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Show LIEUTENANT COLONEL MOORE The Act of June 3, 1919, authorized the President to "establish and maintain in civil educational institutions a Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The same act authorizes the Secretary of War to prescribe standard courses of theoretical and practical military training for units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and to provide and maintain camps for the further practical instruction of its members. Such camps will be maintained not longer than six wreeks in any one year, except in time of actual or threatened hostilities. Members of the corps will be transported to and from such camps, subsisted while enroute and while at the camp, at the expense of the government. The course of training in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps covers four years work, the first two being basic, the latter two, advanced. Members of both courses will be uniformed and equipped at the expense of the government, and members of the advanced course will be paid the price of the government ration, which amounts to about twelve dollars a month. All the larger and many of the smaller institutions have installed units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, well realizing the many advantages which will result to the institution and the student in the closer relationship to the War Department. And such institutions appreciate the obligation which is due our country and our flag. The University of Utah has made application for the installation of one or more units. It has done its duty. The measure of support given by the students of this institution will measure their patriotism and love of Alma Mater. Page Forty-two |
