Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-04 | Page 1 | Thirty Thousand Youths Training

1IRT! THOUSAND YOUTHS TRAINING Boys Preparing to Be Reserve Officers at School May Be Called in June. WASHINGTON, March 4. Thirty thousand youths between 17 and 20 now preparing themselves 'to bo re-servo re-servo officers In thoir courses of school study may bo called in Juno for a month of training in the field with regulars, national, guardsmen and na-! tional army troops. This plan is being considered In connection with arrangements for the fourth series of officers training camps to bo opened about June 1. I A recommendation is now before the war department to discontinue the system of locating officers' training camps at cantonments and to establish three great schools for line officers Infantry at Fort Leavenworth: cavalry at Fort Riley and artillery at Fort Sill. Another plan is to continue present camps and extend admission to military mili-tary schools whore training units aro established.