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

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SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC - . c.. .-, ,, ,...m, .,.,, ..:. . .-,A - ns- ,71r.. --.ns....:a-3- .L vf. -L :mein J l M 5 , l l l l I '- 'g T 1 i HI l ATTENTION! +Military drill and the whole life of the CMT Camps foster the basic virtues of patriotic devotion, of obedience to recognized authority and of respect for law and order. tic number, it has seemed to carry the implication of a certain definite bit of experience and growth. Speculations have hovered over it, superstitions have entwined themselves with it, as carrying a hopeful or fatal meaning. Of course, there is no occult signiiicance in this number, but, nevertheless, the Citizens' Military Training Camps from IQZI to 1927 have passed through a period which makes possible an estimate of their value. ' They began as an experimentg now they are a permanent part of Governmental policy. Every year has shown more clearly the contribution they make to national security and good citizenship. Let's Go, the slogan of the CMTC,is a familiar phrase to millions of young Americans. The ideals of the training camps are now shared by an indeiinite number who have never been able to attend them. Their graduates have carried back a gospel of clean living, service and patriotic devotion. lt is no fancy to think that many a mountain or prairie home has now a somewhat richer life, somewhat wider interests, to some extent a higher purpose and a better will because of the summer camps. Even now in many towns and cities there are little groups of men who treasure the memories and continue the associations of camp life. In View of what has been, who will attempt to measure ' li, BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR are developed in all the exercises of the camp. This is one of the many groups of men schooled in boxing at the various training centers. Page Twenty-three vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVV v.v.'.'., Q ' 70141.7 1 -VuVe'nVoYoVgV4'aVnfs'sVNn'nYeInVaYAYuVnVoVoYA .V.-pinnoooo4nnut-- . ' , I O l i l l p, I i w w l l 1 i l P i L A Q N l l all

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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

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