This young soldier is working over a tearful panful of onions, but doesn't seem to mind it. Learning "to take it" is one of the first lessons of the young soldiers, and St. Louis business leaders, desiring men with such character training have employed so many members of the Sixth Infantry who have completed their terms that the regiment is now short-handed and is making an effort to obtain recruits among the higher type young men of this vicinity.
Maj.-Gen. Drum second from the right, is shown asking the noncommissioned officer at the left, who had just put his men through an attack formation for column of squad, how he would employ his soldiers to take a near-by building occupied by machine-gunners.
"We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, but single men in barracks, most remarkable like you." runs one of Kipling's poems. These two soldiers, performing their abulutions at Jefferson Barracks, give truth to the word as they look most familiar at these everyday tasks.
The three most interested parties in the advancement of the club. Left to right: Capt. R. S. Henderson, in charge of construction and a member of the Executive Committee; Johnny Pepp, professional, and Lieut. Regnier.
The colors approaching the reviewing officers yesterday afternoon at the 1175 youths of the Citizen's Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks hold regimental parade.
Cook filling a soon-to-be-empty platter with slices of meat. Recruits are assigned regular terms at waiting on the tables. And their "customers," hale and hearty fellows, boast of appetites of considerable proportions.
