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what Uncle Sam instructs us to do. And ours is the first phase in getting
the boys ready for the thing that is so vital to the preservation of our
country. Physical training makes fit fighters.

The Machinists' Mates were succeeded in April by a contingent of
Electricians’ Mates. This program will be terminated os October, and
we are advised that the Navy V-12 program will be greatly reduced in
November. The ASTP which started out with an enrollment of seven hundred
trainees last August, is reduced ito less than 75 at the present time, but
approximately 250 more boys are expected in August. The V=5 program will
be terminated July first, we understand.

The transition to peace is becoming evident on Mount Oread, but we
have not slowed up in our physical conditioning of these boys who may
have to fight. These trainees in all groups have been carrying on their
athletics, and the spirit of competition is very manifest. There wial be
a great revival of physical training with the returning of our men from
the services, and we will find that pllayfields will be rehabilitated and

enlarged, fieldhouses and swimming pools will be built. These young men |

will have a desire to be physically fit.