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

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SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC highly appreciated and effective tw than parents are apt to think. Experienced hostesses guide the social life and make an atmosphere of home in the attractive houses which are available for social pur- poses at all camps. Strictlv military training is confined almost entirely to the morning hours. The even- ings are given to various forms of indoor recreation lectures, dances, concerts and moving pictures, inter- spersed with boxing bouts and other forms of entertainment devised and conducted by the men themselves through their own debating clubs Jazz bands. orchestras or dramatic ESTOUPS A HAPPY HOUR The afternoons are in many ways the most enjoyable part of the opportunity for swimming, in ocean, lake or river or in large tanks adequate and hygienic, supplied by the War Department. Track work is universal' baseball football and volley- ball are popular, tennis boxing wrestling and fencing have their votaries Each candidate makes choice of his favorite sport and is given expert coaching. Unfortunately Congress has never recognized the expenses incident to this important phase of camp life Good provision is made for the strictly military needs of the CMTC but little money is given for the equally important equipment indispensable to various outdoor games of the daily schedule. In the preparation of the camps not much is done for the playing fields This year for a typical camp the Government allowance for all athletic purposes was a trifle more than one cent per day for each candidate, hardly enough to pay for the gasoline and lime needed for rolling and for marking the many acres devoted to the outdoor games ofthe young men enrolled. Doubtless Congress will presently be more generous,but meantime the camps would greatly suffer were it not for private donations toward athletic equipment and re- creation. Many communities have taken pride in making more at- tractive the life at the nearest training center. Civilian Aides and local chairmen of the Military Training Camps Association have helped to organize committees for local entertainment, for baseball games boat rides and evening dances for the supply of addi- tional athletic equipment and for medals pennants and prizes for both military and athletic con- tests. The interest of citizens in Citizens Camps manifested in so many ways has thus been an important element in their success. Seven has always been a mys- . TOUCHDOWN?-He may make it! ff l f r B . 1' - l i ' 7 t 1 7 thirty days. They are devoted to a great variety of outdoor games. Every camp gives I 0 7 F 7 0 , i 0 7 7 ' 7 , . 7 7 7 7 7 7 Page' Twenty-one v v v v .v'.'. ' V Y' Q 'VVVV 'UVVVV11VYUV.V4YnVm'.14VvV4V YA V11 o A Q Q 4 A n 1 - O U

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SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC the possible results When not thirty- five thousand but sixty, eighty even a hundred thousand young men crowd f ll'f Q tg i each year to the camps of Tomorrow? Seven years ago the forecast Was made that camp training Would' give increase of physical health and vigor, quicker mentality, broader sympathies, self-discipline, self-confidence, self-respect, initiative, regard for constituted author- ity, greater love for home and country. Parents were promised that their sons Would return home from camp With a deeper sense of their responsibilities and with greater determination to do their duty as men and citizens. Young men were promised an opportunity of living in a democracy of equal interests, rights and obligations, under a discipline which would make plain their personal and social relations and tend to develop their latent powers of leadership. In IQZI, the proposed training Was endorsed by recognized spokesmen for every group in American life. In 1927 this endorsement has been fully justified by the results of 'cSeven Years of the ClVITC . ' GEORGE F. JAMES Executive Secretary, M TCA TRUE DEMOCRACY in work and play is one high ,aim of the CMT Camps. Page Twenty-four f '-'IV-VIVA'uV0YnVoV4VnVuYaY V V 1 Y V V Y ' I.VuVnVuVaV 'n'4YqV0VnVaYnVnU.VaYn'sYs'aVn'u'a'h'uV O I