New Britain herald., 1918-07-09
OFFICERS TRAINING
 CAMPS ESTABLISHED
Enlisted Men and Civilians Elegi-
 ble for Army Commissions

Washington, July 9-Under author
 ity of the secretary of war, Central
 Afficers' Training schools for the pur-
 pose of qualifying men for commls-
 sions in the army of the United States are established as follows;
 For Infantry training: Camp Lee, near Petersburg, Na~; Camp Gordon, near Atlanta, Ga.; Camp Pike, near Little Rock, Ark.
 For Field Artillery training: Camp Taylor, near Louisville, Ky.
 For Machine Gun training: Camp Hancock. near Augusta, Ga.
 The course of training at the In fantry and Machine Gun schools will be for four months, beginning July IS, 1918, or as soon thereafter as prac- ticable, and so arranged as to grad
 uate one classes of approximately 600 1 members each months from each school The course of training at the Artillery school will be for about three months, date of beginning the school and capacity of the school to
 be as prescribed by the chief of field
 artillery.
 These schools are open tO-(a) en- listed men of the regular army, na-
 tional army and national guard, except Coast Artillery corps. Signal corps and Labor units; (b) civilians within the draft age, inducted into the service for the purpose of attending the schools; co a limited number Of civil ians beyond the draft age and not
 above 40 years of age upon date of entrance into the training school.
 Central Officers training schools are a part of the replajcemen camp, where located, and under the general con-
 trol of the camp commander. Tn order, however, that the war depart ment policy, regarding the function and operations of these scho ols, may be continuous, they will, for purposes of interior adminstratin. instruction and training, constitute a separate unit of the replacement camp under the direction of the raining school com mander.
 Camp commanders will render every l assistance possible in order to promote 1 the success of those training schools Qualifications For Admission. ? To be eligible for admission to a central training school a candidate must be between the ages of twenty years eight months, and forty years; must be a citizen of the United States ; and not have been born in any of the countries c,ol With which the United countries. Enlisted men must have the moral, educational and physical qualifications required of an officer Civilians must be graduates of a High school or have pursued an equivalent course of instructions; must be of good moral character; and must have Al hn yI1I q 1 for a commission in the Officers Re- serve corps. Requiremen for visual acuity for candidates are as follows: Q minimum of 2o.50 in the left eye and 20.40 in the right eye without i glasses, correctable to normal by the use of glasses, and normal color per ception.
 For the Field Artillery candidats l must, in addition to the above, pos 1 sess a. thorough understanding and l working knowledge of arithm etic al- 1 zebra, to include eduadratic equations, ] and plane geometry. A knowledge of l trigonomery and the use of logarithrns 1 is desirable. Men having had a prev 1 ious scientific and technical educa- : tion and training are most desirable, ! particularly those educated and ! trained as civil, mechanical, electrical. ! mining or architectural engineers. 1 Selection of Candidates
 1 3. (a) Enlisted men:
 From time to time all division, de- partment, depot brigade and camp 1 commanders will publish to their re- ] spectiVe commands a notice advising 1 of the establishment and existence of 1 Central Officers Training schools, l and will advise all eligible enlisted l men of their privilege to apply in 1 Writing for admission to such schools. { After this notice has been published ] the commanding officers of all divi- 1 sions departments, depot brigades 1 and camps will cause to be selected : from the applications made by men 1 of their commands a number not to i exceed two per cent of the actual en- i listed strength of same at the date 1 of selection. Ten per cent of the 1 men listed will be selected as suit : able to be sent to the Machine Gun 1 Officers school. Lists will be com i piled of men so selected, and these i lists will be added to and revised ] from time to time as selected men 1 are sent to attend the various train
 ing schools, in order that at all times 1 approximately two per cent, repre- l sentative of the best qualified men of
 each command, will be listed and available to be sent to officers train- 1 ing schools as needed.
 When these lists have been pre- 1 pared and thereafter on the last day
 of each month the commanding off,
 cers of all divisions departments, de- l pot brigades and camps will report by telegraph to the adjutant general of
 the army the total number of men l of their entire command selected for ! infantry, artillery and machine guns;
 1 these reports will be forwarded to