WAR DEPARTMENT PLANS SUMMER TRAINING CAMPS

Special training camps will be held this summer for young men between the ages of 16 and 19 according to War Department plans just announced. These camps have been designated by the department as "Red" camps and will demonstrate to parents the "physical, moral, and mental development that results from military training." The other two grades of camps which the department has provided in its system of citizen training have been denominated as "White" and "Blue". All three camps will vary as to the amount of technical training given.

All plans for the summer camps are at present tentative, but the dates for opening the camps will be between July 15 and Aug. 10, and applications for entering should be addressed to the commander of the corps area in which the applicant lives.

Locations of the camps in the nine camps areas were given as follows:

1. Camp Devens, Mass; 2, Camp Dix, N. J., or Plattsburg. N. Y., or both; 3, Camp Meade, Md,; 4, Camp Jackson, S. C.; 5, Camp Knox, Ky., or Camp Sherman, O., or both; 6, Camp Grant, III., or Fort Sheridan. III...or both; 7. Fort Snelling, Minn., and Camp Pike, Ark,; 8. Fort Logan, Col., and Camp Travis, Tox., or Camp Stanley, Tex.; 9, the Presidio of San Francisco, and Camp Lewis, Wash.