Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-28
.PLATTSBURG IDEA
SWEEPS COUNTRY.
Estimated That $4,000 Patriotic
Citizens Will Train This
Summer.
GIVE THEM TIME AND MONEY
City After City Follows New
York in Showing of Aggressive
Loyalty to Stars and Stripes.
sIVE THEM TIME AND MONEY
Especial TO The Times-Dtspatch.l

Special 70 The TinleS-DiSpatch.1
NEW YORK, May 27.-The great
preparedness parade, when $4,000 New
Workers marched in n demonstration
Tor national defense, gave an immense
impulse to enlistment for the citizen
training camps this summer.
The "PlattsburE idea" has swept tho
country.
city after city is following New
York in getting together is patriotic
citizens for a great showing of ae-
sressivc loyalty to the Stars and
Stripes.
1t is now estimated by army officers
that $4,000 business men" {meaninr
by that civilians. and including bank
ers. lawyers. clergymen and gentlemen
of leisure). Will put in n perspiring
months work for Uncle Sam this
summer.
Not only will these men give a
months time Nnvoiving salary sacri-
hce in some cases) TO their country.
but each mar must spend at least SEQ.
and many will pay out q. good deal
more.
What do they get ont Of It?
A feeling they have lone their duty
to America and n month of open-air
exercise. which tones IN nerve and
Niitiii ih'n 10 III or
flee chair with a new spring and vigor.
Our preparedness problem would ba
solved If every citizen of the g. 1000, 600
OF military age in the United States
would see his duty in the same light.
How much is $4,000, 600 times sso9
$4,000 900!
The $4,000 at $50 Zach will spend
$4,000, 600.
me Mexican troubles, calling almost
all the mobile army of the United
states 10 the border. came near
Wreckinr the training camp plans.
FOR instance, in the Eastern Depart-
ment, General Leonard Wood found IL
necessary to call upon seven officers
attached to the army rarrisons In tha
Canal Zone for service Mt pIattsburr
o PLATTSBURG
ALONE WILL BE cc.OoO
lt Is estimated here that the regis
trattons for the PlattshurG camp alone
Will be about $4,000. The asthma es
nave been raised since the New York
City parade.
The Department Of the East he.;aa.
fiattsburE. also has charge of the Forr
oElcthorpe CGa.) camp. where the hrst
session began on May 3. There will
De three sessions at Oglethorpe. each
OF a months duration. Probably 2. 5o0
men Will take the intensive course
mere and among them. setting a eooo
example to the OUNCE generation. ARD
several Civil War veterans.
inc western Department. Of the army
VIII hoid n camp at Monterey. Cal
'uis ~ 10 August 5; another at Salt
Lake 'i'E' Ctah. August 81 to Septem-
u.' D ana Il third at American Lake,
wash, August II to September Q
About 10000 men will attend thesa
three camps. and in addition at Salt
Lake City 1000 students have been In
Structed regularly by army officers for
several weeks.
mat the Middle West is not entire1v
OF the stripe of William J. Bryan and
riehrE Ford Will be proved at FortS
benjamin Harrison. Indiana polls. Ind
There the Central Department will hold
three sessions, lasting from July < RI
October 3.
patriotic business men in Cleveland
oetroit. Chicago and other large cit,es
are corning voluntary recruiting COM
"..'ets' ana the fruits OF the labors
VIII be about $500 men working Tor
summer.
The number to attend the San Az.
tonic (TeX.) camp. in the Den,rtman+
OF the Southwest, from June 10 n
July = is put at 1900. hut the UNI
se'tted conditions along the border and
me consequent interest taken in mill.
'arN ahairs may add another 500.
fla'tsourg, \. Y, the original home
OF the business mems training c,n,n
VIII be the greatest scene OF actiyItv
or all. The first camp Will omen -
June 3 and the last will close DC.
toher 5. 80
Many great corporations are giving
'hc'r men a month OF with full pay, in
order TO help national defense. Others
are going one step further and grant.
ing thos" men who go to Plattsbure q
vacation Of two weeks with pay in ad-
ditton TO fun pay turing the time of
the camp. The example of these com.
panies is bound to be followed more
and more widely.
one OF the camps at Plsttehur1
called tn" junior camp. will be for
young men Of eighteen to wenty.one.
principally college graduates.
ST HJtNiOR CAMP BOYs
ALSO TO be OPENED
There came such an insistent demand
TO join this camp from youths not vet
eiGhteen years Of age thai a subjunior
camp Is TO be opened for boys between
fifteen and eighteen years.
This camp Will be held ut Fort Terry.
rum island. near Grcenpoint, l.. L. 1t
VIII be a subdivision OF the Plattsbure
amp. ana viii be run under the SUPER
vision OF regular army officers along
the same IL es.
High 'chools in Montclair, New
Rochelle, fonkers, Hartford, Mount
Vernon. ana many other cities and
many "ptep' schoo's. including Law
renceville Virginia Military Academy,
ST. Paufs Andover. Polytechnic and
Worcester. have c~ontineents going to
Plum Island.
Besides learning something about the
big coast guns and doing a large
amount OF military work. the boys will
have opportunities for baseball, swim.
ing and other sports. as
Another civilian camp Will be con.