Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1918 — Page 3

The Kid Brother in Camp

\ • _ ■> .• . How Unde Sam Has Organized the Training Camp ActiviHas to Provide Healthful Outlets for die Soldiers Energy

The “kid brother” Is now in camp. ’He went full of health and energy—ithe army surgeons have seen to. that. When he reached his National army 'cantonment Uncle Sam immediately began to put more energy into him. He will live outdoors 16 hours a day, and get scientific physical training to tune up every muscle in his body and make it available for endurance and hard work. War is the most energetic activity of mankind. They will fill the kid brother full of the energy of the athlete and give him the enjoyment of properly trained muscles that comes to the acrobat. They will do this and then multiply him by 600,000, and the sum total of him will be 600,000 American boys with more energy and better ideas of how to use it than have ever been possessed by an equal number. This energy is being generated to fight the Germans. But before it can be applied on the western front there is a problem even more serious than fighting Germans to be solved. Unless you give that much energy an ample outlet it is going to wreck something. If it cannot find anything else

to wreck it will wreck itself. About a year ago in a little town on the Mexican border there were 5,000 kid brothers in our National Guard camp near a town which had not even a pool room, much less a moving picture theater. The one organized outlet for energy there was a well

equipped, efficiently run redlight district. Many of those 5,000 soldiers did'the logical thing—proceeded to wreck themselves. They were so successful that the war department hurriedly sent trained social workers to see what could be done to stop the damage, and one of these social workers who is now in charge in the training camp activities of the National army resolved as he stood in the desolate streets of Douglas, Ariz., that if he ever got a chance to provide healthful outlets for soldiers’ energy he would certainly do the best job that he knew how. Today this man, Raymond B. Fosdlck, has charge of the training camp activities of our new National army, and what sort of a job he is doing you may judge for yourselves. -May Think Time Lost.

The kid brother knows that when he goes to camp Uncle Sam will have provided for him a uniform, a rifle, a place to live and sleep, and proper instruction in the soldiers’ discipline and duties. He has probably seen some figures of the food that he is to eat, the millions of pounds of beef, and beans, and jam; the trainloads of potatoes and onions and cabbage. He is willing .to do this patriotic service as a soldier. Yet he may also feel that his period of soldiery, whether it last one year or five, may be so much

time dropped out of his life, spent in a sort of jail far from the people and the things that he likes. If he has heard anything at all about training camp activities it is probably about only that part of It which relates to booze and vice. So much has been said about safeguarding his morals that he may have good reason to think that he is going to have a pretty dull, sissified sort of a time. Suppose the kid brother comes from some country town where good shows are seldom seen. If he got a chance to see a real Broadway success under the management of a man like Marc Klaw he would not let it get by. Well, he is going to a place where there will be a theater under the management of Marc Klaw, and will have a chance to see some of the real Broadway successes. Booze and vice have received altogether too much publicity in connection with the soldiers’ training, Mr. Fosdick says—they are negative activities in his job and also the least important and most uninteresting. Despite a great public this phase of the work there Has been"HffTe difficulty in making the surroundings clean. The army has .enlisted local police officials In every training camp territory, and these terri-

tories have been cleaned up, and vice and booze are giving little trouble, and that is about all there is to say, of them. i, Show Every Night. The active work is much more interesting. This is divided into work inside the camp and outside in adjoining cities and towns. Each cantonment will have Ks own theater, seating 3,500 people, and in these theaters every night there will be shows given by professional actors and actresses traveling on regular circuits, far above the average theatrical amusements available to 75 per cent of the boys in their home towrife. .Two weeks every month will be given up to legitimate drama, goods play's, and musical shows, current successes from the big towns. One week will be given up to moving pictures and vaudeville, and the fourth week to lectures, concerts, and amateur stuff. i Hundreds of our leading actors and actresses have volunteered their services without pay, while those taking minor parts unable to give their services will receive nominal salaries; This entertainment is not to be free. They tried that up in Canada and found thaf the soldiers, like everybody else, appreciate best what they pay for. Then'’there will be singing.’ Every *

By James H. Collins

army cantonment is to have Its singing instructor, for singing is a wonderful co-ordinator in army discipline, and lightens the hard work ofc marching and soldiering immensely. Many a commander has said that he does not fear the outcome when an army goes into battle singing. Already it has been found that our soldiers are anxious to sing under skillful leadership, and we know that we must-meet on the western front an army that is not only the most highly trained in the world in military tactics, but also trained in singing. A German, regiment on the march will sing in a way to make one’s hair stand on end. The men will swing along to a German song that runs for silt beats, and then will stop abruptly for two beats, and sing for four beats more and then stop four beats. Every national resource that we have in the way of ragtime and college cheers will be needed when we meet the trained singing soldiers of the kaiser, and as we learn from them in trench fighting and bombing, so we must learn from them in this. Idle Time Is Organized.

