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The War Department

Commission on

Training Camp

Activities

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Commission onT/aining Camp
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WASHINGTON, D. C.

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The War Department

Commission on

Training Camp

Activities

WASHINGTON, D. C.

To the Clergymen of America:

Attention is particularly called to the activities
of the Playground and Recreation Association
of America which, as you will see from page 21,
is doing a very effective piece of work in organ-
izing the communities in the neighborhood of
military camps. The Playground and Recrea-
tion Association of America is inaugurating a
campaign for funds, inasmuch as its work is of a
kind which obviously cannot be paid from gov-
ernment sources. It is sincerely hoped that you
will be able, through advice and counsel, to give
this campaign the benefit of your support.

Raymond B. Fosdick, Chairman

{OV ER) Commission on Training Camp Activities :

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IN April, 191 7, Secretary Baker appointed a Commis-
sion on Training Camp Activities imder the Chairman-
ship of Raymond B. Fosdick of New York. The mem-
bers, in addition to the Chairman, were Lee F. Hanmer
of New York, Thomas J. Howells of Pittsburgh, Marc
Klaw of New York, Joseph Lee of Boston, Malcolm L.
McBride of Cleveland, Dr. John R. Mott of New York,
Charles P. Neill of Washington, Lieut. Col. Palmer E.

Pierce, U.S.A., and Dr. Joseph E. Ray croft of Prince-
s-
ton University. Jasper J. Mayer is Secretary to the

Commission. To supply the normalities of life to nearly
a million and a half young men in training camps, and
to keep the environs of those camps clean and whole-
some, was the two-fold task outlined for the Commission.
When one considers that these men in camp have left
their families, homes and friends, their clubs, churches
and college gatherings, their dances, their town libra-
ries, athletic fields, theatres and movie houses — ^in fact,
all the normal social relationships to which they have
been accustomed — and have entered a strange new life
in which everything is necessarily subordinated to the

need of creating an efficient fighting force, the impor-
tance of the Commission's work becomes apparent. An
army in fighting trim is a contented army; contentment
for the average man cannot be maintained without the
normal relations of life.

The task of this Commission, therefore, is to re-estab-
lish, as far as possible, the old social ties — to furnish
these young men a substitute for the recreational and
relaxational opportunities to which they have been ac-
customed — in brief, to rationalize, as far as it can be
done, the bewildering environment of a war camp.
It is also for the Commission to prevent and suppress
certain vicious conditions traditionally associated with
armies and training camps.

To a great extent the Commission has employed in
these two important activities the machinery of organ-
izations and agencies heretofore interested along such
lines. Except where necessary, it has not created any
new machinery.

To the Young Men's Christian Association and the
Knights of Columbus, for instance, the Commission
has looked to supply a large share of the club Hfe and
entertainment inside the training camps. To the Amer-
ican Library Association it has instinctively turned for an

adequate supply of books and reading facilities for the
troops. To organize the social and recreational life of
the commimities adjacent to the training camps the
Commission enlisted the services of the Playground and
Recreation Association of America, which has placed
representatives in over one hundred such communities
and has harnessed the lodges, churches, clubs, and other
local groups and organizations with the men in the camps.
So, too, such agencies as the Travelers' Aid Society
and the Young Men's Christian Association have been
brought into play in connection with the community
problem.

Suppressive work in dealing with vicious conditions
is handled by direct representatives of the Commission,
with whom are co-operating such organizations as the
Committee of Fourteen of New York, the Watch and
Ward Society of New England, the Committee of Fif-
teen of Chicago, the Bureau of Social Hygiene of New
York, and the American Social Hygiene Association.
Local police organizations and sheriffs, as well as the
machinery of the Department of Justice and the Military
Provost Guards, have been utilized in this work. The
special problem arising from the presence of young girls
in the vicinity of the camps is handled by the Young

Women's Christian Association and by a Committee
on Protective Work attached to the Commission.

Within the camps, in addition to the facilities already
mentioned, the Commission has appointed sports-direc-
tors, boxing instructors, song leaders, and dramatic enter-
tainment managers. Theatres are being erected in each
cantonment for the exhibition of regular dramatic per-
formances, and special facilities have been provided for
the production of moving pictures, vaudeville, and other
forms of amusement. Divisional exchange officers,
appointed by the Commission, one in each camp, are
superintending the operation of the regimental Post
Exchanges, or soldiers' co-operative stores.

