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Show aiy camp; duties CANDIDATES FOR COMMI8SI6N8 WILL HAVE HARD WORK AND LITTLE PLAY. TEN HOURS' TRAINING DAILY . . ........ General Plan for Drill, Instruction and Recreation Best Qualified Men Will Be Those First 8elected to Wear Shoulder-straps. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. The young men of tho country Uo are entering the training camps established for those who wish to get commissions In the Oillcers' lte-serve lte-serve corps of the army will go through with a good deal In tbo wny of Instruction and discipline, and will get comparatively little, recreation, In the "schools of the soldier" where they will take their military lessons. Some thousands of men between tbo ages of twenty-one nnd forty-live will report on May 14 to the commanders of tho oillcers' reserve corps of the country. The minimum day's work ns llxed by the war department for the I student will be ten hours. Probably, I however, within the working hours will bo Included mess-times. There will b,o live hours ulven over to Instruction In-struction In the morning, three In tho afternoon, wlllie In the evening there will be two hours of "boning," which is West Point slang and presumably that of other schools for grinding study. The present prescribed programs for the average week of the camp will be carried out from Mondays to Fridays Fri-days inclusive, Saturday will be utll- i lzed to bring up to tl,o necessnry requirement re-quirement of hours -work which has been cut short by weather or by other conditions which could not be foreseen. fore-seen. I On Saturdays also tho doctors will tnke the men In hand for vncclmitlon, while examination tc-ts In horseman- 1 ship will lilt In nil other time not to be utilized for work .'orced to be put over from earlier dayn. If there Is any time left on Saturday It will bu I given over to recreation purposes, but I experience tells one that there never ' Is much time left over In the urmy. I Best Will Get First Places. I The army oillcers who have commands com-mands or instruction posltjons, or both, nt the camps will make n special study of the temperament and mental quail-llcntlons quail-llcntlons of Individuals In so far as they cnn. Men to be commissioned, will be those who have been specially marked for preferment. It must not be taken for granted that every young i man who goes to nn otllccr's camp of Instruction ultimately will get his commission. com-mission. Probably most of them will one day wear shoulder-straps, but some of tliem will prove uiifltted for the tasks of command. I For the Hrst month the camp Instructions Instruc-tions will be the same for all students, stu-dents, but at the end of thirty daysl , the men will be grouped Into orgnnlza-' tlons for moro direct personal Instruc-. tlon. It does not take n trained army I olllcer long to learn which of his pupils are the most apt. Some men are bom1 with the stuff In them of which sol- 1 tilers aro made. Other men are born, with the stuff In them which cannot bo molded Into soldier shape with forty men and forty minds nt the task. I, The students on entering the camp will hne a fairly easy time of It for the llrst four days. Upon ussembllus' they will be organized Into companies, nnd equipment will be distributed. Following Fol-lowing tills they will get such minor ) I Instructions ns how to pile their bedding, bed-ding, how to hrrnngc things In their lockers, and In n general way how to avoid breaking enmp regulations. For I tin hour each day at the outset there will be practice mnrches without nrinsJ nnd In addition to this there will bo 1 some Uttlo preliminary drill, most ot which will be In the nature of the set-1 ting up exercises. There will be soma, Inme backs mid some lame arms In camp for a week. Must Learn All Soldier's Work. The candidates for commissions will bo tialned to a large extent Just ns tlioj recruit In the regular army Is trained. i Of course thero will be much more mental drill than Is tbo case with the recruit who simply Is to enter the' ranks as a private. Tho student will bo taught everything from the school j of the soldier through the squad, uml that of the company In clo-e and ex-' tended orders. He must learn the bayonet bay-onet cxeielse, guard duty, the manual i of arms with the rltle and tbu saber, I the nlmlngs mid firings and signaling. There will be conferences and lecturesl on Infantry drill regulations nnd on guard duty. F.urly In the game the men will bit glveu practice marches with light kits. ; After tho second week things will stiffen up u bit. Theru will be nuiny things taught toward the end of the' encampment which wero new until i recently even to the Instructor. Tills I means Unit the students of tliu training train-ing camps must bo taught everylhlir; loneeriiing modern conditions of war-' fare that It Is possible to leach them within (lie time given to tluru campy for preliminary instruction. i |