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Show STUDENT ARMY GOES HOME 643 GIVEN DISCHARGE AT COLLEGE IN LOGAN MEN LP AVE IN GOOD HEALTH, ' SAT-OFFICERS- Excellent Record of Student AntiyJajninaCorpt at Utah Agricultural College Reflect Credit on Institution. AS fast as their pay can be counted out and their discharge papers signed, the men of the students' army training corps at the Utah Agricultural college are today being mustered out of the service ser-vice of Uncle Sam, according to word received here from Logan. The final step in demobilization began this morning at 7 o'clock and before night every one of the 643 men in the corps will be again a civilian. Military work has been -carried on in the organization intensively in-tensively and continuously every day since, the installation of the corps on September JO and, with the exception of an enforced stoppage stop-page of two weeks due to influenza, academic work has also continued. con-tinued. ' J Physical examinations conducted Thursday and Friday showee not a trace of influenza in the battalion, and but eight men in an way incapacitated. In practically every case the men are being returned re-turned to civil life in improved physical condition, with gains in weight running from three to twenty pounds. The students' army training corps was establirhc J at the Ulal' Agricultural college on September .1o, when similar organizations were installed in several hundred institutions.-' At that time, the 453 member of the national army training train-ing detachment, who were being trained at the college, became the vocational vo-cational section of the B. A. T. C. COURSES OFFERED. During the time the 8. A. T. C. was In operation at the Institution. 26S men were Inducted Into the collegiate section, 467 Into the telephone-electrician work and til Into the vocational vocation-al section, making the total number Of thla number, fifty-nine were sent to officers' training cam pa to prepare pre-pare for commiaatona. The collegiate men received, aside from military training, train-ing, academie Instruction In war la sues, military law, personnel work, military hygiene, military French, bacteriology, mapping, and for those In the quartermaster's course, training in commerce and business:. The ve rational men were trained aa ma -rhlnlata, blacksmiths, wagon era, chauffeurs, chauf-feurs, auto mechanics, rsdlo operators or topographical draughtsmen. AD received re-ceived a course In war aims. EXCELLENT QUARTERS. The college waa able, through the most complete cooperation of military and school authorities, to provide adequate ade-quate barracks and mess accommoda-ttons accommoda-ttons fur the men. The new livestock building waa turned over to the bat-lallon bat-lallon fo"servr6rTrrrrnranrrther com pan lea were placed In the Thomas Hmart gymnasium and In the college chapel. The south wing of the main building", which was to have been used for barracks, waa uaetf aa a hospital during the influenxa epidemic. CARE OF INFLUENZA. The Influenag made Its appearance at the college about October It. A large and completely equipped hospital was organised at once and waa tn operation op-eration bv October IS under the direction di-rection of Dr. D. C. Budge. The hospital hos-pital was In use for four weeks, by which time the influensa waa completely com-pletely stamped out of the Institution. During the four weeks, 244 cases of inlueusa or suspected Influenxa wra cared for. Of this numter six died, making a death rate of one-fourth of 1 per cent. Klve physicians were In constant attendance, with two gradu-ate gradu-ate nuraea and fen attendants. Three (Continued on pate 4 643 GIVEN DISCHARGE 1 "on 1 in tied from page 1.) ! physicians were employed tft care for ihe men In the barracks outside of the hospital. Cooking for the ailing men was done under the direction of the school of home economics by former students of ths Institution. Of the 43 men at the college at the time of demobilisation, all but seventeen seven-teen had taken out government insurance insur-ance and all bail been urged to Inaure. Insurance w written 10 the amount of $.VN?o.;1.jn for ths men of $210,000 for ths officers. THE OFFICERS. At the time of demobilisation, the S. j A. T. i waa organised and officered ! as follows: I Captain Stephen Abbot. 1. S. A. re-; re-; tired, commandant; Captain Henry t Moj leTwentv -first infantry. I, rt. A., I executive officer: First Lieutenant II i Force, nil iutant : I Trst Lieutenani V. K- Pinch, chief tactical officer: Firnt Lieutenant T. II. HoU omte. In command of company A, aiul Hvcond Lieutenants Thomas K. leavey. In command of company D; iieorge K. Waring, In command of company B: ;ien L. Miller, post exchange officer; Clyde Romney. attached to company I: Frd A. Finch, in command of com - , pany Cr James M, Christenson. morale; officer; iethin T. Fowler, attached to ! company C; Cieorge B. Hendnvka. per- ! aitnnel officer; M. 1 Hams, assistant personnel officer; I M Chipman. at, tar bed to emanv A; James K. Wat- 1 kins, aasistant adiutant: (..eorgs C. Bigger, attached to company D. and, James S' FuHiam. attached to com-' panv C. |
