THE C1 CAMP

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 100, 21 January 1918, Page 4

THE C 1 CAMP

A GREAT SUCCESS. The Minister of Defence (Hon. Sil James Allen) stated in Christchurch that the CI Camp was proving highly successful, and was an evidence of what could be done by the physical training and development of men. "We over 60 per cent, of the men who go to the CI Camp physically fit for service .at tho front. Wβ cannot help it if wo have to take a little risk with the men. You cannot say that any man will go through all right. Men who go into camp and are afterwards turned down complain that it is a waste of money. That is true, and we aro very sorry. But they do not have to run the risk of going to the front. Because a man happens to become unfit and is allowed out of camp, does that constitute a grievance against the Government?. I cannot see that it does. He escapes service—he escapes with his life. '•The lesson we aro learning from tho CI Camp will have to be implanted in our civic life after the war. It is too important to low sight of tho fact that we can produce physically fit out of unfit men.