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Show Call Issued For Ken For Officers' Reserve Corps Uncle Sam has issued a call for every man who is capable of becoming becom-ing an officer in the United States iriny to offer his services that he may be trained to receive a commission n the officers' reserve corps of the United States army and be ready for active duty when called upon. , A special training camp in which men with educational and physical i qualifications will be given the military mili-tary training to equip them for com-I com-I missions as officers are io be established estab-lished in every army department of i the United States and one will be j conducted in this district in the sum. i mer. ! The Military Training Camp Association As-sociation of the United States has 'volunteered to help the regular army secure 150,000 men qualified to take training for officers' commissions and the Inter-Mountain division of the association, with headquarters at Salt Lake has appealed to the, mayor of this city to aid it in enlisting men from this city and vicinity for training train-ing at the camp to be held in this t district about the middle of May next. The mayor has been informed that definite announcement as to the lo-I lo-I cation of the camp and the date of i its opening will be announced later and information as to enlistment in i the camp may be secured by address-ting address-ting Captain Eugene Santschi, U. S. A., at the Inter-Mountain division ;Military Training Camp association ! headquarters, No. 319 South Main Street, Salt Lake City Utah. The following statement ns to the nature of the officers' training camp and the work of the Military Training Camp association in connection with it has been issued by the training camp officials. Official Statement. i' The officers' reserve corps f raining camp is not a short cut for any and everybody to secure a commission as , an officer in the United States army. j and the Military Training Camp association as-sociation has not and is nnf imthoriz- ing anyone to create the impression j that it is. The reserve corps training Camp tit ' a camp where men possessing the necessary ne-cessary educational and physical i qualifications mav receive military training and will have an oppnrtuni- , ty to demonstrate whether or not ' they possess the additional ability and qualifications nee'-'sary fn entitle en-title them to commissions in tile oC , ficers' Reserve corps of the regular ! army. It is not everyone, by any means. ' who possesses qualifications sufficient to fill out a preliminary enlistment application and enlistment ' in the training camp is not a guarantee that 'he re'Tuit w'll rereive an officers' commission. That depends upon the ph'I'fv and qualifications he demonstrates demon-strates to those authorities of the ar- 1 my whose duty it is to determine them. :," The Military Training Camp association, asso-ciation, since the order of the war department cancelling all citizens' military training camps of the old type and substituting therefore, one 'training camp for the officers' reserve " i-ps in each army department of the United States, is merely acting as a recruiting agency for and in conjunction con-junction with the war department to secure for the government, from the states of the various training camp divisions, men possessing the timber which might enable them to make c tficers. The training camp association is merely the agency through which such men may be sought out and brri"-ht. into training camps where their ability and timber may be proven. The military training is not seeking seek-ing to secure recruits for the officers' (raining camp at the expense of re-icruiting re-icruiting for the national guard, of any state, (he regular army, the navy I or the marine corps. On the con-: con-: l vary it is and will co-operate with J these branches of the military service in securing men. ' The Training Camp recruiting sta. j t.'ons are not only seeking out men who are qualified to enlist in the oflirers' reserve corps training ramp. but. when it finds men qualified for enlislment in any other branch, if I promptly sends them to the other branch. i It should be understood that the training camn association does not and cannot, even pans on the question . of whether or not an applicant for enlistment in the officers' reserve corps .training camp can enlist. Everv applicant for enlistment secured through the training camp association associa-tion stations is sent to the office of 'the commanding general at the de-. de-. -a i-t ment in which it is located and the commanding general of the department de-partment of the regular army determines deter-mines whether or not the applicant is nullified even for enlistment in the training camp. If the applicant is enlisted his fur-Mipr fur-Mipr rniirse depends upon himself the qualifications and ability dem-! onstrated by him. j |