The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-05-29
COURSE TAKES
DEFINITE FORM
Classes Will Be Under Control of
Officers-Saturday Afternoon
Freed for Athletics

Hc COuCTdCI between the OnlVer
sity and the United States War De
partment, by which the university
agrees to take 100 men for military
mechanical, and special instruction
has been signed by the government
and the work of preparing for the
arrival Of the soldiers is progressing
rapidly.
The contract provides for the send
ing of 100 men here June Is, fol
special training. The university is
to receive $1.60 per day for the
board, lodging, and instruction OF
each man. The men will take their
meals at Ridenbaugh Hall and will
sleep in the gymnasium. Cots and
bedding are to be furnished by the
government
Laboratory Work
The men will be divided into
groups, each one taking up a GER
tain line of work. Forty will be
trained as wireless operators, 20 as
general mechanics, 20 as auto me-
chanics, 10 as carpenters and 10 as
blacksmiths. The lecture feature of
the course will be confined to half
hour lecture a day. The rest Of the
time will be spent in practical work
in the lines they are taking. The
school is to be purely vocational
one. The men will receive rough
preliminary training in the different
branches so as to be directly useful
to the government in their callings
as workmen. Their period of in
=struction will be from $3.50 to 1890
and from 1:30 to 4:30. After $3.50
the men will drill. The approval of
the War Department Committee on
Education and Special Training,
which has direct charge of this work,
has been obtained to >shorten the
time Of instruction to a half day on
Saturdays. Those in charge of the
men will make plans with this ar
rangement in mind. If agreeable
to the officer in charge of the men,
arrangements will be made for base
ball games or other athletic sports on
Saturday afternoon.
. Strict Military Control
The men are at all times under the
disciplinary control of their. military
officers. A commissioned officer is
in responsible command of each de-
tachment. The class divisions are
placed in command of sergeants and
These officers march their classes to
the class rooms and shops, take the
roll before entering the room, and re-
port the class to the instructor, ready
for work. AfterI classes are dis
missed by the instructor, the officers
conduct them in column formation to
the next class. No roll of attendance
is kept by the school authorities;
this is handled entirely by the army
officers. Grades obtained in class
are reported weekly by the instruc-
tors to the officers in charge of the
course, who report back to head
quarters also weekly.
To Use New Shop
Much of the work will be done in
the new shop building which fur
nishes fine quarters. Lewis Court
will probably be used by the auto
mechanics, and a part of the mines
building by the wireless operators.
TIL <ro,o,oI ,,,aobop;oc will ,,eo +boJ
laboratories and also the machine
shop. The carpenters will use the
carpenter shop and the blacksmiths
probably the FORCES in the heating
plant if there is a sufficient number.
The men will receive individual in
struction most of the time. The
maximum number of men to an in
structor, of whom there will be about
seven, will be twenty. Of course in
several cases it will be less than this.
A motor truck instructor will not
have any more than six men with
him.
Each group of men will receive a
certain kind of instruction. The gen.
eral mechanics will have the broadcast
course. They will spend their time in
carpentering, blacksmithing, pipe fit
ting, and sheet metal work. The car ;
penters will have work in putting
up and repairing barracks, and in
concrete forms and
bridges. The auto mechanics will be ]
taught how to operate auto trucks
and how to keep them in order and
make needed repairs. The men TAX
ing up wireless operating and black t
smithing will receive instruction in
those lines only.
More Coming
The course is to be eight weeks i
ong, when the first contingent will f
cav, and the second come in. Whether v
he camp will continue thru the s
school year has not been decided. c
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