Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-24
MANY CIVILIANS TO TRY
FOR ARMY COMMISSIONS
Next Class in Training School Will
BE 20 Per Cent From Pri-
vate Life.
INFLUENZA STILL SPREADING
More Than 1900 Cases Have Been
Treated at Camp Lee Since Out
break of Discase-Pncumoniu Fol-
lows as Complication.
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CAMP LEE, VA, September 23.-Ad-
mission to the central officers train
ing school Is again open to civilians,
and when the next increment Of en-
bryo officers will arrive at the school
for four months training on October
10. it is expected that approximately 20
per cent of the men will have come
from civil life. There will be three
classes who will report to this school
The largest. comprising so per cent.
will come from the enlisted personnel
of the army. Ten per cent will come
der the selcctive service act. who will
be drafted at their own request and
forwarded to the school. They will be
indicted into the service for the period
of the war and in event they fail sue
cessfully to complete the course. will
serve as enlisted men. Another 10 per
other than those men, who receive cx
emptiCn on account of industry. occu-
patton or employment including agri-
culture. 1t is interpreted from the rul-
ing that men engaged in essential in
dustries and who have been exempted
will not be allowed 10 resign their
positions and enter the school Those
coming from other deferred classes,
such as married men, will be indicted
for the period Of the war. but If they
fail To maintain the pace required it
will he optional with them whether or
not they continue il the service.
The civilian candidates will be cS-
amined by officers in charge of military
work at the designated schools. At
present these are the same as they
were several months ago before volun-
tary induction into the service was
stopped. An amended list. which will
soon be issued, will probably show all
schools which are members Of the stu
dent army training CORPS. At present,
the Virginia schools include Virginia
PolyteehnicG institute, Virginia Military
Institute. Washington and Lee. Uni
versity of Virginia and stanton Mill
| tary Academy. Any civilian applicants,
either of the old or new draft ages. who
make application to the colleges men
toned. Under no conditions should
they be made to the school here. or
to the War Department.
NEXT LARGE CLASS WILL.
| GRADUATE NOVEMBER Is
| On November - the next large
graduating class will be commissioned
I from the local school. These are the
men who were FIRST to enter. after the
school was established here. After that
date there will be approximately 1000
/ men commissioned each month. The
early part OF October there will be a
/ commi ssioncd.
4 Two thousand Virginia negroes will
arrive here in three day period, be-
/ ginning Wednesday. These men arc
who registered in august. il Is eX-
! pected that members OF the father-and-
son class wilt-be forwarded here next
| months,
/ a course In equation for all staff Of
! hcers and for Eli infantry officers as
! signed to the staff is being conducted
| bH Lieutenant Griffith, of the
! veterinary school. The work began to-
day and many of the officers. who are
unaccustomed to riding, feel ,he results
/ OF their experience on horseback Of
! fcers from the Depot Brigade. infantry
! replacement camp and camp head
| quarters arc affected by the order. The
work must be taken at least three
| hours a week
John Harrison, e. mountainer. of near
| uniontown, Pa, did not know the war
! was going on. until several weeks ago