The Winslow mail., 1925-04-17
II. S. CREDIT FOR
BOYS WHO ATTEND
TRAINING CAMPS

In keeping with the newly init
ated national campaign to secure
high school credit for attendance at
Citizens Military Training camps,
the Stephens county, Oklahoma,
chapter of the Reserve Officers as
ISOLATION recently adopted a resolu-
ton recommending that the high
schools of the country grant to
graduates Of the c. NJ. T. camps Il
credit of one-fourth in military
training, and that attendance at
three G. NJ. T. camps shall operate
to grant a full credit on military
training.
West Virginia was the first state
to obtain the passage of such ac-
ton, the state board of education
rendering decision to the effect
that attendance at one G. NJ 7.
camp entitled the graduate to cred
it of one-fOurth, and attendance anG
subsequent successful completion
at three camps would entitle the
graduate to a full credit in military
training.
Col Sandy Beaver, Riverside Mil
itary academy, Gainesville, Ca, WAS
so impressed with the aims and OBJ
jectives of the c. M. T. C. that upon
return from visit to the training
camps last summer he offered
five scholarships in his school as
prizes for the graduates. Acting on
his suggestion, other schools in
the Fourth Corps Area have fol-
lowed suit and five more schools
have offered scholarships. These
scholarships are d S t + b u t e d
through the four camps held in the
Fourth Corps area and offer an ex-
cellent incentive to the young men
That this movement is gaining
national recognition is proven
fact by now Several states have
adopted a course of action along
these lines and it will not be long
before the c. NJ T. camps will reach
that pinnacle outlined by the late
beloved patriot, Theodore Roose-
welt, who said "the military tent
where boys sleep side by side will
rank next to the public schools
among the great agents for de-
mOcracy."
DR.. George Fillmore Swain, of
Harvard University, sets out three
fundamental requisites for a lib
eral education, all of which are
stressed in the c. NJ T. c., espe-
cially the moral and the physical.
He writes: 1.-THE young man from
a technical school should have
passed through four years of disci<
pline-mental, moral and physical.
His physical discipline should
have enabled him to restrain his
appetities, to govern his passions,
to make his hand and eye quickly
responsive to his will, to be master
of himself. His step should be
firm, his carriage erect, his mus
cles hard, his body capable of en-
during much physical fatigue.
"His moral education should
have made him realize the ethical
principles which should govern a
mans acts in this world and regu-
late his conduct toward his fellow
men. He should have learned to be
truthful and honest; thoughtful and
forgiving toward others, stern and
unforgiving toward himself. He
should have learned the supreme
lesson of disinterestedness and
should have gained the power of
working for the sake of work and
it's results rather than for his own
selfish purposes; he should have
learned to look down with some
thing of contempt upon the petty
things of this world and realize
that they amount to little compared
with the perfection of his own
character"
Applications may be made
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