The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-22
May Enter a Government School and
Train for Officers Be Treat.
ed as Regular Soldiers
on FurlOugh


here is a special call for you to fit
yourselves to be officers in the great
military establishment that your Uncle
Sam is building up. He wants you to
don the uniform at once. He will
equip you with all that soldier
needs. You will be on furlough status
without pay, but he will send officers
to drill you and teach you the fine
points of military affairs at the same
time that you are learning engineer
Ing, chemistry, physics, medicine and
the other sciences that have come to
; be an important part of modern war
fare.
Your Uncle Sam will send you later
to six weeks camp of rigid and in
tensive training under officers and
you hold yourselves in readiness to
. answer a call by the President to &C
tive service when the exigencies OF
war and the military situation demand
your participation in the field.
Notice has been sent to Florida
colleges about this students army
training corps by Dr.. P. P. Claxton
u. s. Commissioner Of education.
President R. G. McLaurin, OF the
} Massachusetts Institute of Technology
is the educational head Of this corps
A staff of well-known civilians is
helping. The War Department plans
Ito have every important college in the
I country military post for the train.
ling of men for the army and navy.
, Trained Men Have Charge
On July IS, three large training
camps at Plattsburg, N. Y, San FraE
. cisco, Cal. Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, will
attendance of 1000 members of col
lege faculties and selected students
began sixty-day course designed tt
prepare men to assist in the work 0
! military instruction in the colleges
this year.
y Details of the plan have just beef
announced by the War Department
THE plan is an attempt to mobiliz
and develop the brain power OF tn
I young men Of the country for thes
services which demand special train
ing says the War Department. 1T
; object is to prevent the prematur
! enlistment for active service of thes
men who could by extending the pc
Rod of their college training, multi
. ply manifold their value to the coun
- try."
In Its announcement the depart
ment points out the neds for highl
trained men as officers, engineers
doctors, chemists, and administrator
of every kind.
Scientific Training indispensable
"The importance Of this need can
not be too strongly emphasized say
1.-The War Departments circular. "Thi
/ lis a war in which soldiers are nc
only marksmen, but also engineer
chemists, physicists, biologists, dot
|tors, and specialists in many othe
| lines. Scientific training is indisper
s,ble. En- cheering skill is NEEDED b
: 1.-THE officers who direct every impol
tant military operation and who col
troll our lines of transport and con
munication. In the same way chen
zeal and physical knowledge are
n constant demand at the front as we
II as behind the lines, while the tas
v Of saving the lives and restoring Il
I'll health of hundreds OF thousands
III wounded calls for the services OF reg
NJ ments of military physicians. TT
el scientific training which prepares
man TO fulfill one Of these high
snecialized duties and the more libe
al training which helps to develop q
I'll qualities of leadership needed by .
officers or administrator are esse
III tial elements of military efficiency.
XII The boy who enlists in the studer
ii army training corps will be a memb
81 OF the army of the United States.
fI will be provided by the War Depa'
"A ment with uniform and equipme
Il Int will be on furlough status q
SI will not receive pay. He will under
4 regular military training as part
! his course during the college ye
SI will attend a six weeks camp for I'll
II and intensive military instructio
I with private's pay, and will be 81
1 iect to the call of the President
I'll active service at any time, should
J exigencies of the military sitIati
I demand it. The policy Of the g
Sl eminent, however, will be to kt
III members of this corps in college
a. I'll their draft age is reached, and
War Department will have the poV
IN order such man to continue
+hnir draft apo