Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-16
WAR DEPARTMENT MAKES ELIAS
CRATE PLANS FOR IN
TENslvE TRAINING.
PROPOSES six WEEKS
or SUMNER DRILLING
Sixteen Iowa Colleges and Universities
Would % Represented and Enough
Students Enrolled TO Have Divisional
Field Werk-Army Pay and Sub.
sistenes Will BE Provided.
[By r.. q. DOughertyl

Washington. Jan. l6.-Monster mill
tary maneuvers in which the students
in the reserve officers training camps
in the sixteen Iowa institutions teach
ing military courses will participate
are to be held at Camp Dodge during
the summer vacation period OF SIX
weeks IL the plans OF the war depart
ment's committee on education anu
special training are carried out.
The Iowa schools that have already
organized units OF the reserve officers
training corps or have applied for the
privilege. which will be granted soon
include the following: Coe College, Ce-
dar Rapids: Cornell College, Mount
Vernon Des Mones College, Des
Moines; Drake University. Des Moines:
Dubuque College and Dubuque College
and Seminary, Dubuque; Grnnell Col
lege. Grinnell: Iowa State College
Ames: Iowa State Teachers College,
Cedar Falls; Iowa Wesleyan College.
Mount Pleasant Iowa State Universe
ty, Iowa City: Luther College. De-
corah: Morningside College, Sioux
City: Parsons College. Fairfield: Simp-
son College. Indanola: Central College.
Pella. and Ellsworth College, Iowa
Falls.
The plan Tor the summer maneu-
vers. which will be in effect the same
as the annual encampment Of the old
Iowa National Guard. provide for the
assembling of sufficient student-sof-
ders from the schools to have divis-
ional field work and tactics. While it
is expected that infantry students will
predominant. it is the intention of the,
war departments committee to have
signal corps students and other auxl..
larry units participate in the general
maneuvers. Six weeks intensive field
work for the college boys would be
sufficient. it is maintained. to top off
the technical, and "book" military study
they would have had during the first
five months Of the course at school.
It likewise would give the students
touch Of greater military discipline
than they will find in the schools be-
cause every movement and action will
be under the watchful scrutiny OF armv
officers thoroughly conversant with
the movement and handling Of large
bodies Of men.
On Army Pay.
The scheme OF the war department
is to select the first six weeks of the
vacation period or the last six weeks
just preceding the resumption Of the
fall term of school. This would permit
the students to pursue civilian jobs or
work during\a majority Of the. vaca-
ton period to gain recompense neces-
sary to meet the incidental expenses of
school life. The plan also involves the
payment Of transportation of all stu
dents from their college town to the
camp and return. and subsistence while
in camp with payment Of private's
salary of $50 a month during the six
weeks training period.
While authority to hold the big
maneuvers already has been procured
by the department, it remains for con-
gress to appropriate sufficient money
to take care Of the transportation, sub
sistence and pay Of the student SOL
diers. This has been sought, and war
department officials believe that the
fund will be available.
The department already has allotted
to the committee sufficient arms, am
munition and personal equipage to out
fit 100000 students. Adequate artll.
lery, ordnance, signal supplies and
other war materials also has been made
available to properly carry on the mil
itary work at the schools.
The summer campaign Of the reserve
officers training corps as outlined by
the committee also provides for the
sending Of technical students now in
units at the schools of mechanics.
such as Ames. to arsenals for further
instruction during the vacation per-
iod. Iowa student -technicians. or
course, would go to the Rock Island
arsenal. as that is the most convenient.
II Iowa students are pursuing studies
in artillery, they may be sent to the
artillery camps at Louisville, KY, but a
ma jority of them will be designated to
go to Camp Dodge. Students from
Dakota schools, and from Nebraska
and Minnesota, also may be sent to
Camp Dodge, If provision can not be
made at Camps Funston and Grant to
care for them.
Mumma Back to Iowa.
Col. Morton G. Mumma, formerly
military instructor at Iowa City, was
today named by Secretary Of War Ba-
ker to return to the Iowa university as
professor Of military science and tao
tics. Colonel Mumma was ordered to
Washington from, Iowa when the
United States entered the war and
served with distinction as a member
of the general staff. having charge of
small arms. When the war depart
7ment created the school of fire, for
small arms at Camp Perry, O.. Colonel
Mumma was placed in command. and
he retained this post when the camp
was moved to Georgia for the winter.
His appointment as military professor
at Iowa City was made for the pur-
pose Of placing at the institution an
officer who is especially skilled IN
small arms work and thorough in
structor. He will be the ranking Off
Ger Of the military instructors assign
ed to schools in Iowa having units OF
the reserve officers training corps
Arrangements are now being made to
place under his inspection all the