The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-08-30
IDAHO YOUTHS To BE TRAINED
n AS SOLDIERS At MOSCOW

The University of Idaho has been
asked to take as many students as
possible for special training for war
work, and this morning a campaign
to enlist the young men of Idaho in
the university, where they will be-
come members of the Students Army
Training Corps, known as the IS. A.
T. c." and be educated at the expense
of the government and given army
pay and sustenance, will be opened
in all parts of the state. Prelimin-
ary arrangements had been made and
, have been held in obeyance until the
passage of the manpower bill. Last
night DR.. E. H. Lindley, president of
the university, received the following
telegram from the committee on edu-
cation and special training of the war
department, at Washington, D. c.,
and he has given it to the press of
Idaho and eastern washington. The
telegram from Washington follows:
WASHINGTON, D. C. 8 p. M, Aug.
29.-President University of Idaho,
Moscow:
New conditions under the amended
selective draft service act, reducing
the draft age to eighteen years re-
suited in the revision of the previous
ly announced plans for the Students
Army Training Corps. The new mil
itary program will probably necessi-
tate the mobilization of all physically
fit registrants under 21 within ten
months. Therefore virtually all stu
dents over 18 years will be in the
field by June excepting certain tech
nical students. Fundamental changes
in college routine will become neces-
sary.
All young men planning to go to
college should carry out their plans.
Such men over 18 will register with
the local boards in September and will
be inducted into the S. A. T. C. at
college about October 1. Members of
the S. A. T. C. will be soldiers and
will be kept under observation to de-
termine their qualifications as Off
GERS or technical experts. Transfers
after a certain period will be made
to officers schools or to college for
further study or to cantonments for
duty with troops as privates.
Attempts will be made to keep the
units at uniform strength by contin-
ued admissions from secondary
schools and transfers from the depot
brigades. Students will not ordinar-
lily remain with college units after
majority of men of same age OUT
side of college have gone to camp.
No units of the S. A. T. c. at pres
ent are being established at second
ary schools, but hope to extend mil
itary instruction at secondary schools
at an early date. There will also be
vocational sections of the S. A. T. C.
recruited by calls through the local
boards. Academic instructions must
be modified to have direct military
value. These institutions are asked
at earliest possible date before Octo-
Der 1, to contract with the war de-
partment for housing, subsistence and
instruction of soldiers assigned as
members of S. A. T. C.
Signed d-Committee on Education
and Special Training, War Depart
ment.
War Tasks Call for Expanded Effort.
Pointing out how the war department
has already taken steps, through the es-
of the Student Army Train
ing corps, to utilize the higher educa-
tional institutions in training young men
under Fl, Secretary Lanes committee
makes the following recommendations
"The people of the United States
should recognize that the maintenance
of the war strength of the nation in its
full power demands the utmost efforts
of all existing, we'll organized and, ade-.
quately equipped colleges, universities,
and technical schools. This means ever
and more devoted bodies of
students as we'll as faculties.
young people having the requisite
should heed this urgent
call of their country, and apply them-
selves diligently, enthusiastically, and in
increasing numbers to the task of pres
pairing for the highest service of which
hey are capable. Wherever practicable,
young men should at the same time join
he Students Enlisted reserve and pre-
pare for military service, in order to be
"Tnstitutions of higher education
possible, to immediate war needs and to
he demands which must inevitably come
With the establishment of peace, and
should develop especially those scien-
ific and practicable branches of study
which are essential to the winning of
he war, to the development of our IN
1ustries and commerce, and to the ac-
of the tasks of the civil
md political life of the nation
Educational institutions should use
.very effort to make the opportunities
md privileges of training for public
service accessible to all suitably prepared
nen and women of college age In the
,ases Of many worth young men and
women this will require some provision
or assistance in meeting payments tor
uition and laboratory fees and other
necessary expenses of higher technical