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...total darkness and every movie marquee ablaze) would help save electricity and fuel; 2) Army & Navy men warned that if enemy submarines should crop up in force again off U.S. coasts, out the lights must go; 3) OCD officials promised that there would still be an occasional air-raid drill...
...discipline of Wellington's army was internal; if the officers brought their men to the field well appointed and with 60 good rounds of ammunition each, he did not harass them with unnecessary drill. At each crisis in his career, just as in each crisis in each of his battles he appeared on the scene where he was needed, the officers and men came forward with testimonials too impressive to permit his enemies to order him away...
...peoples. . . . A whole generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier Chisholm recommends drill as one safeguard against nervous breakdown because 1) it gives a man a feeling that he is part of a group, 2) it reduces him temporarily to the condition of a child for whom all decisions are made. After a good dose of drill, a man can be rebuilt...
...another day and another fifty cents lost on the drill field--maybe your columnist should go back to matching dimes instead of quarters, but dimes seem like kid stuff after being in the Navy for six months...
...Miss Corey thinks we aren't sports--all that hesitancy about volunteering for company officers. Sissies!--and think of the fun Company B had Wednesday afternoon at drill. For a while there was a slight question as to just where they would end up-and-how!--wasn't there, Miss McKenzie...