some dozen la tom niet w sixteen years of age got to work at it. Sometimes se ias passed, there might be as many as twenty at the to-peerily when it came to putting the shingles on the sea tak . Al the time the men of the camp, the directors, masc no more than was absolutely neces sary, merely giving a sugeston now and then, or a hint or two, and leaving it to the host to what was proper. Absurd? Not at all. Boys have a viinary capacity for such things, both for design and exent. True enough, this latent facility wanes after a while, so that mus of military age who have never had it developed acquit vowly an ability to construct, and never to the extent they wou have if their latent capacity had been developed in time. Fun has been found in this experiFunn mental military camp that the older lads who have had this experience when youngsters not only retain it, but add to it the adult's appreciation for weery and detail. Yet most manual training teachers make the fatal mistake of giving the exercises for accuracy and betal first, and, as this comes at a time when iis DC MCL accreated the manual work given in many sches is 2 be of its best value.

The nese ma by the way, was finished in six days, even to the emerge miter the kitchen ranges.

At 28 m ziediemoon our boys found themselves regularly caled on for baseball-one of the finest games America has produced ir al-und training in physical and mental co-ordination. Frank it not want to play, but he had to, just the same, and were season was over had to acknowledge that he actualy like 1.

A four al mandis vent swimming, and those who did not know how u svm soon learned.

At esi nem vas a cheery sounding of bugles, and it was DOW THE HƠI Laur and Frank were to receive the first real shock & ter is. This was the signal for military drill. It is the feeing a tus amp that we Americans have greatly exaggerated the tuners exercise, particularly as regards the younger generaton. but it does have its uses, mostly disciplinary. A lie of L. Lowever, goes a very long way with boys, so the anou o zme given to formal work of this kind was very smal, but vien at me actually arrived it was no joke. For De ÍŒÞÍN or sy minutes the place to all intents and pur

41 offee ▼TI 7ars of service in the Regular Army took charge at te command, Fall in!" his sharp, blunt meches remit a prompt order from the confusion; but no sooner at the company been lined up and taught the meaning ɗ*Krın cennan a small passing shower arrived. Imme Cuei aur and Frank remembered that the only proper pas ʼn be an is under a roof. So they calmly broke ranks ani saret for one. Whereat the drill-master, with all the ready Seney and pointed expression of a regular first sergeant, spoke us mind. When he had finished, those two were back in the ranks, wared half to death. Arthur red with shame and Frank 12 h me. And yet before the end of the summer Aran, who at first hated his drill, became a sergeant and carried a sword: just as Frank, who was angry when he had to Tacture a coc, and who gained execrable marks for "manual talking an secool ended the summer by winning the medal fr dog the best piece of camp construction.

As for that drill let it be said that, even with the very short ame gen is by the end of the first month the boys marched and Crest very well—in fact, quite as well as it need ever be expected er desired of lads under military age. Of course the nearer they gas eighteen the more they can have of it and similar purely military matters, so that when they actually enter the army this elementary imowierige has beenme almost second nature.

Wwe eonid never ake ip in detail all the experiments of a simmer-experiments planned to develop resourcefulness, st-recianes, and minan ay through various kinds of ernstrierive jand-art. mng a multide of competitions, singi mora unut games and in in. So there were competitive achete performaness uut omsetters in making natural history A Leetonas Tenir lesete mie n—al making for close ant as he ran it ting vomitem. Then there were sazten an empenta for ad ting, and general all-round ermpetities, it song repatic which is always a boy a weak prit me per amepistol that not only sur

prised many parents but which gave the competitors abilities and a knowledge of their own powers that they never imagined they possessed.

Near the end of the season, when all were as hard as nails, they were taken to the mainland and sent in small parties scattering through the northeastern Adirondacks. Boys of thirteen might make ninety miles in their week, or more. Boys of fifteen have made one hundred and forty miles, setting their own pace and carrying their own baggage, sleeping under the skies when the weather was propitious or in haymows when rain threatened. They prepared their own simple meals, followed their own maps, studying the country through which they passed, and keeping careful journals for yet another competition. When lads return from such a hike, their muscles have an amazing hardness and their postures are improved to a marked degree. Yet it must be carefully done. Each party must contain boys of even strength, and never must a day's hike go beyond the strength of the weakest member of a party.

And, finally, the army, brown and strong, were packed into Pullmans and shipped back home, very different in more ways than one than when they arrived. Arthur increased his physical score to 102, and won the improvement medal. Bob went up to 112, and was not far behind in the "best physique" contest. Frank, as we have said. made the best piece of camp construction, won a medal, had the effect of his years of spoiling knocked clear out of him, and went home possessing the beginnings of a confident, self-respecting manhood. And Arthur, again, had come to realize that there are other things in the world even more important than the possession of wealth. John? John, of course, won the geological medal and the medal for semaphore signaling. And here we may have it, then-a workable system for the training of lads under military age. First, not formal drill. That is neither important nor really essential. First, individual physical training and, when necessary, medical attention. Along with this can go the group games and exercises which to too many of us make all there is to physical training. Without the individual work it is about thirty per cent efficient.

Next, not formal drill; next, hand construction, work of a broad and rough kind-not the making of miter-joints and dovetails and pretty flower boxes, so beloved by teachers of manual training. This detailed work comes all right later on. But the right kind provides a marvelous means for developing the finest kind of valuable characteristics. And it was William James who said that for the best ethical training hand-work should predominate over book-work till the sixteenth year.

Next, not formal drill, but training for citizenship. This cannot be done at a camp except indirectly. It is a matter for the schools, and the one thing they seem most to avoid. They teach some American history, very badly biased, and have the children learn the Declaration of Independence by heart, and then expect them to know all the responsibilities and privileges of real citizenship, to realize thoroughly how real liberty is absolutely dependent on co-operation and upon intelligent law and order, and that being twenty-one years old and being neither in jail nor an asylum does not necessarily make one an intelligent voter, capable of deciding the destinies of a people.

This last is an immensely important matter, though we are just coming to realize it, when our neglect of it in the past now rises up as a very present menace. Before we have good soldiers we must have good citizens, so that it is fair to say that training for citizenship might well precede in importance any amount of right-shouldering of arms or marchings right front into line, or the like.

And it is possible that even first aid and hygiene and sanitation are subjects more important than formal drill.

Finally comes the formal drill itself, very valuable as a disciplinary measure, not important for younger boys, but increasingly important as they approach military age.

The purpose of the experimental camp to which our four boys were sent is to develop the principles upon which a practical system for under-military-age training can be based, and it is up to the schools to develop what the camp cannot do-arrange a procedure for educating children to be good citizens. Such a system, tried and made perfect, might come to mean not only something vitally important to Young America but possibly even Future America.