The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-05
ARMY TRAINING
REAL MAN BUILDER
Judge e. B. BeIden Tells
Members of Kenosha Bar
Association of Wonder
full Experience.
HAS PRAISE FOR ALL men
Men Who Served in Camps at Home
and Men Who Went Overseas Con-
tributed to the Great Work of
Making Fighting Morale.

| That the great organization of the
American army did something besides
win war-that it built real men and
built them better than America had
ever built men before-was the declara-
ton Of Judge E. B. Belden, speaking
before the members of the Kenosha
County Bar Association at the Elks
Club today. It was the first appear
ance OF the Judge as a dinner speaker
since he went away to do his part in
winning the war and his address prov
ed most interesting opening to a
new series of activities for the Ke-
nosha association of attorneys. Judge
Belden said in part:
81 have had wonderful experience
with the troops. I have lived their
lives intimately. I have bunked with
them in barracks, in the tents, taken
the physical exercises, drills hikes and
| everything with them. / have talked
with thousands Of them and been on
the friendliest terms with all through
the various ranks from Sbuck private
to commanding generals. The legisla-
ture of Wisconsin granted leave of alb.
senee to public officials entering the
service. The lawyers of the first cir
cult told me they did not want any
court until the QUESTIONABLE and ex.
emption board labors, the several fnan-
eial drives and all the civilian war ac-
tivities were over. Therefore, I felt
quite free to engage in that service
in which felt I could render the great
est service. was rendered very
attractive military commission with
assurance Of overseas service, but
felt I could render greater real service
to the troops in the Y. M. G. A. service
and SO I entered it. It was appointed
director of FY' service among officers
at Camp Custer with q commission to
make a survey of certain aspects Of
that service in the several canton
ments of the Central War Department.
In discharging this commission I Wis
tied ten camps during the summer, be-
sides going with a troop train TO q
port Of e1rlbarkation. T have seen and
participated actively in al phases of
soldier life excepting the overseas
service. When the epidemic was ram
pant at Camp Custer gave all my
time for several months in minister
ing to the sick and dying in the base
hospital. In that service came in
touch with life in its most trying and
serious moments and in its worthwhile
| fundamentals, and came to see with
how many trifing matters we are wont
to concern ourselves in ordinary life.
/ have walked with the boys into the
valley of the shadow Of death and
with some of them back again, hand
in hand. AS [ have said before, in
my letters from camp, have always
regarded service as life's greatest
privilege, but I have never realized it
as I do now as the result Of that service.
| Those who have been privileged &c
Igc overseas have had the greatest adj
venture of all history, but everyone
who has served at all, in whatever
capacity and wherever he has served,
In helping to bring history's greatest
war and crime to a righteous end, has
done his part. The boys who were
trained and ready to go over and to
offer the supreme sacrifice, and the
boys who were ready to respond
to humanity's call, are all entitled
to equal credit.
| 9The military training the bows
have had makes for a wonderful uplif4
of citizenship for the future. Their
physical fitness and mental alertness
is vastly greater than before. Thous.
ands Of them have never lived so well
before as they have in the army. They
have learned sanitation, the value OF
discipline, the effectiveness of team
work. Every community 30 which
they return will be appreciably bene
flied by their experience in the army
The great problems to be met In th4
future will be met and solved with
better understanding, with wider views.
with greater tolerance for the opinions
of Others, and with effective determin-
alton to have the important things a
life adjusted right. Provincia1ism will
disappear. Men win think in world
wide terms. With all It's frightfulness
no one can say that God g hand has
not been in it all or that a righteous
conclusion has not resulted. Thrones
and despotic rule have crumbled Ike
la house of cards and personal gov
ernnlents have disappeared from the
earth forever.
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