The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-06-03
|HON THEY make
| REAL AMER|CANs
Bows Sumner Camp Inculoaies
High Ideals; What 1t Did
Fer One Boy.
Hy NORMAN w. GREGG.

Iu the fifteenth year of bis existence !
something hsprrnesi 70 Steve which SCI I
several Of his inherited views st
naught and changed the entire cur
rvni Of his life. Steve had hesn born
ln land Of dreary, endless plains and
loag. ccld Snowhcuhd winters. where
his parents and klnsgoIk lived cclar
less. monotonous lives eailsgteged by
hatred az the rythical noble who
owned the estate they titled
Sieve's family emlgrated 70 America
short time before Europe was plunged
into the chassn AZ war. They went ~
once 10 3 section Of great city where
their native language was about the
only one heard
The head of the house secured en-
PloyRlent In great factory and con-
tinned 10 read newspapers printed in
characters queer and undecipherahle
70 an American boy. Very often after
supper. in spite az The fact that his
daily wage was more than he had
earned in a month In bis home land,
the father would denounce in h0arss
eutturals the men who owned he for
est OF smoking chimneys &rnong which
he lahOred.
Making y Real American.
lt was al this time thar an opror-
tuni;y 70 spend summer az Camp
Roosevelt wss given Steve. With hey-
ish CELEBRITY he had mastered English
fairly, despite the foreign atmosphere
Of his horne. and his keen. alert little
face impressed one of the crsials q
the great corporation who offered 10
psy the nominal east Of the outing.
HIS father ragged. Ee wonla not have
his son contaminated with miliVavissn-
bur the parish priest said il was good
and The mother pieadesl for the life in
the biz. happy out-of-decrs 50 ar last
he gave a reluctant consent Steve
WAS happy.
With hundreds OF other boys he
boarded 4 great lake steamer and. af
ter several memorable hours On Lake
Michigan, landed with the rest q the
cadets st MusSeson. Many cars werS
| waiting 10 transport them 10 camF
Roosevelt. and Steve found q place il
big moter with smother lad 10 olde'
than himself Their inexpensive shak
uniforms were exactly alike and th'
fact thar his Dew friends nause wat
| the sane aS the owner of The factor
In which his father w0rked mean
nafhins at this time
Ted slld Siecc. arriving together
were assigned 10 the same company
and naturally tAey grSvitsted 10 cot
i alonSssie in the same squad tent :
| suppose were huukies now. said Te
when they had disposed Of their feV
Simple belongings ard had a hrie
breathing spell. Me. | am satisfied.
returned Steve. aud q friendship whie
endured through elSht happy week
te-an. After mess Steve named ~
| grsar Institution where his father "a
employed. Mine works there too
said Ted. and with this mutual bon
their social status was established
Il was not Until many days afIerHEri
| that Sieve discovered that Ts~a's fafhs
was the employer cf thousands os mel
hut nv this time the virus of amer
csnism and democracy rad ssSen ho'
il lis hoyish soul Not even his 4
,Rsr cspld talk about his burke
hfS s'hunSie's- family aEd gei avs
l with 1t.
III Life Works Wc-ders
Il The well-resuiGtea outdoor II
| worked wonders in both They to-
n pounds and xidei inches Th'
rrew brown ard hard ard what Il
| army officers who drilled them cali'
| -snsgpy. Steve learned 10 swim 81
4 shoot and Ted. who knew ali shc'
| Wrestling ard boxing. had the delig
I az seeing hts proteSs scrap his way
| rerineasal lightweight champion
Ill He was further 6nmfounded 10 III
n that the camp comuandSnt, Capt. r.
y Beafs, e. s. A. instead q being q q
rshle car. was kindly, SpprOzehst
n frsevd. cutie rs interested in his 10
land sorrows SIS Ted
- Ia his new .Ie the Stars a
/. | Stripes had oog.le 10 he sFnbol
l something big and s'ls1did. scEDeihi
I which Ted ard CaYszln Reals and
the other boys lcse5- All sr once
I realized that his father was w-ron
1 that America meant something besic
doIIar-rnine- Camp Roosevelt.
| toyS national camp st M0sksg'
! Mica. hga sdded citizen TO the
| ti0n-
Sieve and Ted are s0Eng back 4
| | rnnr-so..erher Ard SreYe Is hr.Eg