Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22
SECOND TRAINING CAMP
TO START AUGUST )

University of Oregon, Eugene, July
22.-SucceSs attending the first sum-
mer military training camp which
concluded it work at the end of last
week has resulted in the decision to
open second camp to run four
weeks from August 5. A total OF
240 men will be admitted.
Training will be given by full set
Of military officers, and includes
Lieutenant Colonel John Leader,
late commander of the Royal Irish
Rifles, regiment which was all but
wiped out at the battle o. Somme.
Colonel Leader, wounded, was dis
charged from the army as unfit for
further service. For the last six
months he has been at the head of
the military science department in
the university. With him is asso-
ciated Colonel William II. c. Bowen,
U. S. army, retired, who is profess
sor of military science and tactics in
the university, under the authority
of the war department These Of
ficers are assisted by a staff of uni
yersity men who have had special
training in their respective subjects.
Members of the regular university
faculty teach the mathematics and
other scientific subjects demanded
in the course.
The course in the camp includes
the following subjects: Military
drill and parade, principles of cam
paigning, tactics and strategy, field
engineering, signaling, topography,
musketry, mathematics, camouflage,
first aid, officers school, trench,
warfare, military organization, gas
school artillery, drill military law,
bombing and bayoneting, and French.
Pesides these, there is given a thor
oueh course in physical training, un-
der an expert, to put the men in
prime condition for the arduous work
of the camp.
Men in the first summer camp
have come from many walks in life.
Bankers, lawyers, capitalists, clergy
men, clerks, engineers, insurance
mon, students, teachers all have their
representation among the $50 men
now here for training.
Announcements of the second
camp give the following list of men
for whom the work is essentially
designated.
Men of drast age; business and
professional men above draft age,
who may wish to increase their phys
ical and military fitness, preparatory
to trying for officers commissions
or for training home guard officers
and men; high school teachers who
will be enabled to introduce or i'm
prove military training in their
schools; university and high school
students and scout leaders.
The age limit will be IS years or
over. Men with sufficient intelli-
gence to grasp the work offered will
be accepted, but those with college
education or training are preferred.
Applicants are asked to have a ply
sical examination before enrolling,
to ascertain whether they can prob
ably stand the physical strain of the
work.
Strict military discipline is obser-
we'd at the camp. Reville is sounded
at $50 and taps at 1915. General
leave is granted from noon Saturday
until taps Sunday night. The health
OF the men is constantly guarded, by
the physical director and by medical
inspection.
Men who enter the summer camp
are not enlisted or obligated to enter
the service. The men, however, will
he enrolled as university students
and will be eligible to be included in
The university's quota for officers
training camps to come. No prom
Use, however is made to any one other
than that the best training possible
Will be given him. Abundant oppor-
tunity for recreation is afforded. The
cost, including rations and housing
for four weeks, will be $4,000. Each
man is asked to supply his own uni