Evening star., 1922-06-15

Summer training camps were
opened everywhere over the country
today under Army supervision for
youths of the Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps, part of the machinery of
the new defensive military policy set
up in the national defense act of 1920.
The corps now includes approximate
ly 100000 young men under training
to become members of the OHtcers
Reserve Corps or officers of the Ma
tional Guard. and of these il is eSti-
mated that 1914 began today the sum-
mer work of intensive field training
at the camps, which is counted on to
round out their classroom and other
military work at schools and colleges.
The courses mapped out for the stu
dent officers cover the whole feid -
military science. Especially qualified
regular officers have been assigned
TO the camps as instructors. Partic-
ular attention is being devoted to the
work by the War Department. as the
r. .. T. {. is relied upon in future to
produce annually enough new reserve
officers to keep the Reserve Officers
Corps up to the strength necessary to
fill in the officer framework of the
organized reserve division of the
Army of the United States.
Want 10000 Annually.
II has been calculated that the
camps this year will result in at least
1000 potential officers being added TO
the reserve corps for assignment L"
organized reserve units or to be COM
missioned in National Guard reSl-
ments. Ultimately it is planned to
expand the training work so that an
annual crop of 10000 new reserve Of
fcers will be forthcoming.
The camps" said a statement is
sued by the War Department, round
and fill out the three academic years
of military instruction completed by
the students at the time of attendance
at the camps and form the basis OF
the more advanced instructions given
in the senior year. The courses nave
been arranged 10 give the students d
practical funda mental and disciplinary y
military training and a thorough practi :
cal training in technical subjects OF
the respective arms selected by them:
That they may become leaders ana
instructors knowledge and instruc-
tion will not only be impaired to
them, but they will he taught also
how TO impart that knowledge and
training to others.
Attendance at the summer training
camps of ,he Army this year. II is IN
dicated. will be the greatest to date.
BY corps areas the attendance al
the training corps camps is expected
To aGisrt gaze :tS follows:
ist Corps. 72l: I'd Corps. sos: Sd
Corps. 9S6: 4;h Corps. 1880: 5th Corps
10: 9th Corps, 'o%: .th Corps. 9i4'
Sth Corps. JJ1: 9th Corps. 69'.
The educational institutions which
will have r. .. T. {. units in the sd
Corps area are Georgetown Cniver-
City. George Washington University
Howard University. the Johns Hop
kins University. University of Mary
land, ST. Johns College. Western
Maryland College. Carnegie Institute
OF Technology. DreXel Institute. JEFF
ferson Medical College. Lafayette
College. Lehigh University. Gettys-
burg College. Pennsylvania Military
College. Pennsylvania State College.
University of Pennsylvania. Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh. Virginia Agric,1l
tural and Mechanical College. Poly
technic Institute and Virginia MIIl-
tary Institute.
In the Sd Corps area. +. q. 7. c.
camps are established at the follow