Citizens Military Training Camp - Full Pack Yearbook (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

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-26- l'Ul.l. ,h0lD,l.CK ,419 weight and height, in any case you trained to a condition of bodily fitness. All these things you know but to some benefits for yourself and others you may not have given thought. Vvfhen you wrote your application for the Citizens' Military Training Camp you were given a physical examination, it was not very severe, but it served to impress both you and your friends with the importance of physical health. At the camp you passed another test and then entered on a course of training which has certainly given you a greater sense of physical well-being. You were taught also some basic facts of per- sonal and social hygiene and sanitation to carry back to your own home town and pass on to your comrades, thusrbecoming yourself the missionary of a new gospel of physical health and efficiency. Perhaps now you can get posted in your town hall or post office the printed standards of bodily condition and capacity and so help to make a new generation of able-bodied youth. Something, too, you learned at camp about the 'duties of a citizen, you must have felt occasionally, as never before, the thrill of patriotism, the whole train- ing tended to develop in you certain habits and ways of thinking which will make you more worthwhile in the town in which you live. You have found that a Citizens' Military Training Camp is a place where military, physical and civic training are combined to make a better citizen. When you heard about the training camps the idea aroused a quick response but you probably never thought how diffi- ' cult it is to make this opportunity known to a million or more young men who come each year to the proper age for admission. The mere broad-casting of information about the camps is in itself a tremendous task. When one considers the amount of time, energy and money,involved in an ordinary primary or general election even within the confines of one State one has some idea 'of what is needed in publicity. The War Department has en- trusted as far as possible the con- duct of these camps to the nine Corps Area Commanders through- out the United States. To each Headquarters is attached a Citi- zens' Military Training Camp Of- ficer, who is primarily responsible for recruiting within the area. The Corps Area Commander has at his service also for this purpose the Regular Army Officers, who are his Chiefs of Staff with the Reserve Divisions and also the Officers who are detailedas R. O. T. C. instruc- tors at schools, colleges and uni- versities., In brief, the entire re- sources of the regular establishment are available and have been used effectively for the promotion of iiiiii' citizen training. WM,LASS1TER For the past three years the Maj. Gen. U. S. Army ' War Department has had the help Page Twelve

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aaqruirg eric 095 5 . thought and the act of preparation for service increase their patriotism. Association with men from all walks of lifeem- phasizes our democracy. We take the young man out of his local environment and extend his acquaintance to men from diilerent localities. These experiences in a large sense supple- ment the home education and these young men go back with expanded knowledge. Your month of training showed you that the War Department gave much thought to the Citizens, Camps of 1923. The General Staff administered twenty-five of them under the immediate direction of Major General John L. Hines, DeputyiChief of Staff, and of Major General Williarn Lassiter, dead of the Operations and Training Division. Theregulations formulated bytnem wereinterpreted byoflicers concerned with the Citizens, Military Training Camps,Coionel WiQ.l.iam lVl. Cruikshank, Colonei. EdgarT. Col- lins who was at Platts- burg Barracks in the early days ofthe train- ing camp-s, Lt. Colonel Royden E. Beebe and Captain Charles C. Lowe. To all these men and to your corps area, camp and com- pany commanders you owe and doubtless will pay the debt of grat- itude. The daily sched- ule of the camp took due consideration of your age and strength. Military instruction was confined for the most part to the morn- ing hours and a large part of each day you could give to any one of a considerable va- riety of athletic sports under expert super- vision. This helped you to develop a habit of life which will' lead to physical health and vigor. You had many forms of recreation for your leisure hours and the guidance of sym- pathetic and experi- enced menin the main- tenance of a high ideal of personal and civic conduct. You prob- ably increased in -IOHN L. H1NEs Maj'. Gen. U. S. Army Page Eleven

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-26-QIU LLYHEQTAC' Kava also of patriotic and military socie- rt ties, business and social groups of many kinds, including Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Knights of Columbus, manu- facturers, bankers, merchants, agri- cultural societies and especially of men of civilian occupation, Who -hold commissions in the Reserve. All of these have rendered import- ant service and more particularly the Military Training Camps Asso- ciation of the United States, Which has developed into a nation-Wide non-political, civilian organization acting as a self-starter in the re- cruiting work of other civilian groups. Its relation to the War Department is indicated by a letter from the Secretary of War, reading in part as follows: WAR DEPARTMENT November 28, IQ22. Mr. Charles B. Pike, Military Training Camps Assn., 210 Mallers Building, Chicago, Illinois I am pleased to inform you that I accept in principle the pat- riotic offer of the Military Train- ing Camps Association submitted to me by you on October Ioth, IQ22, and I hereby extend to the ,JAMES W-WADSWORTH. Military Training Camps ASSOC? Chczzrmam0fZhrSenaZrComm1ttee - - - M'l't ' A ' ation formal recognition as a co- Hwy jam operating agency in fostering the voluntary military training of citizens. To promote cooperation between the Military Training Camps Association and the agencies of the War Department, I authorize the appointment of Civilian Aides to the Secretary of War, these Aides to comprise a Chief Civilian Aide and an Aide for each corps area, each State and for the District of Columbia. The Chief Civilian Aide Will be appointed directly by the Secretary of War on nomination by the MilitaryTraining Camps Association, other Civilian Aides on nomination by the Military Training Camps Assoc- ation and With approval of corps area commanders concerned. The foregoing Civilian Aides will be appointed for a period of four years, subject to renomination and reappoint- ment at the close of that period gk X X ak ff The Military Training Camps Association is further authorized to create a system of county and local chairmen-thus completing in detail a nation-Wide organization for Citizens, Military Training Camp recruiting in the time of peace and for such Wider func- tion as may be requested by the War Department 'K Pk Dk if Dk ' I am highly appreciative of the patriotic motives Which have led the Military Training Camps Association to make the valued offer Which has been accepted above, and Page Thirzfeen