The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-14
NOFLOWINCI locks
Kansas Soldiers Must Sacrifice
Hair and Boards.
Brigadier General Whit Issues
a Startling Order.
BUT HALF INCH LONG.
Will Be Shorn If Hair Exceeds
This Length.
Must Also Wash Their Faces
Every Day.
BUT HALF INCH LONG.

orders have been issued by BrlgadieE
General Whit in command OF the u.
Riley maneuvers which will create
sensation among the Kansas soldiers
who will go into camp there next week,
No man will be allowed to wear MS
hair or beard more than half an men
long while in camp.
What a tremendous cropping of locks
this will mean when the Kansas regl-
ments arrive at TT. Riley! No doubt
the Kansas special trains will be met
at the station by corps of government
BARRIERS. AS the soldiers issue from the
train, each mans hair will be laid on
footruIe, and if it exceeds the half
inch limit. the lamb will be snorh'
When it becomes known that such
rule has been made, it is likely that a
good many of the football players IN
the National Guard will desert.
The short hair rule is merely one or
a large number of sanitary regulatlo4l ls
which have been promulgated by the
regular army officers VINO Viii pc Il
charge of the maneuVers- NO GOT :
these rules are intended especially lor
the benefit of the green sololers III
the national guard.
Here are some of the rules:
Every man in camp must be requlI-
ed to wash his face, head, neck anu u l
possible the folds of the body ana leet
daily: ne must wash his hands oeIore
each meal. take a bath at least once
weekly and brush his teeth thoroughly
every day.
~The hair and beard must be cropped,
the length of hair not exceeding nan
inch. the finger and toe nails kept clean
and trimmed, and corns pared.
1.-THE proper care of the feet IS very
important matter and company of1cers
should be particularly solicltous mat
the feet Of their men are kept IN or
Programme for Kansas Week.
The programme announced for the
army .maneuvers at Fort Riley during
the week that the Kansas and South
Dakota troops win be in attendance IS
as follows: =,
all dav: infantry drill close order in the
morning and extended order in the
afternoon; lecture on military courtesy
and guard duty; band concerts AFTER
retreat.
Tuesday, August Morning. infan-
trv and artillery will take up Troops
in Battle" as set forth in paragraphs
335 to SAT infantry drill regulations;
afternoon. EXECUTIONS Of the Regi-
ment;" instruction in field engineering,
g. 80 .. m; concerts by bands after re-
treat.
Wednesday, August 22-At s:25, if
weather is favorable tents will be
struck and pitched in center of COM
pany streets; exercise in outpost and
patrol duty evolution OF the brigade in
battle; band practice; 4:35 p. m,
tents will be repitched on original sites.
Thursday, Aug. 23.-Marching, ad-
vance, flank and rear guards; tent
pitching and individual cooking. Siege
gun artillery practice.
Friday, Aug. 24-Morning. war
problem; afternoon. muster at 8
o'clock. Regimental parade at 4
o'clock.
Saturday. Aug. 25-Morning. inspec-
ton of provisional brigade by inspector
general; payment of Kansas and South
Dakota troops; afternoon. athletics.
Sunday. Aug. 26-Departure of Kan
sas troops.
The above is the general programme
which will be followed not only by the
Kansas and South Dakota troops, but
by the Nebraska. Arkansas, Missouri,
Iowa, and Oklahoma troops. which are
assigned a week apiece for drill along.
side the regular army soldiers.
Kansas Will send about 1900 sol