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Show CITIZEN'S MILITARY CAMP The agitation for the holding of a Citizens' military training camp in Utah this year is growing grow-ing daily. A citizens' committee of seventy is being be-ing organized under the supervision of the board of governors of the Salt Lake City Commercial club and the first meeting of that committee was , held on Thursday at the Commercial club. It has been decided to send out a call for a citizens' mass meeting to be held on Thursday evening, 7:30 o'clock, January 20th, 1910, either at the Commercial club or the Salt Lake theater. thea-ter. This call will be addressed to all citizens of Utah, and the committee desires to have a free discussion on the subject. The idea of a training camp for business and professional men originated with Major General Wood, and the result was what is now called the "Plattsburg Idea." Three camps were held at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., in 1915, the total attendance at-tendance being 2,700. Every man attending these camps purchased his own uniform and paid the government for his subsistence, the total cost for a thirty-day camp, exclusive of transportation to and from the camp, being approximately $30.00. The war department prepares the camp site, furnishes fur-nishes all equipment, the necessary instructors, and arranges all the details as to subsistence, etc. One of the outstanding features of the Plattsburg Platts-burg camp was the fact that it convinced every one who attended that a soldier could not be made in a day and that it really means more than putting on a uniform and shouldering a musket. Modern warfare demands the highest kind of training in the duties of the soldier, team work counting above all things. This can only be obtained ob-tained by months of hard training and study. That the United States should bo prepared against war is conceded by all citizens. To further this and to give every able bodied citizen of Utah an opportunity to receive some instruction and training in the duties of a soldier in the field, the citizens military training camp committee was appointed and this movement started. |