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Show THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, Church Department ' SEPTEMBER 6, 1941 5 Church gives you cannot be duplicatthe chaplain said. ,4 Yet everyone who has eer visited ; ,, one of the L. P. S. sen ices at camp has said the same which all fnakes ' i us Utah men stick out our chests and : & virtually pop with pnde, Soon after we armed at camp here in March, Utahns,- unable to get w l home on weekends, wore invited to Cambria and other subuiban towns for dinner parties and baibeeues. At first the imitation came thiough di v as a matter of courtesy for Utah men. Later, however, we were requested by civ ilian hosts, mostly bei d cause the Mormon soldiers were in the homes and at the dins'. ner tables of the outsiders just another compliment to Mormomsm. Another point worth special mention is that some of the regiments have had as high as 100 hours wasted because of venereal diseases. The 222nd Field Artillery, which contains the majority of L. 1). S men, has not had a single case of venereal since being at this camp over five months. This single point alone has caused more comment in favor of the Utah Guard than any other factor. The commander cant believe it Priesthood officers of the 222nd Field Artillery Regiment. Front row:' Liuet. James A. Manzions. Ed especially compared to the rate of the Koellicker, Chaplain George R. Woolley, Reed Richardson. Clyde Hart and Howard Knight. Back row: other regiments. Lee Frodsham, Aubra Morgan, Sheldon Dixon and Harold G. Miller, organizer. CRITICISM OFFERED It seems that sexual diseases are considered an inevitable part of the army despite attempts to control them and the heavy penalty placed on each afflicted soldier. But they are definitely not a part of the Mor- -' mon army. Enough of the posies. Now' for the ciiticisms: By Corporal Harold G. Miller There are too many cases where 222nd F. A. San Luis Obispo. the Latter day Saint bojs have been criticized for being, traitors to their DOSSIBLY at no tirnej in modern his- beliefs. To be specific, the ideals of tory has the youth of the Church the Church are being publicized every been on exhibition as it is today. Esclay. Outsiders are curious about Mor men so since many pecially joung monism and are learning what is be- s branch-ehave been sent to the various hind it all. It is astounding to some of the a'rmyTor atPiir' TO service of .the non Mormons that fellows in the defense of our nation. should abstain from tobacco, drink, Indeed, Mormonism is on display. So it is with cntical eyes dissipation. their Those men who are displacing that the L D. S. members watch they religion as it should be are standing to see if they adhere to their convicout in their respective grouper tions. When they do not, ofjtourse, The benefit that can be obtained it is a black eye for the Church. When for the Church by the men jn the they do, it Js another bouquet service has long been appreciated by Many of the men are letting the efa result .Lhe First Presidency. As bars down, unfoi tunately. While at forts have been dnected to the L7Dr home they thtmghLtQQ jnuclx nf..Mot!n S. boys to keep contact with other er, of Dad and of a sweetheart to run the of Pnesthood the members in across the grain which is an admisBervice and not' only pieserve but sion weakness. of Today theyre in practice those principles for which Mormonism stands. At Ca m pS arrl .ms Obispo-i rrCa where the Utah National Guard is stationed we have little trouble. There are over 2,000 L. D. S. soldiers in three regiments and many more scattered throughout the other units. Isolation, theiefore, is not a problem like it is for the single is sent to Alabama, Maine draftee - ed, r . t - - .mnr.fi - $ pre-ferre- How Utah Boys React To New Life As Soldiers . -- or Cuba. in pearly six months I have watched the progress of. the Mormons, compared our boys with the soldiers brought in fiom other states. I com- pared their intelligence tests, learned the reaction of the civilians on the outside as regards our 1. D. S. men.. It all summed up to one answer the Mormon boys were tops in every line. The general knew it and said The so before the whole division. Chief of Chaplains stated as muchand all of The div ision leaders made Silji-- " ilar comments. For four months I acted as chaplain of the 222nd Field Artillery now 2,400 strong at ' the appointment of Col. J. Wallace West. During that time I was in a position to hear what various-factor- shad to- - say for -- and Latter-daSaints. us against Walking through seven miles of hospital corridors every second day, I could pick out the L.'D. S. boys at a glance as they lay in their beds. They had a wholesomeness about them that onecould tell, at a distance. Chaplains C. Clarence Neslen of the 145th and Theodore Curtis of the 115th Engineers also found this to be true. Not only were they,wholespme in their, appearance but wholesome y , Committeemen of the 115th Engineers. Back row: Ray Watters, Frank Goodrich, Chaplain Theodore E. Curtis Jr., Max Alleman and Henry Dennis. Front row: Roscoe Magleby, Carling Allen, Ballard J. Chris-- ,, tiansonand Dean Snow. 7 , v - , r |
