TIME
Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War, was last week consulted by the Adjutant General of the Army. The General held an application in his hand for admission to a citizens’ military training camp and signed, “Dwight F. Davis Jr., student, St. Mark’s School, Southborough, Mass.”
To what camp would the Secretary of War like the recruit sent?
Cried the Secretary: “Show him no favors. He must be a private like the rest!”
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