Arizona republican., 1917-05-27
TRAINING CAMP
 KEEPS MEN BUSY l MORN TO NIGHT
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1


 SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.-Fewer tired feet and more tired brains sum- marizes thus far the progress of the officers training camp at the Presidio military reservation here.
 The 2.500 men accepted for training are becoming seasoned Hours of set ting up exercises, hours of drill and hours of marching have made old muscles supple and apparently created new ones in vigorous bodies. The amy ehoo with it's uneainly broad toe is the cherished possession of the "NNragc r1on ard is as comfortable as it is unfashionable.
 The camp weighs a good deal mere than when it started, although some of the individual members weigh a good deal less. Lots of exercise, lots of food and plenty of sleep have brought about a surreptitious sitting of trouser bands. Here is sample bill of fare:
 Breakfast-Half grape fruit boiled rice and cream, sausages, bread and butter, coffee.
 | Dinner-Rice tomato soup, boiled beef, tomato sauce, potatoes, boiled, 1 creamed onions bread and butter. cof- 1 fee.
 | Supper-Radishes, bologna sausage, potatoes au gratin, coffee bread and butter, apple butter
 The quantity of anything served is | limited only by the individual appetite Little formality accompanies the meals. At the time honored howl, Come and get it. from the cook, the companies fall in, and march in route ] step to the mess halls. Soldiers de- tailed from the regular army force | here have piled the boards with food, which is passed from man to man. The student officers do no kitchen po- | lice. All the meals are principal meals said one student responding to an inquiry.
 The studying is what goes hard. Af- 1 ter hours in the open, in the brisk breeze from the ocean, utter weariness seizes one directly after supper. Yet this is the only time left for review of the notes of the days lectures, and study of the manual of guard duty and other little books jammed with fine print information to be learned word by word. Men go to sleep sitting by their lamps, and awake hours later somewhat chilled. to roll into blankets on their little iron cots
 The lessons must be learned | The old wooden buildings in the east cantOnment erected as temporary structures at the time of the Spanish American war are quarters for tn, students The structures are in good re. pair and comfortable. Heretofore they have been used for regular army quarters. Each comoany 'policies. "tha is, cleans up it's own quarters. Today a graduate of Yale and Oxford, pro. nounced by his squad a most agree. able man, worried like a young brid, over the mopping out of the sleeping quarters, lest some stray atom of dir remain. Next to cleaning a rifle, sait to be task impossible of completion I-this police duty compels the anguish. ed attention of the men.
 In the scanty hours of leisure thu company streets swarm with vendors A leather strip, quarter of an incl wide, and long enough to go half wa, around the hat and then loop down tt the base of the skull, sells for twent! cents except to the unwary, who pa, twenty-five cents. Wrist watches ar, offered at six dollars complete witt leather band. Suspenders are no hawked because they are not "regula tion' and so cannot be worn. Ther, are no sweetmeat vendors but a pea nut man thriVes. One day he took pos near the line of march to the dril ground. As the men swung by il routestep, at east a long legged fiji closer sided toward the peanut wa gon and promptly was rebuked by hi company commandent.
 The peanut man learned presentl that unobtrusive approach to the col umn was safe, and thereafter all ad vances were on his part.
 Enthusiasm over their compan commanders ie the dominant not among the men. They are denomin ated princess" beans" kings" an, wonders" according to what ma happens to be talking about them, am if there is mirth at the officers mess the men occasionally have share.
 Our captain is an artillery officer, said one student "The artillery word of command differ from the infantr orders. and the first day we had ccm instead of calling Squads, right, shouted By Fo-ahs, wheel" w wanted to laugh, but we didn't
 Strict conformity to regulation is in sisted upon. Numbers of men, wh joined the camp wearing six dolla campaign" hats, were referred to tn quartermaster where the ,regulatio hat can be had at S1.7S. At a littl distance, only an army man can de tect the difference But tact is useC One man, plastered with shooting med als listened with deaf ears to tn reading of orders against decoration of any kind, for nearly a week. No body knows what was said to him, bu one day all the medals disappeared Various colonels and majors of reserv or other establishments who turned II in officers coats and shoulder strap now wear the privates khaki, in whic there is one difference. The ''ol timers" made it a point to draw woole khaki, and the newcomers took cottol