HOME-READING COURSE FOR I
CITIZEN-SOLDIERS
(Issued by the War Department and all rights to reprint reserved.)
This course of thirty lessons is ottered to the men selected for
|| service in the Nations! Army as a practical help in getting started (
|| in the right way. It is informal in tone and does not attempt to give J
ii binding rules and directions. These are contained in the various
manuals and regulations of the Inited States Army, to which this [
| Course is merely introductory. . I
LESSON NO. 10.
RECREATION IN CAMP
(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. 7. Yoifrj
Health. 8. Marching ami Care of]
Feet. 9. Your Equipment and
Arms.)
While your days in the canton
ments will be spent chiefly in drilling
and other forms of training, you will
have a considerable amount of time
left free for your own use. Under
some conditions permission may be
given at times to leave the canton
ment for short periods. However,
this is a matter to be regulated in
each camp.
If you do go away from camp oc
leave, you will continue to wear your
uniform and will keep in mind always
that you remain a soldier, subject to
certain requirements that are not so
delinitely imposed on civilians. In
meeting officers, whether in the camp
or outside, you are expected always
*to treat them with proper courtesy
and respect. You should remember
also, even though you are not direct
ly under supervision, to keep up your
soldierly neatness and bearing.
Congress has provided that *'it shall
be unlawful to sell any intoxicating
liquor, including beer, ale, or wine, to
any officer or member of the military
forces while in uniform,” an exception
being made in case of liquor requir
ed for medical purposes. Under au
thority of the same act it has also been
ruled that alcoholic liquors shall not
be sold within five miles of any mili
tary camp, an exception being made
in case there is an incorporated city
or town within that limit. It has fur
ther been provided that “the keeping
or setting up of houses of ill fame,
brothels, or bawdy houses within five
miles of any military camp * * * is
prohibited.** All these provisions anil
restrictions are in interest of every
right-minded soldier. They go a long
way toward insuring clean ami
healthful living conditions in the
camps. They will help to make every
soldier more efficient and better able
to give a good account of himself.
One of the centers of army life in
camp, is the post exchange, at which
articles for personal use, knickknacks,
soft drinks, and so on. are sold. You
will be safe in depending on the good
quality and fair price of everything
•offered in the post exchange.
In general, the matter of providing
for recreation and personal comforts
in the cantonments has been intrusted
by the Secretary of War to a small
body of men known as the Commis
sion on Training Camp Activities. The
commission includes an Army officer
and representatives of organizations
that have had much experience in
. meeting the needs of men of the type
who will go into the National Army.
It will have the cooperation of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
and Knights of Columbus. Other as
sociations may also work with the
commission. This task of attending
to the social needs of the soldiers has
been organized with almost as much
care and thoroughness a» the bigger
task of making ready for the firing
line.
The Young Men’s Christian Associ
ation is building a hut for the men in
each brigade. In these huts moving
picture-vaudeville shows will be giv
en every night. Writing materials can
be had for the asking. A piano will
be at hand. The Knights of Colum
bus will have one large building in
each camp, in which there will he fa
cilities of the same kind.
Both these organizations will con
duct religious services every Sunday.
Men of all creeds will be welcome. The
secretaries and other officers in charge
will be glad at any time to talk over
any personal problems and to help
you in any way they can. They are
picked because of their willingness and
skill ir. rendering service. They will
always make you welcome. (Jet in
touch with either of these organiza
tions as soon as you have the oppor
tunity after you reach camp. The
chaplain attached to each regiment
also looks after the spiritual and the
moral welfare of the men.
In every cantonment there will be a
complete library building where you
will be able to obtain books and mag
azines of all kinds. This is arranged
with the help of the American Library
Association.
In each cantonment the Commis
sion on Training Camp Activities is
erecting a large auditorium. This is
to be used partly as a theater and
partly for athletic instruction. Some
of the best theatrical companies in
the country will put on Broadway pro
ductions for your benefit. These per
formances will be free. A place will
be provided for everyone.
Those men who like singing will j
have plenty of chances to enjoy “sing (
songs" on a big scale. The commis-1
sion has secured the services of well
known chorus leaders to take charge
of camp singing.
A great deal of attention has been
given to athletics. An expert will
give boxing lessons to large groups
of men. This instruction is volun
tary but it will be well worth while
for you to attend.
In some of the camps where bath
ing beaches are not far away, instruc
tion will be given in swimming.
Team athletics, such as baseball,
basketball, and football, will be de
veloped under the guidance of expert
coaches. One of the members of the
commission will be in general charge
of this line of activity in all the va
rious camps.
Of course all these facilities are for
use in your spare time only. They
are not to interfere with the steady
process of training which alone can
make you a real soldier. However,'
you will enjoy your hours of recre
ation all the more because they have
been preceded by hours of hard work.
