US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Eustis, VA)

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dh X 'X SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC highly appreciated and effective 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. Strictly 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 groups. The afternoons are in many ways the most enjoyable part of the thirty days. They are devoted to a great variety of outdoor games. Every camp gives 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 ofthe 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. Doubtlcss Congress will presently be more generous,but meantime the camps would greatly suffer were it l10t 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- A HAPPY HOUR LL.. TOUCHDOWN?-He may make it! Page Twzvily-onf . mv. .v . -vvv-V - -V-V-V' ' ' 'V' ' ' ' ' ' r.v.v.v.v. .v .mv vv.v.vvv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v-v.

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SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC if f 13 W i UATTENTIONP'-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. tie number, it has seemed to carry the implication of a certain dehnite 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 significance 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 experiment, 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 ofthe training camps are now shared by an indefinite number who have never been able to attend them. Their graduates have carried back a gospel of clean living, service and patriotic devotion. It 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 .ning -up e, V .f v.. 1 ' l 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 Tw: n ty-thru' . . .v.v. .v.vv v .v.v.v.v. .v. -mv. . . . . - .v. . .v.v-v .v.vvvvv.v. .vv.v.v.v.v.v.vvv. vt