The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-06
SOUTH CAR0LINIANS
URGED TO RESPOND
256 Men From This State Wanted to
Enroll for second Officers Train
ing Camp-No Applicants Ac-
cepted After July Is and Camp
Opens Oh August %.


Columbia, June Ex-Governor Man
ming today issued an appeal to men OF
this State to volunteer for the train
ing at Fort Oglethorpe at the second
officers training camp, which opens
August 81. The last date on which
admission to the camp will be
accepted is July Is. South Carolina Is
called upon to furnish 256 specially
equipped men.
The Governors statement follows:
South Carolina men who are quail
fed as leaders are wanted by the War
Department as candidates for com
missions in the officers reserve corps.
1t is imperative that the right sort
of men answer the call, so that the
new American army, to see actlve
service under the Stars and Stripes
on the battlefelds of Europe, Will be
efficiently officered. 1t is not enough
that men who happen to graduate at
military colleges and schools apply;
men with capacity for leading men
are wanted-and needed. This is the
last chance that those not in military
service will have of obtaining COM
missions.
State Exceeded Its Quota.
South Carolina answered the call
to the frst oglethorpe camp IN a
splendid manner. Some of these ap-
plicants were not able to attend the
camp. because South Carolina exceed
led her quota It is important, LOT
PShe good name of the State, that
South Carolina men do as we'll for the
second Oglethorpe camp, to open Au-
gust q. All applications must De
submitted by July IS. Those desiring
to serve their country as officers are
urged to ask First Lieut.. H. T. Pill
lans, Coas. Artillery Corps, .. S. A.
the Citadel, Charleston, S. c., for the
necessary application blanks, which
give the required instructions and in
formation.
The War Department announces
that it is particularly anxious to
have the applications from the men
who are between the ages of 81 and
a. as commissions as high as lieu
tenant coloney will be issued. This
does not mean that younger men are
not wanted; they are, but that the
army has particular need OF mature
Een. Lieutenant Pillans, the State ex-
aiming officer, would be pleased 10
furnish desired information on re-
quest, and those desiring to apply are
ursed to do so Immediately, and thus
prevent hurtful congestion at the last
moment.
One HYndred Dollars Month and
Expenses.
Accepted candidates for the OH
GERS reserve camp will be given their
transportation to and from the camp;
they will be given subsistence and
uniforms: they will be paid s1oo
month during the period Of training.
Lieut.. Pillans reports that the re-
sponse in South Carolina has been
Mlow. This is not as it should be.
Time is short and men who wish to
secure commissions in the reserve
corps are asked to communicate with
Lieut.. Pillans without delay.
'eThe new American army must be
efficiently oficered. South Carolina
must not be excelled by any other
State in furnishing good officers. The
War Department, for obvious reasons,
desires to be in a position to select
the best available men, and this Sc
aection is practicable only through
the system of officers training camps.
"The press of South Carolina is re-
cuested to use this statement in its
entirety and to give other helpful
publicity to the matter of getting men
to answer this call at once. Such
publicity will be in the nature OF pat
riotfc service"