Show BLANKETS BLANKE 0 BABIES FROM FR OM SCHOOL S CH 0 OL CA CADET DE T RA RANKS igli t Surp Surprise c Attacks Tea Teach h Need of Preparedness in l P Pole le Mountain Camp and t Boys Strive for Neatness 1 in in inFixing Fixing U Up r Tents i By y CHARLES H. H NEWELL CHEYENNE Wyo March 17 Tossing in a blanket is the favor favorite favorite fa fa- fa- fa vor te sport at high school cadet camps in the Wyoming Wyoming the camps held on once e each year and financed by the wall scaling contests which are area a a. part of military training in the high schools of seven Wyoming cities They borrow the stunt from th regular army where it has been practiced on rookies from times unremembered Its ns the quickest way to find out who are arc the babies and the mutts Capt Glenn Coot of the Cheyenne squad told me When the boys go to camp shelter tents fatigue uniforms and camp paraphernalia paraphernalia para para- are provided by the militia and regular army transport wagons and drivers from Fort D. D A. A Russell haul the outfit free to Pole mountain military reserve twenty-six twenty miles from Cheyenne The first night out tents are pitched wood is gathered for the cooking stoves and for evening bonfires and rain trenches are dug around each tent and around the whole camp Home Homemade made hay filled mattresses are put on army cots Half an hour aft after r a halt the camp has the app appearance appearance appear appear- araJ ar- ar aJ ance ce of a regular army camp The mess sergeant gives the cadets assigned to kitchen work the once over particularly fresh cadet Is set to rc rt r- r r c t k r t tY r Cheyenne high s school cadets among the rocks above their summer f I 1 i I camp camp at Pole mountain t t washing dish dishes s or cleaning fish In addition to canned goods the cadets encamp with enough fresh meat to last two days The first yearS they saved the meat until N It spoiled Lieuten Lieutenant nt Steeve founder o 0 of the Wyoming sy system tem let them lose los their beef so they'd learn by experience how w o-w to conserve the food supply The whole corps turns out at 6 a am m. m After roll call and drill in hi Butts Bute's manual manual man man- tia ual beds are made and ancL laces washed while the mess crew p. p prepa p re e bre breakfast After breakfast theres there's an li Then the boys play ball ball- g go fishing read or climb mountains Again in the afternoon there Is drill followed by hours for recreation Bridge building practice and field strat stratagems gems are an an- important part of drill Night surprise attacks are an exciting exciting exciting ex ex- ex- ex citing feature The The- first time the Cheyenne cadets went camping Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant took the leaders of two squads and on one lieutenant one into his confidence confidence con eon I and issued strict orders against any py cadet det m moving vi g froM frota his tent after taps Japs About an hour after we were asleep we were awakened by rifle rifle fire said Hungry Reese telling ab about ut it We rOlled out In our pajamas Most of us didn't put put on on shoes and mighty few grabbed guns Lieutenant had hay and bru brush h piled jn in front of the tents He Helit Helit Helit lit this this' Just Justas as squads on the rocks opened fire When we were trying to cra craw crawl wI deep enough in a six-inch six trench to escape the deadly fire the bonfire blazed up arid and gave us the laugh and then bawled us out something fierce It sure lid did get ur under der our skins |