The other day a New York lawyer who was a pacifist until war was declared, but who now understands that sometimes the best way to get peace is to fight for it visited his brother who is training in an eastern camp. He found his brother hard and brown, every inch a soldier, keen for the western front, and glad to be in the army, but he also found that his brother had a great deal of time upon his hands which it was difficult to use to advantage. In civil life the kid brothers’ day can be pretty efficiently planned. When he gets done at the office or factory he has sports and social interests, can read or study, and mike every half hour count in h general scheme of work, play, and self-improvement. In the training camps there must be a different scheme. Surroundings are not always so favorable to study, and many an hour which in civil life would be utilized to some useful end is idled away. But this idle time is also being organized and in ways that not-'Only 'make for personal for better citizenship; At some of the cantonments it has already been discovered that hundreds of recruits cannot read or write the English language. They come from sections in the country settled by European immigrants where the parents’ language has been retained and contact with Americans has not been sufficient. Classes in English have been started and when these boys come out of the army they will be American in speech and ideals. The French language and French geography are being widely taught because it has been found that these studies make the most direct appeal to recruits. Then there are the sports. Many a country boy who has lived far from baseball and football and many a city boy whose interest in boxing and wrestling has found outlet only through sporting pages of the newspapers will find in camp not only the opportunity to play these games for himself but to learn under a competent instructor. Each camp will have pne of the best college coaches in the country, and the sports will be organized in a way to give every recruit his chance to play the game he likes and to excel in it.

Can Find Congenial Pals. There will be other attractions in camp for the kid brother. Suppose he is a farm boy who has had few opportunities to get to town or few pals when he got there, or suppose he is that even more lonely chap, the boy who does not find his sort of pals in the gangs around his neighborhood. Turn him loose in a city of 40,000 fellows his own age, with his play organized as well as work, abundant outdoor exercise, and good food, careful medical attendance, supervision, and pefsbagl hygrefie. “For the first time in his life he feels the fascination of team play, and has the benefit of associates that will meet his very idea of what good pals should be. If he is redheaded, freckled, and abounding in rough boyish energy, and likes vigorous, harmless deviltry, he will soon find around hint a gang of his own kind larger than he ever hoped to see in his life, and one that will help him develop his every aspiration, whether it be to lead or to follow the lead. If he is a quieter boy with Inventive or artistic or literary tastes he can soon find congenial fellows of his own way of thinking, pals who probably understand what is in him better than anybody he has ever met—better than he understands himself. With all these attractions it might be thought that the k|d brother would never want to leave camp, but he will, and the director of training camp activities knows that he will, and has provided for him intelligently. It has been found that soldiers in camp will go to town, whenever they have an hour’s free time. When Uncle Sam, set out to select sites for his army cantonments last spring, there was excitement in every community from ocean to ocean. Chambers of commerce and citizens’ leagues brought pressure to bear upon their congressmen and senators in Washington in the effort to secure one of these prizes. The prospect of a city of 40,000 men suddenly set down within a > . -

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few miles of their borders made a direct appeal to the business imagination ! Think of the millions of pounds of supplies to be sold to the cantonments 1 Think of the thousands of dollars of soldiers’ money to be spent in the nearest town! The prospect was dazzling. Every community that sought an army cantonment sought it on this hasisof financial good to the town, and when the sites were affhounced there was jubilation in the 16 towns selected —joy over the prospect of easy money. But today these 16 towns have a very different conception of a soldiers’ cantonment They know that.it brings responsibility as well as money. They have found their own town standards must be improved

