New Britain herald., 1923-07-31
SUMMER CAMPS TO
 DRAW 30 THOUSAND
Many Civilians to Enjoy Life
 Under the Canvas

Chicago, July 31.-In the last days
 of July some 30,o00 young men left
 their homes to spend month in one
 or another of the 25 Citizens military
 camps, which the government has or
 ganized for this summer according
 to the announcement made by the
 Military Training Camps association
 here recently. lr
 Health in mind, body and character is the primary aim of the Citizens
 camps to which young men between IF and "A are admitted for a month
 of training at government expense,
 and these camps are located at care
 fully selected sites in various parts of
 the country, so that no one need travel
 more than two or three hundreds miles from his own home.
 In making the announcement, George T. James, the executive sec- retary of the association says:
 The camps are conducted by the most competent officers of the Regular Army, the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, and no pains are spared to make the month of train ing an enjoyment and profit to all who attend. Applicants are accepted only after careful physical examina- tion and with the endorsement 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 transporta- tion. are paid by the government, but in return it asks that every young man got to camp with an earnest de- sire to return better citizen. No finer education ideal can be found in all history since the days of ancient Greece than underlies 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 careful ly graduated course of military train ing from ordinary infantry drill | a succession of four years in | the specialized work of other branches of the service, the cavalry, engineers, field and coast artillery, signal corps and air service. The afternoons are devoted to all forms of physical train ng and athletics, including baseball nandball, volley ball, tennis, swim ming, boxing, wrestling and track work, all under expert direction and conducted with view to physical lealth and good sportsmanship. Am ,le entertainment is arranged for the { vening hours.
 Religious life is not neglected, :, ince provision is made for voluntary T rorship on appropriate occasions for I 1en of all faiths. Army chaplains t polk after the moral welfare of the T len enrolled and army hostesses ar t ange their social gatherings. Com s lodious and well arranged quarters re provided with libraries, reading oms, cards, checkers and chess tables nd pianos. The government pro- ides a daily ration of nearly roc and cooks prepare meals which ompare most favorably with the est family or hotel tables, The men re quartered either in permanent arracks or in tent cities, carefully lid out in company street; not more nan six men to each large size army ' mt on comfortable cots, every tent ith substantial board flooring
 The Military Training Camps asso- alton of the United States is promot- lg the summer camps and securing trough its nation wide organization le interest and cooperation of prom lent citizens in every part of the ountry.