42 TRAINING CAMPS
PLAN-TO OPEN GATES
TO AMERICAN BOYS
NEW YORK. May 4.—With the
1925 Citizens Military Training
Camps still three months away, more
than 25 per cent of the estimated
quota attendance of 50,000 young
men between the ages of 17 and 31
already has been enrolled, accord
ing to announcement by the war de
partment. This is double the en
rollment at this time last year, and
this summer’s quota will be 16,000
more than that of 1924.
Forty-two camps stretching across
the continent from Fort McKinley,
Me., to the Presidio of San Fran
cisco, will be opened this summer
for the basic course and the three
advanced courses in which citizen
ship and physical training will be
intermingled in the schedules with
'drill and instruction in the infantry,
cavalry, field and coast artillery, en
gineers and signal corps branches
of the military. Part of the camps
run during the month of July and
others during August, while Platts
burg, N. Y., will have two camps in
succession.
The C. M. T. C. candidate is un
der no obligations except to spend
30 days of his time at one of the
camps located near his home; the
government meets the expense of
carfare to and from the camp, cloth
ing, equipment, meals, bedding, lodg
ing and entertainment. The presi
dent’s son or the millionaire’s heir
who sleeps by the side of the farm
er’s boy, marches beside him in the
ranks and eats next to him at the
mess hall in this annual democratic
leveller, paying the same amount for
his 30 day’s vacation and training,
exactly nothing.
The Sixth Army Corps area so far
leads among the nine areas in which
the nation is divided by the war de
partment for purposes of military
administration. Fifty per cent of this
section’s quota of 5,600 already has
been filled. It includes the states
of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Next is -the Fifth Corps area, includ
J ing Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and
1 West Virginia with 38.4 per cent of a
| quota of 6,000. Third is the Fourth
Corps area, including the southeast
ern states, with 36.6 per cent of a
quota of 5,700.
Dig business has realized, accord
ing to thousands of letters received
by the officials in charge of the 1925
camps, that the youth who returns
from the camp is more valuable to
them than the young man who spent
his vacation in some other way. His
step in firmer, his eye clearer, his
shoulders squarer and his chest
deeper and he has a higher sense of
cooperation and reaction to disci
pline than before.
Health and physical culture experts
thruout the country have watched
carefully the physical training of
these thousands of youths, for the
preliminary medical examinations
have shown that the young man to
day is no better physically than was
his older brother of 1917 of 1918
when the selective draft examina
tions showed that 50 per cent of the
youth of the nation -was unfit for
war service. Many of the young men
with slight physical defects that are
not organic, but who would be un
able to pass the physical tests for
the regular army, are allowed to en
ter the camps. They are placed in
special development companies and
by careful feeding, special exercises
proper sleep periods and other meas
ures, such defects as incorrect pos
tures, curvature of the spine, malnu
trition, flat feet, under-development
of the chest and lungs are cured in
30 days.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
Foreign Banks May Get
Large Finnish War Fund
HELSINGFORS, Finland, May 4.—
One of the features of a report made
by the Committee on War Prepar
edness is a suggestion that 100,000,
000 marks of state funds be set
aside for a state war cash reserve,
to be deposited with foreign banking
houses under the supervision of the
States Exchequer Department (Stat
skontoret).
The report discusses the ways in
which different countries have depos
ited their war emergency funds, and
comes to the conclusion that the
best form of such reserve is in
stores and supplies within the coun
try. In addition, it found advisable
to have a reserve fund of 100,000,000
marks, to take the place of a reserve
fund that the Finnish government has
been keeping since 1888, chiefly in
vested in foreign bonds. The emer
gency fund should, in the commit
tee’s opinion, in the future, not be
placed in bonds but as cash depos
its in foreign banks.
The proposals of the committee are
of a preliminary nature, and will
need to be sanctions by the govern
ment, and probably by legislative
effective. As yet no action by the
government has been taken.
Discussion of the committee report
has led to erroneous reports that
the 100,000,000 marks reserve fund
was to be raised by a doan from
foreign banks. The report of the
committee makes no such sugges
tion, and the only reference to for
eign banks is that they shall be the
depositaries of the emergency war
fund, under supervision of the Fin
nish State Exchequer Department.
chorage on the Northwestern, where
he has been for medical treatment.
Corporal Rust returned from An
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