Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26
YOUTHFUL REG|STRANTs
WILL TRAIN IN COLLEGE
Eighteen-Ycar-Olds to Be Allowed
to Try for Army Com
missions
TO MAKE SCHOOLS RESERVOIRS
War Department Hopes to Create
Reserve From Which Enlarged
Demands Can Be Satisfactorily
Network Under Federal Control

That the United States government
1 n1enris 70 improve owe, al the officers
men of the nation is fully Indicated
by the recent bulletin concerning tho
S = p, army training, corps sent to
dolph-Macon College, by the War De
sdpca,ional facilities Of the ' Country
VIII be utilized to maintain a tonstan mt
meet the demand Of the army. The
resiessS; It is seems will be used as
lowering of the draft age to 10 V eighteen
mates: 70 fo pre oieinsr the exhaustion Of
education viii be allowed to oS 6H y SonGo.
w yas i there enter the COLLEGES
will continue in college till called out
by the government needs. The bulle-
General Peyton c. March. chief of
sest hSs Of BY order Of the
corps in the educational institutions
OF the country to train men as officers
T The psn foI he experts in the army
ing corps as altered to conform to the
plans Of the War Department for
i9werinE the draft age. Will utilize the
the colleges to maintain a reservoir
or officer material for training. from
which It will be possible to meet tho
Of the service
The, length OF time during which men
VIII be trained In the colleges will
drawn from the colleges into the SER
new a 5nea p aStsne % h. be taken BY
duction or through the draft. In this
way the educa tional facilities Of the
c count1y Will be used to maintain u
trained to meet the needs of the
army
TRAIN AFTER INDUCTION
INTO NATIONAL ARMY
Under, the. regulations provided for
lected young men who are physically
mt for military service. who are eiEh-
have fsen g gaa Of age n or eyer ana VINO
may be voluntarily indicted into the
army and enter upon n course of spe-
Grammar-school education and no more
VIII ordinarily enter special training
attachments to be. trained along me-
detachments Will become part OF the
students army training corps. and
young young men who prove in the course OF
their mechanical training that they
are officer material may be transferred
TO unit Of one of the colleges TO be
prepared TO enter central officers
Young men who have had at least
high school education will be al
lowed to enter the college for more
advanced training as officers and as
technical experts OF various kinds, &C
cordinG to their experience and abil-
tiles. Those men who show promise
under this training will be kept in
college. until qualfied to enter cen
trail officers training camps or to go
directly into the service as technical
experts. Those who do not will be sent
either to noncommissioned officers
schools or to the nearest depot brigade
or. in case they show special techni-
cal or mechanical ability, to the de-
tachments where men are trained for
such work.
Arrangements will be made for
transferring from the depot brigade
to units of the student army training
corps men whose ratings in the can
comments indicate them to be officer
material but not yet ready to enter
central officers training camps. Every
9 fort will be made to give every
young man who enters the service un-
der this plan opportunity for the train
ing best suited to his natural ability
md preference. in order to enable him
to serve the country in the most Eff
Ecient way"