Evening star., 1927-03-13
ARMY WILL TRAIN
$1,000 YOUNG MEN
4,30O Is Citizen Soldiers
Quota for Baltimore Area.
Applicants Busy.

Citizens Military Training Camps
will recruit from all over the couh'
try this Summer $4,000 young men
who will doff their civilian clothes
for Army khaki and engage in
months period of intensive training
In all branches of the service.
While War Department plans for
the training camps during the months
of June. July and August are just
beginning to take shape. hundreds of
applications are being received at the
Baltimore headquarters of the I'd
Corps Area where the youths from
the District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia must make application.
War Department officials expect the
largest enrolment this Summer in
the history of the training camps and
unusual preparations will be made for
the entertainment of the thousands Of
youths during their months stay at
the various camps. Combined pleas
ure, with healthy outdoor exercise
and a not too rigid military program
of training, it was said, are increas-
ing the popularity and usefulness of
the citizens camps to a marked
degree.
Sophomore i'm Van.
Information has not yet been re-
ceived at the War Department as to
details of the training camps in The
Sd Corps Area. The program will
be mapped out in due course of time,
1t was said, at the Baltimore head
quarters and announced for the bene-
fit of the hundreds of young men in
Washington who desire TO take ad
vantage of a month in camp.
The first application 20 be received
from Washington was from Paul
Hamilton Keough, a sophomore at
George Washington University, who
reached TIE qualifying age of IL years
on February 10. Since then several
hundred additional applications have
been filed in Baltimore.
Having attained the qualifying
age" he wrote with his application,
II wish to commemorate the event
by what ! consider the most worthy
act that an American boy is privileged
TO perform, namely. to demonstrate
his gratitude for the blessings the
land Of his birth bestows upon him
by seeking better to fit, himself to
stand in the ranks of its defenders"
Post Not Designated.
DAolA III VI F(OiultOld NOuIHS
ably will be re-assigned to Fort Eus-
tis, although, officials explained, the
commanding officer of the Third Corps
Area, who has complete supervision
over all training matters, has not as
vet designated where they shall go
this Summer
In the ALLEGATION of the 5000
vacancies for this Summers camps,
comprising the quota for the nine
to-, ~
divided, the Third Corps Area will be
permitted 4,300 men, with camps at
Fort Howard, Fort Washington and
Fort Hoyle, Md, and Fort Eustis,
Fort Monroe, Fort Humphreys and
Fort Myer. Va. The allotment for
this area is exceeded only by the quota
of 5000 for the Seventh Area, with
headquarters at Omaha, Nebr., and the
Second Area. with headquarters at
Governors Island. New York. which
has an allotment of 400.
July l to 81.
The training period in the Third
Corps Area for the civilian soldiers
Is expected to extend from July / to
July 81. In conjunction with the
citizens military training camps, sep.
of the Reserve Officers Training
Corps, comprising chiefly the military
units at various military schools and
universities. These will be held at
the same time, it was pointed out,
though under separate and distinct
programs.
The camps in the Middle West will
open earlier than those in the East
on account of farming conditions All
necessary expenses are paid by the
War Department, including railroad
10 G1thciCfnnna chn1far and aTili.
forms. In addition, the War Depart
ment will. provide athletic equip
ment for the various teams at the
camps.
Any young man of sound physical
condition and good moral character"
between the ages of IL AMI "a years
IS eligible for admission.