Show UTAH BOYS AT TRAINING SCHOOL AT BOULDER COLORADO merrill henry who was one of the boys to leave vernal for doul der colit to enter the special training course at the university of colorado preparatory to military service sends ilie the following clipping from the denver times you may have to glance ta talce ice at tho the khaki clad lads lada marching on the green ereen of the university of colorado arado to convince yourself that you aie not mistaken taken their song as I 1 tiny y swing owing da down n the road cannot be ala mla understood misunderstood it la Is the good old college song hall hall the gang a all here but the faces shaded by the broad brimmed army hats are a little strange they are sterner and more m tue aure than those of the boys vho aho usually aing hall hail halt hall then burn up a few of boulders boulder s old barns barna in the celebration of their derade I 1 perhaps you may catch a strain from one of the last companies in the march which will help to explain the situation it la Is sung with such fervor and whole spirit that it thrills you somehow and makes you feel as captain bearl did the other day when he said what will lick the I 1 I 1 out the kaiser the song were the aois s ia rom utah la is a now one but the tune cannot be betrayed it is old solomon levy the iha big liberty motor trucks which bring up the rear of the company prove that the government means real business la in the training of tile the utah bos bois and when alien you are told that thirty of the boys were but yesterday sent to france and an that others are leaving dally daily tor for the training of tile the men of utah at the front you are convinced that the state school has been no child s play 1 ave ave weeks ago this unit of men jor for special lanng tan tia lulng ng in mechanical lines came to der they knew nothing of military life or military practices many of them came from the farms and shops of the small email towns of utah although some of them were college men since that eventful day they b have an Q studied hard in class rooms a and lid have Nor worked ked as aa only western boys boa can from 5 0 clock in the until 9 at night all day long university hill is patrolled by huge gray trucks which are operated by these cammies these are the mechanisms with alth which the bos studying automobile assembling and construction baie to deal the workers in concrete cereto have left monuments to their labor during their course they hao hanc constructed bards arda of cement walks alks on the campus in adal addition to laying tha foundation tor for the fine new engineering building one hundred ad twenty five men are preparing the themselves melvea for the radio service special equipment has been added to the engineering laboratories ies to accommodate classes in thir thia work ork and buzzers buzzerd can be constantly heard during the day at night this training la is offered to civilian volunteers of boulder who alio are preparing themselves tor for service to the nation in the capacity of radio opera tors when they are nee needed ded A class i in general mechanics has been instituted for the soldiers to give concentrated training in blacksmithing and lathe work mork equipping them for j emergency work along these lines Lvery tUng has not been sacrificed I 1 to nork ork hannever how hoN ever Never time has been found tor for athletics and in their first game of baseball they were suc I 1 in defeating doulder boulder in dramatics even evem they have figured and for one night at least they en boulder with their frolics in society and I 1 they have indulged lanced danced away a couple of nights just to t iad add a little cheer to the work of soldiering ring the results ot of the training of the on contingent at boulder have not been 1 to tho men in the ser service vico boulder has conio come to realize more hail ver aver that tile the war extends to every little mountain hidden city lu in the nation dr DC norlin acting preal dent of tile the university and the roan man in supreme control over the unit exx ex ills his change of mind in these words the spirit of eagerness and un del holiness of these men have obliterated front from my mind the least doubt T concerning the ultimate outcome of this war 11 now that their period of training Is nearly ended they are preparing tor for the long journey abroad captain beaida and his corps of of bleers who have directed tile the course have nothing but praise for tile the work of their men and lie he puts it in no uncertain certain tin way when he says saya the bova are the most willing filing and dependable pen dable that I 1 have ever worked with their morale la Is high and 1 I would give my fame leg to go to france with thern them 11 |