The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-04-12
Expect City to be Repre-
scented at Citizens Mill
tary Training Camp.
HELD AT CAMP CUSTER
First Announcement of Camp
Is Made by Army
Officials Today.


formal announcement of the Citizens
Military Training Camp, which is to
be held under United States Army SUI
pervision at Camp Custer, Michigan,
during August, reached this city. The
camp is one of several to be held
throughout the country during the
summer, the one at Camp Custer be-
ing for the Sixth Army Corps, it be-
ing hoped that the three states of
Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan will
furnish LOO young men to take the
training offered.
Young men without previous mill
tary training will be given basic train
ing and men with military training
will be assigned to special units to
drill in any of the branches of serv-
ice
Bankers Back the Plan.
Postmaster James German received
this morning the formal announce
ment of the camp and Immediately
started the posting of placards invit
ing Kenoshans to spend theirS vaca-
ton at the. camp at the governments
expense getting health and military
training. Kenosha banks this morn
ing also received communications
from the Wisconsin Bankers associa-
ton: urging them to aid in securing
recruits for the camp. The Bankers
association has approved of the aims
and purposes of the camp and are CO.
operating in raising the quota needed
from Wisconsin.
This state fell below its quota in
1922 and it is hoped that this will not
happen again in the present year. A
formal campaign with county chair
men will be launched later to urge
young men to take advantage Of the
offer made by the government.
President Harding Approves.
Regarding the training camp Presi-
dent Harding says:
Il hope every young man, who can
arrange it, will attend one Of the Citi-
zens' Military Training Camps, con-.
Quoted by the War department in each
of the nine Corps Areas. In this way
he will increase his worth to the ma
iton and obtain individual benefits of
priceless value to himself and to the
community in which he lives. / hope
to see established during my admins
tration comprehensive system of
voluntary military training for at
least 100000 men each year"
The details regarding the camp are
explained in the following bulletin:
Authority - Under provision of
the army reorganization act the War
department will hold series Of mill
tary training camps for civilians in
1923.
Time Camps will be maintained
for a period of one Month, beginning
August LIST.
Location - At least one in each
Corps Area; at Camp Custer, Battle
Creek, Michigan, for the states of IL
linois, Michigan and Wisconsin in the
Sixth Corps Area.
Purpose The object of these
camps is to develop closer national
and social unity, to teach the privileg
es and duties of American citizenship,
to stimulate interest in military
training as a benefit to the individual
and as vital asset in the problem
of national defense.
Eligibility All men between the
ages Of II and "a, of good intelligence,
character and physical condition may
apply for admission to these camps,
which are intended primarily for men
IF ivaiv +ha
hope that they will associate them
selves later with the National Guard
or the Organized Reserves.
Free of Cost-The government will
pay for each man in training full ex-
penses of transportation, subsistence,
quarters, uniforms, equipment, laun-
dry, medical and dental care.
Requirement Every man will
bring to camp underwear, towels, tot
let articles, a sewing kit in one piece
of luggage, satchel or suitcase.
Certificates - E ch enrolment
blank requires medical testimony as
to physical condition, heart action,
eyesight and hearing, and the recon-
mendation Of a responsible citizen as
to character; each candidate must
present certificate of vaccination
against smallpox and of anti-typhoid
incubation (taken within three
years..
Training - The program calls for
the initiation of young men into the
conditions of camp life and the ele-
mentary duties of the soldier; stress
will be laid on physical development
through out-of-door games and sports;
expert individual medical attention
will aim at the removal of minor bod
| lily defects; social recreation will be
afforded through all kinds of lectures,
vaudeville, moving pictures, amateur
and professional musical and dramatic
entertainments; on appropriate occa-
sions voluntary religious exercises for
men of all faiths.
Applications Information circu-
lars and enrolment blanks may be
secured by addressing Mr. Wheeler p.
Bloodgood, Civilian Aide to the Secre-
tary of War, 315 Pereles Building, for
the State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.