Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-04
$500 JUNIORS
ENROLLED IN
LOCALR. @. 7. G..
Officers Training Corps in City
Schools Has High
Rating.
BOYS TRAIN FOR ARMY

More than $500 male high school
students Of Indianapolis are enrolled
IN the Junior Division Of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps, which was
created By the National Defense Act OF
June 8, 1915. This act was amended on
July 0, 1918, and the R. o. T. c. was
founded to provide q systematic course
Of military instruction in civil educa-
tional Institutions for the purpose of
qualifying selected students as reserve
officers IN the military forces Of the
United States.
The local cadet corps, founded and
9first instructed by Capt. Newton
organization and q unit Of the X U. T.
c. Lieut.. Ernest L. McLendon, then
q captain of infantry. was sent to this
city to fill the post of professor Of mill
tary science and tactics. He continued
to act in this capacity until the govern
ment sent Col z. A Roche, then a
major to succeed him. Lieut.. McLendon
was made assistant Colonel Roche and
assigned to act as instructor at Manual
Training High School.
A complement Of non-commisgioned
officers act as assistant instructors. The
men detailed to Indianapolis are John
A Short, Marion Knodle. Homer Shull,
Talbert Frazer, Arthur Amy, Robert Nc
Carly. Paul Frazer, James Hale, and
Corporal Russell.
RANKING OFFICERS
OF EACH SCHOOL.
Assisting the enlisted personnel in the
instruction are the cadet officers. The
ranking officers of each school are:
Manua-Cadet Major Claude Pitsen-
hnrOar Godaf
Ralph York, Donald Hoover, graduates
Of the Junior R. o. 7. c. course at Camp
Custer, and George Glossbrenner
ShoTtridge-Cadet Major Joe Cash,
Cadet CAPTAINS Kenneth Church, Thomas
Evans, Cl-rence Badger, Harold Clark,
Paul hartman and Clarence Nichols.
Technical-Cadet Lieut.. Col. Hughes
Updegraff, Cadet Majors Merle Scott,
Charles Noble and Carl Fisher. The
ranking cadet captain is Sherman Jones'
Most Of these men attended either the
1919 or the 1920 summer encampment at
Camp Custer, Mich.
The record Of the Indianapolis boys
was high at each camp. At the last one
the Manual contingent Of twenty-eight
boys had the highest percentage Of their
company, the Fifth This honor was kept
by them during the entire camp.
M1NUAL STUDENT
WON HIGH PLACE.
A Manual student, Donald Hoover, held
the first place Of the entire junior divi-
sion for the greatest part Of the 1920
summer camp. The honors in shooting
also went to Manual. Lauren Stokes
berry, now in college. but who attended
Manual, was a member of the team
which represented Camp Custer I'm the
national rife shoot at Camp Perry. Ohio.
Stokesberry led the Custer team IN indi-
vidual shooting and won several medals
and cash prizes. Hughes Updegraff of
Technical was also a member Of this
team.
The Indianapolis company won the
track and swimming meets.
The Camp Custer graduates and other
student officers assist in teaching mill
tary drill to the underclassman. The
freshman, sophomore and Junior com
panies study infantry drill. bayOnet
- FORK, signalling, military courtesy and
craftsmanship. The latter is practiced
n the respective gallery ranges OF the
IS chools
NJ The senior classes have a course con-
listing largely OF lectures and theoreti-
Teal work in field engineering, minor tao
ktics, military law, Haison communication
military history and other subjects re-
TO
X college COURSE.
- When this four-year course IS COM
81 leted the student has accomplished the
~ uiValent Of the first two years OF coll
Tse military science and tactics. This
entities him to enter into the senior ad-
Tanced course in college. At the COM
pletion Of this, a two-year course. the
candidate, if found to be OF officer cali
Der, is given a commission as second
lieutenant in the officers reserve CORPS
Of the United States Army.
A student, to be enrolled in the Junior
L. o. 7. C.. must be al least II years OF
age and be OF either native born or nat
uralized parents. II he fulflls these and
the physical requirements he is issued
uniform by the government.
All Of the three local high school pro-
visional regiments have military bands
Prominent citizens have given stands
Of colOrs to each Of the cadet corps.
In speaking Of the advantages Of the
r. o. T. c., Z. II. Kemper McComb, prln-
cipal Of Manual Training High~School
said:
1.-THE work has been good for the school
and good for the boys. Every effort has
been made to make the most of the ad-
yantages offered by this type Of training.
The ideas OF obedience and discipline
have been made prominent and an at
tempt has been made to carry over these
ideas into the other departments Of tbs
school Positions as officers in the COM
psnies have been eagerly sought and
earned by boys who showed qualities of
leadership. The avenue of promotion for
such boys is made attractive by flexible
arrangement OF courses which enable ca
pable boys to progress as rapidly as their
abilities permit"