The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-29
800 STUHihia
ARR lii.CHARGED
5000 More In Camp Hope
To Reach Home By
Thanksgiving.

training SCnOOl at camp IdylOr, WIN
have elected to return to civilian life
rather than finish their military
course and risk chances of getting
commissions, and II the machinery
of the camp personnel office grinds
as expected this hope will be realized.
More than 800 from observation
batteries and other units among the
students had received discharge pa
pers up to the hour the personnel
force knocked off" for Saturday re-
creation yesterday. This force will
do some work during the forenoon to-
day, it is said, but 1t is unlikely that
the wheels will begin to turn rapidly
before Monday or Tuesday. Pre-
liminaries are occupying time. Medi-
cal officers promise to do their best.
1t was found impossible for variety
of reasons to get the $500 promised
out of the Depot Brigade on the way
to their homes by Saturday night.
In the meantime the men are exer-
cising patience. This becomes a
second nature to those in the army.
To Release Surplus Officers.
Among lucky ones to get out of the
service early this week are a few of
the 800 surplus officers in the Field
Artillery replacement depot. it is
said. All of these who desire dis
charges will be released by the end
of the week if the present program
materialiZes.
The Field Artillery central officers
training school alumni association
now forming will compromise at least
90, 900 members. These men from
nearly every state in the Union plan
to meet again in Louisville in a year
or so to further perfect their organ
ization. and then meetings may be
held yearly in the future with appro-
pirate love feasts."
Colonel Carter Makes Statement.
Col. A. II. Carter. commandment of
the school. commenting on the alumni
pan, yeSleTUdy Sdlu.
1T is my firm belief that such an
association will prove of inestimable
benefit to the Field Artillery central
officers training school, and that it
can be OF distinct service to the coun-
try.
Furthermore, it is undoubtedly
ots h..
school will in after years derive much
pleasure and satisfaction from getting
together and renewing associations
and friendships formed there"
The definite plan taken by Colonel
Carter to bring the association under
way was to appoint committee COM
posed of two officers and three can
didates to draw up constitution and
bylaws. The constitution and by
laws will be submitted to the candi-
dates in the school. and the number
of men desiring to enroll in the as
sociation will be reported to Colonel
Carter.
Candidates leaving the artillery
school feel that they have been well
treated by the citizens OF Louisville
since they have been here in spite
of the fact that their duties have held
them close to the school room night
and day with only Saturdays and part
of Sundays off TO enjoy the hospitali-
ties freely extended. You Kentuc-
kians certainly do know how to treat
visitors within your midst whether
they be soldiers or not. We deeply
what the Louisville peo-
pie have done for us to make our
brief stay pleasant. While we didn't
get to the front we were on our way,
and only now that the war is over are
we willing to pack up and 80 home.
Some Of us see no reason for remain
ing, as other more pressing needs in
private life face us.
Members of the 34th Training Bat
terry in farewell party in their mess
hall few nights ago became reminis-
cent, and this is the way they eX-
pressed themselves on the sudden end
of the war which is to tear, them
apart:
1T seems a pity that our existence
comes to an end in the flower of our
battery youth. Some mighty nice
things have been said about us, and
not Il few pleasant predictions for our
future, but what we might have been
now becomes subject for mere
speculation.
ION the windiest day i'm the history
of Camp Zachary Taylor. six and
half weeks ago, the 34th Training
Battery emerged from dust cloud
and became a vital factor in the or
ganization which constitutes the
greatest and largest artillery officers
training school i'm the world.
The five thousand students who
have elected to remain and try for