The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-09-17
COLLEGE OF HAWAII
STUDENTS WILL Be
ACTUAL SOLDIERS
Army Officers En- Route to Homo
lulu To Induct Them Into Mill
tary Service of Nation
ARE TO SEE ACTIVE
SERVICE NEXT YEAR
Barracks To Be Erected To
House Youths; Will Be Armed,
Equipped, Get Regulars Pay

of tho induction into military serve" !
in the Students Army Training Corps
Of all eligible students who apply for
entrance to the College Of Hawaii for
the coming term, according to wireless
notice which reached James l.. Young,
acting president, yesterday. The army |
officer Will also organize the school on a
military basis, and aid in the establish
mcnt and construction of barracks for
housing the military students, mess hall,
kitchen and drill grounds.
The students, or those eligible for
military service, are all to be indicted
into the army service before October l,
the date on which the Students Army
Training Corps becomes an active unit.
and each young man 10 indicted be
comes a private of the army and will
receive the pGy Of private.
The army will provide cots, bedding
and the necessary outfit usually given
to O soldier, including uniform. The war
department will also supply rifles and
the necessary equipment for training,
although it is believed that the corps
will be instructed principally in coast
artillery work This is due to the fact
that the College of Hawaii is tcchni-
cal school, in which engineering plays
an important part, and the principles
Of engineering could be more valuably
applied to instruction in coast artillery
than in infantry tactics.
In addition to the regular army Off
Ger, who, it is expected, will become
cOmmandant of the corps, there will be
non -c0mmissioned officers and privates;
an army mess to be Immediately estab-
hshed. and will be organized by the
army men. Subsistence is provided by
the wHr department, together with hOus,
ing at the rate of not to exceed one
dollar per day, while tuition charges
are also to be paid by the government
for such men as are enrolled as army
privatea
Youngsters May Drill
BOYS who are under eighteen years
Of age cannot join the corps directly,
but in the interest of developing know
ledge of military life among them, will
be permitted To drill with the others.
From present indications the corps will
number about fifty men.
The College of Hawaii was to have
opened September 9, but the college au
tablishment of the training corps, neces
stating pOstronement of the opening
of the fall term to September II. This
has aimee been changed to October l.
The loss of time this month will be
made up BY an extension Of the school
year in June. 1919.
Letters received by the college au
thorities yesterday from Col. Robert
j. Rees, general staff corps, chairman
% .the committee on education and
special training of the al department
ddted August 20, includes statemtnt
Of fhc "Man Power Act" provisions
for men between the ages of eighteen
ana forty. five years, and with respect
to5f9dents SAYS:
To See Active Service
"Sinse they are not to be mad" il
anv sense deferred or favored class
this means that they will practically al
be assigned to active service IN th'
field by June, 1919. The only rx"nI'
tons VIII be certain students engage
in technical studies of military value
O. e., medicine, engineering and chemls
try. Under these conditions it is ob
vious that schools aud colleges 70
young men within the age limits Of m
new law cannot continue TO operate II
under peace conditions.
HAll young men who were planning
to, 90 to school this fall should carr
out their plans and do 81 Each sh"uI
cd 70 the college of his choice. matrl
culate. and enter as a regular student
He will, of course, register with hi
local board on registration day set b
the President. As soon as pOssihl
thereafter, probably on or about Ort'
Der 4, opportunity will be given for II
the regularly ENROLLED st udents to hc II
dueted into the Students Army TraiI
inc Corps at the schools where tn"
are in attendance.
f"The student, by voluntary Undue
tion. becomes a soldier in the MT"
States army, uniformed, subject to null
tag discipline and with the pay &
n private They will Simultaneous
ba placed on full active duty, and con
tracts will be made as soon as Posslb
with the colleges for the housing, SuJ
sisteuee and instruction Of the Stud"r
soldiers
gp0AiseTs, uniforms. rifles and 81"
other equipment as may he a'aIIah
viii be furnished by the war dePar
ment, as previously duuOuhI'u'
May Become oficers
6The student officers will be give
military instruction under officers
theeHrmy and will he kept under obsH
yatfon and test to determine their qua
fications as officer candidates, aud tee
meal experts such as eng neers, cher
let's and doctors. After q certain PcrI'
the men will be selected according
Their performance, and assigned to mi
tnTvrdutv in one Of the following way
rI'Ifs may be transferred to cent?
officers training camp:
.nHe may be transferred to no
commissioned officers training s"h"'
T'He" NAV he assigned to the srh'
where ne is. enrolled for further int
siVe. work id a specified line for lin
ed speeified time:
r'aHe may be assigned to the vocatrr
nj training section of the corps
teehnician training of military va'u
THE may be transferred to = ca
Ar $50
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