Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1914 — BOY MILITARY CAMP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOY MILITARY CAMP

General Wood Tells Plan to Train Nation’s Youths.

Former Army Head Indorses Student Instruction Camp—University of Illinois Men Enroll for “Army School”—Michigan Also. Washington,—Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, ex-chief of staff of the army, has sent out to school superintendents all over the country a letter indorsing the student military instruction camps to be held during the coming summer. Referring to the fact that these camps have the hearty indorsement of President Wilson and Former President Taft, as well as leading educators. Gen. Wood says: “Knowing the benefit of a certain amount of military training to a nation and that in the United States such training can be obtained only by voluntary effort and that the great majority of young men are unable to afford this training, as given in the various military schools and colleges,

the secretary of war has decided to establish four students’ military instruction camps the coming summer, which students eighteen years of age or over, members of the graduating classes at high schools throughout the country, are eligible to attend; this at the minimum cost for food, clothing and transportation. “These camps are of great value not only to the student from a physical and educational standpoint, but

to the nation, in that it spreads among its citizens a considerable amount of sound military information and increases by just that much the number of partially trained men who would be available and greatly needed in time of emergency. " "Knowledge of these camps, their organization, purpose and the instruction given is either not generally known or thoroughly understood and such a knowledge is vital to success. “I am, therefore, writing to bring this matter to your attention and to ask you in your capacity of being in charge of the high schools of your city if you will not bring the same to the attention of such students of the graduating classes who are eighteen years of age or over and who are otherwise eligible to attend.” The camps will be held at Asheville, N. C.; Burlington, Vt„ and Ludington, Mich., from July 6 to Aug. 7, and at Monterey, Cal., from June 26 to July 31. The University of Illinois, with 15 students enrolled for the camp at Ludington, leads all other Institutions.

General Leonard Wood.