Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-07-20
WORK OR FIGHT.
Colonel mt University Gives Ad-
vice to Young Men-Frater-
mites Being Formed ut the
Training Camps-Hospit-
al Unit About Complete

Charlottesville, July 1S.-Lieuten-
ant Colonel james A. Cole, u. S. A..
retired, professor of military science
at the University of Virginia, says
that until the conclusion of the war
every young man of college .ge
should "either fight or study" In n
statement setting forth the reasons
why it is fundamentally important
that the colleges and universities
continue their work with the mini.
mum amount of Interference, Colonel
Cole said:
"rhe pinciplc burden Of the pres
ent war will fall OH the men between
the ages of twenty-one and thirty
one. War will take its toll of all
these men, and the country will be
correspondingly crippled. The Unit
ed States urgently needs learners
TO take the places of these men whose
abilities in tho arts of peace will
count for nought during the period
OF war, because they have been call
cd in to military service.
but if man does not fipht he
must work. The idlcr must find
work. The student must study. The
authorities of the University of Vir-
ginia believe with justice tha the
University men should stick TO their
work SO as TO be able to wprthily
fill places vacated by older men. 1t
should be either fight or study with
them. The military department of
the University will provide oppor
tunity for men to fit themselves in "A
measure for later military service.
Students can work for their country
by studying honestly. The thing is
to strike hard ut whatever is nj
tempted"
Fraternities at Training Camps.
The Fort Heyer chapter of the
General Alumni Association of the
University of Virginia has been or
ganlzed Mt the camp with mem
bership of 100. The Fort Oglcthorpc
chapter has 15 members and the
Fort Mcpherson chapter about so.
Gift TO the University.
A gift of 100000 TO the Univer-
sity of Virginia was provided for in
the will of Colonel Oliver II. Payne,
who died in New York city last week.
Cash bcquests for morcthnn $1,000
600 to charitable and educational in.
stitutions were made.
The University Of Virginia Base
Hospital Unit, authorized by Colonel
Jefferson Kcan, u. S. A., to be known
as No. Ill has about completed it's
staff of twenty-five surgeons, sixty
live Red Cross nurses; and applicants
are being received daily for the ad
mlnistrativc personnel to be compos
cd of one hundred and sixty-eipht.
The entire unit will comprise two
hundred and cighty-eight members
DR.. William ii. Goodwin, associate
professor of surgery at the Univer-
sity, appointed director of the unit by
Col. kcan, feels confident of complet
ing the enlistment within the coming
week, at which time the unit will be
accepted by the government for ac-
tive service.
One hundred and fifty Krng-Ior-
gensen carbines have been received
at the University of Virginin for the
officers reserve training corps. The
University regiment will be organiz-
ed Immediately upon the opening of
the season in September and the
training will continue through the
winter Lieutcnant-C Colonel James A.
Cole, U. S. A., retired will hold the
position of professor of military
Science. as during the past session.