Citizens Military Training Camp - Defender Yearbook (Camp Meade, MD)

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-- THE DEFENDER --- make known the Citizens' Nlilitary Training Camp opportunity the YVar Department and the Association have used airplanes, radios, moving pictures, billboards, poster cards, electric signs, window displays, banners, bands, public meetings, private conferences and much newspaper space. After all this effort it is quite certain that hundreds of thousands of young men of suitable age throughout the country have no clear idea of the Citizens' Military Training Camps and that until the camps shall have been established for a num- ber of years the prime difliculty will be the lack of adequate publicity. ln order to make the camps better known the Military Training Camps Associa- tion has encouraged the formation of visiting committees at each training point. lt has offered at every camp bronze medals for excellencen for the most soldierly candidate in each company and in addition has secured prizes for military and athletic contests. Looking to the future of the Citizens, Military Training Camps the Association endeavors to gather candidates at every camp into a permanent organization by States and Counties. If you have enjoyed your month oftraining tell all your friends about itgwrite toyour Congressman and to the two Senators in i your State and let them know what you have gained thru the Citizens' Military Training Camps. Get into touch early with . the representative of the hlilitary Training l Camps Association in your county. If you do not find one listed in this book write to the State Civilian Aide and he will tell you ' both name and ad- dress. Above all, sign E up early yourself for next year's camp and let the Citizens' Mili- tary Training Camp Officer at your Corps Area Headquarters put you down as a volunteer recruiting agent for the training of 1924. lVIore camps- larger camps-better camps, year by year is the wish of THIS MILITARY ' TRAINING CAAIPS Maj. Gun. U. S. .-lrmy l,1aoNAnn Woon Pngr l'l'flrf'lL

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-1 THE DEFENDER -- v look forward with pleasurable antic- ipation to the results to be achieved by this plan of cooperation. Yours very truly, . CSignedD JOHN W. WEEKS. Secretary of War. Pursuant to this action by the NVar Department the Military Training Camps Association at its new Headquarters in Chicago made the following nominations as Civi- lian Aides to the Secretary of War and they were duly confirmed: Chief Civilian Aide, Charles B. Pike, 210 Mallets Bldg., Chicago. Corps Area, First, Pierpont L. Stackpole, Box 1955, Boston. Second, James D. Williams, 61 Broadway, New York. Third, Horace B. Hare, Belle- vue Ct. Bldg., Philadelphia. Fourth, Clark Howell, Jr., Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta. Fifth, Benson R. Hedges, Huntington Natl. Bank Bldg., Col- umbus. Sixth, Noble B. Judah, 134 So. LaSalle St., Chicago. Seventh, Charles S. Walker, ISt and Vine Sts., Des Moines. Eighth, W. S. Hendrick, Mor- Cl , 'II lU?11l3S KAHN , F I ris Plan Bank, San Antonio. l!l11'7llfl7l Ouff L'p7'6',YL'1llC1flUL'J' 40Nl'Nl1fli': . Mi1imryAgai,.S Ninth, Roy C. VVard, 312 California St., San Francisco. At the same meeting the Association elected the following National Officers:-Henry S. Drinker, Honorary President, Charles B. Pike, President, Charles S. Dewey, Treas- urer, Tom R. Wyles, Secretary, George F. James, Executive Secretary. An Execu- tive Committee was appointed to include: John A. Holabird, Chairmang WVm. Marshall Bullitt, Grenville Clark, Arthur F. Cosby, Charles G. Dawes, Robert Homans, Phelps Newberry, Albert T. Perkins, Henry Reilly, Joseph T. Ryerson, Horace C. Stebbins, Archibald G. Thacher and all national officers ex-officio. You are naturally interested in the Military Training Camps Association because its primary concern is for the Citizens' Military Training Camps. To promote this work it has effected an organization during the current year in accordance with the thought of the Secretary of WVar by the appointment of Civilian Aides in every State, and also the District of Columbia,and the selection by them of their own representatives in every county so far as time has permitted. It was diflicult to inform young men truly in re- gard to the camps of 1923. In one county after considerable newspaper announcement, many possible candidates were found to be still under the impression that the camps were intended for those only who have had some military training, that they are not really free of expense or that enrollment implies enlistment in the Regular Army. To Page Fourfrcn

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T- THE DEFENDER --- CHARLES B. Prius Dr. Henry S. Drinker is the Hon- orary President of the M.T.C.A.and the much beloved President Emeritus of Lehigh University, where for many years he showed the greatest interest in the development of the R. O. T. C. He has a country-wide recognition as an ardent supporter of voluntary train- ing, and is a wise counselor in matters of national defense. Page Sixlffn M. T. C. A. Officers Charles B. Pike, the President of the Military Training Camps Asso- ciation and the Chief Civilian Aide to the Secretary of VVar belongs to a family long prominent in the business and social life of Chicago. He was first identified with the training camp movement when he enrolled at Fort Sheridan in 1915, and thereafter helped to found this Association in which he has been an active member and officer for six years. Nlr. Pike is a graduate of Harvard University and the new- ly-elected President of the Racquet Club of Chicago, which represents a sport in which he has won a national reputation PIENRY S. DKINKER