El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-06
CIVILIAN
TO SLEEP, SAYS
Ell Paso's New Lieutenants
Tell Rotarians How Army
Makes It's Officers.

Makes Its Officers.
FL Pasoans who secured army com
missions after attending the Leon
/ Springs training camp were guests
Z Of honor at the weekly meeting Of
Rotary Thursday noon at HoteI shell
don, at which several Of the new lieu
tenants made humorous talks on their
experiences at the training camp.
The first thing they 90 wI,h you
at the camp is TO put you 10 sleep so
lar as your civil lie Is concerned,
sand Lieut. A. w NorcOp- "Aney
nypnO,lze you and soon you lose all
CONSCIOUSNESS OF your ClFii eEls-unce-
Ihen The essential eIemeuts o. a sol
uIer must De driven mo YOU piIlua-
r14y discipline on must learn 10
admit LhaU black is very WhILe when
me captain say So ~ cry soon you
WIu come 10 realize that you are "A
very small unit IN very Ian Re ma
chime that must work narmuulOdsly
through discipline on inuIVIuualIty
uoesn count a bit You must realize
mat you know aDSOluLe4y nU.uIns anu
that the government cant sop 10
worry ABOUT your individuality one
mlnute, Out must taKe care of the
5ig machine
Jre.tes Desire For Service.
Thal the framing a. Leon springs
L NA laAAFH a DAA INNS lNGaA e A1A nFA asE
IS indicated, said the lieutenant, by
che IacL that ABOUT IOur-IlrLns OF the
men VINO Iaued 10 secure commissions
nave volunteered for the ranks
Regarding the general war situa-
ton, We must have a spirit Of hope
tuness." he said Although our ex-
perIences are going 10 be the most
painful in our history, for both the
country and individuals. IL Will be
worth the while, for the United States
her HH..
the big world powers, which we must
admit has not been the case in the
past"
Gene Harris Explains.
How 10 reduce the high cost Of
living and the waist lae. and an es-
say on girIh control" was the sub
ject Of a talk by Lieut. Eugene L.
Harris 1t would take 80 days to
explain all this to you" he said. for
I would have TO 90 through every
experience L had in the full training
period" He explained that the train
ing camps days routine started with
setting up eXescises at 5-t5 and went
through as follows; Make bed. ear
breakfast, get out with packs for
more setting up bayOnet exercises.
orders dinner, conferences, general
training, rest period for bathing.
cleaning guns and the like, then sup
per and sleep. Il couldn't conceive OF
being worked harder he declared.
a+NAA-AAE AAA4AA AAAN " az "a NAA AFaAAe1 ~ AAA
make the men come back better tit
physically, mentally and morally
Soldiers All Rotnrinns, Says
Lieut.. Warren Small, a kOtarian,
said ROtarians in the amy appreciate
being retained on the membership
rolls during the war. sIuasmuch as
Rotary means service he declared,
4 believe I can say that every man
in the army is at heart ROtarian,
because service for their country is
manifest at the training camp In
fact IL was like college days without
the kid stuff"
Hall Tells OF Walking Orders
Lieut. L. L. Hall. formerly police
captain, read some amusing dOgEerel
written by men at he training camp,
showing that the order Of the day
was Walk, goldarn yes walk when
the captain was on the spot
All speakers emphasized the Iact
that those who failed TO secure com
missions were not necessarily lack
ing except in certain qualities Whlcl
their captains thought were needed
TO make men officers
story Brings smoke Dollars
Rabbi Martin ZielOnka read a
in France when a blinded and dying
soldier made as his dying request q .
demand for ciEaret- The supply OF I
smokes" had not been comlnS ana
there was only one cigaret IN the
entire place. The story was such #
pathetic one that it caused several I
OF those present to contribute large
dollars TO the Rotary tobacco fund
teing handled by W r Winch
Mr.. Winch announced that at last
count there was S95 in the FUND, an
that interest was tagging and ne
thought the boxes should be emptied-
10 was agreed that the fund be con
tinued in another way
speaks For 'sYr and Red Cross.
Rev. c. /. Overstreet announced the
Y N. O. A. membership campaign I
saving that there is q smaller mem I
hership in FL Paso than any other
CITY i'm the country, propOrtionate to !
size. He also announced the preseu-
tation Saturday night at the Woman's
club Of The Worsted Man, Tor the
be~efit Of the Red Cross
The meeting was presided over ny I
r. r McClintOck. president ROBERT
Krakauer being unable TO do his usual
amount of talking on account OF a
recent tonsil operation
Many Officers President
Other army officers present BESIDES
those mentioned were Lieuts. r. IL
Deason, L. f. Stevens. Henry Schu-
Frank Ross, Hugh ColdWell,
a. Little, Gregory smith. Tom Find
ley. Frank J. Twyman, Earl A
league, and Capt Ed McMurray,
quartermaster corps, stationed here
Norman Walker, Of the entertain
ment committee, called attention to
the inability Of some absent FL Paso
officers to attend Capt Richard r
Burgess, Capt. H. ID. Slater and Lieut..
F. +. Cunningham were mentioned
Chairman McClintOck read q tele-
gram from c.. H Harries. Of Camp
Cody, announcing his inability 10 ac-
,ept an invitation TO be present He
lassed Ell Paso Thursday morning.