Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-17

leral government II also means that
| the school viii be supplied with the
latest equipment used in the regular
Army and that the graduates Of the
/ institute will be accepted as reserve
J otticers and given six months training
in the regular army at q salary OF
$500 a month and At ,he end cf tris
service be commissioned as reserve 81
llcers and permitted 90 return 10 ,heir
homes. No Obligation IS placed upon
them, the government beiug willing Il.
assist efficient schools In doing bet
ter work along military lines and to
bear part of the expense in enabling
young men to obtai ma military train
ing
In view of the designation Of the
New Mexico Military Institute as
unit of the officers training corps,
| 1t is considered probable that an ad-
ditional army officer will be detailed
/ to act as quartcrmaster, as the ma
uonal defense act provides that at
each institution so designated an Off
+ Ger of the army shall be appointed as
acting quartermaster and shall re-
ceive, disburse and account for all
government funds allotted to the insti-
tuition in connection with the main
tenance of the training corps and as
sist the authorities of the institution
in the preparation of all acquisitions,
/ reports and returns required by the
war department.
VIII Broaden Work.
| The fact that the New Mexico Mill
/ tary Institute is now member Of the
reserve officers training corps will
/ necessarily result in charging and
| broadening the work of the institution
and enable it TO serve the young men
! of New Mexico ina manner not here
tofore possible In order to meet the
demands that will fall on the school
under the new order of things it will
! be absolutely necessary that the ia
cilities of the institution be enlarged,
that new buildings be erected and that
other improvements be inaugurated to
keep pace with the work. The New
| Mexico legislature at its coming ses-
/ sion, will be asked to make an appro-
priation for the institute in keeping
/ with its increased needs, in order that
/ it may fulfill the mission that it has
for the young men of the state,
/ The institute is at present doing a
/ bigger and more effective work than
/ 1t has ever done in its history. Its en-
/ rollment is larger. its faculty more eff
/ ficient its activities more in keeping
with the march of modern educational
methods than ever before. 1t is felt
! that never has the institution had a
better right to call upon the state for
! liberal aid than at this time.
! National Defense Act.
! Some of the provisions of the ma
/ tional defense act which are deemed
Of interest at this time, in view of the
/ designation of the New Mexico Mill
tarY Institute as a unit of the training
corps are as follows
Eligibility to membership in the
reserve officers training corps shall
be limited to students of institutions
in which units of such corps may be
established who are citizens of the
| United States, who are not less than
/ fourteen years of age, and whose bod
lily condition indicates that they are
physically fit to perform military
duty, or will be so upon arrival at
military age
when any member of the senior
/ division Of the reserve officers train
| ing corps has completed two aca-
demic years of service in that division,
! and has been selected for further
training by the president of The insti-
tuition and by its professor of military
science and tactics, and has agreed in
writing to continue in the reserve Of
ficers' training corps for the remain
der of his course in the institution
deyoting five hours per week to the
military training prescribed by the
secretary of war and has agreed in
writing to pursue the courses in camp
training prescribed by the secretary
of war, he may be furnished at the
expense of the United States, with
Communication of subsistence at such
rate, not exceeding the cost of the
garrison ration prescribed for the
army as may be fixed by the secre
tary of war during the remainder Of
his service in the reserve officers
ttraining corps.
THE secretary Of war under such
( regulations as he may prescribe, is
hereby authorized to issue to institu-
lions at which one or more units Of
the reserve officers training corps
are maintained such public animals,
arms, uniforms, equipment and means
Of transportation as he may deem nee
essary, and to forage at the expense
Of the United States public animals
so issued He shall require from
each institution to which property of
the United States is issued a bond in
the value of the property issued for
the care and safekeeping thereof, and
for its return when required
Units of the reserve officers train .
ing corps of both divisions are per-
mitted to adopt at their own expense
a full dress and fatigue uniform.
when a unit of the reserve off |
GERS training corps has been estab-
lished at an educational institution
there will be issued to such institu-
ton the following uniform;
| For each member of the unit:
81 breeches woollen, olive drab |
pair.
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