Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-16
WAR Department PLANS !.
FOR MILITARY EDUCATION
Barracks VIII Be Erected Where
Needed to House Student Sol
'dicrs' Training Corps.
WORK T VIRGINIA COLLEGES
Two Hundred aud Fifty Thousand
Young Men Will BE Trained at 400
Collegiate Institutions at Expense
OF Government.

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War Department has made public It's
revised plans for putting INTO opera
ton the greatest military education
system ever undertaken in America.
system under which probably 10000
American youths. in tho eighteen-year-
old class and perhaps 100000 approach
Ing their eighteenth birthday will be
admitted to 400 or more Institutions
In the United States for course or
military instruction which WIN pre-
pare them for the army without any
demic studies.
This quarter Of a million young
nF I'll The be kyen of ,ne son
eighteenth birthday may be inducted
IN the United States Army, wear the
Uniform Of private. be educated.
clothed and rationed at the expense
OF the government. and become, an In
tegral part Of the military establish
ment. Those under eighteen may De
Uniformed may be trained. and MAY
their Induction into the army. they
must pay their own expenses.
by the first Of OCTOBER the entire
cording to the official announcements
to-day. The new system was designed
primarily for the cignteen-year-oid
tive service, but whose call has been
deferred until the older. classes are
r1nAuBteO. meantime, SuCn OF them as
go into the military institutions will
be in every sense soldiers, even TO TIM
noint Of rece living pay OF private.
for the seventeenyear-o boys. is
privilege offered as means OF pre-
pairing them for service when their
time 10 go has come.
student soldiers will be given their
military instruction under officers or
servation and test to determine their
qualifications TO become candidates for
officers commissions or FOR technical
4 experts, such engineers. chemists
or doctors. After fixed period they
] Will be selecttI and assigned to mill
] 'arry duty in one OF these ways:
\ .; To noncommissoned officers
:i" tl.p, sfn In H.. Or o,,x,na, ,eboo, for
L IA ,her intensive WORK In specinea
Y ine for limited time; or.
). Transferred to cantonment .or
dGiy with the troops as a private.
i The student-soldicrs OF the Students
1 Army Training Corps Will be housed
4 NariouBiy, as the facilities of each In
stitution shall permit SO far as avail
able. fraternity houses and dormitories
4 viii b. built. Pending. the determine
4 ton and adjustment OF the exact cos
Htt each school the government vii
allow for subs,Rtencc and housing on
r a per diem basis OF 81 for each man
s. fence with 100 collegiate institution
and 100000 soldiers OF the Nationa
VA Army Training Detachment and snow
M ing that the average cost OF housing
his IS to 20 cents day. and Of sub
sistence OF the army ration OF 20 TO
W8e cents
Ri Inasmuch as the governments as
ISL sumption OF costs will not begin until
SS about October /. schools opening prio:
Mo- the tuition fees to cover the az
ESl vance period and students who shall
have registered under the selectivs
[&service act on September y Will need
kSto provide their own expenses unit
ainducted into the Students Army
fra!ning Corps.
Under the scheme OF instruction for
ihi5 corps. eleven hours week viii
ordinarily he devoted TO strictly mill
E,,y subjects. drill and physical train
recitations. laboratory instruction
i .ovcring a restricted choice among
1 lw;de range of subjects usually founu
n college curriculum. These sub
j ects will vary as the soldier-students
a. objectves vary. and by permission.
~ curses may be enlarged and changed
The government. according to tho
announcement to-day, expects TO with
raw from the Students, Army Train
| IL er those students who are twenty o.
iore years OF age, but those OF e.gn-
i r. 4,n and nineteen may remain In
~ hool for some months longer. depend
gpun military needs
rNiTS ar
| SECONDARY SCHOOLS YET
No units OF the corps Will be estab-
resent. but s milar system may
Ustituted for these younger. men as
later date Young men'or draft age
Ak grammar school or equivalent edu.
.t!on may. however, OFFER to enter
he vocationa! section OF the corps
,rough application to their loca
J. 4o4rd. Al present about 2I.500 mem
r. called for this section each month.
en- in this section who show fitness
lay be assigned for further training
the collegiate section.
What will be known as the voca-
onal section of the corps has been
operation since last april. Under
e name OF the National Army Train
Is Detachments II was established
provide the expanded army quickly
Eth reserve supply of soldier spec
tists, trained along vocational lines
important military, value. Its range
instruction included radio and signal
prk. horse shoeing. instrument re-
Hiring. auto mechanics truck and
actor driving and repairing. locomo-
ye repairing and similar work
1rheSe soldiers are assigned by local
y aft boards on call as new quotas
needed or selected men from the
hments. The course OF instruction
Eers six hours Of vocational training
b three hours OF military Instruction
l47 units have been established at
lca tional institutions. This voca.
Bnal section is now to be merged in
f>iHSx iiaiHi"S CoTpS
the conditions OF entrance will be
III before; namely, BY assignment %
HAL boards as vacancies occur, or a
LIZ units are established.
M)f the 400 institutions which have
Eilifed in the collegiate section OF
=. students corps. the following are
MVirginia
Iniyersity, Of Virginia, charlottes-
\ Ee; Medical College OF Virginia, Ricn-
nd; Emory and Henry College.
Hory: Richmond College, Richmond;
Uginia Polytechnic Institute. Blacks
g; William and Mary college. VIII
nsburg: Roanoke College Salem;
ldolph Macon College, Ashland;
hpden-S Sidney College, Hampden-
hey: Virginia Christian College
lchburg; Virginia Military Institute.
Ellington; Eastern College. Manassas
Virginia schools in which there
now vocational training units arc
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