The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-28
~ MILITARY
CAMPSREADY
FOR US. BOYS
More Than $4,000 Young Men
Already Enrolled For
Training This Year

New York, April 28.-With the
1925 Citizens Military Training
Camps still three months away, more
than 25 percent Of the estimated quo
ia attendance of 50,00O young men
between the ages of II and 81 al
ready has been enrolled, according to
announcement by the war depart
ment. This is double the enrolment
at this time last year, and this sum-
mer's quota will be 10000 more than
that of 1924.
Forty-two camps stretching across
the continent from Fort Mckinley
Me-. to the Preside of San Francisco,
will be opened this summer for the
basic course and the three advanced
courses in which citizenship and
physical training will be intermingl-
7 ed in the schedules with drill and
instruction in the infantry, cavalry,
field and coast artillery, engineers
and signal corps branches of the mil
itary. Part Of the camps run during
the month of July and others during
August, while .Plattsburg, N. Y. will
have two camps in succession.
The c. M. T. c. candidate is under
no obligations except to spend 30
days of his time at one of the camps
located near his home; the govern
ment meets the expense of carfare to
and from the camp, clothing, equip
ment, meals, bedding, lodging and en-
tertainment. The presidents son or
! the millionaire's heir who sleeps by
the side of the farmers boy. marches
beside him in the ranks and eats
next him at the mess hall in this
annual democratic leveller, pays the
same amount for his 80 days vaca-
tion and training, exactly nothing.
The Sixth Army Corps area so far
leads among the nine areas in which
the nation is divided by the war de-
partment' for purposes of military
administration. Fifty percent Of this
sections quota of $500 already has
been filled. It includes the states
of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin
Next is the Fifth Corps area. includ-
ing Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and
West Virginia with 1874 percent of
a quota of 5000. Third is the Fourth
Corps area, including the southeast
ern states with S6.6 percent Of q
quota of 800.
Big business has realized, accord
ing to thousands Of letters received ed
by the officials in chArge of the 1925
ConipS, tudt Iuc yOUtu WuO 1CSuAuS
from the camp is more valuable ia
them than the young man who spent
his vacation i'm some other way. His
step in firmer. his eye clearer, his
shoulders squarer and his chest
deeper and he has a. higher sense OF
cooperation and reaction to disci-
pline than before.
Health and physical culture ex-
perts throughout the country have
watched carefully the physical train
ing of these thousands of youths, for
the preliminary medical examine
tions have shown that the young man
today is no better physically than
was his older brother of 1917 or
1918 when the selective draft exam
nations showed that so percent of
the youth of the nation was unfit for
war service. Many Of the young
men with slight physical defects that
are not organic, but who would be
unable to pass the physical tests for
the regular army, are allowed to enc
ter the camps. They are placed in
special development companies and
by. careful feeding, special exercises.
proper sleep periods and other mea-
sures, such defects as incorrect pos
lures, curvature of the spine, mall
nutrition. flat feet, under-develop-
ment of the chest and lungs are cur
ed in 80 days.