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7 Citizens' Military
Training Camps To
Be Operated In 1927
, The War Department will operate
seven Citizens’ Military Training
Camps in Fourth Corps Area during
the summer of 1927, for the training
of young men between the ages of
'seventeen and twenty-four years.
These camps will open on June 15
-and close an July 14, 1927.
Four thousand young men will be
selected to attend these camps from
the Fourth Corps Area, which com-
the states of Tennessee, North
South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
lionisiana.
The Amy Posts where these camps
will be established and the number
<of young men to be trained at each
camr are shown below:
Fort Barrancas, Fla.—soo Coast
-Artillery.
Fort Bragg, N. C.—900 Field Ar-
JtHlery.
Camp McClellan, Ala.—9oo Infan
try.
Fort McPherson, Ga.—soo Infan
try-
Fort Moultrie, S. C.—300 Infan
try.
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Fonrt Oglethorpe, Ga.—7so Calvery
Fort Screven, Ga.—l6o Infantry.
On account of the limited amount
of funds for transportation, the
young men selected for these camps
will be assigned to the camps near
est their homes, that is, in the state
of Alabama young men from the
counties of Baldwin, Butler, Clarke,
Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escam
bia, Geneva, Houston, Mobile, Mon
roe and Washington will be assigned
to Fort Barancas, Fla. Applicants
from the counties of DeKalb, Jack
son. and Madison will be assigned to
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and applicants
from other counties will be assigned
to Camp McClellan, Alabama.
In the state of Florida young men
from the counties of Baker and Nas
sau will be assigned to Fort Moul
trie, S. C. Applicants from the coun
ties of Bay, Calhoun, Citrus, Colum
bia, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gads
den, Gulf, Hamilton, Hernando,
Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette
Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Oka
loosa, Pasco, Santa Rosa, Sumter,
Sewanee, Taylor, Wakula, Walton
and Washington will be assigned to
Fort Barancas, Florida. Applicants
from other counties will be assigned
Fort Screven, Ga.
In the state of Georgia, young
men from the counties of Catoosa,
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer,
Gordan, Murray, Rabun, Towns,
Union, Walker and Whitfield will be
assigned to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
Applicants from the counties of De
catur, Grady, and Seminole will be
assigned to Fort Barancas, Fla. Ap
plicants from the counties of Appling,
Atkinson, Bacon, Bsantley, Byyan,
Chatham, Clinch, Coffee, Columbia,
Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Charlton,
Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans,
Glascock, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Jeffer
son, Jenkins, Johnson, Lanier, Lau
rens, Liberty, Long, Lowdes, Mcln
tosh, McDuffie, Montgomery, Pierce,
Richmond, Screven, Tattnall, Telfair,
Toombs, Treutlen, Warren, Ware
Washington, Wayne, and Wheeler
will be asigned to Fort Moultrie, S.
C. Applicants from the counties of
Banks, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee,
Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, Douglas,
Flayd, Habersham, Haralson, Harris,
Hall Lumpkin, Heard, Meriweather,
Muscogee, Paulding, Pickens, Pike,
Polk, Talbot, Troup, Upson, and
White will be assigned to Camp Mc-
Clellan, Ala. Applicants from the
other counties will be asigned to
Fort McPherson, Ga.
The graduates of the White Course
who have ben recommended for the
Blue Course in the Field Artillery,
Calvery, and Coast Artillery, will be
sent to the camps where last train
ed.
All young men between the ages
above designated who can pass the
required physical examination, and
are of good moral character, which
must be certified by some prominent
and reputable citizen who is personal
ly acquainted with the applicant, are
eligible for selection for these camps.
In case the applicant is under twenty
one years of age, the consent of his
parent, guardian, or nearest relative
is required.
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for thirty days annually, and to
train them in citizenship, self-reliance
iniative, good fellowship, moral and
spiritual cpnduct, and how to work
hard and efficiently. The moral and
religious influences of these camps
are kept at the very highest stan
dards. Attendance at these camps
constitutes no obligation of future
military service.
Scholarships to leading universi
ties, colleges and preparatory schools
throughout the United States are
awarded annually to young men at
tending Citizens’ MilitfVy Training
Camps.
These eamps were inaugurated by
the late President Rosevelt. They
have been sponsored and endorsed by
Presidents Wilson, Harding and Cool
idge, and by the leading churchmen
and educators of the United States.
The sons of Presidents and laborers
and farmers all have an equal chance
and eat, drill and bunk side by side.
The morning are devoted to mili
tary training, caleethenics and in
struction in citizenship, hygiene, first
aid and raarkmanship.
PRESIDENT HAS PRIVATE
TELEPHONE BOOTH
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The President of the United
States does not have a telephone
on his desk. Instead, he goes into
a booth in a small room adjoining
his office whenever It Is necessary
for him to make or answer a tele
phone call. President Coolidge 1
uses the telephone to a greater ex- 1
tent than did some of his prede*. i
ceseors, as for example, Theodore]
Roosevelt and Woodrow WllsonJ
President Coolidge, even when he 1
was Governor of Massachusetts
found the Long Distance telephone |
n great tlme-eaver, and he haa cow
tinned to make uee of It since he
took up his residence In the White
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Inexorable Law of Work
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mission or abatement, so that by that
law a man cannot be Jnat, or justified,
without an exact performance of every
tittle.
ANNUAL REUNION
U. C. V.
TAMPA, FLORIDA
April 5-8,1927
OFFICIAL ROUTE
“SUWANEE RIVER SPECIAL”
Over The
Southern Railway System
The following round-trip fares have been authorized from Macon, Ga.,
$9.46, for Confederate Veterans and members of their families accompany
ing them. Tickets sold upon presentation of “Blue” Identification Certifi
cates.
$14.77 for Sons of Confederate Veterans; United Daughters of the Con
federacy, and Affiliated Organizations. Tickets sold upon presentation of
“Pink” Identification Certificates.
Tickets on sale, April 2to 7, inclusive. Return limit May sth. Stop-overs
allowed.
The “Suwanee River Special” will carry the Commander in Chief, Gen. M.
D. Vance and staff; The Georgia Division, headed by Gen. M_ G. Murchison,
General Commanding, as well as a number of other Divisions and U. C. V.
Camps.
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The “Suwanee River Special,” leaving Atlanta at 12.15 Noon, and leaving
Macon at 3:45 P. M., will stop at Macon, Ga., at 3:45 P. M., to pick up all
who are going to the Reunion from Vidalia, Ga., and surrounding country.
Attractive side-trips out frflL Tampa have been arranged to other parts of
the state of Flbrida
For further information communicate with C. B. Rhodes, Division Passen
ger Agent, Southern Railway System, Macon, Ga.
Thirteenth Century Crypt
Workmen engaged In removing the
foundations of a building at RelgaW
discovered a Thirteenth century crypt
or dungeon under a house which wao
demolished during the reign of Henry
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