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

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THE DEFENDER The Civilian Aide for each State is authorized by the Secretary of War to appoint county representatives, who shall act as chairmen of local committees in the selection of candidates for the Citizens, Military Training Camps and thus the Association has built up a nation- wide organization, which is at the service of the Government in the interests of good citizenship and national security. In order to make the voluntary camps more widely known the Association has encouraged the formation of visiting com- mittees at each training point. ,It has offered in every camp bronze medals for excellence to the most soldierly candi- date in each company and in addition, has secured prizes for military and ath- letic contests. Livery graduate of a citizens' camp is reckoned a Junior Mem- ber of the Association, which actively encourages the formation of CMTC clubs in order to continue the friendships of the training month and promote future enrollment. From time to time the XVar Department has asked and has received the help of the Association in putting llicmw S. lDliINKliR llrmnrary l,I'L'.ffIlI'IIZ, 1llTC,'l l'agc Fourzcrn CnAlu.it:s B. Pima l'l'f.fidN1l, JVTC.-I Chief Civilian Aide into effect some phase of national policy as expressed in Congressional legislation. The National Headquarters of the Military Training Camps Association are in Chicago. The lflxecutive Committee includes: -lohn A. Holabird, William Niarshall Bullitt, Grenville Clark, Arthur F. Cosby, Charles G. Dawes, Robert Homans, Phelps Newberry, Albert T. Perkins, Henry J. Reilly, Joseph T. Ryer- son, Horace C. Stebbins and Archibald G. Thacher. The National Officers are: Henry S. Drinker, Hon. President, Charles B. Pike, Presidcntg Charles S. Dewey, Treasurer, Tom R. NVyles, Secretary and George F. James, Executive Secretary. Chicago members of the Advisory and Corps Area Committees are: Dr. Frank Billings, R. T. Crane, lidward I. Cudahy, Stanley Field, Frank O. Lowden, George Nl. Reynolds, Julius Rosenwald, Harry A. Wheeler, W'harton Clay, Marshall Field, HI, Robert Gardner, Ralph Poole, Joseph T. Ryerson and NV. Edwin Stanley. A marked feature of the citizens' camps is the popular interest which they attract as proved by the great space allotted to V V VN47eVovQY:Y:Y:VainYN4VoVnYAVlVnYaY-VMYnY-'nfs' Y Y Y V Y V V Y Y V Y V V J G M I C '.Y4Vn'sYuY.':Yu'AIa'nvNNnYsYgV.vnVn'nY-Y1117.U4VuYaVnYnY-Y,YnYuVnV.1-Vs' V Y I

