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Show AMERICANIZATION". If the question of Universal Train ing, which is now being considered by Congress, is put into effect, America Amer-ica will have more, cleaner and healthier boys who will grow into manhood in the position to handle the world's business as financiers, masters of industries, and all works that must fall to their lot as the world advances. It is to be hoped that such legislation will be enacted and which will result in establishing camps throughout the United States where each boy, when he reaches the age of 18 years, may be sent for a six months' training, and where at the expiration of the time, he will come out, not more healthy, hut with a training that has an untold value. These camps will be great training schools for American citizens where the boys from every section of every class, boys from the small cities and towns and the farms will be brought into contact wi.th the boys from the cities; where the boys of rich parents will meet and associate with the boys of poor parents; where the American born boy will be brought into close contact with the foreign born boy. The boys will be taught in a practical prac-tical way the advantages ofcitlzen-ship ofcitlzen-ship and the duties of citizenship; they will be taught obedience to law and constituted authority; they will be taught the value of personal merit mer-it and initiative as the true basis of personal success. In other words it will make upstanding American men of our boys regardless of family connections con-nections or the accident of birth. In camp the boys will be subject to military discipline, and while the purpose is to make citizens for peace time the military training they would receive would enable them to defend their country should its defense ever again be necessary. |