Jefferson Barracks Citizens Military Camps - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Lemay, MO)

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, THE JEFFERSONIAN ll COLONEL FALLS7 WELCOME You are very welcome to Jefferson Barracks and your presence here is proof of the keen interest that our government feels in you and your welfare. The main underlying motive and motto of all of these camps is 'cCitizenship . We realize that before long you boys must take over and run the government of our country. We are glad to have this opportunity to meet you, associate with you and give you the benefit of our experience and counsel and help you in every way we can to carry on the work which lies ahead of you. We love this country and deeply hope that it may always be wisely governed and exert its powerful inHuence on the side of peace and fair play among nations. Inorder to take an active part in the affairs of your community and government and carry on any work that may come to you, you must have strong, clean and healthy minds and bodies. You will find here keen, well qualified instructors who are going to do their best to help you to this end. To love our country, we must know and understand something of it and its history. This we will try to teach you and with that in view we have invited some eminent and well qualihed citizens to come here and tell us about the country in which we live. Our main effort will be to point out to you the privileges and obligations which will come to you as citizens. These two things go hand in hand, privileges and obligations. It is easy enough to accept privileges when they come to us but in order to enjoy them properly we must fulfill our obligations. Une of your main obligations as citizens will be to take an active, intelligent and unselfish part in our government, including the government of your towns, cities and communities. Another equally important obligation, will be to fit yourselves to take an active part in the organized defense of our country, should its existence be threatened from within or without. It is to this end that you will receive military training' here and I hope that you, your parents and all our people will soon come to understand that the military instruction in our schools and camps is solely to make young men strong and healthy and teach them prompt obedience and consideration for the rights of others and 'equip them in every way we can to do their full duty as citizens. - VVe want you to work hard and play hard. We hope that each one of you will go home at the end of camp feeling that you have had a good time and that your summer has been well spent. You will be in the immediate charge of trained oflicers and non-commissioned officers, who are personally interested in your welfare and want to help you. If you have any dihiculties or complaints, tell them to the officers over you or come to me and we will work out a solution together. We are here to help each other and pulling together we will make this the best camp in the country. X MOOR N. FALLS Colonel, 6th fnfcmtry Commanding Page Thirty-five v v v.v.v.vxv.v.v.v.v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v.v.v.v.v-v.vmv.v.v.v.v.v.mv v v v.v.v.v.v v.v.v.n 0 Q .

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Y THE ,EFFERSONIAN O 1 1 0 5 5 5 ! S S 5 9 ! ! 1 1 S 9 AS S 1 1 ! S S S I C , J I 6TH INFANTRY COLORS IN CMTC HANDS PRESENTATION OF COLORS ADDRESS COLONEL M. N. FALLS - As the representative of the Government of the United States, I Welcome you tO efferson Barracks. We are pleased tO have such a line body of young Americans with us. It affords us an opportunity to become better acquainted with the representative young manhood of this cross section of our country. It affords you an opportunity of meeting and becoming acquainted with the officers and men of the Army of the United States, and working together we hope, through our carefully prepared programs of instruction and entertainments, not only to make you better men morally, mentally and physically, but to insure an enjoyable stay for you. At the close of Camp we desire to return you to your homes with a real knowledge of the value of team play, a keen sense of service to your fellow men, town, state, and nation, and respectors of law and order. I know I shall enjoy the Camp and shall see that you share its pleasure with me. V The Colors, National and Regimental, have now been turned over to you for safe keeping during the period of the Camp. Our National Colors are carried by every Organization and are respected, admired and honored by all Americans. Our Regimental Colors, the blue ones, are the Colors of the 6th Infantry. We are proud ofthe record of the regiment, proud ofthe Nat- ional and Regimental Colorsq As in the past the members of this regiment have given their all to insure that no harm shall befall them, we feel certain that in turning them over to your care, we have placed them in worthy hands. V Pagf Tlztirty-raven