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...least necessity exists for Plattsburg graduates to forfeit 10 per cent. of the money the government now owes them. A shower of circulars from claim agents in Washington gives the contrary impression. The facts are these: Congress has appropriated sufficient money to reimburse every man who attended Plattsburg this summer for all his expenses at camp, and for his transportation there and back. The Military Training Camps Association is now engaged in obtaining this money from the War Department, and will see that each man receives his due without paying a cent in commission. The claim agents in Washington...
...additional information in regard to the competition may be obtained from any member of the committee in charge, composed of A. H. Parker '97, 50 Congress street, Boston; F. H. Cabot '17, Holworthy 18; and C. A. Coolidge, Jr., '17, Holworthy...
...Adequate?" He shows our relative naval protection per mile of coast line compared with other nations, and the strength of our army on a war footing compared with our population and the territory we have to protect. He further explains the measures that have already been passed by Congress and shows their unsuitability to our needs at the present time. The remainder of the book contains valuable statistics on preparedness, what it can do for the individual and the best methods of impressing it upon the nation at large. Some system of universal service is needed; and the Swiss system...
Something like a new test for labor comes into view when a trades union congress assembled at Birmingham, England, can pass a resolution declaring that 'members of the clerical profession," being "a large class of able-bodied men engaged in unproductive employment," should not be exempted from the operations of the military...
...recent act of Congress provides extensively and thoroughly for the building up of a corps of trained officers to command our reserve forces in time of war. For this purpose an officers reserve corps is created, which will be composed mainly of young men specially trained at colleges, military schools and camps. At certain military schools units of the Junior Division of the reserve officers training corps will be estabalished. At colleges and universities where the curriculum prescribed requires a four years course for an academic degree there will be one or more units of the senior division...