Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-26
WITH OUR SOLDIER
BOYS AT CAMP MEADE
Daily Life Agreeing With Citizen
Soldiery. Regular Hours And
Good Food Specialties

SltlzenS MlIltaTy lamp VIII NC inIeI-
ested in knowing how the time is
spent. The following taken from the
Baltimore News gives a graphic &C.
count of the life at the training
grounds:
Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single
bean,
Porky, porky, porky, without a strip
Coffee, coffee, coffee, the meanest
ever seen.
Seasoned veterans of two weeks
training, Baltimore's citizen soldiery
at Camp Meade is waging warfare a.
gainst food. Most of the crowd goes
into action three times a day. 9th
ers take their chow in five INSTALL
ments. There's nothing in their mess
call about:
They are living on the fat of the
eommissary. They have a mess al
towance three times that of the Regu-
Jar Army.
Boys are expected to gain five
pounds in weight and an inch in
height during their stay at camp.
Judging by the way they hit the mess
line, the Baltimore lads are getting
theirs.
Typical menus are not so bad. To-
days read:
Breakfast Stewed fruit, oranges,
cereal, scrambled eggs, fried potatoes,
bread and butter and coffee. Dinner
Boiled beef, French baked potatoes,
not slaw, picked beets, iced tea and
fruit pudding. Supper-Baked beef
hash, sliced tomatoes, creamed aspar-
agus, jelly, cookies and iced tea.
Candidates at camp who are ply
sically undeveloped have been assign
ed to special training company.
This group has a gilt-edge PROPOSE
ton when it comes to soldering.
While they are on the range during
the morning, special diet is served
them. Later they have lunch. That's
followed by two hours corrective
calisthenics, boxing and swimming.
ut 3.45 the dinner bell rings for the
fourth time in eight hours. And then
they eat supper with the rest of the
gang about 6.
Of course, the other candidates in
camp do something besides eat, too,
even if they do only take three meals.
Beginning at half-past seven in the
morning, they have four hours in
struction in the manual of arms, close
and extended order drill, scouting and
patrolling.
During the afternoon the more adj
vanced candidates go for map reading,
combat principles and machine gun
firing. The rockies try to look hard
and bored, and along about o'clock
they go in swimming.
General orders for the evening look
like this:
"TIGER LOVE"
Starring
Antonio Moreno and
Estelle Taylor
"The amazing love adventures of
Spanish tigress and the man who
tanned her.
Also Pathe News
Especial added attractions bouts,
20 rounds Of fast, clean boxing"
Such is life among the c. M. T. G.
students at Camp Meade.
All the Baltimoreans are assigned
to E Company, Thirty-fourth Infan-
try. 1t is member of this company,
Robert Kinnier, 412 North Broadway,
who has been selected out of more
than 5000 men as the best candidate
in the Red course.
The first platoon of E Company,
commanded by Capt. Sylvester Sco-
vel, has a reputation for being "the
best platoon in the best company in
the best regiment at Camp Meade"
Not the least of the stars in this su-
perlative organization, according to
his officers, is julius Zerowitz, 1920
Bryan avenue.
Lieut.. John Sandlin, assistant adj
jutant in charge Of c. M. T. G. per-
sonnet, the man who made reputa.
ton for efficiency by processing"
1000 candidates within few hours,
is loud in his praise of the Baltimore
contingent.
The entire camp is filled with high
caliber men this year. Against more
than 100, who were discharged pre-
maturely last summer for insubordi-
nation an other offenses, only five
have been dismissed this year.
Those have returned home because
of conditions over which thew had no