White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-10-10
Five Teams of Soldiers Travelling
on Chautauqua Circuits.
NEW ARMY IN SPOTLIGHT
Act includes ciose-order Drill, Yankee
Songs and Speeches in Which the
Men Tell in English How the Army
Has Made Real Americans Of Them
Part Of the Americsnization Move
ment of the American Legion.

Uncle Sam has turned the spotlight
on his new peacetime army and Is now
n theatrical producer. lie has five
road companies on tour, each consist
ing of an officer and eight soldiers.
They are travelling on five Chautauqua
circuits east of the Mississippi river
as part Of the Americanization move
ment of the American Legion. and they
play to capacity.
Every one of the forty soldiers has
been selected from the army recruit
educational center at Camp Upton, n.
Y, where illiterate and non-English-
speaking recruits are sent upon enlist
ment. Their act includes a precise
close-drill. Yankee songs. and speeches
in which they tell In English of how
the army has made real Americans OF
them.
These five companies are covering
Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
New Jersey. Connecticut. New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. They play one
day stands, two performances, and are
considered by the Chautauqua mana
gers and the audiences as real top
liners.
But Real Americans.
More than 20 n~ationalities are rep
resented In the five teams. but to the
audience they appear as so many
Americans. Back at Camp Upton. 1900
other recruits are receiving the same
schooling and IS countries have repre-
sentation In the classes.
n%literates and aliens are semitic this
school for moi more than six months.
There the recruit learns TO speak. read.
write and think In English. Part Of
his daily schedule Il In the duties OF
a soldier. but for three hours the re-
cruit recites In the class room.
There Is but q language spoken.
All interests are merged into the army
routine. and II has been found that
few men need TO remain the full six
months to acquire a working knowl-
edge OF English. Col. Bernard Lentz,
general stan. who organized the cen
ter q year ago. says: "We have con-
clusiveiy proved the contention OF soci-
ologists that. given n common purpose
and proximity. all racial distinctions
will disappear"
Since the passage of m act in June
authorizing the army enlistment of IL
l~iterates and aliens. five similar schools
for recruits have been opened. Each of
these follows the pioneer training CEN
ter at Camp Upton, and they are To-
Gated at Camp Travis. Tex; Camp
Jackson. s. c.; Camp Pike. Ark. Camp
Grant. Ill. and Camp Lewis. Wash.
Learn a Trade.
After completing the eours at one
of these educational eenters n recruit
finds ample facilities for learning a
trade. More than 100 yocations are
taught by experts. and further to
stimulate the natural ambition of the
soldier, extra pay is offered 10 all men
who successfully complete any of these
courses now established In army
camps.
"In short. the army takes the for.
eigner. unified by reason of his linguis-
tic handicap for any but unskilled Ia
Dor. puts an American heart In him,
coaches his natural ability to learn
"A trade. and h%onorabiy discharges him,
a useful. trained American; OF more
value to himself as we'll as to the state,
industry and society"