This constitutes a brief resume of the machinery by
which the Commission is accomplishing its work. To
meet its expenses, Congress has made an appropri-
ation. The size of its task is evidenced by the fact that
its activities have to do with all classes of camps and
cantonments under the jurisdiction of the War Depart-
ment. Some of these camps contain as many as 50,000
men, and the problem of arranging and ordering their
leisure-time opportunities must be promptly and effec-
tively met. The following pages describe more in detail
what progress has been made along each particular line
up to October 15, when this pamphlet went to press.

INSIDE THE CAMP

The Young Men s Christian Association

(Dr. John R. Mott in charge)

BECAUSE of its experience in army and navy work,
the Young Men's Christian Association, upon
recommendation by the Commission on Training
Camp Activities, was given official recognition as one of
the agencies for furnishing recreational facilities within
the camps. It works in close co-operation with the Com-
mission. All its entertainments are free of charge —
all absolutely non-sectarian.

From nine to fourteen recreational and social buildings
are being erected in each of the National Army canton-
ments, and in each of the National Guard Camps at
least six buildings. These include, in each National
Army cantonment, an auditorium seating three thousand.
Up to September 21st contracts for three hundred and
sixty-two buildings had been let. Almost all will be
completed by the time cantonment construction is done.
Over one himdred and fifty tents, 40 x 80 feet, and
four himdred special outfits or equipments for Associa-

tion purposes also have been provided. Each outfit
includes, among other things, a piano, motion picture
machine, phonograph, office supplies, postcards, pens,
ink, pencils, stationery, reading matter, etc. — all free.
It is estimated that the service of the Yoimg Men's
Christian Association in American training camps in
the next nine months will cost eleven million dollars.
This money is furnished by private subscription.

3,000 Men Soon in Its Service
Already over two thousand war work secretaries are
in the field under appointment. Another thousand will
soon be added. These men include physical direc-
tors, educational directors, etc. It is the aim of the or-
ganization to supply every service for which there is a
demand. The Young Men's Christian Association
secretary has come to be the "big brother" of the troops.

The Entertainment Features

The program planned for Association buildings and
auditoriums within the camps includes motion pictures,
professional programs, and other forms of entertainment,
such as mass singing, amatein* dramatics, etc. The plan
for motion pictures involves the presentation of from
eight million to ten million feet of film a week. This

service is provided at actual cost by the Commimity
Motion Picture Bureau. A weekly newspaper of eight
pages, "In Trench and Camp," is being published under
the general auspices of the Young Men's Christian
Association, for each of the thirty-two National Guard
and National Army camps.

The Association buildings are freely placed at the dis-
posal of army chaplains for religious services. The same
building is often used in turn for Catholic, Protestant,
and Jewish services.

The Knights of Columbus and Other
Organizations .

Just as the Young Men's Christian Association rep-
resents the Protestant denominations, which will con-
stitute roughly sixty per cent, of the new army, so the
Knights of Columbus represent the Catholic denomina-
tion, which will constitute perhaps thirty-five per cent.
of the army. While this latter society is a fraternal
organization, it will sustain exactly the same relation
to the camps as is sustained by the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association, and will hold no meetings to which all

the troops in the camp are not invited, regardless of
religious or other preference. Indeed, the admission
of both these societies to military reservations was upon
the condition that they would not limit their activities
to a particular constituency, and that their buildings
would at all times and for all meetings be open to the en-
tire camp. The Young Men's Hebrew Association in
its recreational work has identified itself with the Young
Men's Christian Association.

Details of Their Facilities

There were in October 15, 1 9 1 7 , sixty-five Knights of
Columbus halls completed and in operation in the vari-
ous training camps. Fifty secretaries were at work,
and it is estimated that within a few weeks two hundred
and fifty representatives of the Knights of Columbus
will be ministering to the general welfare and comfort
of the soldiers in training camps.

Each Knights of Columbus hall is equipped v/ith read-
ing desks, benches, folding chairs, phonographs, player-
pianos, moving picture apparatus, athletic equipment,
and facilities for other entertainment. If there is a
demand, debating and literary societies will be or-
ganized.

