Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-01-29 | Page 2 | Training Schools for Officers to be Lonely Soon

Training Schools for Officers seen To ToBe Be Lonely Soon oon Camps to to- toBe Be Vacated by March 1 1 Is Word Sent Here Before Defore March 1 I practically all of the training school for line of officers officers officers of- of will have been emptied according to information received today by Mayor Fred Jorgensen adjutant general for Utah from the war department The schools will not continue in service as asno asno no nomore more applications for training training training train train- ing commissions are being re received received received re- re either from civilians or from noncommissioned officers or enlisted men With the graduation or discharge discharge discharge dis dis- dis- dis charge of the last man from the theline theline line officers' officers schools the schools will be closed down until the government finds use for the various va- va various various va va- rious buildings The men who have failed to make their commission commissions commissions com com- missions mission will be discharged and sent home The successful men will be given their commissions and be placed on the reserve list of the army At Camp Lee and Camp Gordon Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don In Virginia and Camp Pike in Arkansas there are about men In each camp These men will have completed their course by February 15 16 1 At Camp Zachary Zach- Zach Zachary Zachary ary Taylor in Kentucky there are about men but as they are being graduated from the school each week it is expected that by March 1 the school will be cleared The clearing of the camps will mean that no longer men can be given commissions by entering training camps from civilian life With the great number of officers officers officers cers who have been prepared Inthe in inthe inthe the schools there are sufficient officers In reserve to be used In Incase incase incase case of any emergency and no nomore nomore nomore more men will be given commissions commissions commis commis- I except In the regular army