The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-23
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7 THE Officers mess last night there were a couple Of society women from
One Of the women seemed to like tn. olive. She f, . refined and eut-
tS SCssh s,ss ID disposed .s .y of G' h, ' ov, s' pit. Ss i 's4 ssyS"s t issn'o I" the IN ground 's s1% around md
Der. i" of fa a tot %", a. !" a '1 rich %' rug %e d ss.'p n her sr'f ho" Ts The Tn, p Sars ground e% "' Of of tn,
tent was as clean as broom and 'cruhbns could make it d
Another evening We were messing with Captain Ben Locke Captain Keifer
an artillery officer of the regular army who examined the candidates from
Oklahoma for the second camp for reserve officer, at Leon Springs was IN of
.rna Atom" g., about boz d 9'; sss. time I'd CAPTAIN am.d i, R; If. ., ~.: Ts and,r "a , e. The ! s sSs
th%k anything particular about it. but uncon,ciou,y almost the thought ran
s s,,"tfsn "S hsa Sip. Ss% ad h pa sad ov s%i It TO with %'s ss l%a. G ia, s0 y. possible 81 %eHS N6 pay ,o n
{ apaan kshts wa, down ander the table after that ore a !, quickly a, though
plate where /, gould be put !" the '"e""''9t
,,. When j; +, =" rs ;;% %%i {. the 1,n sS,tsI e open q; , 4, s,it OF 1928 49, the ., mesquite 3ss %s, ' ;s"4:
teen times as many men ~erek killed by inanhation in the civil var than we're
Camp ,aJaton has made the surrounding, Of every boy in khaki in the
- Ill., ii strange that the flies do na bother The cooking i, done in the opsn,
mo! i"s.' of 1 IT,: css 1s .s, Fort f yos s xi S.%R i Is . dry ',rs a; Sa efis1eag F' So 'i Gass q"
ant. ant THE The at an ss and SI flies az ar |" not s' there simply because there IS noHiyas left around
The first care of a private is cleanliness Clean thoughts, clear body clean
''"'g %%.'te ,S 1 s' sy i ,a'5 's big rt .i a \ ""''s "Hn S SsaSs every company il. sup
Piled into the hay barn; Or bath house, o hrine there will be no offensive odor
There s r. n 70 2 mo5s flies IFS, around 4%., the ;, la;,i"e, ' 1"n , there 1ES%d The 1,;, ss@iei :,
poTed the first thing after breakfast each morning There generally "
s"S1s' fSs a a" 'Ss s a; su assi' o 1s' d %sS' ~%s ei to do the toughest ''"'''
house, tn, shortage Of water h,; pnehsd The a a. times this Summer The
lack OF Watcrh has been the only unR III amp 10 BruHlDc ABOUT
Making the rounds with the aduant " re came across some kitchen utensils
that interested the officer. He looked a knife over with his sharp eyes he
found a pcck OF dirt up at le hit He looked at a ladle and found a bit OF
N the bowl The aduant made a fuss and warned the cook that the
regiment coudnt stand for eeneral Dirt A mother OF one OF the, pryates was
watching the performance She didn't like the way the adbmant prrd into
things and bawled the men out when he found a shirt button unbuttoned, or a
man with dirty teeth, or with a weeks growth OF scraggy beard o N his lace.
The mother looked daggers at the captain adjutant
But the very next day that same mother came up to headquarers. and begged
the adiutants pardon She told him she had thought him terribly cross and
mean, but after day in camp she had decided she W a. glad that her boy was
under the eve OF a lot of men who were so fnicky about. every detail OF personal
and camp cleanliness .,
The civilian barbershop was doing so much business that the owner didn't
have time to brush a bale of hair off of the floor and slick up to suit the adju-
tants taste. Notice vas served IN the barber that he would have to get out OF
camp ifh his shop "a evr found in a soveny condition again
street Every morning before the regiment gets to the field, each ten is put in
order Guards and police duty men from every company, pick up IN stray
burned match ends, cgaret stubs and scraps OF paper that may have been left
about by the careless visitors
One morning a week, generally Saturday morning, relieves the routine with
a general cleanup, in which the me have a chance to dc a little bit of family
washing and go overthe entire camp ground with al eye to making everything
shine with spouessness.
Neatness and cleanliness ire two of the earmarks of the trained army man
have heard many say that the Oklahoma guard regiment is inefficient That
lis untrue Less than 200 OF the men who were o N the border lasty yea are
enrolled among the l7O8 that constitute the regiments strength today The
regiment is being increased daily with green recruits These men are being
pounded into soldiers by the hard and fast daily routine The skeleton of the
regiment is composed of veterans with practical and technical ability Our
regiment is rs near to scratch as ny regiment can be that gets awkward farmer
boy recruits every day. You may get a nal in a uniform two weeks after he
joins on. but you cant make a soldier in a monh-W M II.
ITO he continued