Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-24
CAMP DODGE men
TO HAVE CHANCE
AT COMMISSIONS
Plans Practically Completed for
School Which Opens Jan. ) TO
Instruct Officers.
NON. CONS ARE THOSE PICKED
selecfiyes Of First Draft Contingents
VIII Re Those Who Take Course
N In Training.


Camp Dodge, Iowa, Nov. 24.-Prep-
arations are being completed here for
government school for officers to be-
gin Jan. 8.
Lieutenant Colonel r. 3. Parrot has
been appointed commandment for the
school and the picking Of II officers
who will act as instructors is being
done. Thus far no names have 0een
given out az TO who these officers will
Ne. but II ia probable the majority OF
them will be from the Eighty-eighth
division Of the national army here,
with a few brought in from other
posts.
Unlike the two previous training
camps which have been conducted by
the war department, the camp to TT
500 men for officers commissions Will
be limited TO enlisted men. including
non-commissioned officers and gradu-
ates or undergraduates Of five schools
designated by the department in re-
cent communication to Major General
n. II. Plummer, division commander.
Schools Designated.
These schools are: State Univers-
itv of Iowa, Iowa City; the Iowa State
college Of Agriculture and Mechanical
Arts. Ames. Iowa; st Johns Mllitar!
academy, Delafeld, Wis; st. Thoma'
\ college, ST. Paul, Mimi, and Dubuque
college, Dubuque, Iowa. The tota
Aurnber or men allowed to enter tn
course is 146 The State University o
| Iowa and Ames are allowed 20 and 8
sien respectively, ST. Johns Miiitar.
ademy and ST. Thomas, AZ and 3
respectively, and Dubuque college IL
These men after entering tn
raining school will receive $50
nnth, food, clothing and quarters.
But IL per cent of the enlisted per
sonnet Of the regiments in the Eighty
eighth division will be selected for tn
Course.
With hundreds of meH making ap
plication, the greatest care Is bein
AIKEN TO select the aspirants who Civ
he most promise OF making good. T
farther this part of the work, Pro
fassor J. A. James, dean Of the gradu
G school. Northwestern university
lbs been lecturing to organization com
manders and explaining special seal
being used in grading aspirants &C
cording to their qualifications
This method is said to be the fair
est and most complete of any ever en-
loyed in the selection Of men for til
|. 3Irse Of training.
The total personnel of the studer
officers will be about five hundred.
Second Lieutenants Only.
No commissions higher than that {
second lieutenant will be granite
graduates from the course. This pc
ICY is to be adhered to it is said, wit
d view to making promotions anon
the officers already commissioned VIII
have had several months experient
and filing the vacancies thus create
with the men commissioned secon
lieutenants from the training course
No branches other than the infantI
and artillery will be taught in II
course, One company of infantry ar
one battery of artillery are to be a
signed to the training school for Il
use of the student officers.
The fact that only infantry and a
tillery are to be taught does not mes
that only men who have had expeI
ence In these branches of the servi
may apply for entrance. Men fro
every branch may make applicable
but commissions viii be given only
these two branches.
The final selection of SUGGEST
candidates will be made by board
officers probably about Dec. %.
Separate Quarters.
The student officers will be qua
tered In separate barracks near div
ion headquarters. Their work will
entirely separate from that of the
vision in general and will be condu,
ed along lines similar to that used
the two previous training schools /
officers at St. Smelling, MINI
Enlisted men and commission
officers who are granted entrance
the training course will be carried
their respective organization rolls a
II they fail to make good and recei
commissions will resume their form
status with the organization fri
which they were selected for {
course. Men from the colleges who t
TO make good will return TO civil |
unless they desire to enlist. If {
latter are OF draft age and have be
called into the service they will rept
for assignment II they do not ma
good In the training course.