Show Letters to the Editor Objects to Letter Camp November 13 In the Chronicle of October 22 I ran across an article in the to the section which amused me very The article was a very disgusting It was a complaint from some freshman on the fact that they had to wear wool shirts at a dress I found the article disgusting under the It seems as though the fellow was taking ROTC for the same reason that so many fellows are taking it to beat the Their idea is honorable enough and is the right thing to but to complain of such a small Army life is one that do what you are told to do when you are told to do You also wear what the officers want you to Myself I don't like wool shirts any better than the writer of the article but to complain does little In I think that it does a lot of We are in war as will every one on the campus Everyone is lucky that he has enough food and Some day I hope that a certain young man in the army and has to wear a wool shirt every day and sweats because it is too then and only then will he think back to the days in ROTC when once a week he had to do as someone else When a certain young fellow as I have no doubt that he and goes into com- and winter comes on he will then wish that he had enough clothing to keep him Then and only then will he realize how lucky he is to have clothing that the soldiers of our great army would I hadn't intended for this to be a song and dance but some of my friends and myself were a little amused and at the same time disgusted with the petty complaint of a would be a boy who hopes to be-some an officer of who know s So far I haven't been but I think that the day will If we are going to win this war we must make some I'm making others can do the Only through our and the one that is to can we hope to build a greater and better army to beat the GORDON U. S. Hits Officers Editor As an enrollee in the university ROTC and the son of an army I am constantly aware of the disgusting inadequacies of university cadet At the occasional military assemblies even you can see the ineffectiveness of officers' ambiguous Don't blame the They are drilled at lab periods by officers with the awkwardness of a new born Commands are of what has gone When in a quandary as to proper I have observed officers ask advice of former high school This display of ignorance shown by in the field in which they are supposed at least outward tends to discourage discipline and respect for officers in the Admittedly the ROTC is handicapped by obsolete The guns or are fellows of those used in World War and could serve quite profitably as donations to the scrap Must we be further handicapped by the supposedly officers who do not even possess an elementary knowledge of drill and A good army corporal could exact more respect and cooperation from cadets than do some of these nattily dressed ROTC Tolerable facilities are available for The cadets are and able to pursue their training they just need capable If you doubt the incompetency of our cadet just take a stroll up to the and watch the CLYDE E. |