The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-25
CIVILIANS ID BE ACCORDED REAL
 ARMY TRAINING
Those Desiring to Attend May Procure Applications From Any Army Station Upon
 Request

An interesting vacation, fraught with pleasures. educational features and excellent physical training is offered young men of this section by the citizens military training camps for the summer of 1922.
 The announcement Is of particular interest to civilians residing in Geor- eia, Tennessee. Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana. North and South Carolina. Two camps are to be opened. July 27 to August 2s, in- elusive at Camp Mcclellan, Ala, where instruction will be given in infantry, cavalry. and field artillery, and at Fort Barrancas, Fla, which will offer a course in coast artillery training. Three courses will be given at both places, an elementary course, for citizens between the ages of 1T and 25 years, which qualities an en- trant for admission as a private In the organized reserves or in the na- tional guard; the white course. for commissioned officers. and the blue course for commissioned of- ficers, qualifying each candidate of the latter two to admission in the national guard or organized reserves as commissioned and commits stoned officers, respectively.
 Persons from r to 25 years are eligible for the first course; from IS to 26 the second, and from 19 to 27 for the third. Physical fitness. good moral rhaFactpr nd iDfaIif- gence are the basic requirements for admittance to either of the three courses
 During the courses. which will be interspersed with routine army in struction and athletics. augmented with social and entertainment fea- lures, the government will bear all expenses. Applicants are required to pay their expenses to the camps, where they will receive reimburse ment immediately upon arrival. Other requirements from applicants are certificate of health, smallpox vac cination and inoculation for typhoid before entering camps. These serv- ices will be performed by any govern ment, post. Tn addition a certificate must be presented from a school master. clergyman. priest or rabbi to the effect that the applicant is of good moral character and average in- telligence. Upon arrival at camps all equipment, such as uniforms. etc. will be furnished by the government. Application cards for entrance to these camps may be obtained from the following places; from states of Tennessee and North Carolina. apply to chief of staff, s1st division. U. 5. army, Arnstein building, Knoxville. Tenn; from states of South Carolina. Florida and Georgia. apply to chief of staff, Sand division. U. s. army, 12o2h Main street. Columbia, s. C.; from states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. apply to chief of staff s7th division. U. S. army, Poland and Dauphine streets, New Orleans. La Information obtained Saturday from headquarters of the fourth corps area, Fort McPherson. Ga. indicate | that approximately half of the 5000 applicants provided for by the gov ernment to take this training have been enlisted. Applicants are coming in at the rate of 75 per day. The opportunity to enter these camps will cease when the 5000 applicants spe- cified In the orders from the war de- partment are obtained.
 Application blanks can be obtained from the offices enumerated above, by mall or by applying in person.