Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-02
New Record
TOBe Made
ByC.M.T.C
Washington Area
Credited With
$500 Total
By Joseph S. Edeerton.

Some $1,000 young men, carrying
their personal belongings in suit
cases which will serve them as field
lockers, soon will begin pouring into
military posts in all parts of the
country to the tune of whistles
blown by officers and non-coms of
the Regular Army and the Or
gained Reserve and the notes of
Army bugles.
For a month they will be absorbed
into the United States Army, living
under canvas and in barracks, drill
Ing with the many weapons of the
modern army. eating doughboy chow
fro mess-kits, waking to the lively
changer of the bugles which sound
reveille to the time-honored form
ula: Il can't get EN- up, I can't get
'em UP"
Among the thousands will be $500
who will 60 into camps in the local
Sd Corps Area. Trainees from the
District of Columbia and the re-
mainder Of the Washington area,
including the four nearby Virginia
and four nearby Maryland counties,
have been assigned to five Army
posts in Maryland and Virginia for
the 1899 season of the Citizens Mill
tary Training Camps.
Assigned the largest C. M. T. C.
quotas in their history, the local
committees in all parts of the coun-
try, composed of Regular and Re-
serve otncers, members of national
defense organizations and leading
citizens, now are in the midst of
q vigorous campaign for the 18th
season Of the c. M. T. c. movement.
The Washington committee, headed
by 1t. Col. Charles Demonet, Or
gained Reserves, is we'll on it's way
to completion OF its quota and will
close Its rolls long before the open
ing OF the camps on July 6.
The estimate of $1,000 for the 1889
season, from July 6 to August 4, is
the largest since the training of
citizen soldiers began in 1921 as an
other safeguard against the unpre-
paredness which has been the nor
NAL condition in the United States
at the beginning of every war in
which it has been engaged.
Reminders of War.
Throughout July there will be
scenes reminiscent of the earlv DAYS
OF the World War as the rockies
from high schools, colleges, offices
and other civilian occupations rec
oncile themselves to the ministra-
tons OF Army drill sergeants.
There will be little of the real
wartime flavor about the camps.
however. The young men will have
plenty Of leisure for long hours of
swimming, baseball. boxing, wres-
Ting, track and field sports, or Just
plain loafing. There will be week
end sightseeing trips and there will
be lectures and education in the
duties of citizenship, in addition to
the military training program.
The c. M. T. c. movement had
ITS actual beginning In 1921, having
oeen authorized in the amended
national Defense Act Of 1920. The
program has grown with great
fapldlty and annual enrolment in
.ne camps has increased more than
Jul per cent since the first camps
were opened 10 years ago.
Creolt Tor the success of the c. M.
I. G. movement generally is given
TO Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. who
was responsible for the creation of
the Business and Professional Mems
Camp, held near Baltimore in 1915.
Although this camp was wholly un-
official in character. its success led
to the formation of two officers
training camps, held in the spring
and summer of 1917, following
American entry into the World War
This experience led to authorize
ton IN 1920 Of the first annual Citi-
Gems Military Training Camps.
There are two primary objects for
the holding of the camps-trainine
in citizenship and the STRENGTHENING
OF our national defense. The pro-
gram brings together annually for
. month Of training the best types
OF representative young citizens
from all sections of the country
1t gives them the basis of military
instruction.; those who show apti-
tude and liking for this training
are given every opportunity to ad-
vance. The trainees also are given
physical, mental and moral training
intended to fit them for leadership
In their respective communities in
times Of peace and as leaders for
national defense in time of war.
The training also is planned to
"inculcate stronger patriotism and
. wholesome respect for discipline
and obedience to constituted au-
thority; above all, to teach the