Millions Spent by Communities. More than three million dollars is being spent in these communities to provide conveniences for the soldiers. And every cent of that money has been raised in the towns themselves. The soldier wants good eating places, good moving-plctlire theaters with attractive programs, well-managed pool rooms, and places where he can rest and write and read. Some of the community work done by the little towns would put a big town to shame. Gettysburg, Pa., is a town of only 4,000 people, and it will have this population increased by 12,000 soldiers. It has fitted .up two big, centrally located recreation rooms with pool tables, reading and writing materials, and music. The college there has turned over its athletic field to the soldiers with tennis courts, baseball diamonds, running track, gymnasium, and a hall for dances, entertainments, and movies. .There was no swimming pool for the soldiers. The citizens raised SSOO and built a dam in a near-by stream. Junction City and Manhattan, Kah., are even smaller. They raised $3,000 for a soldiers’ club in Manhattan and $8,300 for another one in Junction City. The school playgrounds ad college athletic field were turned over to the soldiers. Then a sanitary surv.ey of the city was made, classes in French provided, and finally these typical small American towns did a typical American thing—famlies invited individual soldiers to dine with them in their homes.

Training camp experts have found that when the soldier first comes to a community the people of that community can be classified in three groups; known as the sentimental, avaricious and the resentful. Many of the sentimental are women, naturally. They flock around the youth in uniform,. persuade him that he is a hero, and thrust upon him attentions which quickly spoil him. They break down his self-respect, pauperizing and giving him false ideas of his own family. There are sentimental men who do him as much harm; men of greater means than his own, who entertain him in ways that give him false ideas of life with which to go back home. Soldier Makes His Own Way.

The avaricious group is made up of practical citizens, who exploit the soldier by overcharging and cheating him and appealing to his baser desires. The resentful group Is made up of people who hate the idea of war. To them the soldier personifies war, and they take it out maliciously on the innocent kid brother who is doing his bit the best he knows how, and who is ten times the man and the citizen that these busybodies ipagine themselves to be. But when the soldier comes he makes his own way. He Is clean, moral, strong, and enthusiastic. He has his work and his plaY iu camp, and looks to the town only for a reasonable amount of amusement of some other kind. The experts who organize the soldier’s play also organize the town. They show the people that this boy in’ uniform is still a human being entitled to human ties —friends, church, fraternal groups, the companionship of good women. He Is neither to be patronized nor slighted, pauperized or exploited. He was a civilian yesterday, and he will be tomorrow a better civilian for his military tramlng and the service he has rendered his country. Even the resentful group changes. They see that, opposition to the soldier must surely react upon their community. If they evade their responsibility to him the result will be broken homes, viefe, disease, brutalization, and lower community standards. If they meet the responsibility by constructive community effort they protect themselves and the soldier and benefit their community.

Some Camp Songs.

[ [Collected by Kenneth S. Clark, ' representing the War Department i Commission on Training Camp • Activities.] “Kaiser Bill." * [ Tune: “On the Beach at Waikiki.” Kaiser Bill, oh, we are coming, i ' With our Army over sea. ! And you forgot our motto, > Which is, "Do not tread on me.” [ It’s a job we never started, 1 But we’ll finish Germany; ! And we’ll hang you, Kaiser Wil- ; liam, > On the highest linden tree. ; “Good-by, Bill."' [ Tune:“Good-by Girls, I’m • Good-by, Bill, you’re through, I “You’d better start to fret. j We’ll tie a can to you, > Without the least regret [, Our Army’s mobilizing, it sure looks terrorizing. ! We win keep this alm in view: ' We’ll get you, we’ll get you, , Good-by, Bill, you’re through. “Hot Time." 1 Here we are, and we’re off for Ber- ' lin town. ; We’U turn Bill and his army up- ' side down. * - ; And when the Allies make the Kai- > ser shed his crown, [ There’ll be a hot time in the old town that night. Oh, baby!

THE BEACON

By MARY RANDALL.

