WILL HOLD 9 SUMMER CAMPS

The United States Military Training Camps Association has announced the time and location for the camps to be held in the Eastern and Central Departments in the summer of 1917. The Eastern Department, comprising the Atlantic coast states and those west of the lower Mississippi and the Ohio will have its senior encampment at Plattsburg, N. Y. Four campst will be held as follows: June 2 to July 1; July 7 to August 5; August 11 to September 9, and September 15 to October 14. Junior camps in this department for boys between 15 and 18 years of age will be held at Fort Terry Plum Island, N. Y., from June 30 to July 29, and from August 2 to August 30, and at Portland, Me., a the same time.

In the Central Department seven senior camps will be held as follows: at Fort Sheridan, III., during July, August and September; at Fort Riley, Kan., during August and September. Junior camps will be held in this department at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.

Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, has recently stated that he expected an attendance of at least 40,000 men at these camps in place of the 20,000 last year, and the 2,600 of 1915. Ample appropriation has been made by the Government so that a man will receive full reimbursement for the expenses incurred.

The conduct of the camps will not be changed radically from those of last year, but the instruction will be made progressive, in order that a man will not merely repeat in his second year the work of his first. For this purpose the course of instruction for a citizen is divided into Red, White and Blue camps; the first of these must be spent by all men in infantry training; the White and Blue camps, however, may be devoted either to a continuation of the infantry work or to work with the cavalry, field artillery, engineers or signal corps. After the completion of his third camp a man is eligible to take his examination for a reserve officer's commission.

Although no definite announcement has been made by the Military Training Camps Association, it is generally believed that the outbreak of hostilities of any sort will cause the camp to be discontinued and the regular stations for army training will be established on their sites.