The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-08-25
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CITIZEN SOLDIERS
Would Have 100000 Young Men
in Training Camps.
SOUNDS PREPAREDNESS CALL
Tells Camp Meade Students That He
Favors Military Training, but Re-
minds Them No Armed Cam
paign Is Planned.

Washington, Aug. %. = President
Harding, in an address to citizen-sol-
diers from Camp Meade, Md, declared
ne favored military training for more
than 100000 civilians annually, not for
any prospective aggressive warfare.
but to preserve peace.
After reviewing the civilian troops
on the ellipse adjacent to the White
House grounds, the President called
attention to the fact that $4,000 civil
ians were given training this summer
compared with 1000 last year
In the Camp Meade contingent were
LOCO young men from the District of
Columbia, Maryland, Delaware and
Pennsylvania, who have been in
training for three weeks.
Declaring the boys had been bene-
flied by learning discipline, the Presi-
dent asserted "all America might we'll
benefit by learning little more i'm
pressively the obligations of the citi-
zen to his country" His address fol-
lows:
Il could not allow the opportunity
to pass without a word of felicitation
and cOngratulation. You have afforded
US, those who were in review and
those who carried on the review,
most impressive and reassuring spec
tacle. Yeu are citizens of a republic
wholly devoted to peace. There is not
a thought in America of armed war
fare. There is not design on the part
of your country to carry on an armed
campaign in any direction.
Concerned Only With Peace.
I'VE are concerned only with peace
and the security of peace, and like
to think that this great republic, re-
ducing its regular army in accordance
with its ideals, can have the assurance
that comes TO it with such a spectacle
as you have given us. / congratulate
you with all my heart.
ut is a fine thing for the young
manhood of America to turn from the
ordinary engagements of the vacation
season to study of military service
and training for service. am not
sure, however, but you have profited
quite as well as your country. If my
eyes testify correctly, you are bene-
hted from the physical training, which
always means higher state Of Ameri-
can manhood. You have benefited by
learning discipline. You have bene-
flied, as all Americans might well
benefit, by learning a little more i'm
pressively the obligations of the citi-
zen to his country
ut is rather interesting thing mod
ern science has learned that the Ills
of the nervous and mental being may
largely be cured by the development
of the physical being, and l take it
that you have not only had whole
some time, but that you are all re-
turning to your normal pursuits better
equipped for the tasks of life.
you will be interested to know that
the volunteer citizens training move
ment last year enlisted. about 11,000
recruits. This year there were $4,000
of you in the various camps. If /
could have my wish this number would
increase until more than 100000 were
annually studying and preparing for
armed service, not that we ever ex-
pect to be called upon for such serv-
Ice, but solely for national defense
and the preservation of the govern
ment Under which we all live.
"Better Equipped for Life"
''You know, modern soldiery is very
different from that of nearly all the
history of the world. Our soldering
of today is solely for national defense
and the preservation of that govern
ment under which we live.
There is new assurance, there is
new confidence, there is new belief In
the perpetuity of this American repub-
tic when one can stand, as / have
stood, and note such company of
ready volunteer defenders as you have
shown US in this review. Again my
congratulations and my gratitude for
your country"