(Copyright, IM7. Western Newspaper Unto®. > No matter how long or dark the night, no matter if it was the brightest moonlight, always and ever there was a light shining in the parlor alcove window in the home of widow Janet Graham. The neighbors and townspeople generally related a weird tale connected with the familiar beacon. The widow and her son, Verne. Graham, had come to Roslyn and had rented the pretty little cottage. The young man was brisk, industrious, always had a smile on his face, and it was no wonder that he attracted the attention of Marjorie Dale, who was the nearest neighbor. Her life was devoted to the case of a crippled father and an invalid mother. She was one of those sweet, patient souls whose face is irradiated with a purity and gentleness almost ethereal, and when Verne was called to promising position in the city her pride mingled with that of the fond mother, and they built great hopes aS to bls business future. A year went by and twice Verne visited home, and each week he wrote to both the dear ones. When he had first left them Mrs. Graham had looked earnestly into his eyes. “Verne,” she said, “you see the light I have placed in the window. It shall be there on the darkest night, your beacon. Think of it, cherish it.” One day Mrs.. Graham and Marjorie were seated conversing, when a keeneyed, hard-faced man knocked at the door. He edged his way into the room, glancing about sharply. “I am looking for Verne Graham,” he announced in a tone of assurance and command that somehow chilled the hearts of mother and fiancee. “He is not here,” Mrs. Graham advised the visitor. “It is three months since we saw him last. Even his usual letter missed us last week. Oh, sir! I trust there is no trouble.” “Sorry to say there is,” bluntly responded the stranger, "and I am a detective looking for him. .He disappeared from his work ten days ago, taking with him twenty thousand dollars of the fupds of the company intrusted to his charge.” “My son a thief!” cried Mrs,, Graham. “It is false!” The man shrugged his shoulders indifferently. “I do not believe him!” breathed Marjorie, agitatedly. “There is some error, some plot, oh! be assured of that. Mother Graham, I am going straight to the city to ferret out qll the details of this terrible thing.” Marjorie Dale was received at the place where Verne Graham had been a cashier by the manager, a Mr. Thorpe. The man was coldly polite and matter of fact. The money and Verne Graham had vanished together, this man told Marjorie. Marjorie carried a breaking heart back to the little country village. She told her story amid the tears to the Stricken mother. “Oh, it is vain!” cried Marjorie. “Verne will never come back.” “He will cofne,” solemnly declared the mother. “Of his innocence or guilt what can I say, but he is always my son, always welcome, no matter how black his sins may be. Some night Verne will come back to the light in the window.” Then came a break in their companionship. Marjorie’s father died and a brother insisted on Mrs. Dale making her home in his household. Marjorie went to the city and became a nurse in a public hospital. One night the word went round that a terrible railroad accident would s£nd in many sufferers for treatment. After the surgeons had attended to one victim in her ward, he delegated the patient to Marjorie’s charge. The man was insensible and had sustained frightful injuries. Marjorie was startled as she recognized him. He w’as the plant manager, Mr. Thorpe, whom Marjorie had called upon In regard to the disappearance of Verne Graham. Marjorie sat down by the cot. She became conscious that the eyes of the patient were fixed Upon her. She met the glance. “I’ve seen you before,” spoke Thorpe. “You were the sweetheart of Verne Graham.” • “Try and keep quiet,” directed Marjorie gently. “It will harm you to talk.” “I’ve-got to talk!” almost shouted the man, in a wild strain of excitement, “I want you to sehd at once for Mr. Woodson, the head of our house. It is vital, it must be done, and more for your sake than my own.” Marjorie consulted the head nurse and Mr. Woodson was sent for. He arrived within the hour. As Marjorie placed a chair by the bedside of the natient and moved out of hearing, the latter called out insistently: “No, no—she must hear, too. Mr. Woodson, Verne Green never stole that twenty thousand dollars. It was I who did it. I worked out a plot against him and hired some persons as wicked aa myself to hold him ih captivity. Take down my confession and the details of where this man whom I have so cruelly wronged can be found and rescued.” c ._ Thorpe breathed his last the next morning. The wealthy and humane Mr. Woodson at once insisted that she accompany him on the journey that was to restore to a loyal, faithful girl her lover, to a patient, loving mother her cherished son. “The house will make all. due amends for the fearful work of Thorpe,” ■fledged Mr. Woodson. And the light in the window welcomed Verne home at last 4 ,

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Got It Herself.

Isabell, aged eight daughter of a Winchester couple, was at the dinner table when the conversation wds on in regard to a neighbor woman who the day before received a. decree of divorce. Isabel’s mother said to her older daughter, “Who got her divorce for her?” Little Isabelle quickly spoke up and said, “Why, mamma, I reckon she just went downtown and got it herself.”—lndianapolis News.

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