The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-24
CITIZENS MILITARY
TRAINING CAMP Ex.
planned TO PUBLIC
Chairman for Mason County Explains
Purpose and Plans Of Training
Camps.

Supt. w. ]. Caplinger, chairman for
Mason county Of the Citizens Military
Training Camp, Tuesday afternoon ex-
planned the project as follows:
For the benefit of those who may be
interested in the Citizens Military
Training Camp that will be opened at
Camp Knox, KY, on July 21st to con-
tinue through four weeks, am giving
the following statement:
The aim Of this and similar camps is
to promote good citizenship and an in
terest in national defense. The War
Department plans to bring together
young men Of all occupations on a
basis Of equality under the most ia
vorable conditions Of outdoor life.
The camps are open to all men be-
tween the ages of sixteen and thirty
five years, who are of sound character,
intelligent and physically fit No edu-
cational qualifications are prescribed,
but each candidate must file certifi-
cate of good character, signed by
school master, clergyman, priest or
rabbi, together with medical testimony
from qualified physician as to hear
ing, eyesight, heart action and gen.
eral physical condition adequately fit
ted for the course of training.
The government will pay all ex-
penses Of those attending this camp,
including transportation, uniforms,
food and medical care. Each candidate
will pay his own transportation to the
camp and be reimbursed upon arrival
at the rate Of five cents a mile.
Enrolment at this camp implies no
later service obligations, although 1t
is hoped that men who attend will be
inclined thereafter to enroll with the
National Guard or the Reserve.
Uniform training and instruction
will include the initiation of all who
attend into the elementary duties of
the soldier and the ordinary routine OF
camp life. There will be squad, plat
oon and company drill, small arms fir
ing practice; guard duty; camping and
marching; individual cooking; care of
equipment and actual problems in
open warfare. -..
Each candidate will bring to camp
one piece of hand luggage containing
shaving and toilet articles; four suits
of underwear, two pairs of pajamas,
six pairs of socks, six handkerchiefs,
four face towels and two bath towels,
It will be we'll also to bring athletic
uniforms and equipment, musical in
struments and bathing suits, in so far
as each has those articles. Military
clothing and equipment will be fur
nished and laundry service provided
free.
Camp Knox is located about thirty
five miles from Louisville; it con-
tains total of $4,000 acres of wooded,
mountainous, rolling plains and is the
second largest military reservation In
the world. Its area is such as to per-
nit all class of light and heavy field
artillery to be employed and a battle
of modern proportions may be held
within its boundaries.
Camp Knox is place to which
young men can go with the confident
and justified expectations of finding
the best ideals of the true American
community. Chaplains and Mostesses
of the Regular Army will be especial
ly detailed for the training camps. Vol
untary religious exercises will be held
on appropriate occasions for men of
all faiths. There will be ample oppor-
tunity for the reception Of home Wis
itors. In every possible way there will
be cultivated high sense of patriotic
devotion and fidelity to the basic vir-
tues of the American citizen.
Additional information and neces-
sary enrolment blanks may be secur-
ed from the Military Training Camps
Association, 200 Mallers Building, Chi
cago, which is acting as the civilian
agency of the War Department for the
trainings camps or by addressing the
Commanding General, Fifth Corps
Area Headquarters, Ft. Benjamin Har-
rison, Indiana; or 1t Col. Geo. d.
Freeman, Jr., P. M. S. e. T. University