STUDENT TRAINING CAMPS GAIN IN POPULARITY

New England's quota for Citizens' Military Training Camps has been increased by appropriations for 500 additional students according to advice received by Major General Preston Brown, Commander of the First Corps Area. This increase is due to a popular demand voiced by civilian committees and army officers detailed on this work but only accommodates a fraction of the natural increase in applications. Last year with 3,036 students enrolled, authorities had to stop receiving enrollments some months before the opening of the Camps due to the large number of young men desiring to attend. General Brown, the new Corps Area Commander, is particularly interested in the training of young men for citizenship having commanded a unit in the first camp of this kind ever held in the United States, at Gettysburg in 1913, and was later identified with the work at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. With the announcement of the increase in the number of candidates possible comes permission to start enrolling the young men in New England. This work has now started at the Army Base. Young men between the ages of 17 and 24 are eligible and should report to the Officer in Charge of C.M.T.C. Affairs at the Army Base. Applications may be sent by mail and arrangements will be made for medical examinations of prospective students in their own localities.