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Show EFFECT OF TRAININ CAMPS. The Chicago Post commented recently on the appearance of th 2500 stalwart young men who came out of the citizens' military training camp at Fort Sheridan. Everyone of them, says the Post, was ini good physical condition and showed no evidences that his morale had been injured by drilling in arms or that he had been debased by attending a score or more of talks on loyalty to the flag and the country which it represents. On the other hand some of the boys who went into camp round shouldered, came out square shouldered. Some who went in physically below par came out physically above par. There can be no doubt of the benefits of the citizens' military training camps, not only to the young men who attend them "but to the country at large. Were there no other evidences of this, the very fact that the reds have been busy all summer trying to break up the morale of the camps would be proof enough of the value of the camps to American institutions. The training camps are valuable valu-able in two ways. They give the young men who go into training stronger and sounder bodies, and they imbue these same young men with ideas of patriotism and loyalty to the country and its institutions, institu-tions, which make them missionaries in patriotic endeavor. And we need missionaries in patriotic endeavor, because the communists are, busy training children and young men and women to become missionaries of communism and all its attendant evils. There are pacifists of course who object to the citizens training train-ing camp because they profess that such institutions promote war spirit. There is no fundamental war spirit in America and never has been. All that the average American wants is freedom from outside interference and. the right to work out his own destiny. Citizens training camps do not promote the war spirit. But they put the boys in good physical trim and give him a rudimentary military education which would come in handy to' him in his own defense if America is ever again attacked by a foreign foe. There are two reasons why the communists object to . these camps. They know that the lessons of patriotism block their international in-ternational game, and they are against military preparedness of anykind in any country on the face of the globe excepting Red Russia Rus-sia which they know is being organized in a military way down to the grass roots. ' |