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THE DEFENDER , x industrial and banking groups, lawyers, physicians and farmers, employers and workingmen, womenis clubs and patriotic societies. Foremost is the Military Train- ing Camps Association, oflicially recog- nized by the Government thru the ap- pointment, from its membership and on its nomination, of Civilian Aides to the Secretary of XVar. The Chief Civilian Aide is the President of the Association, Charles B. Pike, Chicago, the Corps Area Civilian Aides include: Pierpont L. Stack- pole, Boston, James D. WVilliams, New York City, Horace B. Hare, Philadelphia, Clark Howell, Jr., Atlanta, Noble B. Judah, Chicago, Gould Dietz, Omaha, VV. S. Hendrick, San Antonio and Roy C. WVard, San Francisco. State Aides have been appointed as follows: James S. Thomas, Alabama, M. Dougherty, Arizona, C. Conway, Arkansas, H. L. Suydam, California, Robert G. Bosworth, Colorado, John L. Gilson, Connecticut, John Biggs, jr., Delaware, LeRoy NV. Herron, District of Columbia, B. C. Riley, Florida, Edgar Brown Dunlap, Georgia, Drew Standrod, Jr., Idaho, I-Iucn A. DRUM Brigadier General, U. S. flrmy A. C. of S., G-3 Cimkuas H. IVIARTIN Brigadier General, U. S. .flrmy A. C. of S., G-I George Grant Seaman, Illinois, Bowman Elder, Indiana, Guy E. Logan, Iowa, Charles S. Huffman, Kansas, Frank L. lVIcVey, Kentucky, James E. Edmonds, Louisiana, Sabine O. VVood, Maine, Gresham H. Poe, Marylaiidg Ralph Low- ell, Massachusetts, Charles S. Mott, Michigan, G. F.. Ingersoll, Minnesota, Alexander Fitz-Hugh, Mississippi, Carl F. G. lVIeyers, Missouri, H. S. Hepner, Montana, O. E. Engler, Nebraska, J. R. van Nagell, Nevada, Robert O. Blood, New Hampshire, Ruford Franklin, New Jersey, I-I. A. Ingalls, New Mexico, Nathan H. Lord, New York, Albert L. Cox, North Carolina, XV. C. Macfadden, North Dakota, Albert H. Morrill, Ohio, Roy Hoffman, Oklahoma, Edward Curf Sam mons, Oregon,Theodore Rosen,Penn- sylvania, Royal C. Taft, Rhode Island, McDavid Horton, South Carolina, M. H. Colgrove, South Dakota, Luke Lea, Tenn- essee, Ralph H. Durkee, Texas, Sherman Armstrong, Utah, Loren Pierce, Vermont, Douglas S. Freeman, Virginia, Clarance B. Blethan,WVashington,Justin K. Ander- son,West Virginia,Wheeler P. Bloodgood, Wisconsin, and A. H. Marble, Wyoming. X Page Thirteen GMTE - - - - - - 1 - . . . - - . - - VlVNN.V.VN.v.I 1N.v . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . .v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v. .

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at THE DEFENDER them in the public press. No other cur- rent movement makes so direct an appeal to fathers and mothers and to young men thruout the country. Newspapers, journals,and magazines of all kinds have widely announced the opportunity of camps. The Xklar Department and the Camps Association hdilitary Training have responded to public interest thru messages by airplanes, radios, moving pie- tures, billboards, poster cards, electric signs, window displays, banners, bands, public meetings and private conferences. Special writers of national fame, notably Arthur Brisbane and Frank Crane, car- ried the message ofthe camps to millions of readers. ln order that this opportun- ity might be fully known the Wlar De- partment prepared and widely circulated two illustrated posters, one 4o x3S and the other Cin colorsj I8 x25 , the latter used also in smaller form on the official application blanks. together with a map which indicated the training centers in all parts of the United States. The gen- eral program of the camps was formulated Gicoae is l . .IAM ics lfA'rruli:'1' S1'c1'rm1'y, .ll7'C.-I Tom R. Wvrrzs Srrrrfnry, .l 1' TI -I under the direction of l3t'ig.General llugh A. Drum, CLS., and the camp personnel was in the charge of Brig. General Charles l'l. hlartin. G.S. Other oflicers associated with this work at the Wlar Department include: l.t.-Colonel Royden lf. Beebe, l.t.-Colonel Raymond XV. Briggs and Captain Charles C. l.owe, ORC. Corps Area Commanders issued their own camp announcements in llt- tractive form,notably in the l ifth,which printed a 12 page illustrated pamphlet with the cover in colors. Civilian Aides generally assisted with supplementary publicity material, particularly in the Fourth Corps Area where li. C. Riley, Civilian Aide for the State of Florida, prepared, printed and distributed an artistic I6 page booklet enriched with well-chosen photographs of camp life. hlr. Riley placed also thruout l lorida window card announcements of Camp McClellan tin colorsl from art sketches designed at the National Headquarters ofithe hlilitary Training Camps Associ- ation. Pugr Fifmrn NaY.Y-VaV1V1QV:YnV:VA'uv-VnVuVnY4YnVuvAYsV4YaYuY-VnV:VaVsV4Yn'oYa7uV:YuYNnYvYlVnl1 G M I G V-'INA'AY.UsYn1AYnYAY.751AYAYqvpv17171Y-Yuvov-'nVnYNnYlYsWYovsVoVnV-Yu' Y Y I