Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
so THOUSAND IN
|. CITIZENS CAMPS

Chicago, July 30.-(A. PIN the
last days of July some 10000 young
men left their homes to spend a
month in one or another of the %
Citizens Military Camps, which the
Government has organized for this
summer, according to the announce
ment made by the Military Training
Camps Association here recently.
Health in mind, body and char
acter is the primary aim of the Citi-
Zens' Camps to which young men
between II and "a are admitted for
a month of training at government
expense, and these camps are To-
Gated at carefully selected sites in
various parts of the country, so that
no one need travel more than two
or three hundred miles from his own
home.
In making the announcement,
George 7. James. the executive sec
rotary of the Association, says:
The camps are conducted by the
most competent officers of the Reg
ular Army, the National Guard and
the Organized Reserves, and no
pains are spared to make the month
of training an enjoyment and a
profit to all who attend. Applicants
are accepted only after careful ply
steal examination and with the en-
dorsement of good character from
reliable citizens, and in every detail
the camps live up to the highest
standards of American home life.
"All expenses, including transport
tation. are paid by the government,
but in return it asks that every
young man go to camp with an
earnest desire to return a better citi-
zen. No finer education ideal can
be found in all history since the
days of ancient Greece than UNDER
lies the Citizens Camps of 1923. The
daily program is devised to interest
and strengthen young men in every
possible way. The morning hours
are given to carefully graduated
course of military training from or
binary infantry drill through q Sue
cesSion of four years in the speciaI-
lied work of other branches of the
service, the cavalry, engineers, field
and coast artillery, signal corps and
air service. The afternoons are de-
voted to all forms of physical train
ing and athletics, including baseball
handball, volley ball. tennis, swim
ming, boxing, wrestling and track
work. all under expert direction and
conducted with a view to physical
health and good sportsmanship.
Ample entertainment is arranged for
the evening hours.
Religious life is not neglected.
since provision is made for volun-
tary workship on appropriate occa-
slons for men of all faiths. ARMY
chaplains look after the moral well
rare of the men enrolled and army
hostesses arrange their social gath
erings. Commodious and we'll ar
ranged quarters are provided with
libraries, reading rooms. cards.
checkers and chess tables and nj
amos. The government provides a
daily ration Of nearly Zoe and COM
petent cooks prepare meals which
compare most favorably with the
best family or hotel tables. The
men are quartered either in perma-
nent barracks or in tent cities, care
FULLY laid out in company streets:
not more than six men to each large
size army tent on comfortable cots.
every tent with substantial board
flooring"
The Military Training Camps AS
ISOLATION of the United States is pro-
noting the summer camps and Sc
curing through it's nationwide or
ganization the interest and coopera-
ton of prominent citizens in every
part of the country.