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...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...
...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...
...emphasize America's potential danger, the next to discredit the forces that were working for peace. Pacifists, Socialists, even those who merely opposed increased defense appropriations, were vilified and persecuted. After a year of persistent pressure and indoctrination the boys were packed off to the Plattsburg military camp to learn how to be heroes. The next year the pacifists, who were "worse than slackers," weren't permitted to speak; the year after that Harvard went off to fight for "the utmost of just causes...
Country bumpkins and city slickers came out of Plattsburg soldiers; under the pointing finger the posters said: "Uncle Sam Needs...