Arizona republican., 1918-08-31
NEWDRAF FLAWS CHANGE SCHOOLS
 TRAINING PLANS

According to information received from Robert E. Vinson, regional direc- tor Of the committee on education, en- blacing Arizona, the new draft regu- lations have caused a revision of the announced plans of the vocational t;aiDing of recruits
 This is especially true of registrants between IS and 21 years of age. This class of registrants will effect largely the student bodies of the secondary and higher schools These young men are urged to carry out their plans for going to college, and there await devel- orments of the war departments pro- gram. All students in schools and col lcges, who are military regi gistrants. will be carried on the rolls of these schools at the expense of the government Fl om these students, those best quali- fled will be sent to officers training schools.
 The telegram, dated at Austin, Tex as is as follows:
 Today 1 received the following tele- gr am from the committee on education and special training, of war depact- nlcDt which is of interest to colleges and students. New conditions under the amended selective service act re- ducing the draft age to eighteen re- suited in a revision of the previously announced plans for students in the amy training corps. The new mili- tary program probably necessitates the mobilization of all physically fit regis trants under twenty-one within ten months. Therefore, virtually all stu dents over eighteen will be in the field by June excepting certain technical students. Fundamental changes in col iHge routine become necessary. All young men planning to go to college should carry out their plans. Such men over eighteen will register with local i foar0s in September and will be in ducted into the Students Army Train ing Corps at college. About October fI-.'t. members of the s. A. T. c. will be soldiers subject to discipline and with tfe pay of privates. Student soldiers will be kept under observation to de- | termine their qualificat ations as officers | or technical experts. Transfer after a | certain period will be made to the Of | ficers' school or to college for further study or to the cantonment for duty with troops as privates. An attempt will be made to keep the unit at uniform strength by continued admissions from secondary schools and transfers from depot brigades. Students will not ordi- | narlly remain With the college units after majority of the men of the same age outside of college have been called to camp. No units of the $. A. T. (. at present are being established at secondary schools but we hope to extend military instructions at second ary schools at early date. There will also be vocational sections of the S A. T. C. recruited by calls through To- cal boards. Academic instruction must be modified to have direct military value. Institutions are asked at the earliest possible date before October L to contract with the war department for housing, subsistence and instruc- ton of soldiers assigned as members of the S. A. T. c. Such contracts are to be made on a cost basis. The institu- tion will collect only a proportion of the tuition fees covering the period to
 October 1, since the government as- sumes the cost after that date. Certain difficulties of adjustment are recog-
 nized but it is believed none of these
 are insuperable if approached in g spirit of o-operation. Fuller state 1rents are being mailed you today. to-
 gcther with blank for a formal re.