The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-05-18
At NATIONS SERVICE
UNIVERSITY PERSONNEL AND
EQUIPMENT At DISPOSAL OF
GOVERNMENT.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
state Institutions and from
Many Different Parts Of
the Sunshine state.

Pierre
The University of South Dakota
was represented by President Robert
l.. Slagle at the national conference
of university presidents held recently
to consider ways and means in which
the state universities OF the United
States can render aid during the war
with Germany.
The University Of South Dakota has
taken the following steps in placing
it's at the disposal OF the
government:
Through the agents of education
and thence through the governor, It
has offered the personnel and equip
ment Of the university in the service
Of the United States.
An alumni census has been made
for the purpose of ascertaing the spe-
cial qualifications and availability or
every graduate Of the university for
United States service.
A special list of alumni between the
ages Of SO and A has been handed to
the commanding general, central de-
partment, United States army.
Military instruction, abandoned
some years ago, nas been revived. The
work is voluntary. Six hours OF drill
and two hours of classroom instruc-
ton per week are provided, with an
extra drill hour for those who care to
attend. Credit will be given.
Instruction in first aid and other
forms of womanly participation in wal
efforts has been organized for young
ladies. Eight hours per week is the
total. Credit will be given.
Mass meetings of students have
been held, at which the various posi-
bilities of individual or organized ac-
ton have been presented and explain
ed.
Special classes have been formed
for those men who are preparing to
take examinations for commissions as
second ~lieutenants in the regular
army.
Special prominence has been given
to the possibility of attending sum
mer training camp for reserve officers.
Medical students have been urged to
remain in school and carry forward
their regular work.
Faculty action has made it possible
for the following classes OF students
to drop their regular work before the
close of the school year without there.
by losing credit: (a) those who en-
list and enter the service of the Unit
ed States; CO. those who are admitted
to the reserve officers training camps,
(c) those who devote their full time
to study in preparation for examina-
lions for commission; Cd those who
obtain positions at farm labor. Medi-
cal students only are exempted.
Proper c%ertification as to the pursuit
OF n Of the above lines of effort
during the remainder OF the school
year will be required before credit
will be granted for the courses in
which the student registered at the
opening OF the semester. The grade
recorded will be that justified by the
quality OF the work up to the time the
student entered upon the special form
of work.
"6lackleg Week. Planned.
"Blackleg week" is the latest. Sew
eral counties in South Dakota plan on
observing q blackleg week in May
when every effort will be made to
have all cattle vaccinated with the
free government vaccine. This is a
practical idea. says DR.. C. C. Lipp,
State college veterinarian. III all the
cattle owners in a community cooper
ate for q day or two, all the suscepti-
BILE cattle can be vaccinated, and losses
from this disease forestalled for the
remainder OF this season. There are
important reasons for observing black.
leg day on every farm and ranch. In
the present crisis every effort must
be made to produce food for our peo-
pie and u allies. The saving OF
cattle for meat by the use OF blackleg
vaccine is but one of the many ways
OF helping. In fact it is absolutely in
cumbent on every person worthy the
name OF citizen to assist in this work"
Undergraduates Accepted.
High school seniors who have left
0SA~VA WYNN UCAOAO 6~IAUU0tAOu lOI war
emergency service on farms or else
where will be accepted as freshman
students at State college next fall. &C.
cording to DR.. G. L. Brown, dean. It
will be necessary, Of course, that such
students present certificates from
authorities that they left school for
service and that their school work
was Of passing grade at the time. This
is the only fair way to handle the
emergency Of the present." says DR..
Brown, because no one should be
penalized for performing his duty"
Deposits In Banks.
There was $3.50, 000, 900 in the banks
Of South Dakota on March 5, at the
time OF the call on the state and ma.
tional banks. The state banks show
deposits Of $92.S39, 900, and the ma
tional banks make a showing OF $751;
$3.50 the combined figures shown:
that the people OF the state have de-
pOsits IN the banks SO close to the
$3.50. 000, 900 mark that the figure can
easily be stated in the round