Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-18

structing him In the duties Of nom
J commissioned officers.
His third camp. or the white camp,
| is the one in which he takes up the
( duties of officers of the arm OF ms
/ selection In this camp he will have
practical command of troops under
| the care and guidance of officers OF
| the regular army, and he Will be
/ taught to take care of the troops that
may some day be under his command.
and will be prepared to perform in
an efficient manner the duties of an
| officer.
While an attendant may go to moro
| than one camp in n year, the funds
available for this purpose are so linn
tied that the war department can pay
his expenses at but one camp each
year.
Following the summer camps, thero
| will be correspondence course by
mail which the attendant will be in
Vited to take and which will be cX-
termely valuable TO him in his military
studies.
Officers Reserve Corps
Upon completiog his course of three
camps and the prescribed winter in
struction. the war department will au;
! thorize the student to appear before
/ "a board which shall examine his rec
ord at the camps and shall give him
"A practical examination as commander
of unit suitable To the grade for
which he is applying in the officers
reserve corps, and after his suitability
for commission has been established
Ivy the board he will be duly com
missioned in the officers reserve
0 In
per year with the regular army, and
service as an officer Of volunteers in
time of war.
Department commanders arc
charged by the war department with
the organization and conduct of the
camps within their own departments
In conformity with the foregoing gen
eral policy.
The foregoing is an outline OF the
law and of the policy of the war de-
partment with reference to these
camps. and in n letter of instruction
to the department commanders, dated
January l6, 1917, the secretary of war
states that the matters of location of
camps for the year 1917. and the dates
for holding the same, are left entirely
in the hands of the department com
manders.
Location of Camps.
The southern department camp of
last year was held at Fort Sam Hous-
ton, and the question was considered
of the advisability of continuing this
as a permanent site for future camps.
If this course be pursued, thero are
! thousands, probably hundreds of thou
sands, of citizens OF these southwestern
states who will know nothing of the
training camp movement other than
| tkfh ha N hn
on the other hand, these camps be
not held in a fixed place, but are held
in the thickly populated parts of the
| department. the citizens will have an
opportunity to visit the camps and to
learn by actual observation just what
is being done in this matter. More
than this, they will see the regular
army at work and will see the officers
and men in their daily life, and this
it is believed, will be an excellent
thing, for in many parts Of the coun-
try the general public has no personal
t knowledge of the army, the class of
men of which 1t is composed or of
: what work there is in connection with
the training of troops.
We have, therefore, decided to hold
camps at five different points in the
department during the coming sum
! mer, and in the selection of these
places | have also TO consider the
, question of transportation and to try
! and so locate the camps. with refer
! ence to the nearest camps of other
departments so as to reduce trans
portation charges to a minimum. As
, already announced, the places and
dates of the camps OF the coming
summer are as follows: Austin, Texas
May 4June 3; Dallas, Texas, June l6-
, July 15: Alexandria, La, July 2S-Au-
! gust 81; Houston, Texas, September s.
! October I; Las Vegas. y. NJ, July 81
, August 30. 1t is believed that locat-
ing the camps in these places will
T bring them to the notice Of a great
I many people, and by distributing then
4 thruout the summer ii will be possible
Z for all those so desiring to have al
! opportunity to attend one of the
I camps.
, | shall take personal command OF
| each of the camps and, so far as tn,
e affairs of the department permit, viii
be present in camp. There will be M
c executive officer designated for eacf
( camp, who, during my absence, will
e keep in touch with me by long dis
tance telephone and telegraph, anC
will attend to the execution of sucf
\ orders as | shall give him from tim,
= to time.
= / believe that these camps are mos
), important, and it is my intention tC
b. give them as great personal direction
= as the affairs of my large comman(
S will permit.
/ Regular Troops to Attend.
y Such troops of the regular army a
: may he necessary will be in attend
a ance at these camps. AS there will b,
:; no more flrst-year men than an!
u others, the instruction will be largel!
infantry, and | shall, therefore, hav,
u a battalion of regular infantry to b,
) used In connection with this part o
the work. For those in the SECOND
= :, and third years, who have selected
., the mounted service, there will be cav
= airy and field artillery to be used il
their instruction. For the engineers
there will be an engineer company
= and for the signal corps there will b'
I sections of telegraph troops, sections
of wire troops and the same of radio
troops.
| In addition to the troops in attend
ance. there will be such material a
may be necessary, such as searchligh
section with the engineer company
radio, wire and buZzer outfits for th'
signal troops motor and other equip
ment for the sanitary troops, together
with ovens and other equipmen
needed by the section of the baker.
| company that will provide the breaC