The labor standard., 1919-10-01
Training School to Develop More Officers for Tasks of
 Reconstruction.
TO HAVE LARGER BULL DING
College Gives Men and Women Severe Tests for Social Welfare Work Students Trained With
 Care and Patience.

it's officers and men to France, many are still there and may be for some time, and since the army and it's work has been growing and expanding there is at present a real need for more officers. A few days ago the army graduated a class of fifty-four officers, thirty-three of whom were women. When the next class is sent out it will be twice this number.
 This institution trains it's students with infinite care and patience. It has it's training college at 333 West Twenty-second street, which is in charge of Colonel Charles Miles, who has been a member of the army for thirty-eight years. In the near future the army will either purchase or erect a larger and more commodious college building at an expense, if necessary, of between $4OO,OOO and $5OOOOO.
 Many College Graduates.
 Many officers today in the Salvation army are college or university grad uates, and others were just graduated from the worlds school of hard knocks. They are all, however, men
 
 telligence, and some have made really great sacrifices for the privilege of wearing the simple blue uniform of the organization. Of the class just graduated one young man won honors and a degree at Cornell university, and seventeen of them were in the country's service during the war, one of whom won the croix de guerre. Sine the war many soldiers and sail ors have expressed desire to join the organization.
 It is not an easy matter to become an officer in the Salvation army be- cause the organization is exceedingly particular about getting the right kind of men and women to guide it's deS- tinies, and, although many are called few are chosen, and a person before becoming an officer is put through a rather severe acid test. Some can didates are quickly disillusioned at the outset by the smallness of the pay, for lieutenants and captains receive but $9 and SIP week, and must pay for their board and lodging out of this sum, and they also pledge them selves to remain with the army for life. They must devote all their ener- gies to the organization, and are not permitted to labor outside of their work for remuneration. A major-and one must have worked long and faith fully to attain such high rank-re- ceives a salary of $21 a week and small allowance for house rent and for each child. Most of the higher and older officers in the army could go out into the world and make fat living without any difficulty, and they have been frequently offered lucrative positions, which they have refused be- cause they have preferred to be faith full to their trust.
 To become an officer in the organi zation a candidate must possess certain degree of natural intelligence, must love the Lord and his neighbor, and must possess the indefnable some thing known as the Salvation army spirit.
 Must Prove Worth.
 Before being admitted to the train ing college a candidate is first as- signed to an army corps for period
 
 opportunity to prove that he is made of the right sort of stuff by showing his willingness to do cheerfully any kind of task assigned him. He is immediately sent out on the streets with the corps and often to a tough neighborhood i4 the city where he may encounter decidedly unfriendly element. Almost at the start he must make his prayer or plea to the night crowd on the street corner. If at the end of his period he has shown the proper spirit he is then sent to the army training college. The course here is nine months. He pursues a course of Bible study, learns the GUS toms and laws of the organization, and attends lectures. If he does not pos sess the sticking qualities demanded of Salvation army officers, or shows that he is not fitted for the work, he is frankly told so, and is advised to return to his home town where he may nevertheless work for the organ ization, and take up for his life work some other line of endeavor for which he is better fitted. At the college the army exercises a weeding-out process so that it may make no mistake in it's selection of officers. Many who aspire to attain rank are quick to realize that they are not intended for such rigorous social welfare work, and are frank to say so when they realize the sacrifice and hard work it entails. At the outbreak of the war the Sal vation army pledged itself to serve and stand by the nation. Almost every member was engaged in some kind of | war work, and large percentage of | the organization was in France. Almost any father of four or five |