Evening star., 1942-12-17
u. 5. Maps New
College Plan for
Training Youths
School Facilities to
Be Contracted For in
Lorge-ScoIe Program

BY the Associated Press
The Army and Navy announced
plans today to contract for col
lege facilities at which qualified
young men, estimated to number
250,000, will be detailed for
training in a uniform and pay
system which gradually is to
supplant the college reserviSt ar
rangement.
The 25O,0O0 figure, which is an es-
innate of qualified persons. would
represent nearly a third of the
Nations presently shrinking mails
college population.
Training for specialist assign.
mentS or as officers will be pro-
vided in these institutions. joint
announcement said. Candidates for
the training so far as the Army Is
concerned must come. from the en-
listed ranks or existing reserves,
while youths in civilian life may be
enrolled under the Navy's phase
of the program.
Generally, Secretaries Stimson
and Knox said. the program is de-
signed to maintain a steady flow OF
young men suitable for specialized
technical training for the Army.
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard.
McNutt to Draft Regulations.
They noted that "the recent
amendment to the Selective Serv-
ice and Training Act reducing the
draft age to 18 years will eliminate
the principal source of men college
students" in the colleges normal
way of functioning.
Contracts for the training pro-
gram, the statement said. will be en-
tertalned with colleges and univer-
sites not yet selected 1t was en-
phasized, however, that existing
agreements with educational insti-
tutions for training programs will
not be affected. Regulations for Sc
lection of the institutions will be
drafted by the chairman of the War
ManpoWer Commission, Paul V. Nc
Mutt.
All Under Army Discipline.
All men assigned to the college
training courses will be uniformed
and will receive the pay and be un-
DER the military discipline of the
Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps
or Coast Guard.
Inc joint statement. summarizing
the Army's training program. said:
Tine objective of this plan Is to
meet the need of the Army for the
specialized technical training of SOL
d1erS on active duty for certain
Army tasks for which its own train
ing facilities are insufficient in ex-
tent or character"
1t added that the plan would pro-
vide for selection for this training
OF qualified young men on a broad
democratic basis without regard to
financial resources"
Transition Procedure.
The statement also outlined pro-
cedure governing the transition from
the enlisted Reserve program of the
Army to the Army's specialized pro-
gram, providing to a great extent
Tor continuing education of stu
dents now enrolled as enlisted Re-
serves, or as members of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps.
Medical students Gncluding den-
tai and veterinary in the enlisted
Reserve will be called to active duty
at the end of the next academic
semester and will be detailed to
continue courses of medical instruc-
ton under contracts to be made by
the War Department.
Medical students who have been
commissioned in the Medical Ad-
ministrative Corps may, at the
same time, resign such commission.
and enlist as privates and be de-
tailed in the same manner as med
lcal students In the enlisted re-
serve.
Pre-medical students in the En-
lsted Reserve Corps, or those in
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ing approved courses. will continue
or De returned in an inactive status
until the end of the next academic
semester and then will be called to
active duty. Those selected for
further medical or pre-medical
training will be detailed for such
instruction under the Army spe-
clallzed training program.
Seniors Fourth year, taking ad-
vanced ROTC will be ordered to
active duty upon graduation or
upon the completion of the next
academic semester. Upon enter
ing active duty they will be ordered
to their respective branch schools
and commissioned upon successful
completion of the course
The Navys part also calls for an
integration of present reserve train
ing courses with the new system.
A principal change in the Navy
reservists procedure calls for discon.
tlnuance on March IS, 1943, of en-
llstments in the vi program which
permits college students to continue
their education at their own ex-
pense.
The Naval Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps will be continued as an
integral part of the new program.
Reserve students will be selected at >
the end of the first two semesters
from those inducted under the Navy
college training program.
All NROTC students in the Naval
Reserve. the statement continued.
Will be called to active duty.