Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1917-09-28
WEST POINT men
FAINT AT HAz|NC
-Four Forced to Strip and Stand on
Tip-Toe, Chins in and Heads
Back, Until They Collapse.
WHOLESALE COURT MARTIAL
This Was Due to Discomfort Of Younger
Classmen, Who Believe They
Should Be Graduated


Hazing in its worst form has again
broken out at West Point. Upper
classmen have forced newly appoint
ed cadets TO strip TO the waist. stand
on tiptoe, with chins in and heads
back, and to hold that position until
they tainted.
Trials Begin.
Twelve cadets are under charges
fer hazing and all will be brought 10
trial as quickly as possible The first
to face the officers who viii decide
his fate was marched late yesterday
afternoon into the dimly lighted sub
terranean chamber where the court
martials. are held. He was Cadet Will
son G. Savill OF the State of Wash
ington, a third class man and the
first of a group of seven charged with
hazing Worth E. Shouts, of Mary
land and Joseph A. Cranston, Jr., OF
Kansas. until they collapsed
When his trial is completed, those
OF the other six accused in the case
will take place Then will come the
trials of five charged with hazing in
the same manner two other fourth
year men
Here are the cadets accused OF par
ticipating in the hazing of Shoultz
and Cranston:
Stuart NJ. Beayans, of Illinois, APP
pointed from Fort Wright, where his
father was recently stationed; Clar-
ence A. Rosendthal, of Texas; John
E. Wadelick, of Pennsylvania; John S.
Niles, of Missouri, and Eugene +. vi
dal, of South Dakota.
200 Cadets Dissatisfied.
Beneath tho surface at the Military
Academy there is story to the effect
that the outbreak of hazing is only
one Of the troubles the officers have
been compelled to overcome. 1t is
said that there is-resentment on the
part of two hundred of the cadets
because the military authorities have
not seen fit to graduate them and
hand each commission in the Regu
lar Army
The bulletin boards also show that
others have been ordered to give
up football and athletics SO they can
pay more attention to studies. 1t is
said by persons in a position to know
inner affairs at the Military Academy
that for a time general court martial
for the whole two hundred cadets was
contemplated to wipe out the spirit of
discomfort.
Shouts Testifies.
Nh. G,.cf xyifnacg FOR. tho nrOCnqll-,
ton was Cadet Shout. He said he
had been told by Cadet Saville on the
afternoon of July IA that his equip
ment was not in proper shape and
that on his way back from mess to
the camp Saville ordered him to re-
port to his tent as soon as he was
dismissed He said he did as di-
rected, for it is the custom for fourth
year men to obey upper class men.
He was ordered to a certain tent
across the parade ground
Shouts said Cadets Rosendahl, Sa-
vile and others were in the tent and
that he was ordered to remove his
clothing above the waist and to stand
on his toes He said he stood for
about three-quarters OF an hour on
his toes and was continually told by
Saville and certain others 'to take the
sway out of his back" He was order
ed back on his toes, his head thrust
back and his chin held in, every time
he sank back on his heels.
Cranston was being put through the
same agony and Shouts saw him
fait, he testified. Finally he, too,
tainted and when he was revived was
half carried, half led back to his tent.
He said he was also hazed in the same
manner on August 5, but for only ten
minutes.
1t took many questions by Capt.
Underhill to get the facts from Grams
ton and Shouts.