| Show Trai Training ing for or ys Urged t World War Veterans Aid Movement Months Month's Service Annually Proposed F VERY officer from Utah who served in the World war is asked E EVERY J j to lend his support to a sane reasonable system of military training for youths under 20 years of age in an appeal sent out from the Western department headquarters of the Military Training Camps association tion of the United States A A. copy of of- the appeal was received today by Sherman Armstrong Armstrqng Armstrqng Arm Arm- strong member from Utah of the governing committee of the theW W Western stern department It is the opening gun in an active and intensive drive for peacetime continuation of the system of military training camps in which were trained thousands of active and reserve officers before and during the th war It Is the object of the Military TrainIng TrainIng TrainIng Train- Train Ing Camps association to enlist the co cooperation cooperation cooperation co- co operation of or every commissioned officer officer off Icer I- I in recruiting for hundreds of ci civIlian civilian civilian ci- ci vilian training camps in all an parts of the country Boys from 16 to 19 years of age will be recruited for the camps Training camps will be established in all parts of the nation for thirty-day thirty periods once a year Boys will be trained for reserve reserve of officers officers officers of- of un under er the supervision and di direction direction di- di of the war department All expenses for the camps will be bo borne I by the government The Tho officers of the late war will lend their moral and financial assistance in the movement t tin in cooperation with the war depart depart- ment The following letter has been sent to every former officer outlining the purpose of the movement and askin asking his cooperation in the dev development of f the training camp system as Its a peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful and beneficial means of ot preparedness prepared prepared- ness You were an officer in the late war Perhaps before that you were a or an attendant at one of the other citizens' citizens training camps Your experience nce in the military es establishment establishment os- os I must have left you with convictions upon certain subjects which as a civilian you could never I have understood thoroughly The Military Training Camps association association as as- I sedation was conceived a few tew hours after the sinking of the in 1915 It is an influential sustain self ing organization which has rendered valuable national service For one thing it contributed through its activities activities activities ties re officers during the early months month f f the war It has earned the respect lad hid consideration of the war department and its commendation as an efficient practical organization It is compo composed d of men like yourself who have come through experience to believe in the truth of its fundamental principle principle a a sane reasonable system of universal military training based of opportunity opportunity opportunity upon the axiom Equality implies equality of obligation It qt believes that only through education education education edu edu- cation of the coming generation can sound military military mili mill we place the country on a tary basis and introduce Into the lives of our young men during the formative formative formative forma forma- tive stage a period of moral and phy physical l- l cal development of a kind kina that few if ifan otherwise receive an any of them would After the most careful thought and consultation with the war plans diVision division diVi- diVi divi sion of the general staff the th 1 committee commit commit- tee for the Training Camps association association tion has recommended to the association association association tion that the most valuable service which it can at present render is to devote its energies s to cooperating with the war department in recruiting for fora a series of training camps to be held during during I the summer of 1921 for boys and young men under 20 these camps to be held in different parts of the country with all expenses expense paid by the government If It you believe in the truth and the I Ivalue value of the foregoing ideas wont won't I you realize that you are of ot the few who do really have a conviction on onI the subject Probably the bulk of the I people see It dimly but as always they await leaders You have been leaders in a profession proCession that qualifies you to speak with authority on this subject the government has discharged you ou with honor from your duties as military military mili mill tary leaders a thing you and your de descendants descendants descendants descendants' de- de will always be proud of You can render another service to your country by enrolling as a member of the Training Camps association and lending the force of your name nam and your our honorable military record to the efforts of this asso association toward toward- Securing securing securing se se- I curing a sane and reasonable s system stem of or uni universal ersal military y training The Western department of the M M. IT T. T C. C A. A has at present no fun funds s with I which even to finance this appeal This letter is being sent to every officer ex-officer and training camp man in the depart depart- ment If It you ou will each become a pa payIng paying pay pay- Ing ling member we can see it through and andI do our share toward recruiting the I camps for this department next springS spring i S 5 M. M SPALDING I Chairman Governing Committee I Western Department |
