Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
YOUTH Of country
PREPARE FOR WAR
At -Four Widely Separated Camps
College Boys Are Given
instruction.
YOUNG BUSINESS MEN NEXT
They Will Gather Next Month
for Practical Course in
How to Fight.
YOUNG BUSINESS MEN NEXT
Especial to Tho Times-Dispatch. ]

WASHINGTON July 31.-This is the
time OF the year when Uncle Sam does
what little preparing for war he has
widely separated points college boys
arc receiving a months instruction in
military science, young business men
Will gather next month for similar
practical course while the National
Guard of the States is holding It's sum
mer sham fights and encampm ents in
conjunction with attachments Of the
regular army.
The most Imposing military display
OF the summer has Just come 10 an end
near Fishkiil. " Y. where 5000 guards
men and about 500 regulars have been
hghting a Theoretically sanRuinary
campaign. with Con paper) 100000
troops engaged in each Of the two con-
tending armies tsupposedly the kind
they have in Europe).
The people Of Pomona, Cal. and
Walla Walla. Wash. would do we'll TO
pay as much attention to Camp Whit
man as the Inhabitants of the Bronx,
Tor In time Of war the New York Ma
uonal Guard Will take its place with
'heir regular army as complete di-
vision. this being the only State militia
organization to possess such honor
according to United States Army Of
fcers In this city. the maneuyers near
Fishkill were carried out with more
completeness than anything OF the sort
seen before. even the famous war
games held in previous summers in
southeastern Massachusetts and In
Southwestern Connecticut
Much skill was shown in SCOUTING
pontoon bridges were built. rivers were
fOrdcd
thousands OF rounds of blank ammuni-
ton were shot Off
CAMP is NOT HELD FOR
"ICE-CREAM SoLDIERISGo
As Major-General John o'Ryan. the
commander Of the State forces, ex-
planned 1t was no "ice-cream soldier
Ing. His declaration that the men
were there for business only was
heartily echoed by nearly every guards
man. years reading about a real
war across the ocean. besides sundry
hction describing coming invasions OF
the United States. had put them all on
their mettle. Even the work of
trench digging. not especially inspir-
ing with the thermometer at lol in the
sun. was done with real enthusiasm.
Not that Puritan lives were enforced
throughout the twcnty-four hours In
the evening there were sparring and
wrestling matches. amateur vaudeville
entertainments and the inevitable
movies. while the nearby roads were
dusty with automobile parties going
TO visit tho Soldiers"
In order to simulate war conditions
as nearly as possible. the mil.tiamen
forswore even store bread The bril-
gade brought TO camp a remarkably
wel-equ!ppcd field bakery. which
turned out 1000 loavcs Of bread daily
Ordinary or garrison bread was served
regularly. and war bread. which will
keep fresh for a long time. was baked
twice week. The men declared the
war bread the better.
Many of tho men at Camp Whitman
came from prominent families Of New
York. Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius
Vanderbilt being an especially assidu-
GUS militiaman but by General O'Ryan's
orders no personal servants were al
lowed. He said:
This is no parlor camp. You don't
see any men standing around at the
beck and call of officers. The colored
servants are no more. Any man who
came here to enjoy his highball picnic
is pretty certain TO be disappointed
AS far as know. there is no liquor
in this camp. l don't mind saying that
I don't want n drop of It, We have
come here 10 learn something"
ALL WHO ATTEND CAMP
MUST DE yACCINATED
All the men who had enlisted before
typhoid vaccination was compulsory
and who refused to submit to 1t were
summarily left at home.
The camp looked even more like the
real thing because of the presence of
Aviator George a. Gray and his aero
plane After looking down on the
Empire state Minute Men from his fly
ing machine, MFR. Gray is expected to
operate In conjunction with the annual
encampment Of the Vermont State
troops. In all. fourteen aeroplanes
have been procured for service with
the State troops of the land and sea
FORCES this summer Among them are
New Jersey pennsylvania, Oklahoma,
Ohio. Nebraska and Illinois. The ma
tional aeroplane fund Is growing daily
and by next summer there may be an
adequate supply Of air scouts.
The camps for college students AFRO
now in their third summer In 1919
the first were held. at Gettysburg. Pa
and Monterey, Cal. AS an Indication
OF the attention which the young men
paid, Major-General Wood, U. s. A.
said short time ago that II was
deemed advisable the second summer to
cut down the number Of optional lee
lures. because 1t was found that prac-
ticaly every man was attending all
the lectures. and was likely to get
stale" from too great doses of instruc-
ton.
He further stated that the army Of
fcers had been astonished at the num-
Der OF students who applied for n Sec
ond and third summer term. There
were so many Of these that 1t was
necessary to establish more advanced
courses of instruction for them
The students showed themselves very
ouicl to learn. The records for rifle
arinn, were excantionallx GOOD Tha