Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-04-23

The course Of instruction is the same
 as that given to men who enter the
 regular army.
 The regiment drills inside the base
 ball cage in cold or wet weather
 otherwise in the college grounds ol through the parkway. But besides the
 drills Capt Cordier and his assistants
 give a series of lectures on discipline
 drill. administrative organization, sup ply service, military hygiene and
 minor tactics, including orders and
 map problems. tactical talks on the interrelation and functions of caval- ry, artillery. infantry, engineers 1 signalling. sanitary troops trains and camp marches. Later work on field Notifications and demolition will he i added
 In contrast 10 national guard prac- tice. officers will not be elected They will be appointed by Capt. Cordler, not according to popularity but for 1 their efficiency wells Blanchard, l manager of last years football team, | is one of the most active men i'll organizing the regiment. At the pres ent time R. s. Lund is the leader ot the students in the regiment. H. C.. Yinn, a Japanese student, has joined the organization and is drilling in dustriously.
 More than hundred students have joined flying corps to be organlzea for the regiment by Frazier Curt'7, who recently returned from the baf- tiefields of France. Several aero- Ulanes will be available for experi- mental purposes
 Yale Training Artillerymen.
 At Yale university the students interested in army work have taken up the more technical arm of artll- lery. There are 4S3 men in the Yale battalion, which includes four bat teries, A. B. c. and D. In addition tnsre is the Yale Aero corps, which will soon be increased from twenty to forty men. The Aero Corps has had several periods of training at Hartford on the new small navy dlrlg- iDle balloon. the DN-1. This has been made possible by the builders of the dirigible, several of whom are Yale graduates.
 The Yale airmen's trips to the Hart ford army have been under the com mand Of Senior Lieut.. P. F. Slocum and ;hey have received instruction from Pilot E. l. Widmer of the Con- necticut Aircraft company
 They have been instructed in gen. eral manoeuvring, the posts and duties of engineer observers and crew and also the duties of the ground section, which includes taking the ma chine in and out of the hangar and caring for it when on the ground. MT. Widmer has had wide experience in Germany.
 Several of the Yale men have had experience in aeroplanes. Cord Meyer. of Great Neck, l.. l., holds Frencn pilot license. c. B. Nunson. of New York, had several weeks observation work in a French captive balloon at the front
 Half a dozen other members of the corps have had flying experience and four will study for their pilots license this summer. Two members of the Corps are familiar with the construc- ton of aircraft These are H. J. Bald win, of Saranac Lake. N. I., and Derby weston, Of Winchester, Miss. both of whom have helped to build flying machines.
 In the course of time the members of the living corps will learn to direct the artillery fire of he four Yale bat teries while flying oy.r the enemy's positions. It will be remembered that a Yale battery took part in the Spanish war. 1t was this which in- spired the creation of the new battal- 1 ion.
 Princeton Gives Instruction. Princeton university on April 13, by Saculty action. decided to make mili- tary instruction a part of the curri- culum. The beard of trustees took this action largely as the result of speech delivered by President John Frier Hibbsn on January g when he asserted that in the event of the ! United States becoming involved in war, young men who had not been prepared in military duties would be "led to the slaughter like cattle in 'the shambles.''
 The University of Minnesota, Bow ! Goin college and Williams college also have some degree of military training. Bowdoin has both course of instruc- tion and d.ill Al Minnesota, fresh man students are required 10 drill.
 New York university is about to start a student corps and a course Of i lectures. Cornell university. which has thehudicrous land grant colleSe system condemned alike by prepared ness advocates and by undergraduates and graduates without regard to Opin-