Plattsburg Training Camp - Plattsburger Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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There are laurel boughs For our youthful brows! And the victor's Hush in the hours Of triumphant songs shall be ours! And the amber wine of our morning dreams Will be crimson red with the quickening gleams Of a fire that burns in a maker's thought Whom the hammers of struggle have taught! ' Let our temples adorn The sad crowns of thorn! i At America's Reveille Song, We will march with the tramp of the strong To the saddened fields of a bleeding land Where red altars high with their hecatombs standg And to them, the children of France, we will bring The blossoming joy of a new-born spring. What if the sacred iires of the autumn burn, Filling the forests with flames of decaying gold? What if the falling leaves with their whispers turn Deathward our thoughts to graves that are nameless and cold? Over the purple deep and in battle array, Waves of the men whom the Winds of the morning have freed, Clad in the silver green of the olive gray, Far toasome eastern land our way we will lead! There were myrtle boughs For our youthful brows! And the gladness of youth and thc flush Of the fragrant rose and the blush Of a maidenis love on a maiden's cheek! But the hour has come when our eyes must seek For a victor's wreath or a victor's grave On the wind-swept fields of the battling brave! Let our temples adorn The sad crowns of thorn! At America's Reveille Song, We will march with the tramp of the stro Let the amber wine of our morning dreams Become crimson red with the sunset gleams! Yet the sun will live that will bring the new day, Though our lives like candles flicker away! ng! ts rw. ' . ,fl ', , jeg- '!t7':kXl 'ix vi 1 ' iv x li x., ..- Sx lx -,j311N. 2 -H 9.1 J- - .,K..,!L 14,14 'sv :Jar ,I I r ,L p' I.. . - -x 1 -i'- ' , fly! U ,fx', i Jil ' L.. -'ff' H V ,,4ff '7Q0 '-N ui ' ,.:4 L' 1 ' 'lfigrf f 4 471' ,.ff4' M, if .. .V . 71251. he ,. l f. ' ' Q .fi '75' -.51 'fi if , , -v -:if FAQ- ' 1- 'vi if 5 ,-r..,., . L -2? ,alll 1,'f,. . ,L 'A, 'i'eif5'f iff vii 4 It li iz' fl Y ! A E -v' ' 1 -' 1 'T in A .V 4:34. ,, r K' 3- ,.,f lf ' S- Q fr V. i- -4 I+'!'fy-in 4 aint' ,. 'j,lJ,:,..v,n fy Q' lv V, fini, 1 4 ,4 2 P Wy it ,ki A M ., . -,iaaulxiy .' 5- if 4 .'1 15- ' Qt i'. , ri 5 '-rr-rl -f fiG'ii 'f5'fi'-f FJ! '3 ' ' ' Y' J' Y lx P l-,U q f?1P'fi7iir! 5 ui' dui- . w'!'l . I -l.,H:?'- - -I - ', 'X , . -' . v , My r fi V' fl -lu-:yn-1,--wil' llll

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THE PLATTSBURGER , :xv I Nc -X , 55- If-J. ,.. f..f K , , . ,E g.- lf, 5, J N...-Z' nf! f x .4T1e'r.,,,,- I s -4 - ' N --M. I H . I k ,-----Q . , ,,m,'3,, i ffigg--4, .I1'JgL'x,gEv'i.,A,aQ-Qalaxg-igggnnuw ---J - M WM - - .-eff ' I - , -e ---.dw-.--,fs-4---+1-e':'gig7.21gfjQj ,V .5,JjQf'1g:,,:!-,V ,..-f9.v Fmh' 'Wyman-f'- ' , ' ..ma...,..,,g..... ' ' - -Q---V -.,....- . --......-.-,.r.11,- . ,..-.....,,, ,. , N x. . PLATTSBURG-IDEALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS HE historian of the future who undertakes ac- curately and adequately to set forth the achieve- ments of the army of the United States in the world-war must give to Plattsburg an important and unique place in his compilation. To-day the world pronounces Plattsburg, as a training camp for ofiicers, a success. It is the American Aldershot, the American Neuilly. Overseas men of Plattsburg mold are doing their full share of the work that is soon to be crowned by the spectacle of the Stars and Stripes cleaving the battle winds of Europe, in other training camps they are helping to make still more officers, in the great 'cantonments they are bent upon the magic task of transforming the drafted mass into able men of arms. Four years ago, Major-General Leonard Wood planted the seed of a national military institution. Seriously conceived, with prophetic foresight, still the first Platts- burg camp was a gentle experiment, a summer pastime designed to give college men a taste of army life. The War Department became mildly interested in the project and, in the words of the Department, endeavored to select posts located in a region in each section offering advantages desirable from the summer outing standpointf' At the close of these first camps, President Wilson re- marked that they would be enormously beneficial to' the United States because of the physical upbuilding and habits of discipline that would accrue to the attendants. Former President Taft agreed that the Plattsburg training would be a splendid preparation for men to enter the militia in their various states. Surely the Plattsburg seed was taking root. The next step was the organization of the Association of National Reserve Corps of the United States. The body was composed mainly of college presidents, who opened recruiting stations and urged their students to enlist. I August of 1914 saw a maddened Europe in death grips. The cry of Preparedness went up in America. It was a loud, insistent cry, but little heeded. The possibility of the United States becoming embroiled in the conflict was so remote as to be almost absurd! Whatever their views of the war, however, the regular army officers who were responsible for Plattsburg in the beginning now quietly developed a complete system of training camps with courses of more intensified instruc- tion. Soldiering at Plattsburg became a strenuous form of recreation in 1915. A year later the United States had been drawn immeasurably nearer the brink of the European cataclysm. We were still at peace with a warring world, but an emergency might come. Now preparation became more definite, a reality.- The United States with its tremendous resources and its potential strength could and would if needs be cast a great and perhaps deciding weight into the European balance. An unlimited supply of man power could be drawn upon, but who was going to train them? There were regular l13l