Show I S SALT ALT B O is isMAY S MAY 1 tNT NIER AR ARMY Y Commissions Offered Officers 4 Through the Dix Bill MUST MUT GO to LEAVENWORTH t IONAL CHANCES FOR OE J MEMBERS OP OF GUARD GUARDI I I Several Severa of the o ot of the n guard are re thinking ot of accept irig the opportunity afforded them b by bythe the D i WI bill W t e a comm in inthe Inthe I the regular ann army Others may avail or of the chance to be placed I Iame upon the volunteer list by the same ame meaNt and In course ot of time be besl sl given ven a In Ia the regular sery aery ice In Instance it moons meana a two years cou ot study In military tao at Fort Le Leavenworth Kansas While the t allows the some room or h house UM rent free fr it Is not sum clent cInt In it to keep an It he hay hall inns ot of his own the to enter tha th regular service it If he so 80 desires i Is an ex one never be b tore fore offered In the history ot of the United 8 t Eligible to Volunteer Service Brigadier John Q Cannon lIftS received l to the effect that through one bf the lons of the th Dix bill Heber t Wells has the privilege of appointing officers of the th guard JUard to tc atte d the military school at Fort Leavenworth The course coy cov tra rl a period ot of two years ear While stUd trig there the government allows them thema a remittance of Si 1 per day and room rent ire bee have bave a room placed at their willie captains and officers two At tM the e expiration of the two years e rs it If the om r keeps keepe up with Ith hl his cIa as and graduates graduate lie be la Is placed upon the vol volun volunteer un t teer hat v When the regular army Is In need or of officers It is 18 to be commIssioned from that lilt flat inthe order in the men stand tand The volunteer service 19 i con considered but an advantageous into the regular servIce Since that order was is General Y I Cannon hu been informed that an another another J other has been which Is more sweeping sit It Is to the effect that Pres President PresIdent ident baa hs been given the right to appoint officers from the national guards of the different states recommended by b the governors to the school ot of military Instruction at Fort Leavenworth Th These when t they y graduate are to be given corn com In the r regular army arm Cnn Can Enter Regular Army While they are at the they will receive the same SIlme compensation as the officers sent there thre by the governor for forthe forthe the volunteer service besides room rent or bou house e rent free The Instruction the they will receive will willbe willbe be the sam saine to nil aad purposes as that given glyen at West Point The only difference Is that the officer does doe riot Dot have to pass au an to enter The recommendation from the governor of his state to the pre president and his ap aJ apa a I is sufficient to secure his ad admission mission The Th discipline will be b just as severe sew re as at West Point and the te officer will be just as 88 Well educated in mill mili military tary as a o the chool achOO tR th ol IC General Cannon said edd three or fOur of the guard are very ery anxious to avail themselves of the opportunity to ent enter r the regular arm army through the Fort Le v school hool the matter of mon to tD keep them while they are there acting as as a drawback 0 If Ute the officers in queStion can so ar arran ran ranks their affairs as to enable them to take the two years course General Cannon said he would not be to see Utah represented at the i fort h lit th po Itlo in the b list of et and men who want to get Into the regular service by ha hay log Governor Wells Vell recommend that President Roosevelt give glye them a cum corn t to enter the school II |