The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-04-28
RECRUITING ARMY or
F|CERS.
A Rare Opportunity Opened
to the Young Men of this
Section Who may possess
Good Characters and fair
Education.

| EDUCATION.
The young man of today has ex
ceptional advantages for seeing
the world, for travel both in Amer
lea and abroad, and for securing q
very desirable and remunerarivt
position with but a small expendi
ture of time. comparatively, in
qualifying himself for assuming
the discharge Of his new duties
A few months spent in a training
camp will determine his aptitude
for promotion. This chance, made
by the war in Europe, has called
for more officers than could be
prepared in the usual way.
Major Jno. II. Hunt, u. S.
Army, was here on Thursday and
Friday of this week on the mission
OF securing as many applicants for
the officers reserve corps as pOssl
BILE. An applicant must be re
commended by at least three prom
inent citizens for his moral char.
acter. He then will be subjected
to physical examination by DIR.
Walter f CaTsteDs. The matter
of bis age covers considerable latI.
tude. He must be 20 years and 8
months old by the 9Th day of mex,
May, when the Camp starts at
Little Rock, Ark, and he must not
be over A years of age.
Major Hunt left here yesterday
going west. He will return here
Oh May 3rd and will be in his of
fee from l to 5 p. III. and from
1880 to 9 p. m. The next day he
will leave on the noon train ex.
pecting to be accompanied by all
who may have stood a favorable
examination and may have met all
other requirements.
Those selected will be sent to
Little Rock, Ark, for training
from May for three months
Parties selected will have to pay
their railroad fare to the camp in
Little Rock but this money will
later be refunded.
These camps, for the intensive
training of young men for the off
GERS reserve corps are expected to
produce 10000 officers 10 three
months, who will be needed to off
Ger the first army of half million
men, to be raised for the war
against Germany. Every man
who is selected and sent to the
camp for training, will be given a
commission as first lieutenant, a
second lieutenant or captain, ac-
cordlpg to his qualifications and
the record be makes In camp
The pay ranges from 81, 700 year
for first lieutenant to 81. 400 for
a captain.
In regard to these officers train.
ed at these camps, the war depart
ment, through Adjutant General
Fl. =. Mccain, has issued the fol
loving statement:
1t Is necessary that "the FIRST
0,O00" should be the best the
country has. In planning our
military forces we must assume
that the war Is by no means draw
ing to a close, and that the coun
try must expand Its military forces
as rapidly and effectively as the
resources of the country permit.
The sixteen infantry divisions and
two cavalry divisions aggregate
approximately a half million men
The officers of this force must re.
ceive promotion to meet the de
mands of forces to be raised later
1t is conceivable that many men
who are appointed in 'the first
ten thousand must be promoted
one grade with each snccessiv,
addition to our military force.
For this reason the war depart
ment hopes that mature men will
seek appointment "in the first
ten thousand"
Other similar camps must follow
the first camp. Young men must
be admitted to the first camp, but
not to the exclusion of maturer
men. In the second and following
camps young men will predomi-
nate.
1t is expected that students
at colleges who are members of
the reserve officers's training
corps and who are especially fitted
10 become members of "the first
ten thousand will be selected by
the regular army officer on duty at
the college and admitted to these
camps. Such students should
preferably go to the camps that
pertain to their home states. 1t
is believed that colleges in general
will graduate seniors who attend
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