Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-09-13
MILITARY TRAINING
IN THE COLLEGES
Ten Kansas Colleges viii Have
Students Army Training
Corps Units

Il
Lawrence, Sept. 9.-Ten Kansas
colleges, including the state univer-
sity, will have units Of the Students
Army Training Corps under command
Of United States Army officers, Chan
cellor Frank Strong Of the University
has announced. Doctor Strong is d.
rector, for Kansas, Of the National
students war service campaign and
has asked the War Department to as
sign two thousand soldier students b
the University this month. The other
schools that will have Students Army
Trimming units are:
Kansas State Agricultural College,
College of Emporia, Paramount Col
lego, Kansas State Normal, Kansas
We 'leyan University, Ottawa Univer-
sity, Southwestern College, State
Manual Training Normal School,
Washburn College. d.
The Students Army Training Corps
may receive all men between 10 and
Is years who are qualified to enter
college or university and meet the
draft requirements. They will be CIV
en- full army uniforms and equipment,
will be lodged and fed in barracks by
the government. They will have all
their university or college tuition and
fees paid by the government and will
receive $50 a month for each man.
They will be exactly in the same
status as if they were in an army can
Torment or in France, except the gov
eminent will give them in addition an
opportunity to educate themselves at
the governments expense and thereby
to qualify for officers training camps,
or for technical service such as medi-
cine, chemistry and engineering, or
for vocational work such as electric
ians, mechanics, chauffers, etc.
ave are preparing for two thousand
men in the Students Army Training
Corps at the University" said Capt.
B. T. Scher, U. S. Army, retired, who
has been detailed to have charge Of
the University of Kansas unit Of the
S. A. T. C. on his return from ten
months service in France. "These
men will be under regular military dis
cipline, will rise at reveille, breakfast
in mess halls and then drill from 7:S0
o'clock to $3.50 o'clock each morning
except Sunday. From 1000 o'clock
in the morning to 400 o'clock in the
afternoon the men will attend classes
and laboratory work in the Univer-
sity. After that there will be retreat
formation, and supper in the mess
halls. The hours from $3.50 o'clock to
1880 o'clock the men will have for
athletics, motion picture shows or any
wholesome recreation they may de-
sire. At 1880 o'clock they must be in
barracks and from then until $3.50
o'clock they will be under supervised
study requirements. Lights will 60
off at $3.50 o'clock and every man must
be in bed then. They will have Sat
urday afternoon and night and Sun
day night off duty, except to answer
roll calls. Saturday and Sunday nights
they may be ur until HOO o'clock,
but they must be in barracks by that
time. They will have to undress and
go to bed in the dark, however, if they
come in after $50 o'clock on Saturday
or Sunday nights. The life will be
made as interesting and wholesome as
possible and will be under regular
military discipline"
Registration for students within the
draft will be September 16 and II al
the University. Captain Scher sug-
gests that all such students bring as
few civilian clothes with them as prac-
ticable. They will have to send such
clothing home or otherwise dispose OF
it after being issued uniforms.
Members of Student Army Training
Corps will have the following five OPP
portunities:
1. To become technical experts
physicians, surgeons, chemists anc
engineers.
3. To enter officers training
schools. .
8. To enter non-commissioned Of
Ulcers training schools.
4. To enter vocational training sec
ton of the Students Army Training
Corps with q view Of qualifying ant
being assigned to the service as cleo
tricians and various kinds Of mechan
ical workers.
s. To enter regular cantonment
as privates but with the advantage o
having had the military training an
} the opportunities for the other fou
possibilities.
Members of the Students Arm
Training Corps at the University ma
select their studies from the follow
ling list, the War Department n
quires:
The School of Medicine, the SchO'