cadets cadets' in the local high school Sixty per cent of the boys in other high schools have vol Why have not a larger percentage of the boys joined the cadet corps I SI asked S There are three reasons said Fee Athletics other forms of student student stu stu- dent activity and union labor Union men nat naturally rally opposed th the cadet movement at first because they thought the cadet corps would prove a training training school school for the militia That opposition was from individual union men not unions and has gradually died out The sons of many men are cadets Watch THE TELEGRAM tomorrow for a thrilling description of a wall scaling exhibition specially staged and ph photographed by the champion Cheyenne Cheyenne Chey Chey- enne wall scaling cadet squad for forTHE forTHE forTHE THE TELEGRAM 1 |