The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-19
lending CAMPAIGN
! fDRPREP AREDhESS
sobert slndt Of Davenport Member
Of Old Fiftieth Iowa Regiment,
10 Completing Long
Tramp.
NEED SCHOOL TRAINING
Veteran Finds That Iowa 10 Way
behind the othsr states In the
Matter 81 Cadet Corps,
He 0ald.
NEED SCHOOL TRAINING

Iowa and several OF the inland
4 states are far behind the western and
southwestern states in the matter Of
military training for the boys in the
high schools, according to Robert
sindt of Davenport, member of the
old Fiftieth Iowa regiment, veteran Of
the Philippine campaign and a men,
Der of the American legion who has
heen on ten months preparedness
campaign through the country. Mr..
sindt has walked to the western
coast, talked preparedness and ma
tional defense, and found that the
schools in other states are taking up
The matter of military training with
far greater zest than some of the
states in this vicinity.
Il find that Iowa is very far be-
hind the other states" Mr.. Sindt
said 1T is too bad that the school
boards and the parents don't realize
what splendid training this is for
the boys. We will have to depend
on our boys of today for any emer-
gency and why not train them in the
ndiments. at least, of military train
ing? Then they would be In q posi-
ton to help US and themselves il
trouble ever came. In the west the
military training idea is taking hold
rapidly. am aiming to gee the men,
bers of the school boards in these
various cities and put the matter up
to them. to see II can't wake them
up to their responsibilities"
Need One Every Place.
Every high school should have
cadet corps, Mr.. Sindt believes, and
be has been able to lead many of the
school directors in other cities into
this belief. The training the boy re-
ceives here Is good both for his future
health and for the protection he caa
give to his country II he is needed in
IN emergency.
The American legion which Mr..
Sindt represents has for its object
the enrolment OF such citizens - are
qualified by previous military and
experience and who are will
Ing to respond TO the call. In order
10 spread this doctrine Mr. Sindt left
August % last year. He
will be back there July l. He has
walked every bit Of the way and for
ten and Z half months has not slept
In . bed.
Covered Long Distances.
Eindt carries q regulation army
pack and rife, the outfit weighing
pounds. He also carries
a kodak. His average to the coast
was thirty miles per day. He walked
ITO days from Davenport to Frisco.
covering $500 miles. From here to
San Diego he covered an additional
making the total 1898 miles.
From San Diego to Ell Psso along the
border he walked only twenty-four
miles per day. From Ell Paso into
Keokuk he has made forty-one miles
per day.
Sindt was on the border during the
excitement at Columbus and has had
opportunity to see lots Of border ex-
c:tement.
In 1898 Mr.. Sindt was with the Fiji
tieth Iowa at Jacksonville. He knew
many Of the old Keokuk men, he
said. He enlisted in Company B. Sec.
ond regiment, as trumpeter. Later he
became chief trumpeter Of the FIT
tieth and enlisted in the Twenty-sixth
q. 8. infantry as chief trumreter and
served In the Philippine campaign.
He was in the Fifty-fourth Iowa resi-
ment from l90b to 1908.
He expressed considerable interest
In the formation of the George v. Jen-
kins camp U. 8. w. ", and was look
ing for some of the members this
afternoon Ia renew old acQuaintauceS,