The Ocala evening star., 1922-07-27
FL0R|DA's QUOTA
WILL BF FIRST
322 of Our Boys, 21 From Marion,
viii Train at Camp Mcclellan
This Season

322 Florida boys have been accepted
for the citizens military training
camps to be held at Camp Mcclellan,
Admission, Ala, and Fort Barrancas,
Pensacola, Fla, July 26th to August
25th.
These citizens camps are designed
to give young men sufficient training
in three summers to equip them as
commissioned officers in case of an
emergency, and last year six times as
many applicants were received as
young men who could be accepted for
training from the Fourth Corps Area
at Camp Jackson. Only "a Florida
boys were accepted while 224 went
from georgia. Realizing that if the
young men of Florida, in case of
emergency were to compete with men
from the other southern states, they
should also take advantage of this
great opportunity to equip themselves
for greater service to the state, B. C.
Riley, director of the General Exten-
sion Division, University of Florida,
and as vice president of the Military
Training Camps Association of the
United States in charge of the south
eastern department, made a special
effort this year to interest Florida
boys in the camps. AS result Flor
ida was the first state in the Union to
subscribe its quota and when recruit
ing closed, May 31st. Florida's quota.
had been oversubscribed by 20 per
cent.
In view of these facts, the war de-
partment, through the commander of
the Fourth Corps Area notified Mr..
Riley that not only F'lorida's quota of
1913 men, but all who had qualified by
May 81 would be accepted for train
ing. AS result Florida will have 322
men in the citizens camps, which
number, based on white population is
20 per cent more than any other
southern state.
Many of Florida's best high school
athletes and college men will attend
camp at Camp Mcclellan and Fort
Barrancas, where it is expected that
| they will carry off many honors, du-
plicating the efforts of the young men
from the University of Florida, who
under the direction of Major j. A. Van
Fleet took all honors in college rife
competition, winning individual and
team high scores at the camp conduct
ed for representatives from R. o. T.
C. units throughout the South, just
closed.
The camps will afford a great vaca-
tion for the boys at government ex-
pense In addition to military instruc-
ton, there will be plenty of opportu-
nifty for recreation and sports of all
kinds. The Florida boys will be all
together in the same regiment with
those of Georgia and South Carolina
and good time is assured. The fol-
lowing boys from this county were ac-
cepted and will attend camp:
! Charles Thomas, Sparr.
VIM. R. o. Veal, Cotton Plant.
| Mack G Britton, Ocala.
J. N. Fielding, Anthony.
/ Carlos NJ. Griggs, Oak.
/ Joseph Maxwell, Ocala.
Clayton M. McWhite. Summerfeld
i George A. Blowers, Ocala.
i J. M. Harrelson, Summerfeld.
Eugene N Potter, Ocala.
Joe R. Moses, Ocala.
]. John A. Hall, Ocala.
4 John Hardee, Ocala.
/ j. W. Davis Jr., Ocala.
John B. Cook, Ocala.
Il Elton N. Henderly, Ocala.
Ii Waldo E. Priest. Fort Mccoy.
Lawrence Moody, Summerfeld.
i sJas. L. Luffman, Ocala.
John L. Leitner, Ocala.
Elmer d. Griggs, Ocala-
In addition to these, Robert G
! Simmons, ocala, will attend camp a
Fort Barrancas, Pensacola.
Army officers are anxious that par
ents should know that after attend
ling three encampments and success
, fully completing the red. white ana
blue courses, as they are called,
young man viii be qualified to hold
|. commission in either the Nationa
Guard or the reserves. He is how
ever, under no obligation to the gov
; ernment to take a commission, or Il
: join any military organization JUS
because he attended the camps. IL a.
. emergency should arise and the draf
be applied, he would be prepared t