The American Library Association

The Commission asked the American Library Asso-
ciation to undertake the important task of furnishing
books, magazines and general Hbrary faciHties, as well
as trained librarians, to the men in the camps. A
special library building is planned for each National
Army camp and National Guard camp. Indeed, these
buildings are already in process of construction and
more than one million dollars has been raised by the
Association to carry on the work.
The aims of the American Library Association are :

First, that librarians and library facilities be available
for soldiers and sailors wherever assembled.

Second, that the libraries be maintained in such a way
that not only will reading matter be available for the
largest number of soldiers, but that every possible en-
couragement and stimulus will be given to reading by
the men in the service of the country.

The Knights of Columbus halls, the Young Men's
Christian Association buildings, the regimental Post Ex-
changes , as well as the barrack buildings , are used as distrib-
uting centers in the camps, the idea being to have a good
book within reach of the soldier whenever he wants one.

Recreative Athletic Work

{Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft in charge)

A comprehensive organization is being developed in
each of the cantonments to encourage the largest possible
number of soldiers to participate regularly in some form of
athletics during their leisure time. Special stress is laid on
hard competitive sports that develop the fighting instinct.

The responsibility for the organization and conduct
of these recreative athletics in each camp is in the hands
of a skilled organizer and coach who is officially recog-
nized as a ci^/ilian aide on the staff of the Commanding
Officer. His salary is paid from Goveniment funds.
Thirty such sports-directors have been appointed by the
Commission and assigned to posts. The supervision
of this work in each camp involves the creation of a
Divisional Athletic Council, supplemented by regimental
cotmcils, and by such organization among the com-
panies as may be necessary. The sports-directors in the
National Army camps will be assisted by boxing in-
structors, fifteen of whom have already been appointed.
They will also co-operate with the representatives of the
Young Men's Christian Association and the Knights of
Columbus assigned to athletic work in the camps.

Special Stress on Boxing
Special emphasis is laid on boxing, not only because
it is an excellent sport, but because of its intimate con-
nection with bayonet fighting. A committee under the
Commission has been appointed to advise on this matter,
consisting of James J. Corbett, Norman Selby (Kid
McCoy), Robert Edgren, Richard Melligan, and Mich-
ael Donovan. The boxing instructors in the camps will
train specially detailed groups of men who have had pre-
vious knowledge of this sport to become assistant in-
structors. Frequent boxing contests will be held. To
standardize instruction and to give the troops a better
idea of the work, a set of moving pictures has been made
to demonstrate the fundamental principles of boxing and
the elements of bayonet practice.

Equipment

Baseballs, bats, basket balls, soccer balls, boxing
gloves, etc., will be supplied each company in the camps.
The Government has made a small appropriation for the
purchase of this equipment. This appropriation amotmts
to only about one-tenth of the money that will be re-
quired, and supplementary funds, therefore, will be
necessary. The minimum athletic equipment planned
for each soldier in the army will cost seventy-five cents.

The Post Exchange or Soldiers'' Co-
Operative Store

(Mr. Malcolm L. McBride in charge)

One of the most important activities within the camp,
which the War Department has asked the Commission
on Training Camp Activities to organize, is the Post
Exchange. There the soldier buys tobacco, handker-
chiefs, soap, candy, and other articles not provided by
the Government. At the sixteen National Army can-
tonments, which comprise eight or nine full regiments,
a Post Exchange for each regiment has been established.
In each camp there is a Division Exchange Officer,
selected by the Commission, who, under the direction
of the Commanding Officer, has general supervision over
all Post Exchanges. Any profits accumulatiug to the
Post Exchanges are expended in a way decided upon by
the votes of the men in the regiment.

National Army divisions will have eventually thirteen
to eighteen exchanges each, according to local conditions.
At present the divisions average ten exchanges each in
operation — some of them in temporary quarters. The
gross daily business of each division is now running about
$S,ooo, at a conservative estimate.

Camp Music

(Mr. Lee F. Hanmer in charge)

In order to develop singing in the Array, the Commis-
sion has adopted the expedient of appointing song
leaders in the various camps and cantonments. The
plan is to extend this work until every camp in the United
States is suppHed with a competent leader. Appropri-
ations for this activity have been approved by Com-
gress.

