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Special Statement
The twin Commissions on Training Camp
Activities one for the War Department and
one for the Navy Department were appointed
by Secretary Baker and Secretary Daniels
early in the war to link together in a comprehensive
organization, under official sanction, all
the agencies, private and public, which could be
utilized to surround our troops with a healthy
and cheerful environment. The Federal Government
has pledged its word that as far as
care and vigilance can accomplish the result,
the men committed to its charge will be returned
to the homes and communities that so
generously gave them with no scars except
those won in honorable conflict. The career to
which we are calling our young men in the defense
of democracy must be made an asset to
them, not only in strengthened and more virile
bodies as a result of physical training, not only
in minds deepened and enriched by participation
in a great, heroic enterprise, but in the enhanced
spiritual values which come from a full
life lived well and wholesomely.
I do not believe it an exaggeration to say that
no army ever before assembled has had more
conscientious and painstaking thought given to
the protection and stimulation of its mental,
moral and physical manhood. Every endeavor
has been made to surround the men, both here
and abroad, with the kind of environment which
a democracy owes to those who fight in its behalf.
In this work the Commissions on Training
Camp Activities have represented the government
and the government's solicitude that
the moral and spiritual resources of the nation
should be mobilized behind the troops. The
country is to be congratulated upon the fine
spirit with which organizations and groups of
many kinds, some of them of national standing,
have harnessed themselves together under the
leadership of the government's agency in a
common ministry to the men of the army and
navy.
Woodrow Wilson
The White House,
Washington. April 19th, 1918.
Table of Contents CHAPTER I THE DEVELOPMENT OP A PURPOSE CHAPTER II CLUB LIFE IN THE CANTONMENTS CHAPTER III ATHLETICS EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIVE CHAPTER IV THE FIGHTERS WHO SING CHAPTER V WHAT THEY READ AND WHY CHAPTER VI ENTERTAINMENT IN CAMP CHAPTER VII HOSTESS HOUSES CHAPTER VIII THE POST EXCHANGE CHAPTER IX EDUCATIONAL WORK IN CAMP CHAPTER X FITTING THE MAN TO THE COMMUNITY CHAPTER XI A PROBLEM AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF CHAPTER XII CONCLUSION
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