The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-08-08

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list as before.
provided satisfactory work is be-
? ing done, students viii not be inducted
into active service until graduation
2 This provides the technical and spec
ial training absolutely necessary to
win the war today as well as trained
! leaders for the all important recon
struction work of tomorrow.
q 1.-THE government insistcntly de-,
i. mands highly trained men as officers
engineers, doctors, chemists, agricul-
4 turaEsts, administrators, ETC., and has
commissioned the University of Idaho
i to supply at least two hundred and
six this year. Uniforms are furnished
to all students taking this special
4 training. Such enlistment therefore
!. constitutes the plafnest road leading
Il to an officers commission.
i "Should congress lower the age Of
i liability to immediate military service,
men of the new ages not clready en-
listed may find difficulty i'm entering
the service otherwise than through
the draft boards. e. H. Lindley,
President"
j The university has received from
the military authorities an urgent ap-
peal to get as many young men into
the university as possible and OUT
lining the new policy which makes
of each of these students member
of the army and that they are in line
for officers commissions. Many
/, sheets are devoted to the plans for
4 inducing young men to enter the uni
versity and thus become, automat-
ically, members of the new national
army, but permitting them to remain
r in the school until graduation unless
i there should be an emergency, in
which case they would be called for
: service at once.
President Lindley and the univer-
sity faculty are particularly DESTROYS
J of getting this information before the
young men of the state and have
asked the press to cooperate. 1t
/ seems that there is a strong desire /
1 among the young men leaving high
school to enter the army at once, and
the government urges through the
letters sent to the university, that
these men enter the colleges and uni
versities and take SPECIAL training to
fit them for special positions in army
work. The University of Idaho is
asked to furnish at least 206 such men
next year and President Lindley
wants all high school graduates who
can do so to enter the university.
A student enlisted in the Students
Army Training corps is in military serv-
ice of the United States. Because he
does not receive pay, he is classed as on
inactive service, but in a national emer-
gency the president may call him at any
time to active service He is called to |
active service each summer when he
attends camp for six weeks and receives
the pay of a private
His relation to the draft is as follows:
Any student so enlisted, though in the
military service of the United States, is
technically on inactibe duty, and there
fore must register after he has reached
| draft age and upon notice by the presi-
dent. Upon stating on his QUESTIONABLE
that he is already in the military service
of the United States, he will be placed
automatically by his local draft board in
class V-D, as provided by the selective
service regulations. The draft board
will not call him for induction so long
as he remains member of the Students {
Army Training corps. /;
In order that the college student may |
not even appear to enjoy special privi- {
leges, it is agreed, however, that when I
the day arrives on which according to
his order number he would have been !,
drafted, had he not already volunteered 6
the fact is reported to the president of :
the college, and to the commanding :
officer at the college, who in turn rel
ports it to the adjutant general. This
is the day of reckoning for the. college
man. The president of the college and 9
the commanding officer will then report !,
to the chairman of the committee on =
education and special training of the war
department, for what form of military /
service the individual is in their judg-, :
ment best qualified. They will recon- ;,
mend either that the student should con- !;
ti1ue his studies TO prepare for work in !
medicine, engineering, chemistry psy-ll ;,
chology, economics, ETC., or that he {
should go at once to an officers training :,
sa1np to prepare for an officers commits
sion in the infantry, artillery, etc, or !.
hat he should be assigned to work in
he ordinance, quartermaster or other II
taft corps or sent Immediately to
livision at one of the camps. Lieut..