The results have been extraordinary, and Command-
ing Officers are uniformly enthusiastic over the idea of
sending a singing army to France. As an illustration of
the effect of the work of the song leaders, the following
quotation is given from the letter of an officer :

* ' Between five and six thousand men participated in
the most inspiring evening I have ever enjoyed. When
everybody sang ' The Battle Hymn of the Republic ' and
Harry Barnhart got the soldiers emphasizing 'Gloryl
Glory! Hallelujah! His Truth is Marching on!' you
should have seen the faces glowing under the lights.
The camp became inspired. The men cheered and
cheered. Then the Southern hoys called for 'Carry
Me Back to Old Virginny' and 'My Old Kentucky

Home.' Then we sang ^A Perfect Day' and 'My
Hero.' Then they called for 'Old Black Joe.' The
harmony was wonderful. Automobiles way out on
the road tooted their horns, and it was ten minutes he-
fore the enthusiasm subsided. We sang from eight
o'clock until ten o'clock, and ended with the 'Star
Spangled Banner.' I have never heard this song
SUNG before. The Commanding Officer came for-
ward after the singing and said it was the greatest
thing he had ever listened to."

To co-operate with the commission in this important
work the National Committee on Army and Navy Camp
Music was created. The chairman is W. K^rkpatrick
Brice of New York; the other members — M. Morgenthau,
Jr., of New York, John Alden Carpenter of Chicago
and Mrs. George Barrelle of Buffalo. Miss Frances F.
Brundage, Supervisor of the Chicago Civic Music
Association, was granted an indefinite leave of absence
to become executive secretary of the committee.

A committee of camp song leaders has compiled a
song book, which has been published under the title
Songs of the Soldiers and Sailors. This book has been
printed and is sold at cost through the Post Exchanges.

Dramatic Kntertainment

{Mr. Marc Klaw in charge)

A fully equipped modem theatre building seating three
thousand people is being built in each of the sixteen
National Army camps.

A committee of theatrical managers and others, whose
chairman is Mr. Marc Klaw of Klaw & Erlanger, is
assisting in the organization of the talent for the program
to be given in these buildings, and in the booking and
management throughout the camps. Many of the fore-
most theatrical stars of the country are booked. These
entertainments are planned to begin early in November.

An admission charge of 15c, 20, and 25c, will be made.
From the proceeds the expenses of the entertainment
will be paid, the balance to remain as a government
fund to finance non-revenue-producing activities within
the camps. The plan is to make the admission fee such
as just to cover running expenses. A representative of
the Commission will be in charge of each of those audi-
toriums and will be responsible for the program. The
theatres are so planned that they can be used for various
recreational and educational activities at any time,
winter or simimer.

General Committee Heads Assisting Marc Klaw

David Belasco George M. Cohan

A. L. Erlanger Irving Berlin

Lee Shubert John L. Golden

E. F. Albee A. H. Woods

Gatti-Casazza VY. L. Lillard

Sam Scribner Arthur Hopkins

Henry W. Savage Arch Sehvyn

Arthur Hammerstein F. Richard Anderson

Sam H. Harris Joseph Klaw

Club Affiliations

The Lambs, William Courtney

The Friars, George M. Cohan

The Players, John Drew

Actors' Equity, Francis Wilson

National Vaudeville Club, Willard Mack

General Distribution Tickets, etc.
Stage Women's War Relief

Admsory Committee
Otto Kahn, Chairman

George F. Baker Clarence H. Mackay

George Gordon Battle Thomas W. Lamont

James M. Beck Prof. Brander Matthews

August Belmont W. Forbes Morgan

Paul D. Cravath Frederic R. Coudert

William A. Delano Prof. H. Fairfield Osborn

Chas. Dana Gibson Chas. H. Sabin

Daniel Guggenheim Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

Augustus D. Juillard Francis Lynde Stetson

Alvin W. Krech George W. Wickersham

Redpath Entertainments

(Mr. Lee F. Hanmer in charge)

By arrangement with the Redpath Lyceum Bureau a
tent in each National Army and National Guard camp
has been erected and a first-class program of plays and
entertainments provided. They are being operated on
a cost basis. Accounts will be audited by the Com-
mission and any surplus receipts will be turned over to
the Post Exchanges.

