Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-15
LESSON NO. 3
NINE soLDlERLY QUALITIES

Preceding Lessons: l. Your Post Of Honor; ?. Making Good as a Soldiero Ths three basic qualities, Loyalty, Obedience and Physical Fitness, were treated in the preceding lesson. There ! IS another group of three soldierl;- qualities that ara especially needed during tho periods of training. march ing and waiting between combots. Intelligence. Cleanliness.
 Checrfulness.
 Although these qualities are asso- of course scarcely iess helpful in all other phases of military service. intelligence.
 InteIligence does not necessarily mean education but rather quick ob- zervation and willingness to learn There is plenty of need O. intelligence in modern warfare. The National Army will be forced to absorb within few months training which would ordinarily extend over period of two or three years. Those who intend to fit themselves for promotion should judy thoroughly the manuals and the 1l,ilI regulations which affect their duties. In time they should learn something about map-mak1ng ana maD-rea ding the construction of field horses, signalling, the handling of complex pieces of machinery, and many other subjects.
 Any practical knowledge that you may now possess will surely be useful and helpful to you in the army. Capt. an Hay Beth, of the English Army. points out that in the first British forces of the present war the previous trade and training of every soldier vas sooner or later utilized.
 Cleanliness.
 Cleanliness is important everywhere, out most of all in the army where large 2odies of men are brought together. n it's true sense it includes not only
 oeping your body clean, but also your mind and Hotr stori0ns Fortunately
 is a virtue in which Americans gen. rally rank high. There should be lit le difficulty in setting a satisfactory ;tandard in 1T" ~ew army. This is a
 3ject more fully treated later in this purse.
 CheerfuIness.
 Cheerfulness is always prominent rait of good soldiers. Here again Americans may be counted upon to 1ake a sn1endid showing. even in the
 ee of any unexpected hardships difficulties that may be ahead of There are numerous episodes in Amer can military history to justify this onfidence.
 In January 1863 the Union Army lay in camp at Falmouth. Va. About
 month before had occurred the dis .strous and bloody defeat of Fred icksburg. In the North it was the larkest hour of the war. Everywhere
 'tside the army there was depression nd fear. On January 21, the com nanding general ordered the troops } break camp and move forward. At he same time "a cold drizzling rain ct in; the ground speedily became l1e of sea of glue: everything upon
 heels sunk io-N tho hottomless mud;
 took twenty horses to start a single aisSoD: ..a4- - 1l.em died in har- ,ess; but still the general persisted. 2ut the rain persisted also. and it 3on became simple impossibility to forward After two days of effort it was necessary to have the men struggle and founder through the will derness of mud back to their camp.
 Picture the situation: Recent defeat with heavy losses; retreat; a cheerless nid-Winter camp: rain; cold: mud; discoura cement at home; a long march under the most trying conditions end ing in a return to the same camping ground from which the troops had started. A little grumbling might req sonably have been expected. But the men of 1883 were too good soldiers to