Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-05-17

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good standing in their community !;
men who will be able to command the
respect of their fellow-officers and of
the enlisted men whom they will COM
mand, and they must be the possessors
of an adequate degree of educa-
tion, and they must be able to pre-
sent evidence of their possession of
these qualifications. They must be
prepared to state. on their entrance to
this camp, that they will do their ut
most to master the work offered them,
and that if they pass the final examina-
tion and are accepted for commissions
as officers in the officers reserve corps
of the United States army, they will
accept those positions and will enter
| upon the work to which they will be
assigned .'for the duration Of the war"
| They must possess these qualifications
and must be prepared to make this
agreement-for their Uncle Sam"
| means business then their t'Uncle
Sam" will promptly take them in hand
and will proceed to edo the rest"
Their every expense will be paid, of
, course. They will not have to pay even
their own transportation to F't Sheri-
dan; or if they may have to pay it at
the first, it will later be refunded
While they are in attendance at the
camp their every want will be Drovid-
ed for; clothing, equipment, shelter,
| food, in short, their every need. The
very words of the circular Of informa-
ton are these: "The candidates will
be under no expense in attending the
camps"
One word more on the point Of quail
ifications for attending the camp and
thereby entering the service of the
United States. 1t may be inferred that
only the younger men are chiefly de-
sired, and that older men within the
given age-limit will not be equally
acceptable. That is not the case. We
have received a special message, say
ing: "Your attention is called to the
following telegram from the war de-
partment" these words" Many
mature men are wanted, because Of the
need for officers who can ls3 given the
higher grades when the additional
forces are organized'"! In other words
the older men are perhaps especially
wanted, for there will be much work
and many opportunities for such SER
vice as older years and greater exper-
ience are more fitted to give. And we
are expressly instructed to add that
Preference will be given to men Of
valuable military experience"
What more could you ask than is
offered here to the fine men of our
country, especially to men of the stu
dent-class and Of good physical equip
ment and of ability to take care of
themselves and Of others in the out
door life? It is simply the case that
nothing like it has ever been offered
before, as is here offered to the flower
of the men of America. Nor will any
thing like it be offered again, for If in
the future there should ever arise
some other hour of great national need
for large body of armed men, that
future hour will find us organized un-
der some other system. In all our
hundred and forty-two years of nation
al existence absolutely no others of
all the millions Of the young men who
have come to manhood on this conti-
nent have been offered anything like
what is being offered you this hour
and offered, so to speak, in the words
of the army mess-call, that shouts,
Come and get it," No other country
has ever offered it's young men what is
being offered you here; a ninety-days'
vacation, and school combined, with
every need met and every expense
paid, and at the end Of that period a
commission as an officer in the armed
forces of the United States-yes, and
as good as life-position in the United
States army, too, for those who make
good with all their might and dem
onstrate their fitness for such life
work in the country's service.
1t may be of interest to you to know
that this great offer to the picked
young men of America is no hastily
adopted scheme of moment or an
hour of national crisis and emergency.
In 1904, when he was secretary Of war,
the Honorable Elihu Root wrote, in
his preface to Major General Upton's
book, "The Military Policy of the Unit
ed States" that ''the great need of the
| immediate future of the United States
government is for the adoption of a
plan whereby there may be secured
officers prepared and ready for the
| command of the forces of the country