The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-05
SOLDIERS GIVEN
ANOTHER CHANCE
FOR COMMISSIONS
K 4. ~. d, "a .a< n ,at .
Examinations For Promotions
From Ranks To Be Held Here
Next Month +
DEPARTMENT LET'S DOWN
SOME OF THE FORMER BARS
Physical and Mental Tests For
Second Lieutenants Remain
Difficult To Pass

OIIkull ~ dSS
According to cable advices received
at headquarters Of the Hawaiian De.
Partment from Washington yesterday
another examination Of candidates Of
all classes for appointment as Second
Lieutenant in the army will be held.
The examination is to begin on Oetu.
Der 10 and all those legally qualified
on the date specified will be reported
and authorized to take the final exam.
ination as prescribed in general orders
NO. ~, war department, current series,
without passing the preliminary exam.
ination required by previous war de.
partment orders. Officers of the Ha.
waiian Department have been eau.
toned to take extra care in reporting
upon qualifications of enlisted men who
make application to take this examina-
tion. The habits and character Of
each enlisted candidate are determined
principally by the officer Gnder whom
he IS serving, or has served, and a re.
port in each case is required to show
that the soldier is qualified in these
respects for commission in the army.
The waiver of the preliminary exam
ination, in a measure lets down the
bars and gives better opportunity TO
both soldiers and civilians TO obtain
commissions in the army than they
have ever had before.
Examinations Severe .Isaa
Each applicant who is physically quail.
fed or desires to undergo the mental ex.l
animation notwithstanding his physi.
cal defects will be examined mentally
in the following subjects, subject TO
certain exemptions as will be seen.
GROUP = *2'%'
Weight
l. United States history and Consti,
tuition Observation-Disclosures. ....E1
ueoBfaphy observation-disclosures. /
3. Elementary English ......,.....
p AiBepra ................... j
- neometry .........,....... j
10 lngonometry ~ -. .!....I... 4
g. GROUP ii e.. .s' -.
Weight
!. Elementary French, German or
Spanish, as the applicant may
select ...............
z. General history ............,,l
3. Elementary surveying ..........l
In addition to the A.Ove, the candi.-
date is also examined in one of the fol.
lowing subjects: 'r
GROUP III >t't
...g Weight
J. Advanced English ..........
2. Advanced French ....... ~
3. Advanced German .............
4. Advanced Spanish ........2
3. Analytical geometry ............2
g. Calculus (diferential and lutte
grail .............,...e2
T. Military art and field engineering. 9
8. Advanced surveying .......... g
Must Select Topics -
The candidate, before entering the
mental examination, is required TO sub
init to the examining board in writing
his choice of the subject in Group III
and in one of Group II. b. ~. ~ r.
Recent orders from the war depart.
ment announce that examination in the
subjects of geometry and trigonometry
may be omitted, but ii a candidate take
either of such subjects relative
weight of two instead of one will be
given for mark in each. Instead Of the
subjects of Group ii the candidate may
be given an oral and practical exami-
nation in drill regulations of his arm or
corps and in Field Service Regulations,
tor ench of which a relative weight OF
two will be given. II candidate so
choose, he may be examined in writing
II any one or all of the subjects Of
Group III, in lieu of drill regulations
and Field Service Regulations, a rel.
alive weight of two instead OF one be-
ing given for mark in each of the sub.
jects selected. ~. 80 ..':..t
Character Counts q. II = .7,'s
Instead of choice of subject in
Group III each member of the board
will award the candidate a mark ON
a scale Of 100 representing his charact-
or, record length of service, efficiency
as soldier and his aptitude and prob.
able qualification for the duty of p
second lieutenant of the line. The nv.
erage marks will represent his mark un.
der Group III, a relative weight of two
being given such mark. Plane aud
solid geometry and new plane and
solid trgonometry, as contained in Up,
ton = Military Policy and text books,
will also be omitted.
Examination to determine whether n
candidate from the army shall receive
permanent appointment after two. yeurs
servicS or his provisional appointment
shall De terminated under the Act ~
Congress, approved, June 3, 1916, will
be that as outlined in Groups I, ii aud
Ill, above, or an educational and pro.
fesslOnal test of equal degree, and such
other provisions as are contained in
general ordehs, No. "a, war department,
1918.