The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-31
STUDENT CORPS Will
RECEIVE ARMY PAY


students IN the student army tram
Ing corps will be At NO expense at col.
lege for food, housing and tuition and
will in addition receive the pay of a
United States sol@ier--s3o per month
A statement from the war depart
ment dated Washington. August Is,
has just come to President Blackwell
of Randolph Macon college, which out
lines the new plans OF the government
with reference to the colleges.
Further details Of what the war de-
partment wants the colleges to do will
be developed at the conference for
college representatives at student
army training corps camp, which
takes place at Plattsburg, n Y, Sep
TENDER 3 and I. Representatives from
all the colleges in Virginia and the
Eastern Seaboard states are expected
to be present.
The war department in the follow
ing statements outline the general
plan under which the student army
training corp will operate under the
changed conditions produced by the
revision of the selective service law
81. All young men. who were plan
ming to go to school this fall. should
carry out their plans and do so. Each
should go to the college OF his choice,
matriculate, and enter as a regular
student He will. of course. also reg
lister with his local board on the reg
istration day set by the president. AS
soon as possible after registration day
probably on or about October /. OPP
portunity will be given for all the reg
ularly-enrolled students TO be indicted
into the students army training corps
at the schools where they are in at
tendance.
The student. by voluntary Undue
ton, becomes a soldier in the United
States army. uniformed, subject to
military discipline with the pay OF
the private. They will simultaneously
be placed on full active duty and con.
with the colleges for the housing
subsistence and instruction of the stu
dent soldiers.
%. Officers. uniforms. rifles and
such other equipment as may be avail
able will be furnished by the war de-
partment as previously announced.
g. Student soldiers will be given
military instructions under the officers
of the army and will he kept under
observation and test to determine their
qualifications as officer candidates
and technical experts. such as en-.
gineers, chemists and doctors.
a. 1t cannot now be definitely
stated how long a particular student
will remain at college. This will de
pend on the requirements Of tbs
mobilization and the age group Il
which he belongs.
/, s'Students will ordinarily not bt
permitted to remain on duty in this
college units after the aiority OF
their fellow citizens OF like age have
/ been called to military service a
camp.
IS. No units of the student arm,
! training corp will. for the present b,
established at secondary schools.
IS. There will be both collegiate
section and a vocational section of tbs
student army training corp. Yount
men of draft age of grammar schoo
/ education. will be given opportunit,
/ to enter the vocation section of thu
corps. At present about 27.5oo mer
are called for this section each month
Application for voluntary induction
! into the vocational section should b,
made to the local board and effor
will be made to accommodate as man,
as possible of those who volunteer TO
this training
az. In view Of the comparativei,
short time during which most OF tn
student soldiers will remain in colleg
and the exacting military duties await
ing them. academic instruction must
necessarily. be modified along lines o
| direct military value, The war de
partment will prescribe or sugges
such notifications. The schedule o
purely military instruction will no
preclude effective academic work