The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-28
Company | Boys
Are MeasIey Crowd
Entire Regiment Under Quarantine for
Plain Old Fashioned Measles;
Nobody Really Ill
ARE WORKING HARD
Talisthentics Gives Chance for Ev-
erybody to Develop Muscle for
Hitting Kaiser's Line Hard


i8 erybody to Develop Muscle for
Hitting Kaiser's Line Hard
E Camp Cody, New Mex.
y Nov. 20, 1917.
Es At present we are measled out
eit, the entire regiment of us; and
he red flag is figuratively flung at
The ends of our street in the guise
of guard with gun on his shoul-
Her. A few days after our arrival
in October one of the companies was
discovered to have case or so of
neasles and was straightway SEN
#5enced to confinement within its own
&street, allowed out only during drill
4 periods. Cases have spread gradual
Fly from one organization to the 9TH
~ until we are practically as one
and the surgeons put the entire regi-
lnent under the ban last Sunday.
Company l. has contributed to the
gneasle colony just one case, lad
1amed Harry Brown. Under present
Negotiations, man with a measle
( diagnosis is sent at once to an isola
Eon ward at the base hospital and
Ibis squad accompanies him, bag and
baggage, to live nearby in a contact
".
khome". are allowed the run of the
Iboundaries-"They shall not pass
$isted men attending various schools
Ror required for very necessary rea-
Hsons to go elsewhere may get spec
I#al passes. All vehicles bringing in
are granted privilege to en-
'kster.
SCI Feeling Fit.
sd Notwithstanding this little epidem-
tsic, the most of US are keeping IN
ashearty health, and there we shall
sstay if the surgeons and sanitary in
9sepectors have their way. We have
1.-THE advantage of being in a particu-
Nlarly diseaseless region. so we are
q Uniformed. Last year we understand
y that pneumonia cases abounded
4 among the soldiers camped here and
! at Ell Paso, and the same informants,
4 snotable among whom is doctor who
1Shas served along the border with
irregular army troops, claim that with
Il conditions changed we shall have lit
tile or no difficulty with that lung
/ Emalady this year. According to a
NJ study of cases last year, most OF
kthem were attributed to the effects
" of booze Men liquored up, easily
Il weakened their resistance and quick
i " succumbed to the cold of the FROST
4 knipped nights. The above doctor
Il holds that since soldiers and booze
II are kept apart down here this year,
1 few cases Of pneumonia will develop.
A Sounds like reasonable prospect,
4 doesn't it.
n
And speaking of physical resisting
powers leads straight to the half an
hour calisthenic torture to which men
4 and officers are wisely subjected each
day. The program calls for about
a thirty-five minutes each. day in vari-
Gus exercises and fifteentminutes run
ming, all scheduled to stretch and
Y tougher muscles and organs. Once
8 week two non-coms from each COM
Spany in this regiment report to the
Y M. c. A. physical director for in
struction in the group of exercises
to be given the company the follow
ing week The war department has
special physical director attached
to the division, one of whose duties
is to build up this program of pro-
gressive exercises and turn it over
to the Y NJ c. A. men who are au,
thorized to train company instruct
ors. These non-coms lead the COM
pany in their stunts, helped out oc-
casionally by the physical director
who is on the job to supervise as well
as teach. Our regiment is fortunate
in its physical director, keen chap,
Jewell. by name, with few years
experience in this work in the Wi
nd ndxy
goes through the same process, col
onel and staff officers to buck priv
ate. Results are already in evidence
among the men in improved carriage,
alertness and added strength.
Games, Too.
This calisthenics half hour is hard
ly grinding work period, it is more
like a romp for it always ends up
with a special riot of play. 1t is not
all stretch those muscles, stretch
'em, stretch 'em again and hold,
then prone on the back and slowly
raise and lower the legs without
touching the feet to the ground un-
til the waist line is about broken in
twain And by and by there is moth
ing lackadaisical permitted in these
exercises; no mere waving of arms
and sloppy body bending or twisting;
every movement is taken slowly and
in cadence so that men will stretch
the muscles with real effort. But as
to the games at the end which are
supposed to combine the various fea-
lures of the exercises; the old-fash-
ioned "three-deep" game is popular,
as is "leap-frog" and shuttle races;
again men line up in files and at a
starting signal the leading man loads
the man behind him on his back and
runs with him to a designated line,
drops his load, and the latter runs
back to his file and repeats the opera
tion-thus on until every man is car
ried across. Great competition in
such handicap races! Mounted wrest-
ling was favorite one week. In