Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-03
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 HIGH SCHOOL BOY connecticut-PIattsburg Vets, to Send Student to Junior Camp.


 
 The Connecticut members of the First Military Training regiment, the Plattsburg veterans, met at the New Haven Lawn club this week to discuss recruiting plans for the military train ing camps to be held by the war de- partment in 1916 in various parts of the country. At this meeting it was voted that the Connecticut PlattsburG men pay the expenses at the junior camp, to be held July to Aug. s, at Plattsburs, of a student in a Connec- ticut high school the student to be selected by a competition. Details of the contest will be announced in the near future.
 The plans of the war department for the camps of 1916 call for a total of SO,OOO men, 15,OOO in the camps to be | held at Plattsburg, and 5000 in the camps to be held at Fort Oglethorpe, ! Georgia, Fort Sheridan, Illinois. and | in Texas and on the Pacific coast. The ' camps at Plattsburg, to be held under l the direction of the Department of the East are scheduled as follows: First | camp, senior division, June 3 to July | ?; second camp, junior division. July | to Aug. s; third camp, senior divis- | ion, July 12 to Aug. 8; fourth camp, | senior division, Aug. 10 to Sept 6; | fifth camp, senior division, Sept s to | Oct. ,. For recruiting purposes Con- | necucut has been assigned to the dis tricts of New York and New Jersey.
 The Object. l The department of the east of the 1 United States army, in announcing the dates of these camps describes Ihei1 | objects as follows:
 ITO help equip educated men to fiI the great deficiency in commissioned officers which would immediately arise In case of national emergency, by giv- | Ing them four or five weeks of inten- slVe instruction in the field under of ficers, and with troops, of the regular l army.
 ITO arouse in the young men of the nation the realization that manhood suffrage implies the manhood service | in the cause of national defense
 ''To instill in four or five weeks ot healthy outdoor life the habits of obe. dience, prOmptneSS and self discipline that are the prerequisites of efficiency in every business or profession and tC send men back from these camps bet. ter prepared to take care of themselve! and others"
 It is the further aim of the arm, authorities to give men who have haC no previous military experience tht chance of learning the rudiments O. military organization and the use O. the military rifle. Finally, to use tn, words of Major General LeonarT | Wood, "a serious effort is made | through lectures to convey a sOunC and correct idea of the military policy of the United States as exemplified by past wars, and particular emphasis i! given to the subjetc of military his tory"
 Will Aid National Guard.
 The regular army authorities em phasize the fact that the Platts burgh camp is in no way a rival in stitution to the National Guard ii the various states. It is rather sup plementary to the work of the Ma tional Guard. Major General Johl F. O'Ryan, commanding the Nev York National Guard, Is a stronJ supporter of the military trainin, camps and has stated that ther was no conflict of interest between the National Guard and the train ing camps. This question may b. answered not only in the negative he declared, ''but it may be affirma lively stated with equal emphasi that the training regiments hay been of benefit to the National Guar, of this state at least. A very con siderable number of men of tn Plattsburg training regiment hay joined organizations of the Nev York National Guard, some as com missioned officers and some as en listed men,"