The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-03-29
10000 MEN TO
GO IN TRAINING
In Military Camps the
Coming Summer.
ALL EXPENSES WILL Be BORNE
BY individuals - EnrOllments
Are Now Being Received
At Headquarters.
MOVEMENT HAS BROAD SCOPE

washington, March 25.-Thirt!
thousand young Americans Will un
dergo military training under rcsu
lar army officers this summer. Thi!
is the advice the House and Senate
Military Affairs Committees have
received from the Military Training
Camps Association of the United
States, at 81 Nassau Street, New
York City. This association has
charge of the enrolment of men in
the seven or more camps of instruc-
ton at important points in the Unit
ed States in the period from April
to October, this year.
These men will represent stu
dents, business and professional men
and other vigorous Americans from
all walks of life, who will be thrown
together into the melting pot of mil
itary training in the interest Of bet
ter American citizenship.
The camps founded on the
'Plattsburg idea''--so-called be-
cause the first camps of that kind
were held at Plattsburg, n. Y, on
the banks of Lake Champlain, last
summer-were uniformly so sue
cessful that demands for camps Of
that kind have come from all parts
of the country.
Since. under present conditions
the men at the camps are Obliged to
pay their own expenses, the train
ing imposes no obligation whatever
for subsequent military service. The
members have to subscribe to moth
ing that might bind them to join
any military organization. They
simply put in four or five weeks Of
healthful outdoor life in tents, un
der the very best known sanitary,
conditions, and under the training
of some of the best equipped and
experienced officers in the SECULAR
army.
The men who enroll can for the
most part. be divided into four
classes: (a) men whose occupations
or home ties do not permit them to
enter the National Guard with its
fixed night drills. Oh men of the
laborinG classes who have q preju-
dice against the militia because of
the liability to strike duty, (c) men
who, as a matter Of principle, will
never support q force subject to
even partial State control. and (d)
men living in the country too far
away from a military organization
TO make service in it possible.
Men in the Training Camps Assoc
citation. in charge Of the Plattshurg
movement. declare that the failure |
TO produce hardly more than one
volunteer soldier to every 1000 in
habitants in this country is due to !.
no lack Of patriotism They say it .
is due 70 p lack Of n workable sys- |
TEN that taps the aforementioned A..
available sources of men. The |
idea" is to supply that
workable system in the summer
training camps of the regular army.
The men trained in these camps |
can be formed into regiments. sub
jeCt TO a prescribed course Of field
training, and thus form a reserve
force, under an exclusive Federal
control, side by side with the Ma
tional Guard. The training camps,
they say, stand for the principle of
exclusive Federal control of land
forces. but can be developed with
out any conflict whatever with the
military system, because the men in
the training camps will be drawn
from entirely different sources. The
two forces, those who have had eX-
po'1"rcc IN both National Guard and
in the instruction camps, say they
win mutually assist each other.
While the instruction camp train
In tends 90 equip properly-qualihed
mo1bers for service as officers of
Tho troop bodies, officers Of the as
sociation say il has n far broader
scope. The big idea behind IT, they
say, is that the movement lays the