Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-17
SOLDIER STU
DENTS AT WORK
ATTHE STATEU
What They Are Doing and How
They Are Doing 1t Told by
Correspondent.

Nermillion, S, D.--Not only has TN,
Gle Sam, fdr the first time in history,
arranged to pay men students at the
colleges and Universities thirty dollars
a month for being educated as mem
bers of the Students Army Training
Corps but he has specified certain sub,
ects essential TO the warrior which
these men must study.
Different branches Of the service
call for different kinds of special in
formation and training. Certain sub
ects are required of all. Every mem
Der of the Students Army Training
Corps who is preparing to become an
infantry or artillery officer, and who
naS not already had equivalent train
ng takes the course in war issues
military law and practice, hygiene and
sanitation and surveying and map
making.
The different branches of the ser
ice for which preparation. is sought
are: infantry, field artillery, coast
artillery, air service, ordinance and
quartermaster, engineer corps, signal
corps, chemical warfare service, mo-
tor transport and truck service.
Young men of twenty years of age
who are members of the Students Ar
my Training Corps probably will be
led into active service after the
completion of twelve weeks at the
University of South Dakota, so they
re compelled to take ali their pre-.
cribed subjects during the first term.
fpung men nineteen years of age
probably will be called into active ser.
ice at the end Of two terms of twelve
weeks each, so they have two terms
N which to take their required SUBJ
efts n this allows them to select
certain other subjects from the Univer.
ity curriculum. Young men of eight
en- years of age probably will be left
n the University throughout the
present school year. yf4 1
Special arrangements are sfaada for
students in law, medicine and engi.
aeering, All the regular courses are
offered in the professional colleges at
he University and most of the work in
he college of art is open to the men,
oers Of the Students Army Training
Corps in the form of electives in addi-
.on to their required schedule.
The War Department has announced
hat students will be called into &C
i've service in the army by June 1919,
out it is also stated that the only
exceptions will be certain students en-
gagged in technical studies OF military
value. that is, medicine, engineering
ind chemistry Another statement is
Us follows:
Students will ordinarily not be per-
nitted to remain on duty in tho col
eye units after the majority of their
,ellow citizens of like s have been
called to military service at camp. Elk
seption to this rule will be made, as
the needs of the service require il, in
the ease of technical and scientific
students, who will be assigned for long
n periods for intensive study in spe-
,ialized fields
There are two sections in the Stu
Tents Army Training Corps, one COM
oosed of men who are able to offer
thirteen units high school credit and
are in the collegiate section, the other
section composed of men Of grammar
school education only who are in the
5%oeationaI section. Members OF both
sections follow a daily schedule in.
volving two hours of drill in the
morning, athletics and other pre-.
scribed exercises in the afternoon.
Uniforms have been received by the
men in the vocational section and the
uniforms for all members OF the corps
probably will arrive in Il short time.