The Washington times., 1921-04-24

for outdoor life. The discipline guar
anteed by the experienced army Of
ficers, and the clean athletics conduct
ed by experienced instructors should
benefit our young men, who, willis
developing their body and increasing
their knowledge, will thus gain a
splendid asset towards devotion to
God and loyalty to country
Bishop William +. Mcdowell, OF
Washington, ID. c.. resident bishop "
the Methodist Episcopal Church:
I II write to give my hearIiest a D
prevail to the plans of the War De-
partment for the citizens military
training camps to be held in the sum-
mer of 1921. The Federal Council o
the Churches will be glad to give all
the assistance possible to cnief o.
the corps OF chaplains in supplying
devotional services and other related
! activities for the religious and moral
! welfare of the men and the good of
the country"
Bishop William T. Manning OF the
Episcopalian Diocese of New York:
The plan OF these training camps
il an admirable one. and IL wisely
conducted on the principles suggeste"
they Will, / believe, prove of greaI
value to the life OF our country.
I'm addition TO it's value from the
standpoint of reasonable AMI neces-
sary military preparedness, the train.
ing offered by these camps will 90
! of help in many ways to the youn-
men who. receive IL. 1t will benefit
tn en- both physically and mentally: il
will deepen in them the spirit o.
democratic fellowship and of service
to their country, and will prepare
them TO perform more fully and ef-
fectively their duties as man and as
citizens"
DR.. Cyrus Adler, acting chairman,
Jewish Welfare Board, 14g Fifth ave-
nue., New York City:
Il am in hearty accord with the
plan Of the War Department in in
stituting the citizens military train
ing corps. The purpose as outlined
in your interesting statement is ar
epitome of patriotism and clean out.
door life.
at is a genuine satisfaction that m
this effort the department Is enlist
ing the cooperation of various re
ligious bodies, which l am sure will
be unreservedly given ..
The Jewish Welfare Board will b
happy to cooperate in any way in it'
power toward the religious and nora
life of the training camps
oNE MILIlON FoR CAMPS.
The appropriation of S1,OVO,OO0
which has made possible this
training, which is planned a. a pre-
Jude to program which will give
every able bodied male between six
teen and twenty-five years OF age the
same instruction in the near future,
marked the realization of a dream for
which advocates Of preparedness cave
been striving for more than a decade.
That it was obtained is believed to
have been largely due to tire able
presentation OF its urgency made by
Grenvile Clarke, president of the
Military Training Camps Association.
a d. s. NJ. man and q reserve colonel in
the adjutant generals department; A.
J. Thatcher, former major of the
3U6th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Di-
vision. and DR.. Henry :. Drinker,
president emeritus of Lehish Univer
sity. These men and other advocates
OF preparedness appeared before the
House Appropriations Committee last
January 10 and made exhaustive and
eloquent expositions of the advan-
tages to accrue through the establish
ment of the camps.
In connection with the recruiting
for the camps 1t is pointed out that
they will not conflict with the national
guard, but rather will be an aid to IL.
No member of national guard or
ganization will be accepted unless
recommended by his commanding Of
ficer and any member desiring to at
tend a camp must apply through ma
tional guard channels. with this
safeguard against depicting the ranks
OF the national guard also is coupled
the fact that the taste Tor military
training acquired by the mea in the
camps doubtless will cause many 10
join national guard units when the
camps close in December.