The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-09-27
GOVERNMENT WANTS
ORDNANCE OFFICERS

Men to serve as commissioned and
noncommissioned officers and privates
in the ordnance department of the
United States army are urgently need
ed. according to the government lat
est call for volunteers. They must be
of draft age or older and must have
college training or be "men of suffi-
cient actual business experience to en-
able them to grasp the subject and be
relied upon after completing the
course" No other requirements are
stated in the call.
The University of Oregon at Eugene
has been designated as a training sta
tion for the course. The instruction of
the first section will begin October l.
Plenty of applications have been re-
ceived already, but the government now
wants new sections to be started every
six weeks hereafter. Each class will
be limited to so men, and these will be
expected to devote their entire time to
the training. The army's need is so
urgent that the students showing the
most aptitude will probably be called
upon before the end of the six weeks.
The men will act as shipping clerks,
stores clerks, balance of stores clerks,
etc., at bases and field depots, and be
Irresponsible for buying, handling and
accounting for munitions and military
equipment. Thousands of lives will de-
pend upon their accuracy and efficiency
in getting ammunition and ordnance to
1.-THE fighting lines and the War Depart
ment demands men who "are 100 per
cent efficient"
The course at the University of Ore
gon will be under charge of c. c. Jer-
emiah, who has been assigned to the
work of the War Department. A fee
of $40 will be charged to meet the
heavy expense of giving it. Enlist
ment is required at the close of the
course. If the men are called to duty
and are placed in the field, they will
receive the rank Of sergeant, which
carries with it a salary of from $40 to
$50 per month, according to grade,
with a 20 per cent increase in case of
foreign service. All men taking the
course will probably be made SER
geants as soon as they get into the
field, although the government does
not guarantee this.
The training will include industrial
and scientific management, lthe receipt,
handling and shipping of ordnane ma
terial, conversational French, and per-
haps typewriting. The man who can
operate typewriter will have an ad-
vantage and stand the best chance of
early promotion to commissioned rank.
Director jeremiah comes from the
University of Pennsylvania, where he
has been connected with a similar
course. He says: EVERY man should
be made to realize that the course is
not given with the view that the mer
will make money after they enlist. II
is purely patriotic move and the mer
taking the course must sacrifice some.
thing for their country. At the Uni.
vresity of Pennsylvania we had in oui
class mel chants, lawyers, manufactur.
ers, brokers, ETC., men who are making
salaries of anyhere from $1,000 to $l0,.
600 per year. They sacrificed home,
salary, prospects and everything else
to be of service to their country, anG
we shall expect the same of the stu
dents out here.
Application blanks for admission tc
the Stores Course will be furnished or
request. Address c. c. jeremiah, Uni
versity of Oregon, Eugene.