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Show "WiththeColon" From Elbert L. Cox, of Orangeville U. 8. Naval Training Camp, Balboa Park, San Diego, Calif. Feb. 24, 1918. Dear Editor: You are one of the first a soldier from Emery county thinks about writing writ-ing to. Away from home like this one appreciates the Emery County Progress. Perhaps you would be interested in a sailor's first experiences after enlisting. enlist-ing. The first greeting a new "rookie'' "rook-ie'' gets from the sailors is "Four shots in the arm and twenty-one days. If the second one don't get you the third one will. Where're you from." One of the shots means vaccinations, the other three are the injection of a serum into the right arm every seven days to prevent typhoid. They make i a fellow's arm large and sore but after a couple of days one feels alright a-gain. a-gain. One is placed in a detention or quarantine quar-antine camp for about 18 days and if he doesn't get ill during that time he is taken out and placed in the branch of the service for which he has enlisted. en-listed. While in the "D" camp one gets the very best of medical care; nose and throat culture and nasal Inspection In-spection daily. They have sick call three times a day and any one who may be ill gets the attention of one of the best of physicians. We have all the good substantial food we want three times a day. We also get plenty of exercise and plenty of Bleep. We have to be in bed at nine o'clock and up at six. Our exercises so far have been made up of a double quick trip down to the zoo and back before breakfast. The zoo has a lot of wild animals in it and ; when a fellow is on guard duty on the 1 "graveyard" shift (from 12 o'clock midnight to 4. p. m.) the chorus these raged animals put up makes one throw his head in the air and listen. A fel- low almost feels like joining in the song. I've been on this shift three times already. The lion leads, start-, start-, ing with about six terrible roars and I then, occasionally for about five min-! min-! utes his voice chimes in with or breaks in on the fierce growls of the bears, the sharp scheeches of the wild cat, and the loud bay of the wolves, i ending with either the wall of the pan-' pan-' ther or the prolonged mournful howl i of the lone coyote. I At about eight o'clock all those who ' do not answer sick call are mustered and taken out for either gun or squad formation drills. After dinner we us-uallv us-uallv take a pleasure hike down to Balboa park, the site of the Panama-Pacific exposition of 1915. Of course we sometimes have detail work to do such as fire patrol, military mili-tary police work (down town), supply work, and guard duty. We have good free amusements thanks to the Y. M. C. A. which keeps us going straight and free from bad company. At first things were a little strange and time dragged a little but now I enjoy the life. Uncle Bam takes good care of his i boys. Sincerely yours. ELBERT L. COX. |