The border vidette., 1929-02-09

their snare OF GGnlS increase, TWO
hundred additional places, max
ing the quota for the Corps Area
in 1920 two thousand and nine
hundred.
The year 1929 is the ninth
since the inception if the Citi-
zens' Military Training Camps
movement. Since the first camps
| in 1921. this activity of the gov.
ernment, has constantly grown
LIN numbers and popularity. The
number OF. applications for at
tendance at these camps, indi-
Gates that were Congress to pro
vide the necessary funds, there
would be no difficulty in doub-
ling their present size, as thous-
ands Of young men are each
summer turned away from the
camps through the lack 81, places
for them.
A new departure IN connection
with the camps Of the coming.
summer will be the combined
training at certain camps, OF the
tC. M. T. @. and Organized Re.
serve regiments. The latter con-
| lsist entirely Of Reserve Officers.
AZ the two larger camps Of the
Corps Area, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
certain regiments of the Organ.
lied Reserves will be ordered to
active duty training for q period
Of two weeks at the same time
that the Citizens Military Train
| ing Camp is being held. These
Preserve officers will assist in the
administration and . training Of
the G. M. T. O., under the super
vision Of the parent. organiza-
tion, which will be, as heretofore,
from the regular army. This is
not entirely a new departure, as
it was practically in effect at the
camp at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in
1928, where it proved to be- very
successful, and g. considerable
number of individual reserve Of
ficers have beer ordered to duty
at citizens military training
camps each summer in the past,
i The impression appears to
have gone abroad, largely due to
items and editorials in certain
lpapers that the conduct of the
Fcitizens, military training camps
ia the future was to be- ientirely
turned over to o~tfe: organized re.
| serves This is not the case.
EIn thesfutures as in the past, the
camps will be organized and con-
Quoted by the regular army.
One Of the greatest benefits OF
the summer camps has been the
bringing stoeethera Of different
Ecomp ponents of the army OF the
United States, TO the mutual ad-
vantage of ali. The snew plan,
fjust. referred to, will bring the
Irregular army, the organized re-
aserNe, and the citizens mill
draining camps into closer CON
tact than before. ss.s7i e.;s :. -
In the pastr officers Of the or,
ganized reserve have given free:
| " and, literally of their time to-
| ward making the citizens mill
tary training camps the, success
they arese Reserve. officers work
ing in, close cooperation with the
county chairmen and other OFF,
cials Of the military training
lcamps association have ! been
largely responsible for success
lin procurement of candidates for
| the citizens military training
camps. Under the new arrange
ment, these reserve. officers, who
belong to the reserve regiments
conducting the training. will have
the opportunity of observing and
working with the young men
whom they have pursuaded to
attend the camps. This will give
them continuing interest. in
these young. men and, a contact
with them which it is hoped they
will. maintain in. their home lo-
calities, during the periods be-
tween, the. annual camps. The
new plan will undoubtedly result
Lin much> benefit to both the re-
serve officers and the citizens
military. training camps. candi-
dates. The same high standard
of care, food, instruction and
supervision in the citizens mill
tary training camps that has
been built up in the past will be
continued, under the new ar
rangement,. and parents through
out the country should disabuse
their minds OF. any impression
that some radical change in the