The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-02
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TEXAS IS GREAT
TRAINING PLACE
MANY AMERICAN SOLDIERS PRE-
PARED FOR WAR ON BORDER :


AUSTIN, May 30.-The training of
/ hundreds Of thousands of men for mil
itary service in great environments,
camps and schools of instruction with
in its borders places Texas among the
foremost states of the union in mill
tary activity since the United States
ientered the war. There are approx
mately 40 camps and schools Of mill
tary instruction in the state.
Educational indtitutions of Texas
are contributing their share in militia
ry activities The University of Tex
as is one of the six institutions in the
| United States selected by the govern
i'ment as training school in military
Faeronautics. A reserve officers train
ing corps also has been established
1t the university and courses in naval
architecture are being taught. In adj
ditOn a school of automobile and radio
mechanics with capacity of approx
! imately 1900 students is being conduc-
t2d under government supervision.
Texas has approximately $4,000 men
in the military service. Thirty-fve
thousand of these are volunteers and
$4,000 have been drafted OF the, to-
tai approximately $4,000 are in the
army $500 in the navy and 1900 are
marines.
Upwards of $500 Texans have been
commissioned in the army.
Practically 100000 Texans in the
selectiye service are awaiting to BE-
called to training camps.
A new national guard of two bri
gades of calvary CT three regiments
Teach and brigade of infantry is being
recruited. The new guard will have
1880 men and 500 officers. When or
ganization is completed the guard may
be federalized and placed on the Mex
lean border to relieve a number of reg
uiars now there Texas has 900 miles
OF international border.
The activities of Texas have not
been confined strictly to a military
sense however. Although more than
fifty counties in the state have been
drought-stricken for upwards of two
years, a campaign for more food and
feed production stimulated activities
to such an extent that many thousands
of war gardens and hundreds of acres
of previously unproductive ground are
being cultivated Hopes are being
raised because of bounteous rams in
several sections of the drought area.
Women of the state have contribut-
ed to the war work through every chan
mel open TO them
The Red Cross in Texas contribute
ed $lO0OOO0 in the first drive for fund
made by that organization.
Texas has invested more than $685.
fo0o,09O in Liberty bonds. The state
subscribed S42,9O5 $50 in the first Lib
erty Loan campaign. and more than
SO.oO0O00 i'll the third campaign.
In Y. NJ. c. A. work. Texas because
Of The vast number of men in train
ing within its borders shows UNUSUAL
activity The state has contributed
$b@4,0 IN the two drives for \. NJ G.
\. lands. Fifty Texans are in the ac-
tive Y. N. c A. work in France it
was estimated here, while within the
state more than sixty buildings for
/ the entertainment and comfort of the
soldiers are being maintained. In adj
dition TO these there are Il number
of mobile Y. NJ. c. \. units constant
/ " travelling the bOrderhouses in small
motor trucks giving entertainment and
service to the men on the border duty.
Texas also has contributed liberal
! ly to every plan that makes for the