Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1916 — CULVER WILL AGAIN HAVE TRAINING CAMP [ARTICLE]

CULVER WILL AGAIN HAVE TRAINING CAMP

Hope is That More Boys Will Attend Than Last Year—Nominal Charge of $17.75 is Made.

Culver, Ind., May 1, 1916. —An announcement has recently been made by the authorities of Culver Military Academy that the camp of military instruction fSr high school boys, which was held in May last year at Culver, is to be repeated this year on more extensive lines. The 1915 camp was conducted solely for boys from the principal high schools in Indiana and was conducted free of all expense to the members. Owing, to the fact that the camp this year will be increased to 800 boys, it has been found necessaiy to make a nominal charge of $17.75 for each boy to cover the bare cost of uniforms and subsistence. ' ' Each member of the 1915 camp, however, has been offered a free scholarship at the coming encampment, provided he brings with him another member at the rate mentioned above. The range of territory from which the boys will be chosen this year been extended to practically all cities and towns bf the middle west. "Already a large number of to\yns throughout Ohio and Illinois have signified their interest in the proposition and philanthropic citizens or business associations of various places, have agreed to send from eight to ten boys to the encampment. Upon learning of the proposed plan the business association at Dayton, Ohio, wrote to the Culver authorities as follows: “The Greater Dayton Association accepts the proposition as submitted in your letter of April 12th, and will at once take such steps as may be necessary to forward you twelve of our best high school boys for military training. The association, througn its directors, is so taken with the idea that it will, through its own means, finance the whole project, meeting all the expense necessary for instruction, subsistence, uniforms and even transportation. Any suggestion that you may have to offer that will be helpful in the selection of 'boys, on a merit basis of course, will be appreciated.—J. M. Guild, Executive Secretary.” The purpose of the encampment is to demonstrate to the individual boy, as well as to the country, the value of military camps of instruction for high school boys. The nation-wide demand for preparedness and the consequent interest which has been stim ulated in the introduction of the military training in high schools has made evident to many cities, the value of sending boys to the Culver camp. The students who return from the intensive training at Culver will in every instance form a nucleus, around which a local organization may be more easily perfected. At the same time it will give to the students an elementary military training which will enable them to add their part to the country’s military efficiency and discharge more promptly and effectually the full duties of citizenship, should the country need services. Applications for admission are reaching headquarters at Culver in increasing numbers each day. Where ever possible these applications have been accepted, even though they may have come from boys in towns where the original allotment was already filled. Fred Putts, of Rensselaer, was the high school boy who represented Jasper county at last year’s encampment.