Ately adjacent to the camp itself, the whole constituting what is known
as the Community Center. By the payment of a dollar any soldier is free
to entertain his relatives and friends there, and it is open to all the
soldiers at all times. Because the iron discipline of the army is
relaxed as soon as the limits of the camp are overpassed, the atmosphere
is favourable to social life. The building occupies its acre of ground
invitingly, though exteriorly of no particular distinction. It is the
interior that entitles it to consideration as a contribution to an
architecture of that new-born democracy of which our army camps have
been the cradle. The plan of this interior is cruciform, two hundred
feet in each dimension. Built by the Red Cross of the state of Ohio, and
dedicated to the larger uses of that organization, the symbolic
appropriateness of t