Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Judge Patterson was wearing an Army private's blue fatigue overalls when he got his new job last week. In fact he was on the lowest detail which an Army private can get: kitchen police (taking out garbage, chopping wood) at the Plattsburg training camp. Colonel James I. Muir, the camp commander, forthwith ordered him out of the kitchen, was relieved to catch K. P. Patterson just before he began his menial chore...
...under way, to ten encampments, from Massachusetts' Fort Devens to the Presidio in Monterey, tramped 3,000 civilians, aged 25 to 50, for an intensive month of military training. These camps recalled-as their sponsors, the Military Training Camps Association, meant them to-the "Plattsburg Idea" of 1915. To Maryland's Fort Meade went 200 Philadelphia business and professional men, including Republican Senatorial Nominee Jay Cooke. Most publicized encampment was Plattsburg itself, where 810 trainees, many arriving in sleek cars, enrolled at a cost to each of $43.50 for a 30-day regime of study and drill, pork...
Something to take along to Plattsburg for extracurricular reading. The author is a colonel on the German General Staff, the translator is Theodore Knauth of NBC's staff in Berlin. Major George Fielding Eliot calls it a "masterly exposition." Colonel Foertsch's doctrine calls for open-mindedness and adaptability in the individual officer; his discussion of modern land tactics (including the rationale of tank attacks, smoke screens, plunging fire, etc.) makes a useful addition to the sum of human knowledge...
...Conscription was grimly urged by Princeton's President Dr. Harold Willis Dodds, by Harvard's President James B. Conant. Four-hundred graduates of Eastern colleges met in New York, asked Congress to provide funds for camps similar to the Plattsburg (N. Y.) camp...
...Young alumni of eastern colleges started a drive for compulsory military training. Under auspices of the Military Training Camps Association (the "Plattsburg Group" of World War I fame) and the leadership of the New York Times's Julius Ochs Adler, they scheduled college mass meetings. First to go on record was a group of 250 Princeton alumni, who unanimously favored compulsory training, urged that the U. S. establish a string of training camps. Few days later 500 Williams men followed suit. Similar meetings were scheduled at Amherst, Yale, Harvard...