Evening star., 1924-03-30
THE CIVILIAN ARMY
BY LIEUT.. STEPHEN F. TILLMAN.
Organized Reserves-National Guard

| cational Institutions in the middle
west from Kentucky to Nebraska, and
return via the lake states, and. include
! units in northern New York. Gen.
| Farnsworth expects to be away until
the latter part of April.
The following announcement has
been made by the Sd Corps Area reia-
tive to the training for the c. NJ. T. c.
at Camp Meade this year The disci-
plihe will be kindly, considerate and
4, friendly. but firm. just and impartial.
/ The honor system" is largely de-
ipended upon for control and adminis-
| tration. along the lines of the best
regulated schools and colleges. 1t has
proved uniformly successful in pre-
vious camps. with cheerful c"-opera-
tion pervading the whole c. M. t. c.
Corps.
! There are no distinctivelv military
ipunishments given, no courts martial, !,
no guardhouses. These young men are
mot enlisted in any sense OF the Woru.
! They are not soldiers, but civilians.
and regarded as such while in the
camp. The parents. relatives and
friends of boys in the camp are par
iticularly welcome and cordially in
Yited to visit them on week ends. 1t lS
| the War Departments established
policy to encourage a closer personal
| interest, and an intimate knowledge
of the real camp life afforded by suca
things for themselves, for these are,
after all, their camps.
The normal day will, as rule, be
divided as follows: Begin at 1:3o IN
! the morning. The fourhour period
from 1880 to 1880 is. devoted to n
hour and a half. from 1880 to l
o'clock, is taken for dinner. In basic
! course the afternoon period from l
! to 4 o'clock is applied to physical
i training. including supervised atm
! letic instruction. such as swinmin-r
/ boxing and wrestling; organized
athletics, such as base ball and track
| events, and recreational athletlcs,
! such as tennis hand ball and practice
of foot ball squads. Except for re-
monies, all routine duties and work
! in the camp will end at 4:S0 O'Clock;
| The remainder of the day, and until
| 10 o'clock at night, is given over to
rest. study and to individual recrea-
! tion and diversions in the camp.
| There are no ordinary duties of any
kind scheduled for Saturday after
Moons, SundaysN or for the national
| holiday on July 4.
There is work to be done in these
camps-drills, marches, held maneu, ! i,
| vers, organized athletics, schools and
! indoor instruction. The camps are
not advertised as vacation. for
! that implies idleness and such an i'm
! preston would be misleading TO the
! public. But in their schedules of
training every one fares alike and
! has the same duties to perform.
In discussing the punishments for
! the camps Col. Oliver II. Dockery,
I officer in charge of Citizens Military
! Training Camp affairs for the Sd
| Corps Area, said: For first or
slight offenses the boys are warned
or reprimanded. For repetitions they
may be deprived of personal privi-
| leges. such as leaving barracks for
certain time or of visiting about
| the camp. But when one shows him
| self 70 be incorrigible or commits
some serious offense he is deprived
! of his uniform. given back his civilian
! clothes handed a ticket back home
! and expelled from the camp, amid
! the jeers of his better behaved COM
, radcs. Such 'misfits are blacklisted
! from ever again attending another
| training camp. For criminal felonies,
! such as stealing, the offender may be
! turned over to the civil authorities.
The system works. There are very
! few infractions of rules or breaches
! of discipline in the camps"
The best Army surgeons. dentists,
| trained nurses and up-to-date hos
! pital facilities are available at Camp
| Meade and Fort Monroe. continued
| Col. Dockery. The health of these
! young men is of first consideration
| to ali concerned at all times. Camp
! sick reports go direct to the com
! manding general. These health pre-
! cautions account for the rigid re-
! quirements that every applicant be
| vaccinated against smallpox and take
| the typhoid prophylaXis. No one
! enrolls in camp without it. Not one
single case of smallpox or typhoid
! fever has ever occurred in one OF
! these camps. Serious sickness is
| practically eliminated.
"A religious atmosphere pervades
these camps. Divine worship is ear
nestly encouraged. Mockers of re-
/ ligion are not wanted. Selected
chaplains of representative denomi-
nations are in attendance, Protest
| ant, Catholic and Hebrew. These are
F., charged with the duty of looking out
| for the religious and moral welfare
! of their respective communicates"