The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-21
FORWARD MARCH! Camp Units Spend Last Active Day Correcting
 March Discipline BY HUBERT M. RTGNEY
 1st Lieut., 102nd Inf.

Camp Cross, Mantle, Conn, Aug. 20. = This morning the regiment went on practice march from ' to 10 for the purpose of correcting de- ficiencies in march discipline that had been noted by the regular army inspector instructors on duty with the regiment here. Men have not kept in their proper places in ranks, there being e tendency to spread all over the road, especially at halts. The word had been loosed down that all falling out would be to the right of the road, but we had taken 1t for granted that the officers could go on the left side of the road for their rest and we have been doing this for years, but we were told to- day that that was not correct and must fall out on the same side as the troop. On the march to Stones ranch the other day one unit left the road and appropriated the apples which covered the ground under Q tree at one point. This outfit did not have an officer with 1t. Major Blizzard, one of the regular army inspectors instructors on duty with the regiment took up position from which he could observe the march of the regiment toward the end of the Journey to Stones ranch the other day. Officers and men were very tired, step hills were encoufl- tered, clothing was soaked with sweat and the eyes of many of the officers and men were filled with sweat. At such e time discipline will ordinarily be sort of lax and SO 1t was at this time, the correct dis- tance was not maintained between units and the column occupied more than the right half of the road. mainkg 1t necessary for motor traf- fic, headed in the opposite direc- ton to slow Up. Just heard first call for guard mounting, will 90 to the front of my tent to witness 1t and then after parade will finish this 50 as to get 1t off to you to~ night for tomorrow's paper.
 Now 535 and havo just returned to my tent after evening parade. After we had passed by in review the regiment was inassed and our regimental commander, Colonel Lewis L. Field, of New Haven, gave Q short talk, praising the officers and men for their work at this camp and then presenting to Father Doran, our regimental chaplain, . purse of several hundred dollars contributed by the officers and men of the regiment to assist Father Doran in the erection of his new church of St. Maurice in the town of Glenhrook, where he has been transferred after seven years in New Haven. Father Doran thanked the officers and men of the regiment for the gift and told Us that he would place c stained glass window in the church with the regimentai coat of arms thereon. After the address by Father Doran, the companies were marched to their respective company streets by the senior f1on-com, present and dismissed. The officers then re. ported to headquarters where they were presented to Lieutenant- Col- onel James White of the regular scene who when he was instructor of our regiment several years ago wrote the regimental drinking song which is set to music from c song in the opera, "The Prince of Pilsen". Colonel White was well liked by all of the officers of the regiment and Is credited with being responsible for the fine work of our regimental staff. This camp has been one of great amount of compulsory hand- shaking. We here formed line and shook hands with Governor Gross. Lieutenant Governor Hayes, General Ladd, General Haggerty, and now Colonel White. The time Is very short between now and the end of camp, SO I guess our handshakiilg is over. The only fault with tihs type of handshaking is that it usu. ally "availeth you ilausht".
 To give you an idea of how long we are required to stand ct parade rest (which Is really not e resD l will tell you that the band marches from the extreme right of the line to the left and back to its original position on the line, then plays "Re- treat" before we are brought to the position of attention. The distance covered by the band marching from right to left and bach is 600 yards and the time is 10 minutes. Try it some day when you have time, stand at parade rest in the middle of the old golf lots off the Waterville road being careful not to get under the shade of tree and you will realize what we have to do. However. wo have the benefit of e good hree2e most of the time from the sound close by so that once in off the parade grounds we can get quite a relief from the sun. Tomorrow we have full field inspection (believe I mentioned this in the early part of this) we paid In the afternoon and on Sunday board the"Chemuir de fer" for Waterbury. The headlines in the papers made Us believe for a while that we might be on our way from here to Shanghai in the near future, but 1 guess that has blowtd over. This winds Up the camp new for this year.
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