Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-05-25

report on May IA TO the commanders
of the officers reserve corps of the
country. The minimum days work as
fixed by the war department for the
student will be ten hours. Probably,
however, within the working hours
will be included mess-times. There
will be five hours given over to in
struction in the morning, three in the
afternoon, while in the evening there
will be two hours of booming" which
is West Point slang and presumably
that of other schools for grinding
study.
The present prescribed programs
for the average week of the camp will
be carried out from Mondays to Fri
days inclusive. Saturday will be utii-
lied to bring up to the necessary re-
quirement of hours work which has
been cut short by weather or.by other
conditions which could not be fore
seen.
On Saturdays also the doctors will
take the men in hand for vaccination,
while examination tests in horseman-
ship will fill in all other time not to
be utilized for work forced to be put
over from earlier days. If there is
any time left on Saturday it will be
given over to recreation purposes, but
experience tells one that there never
is much time left over in the army.
Best Will Get First Places.
The army officers who have COM
mands or instruction positions, or both.
at the camps will make a special study
of the temperament and mental quail
f1cations of individuals in so far as
they can. Men to be commissioned
will be those who have been specially
marked for preferment. 1t must not
be taken for granted that every young
man who goes to an officers camp OF
instruction ultimately will get his COM
mission Probably most of them will
one day wear shoulder-straps, but
some of them will prove untitled for
the tasks of command.
For the first month the camp instruc-
tons will be the same for all stu
dents, but at the end of thirty days
the men will be grouped into Organiza-
tons for more direct personal lnstruc
ton. 1t does not take a trained army
officer long to learn which of his pupils
are the most apt. Some MEN are born
with the stuff in them Of which sol
,liers are made Other men are born
with the stuff in them which cannot
be nodded into soldier shape with forty
men and forty minds at the task.
Old and Young Serving France.
At a conference with the Wash
ington correspondents Emile Hove
IaQue, superintendent of public in
struction in France. spoke of the de-
votion to their country of, Frenchmen
far beyond the supposed limit of mill
tary age. He told of men three score
years Of age and older who have been
in the front line for the last two years
OF the war. He mentioned one OF
them by name, Rene Taillandier, one
of the noted scholars of France, who
at the age of sixty-one years insisted
upon entering the ranks as private
and who for two years has held his
own in the fighting with the young men.
i
with the citing of the case of Rene
Taillandier was present at the con-
ference with Monsieur Hovelaque. The
mention of Taillahdier's name brought
d picture before my eyes.
In late May, 1915. I, in company with
my wife, met Madame Taillandier in
Paris, and she told us of the determi-
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front. The next day my wife saw
Madame Taillandier again, and this
Frenchwoman, prouder than the pro
verbal pride, said to her, He is gone.
For two years lacking few weeks
Rene Taillandier, scholar of France.
now sixty-three years of age, has been
fighting in the trenches side by side
with the youth of France and is giving
his whole strength and his whole heart
to the cause of democracy.
Looking for Our Help.
'The young men and the old men,
for the fathers are at the front, are
looking back today from the trenches
in France for the inspiring sight Of the
American flag"
so spoke m0IupGE VI LIE r1Cu@h
commission to me. 'Tt must be- he
said, that the American people know
what a whole-sou1ed, full-hearted and
full-ar1ned participation in this war
will mean to them, to France and to
the whole. country.
1t is unquestionably true that the
Frenchmen now in Washington desire
not only the full cooperation of the
American people in this war, but their
full sympathy. They want the young
men of America to know the full
lengths to which the spirit of sacrifice
is carrying the young, the middle aged
and the old of France. They want the
American youth to appreciate the de-
votion of these Frenchmen to the
cause of democracy and thus to be
spurred to renewed willingness to help
them in the field against the enemy.
not alone Of France, Great Britain,