The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
CAMPS
HERE TO STAY
SAY RECRUITS
Men at PIattsburg Confident
System viii Develop Into
Something Big.

oUllletllIIlY bIY.
PLATTSBURG. Sept. 1.-The new
American army which former Secrc-
tary OF War Garrison dreamed of and
named THE Contlnentals" may yet he
an accomplished fact. Some $4,000
men have learned the rudmcnts OF
warfare on the shores Of Lake Cham
plain, and, counting other camps.
there are now more than 10000 camp
trained men in the country who have
learned something about soldering in
the summer weeks which they form
erly gave up to golf, fishing and sit
ting on hotel piazzas.
Every camp that is held has a diff
ferlng character. College boys are
always college boys, and from the be-
ginning they have taken to the out
door camp life obediently in response
to the behest of faculties and parents,
treating the time so spent as part of
the school period, waving questions
or vacations. considering the spice of
adventure and additional prestige at
home and in school sufficient balance
for the time spent and hard work per-
formed.
The business and professional men
look at things differently, and the
viewpoint varies with successive
camps. In June it seemed as though
the entire camp might be called upon
Tor active service, and in June also
arose the first marked comparison
between the training camps and the
national guard. Moreover, there was
greater proportion of clerks and
employees whose coming to camp was
instigated by the men higher IN"
Has Come TO Stay.
In July the great size Of the camp.
FOUR regiments being at work at the
same time, gave tone to the course
which ended with the march through
the streets Of Plattsburg on August g..
when was made the most striking mil
itary formation which the country has
seen in a long time. In July also be-
/ came accentuated the comparison no
tween the citizen army idea and the
militia. The national guard was
recognized as being on trial on the
Mexican border, and the training camp
recruits felt they should take special
pains to make good and demonstrate
tho effectiveness OF the intensive sys-
ten Of army training.
The national guard influence nearly
put an end to the training camps early
IN the season. But in the present
camp there is a growing feeling that
the new system has come L, stay and
that il will in time develop into some
thing large and far reaching.
Each successive camp Is bringing
back veterans Of former camps who
take places as non-commissioned off,
GERS and acting second lieutenants,
and this procedure has tendency to
give a certain continuity to the camp
work which it did not possess at the
beginning and which is now one of
Its strongest points.
There Is one man in camp now who
has been to four camps: Lawrence
Bolte. of Chicago. who went first to
the camp at Ludington. Mich, In 1911.
to San Francisco in 1915, to the JULY
camp at PlattshurG this year. and now
TO the August camp. Amcs Penfeld,
another Chicago man. has been to
Ludington and San Francisco and now
is in the present camp. To neither
OF these men Is second licutenancy
specially attractive. but they are both
fitted for the officers reserve CORPS
under the new law and will more than
likely be drawn into that body.
Many New Workers. There.
Two Of the most striking things
about the present camps which have
been largely true OF other camps are
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