The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-09-06
LESSON NO. 10.
RECREATION IN CAMP

Preceding Lessons: 1. Your Post of
 Honor. 2. Making Good as a Sol dier. g. Nine Qualities of a Sol
 dier. 4. Getting Ready for the Camp. 3. First Days in Camp, 6. Cleanliness in Camp. q. Yom Health. 8. Marching and Care of Feet. g. Your Equipment and Arms.)
 While your days in the canton ments will be spent chiefly in drilling and other forms of training, you will have a considerable amount of time left free for your own use. Under some conditions permission may be given at times to leave the canton ment for short periods. However this IS a matter to be regulated in each camp.
 If you do go away from camp o. leave, you will continue to wear your uniform and will keep in mind always that you remain a soldier, subject Co certain requirements that are not so definitely imposed on civilians. In meeting officers, whether in the camp or outside, you are expected always .so treat them with proper courtesy and respect. You should remember also, even though you are not direct ly under supervision, to keep up your soldierly neatness and bearing.
 Congress has provided that cit shall. be unlawful to sell any intoxicating liouor, including beer, ale, or wine, to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform" an exception being made in case of liquor requir- ed for medical purposes. Under au- thority of the same act it has also been ruled that alcoholic liquors shall not be sold within five miles of any mlu- tary camp, an exception being made in case there is an incorporated city or town within that limit. It has fur ther been provided that "the keeping or settinp m of houses of III fame. brothels, or bawdy houses within five miles of any military camp is prohibited" All these provisions and restrictions are in interest of every right-minded soldier. They go a long way toward insuring clean and healthful living conditions in the camps. They will help to make every soldier more efficient and better able to give a good account of himself.
 One of the centers of army life in camp, is the post exchange, at which articles for personal use, knickknacks, soft drinks, and so on, are sold You will be safe in depending on the good quality and fair price of everything .offered in the post exchange.
 In general, the matter of providing for recreation and personal comforts in the cantonments has been intrusted by the Secretary of War to a small body of men known as the COmmis- sion on Training Camp Activities. The commission includes an Army officer and representatives of organizations that have had much experience in meeting the needs of men of the type who will go into the National Army. It will have the cooperation of the Young Mems Christian Association and Knights of Columbus. Other as sociations may also work with the commission. This task of attending to the social needs of the soldiers has been organized with almost as much care and thOrOughness as the bigger task ot making ready for the firing line.
 The Young Mems Christian Associ- ation is building a hut for the men in each brigade. In these huts moving picture-vaudeville shows will be giv- en every night. Writing materials can be had for the asking. A piano will be at hand. The Knights of Colum- bus will have one large building in each camp, in which there will be fa- ciities of the same kind
 Both these organizations will con- duct religious services every Sunday. m -...I- ,,-;1I k,, ,,.,f,..,. rT,l- -