Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-01
col. CROXTON IS
TEACHING SONGS
TO INFANTRYMEN
..Where Do We Go From Here"
is Favorite With Men at
Preside

Few of the many Honolulu friends OF
Gol. Richard G. Croxton, former senior
inspector instructor from the army
with the LIST Hawaiian Infantry, Ma
tional Guard, ever thought or the
rough and ready infantry officer a.
singing teacher.
Yet singing is being taught now lj7
him along with military tactics TO To
men of his command, the esd Infantry,
Preside, whittier he went from Homo
lulu early last summer among the
first group of officers called from
here to begin moulding out q new
army for duty In France. The Bulletin
of San Francisco tells the story:
where do we go from here, boys.
oh, where do we go frwp here?"
Thundered forth by mighty cho-
rus, and caught up by the strains OF
regimental band, this war song to-
day resounded and re-echoed In the
buildings of what was once the worlds
greatest exposition.
Pretty fair commented Colonel
Croxton, commanding officer Of the
Sixty-third Infantry, as the men OF
| his command, singing en- masse, went
right on to tell that they proposed
doing to the German kaiser. And
then, when the song was over, Let's
| try Over There, he suggested to the
Ebandmaster, and the regiment. gain
| ing In confidence and with renewed
lvigor, swung into the new refrain.
For Colonel Croxton is working out
theory that fighting men Of today
need training in song just as much
as they do in the manual Of arms
or in the military drills. And the
Sixty-third is getting ready for the
day they land in France. and more
especially, for that eager day when
they ego over the top"
Other regimental commanders Il
the army post are taking up Colonel
Croxtbn's idea and the Preside prom
ises to become the singing post Of
the U. S. A"
When Colonel Croxton first called
for men who wanted to sing. It's re-
sponded. The second call found $50
in line. however, and now the entire
regiment has gone in for vocal cul-
ture.
1t has already been demonstrated
that the men march better and far
Their and more cheerfully because
they can sing as they hike along.
At the Reserve Officers training
camp delying in the adamant soil OF
the west cantonment ceased today,
when officers in charge decided that
the trench system is complete enough
to serve the purpose. A number of
tile auxiliary trenches are merely
scratched on the soil, so that en-
byro officers will know where they
are. The task laid down by Captain
NJ. C1ayel and Lieutenant G. Batal,
French army veterans, proved too
much for the hard-worked student
body, and it was decided to esim-
ulate" some of the trenches just as
nearly everything else has been
simulated at one time or another.
The embryo officers were reorgan-
lied today in companies at war
strength, consisting of $50 men each.
and divided into machine-gun, .bomb-
throwing and signal squads. The
trenches will be occupied early to-
morrow morning.
Men of the Twelfth, Thirteenth,
Sixty-second and Sixty-third Infantry
regiments, making up the provisional
brigade at the Preside, have sub
seribed for total of $240,000 Liberty
bonds, divided as follows: Sixty-third,
$3.50; Twelfth, s62,950; Thirteenth,
SIS, 450; Sfxty-second, $53,570.