The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-12

pers and commercial organizations.
Weekly bulletins for weekly newspa-
pers are also planned.
In housing the drafted army will be
based on the outcome Of these ex-
periments. The cantonments are be-
ing built In units, each consisting Of
a barracks 23S by 20 feet. q mess
hall and kitchen, 81 by 20 feet. and
lavatory and latrine, SO by II feet. In
each of the barracks one end is cut
off to form an office, the remainder
of the building given over to sleeping
quarters. Each unit Is designated to
accommodate comfortably 1853 men,
this being the strength OF the pro-
visional companies into which the re-
serve officers and students will be
divided for preliminary training.
Quarters for the officers will be sepa-
rate, consisting of a long building
and messrooms.
The conferees on the army appro-
priation bill agreed May to a pro-
vision which will authorize the pay
ment OF 800 a month to each student
at the officers training camps who ia
designated by the secretary of war
to receive such payment. This sum
will be in addition to the allowances
already authorized. Another pro-
vision is that every student 80 train.
ed shall agree to accept appointment
in the officers reserve corps in any
grade rendered by the secretary: of
war. :. The purpose Of this amendment
is to prevent any disgruntled graduate
from refusing to serve II he Is not
satisfied with the grade Of his COM
mission. Secretary Baker in a state
ment issued just before the conferees
reached an agreement said: 1.-THE
difficulties Of the administration in
the selection Of candidates are being
adjusted. The question of pay for the
men In training is expected to be set
tied shortly by congress. with pro-
vision for regular pay for reserve Of
ficers and 500 a month for candi-
dates. All men found fit for commits
sions at the end of the three months
course will be commissioned in the Of
ficers' reserve corps even If not imme-
diately needed for the first increment
Of troops"
'"The instruction to be given the
students attending the officers train
ing camps will follow. as near as pos
sible. that obtaining at the Fort Leav-
enworth school," The Army and Navy
Journal says. After three months
the new officers will be started train
ing recruits. while continuing their
own higher studies"
Among the regular army officers re-
Gently ordered to Fort Oglethorpe is
Capt. Ralph NJ. Parker, who has been
In charge Of training camp and re-
serve corps work at Governors Island.
Among the other officers reporting at
Oglethorpe are: Lieut.. Coils. r. ].
kirkpatrick and Edward r. Schreiner
(medical corps). Maj. Robert r. Raj
ston and First Lieut.. Edwin A. Bethel
CORPS Of engineers). and the follow
Ing retired officers: Maj. Samuel d.
Freeman. Maj. George ]. Newgarden.
Capt. Taylor M. Reagan, Capt. Her.
bert N. Royden. Capt. Philip Yost and
First Lieut.. Joseph Bennett (Philip-
pine Scouts)
Noting an army order sending Maj.
Halstead Dorey. infantry, Y. S. A., to
Charleston as officer in charge of
training camp and reserve officers di-
vision. the New York Sun said: "The
Plattsburg volunteers know this splen-
did officer. Gen. Leonard Wood is to
be congratulated upon obtaining the
services of Maj. Dorey. There will be
doing in the Charleston
district
At least 1000 veterinarians will be
needed for the new armies, tho war
department announces. The appli-
cants whose accomplishments meet
the requirements Of the department
and who will comply with the regula-
lions governing admission to the Of
'icers' reserve corps may be commits
stoned as second lieutenants. In such
case they would draw full pay and al
lowances OF that grade.
Lieut.. Col. James b. Allison. Second
South Carolina infantry Captain. u.
8. A.. declares his belief, The Army
and Navy Journal says that "univer+
sal military training will raise thdp
standard OF citizenship of this country,