The recreation as well as the work has
its place in the general plan for turn
ing out an efficient army of self-re
liant citizen soldiers in the quickest
possible time.
CSE RATS FOR FATS
AND AS CHICKEN FEED
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 6. — The city;
authorities have begun a campaign
against rats by offering a reward of
about 2*2 cents for every carcass de
livered. While it is hoped, thus to re
duce the rat plague considerably, the
chief end is to secure an important
addition to the stocks of fats available
for the making of soaps and lu^ri-)
i ants. The lat carcasses are treated
in a “corpse utilization establish
ment,” where, after the fat has been
boiled out, what remains is converted j
into a poultry food. South Sweden
has for some time been utilizing cad-1
avers of various animals in this way
A considerable amount of fat is also
secured by skimming large containers
p*a<rd in the sewers leading from ho
tels, restaurants and other places
where there is an unavoidable was to
of fat.
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RUBBER CROP SOARS
I IN DUTCH WEST INDIES j
BATAVIA, Netherlands East In
dies, Sept. 6.—A big increase in the
rubber production of the Netherlands
1 East Indies, is shown by statistics for
1916 just published by the Association
of Rubber Dealers.
The total crop of the Netherlands
East Indies in the current year is es
timated at 40,700,000 pounds, aij in
crease of 40 per cent. American capi -
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EDISON WORKS NIGHT AND DAY ON
GREATEST MYSTERY OF THE WAR
ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 2:5, (By
Mail.) — Here is the wonderful war
mystery.
More thrilling than trench capture!
More important than wheat! More
romantic than air duels! More en
grossing than these and all the test,
because it is still a mystery.
What is the mysterious secret in
vention Edison, America’s wizard, has
perfected to destroy the U-boats?
This is the big question mark of the
entire world.
Here are the facts.
1. Almost a year ago it was wide
ly announced that America’s electric
genius had a marvelous scheme by
which electric rays would set off ex
plosives at great distance.
2. Several months ago a promin
ent member of the naval consulting ^
board of experts announced American
inventive genius was about to turn
against Germany a mysterious de
structive agent that would rid the sea
of U-boats.
3. July 14 Edison himsclt, in one
of his rare statements, issued to his
subordinates, said cryptically: “We
now have all the rebellious elements
under control. Today will be remem
bered as the time we removed the last
jinx from the record."
4. July 20th the navy department
permitted the announcement that a
device to detect U-boats ten miles
away was nearly perfected.
5. A high government official said
only a few days ago that Edison had
just completed a task that would make
him the greatest man in the world.
6. The Westinghouse company, the
leading makers of electric appliances,
is enlisting 1000 men willing to be
absolutely locked in from the outside
world, holding no communication
with it, for ten months, making “war
munitions."
7. Edison, white-haired, had been
working for months, 1G, 18, 20 hour*
a day, in a veritable frenzied debauch
of sleepless nights and days, on th°
submarine problem before he made
his electrifying announcement.
8. No government official will sav
a word.
Now—What Is the Conclusion?
1. Was the announcement of the
new rays of remarkable power some
body’s dream?
2. Was the naval consulting board
expert either a liar or a maniac? The
board is not made up of that kind of
tal has recently taken an increased
interest in the growth of rubber in the
Dutch colony.
men. Furthermore, his statement was
not denied.
3. Did Edison boast wildly when h<
said he had solved the last war puz
zle? Well—you can number 100 mag
ical inventions from Edison s brain.
Can you number one boast?
4. Was the navy department talk
ing through its hat when it said that
U-boats were unmasked ten miles or
more away?
5. Is the high government official
who said Edison had finished a job
that would “make him the world’s
greatest man” crazy?
6. Is the Westinghouse company
turning itself into a prison because
it believes that will attract labor in
these times of labor shortage?
7. Why doesn’t some high official
put these speculations to rest by an
official denial of them all?
Isn’t it plain that, instead of more
than the facts being revealed, there
exist more facts than have, even been
hinted at?
Jules Verne predicted the L-boat.
John P. Holland built it.
H. G. Wells in his “War of ^the
Worlds” told how the invading in
habitants of Mars used against the
earth folk a powerful light ray that
burned everything in the path it fell
upon.
Is Edison ready, through a Westing
house-made machine, to turn this light
ray on the German sharks?
The wonderful war mystery is the
most gripping war thought today.
It will be the greatest world news
item some day soon.
Wouldn’t you like to know in ad
vance, just what it is?
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HOLLAND KEEPS AN EYE
ON SPIES OF BOTH SIDES
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept.
(). — Three telegraph operators, who
were charged with having supplied to
an Agent of the British Intelligence
Service copies of telegrams exchang
ed between ministers of the Central
Powers at the Hague and their gov
ernments, have been sentenced here.
The ringleader was condemned to a
year’s imprisonment. A girl operator,
who had been drawn into the affair
by the principal offender, was given
a conditional sentence of five months.
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