New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-10
Military Training Due to
Start in Schools in
Few Weeks
IA TO % DAYS
AT PEEKSkILL
National Guard Officers
To Be Instructors for
Three-Year Course

The State Military Training Commits
sion has completed its syllabus of MILL
tary training for schoolboys. Within
few weeks every unemployed boy IN this
city and state who is between sixteen
and nineteen years old will be required
TO Join the Corps Of Cadets, State OF
New York, and begin military drill and
instruction.
Just how much drill and instruction
this will be and what it will consist OF
was told yesterday by Major General
O'Ryan. chairman of the commission.
The Slater bill, passed at the last SEES
sior of the Legislature, provided for
the exemption from its requirements Of
employed boys Of the ages specified
An attempt to amend the law to in
clude working youths is now being
made. If this attempt is successful
100000 boys now exempt will be chg
ible TO the Corps of Cadets.
There are $500 boys sixteen years
old. 3.lOO boys seventeen years cid and
1850 boys eighteen years old attending
high schools in this city" said General
O'Ryan. About the same number OF
eligible boys are in secondary schools
throughout the rest of the state. The
first step will be TO enroll these boys.
Examination for Boys
"Refore enrolment each boy will be
examined as to his physical fitness 70
undergo training II training will help
him. morally or physically, he will not
be barred. even though he has ire
movable physical defects detrimental to
continued military service. We are
irving TO develop not good killers OF
men, but good citizens. We think the
Corps of Cadets will be civic asset
apart from any military value It may
have.
an the boys seventeenth year-that
is. the first year of training-he VIII
receive l20 hours Of physical training
and forty hours. one hour week, OF
technical military training. In his
eighteenth, or second year OF training,
100 hours of physical training and
eighty hours. two hours week, Of tech'
meal military training. In his nine
teenth year--his last year OF framing
he will receive 100 hours of military
training and instruction, divided INTO
three hours a week.
"In addition. the boys will receive
from two TO four weeks every year OF
field training at the New York Infantry
School Of Application at Peeksklll,
y. Y. The details OF this instruction
are not completed, but each boy Will get
the equivalent of six hours daily Of
diversified work. The guiding principle
will be thoroughness and attention to
the details of elementary things, rather
than an attempt to cover broader and
wider field specifically
Guard Officers to Aid
The physical training will be given in
the schools under the direction Of the
Physical Training Commission. This
work will be part of the school day,
but the technical military instruction
will be impaired by officers Of the Ma
tional Guard in armories where such
are available after school hours. The
time devoted TO military training dur
ing the various years of drill will be
apportioned as follows:
First year, forty hours--Six hours
ical instruction, twenty-six hours drill.
Second year. eighty hours-rwelve
hours rifle instruction, sixteen hours
theoretical instruction, ffty-tvo hours
drill.
Third year, 12o hours-Eighteen
hours rife. twenty-four hours theo-
retical. seventy-eight hours drill.
Major James A. Hutchinson, list In
fantry, \. G. y. Y, has been detailed
as supervising officer Of military train.
ing. Other officers will be detailed i'm
nediately. In addition a battalion Of
300 school teachers has been formed
and il now drilling. These teachers are
expected 70 qualify as military train
ing instructors.
When all is in readiness 20 start
military training in the schools officers
of the National Guard, assisted by non
commissioned officers, will be sent TO
eli schools throughout the state 20
organize the eligible boys into groups.
This action. il is expected, Will be taken
within two or three weeks.