The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-04-28
OFFICERS TRAINING CAMPS.
Selected Citizens 10, Be Prepared fo,
Command of Citizen Armies.

Training camps to train the "frst
10000 officers" will be conducted in
the southern department under condi-
tions specified below These condi-
tions have been prescribed by the War
Department, and there is no authority
to make any change in them. Ap-
plications from those who do not meet
these prescribed conditions will not
receive favorable action.
The sole object of the camps is to
instruct and train selected citizens of
this country to become officers of the
citizen armies to be created for use
in the present war with Germany.
The period Of instruction will be three
months. Attendants must be present
throughout the course. All camps
will open May 8, 1917.
Obligation for
Military Service.
Those who enter the camps must
undertake to attend for the full pc
riod of three months; to accept in
the Officers Reserve Corps any COM
mission rendered at the close of the
instruction; and to take an oath of
enlistment for the three months of
the camp, (unless. sooner discharged
by proper authority, in which they
Iswear Cor affirm) to bear true faith
and allegiance to the United States of
America, and obey the orders of the
president of the United States and the
officers placed over them. during the
period of the camp.
transportation
and Food.
Transportation from the attend
ants home to the camp and return
will be furnished by the UnitedStates
the exact manner in which this will
be done has not yet been decided.
Subsistence while at the camp will be
furnished by the government, with
out cost to the attendant. Uniforms
will be furnished at The expense OF
the United States, in somewhat the
| following manner:
(a) The applicant is urged to
furnish his own uniform in advance.
After being accepted as an attendant
he has the privilege of purchasing
this uniform from the government at
cost price, plus 10 per cent, which
will amount to about SIS. A pending
| law provides for reimbursing those
who have purchased their uniform in
advance.
(b) Upon reporting at the camp
and depositing s10,ta uniform will be
furnished the attendant, to be return
ed by him at the conclusion Of the
camp. If no article furnished has
been lost or damaged other than by
fair wear, the deposit will be re.
turned; or in the Sevent Of loss o.
damage, balanceWi be returned
after the cost. of sttll1s sHost or aanagae
ARTICLES has been deducted.
| Attendants at the camp will bt
furnished cots, bedding, arms ane
equipment by the United States.
Qualifications
For Attendance.
The following may attend these
camps: Those who are members 0.
the Officers Reserve Corps in in
fantry, cavalry, field artillery, coas
artillery or engineers, or have take1
the examination for such but hav'
mot vet received their commission.
Any white male citizen of th'
United States who, on May 8, 1917
will have passed the age of twent!
years and nine months and who viii
mot yet have reached his forty-fourtl
birthday, and who is of sound physi
cal condition, of good moral characte
and of good education-a colleg
graduate, or a senior in college, o
Iclearly a we'll educated man.
| Members of the regular army o
of the national guard in federal ser
lvice may apply through regimenta
4 commanders to the department com
tmander.
| All those who have heretofore ar
piled for examination for the Officers
Reserve Corps (including those VIII
Ihave been examined) and who hav
mot actually received their commits
lsions as officers from the adjutan
general of the army, should disregar
Iall previous action and at once tax
steps to attend the training camps
Those who have been examined an
recommended by examining board
will be Certified" without further e,
) animation, if they will address
letter to the Officer in Charge, O:
fcers' Reserve Corps, Fort Sam Hou'
ton, Texas, and request certificate
thew will also be commissioned as ia:
as possible.
There will be a course of instru'
ton in each of the following arm
l Engineers, cavalry, field artillery an
: infantry. =.
All regular examinations for II
!. fCficers' Reserve Corps are suspen
| ed, as the plan now is to pass all cal
didates through these camps OF i
struction and there finally to dete
mine their suitability for commi
sions.