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Show AIDS MORALE IN THE ARMY Believing, after a visit to the war front in France, .that athletics and morale In the army are intimately related, Major-General Frederick S. Strong, commanding officer at the great national guardsmen cantonment canton-ment at Camp Kearny, near San Diego, Cal., has arranged for a school of instruction where officers and non-commissioned officers are taught soccer football, indoor baseball, base-ball, basket-ball, boxing, track athletics ath-letics and recreational games. General Strong observed the benefits bene-fits derived from such games after j watching English soldiers upon their return from the front-line trenches. They would kick the mud off their shoes and enter a game of soccer foot-ball, in that manner loosening up their muscles and giving their bodies and minds the attention that j they needed. j Immediately upon his return to I his command at Camp Kearny, General Gen-eral Strong arranged for classes In athletics, with Major Cooley in charge. Major Cooley selected the Y. M. C. A. physical directors at Camp Kearny to instruct his men. One commissioned officer and one non- commissioned officer from each company attend the classes which are held four times a week from 3 o'clock until 4:30 o'clock. W. L. Seawrlght, director of alh- letirs for the national war work council of the Y. M. C. A. In the western department, states that the : classes have proved a wonderful euc-I euc-I cess and that General Strong's idea will be followed In other ranton- ments. i |