The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-09-11
STUDENTS TO BECOME
ACTIVE SOLDIERS
Will Take Military Training
While in College, is
New Rule.

The following statements outline
the general plan under which the
Students Army Training Corps will
operate under the changed condi-
lions produced by the revision of
the Selective Service Law:
1. All young men, who were
planning to go to school this fall,
should carry out their plans and do
SO. Each should go to the college
OF his choice, matriculate, and en-
ter as a regular student. He will,
of course, also register with his To-
cal board on the registration day
set by the President. AS soon as
possible after registration day, pro-
badly on or about October first, OPP
portunity will be given for all the
regularly enrolled students to be
induced into the Students Army
Training Corps at the schools where
they are in attendance. Thus the
corps will be organized by volun-
tary induction under the Selective
Service Act, instead of by enlistment
as previously contemplated.
The student, by voluntary induc-
ton, becomes>a soldier in the United
States Army, uniformed, subject to
military discipline and with the pay
of a private. They will simultane-
ously be placed on full active duty
and contracts will be made as soon
as possible for the instruction of the
student soldiers.
2. officers, uniforms, rifles and
such other equipment as may be
available will be furnished by the
War Department, as previously an
nounced.,
3. The student-soldiers will be
given military instruction under Off
GERS of the Army and will be kept
under observation and test to deter
mine their qualifications as officer
candidates, and technical experts
such as engineers, chemists and
doctors. After a certain period,
the men will be selected according
to their performance, and assigned
to military duty in one of the follow
ing ways:
(a) He may be transferred to
central officers training camp.
(b) He may be transferred to
non-ebmmissioned officers training
school.
(c) He may be assigned to the
school where he is enrolled for fur
Their intensive work in a specified
line for a limited specified time.
I'D He may be assigned to the
vocational training section of the
Corps for technical training of mill
tary value.
(e) He may be transferred to
cantonment for duty with troops as
a private.
4. Similar sorting and reassign-
ment OF the men will be made at
periodical intervals, as the require
ments of the service demand. 1t
cannot be now definitely stated how
long a particular student will re-
main at college. This will depend
on the requirements of the mobiliza-
tion and the age group to which he
belongs. In order to keep the unit
at adequate strength, men will be
admitted from secondary schools or
transferred from Depot Brigades as
the need may require.
Students will ordinarily not be
permitted to remain on duty in the
college units after the majority of
their fellow citizens of like age have
been called to military service at
camp. Exception to this rule will be
made, as the needs of the service re-
quire II. in the case of technical and
scientific students, who will be as
signed for longer periods for inten-
sive study in specialized fields. =
Committee on Education and Spe-
cial Training.
BY Robert l. Rees.
Colonel, General Staff Corps,
Chairman.