Smyrna times., 1925-05-06
c. ". ". SCHANTz GETS SOME
RESPONSE FOR en-. 7. CAMP
HAS CHARGE OF APPLICATIONS
RECEIVED IN KENT COUNTY
Patriotic Response Shows About 1000
of Youths of New York, New Jersey
and Delaware Will Take Training

Through patriotic response of the
youth of New York, New Jersey and
Delaware, enrolment for the Citizens
Military Training Camps in the Sec
end Army Corps Area not only enter
ed upon the final thousand vacancies
of the four thousand originally allotted |
to this corps area but will, in the |
single month yet remaining before the
close of the campaign, fill whatever
additional vacancies the War Depart |
ment may divert here from other |
corps areas where the demand is not |
so great, Major-General Charles P.
Summerall declared yesterday at Gov
ernors Island.
Up to late Friday, April "a, the
General said, 3,726 candidates had ap-
piled and successfully passed the
physical and mental examinations. Of
these, 1,191 are first-year students
who have selected the Plattsburg
camp which opens July l. Not since
the C. NJ. T. Camps were first opened
in 1921 has General Summerall seen
greater enthusiasm for the thirty days
of outdoor camping which the Govern
ment is offering free to young men
between II and "a who can measure
up to the standards of the camps, al
most one thousand applications hav-
ing been received at Governors Island
during the past week.
"First come, first served the Cen
eral said, "has been adopted as our
policy in view of the unprecedented
for enrolment by youngsters in all
parts of the corps area"
Special arrangements for the bene-
fit of young men with some technical
training were also made known yes
terday. In the Signal Corps course
at Camp Vail, N. j., and the Engin
eer training center at Fort dupont,
Del, numerous electrical and mechan-
ical devices of late development from
the War Department laboratories are
to be made available for study. Gen
eral Summerall said he believed the
present quotas for these courses
would later be enlarged by the War
Department to accommodate qualified
candidates.
At the same time the General point
ed out that the age limits of II to "a
which apply for frst-year students
have recently been modified to permit
men ranging to 81 years to enroll for
. the advanced classes where these
technical courses are given. In the
second year class the maximum age
is % years; the third year Is to 28,
and the fourth year 10 to 81.
Besides the first year classes and
the advanced Infantry course to be
, held at Plattsburg during July and
. August, instruction is TO be given in
Signal and radio work at Camp Vail,
j y. j.; in Engineer practice at Fort
DUPONT Del; in Cavalry at Fort Ethan
/ Allen, Vt; in Field Artillery at Madi-
son Barracks, n. Y, and Coast Ar
tillery at Fort Hancock, n. J. These
camps VIII open August 8 and con-
tinue in operation thirty days.
Fresh impetus, General Summerall
. aid yesterday, was given the C. NJ.
T. c. movement by nationwide cam
paign launched last week by the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton. With 2,400 chieftians located in
practically every city in the country
the d. A. r. has notified each of its
100000 members of her patriotic OBJ
legation to enroll at least one young
man for this years camps.
Another women's organization t
endorse the camps, according to tht
General, is the Women's Conference
on National Defense as Peace Insur
ance. At their convention recently il
t Washington, with seventeen women!
e patriotic clubs attending, a cOmmen
datOry resolution was passed whicl
read:
4 1--WE commend the Citizens Mlitar!
Training Camps to the American peO
pie, believing the discipline and train
n ing received in these camps to be 0
= the greatest benefit Of the boys of tn
4 nation and urge the camps be enlarg
e ed to enable at least 100000 boys t
attend each year, and that an activ
campaign be started at once with tn
object of getting 100000 boys to az
Ply for admission to camp"
Governor Miriam A. (Ma) Fergu
son, of Texas, and Governor Nelli
!. Taylor Ross, of Wyoming, have ais
u" written the War Department their al
prOval of the man-building progral
of the c. NJ. T. Camps, General Sun
neral announced.
81 believe the C. NJ. T. Camps off,
a vital element of education whiC
. cannot be found in any of our reg
lar establishments of learning" Go
ernOr Ferguson wrote.
whether or not there will ever
another war;" Governor Ross said
her letter, 81 feel strongly that Il
physical benefit and mental disciplil
to be derived from military trainii
must be an asset to any man thrOug
Y out his life. | think, too, that youl
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