Entertainment Concessions

In general no concessions to private amusement enter-
prises are permitted within the camps. In a few camps,
however, where on account of transit or other local con-
ditions access is not to be had to amusements in neigh-
boring cities, concessions have been approved by
the Commission for motion picture and vaudeville
entertainments to be conducted within privately erected
theatres within the camps. A percentage of the profits
of such entertainments go to the Post Exchange, and the
entertainments themselves are under the close super-
vision of the Commanding Officers. Only a few such
concessions to private enterprises have been granted.

Educational Work

A committee on education, attached to the Commis-
sion, has been appointed, consisting of the following:

Dr. William Orr, Chairman; Dr. P. P. Claxton of the Bureau
of Education, Department of the Interior; Dr. Harry Pratt Jud-
SON, President of the University of Chicago; Dr. John H. Finley
of the University of New York; Col. P. H. Callahan of Louisville.

This committee has provided means for giving ade-
quate courses in the French language and in French
geography in all the cantonments and National Guard
training camps. These courses are entirely optional and
are given at such hours as military duties and regulations
permit. Under this plan any soldier can, during the
time of his training, readily acquire a vocabulary of six
or seven hundred French words, and a knowledge of
French geography and customs which will be of great
assistance to him abroad. In addition the committee
is planning to provide means for giving courses in any
subject for which there is a demand. Instruction in the
English language has been found necessary in connection
with some soldiers drafted from our foreign population.

The committee is utilizing in its work the machinery
not only of university extension courses but particularly
of the educational department of the Y. M. C. A. It is
prepared to utilize any educational machinery which can
readily be adapted to its piurpose.

OUTSIDE THE CAMP

The Playground and Recreation
Association of America

{Mr. Joseph Lee in charge)

EXPERIENCE has shown that the instinctive de-
sire of a soldier with an hour of free time is to go
to town, even if the town is only a cross-roads.
To make the communities adjacent to the training camps
the best possible places for the soldiers in their free time —
to organize the social and recreational facihties of the
towns so that they shall meet every need and contribute
to the mental, moral, and physical health of the men
in the training camps — that is the work which the Play-
ground and Recreation Association of America is under-
taking under the direction of the Commission.

Working in a Hundred Communities

Nearly one htmdred commimities are being helped
in their efforts to prepare for the thousands of men in
camp near them. Eighty-seven representatives of the

Playground and Recreation Association of America are
now at work in these cities.

The recreation provided must be clean, wholesome and
plentiful. It must be made possible for the troops to
meet the men and women of the town, so as to provide
an antidote for the homesickness, depression, and social
loneliness, which are so real a menace to the morale of
the men. The community organizers, representing the
Commission, are stirring the cities near the camps to a
realization of their responsibility toward the troops who
are their guests. The slogan is not "What can we make
out of the soldiers?" but, "What can we do for the sol-
diers?"

How THE Results Are Obtained

Each of the local community representatives, through
the organization of a central committee (with a number
of sub-committees) co-ordinates the activities of each
agency and group of people touching and controlling
in any way the recreational resources of the town.
Churches and fraternal orders are being stimulated to
entertain their own soldier membership. Socials and
dances are being arranged, where the troops may meet
the young women of the community. Entertainment of

the soldiers in the homes of the citizens is one of the
most popular features of the hospitality program. "Take
a soldier home for dinner" has become a slogan. On
one Sunday in a single community five thousand men
were thus entertained.

The public resources of the cities, such as swimming
pools, shower baths and baseball fields, have been placed
at the disposal of the men. Provision is being made
for the comfort of the soldiers and their guests through
the installation of comfort stations and drinking foun-
tains, and through the listing of available hotels and
lodging houses. Rest rooms and "khaki clubs" are being
established; directories of points of interest and places
of amusement are being published. Automobile rides
for the soldiers, community "sings" and band concerts
are being given. In every way possible the cities' re-
sources are being made available for the troops in their
leisure time.

Assistance by the Young Women's Christian
Association — Hostess Houses

Much is done also to serve the soldiers' families who
visit the camps. The assistance of the Travelers' Aid
Society has been enlisted, and the Young Women's

Christian Association has been asked to establish ** hos-
tess houses" within the confines of each camp. Five
of the "hostess houses" have already been completed,
and twenty-three more are being built. Their purpose
is to afford a place within the camp where a soldier can
meet his family and friends.

The girls of the community, through the Young
Women's Christian Association and other agencies, have
been organized into clubs and patriotic leagues, with the
object of keeping them occupied in hospital and patriotic
pursuits.

