HOME-READING COURSE .FOR
CITIZEN-SOLDIERS
(Issued by the War Department and all rights to reprint reserved.)
This course of thirty lessons is offered to the men selected tor
service in the National Army as a practical help in getting started
in the right way. It is informal in tone and does not attempt to gi\e
binding rules and directions. These are contained in the various
manuals and regulations of the l nited States Army, to which this
Course is merely introductory.
LESSON NO. 7
YOUR HEALTH
(Preceding Lessons: 1. Your Post of
Honor. 2. Making Good as a Sol
dier. 3. Nine Qualities of a Sol
dier. 4. Getting Ready for the
Camp. 5. First Days in Camp. 6.
Cleanliness in Camp.)
The living conditions in the Army
are just what most vigorous men need
for their physical well-being. Every
day brings an ample amount of ex
ercise, fresh air, and good food. Yours
will be a very unusual case if you do
not find yourself after a few months
stronger, healthier, and more buoyant
than you have ever been in your life.
It is true, on the other hand, that
extreme exertion in marching, or in
lighting, may in time be called for.
But this will not be until you are
thoroughly trained and lit. The pe
riods of strain or exposure will prob
ably be short and are not likely in
themselves to do you any real harm.
At any rate, you owe it to yourselt —
and, what is more, you owe it to the
country—to make yourself ”nt” at the
earliest possible moment. Sick men
can not do much toward winning this
war. In the Army they are not only
a loss, but during their sickness a pos
itive handicap.
There are a few simple, common
sense rules to follow, which are very
briefly summed up in this lesson.
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Everything you eat will be carefully
inspected by the officers in charge or
htat duty. You wil have plenty of
fresh meat, bread, potatoes, anti otlu •
vegetables, and other simple anti
nourishing food. As a genera! rule,
you should eat nothing not supplied
in your company mess. Especial 1>
avoid green or over-ripe fruit anti the
inferior “soft drinks” which will be
put before you in shops anti by ped
dlers outside the camp limits.
Your chief care in connection with |
food will be to chew it thoroughly anu
eat it slowly. Don’t drink excessive
quantities of water, tea, or coffee with
your meals: this is rather a common
fault among soldiers.
Avoid needless exposure. You may
be often called upon in the line ot
duty to march through mud and rain.
So long as you are actively on the
move it will probably do no harm. As
soon as you are off duty, however, tak*
proper care of yourself. Give your
self a rub clown and if possible bathe
your feet and change your clothing.:
Use a little extra care to protect your
belly from getting chilled; it may save
you some annoying attacks of cramps
ami diarrhea.
If you come in from exercise or drill
sweating freely, try to cool off grad
ually instead of allowing yourself to 1
get chilled. Even in hot weather j
throw a light coat or wrap over your
self for a few minutes.
One of the most important rules of
all is to be careful about drinking
water not provided in camp or rec
ommended to you by medical or com
pany officers. If pure water is not
at hand, it is better to drink boiled
water or weak colfee or tea. Boiling
kills the disease germs.
If you are in the habit of using to
bacco. be moderate, especially while
you are onthe march or just betore
taking strenuous exercise. Your smoke
will do less harm and at the sumo
time will be much more enjoyable, ii
you wait till you can sit down quiet
ly during one of the periods of rest.
Light hours ot each day arc set
aside tor sleep. This is ample, but
not too much for most men. Even if
you can’t sleep for any reason, lie still
and get a good rest during those
hours.
The medical officer will be ready to
do everything he can to keep you well.
Don’t hesitate to report to him if you
need any attention, even for slight
ailments. Every day at “sick call any
setyier who is not feeling well may
ask for medical treatment.
It is frequently assumed by well
meaning critics that illicit sexual in
tercourse and venereal diseases are
more common in the Army than in
civil life. This is probably a mistak
en impression, due largely to the tact
that statistics of these diseases are |
collected in the Army, whereas thoj
corresponding figures for civilian life j
are incomplete. In the new Army the
evils of sexual immorality will he re
duced to a minimum. The men will
find their time and energy so fully
occupied that they will have fewer
temptations and dangers of this type
than in everyday civil life.
One of your obligations as a citizen
soldier is to conduct yourself in such i
a way as to create and spread the true* |
impression—namely, that the Nations!
Army is made up of men too much
in earnest in the great task assigned
to them to indulge in lewdness and
vice.
The only sure safeguard against
venereal disease is to avoid illicit in
tercourse. A clean life is the best
guarantee of sound health. To main
tain a clean life, keep away from
those things which tend to promote
sexual excitement and desire, partic
ularly obscene conversation, reading
matter, and pictures.
The moral reasons which should im
pel every self-respecting man to avoid
debasing himself by sexual vice are
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KERENSKY.
Alexander Kerensky, thelreal load
er of the Russian revolution, first be
came minister of justice in the P'o
visional government and then succeed
ed Gutchffok as minister of war,
achieving wonders in reviving the
! army as a fighting force during May
and June. He was born about thiity -
five years ago in Tashknet, a Russian
town in Middle Asia. Although of
small means, he succeeded in obtain
j ing a university education and becom
ing a lawyer. Prom the beginning
of his practice he was an energetic
| defender of workmen and peasants,
j appearing in their interest when the.\
| were arrested and oppressed b>
agents of the Czar’s government. He
included the Jews among his clients,
and fought for the rights which the
anti-Semitic powers denied them. The
climax of his legal career came in
1912, when he represented the work
men in an investigation following the
shooting by the polioe of some sixty
strikers in the gold fields along the
River Lena. His work in this case
made him famous throughout Russia
as a friend of the revolutionary forces
and an enemy of the autocratic gov
ernment. >
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