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DONT FORGET 



TO WRITE HOME 



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THE: BOND BETWEEN THE, BOY AND HIS HOME IS EVER PRESENT: INTERIOR OF A 

 Y. M. C. A. BUILDING AT FORT SNEEEING, MINNESOTA 



THE EXTENT OE THE TOUR 



On January 24 I began a tour of the 

 camps, including Camp Devens, Ayer, 

 Mass. ; Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. ; 

 Camp Meade, near Baltimore ; Camp 

 Jackson, Columbia, S. C. ; Camp Gordon, 

 Atlanta, Ga. ; Camp Sheridan, Montgom- 

 ery, Ala. ; Camp Travis, San Antonio, 

 Tex.; Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark.; 

 Camp Funston, near Junction City, 

 Kans. ; Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. ; 

 Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, and 

 Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich. 



I finished the tour at the Great Lakes 

 Naval Training Station, near Chicago, on 

 February 20, having made in all fifty 

 speeches, at least an hour in length and 

 sometimes longer. 



In some instances the attendance was 

 voluntary ; in others there was a regular 

 detail, but in all cases the men at one 

 meeting were excluded from attendance 

 at another. 



This may seem to many who read it 

 that it was cruel and unusual punishment 

 and added a burden to the draft. How- 



ever, on the whole, the boys stood it 

 fairly well and listened with apparent in- 

 terest and responsive attention. 



In the course of my address I tried, 

 by illustrations and stories in a lighter 

 vein, to escape the somnolence that an 

 argument on legal topics often produces, 

 and I hope I succeeded in giving the boys 

 more than one "seventh inning" in which 

 to relax their mental muscles and take a 

 rest. 



What I attempted to do in these ad- 

 dresses was to argue out the case of the 

 United States against Germany; to show 

 that she forced us into the war by a viola- 

 tion of our national rights in attempt- 

 ing to fence off a part of the high seas 

 against our commerce, and in murdering 

 200 of our citizens by sinking them on 

 commercial ships within the zone with- 

 out warning, and threatening to continue 

 this course in the future. It involved a 

 reference to the principles of interna- 

 tional law and to a demonstration, by 

 precedent, of the rule which required a 

 belligerent, in destroying a commercial 



