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Show N OF LOCI A. G. STUflEflT ARMY LEAVII LOGAN, Dec. 21. As fast as their pay can bo counted out and their discharge dis-charge papers signed, the men of the students' army training corps at tho Utah Agricultural college are today 1 being mustered out of service of Uncle Sam. The final stop in demobilization demobiliza-tion began this morning at seven o'clock and before night every one of the six hundred and forty-three men In the corps will bo again a civilian. Military work has been carried on in the organization intensively and : continuously every day since the in-' in-' stallation of the corps on Septepber 30 and. with the exception of an enforced en-forced stoppage of two weeks due to - influenza, academic work has also , continued. Physical examinations conducted j Thursday and Friday showed not a i trace of Influenza in the battalion, no venereal diseases and but eight men ,in any way incapacitated. In practic- ally ever' case, the men are being I returned to civil life in improved phy-'sical phy-'sical condition, with gains in weight , running from three to twenty pounds. , The students' army training corps was established at the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college on September 30. when similar organizations were Installed In several hundred institutions. At that time, the four hundred and fifty-three fifty-three members of the National Army Training detachment, who were being be-ing trained at the .college, became the vocational section of the S. A. T. C. During the" time the S: A. T. C. was in operation at tho institution, two hundred hun-dred fifty-three men were Inducted into the collegiate section, four hun-idred hun-idred sixty-seven into the telephone-electrician telephone-electrician work, and three , hundred ! sixty-one into the vocational' section, ! making the total number inducted six j hundred and eighty-one. Of this number num-ber fifty -ninQ were sent to officers i training camps to prepare for com-! com-! missions. The collegiate men received aside from military training, academic instruction in war issues, military law. personnel work, military hygiene, military mil-itary French, bacteriology, mapping! J and for those in tho quartermasters ' I course training in commerce and bust -1 ' ness. The vocational men were train-, ed as machinists, blacksmiths, wagon- j ors, chauffeurs, auto mechanics, ra- j dio operators or topographical draughtsmen. All received a course in The collpgo was able, through the most complete co-operation of military mili-tary and school authorities, to provide adequate barracks and mess accommodations accom-modations for the men. The new livestock building was turned over to the battalion to serve for barracks, and other companies were placed in the Thomas Smart Gymnasium and in the college chapel The south wing of the main buliding. which was to have been used for barracks, was used as a hospital during tho influenza epidemic. epi-demic. The influenza made its appearance at the college about October 16. A J large and completely equipped hospital hos-pital was organized at once and was In operation by October IS under the direction of Dr. D. C. Budge. The hospital hos-pital was in use for four weeks, by which time tho Influenza was completely com-pletely stamped out of tho institution. During the four weeks. 241 cases of influenza or suspected influenza were cared for. Of this number six died, making a death rate of one fourth of one per cent. Five physicians were in constant attendance, with two graduate grad-uate nurses and ten attendants. Three physicians were employed to care for the men in the barracks outside of the hospital. Cooking for tho ailing men was done under tho direction of tho School of -Homo Economics by former stu- . dents of the institution. Of the six hundred and forty-three men at the college at the time of demobilization, de-mobilization, all but seventeed had taken out government insurance and 1 all had been urged to insure. Insurance Insur-ance was written to the amount of $5,890,500 for the men and of ?210,000 for tho officers. At the time of demobilization, tho S. A. T. C. was organized and officered 1 as follows: Captain Stephen Abbott, U. S. A.. Retired, commandant; 1 Captain Henry ' Moyle. 21 Infantry, U. S. A., executive : officer; First Lieutenant H. C. Force, adjutant; First Lieutenant W. E, ; Pinch, chief tactical officer; First Lieutenant T. H. Holcombs, In com- ; mand of company A; and Second Lieutenants Thomas E. Leavy, in command com-mand of company D; George E. War- ' Ing. in command of company B; Glen L. Miller, post exchange officer; ' Clyde Romney, attached to company D; Fred A. Finch, in comma-nd of company C; James M. Christenson, morale offi- 1 ccr; Gethin T. Fowler, attached to company C; Georgo B. Hendricks, personnel officer; M. L. Harris, as- 1 sistant personnel officer; L M. Chip-tnan. Chip-tnan. attached to company A; James E. Watkins, assistant adjutant; Georgo 2. BIggar, attached to company ; and James N. Pulllara, attached to com- 1 lany C. I |