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Show 0 0 WINS HflST PLACE AT THE TRAINING CAMP ere Is a wlld $T&h for clt"e3 at 15 in the morning as 'first call for .' elite blows: ten minutes later the ' Sergeant'8 whistle sounds and -,u fall I"'0 line' tully dressed, inking in-king necktie, In less time than it ,',kes you i" clvil li(e t0 Ket boUl j'(3 open. The band Is playing a telv march as Sgt. Peterson cries jinily, "Ri?ht b' Squads" and ynu lrf oarohed onto the parade ground rhere 500 soildiers do calisthentics (he music. A little double time jfl, to your tents, a rush for the -.sib house, a bugle call that makes du hungry an you are enjoying your jdee and scrambled egs as never .ore. Then there is police, call. Bed; 31st be uniformally made up, tents died so the 60 mile per hour gale m pass through. Paper, matches, earette stumps and pieces of rag jd waste must be picked up from le entire camp area. You have all it finished that job when the 1st. Orient's whistle blows again ana .ith a canteen of water hung on your :alt you Btart for the gun park. Tractors are hurridly cranked, pau'. is grabbed from the guns and caa-ans caa-ans with a wave of .Seely's hand m mount and the cassions go roll -5 along to the firing field. "On :M into line" says Seely, "Action front" andi already there is a shell in :legun ready to fire. "Battery salvo right, Five Thousand" comes the :est command". There is a flask ::om the muzzle of the gun, a great Loise resounds against the hillr;, :;ree miles away a ball of smoke ap-;ears ap-;ears just above the igrduind and the :;porl comes down over the tele-;tone tele-;tone that the enemy has been annihilated. an-nihilated. Again the 1st. Sgt's whistle blows. Ton fall into a can of lemonade and rrab a swandwitch. Blooey, Blooey io the guns aigain for lunch is over, ;td now at 2:30 the tractors are aring up the dust dn their way to imp. James Jordan waves his hand ad tractors are stopped in perfect ie. Another wave of the hand and wry man is on the ground 'Cleaning ieuipment. Then there is another 'ish for the bath house, the bands iegin to play on the parade .ground, ie 1st. Sargent's whistle blows and tie men form in double lines in formal for-mal dress. Shoe.s and holsters have n shined, laces shaved and 11 niton ni-ton brushed. The. work .part of the t)y is nearing a close. The guard :' the following day is formed and Scs over its duties, .five hundred stand at attention while the Sir Spangled Banner is played, the and the giuidons aire dropped :'m their staffs, and what is left of :kMay belongs to you. At 7 o'clock the band begins itb "mal concert, some singers and mt dancers are 'introduced and ?u are given a close up free of '"ge on what ordinarily would Wyou fifty cents to see at 25 yards, boxing matches follow next, real Mmpetive slugging wii.h no limit on coaching from the side lines, and 1,1 "lis is hardly over when the long ,Jd notes of taps come sounding over :lle moonlight parade ground. Yon ,,ri out the lighOs and slip into the ' Blankets and another day of le hard bloody war is over. With more or less variation Bat-frJ Bat-frJ D. has done 15 such days since ust 1st. and as victory goes in "lining camps, Battery D. Won. It "a awarded a silver Loving Cup as 'emost efficient organization in the iimp, An organization more ear;er to ', earn and more willing to play the ie according to the rules never Tett to camp. That was the Bplrit. Iht won..: (Ad for that spirit some credit is l"e 'o the fathers, mothers and cm-!loyer9 cm-!loyer9 of the men of the unit. We. 5ever expect more loyal and hearty wPerati0i. from the community in ! n'ove to go to camp than we receiv-f4 receiv-f4 this yeair. With scarcely an ex-! ex-! ""n fathers and employers of ese hoys said to hhem, "We will J13 the sacrifice, you go to camp." IUefy D. extends to those fathers '"4 those employers its sinceres'. tanl!'- With their support and with e Plural talent existent, in the 011 Battery D. Will not fail. Workers ()p,)(,S(. !llllicals "Who, i t,lls- ry are vely len(llng the movement t t0"nilies and radicals- a question asked by David P Huston, former,. Secretary of the Treaury under President wlson " address a few daya ag ' government, not professional and in-leaders, in-leaders, but ,the d' e workmen themselve,. Ad so U Is that when the people rule they can be depended upon to take care of those who instill poison into the Public mind. "Why Is it that here, where the People rule, labor is in the main contented, has higher wages, and higher standards of living than cn be found anywhere else in the world i while in Europe labor tends more o ' be mutinous and radical? I do not! wonder that in many sections 0, ! Europe labor is mutinous and radical i I can easily imagine mysoilf being an' extreme radical In some parts of Europe and a rank conservation here. The things confronting the average man in Fmro.pe never existed here. "Few leaders in eastern Europe have developed to the point where they can formulate programs which ! would be in measurable distance of those which have long been incorpor-, ated in our life and have become commonplaces. And yet, there are among us persons of alien origin, unaware un-aware of the spirit and meaning of America, who would presume to tell us what to do. They can advise us to revolutionize our institutions. These people do not talk our language. lan-guage. They have no message for the people of this nation." |