Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-02-07

"Instead of sleepy yoI tins strolllng
along the streets with their hands in
their pockets being towed along by
dogs large or small such as one often
saw in the days before the war, one
sees today on the college walks youths
of alert expression, vigorous gait, erect
carriage and general appearance of
purpose and dignity. This IS des-
eruption by Mis-. Arthur T. Hadley,
wife of the president of Yale Univer-
sity. of one of the benefits of military
discipline in college life. Mrs. Had ey
is a member Of the committee on
woman s activities of the Connecticut
State Council of Defense. S1e has two
sons in the army, one OF whom is a
major, and she has been active il the
organization of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps and the Yale Naval
Training Unit of the university, She
says of the student soldiers and sailors
''The first impression that a person
who has been familiar for many years
with Yale students receives in observ-
ing the college men of today is that the
men in uniform are in a state of extra
ordinarily good health. Of course this
may be due partly to the fact that the
physically unfit have been rejected in
the beginning. But it is even more due
to the fact that the normally healthy
man profits at once and continually
from care as to food and sleep. AS soon
as it becomes the goal of a man to be
fit for service he takes great care as to
these things even if they are not "a
fixed requirement..
lin addition tn this every nam is
anxious to become an officer. That
means that he attends tn what he is
doing with alertness and interest. The
change in the facial expression of the
average undergraduate has been fire..
Guenty remarked. Instead of the sleepy
youths strolling along the streets with
their hands in their pockets, being
towed along by dogs large or small,
such as enc often saw in the days
before the war;, one sees today on
the college walks youths of alert ex-
preston. vigorous gait, erect carriage
and a general appearance of purpose
and dignity.
dm bO1u LIlhU GuO CuduRO lS dASO
noticeable in more attentiveness and
eargerness in class rooms. When man
realizes that he may soon be of age to
leave college and go 'over there, he
begins to appreciate keenly number
OF advantages in college work and life
that had not occurred to him when
his studies were part of routine plan
OF higher education that he was absorb
ing without great effort on his part".
"My life and my loyalty belong to
this country, said Mrs. J. A. Traut
of New Britain in answer to the ques-
ton, what should be the true atti-
tude toward the war of an American
citizen born in Germany?" Mrs. Traut
was born In Gotha, 'Thuringia, Ger
many. She came to this country when
she was four years old, stayed here
until she was 16, returned to Germany
for five years, then came to this coun-
try. She has lived in New Britain fer
thirty years and is active in Connect
cut, New Britain and New York, in
Gliding the Red Cross and the War
Relief Club of New Britain. Mrs.
Traut said in part:
81 know what the attitude of the
American citizen born in Germany
ought to be toward this country, if he
has made his home here, supports d
himself her or'was supported here by
the head of his family. He should
under all conditions stand by the land
of his adoption. because he left his
Fatherland to improve his life in a