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Show SOOMCAMPS ORIGINAL PLANS FOR TRAINING OF NEW NATIONAL ARMY HAVE BEEN CHANGED. CLIMATE IS RULING FACTOR , .v , i , , , Drafted Mtn Will B In Tents or Bar. racks Early In September and Locations Loca-tions .Mutt Be Selected Where WeatHer Is Fair. By EDWARD B.-CLARK.-Washington. Every man In the new National nrmy thnt soon Is to be organised or-ganised for Hervlce will go Into tent or Into barracks enrly In September. The orlglnnl plans for the encampments encamp-ments have been chunged. It Is entirely en-tirely probable that later they may undergo another change. Climate eventually even-tually may provo to be the ruler In tho case. There has been a demand from nearly near-ly every wctlon of tho country that one of the training camps be ghen to tho petitioning community. Selllili ness to,n large extent Is at the bottom bot-tom of some of the requests. Ileneflt to local trade condition bus been the flrHt consideration In many Instances. The good of the service has been tho second consideration If It has been given ,nny thought lit all on tho purt of thq petitioners. Men cannot drill out of doors under bad weather riiiulltlnnt. Some persons seem to think that troops are hardened harden-ed by subjecting them to conditions which would send the ordinary civilian civil-ian on sick report Inside of mi hour. Troops are softened, not hardened, by adverse climatic conditions. 'In tho northern section of the country the weather Is bad In November. Outdoor drills cense at West Point on tho Inst day of October or nt the latest on November 15. Why? Simply because outdoor dillllnc Is Impossible. Can't Drill In Snow or Hard Rains. Tho recruits for tho new National army of course cannot be hothouse recruits', re-cruits', hor o'l the other band can they bo Icehouse recruits. They must bo trained tip to the point of rcslstanco to cltmitlc Influences, but fitting the body to resistance In one thing whllo tho drilling of the men so that they can "take part In proper maneuvers Is another thing, Innntry drill largely Is Impossible when tho snow Is on the ground, when heavy rain Is falling, on when tho mud Is deep. Tho new army must hnve ounrfersiln places less likely than others oth-ers to 'experience sudden changes In weathcriYondltloiiK. The North Is nn Ideal training place for recruits from April 1 to November 1. Tho South Is n fairly good training plnce from November No-vember 1 to April 1, although It Is not always Ideal by any manner of means. It Is believed today that tho army officials Anally will determine that the new army should be trained largely In the South, where In September the weather Is Inclement enough nt times to gjvp the men n certain amount of rcs!stlng,'p'ower without being sevens enough to put nn entire camp of green troops on the sick list. If It were possible for the new army to enter the training camps luto In July or early In August the chances are that there would be a quick distribution dis-tribution of 'the camps between tho north and the south countries. As tings are likely to be It probably will be declared the part of wisdom to send a great many of the young men south of tho Mason unci Dixon Hue. There may be tented camps next spring nil over the 'North for n second half million mil-lion men. Why the Training Was Delayed. There seems to be ground for the belief thnt the National Guardsmen will be given a certain numunt of Intensive In-tensive trolnlngrln this country, then to be sent Booner than was expected to the camps back of tho fighting lines In Franco. Considerable numbers of regulars also will go, nnd ns the regulars regu-lars and the Guurdsmen today are composed In' part of absolutely green troops It will be necessary to use all the Instructing mnterlal at hand to fit these mentor the service. It Is this probably which Induced the army chiefs to put off the training of the new National army until September. Washington waited with little anxiety anx-iety but with deep Interest tho reports from tho registration districts. As soon as they were received they were studied closely nnd there was particular particu-lar Jnterest In the number of answers fl to Question 12 which con-fcelf con-fcelf with tho desire of the re-i) re-i) claim exemption at the out-ling out-ling before lleglstratlon day an order was Issued thnt nnswers to Question Ques-tion No, d2 arc not obligatory. This meant simply that no young man was compelled to say whether or not he claimed exemption, but could postpono his decision In the matter to n later day when the question of exemptions specifically 'was to'bo considered. This fact made It Imposslbla for Washington to determine deflnltely Just how many men for soma reason or other would claim exemption. It Is expected that about f0 per cent of the men who ure exempted on no other oth-er ground will be exempted on physical physi-cal grounds, but It Is bcltovcd that there wlllbe enough young Americans physically sound and with no dependents depen-dents to fill tho ranks of ns many armies us. It will be necessary to send to Europe to, old In the light for democratic demo-cratic principles. |