New Britain herald., 1918-05-30
WHAT UNCLE SAM IS
 REALLY GIVING MEN
New Book Tells How the lndiVid-
 ual Is Developed

Wilson's special sta tement on the work of the Commissions on Training Camp Activities as it will appear in Keeping Our Fighters Fit-For War and After" book giving an official account of what the government is q doing along semi-military lines, fol- lows:
 "The twin commissions on training camp activities-one for the war de pa rtment and one for the navy de- partment-were appointed by Secre- tary Baker and Secretary Daniels early in the war to link together in a comprehensive organization, under official sanction, all the agencies pri- vate and public, which could be util- ized to surround our troops with a healthy, wholesome environment. The federal government has pledged it's word that as far as care and vigilance can accomplish the result, the men committed to it's charge will be re- turned to the homes and communities that so generously gave them with no scars except those won in honor able conflict. The career to which we are calling our young men in the de- fense of democracy must be made an asset to them, not only in strength ened and more virile bodies as a re- suit of physical training, not only in minds deepened and enriched by par ticipation in a great heroic enterprise, but in the enhanced spiritual values which come from a full life lived we'll and wholesomely.
 "I do not believe it is an eyaggera- ton to say that no army, ever before assembled in history, has had more conscientious and painstaking thought given to the protection and stimula- tion on it's mental, moral and physical manhood. Every endeavor has been made to surround the men, both here and abroad, with the kind of environ ment which a democracy owes to those who fight in its behalf. In this work the commissions on training camp activities have represented the government and the governments solicitude that the moral and spiritual resources of the nation should be mobilized behind the troops. The coun- try is to be congratulated upon the fine spirit with which organizations and groups, some of them of national standing, have harnessed themselves together under the leadership of the governments agency in a common ministry to the men of the army and navy"
 Leisure Time in Camps.
 With hundred thousand men a month coming into the camps by the new draft there will be increased in terest in how the soldiers and sailors spend their leisure time; how they while away the evening hours; what they do on Sundays. It is generally known that there is organized music in the camps, but in the chapter, "The Fighters Who Sing one gets the ex- alting effect of 5000 voices lifted up in "Glory, Glory, Eallelujah!" And that music promotes military as we'll as social teamwork is admirably il- lustrated in the following:
 The song leader had a small
 motor car with space in the back I
 for a, folding organ, which en-
 abled him to carry his work to
 the men in whatever part of the
 camp they happened to be. He
 had, moreover, a number of white
 oilcloth charts on which were let
 tered the words of the most popu-
 lar songs.
 One afternoon. on a trip
 through the camp, he noticed
 about forty men pulling stumps
 
 tired, dog tired, in fact. Draw
 ing up his car at the side of the
 road he held 8 hurried converse
 ton with the officer in charge.
 The officer was heard to say, By
 all means try it.'
 So the song leader unrolled his
 charts and hung them on the side
 of the flivver. told the men to sit
 down on the stumps they had
 been pulling, gave a chord or two
 on the little organ, and suggested
 that they sing "Yaaka Hula,
 Hickey Dula." They did. It be-
 gan a trifle languidly, but the
 volume picked up after the first
 line, and they repeated the chorus
 twice. This was followed by the
 modern classic, Keep Your Head
 Down, Allemand.' They fairly hawled it out, The transition from lasstude to energy was marked and sudden. They didn't want to stop . They went back to their work, but they yanked out the stumps with a vigor that they had lacked before. And from the distance the song leader heard them singing: Pull away, pull away, the vic- tOrys ours.'
 The book takes you right into the governments own Liberty theaters, which play a large part in the enter tainment in camp, and you hear the vociferous applause of many soldiers as the military band files in and takes it's place in the pit to play until time for the curtain to go up on a 'real show. There are glimpses of fun at l it's height on a stunt night in a ''Y' ! or Knights of Columbus auditorium: f 'If the little one butts the other in 1 the stummick with his head-Oh,