The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-06

| linus from lu6 HloL Coll Ill lily
morning until taps, when all lights
are out, and all good soldiers except
those on guard are asleep, there have
elasped 16 and ga hours. 1t is hoped
Bolsheviki propagandists and eight
hour day agitators do not single out
! the University of Florida for attack.
These Florida boys are working for
$4,000 per month and keep, count
ing their eating moments, for four
teen hours day. Days on which
they are on guard they have longer
hours. Some of these boys have fam
lilies. Some have actually closed out
a paying business at loss in order
to enlist. And yet we read that in
some places men doing essential war
work are earning in eight or nine
hours day six to ten times what our
boys receive as soldiers, and are
striking Off higher wages
Reveille, the first formation in the
morning, is followed by Is minutes of
setting up exercises devised to de-
velop the muscles and give to the in
dividual the military bearing and
poise so characteristic of Uncle Sans
fighting men. At sunset, the evening
flag ceremony, Retreat, is held, as
the companies stand at attention
while the flag is reverently lowered
as ITO the Colors" is sounded by
the bugle.
After supper the men listen to a
short lecture by one of the Army Off
GERS, and from about 1880 until
taps, the soldiers are free to enjoy
themselves, but may not leave the
campus except Saturday and Sunday
evenings.
Once each week in the evenings, the
| men are given a lecture in the causes
and aims of the war by a professor
especially employed by the govern
ment to instruct in this line. 1t Is
the policy Of the United States to
let the men know for what they are
fighting and why they are asked to
make the sacrifices necessary to win
this war. The policy Of our nation
seems somewhat different from that
of another nation which could be
mentioned, from which God has re-
Gently seemed to dissolve partner
ship, if indeed He ever established
such relations.
1t seems long time since these
tired boys crawled into bed after the
first day Of army life, tired but de.
termined to learn the tasks imposed
Though the days have sped fast
> much has TRANSFERRED. All of the men
have had their physical examination
have been vaccinated against small
pox, and innoculated against typhoid
and para-typhoid fever. When the
men came they wore the clothes suit
: able to their work at home. Some
had been clerks, school teachers
preachers, soda squirts", and the
garb of many bore unmistable evi
dence of the farm. But the govern
: ment placed all within a few days In
the democratic garb of blue overalls
Q and just recently uniforms have been
J. issued. How proud these fellows
}. feel in the uniforms of their country
!. as they trudge along the street OF
y rest at the Enlisted Mems Club"
|. furnished by the Rotary Club, or at
I tend church; for the men do line the
'streets on Sundays with the congre
D cations entering various churches OF
t the city To look at the men today
d and to see them at drill, casual OBJ
3 server would think they had been in
: the service six months or a year in
}, stead of less than six weeks.
Some of the men have shown ur
so well in their military duties that
J. they have been sent to Officers
/ Training Schools to fit themselves fol
n commissions in the best army in the
e world; others have been selected fol
Q this training and are now undergoing
t intensive military training here pre-
l. paratory to being to Officers Train
Q ing Schools. Some of the men hav,
h made such excellent showing in theil
n vocational training that they will bt
n retained at the University of Flori
d da to assist in the training of the mex
y detachment which will arrive Angus
t. 10, But most of the men will leavC
y here before that date for the world.
S greatest proving ground"
The Vocational TRAINING
It The Board of Control of Florida au
s. thorized the College of Engineerin,
d to supervise the vocational trainin,
Is OF these men, To instruct the mel
Is of the present detachment, the Uni
versity has employed 16 men on it
e, Institutional staff, which will have t,