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Show ' Ogden Cadets at I Camp Kearny Enjoy Life; Feeling Fine How the 0den Hlich school boys H t Camp Kearny are hehavlnr. nh.it B they nr dolnif and the chnc their H parents may expect In them upon their H return from the sun Bias to BBeaa In all B told In th folliiwlnK article from the H Kim Dlejo I'nion: H It's a larjfo. cipansivf life. If you H don't allow you mi If to hecome rnfee- H bled. And how a man could crow 1 ITMlMff on the Ft. O. T. C. rcgrlm nt H Camp Kearny I can't Imagine. Nom H r the thousand or more -olWirc and 1 VL high school men I saw there H showed any signs of it. Surround! Hp' w - ,1, WwW lns, vacant since the lute war ended, H - the R. O. T. C. area was humming B " with life th rhythmic crunch Of B; marching feet, the clatter of rlfle.s. the B barked out commands, the blare of 1, mllltury music all combined to set 1 hi- (dace alive with the old war-tlmc -tt-H mosphere. H3 It was a treat to go out to camp and watch the R. O. T. C. lads at 1 work. And tho biff sign which stands fl where the Camp Kenrny roud branches' from the coast highways "Visitors I H Wi iromo at ''amp Ki-nrny," Is a mod- j el of concise truthf ulne.is. H The boys were hard at work on the parade ground when I'red, the photographer, photo-grapher, and I got o:it tber. It mada a pian homeatlrk to watch them. I Times may ch.inge, Mexico may burn to do without revolutions. William J. Hi van may swap his dry plank Tor L dry Martini, but the old army will always be the same. "Dress up y'r squads:" "Hold up y'r , heads, don't look at 'r feet!" 1 Cove.- , In filer" "Cut out that conversation'" (All that old stuff was thtre Including Includ-ing the weak slater who alwiys hi'! his canteen out of Its cover when "AttOlttfOnl r ime after a re.-U period, and the plump youth who had to haye someone else put his pack on his back I for h!m. It's a wonderful large life. t'p ni S.15. In the cool of the moraine. With the amrly morning sunlight bathing the mi - i nnd tho hills glowing deep purple pur-ple on every side, the lads of th--R (i T. f, live the big out-of-doors from "First Ca'l" to "Retreat." While the early morning mist from the Si still hangs low over this fair city, the bUh, i-ir nirM "f i i.ip K in ; ablase with sunlight, and white most Sim IMegans are patlenty adjusting the chairs in their respective offices and stores, the R. O. T. C. cadets arc out In the open, marching, playing, reatll riding the top of th world, it seems to mc. with never a care on erth. i - u SO Ml WORK They work. too. these prospective tftcera in the reserve force of the United States army. Never forget tha'.. Tin. loll ami they sweat, and the "snap into it" and "s.nap out of It." ind they click their heels when they ilutf Some of them probably get out behind the barracks after the evening mads and practice the manual of arms It'll tlreu niiJ'-'-ir-" come to "parade They turn in pretty promptly i whm the bugles blow "lights out." sleep enthusiastically all the long I night and probably curs the buglers 'in the morning when "First Call" shatters shat-ters their beauty deep. But the life ' Isn't hurting them. To look at them, they're a fine looking lot of sunburned, dust eating Old i bard as nilla. and the long hours of drill have already given them a good deal of the snap and preeit.-I preeit.-I ion iha: Undo Sam expecta of his regular fighting men. The R. . T. C. lads are all of them high t ol and college men. selected from student military organizations throughout the west, and the senior outfits, composed of men who have nad i good .leal of training, i. en unqualified pleasure to watch Somehow they've brought to the drill field ill the spirit, th" pep' and the pains, .kins attention to ' lorm" which the college nthlete of today usually reserves for the gridiron tne track or the ball field. They handle them-. them-. Ives like crack soldiers, and yet man-n?e man-n?e to Infuse the old spirit of the col-i col-i - umpi.5 Into everything that they do or .say. Whfn they tumble carelessly care-lessly into a shady spot uurlng the rea period , dull oare la aa out of place among them 08 a St. l'atrlck's day parade in Jerusalem. Yesterday's work on the parade ground wound up with a rcgimentnl review when the whole 1000 studenH In Main marched past Lieut. Col. lOlmer Clark, professor of military rice and tactics In the Honolulu high schools. Col. Clark or should It be Prof. Clark? made them go through It twice and they did it twice with all the snap in the world, once In column of squads and once In column col-umn of platoons, Just as If the Ions ceremony had not conic at the end of a day of hard work. The junior cadets ca-dets were still a bit ragged, but the senior companies maneuvered with a precision that would lo credit to any regular outfit In th - country. A big staff of instructor:; from the : ; il.ir army i. ngagi d in the in-atructlon in-atructlon work, and in the complicated compli-cated task of coaching and grading Individually each one of the 1000 men now In training. The Instruction officers of-ficers ami non-coma take complete . of the cadets from the moment tho companies are report d on the parade grounds and the men are carefully care-fully graded i.nd assigned to the com-,tii com-,tii mi a Where they belong. As a man Iris advanced through the senior course hfl Is allowed to select the branch of the work In which he desires de-sires further training. Whatever mark he makes In this work, is added to hi 100 and the rating Is credited to hini and to the company , to Which he belongs. be-longs. The names of the high men and the ranking outfits in facli branch are posted prominently on a hi" bulletin bul-letin board near R. O. T. C headquarters, head-quarters, WORK mi pi w When the work of the da is over in the R. O. T. C. area, the sports begin anil If you don't believe the sport program there is big league stuff I'd recommend a glance at the camp athletic bulletin. with the University Univer-sity of California, Oregon Aggies New Mexico Aggies and a half dozen other big universities represented by contingents contin-gents In the camp, there is no lack of either rivalry or talent. The largest hili schools Of the west are alro cry .nuch on the map. ready for competition competi-tion of very kind. Last night a pro-pram pro-pram of H boxing and wrestling bout was staged by the R. ( . T. C. l i, count them. Today the Inter-componj JT- - M. 113- JUJ J llUU leagues start competition In baseball., i basketball and volley ball while to-I to-I morrow night at &:4.i the lnter-school haaeball championships will be on. 'deck. Sixteen schools and colleges will I cross bats on different diamonds for an opener. Iast Sunday the R. O. T. C. pretty ; unanimously attended the Camp iv inn picnic. At the last minute' Capt. A. W. Cleary. R. O. T. C. adju- tent, scouting around camp, found some of the lads who couldn't go on; account of Ihe long distance to pavj day. lie promptly secured five arm trucks, loaded ihcm in and reached i Del Mar before the special train got there. On Saturday 26 men from company A secured a truck with Capt Batrd In charge, and went up to Sweetwater Sweet-water dam. where they pitched camp md .ient a day fishing. They carried their own mesa outfits and turned In an official report yesterday to headquarters head-quarters showing a total of 130 fish taken In the day's sport. So the program goes hard work, plenty of it, sport, entertainment, fun And the lads .vho will be officers If we ever need another big army are out there taking It in for all It Isj worth. They're getting sunburned, hard and husky and making snappy forceful soldiers of themselves to boot. The R, ( . t. C. is an inspiring place to visit these days |
