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TENT More Days! Issue No. 2 THE NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE, Roswell, New Mexico October 27, 1944 ■ t' Straw Ballot Favors Thos. E. Dewey For President Memorandum To Cadets: The Superintendent is pleased to announce that Mr. and Mrs. Ar­thur L. Allen of Pueblo, Colorado, are herewith establishing a schol­arship in honor of their son, Ar­thur, Jr., who was killed in action in the South Pacific on March 18, 1944, during the initial landing with the First Cavalry in the Ad­miralty Islands. This scholarship has a cash value of $200 and will be awarded to a member of the Fourth Class at the Commencement exercises at the close of the academic year. It will be used in part payment of the tuition account for the ensuing academic year. The award shall be made to “any young man in the Fourth Class at New Mexico Mili­tary Institute on the basis of im­provement in Military Science and Tactics, and outstanding- character ”NO FOURTH TERM” The establishment of this scholarship by Mr. and Mrs. Allen is in memory of their very worthy son, Arthur, Jr., familiarly known to the cadets of New Mexico Mili­tary Institute as “Pudgy”. There are a few of you in the Corps of Cadets who will remember “Pudgy”, a graduate of the class of 1942, and those of you will have the finest memories of an excep­tionally fine cadet officer and gentleman. The memory of his conduct as an officer and a gentle­man will, I hope, encourage a num­ber of you to emulate his example and be worthy of the award made in his honor. D. C. Pearson, Su­perintendent. Glimp se Into The Future What Is A Horse?

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ave the finest memories of an excep­tionally fine cadet officer and gentleman. The memory of his conduct as an officer and a gentle­man will, I hope, encourage a num­ber of you to emulate his example and be worthy of the award made in his honor. D. C. Pearson, Su­perintendent. Glimp se Into The Future What Is A Horse? It is with temerity that the editor accepts an invitation to write a series of short articles for the PUP TENT on horses. I find myself in very much the same posi­tion as Bing Crosby who when asked to write an article on the “Tennessee Walking Horse” thought they were referring to his racing stables. I do feel that all cadets in a cavalry school should familiarize themselves with the different types of breeds of horses; and while I am just as Barracks Stoop Roosevelt Dewey Byrd 1 6 10 0 A 2 7 15 0 3 8—total 21 10—35 0-0 1 4 13 0 B 2 0 14 0 3 6—10 11—38 0-0 1 8 10 Is C 2 8 17 g 0 13—29 21—48 0—1 1 4 12 0 • E 2 5 12 0 3 11—20 11—35 0-0 1 7 12 0 F 2 7 10 0 3 10—24 11—33 0-0 1 7 9 0 G 2 5 13 0 3 7—19 7—29 0—0 1 8 13 0 I 2 10 12 0 3 9—27 10—35 0-0 1 11 7 0 K 2 10 9 0 3 Total vote cast—459 10—31 10—26 0-0 Standing by per cent 39.20 60.70 .10 convinced that I am not the one to write these articles, I will do it with proper assistance. I go on record now as stating my articles will permit of no argument. We are concerned mostly of course with riding type horses and I shall try in another article to show how they are descended from various oriental strains—whether it be Thoroughbred, Standard Bred, Quarter Horse, Morgan, Saddle Horse, etc.

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ssistance. I go on record now as stating my articles will permit of no argument. We are concerned mostly of course with riding type horses and I shall try in another article to show how they are descended from various oriental strains—whether it be Thoroughbred, Standard Bred, Quarter Horse, Morgan, Saddle Horse, etc. and how they differ from the Percheron (or Norman), Clydesdale, Belgian, and other heavy duty horses. The Germans have used 750,- 000 horses thru this war and the Russians over a million. We would be using them if we could. Let’s get horse-minded. If Colo­nel Wise will give me the informa­tion, and you will read it. I’ll write the articles. Corps of Cadets Decide Election In Advance Now it can be told. By a plurality of 99 votes Thomas Dewey roundly defeated the pres­ent incumbent, Franklin Roose­velt. From start to finish Dewey held his lead over the President, not once relinquishing the number one position. The straw vote, which was com­pleted October 13, was a venture which has been accomplished on three previous elections; however,, on only one of those occasions has the Pup Tent accurately predicted the winner of the national election. In 1932 the cadet corps elected F. D. R. In 1936 Alfred Landon of Kansas won the election by a landslide vote according to the P. T., and in ’40 the late Wendell L. Willkie captured 62.2 per cent of tVie vote wUile Roosevelt took ■I»«'^ An analysis of the -vote shows the Republican contender a holder of 60.7 per cent of the cadets’ sup­port, while the President’s per­centage was 39.2. Mr. Harry Byrd of Virginia polled .

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e vote according to the P. T., and in ’40 the late Wendell L. Willkie captured 62.2 per cent of tVie vote wUile Roosevelt took ■I»«'^ An analysis of the -vote shows the Republican contender a holder of 60.7 per cent of the cadets’ sup­port, while the President’s per­centage was 39.2. Mr. Harry Byrd of Virginia polled .1 per cent, thanks to a noble Texas die-hard Democrat^ who stood by his man. Second stoop B' was the* home of the most determined voters. (Continued on page 4) To The Femmes By Mike Beckwith After a summer at home, en­joying all the easy going ways of a non-reg life, most of us waved a fond farewell to our steadies with the nonchalance of a weekend trip. This was especially true of us “Rabbits”, who hadn’t been through it before. We took our friends, homes, and Bundle Bun­nies for granted. After we had been here for a while and gotten used to the rou­tine, a few of us decided that there was nothing better to do in study hall but to look at the pictures we had hung on the wall and feel sorry for ourselves. But, of course, there are the hard seasoned complexes, such as Carlisle, the “B” troop Lady Killer, who gets those twenty-two-page letters from his “flock” every day.