Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-09-27
FRIDAY, SEPT. ~. 1918.
STUDENTS ARMY
TRAINING CORPS

IT HE announcement of the b. A.
c. that a unit of the Students
Army Training Corps was to be
conducted here, started a wild ex-
citement among some of the high
schools in adjacent counties, who
not only commenced wild scramble
TO obtain Student Training camps
for their schools, but also circulat-
ed the reports that there was TO be
no Army Training unit at Cedar
City, but that there would be one
at so and so.
Some educators have also gone
so far as to intimate that instruct
ors of the b. A. c. were not acting
in good faith when they issued the
announcement of the establishment
OF the Students Training work in
connection with this school, and a
strong pressure has been brought to
bear upon young people who had
announced their intention of en-
listing for the Army Training work
here to have them cancel their APP
plications.
We regret that these educators
should have so far overstepped the
laws of propriety and fair dealing
in this matter. AT the time the an
nouncement was made that unit
of the S. A. Il. c. was TO be estab-
lished here, it appeared that every
thing was settled and that the unit
for this place was an assured fact.
Frequent new rulings from the De
partment at Washington. ID. c.,
however, unsettled matters and the
outcome of the move has been more
or less in doubt for the past two
weeks. There has never been
time, however, when it appeared
conclusive that the work would not
be given here, and at the present
time the prospects are more reas-
surfing than ever. In the immediate
future army officers are to visit
Cedar City to pass upon the quar-
tiers available for students barracks
and il these are found to be salts
factory, there seems to be nothing
more in the way of the unit being
established here. The question of
transportation, which bobbed up as
an objection was promptly met by
citizens proffering the use of their
private cars to meet the require
ments. The question of expense is
a serious one, for where the train
ing work is given, especially for
class b men, (high school students)
industrial courses, calling for large
quantities of materials and special
instructors. are a prominent fea-
ture. Again, the allowance made
by the Government for the board
and keep Of the students is found
in the northern part of the state to
be deficient, and the University of
Utah is now standing for a deficit
of about SOC. per day for each man
enrolled for board and keep, to say
nothing of the large sums required
to supply cement for the concrete
workers, and other materials.
A corps of nearly Is instructors
and assistants are required for each
one hundred students enrolled or
approximately one instructor to ev-
cry four men. This also means an
expense beyond the resources of
the ordinary high school or acad-
envy.
1t may be thought by some that
each school that wishes ii may have
a training corps unit, but this is
impracticable in sparsely settled
district Of country, because the De
partment insists upon 100 students
of college grade before a unit will
be established. In order to obtain
an enlistment of this size at even
one school in the southern part of
the state it may be necessary 10 send
men here from distant parts of the
state or even from another state,
which has been done with the Ag-
ricultural College at Logan, where
practically the entire enlistment is
from other states.
From all the above facts, and
information received from head
quarters, that only one Students
Army Training unit will be estab-
lished south of Provo; and further,
that if such a unit is established it
will be at the state institution in
Cedar City.