Show SHOW SPIRIT OF OUR forefathers men of the training camps will make mak e excellent lot of officers NOT VERY MANY WEEDED considerable number Is belofi DO D tailed tor for engineering and aviation instruction Instruct lon war department officials are pleased by EDWARD B CLARK washington moro more than half tile first training period for candidates for commissions in the new army Is up and the officials of the war department are ready to declare that results are beyond expectations and that the plucking process will develop fewer victims than anyone thought possibly could be the case stock Is being taken by the officials of the results obtained by weeks 0 of training for the young men now undergoing instruction in the camps an officer of the army said today the lower commissioned rank in our national army will be filled by men of whom any country could be proud the young americans who are attending the sixteen officers training camps in as many sections of the country are showing the spirit that m made lide this country free it Is to be expected that no difficulty at all will be experienced in selecting the men to command in the junior commissioned grades the first young americans soon to be called to the colors the time given for the training is short and only one half of it has haa passed but the results obtained make us believe that numerous as were the early mistakes and trying as were the conditions to which the men at first were subjected the outcome will be all that we can wish and it seems to be assured that the young officers quickly will III get the confidence of the men whom they are to command and with it the confidence of this country and of its allies political pull weakening the reports which come to washington from all the training camps are that the boys have put all that they have into their work washington still la is a little fearful that some of the young men who may be dented denied commissions because they have not come up to the mark may have recourse to friendly political influence to secure for them what they could not secure for themselves this fear of the officials ci however Is not sharp for within a week or so the pressure from the politicians tor for preference tor for this man or that man has weakened it can be IS said aid for the war department that it has stood faithful to its duty of deny ing requests for commissioned places for those lacking experience and otherwise unfitted for the work of leading men it should be understood that pothina like till all the young men who entered camps will ill answer their names tit at roll call on the day of breaking camp for six weeks the weeding out policy hall ha been pursued men who never would make officers officer are told of their shortcomings and sent to their moir homes in addition to this a 0 considerable percentage of the men have been sent to other camps where they will specialize in engineering or la is aviation the department has adopt ed a policy of sending men to flying headquarters where they will be trained and later be given commissions in the air service to help prepare army camps now that something like sevel weeks have passed and virtually full opportunity has been given for passing judgment 0 on n the qualifications of each man it Is not to be expected that the elimination will be anything like so many as they have been in the past ex capt perhaps in the cases of men wh 6 show how marked ct aoude rde for places in thoi th staff department these men men of course tire are not eliminated but simply are transferred it has hai been asked frequently what Is to be done with the candidate officers between august 11 when the first anaas ca nl s are brought to an end and the time set for the mobilization of the first national army the students after about a weeks leave probably will be sent tit to the sites of the cantonments canton ments where they will undertake work under the colonels in command and will ill be given an opportunity to help in the preparation ot of the big camps for the selected sen ice men in the preparation for the second series of encampments encamp ments will be opened on august 27 the cers of the army are doing what they can to avoid repetition of the mistakes made during the continuance of 0 the firt camp riana piling now drawn up by the department eliminate almost entirely men inen who lack any military tary experience of 0 course some likely soldier making material to be found among civilians who ilo never have shouldered a musket will be utilized but it Is probable that tile the students at the second camps will alii he be in large part men who aho have seen scon some previous military service |