Show Summer ummer r Training g Camp Salt Lake is to have liae a military training camp this Sheridan had bad last summer It will Trill be bo and Fort n ncr ner r as Plattsburg and wId at Fort Douglas Arrangements are being perfected for a mass mass meeting January when 20 o. o when the aims and objects of the camp will be explained explain d by mill mill- ary Leading officers organizations o of the city will be be- urged to co operate in in inthe he the movement We V c feel sure there will be a ready response to the Business and professional men elsewhere have have S given their r time and nd energy to the study of defensive tactics arid and have been rewarded jt only by the consciousness of having do done no their duty but hut also by improved health The exercise is beneficial and the training may prove very profitable for the nation If Tf ever it becomes necessary to assemble large bodies of or Amen Amen- c cans ns to to meet et an invading foe there will be a needless slaughter un- un I l lq less s Americans learn more than they thy now know about warfare The citizen camps during the summer months are arc designed to prevent prevents s such ch useless sacrifices I We pr predict dict that amo among g the most enthusiastic will be bo found some someI Uta who may now be classed by their fellow men as shallow and I It Itis is ever so An emergency is is' often necessary to toI bring tho good to the surface and overshadow weaknesses I Who died like heroes when the Titanic and the Lusitania went I t ta to S the bottom of the Atlantic The men who had most to live for fork i those to whom life wa was the rosiest I Who rushed to the Colors in England first when the fate of the empire was at stake 7 Many men who had been called triflers were wore among the first to volunteer Members of the nobility who never had done a worthy thing in their lives men who had lived in idleness idleness idle idle- ness and luxury like parasites because nothing had ever awakened their manhood gave up all that was comfortable and easy at home and then gave up their lives in the trenches Some who called themselves the backbone of the natio natio have h held Jd back They have steadfastly refused to aid their country and still r refuse while she stands I like a mother pleading with them to tos s save ve her Only when they are dragged to the front will they face the firing firing fir fir- ing lug line In the United States we may see the same sickening sights s some me day unless we take precautions now to avoid them The citizen citi citi- zeD zen military camps will not see every good citizen in un uniform orm by any tny ny means but they will each year instill a considerable amount of i needed knowledge into red blooded American men And nd if it is I ev ever r necessary to defend our shores with only an armed mob at al l least 1st st some members of the mob will have a smattering of military I training I If we are enough to have warning in time the graduates graduates grad grad- nates of the summer camps may be able to drill raw troops a little before they have to face the skilled killed fo foe |