The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-02-15

1ue XIII DIOiutI Is uOW III CdIup- !
He went full of health and energy
the army surgeons have seen to that. |
When he reached his National army |
cantonment Uncle Sam Immediately be-
gan to put more energy into him. He /
will live outdoors 10 hours q day, and
get scientific physical training to tune
up every muscle in his body and make
1t available for endurance and hard
work. War is the most energetic &C.
tivity of mankind. They will fill the
kid brother full Of the energy of the
athlete and give him the enjoyment
of properly trained muscles that comes
to the acrobat. They will do this and
then multiply him by 100000, and the
sum total Of him will be 600 900 Ameri
can boys with more energy and better
ideas Of how to use 1t than have ever
been possessed by an equal number.
This energy is being generated to
fight the Germans. But before 1t can
be applied on the western front there
Is a problem even more serious than
fighting Germans to be solved. I'm
less you give that much energy an am
pie outlet 1t Is going to wreck some
thing. II 1t cannot find anything else
to wreck 1t will wreck itself.
About year ago in a little town on
the Mexican border there were 5000
kid brothers in our National Guard
camp near q town which had not even
a pool room, much less a moving pic
ture theater. The one organized out
let for energy there was a well
equipped, efficiently run redlight dis
trict. Many Of those 5000 soldiers
did the logical thing-proceeded to
wreck themselves. They were SO sue
cessful that the war department hur
riedly sent trained social workers to
see what could be done to stop the
damage, and one of these social work
ers who is now in charge in the train
ing camp activities of the National
army resolved as he stood in the DESC
late streets of Douglas, Ariz, that if he
ever got chance to provide healthful
outlets for soldiers energy he would
certainly do the best Job that he knew
how Today this man, Raymond B.
Fosdick, has charge of the training
camp activities of our new National
army and what sort of job he is do
ing you may judge for yourselves.
? May Think Time Lost.
, The kid brother knows that wheI
he goes to camp Uncle Sam will have
place to live and sleep, and proper in
struction in the soldiers discipline ant
duties. He has probably seen SOM
figures of the food that he is to eat
: the millions of pounds of beef, ant
=. beans, and jam the trainloads OF pc
tatoes and onions and cabbage. HI
Is willing to do this patriotic service
y as q soldier Yet he may also fee
that his period of soldiery, whether 1
. last one year or five, may be so much
{ time dropped out of his life, spent II
4 SORT of Jail far from the people ant
: the things that he likes. If he ha'
heard anything at all about training
camp activities it is probably abou
only that part of it which relates t.
: booze and vice. SO much has been salt
l. about safeguarding his morals that b.
D may have good reason to think that h
> Is going to have a pretty dull, sissibe'
> sort OF time.
l. Suprose the Kid brother comes from
e some country town where good show
l. nre seldom seen. If he got a chanc
e 10 see a real Broadway success unde
the manascuont Of man like Mar
Klaw hc would rot let it get by. We'll
'e he is going 10 place where there vii
a. be e. theat.r under the management
of Marc Klaw, al.G will have chanc
:, to see sou- ~ The real Broadway sue
cesses I,oc.e sEd vice have receive
= altogether teo much publicity in con
nection with ~. soldiers training, MI
Fosdick say s--ttt.cy are negative acti,
ties in his JOE md also the least in
portant and mcst uuInteresting. Despit
great public curiosity IN this phas
OF the work there has been littl
difficulty In making the surround
lngs clean. TIC army has enlist
ed local poIica officials in every train
ing capp territory, and these terri
tories nats been cleaned up and vic
and boozs are giving little trouble, an
that Il ebolt all there is to say c
them.
Show Every Night.
The active work is much more inte
estinc. This is divided into work il
side the camp and outside in adjoinin
cities AMI towns. Each cantonmeI
win have It's own theater, seating $3.50
| poopie, and in these theaters ever
| night there will be shows given by PR
| fcssional actors and actresses travelin
| on regular circuits, far above the a
| erage theatrical amusements availabl
| to Is per cent of the boys in the
| home towns Two weeks every mont
| will be given up to legitimate dram
| goods plays. and musical shows, Gu
| rent successes from the big town
| One week will be given up to moyin
| pictures and vaudeville, and the fourt
| week to lectures, concerts, and ann
| teur stuff.
| Hundreds OF our leading actors ar
| actresses have volunteered their ser
| ices without pay, while those takiI
| minor nurfS unable To give their SER