THE CONTROL OF ALCOHOL
AND PROSTITUTION

THE problem of suppressing vice and the sale of
alcohol to soldiers at or near army camps, in
accordance with Sections 12 and 13 of the Mili-
tary Draft Law, is being attacked from many angles and
with varied agencies.

The first and prime requisite is the gathering of full
and accurate information as to actual conditions in
the neighborhood of the camps. The machinery for
gathering this information has included the field agents
of the Commission, the field men of the Department of
Justice, the Intelligence Department of the Army, the
local provost guards, as well as the staffs of such organ-
izations as the National American Social Hygiene Asso-
ciation, the Committee of Fourteen of New York, the
Committee of Fifteen of Chicago, the Watch and Ward
Society of New England, and the Bureau of Social Hy-
giene of New York.

The information thus received has been utilized by the
Commission, sometimes from Washington and some-

times through the representatives in the field, to seciire
improvement in moral conditions where such improve-
ment was needed.

A direct representative of the Commission is now
located in the vicinity of every National Army and
National Guard Camp, and continuous investigations
are in progress. The work of these representatives is
checked by supervisors for given districts, who also con-
trol the work in the smaller specialized camps.

The Results Accomplished

As concrete examples of what has been accomplished
may be mentioned the closing of Red Light Districts in
the following cities: Deming, N. M., El Paso, Waco,
San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Houston, Texas; Hatties-
burg, Miss.; Spartanburg, S. C; Norfolk and Peters-
burg, Va. ; Jacksonville, Fla. ; Alexandria, La. ; Savannah,
Ga. ; Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, S. C. ; Doug-
las, Ariz.; Louisville, Ky. ; and Montgomery, Ala. New
Orleans has passed an ordinance which will wipe out its
Red Light District on or about November isth. Many
cities in which no Red Light Districts were formally
tolerated have, at the instance of the Commission,
abolished their open houses of prostitution.

State Aid

In addition, the laws against vice have been strength-
ened in many cities at the suggestion of the Commis-
sion's representatives, and the machinery for the en-
forcement of those laws has been geared up to a higher
notch of efficiency. In California and Arkansas, State
Military Welfare Commissions have been appointed by
the Governors of those states, at the instigation of repre-
sentatives of this Commission, and executive secretaries
have been appointed to carry on the work of vice re-
pression.

Sex Hygiene Work

A wide educational campaign along lines of sex hy-
giene has been undertaken in all the camps, through the
agency of the American Social Hygiene Association and
the Young Men's Christian Association. Lectures, mov-
ing pictures, and exhibits of various kinds are utilized,
and an extensive literature has been developed. Educa-
tional work has also been undertaken in the adjacent
communities, and the widest possible use is made of
pamphlets and other literature to impress upon the
communities the policy of absolute repression which the
War Department has adopted.

Committee on Protective Work for Girls

The problem created by the presence of young girls
in the neighborhood of training camps has proved so
great that a special committee under the Commission
has been formed to urge the appointment of women
protective officers in every community adjacent to a
military camp and to handle the many reformative ques-
tions associated with delinquency. This committee,
under the chairmanship of Miss Maude Miner of New
York, consists of Mrs. Martha P. Falconer of Philadel-
phia, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York, Mrs.
James Cushman of New York, and Mrs. William Dum-
mer of Chicago. A training school .for women protective
officers, under Miss Miner's direction, has been opened
in New York, and every effort is being made to supply
the rapidly growing demand for trained workers of this
kind

'T^HE Navy Department Commission on
Training Camp Activities is distinct from
the War Department Commission and covers a
different field of work. It was appointed by
Secretary Daniels in July, 1917, and consists of
the following :

Raymond B. Fosdick, Chairman
Lieut. Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N., Secretary

Clifford W. Barnes Barton Myers

Walter Camp Charles P. Neill

Selah Chamberlain Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson

John J. Eagan Mrs. Finley Shepard

Joseph Lee Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens

E. T. Meredith John S. Tichenor

A pamphlet descriptive of its activities will
shortly be published.

Additional copies of this booklet can
be obtained upon application to the
Commission on Training Camp
Activities, Room 149, Old Land OfHce
Building, Washington, D. C.

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ALL BOOKS MAY BE RECALLED AFTER 7 DAYS

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