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COMMANDING GENERAL SOUTHERN
DEPARTMENT COMMENDS MILITARY
TRAINING GIVEN STUDENTS HERE
President Bizzell Received Complimentary Letter From
General J. T. Dickman.
The following letter from Major
General Dickman, commanding of
ficer of the Southern Department,
was received by President Bizzell to
day:
“President, A. and M. College of
Texas,
College Station, Texas.
My Dear Mr. President:—
It has given me great satisfaction
to observe the high standard of ex
cellence that is being maintained by
the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
at the A. and M. College of Texas.
This has been made possible by the
earnest co-operation and assistance
of you and your faculty; by the hard
work and excellent judgment of
your Professor of Military Science
and Tactics and his assistants; and
by the loyalty and cooperation of
your students.
I desire to express to you and to
all concerned my appreciation of the
splendid work that is being accom
plished at your institution.
Yours truly,
J. T. DICKMAN,
Major General, Commanding South
ern Department.
THE SENATE COMMITTEE PRO-
POSAL OR MILITARY
POLICY
The (Wadsworth) Army Reor
ganization Bill (S-3792) provides
for military preparedness in a dem
ocratic, economical and efficient
manner; Democratic because the ob
ligation and opportunity of military
training must rest equally upon all
male citizens; economical since ex
penditures undei' it are reckoned at
hardly more than one-half of what
was asked under War Department
estimates for military protection;
efficient since it will presently estab
lish an organized and trained re-
seiwe equal to any national emer
gency that may confront us.
It provides for a regular army of
300,000 enlisted men and commis
sioned officers with a reduction with
in five years of 25 per cent.
It provides for the universal mil
itary training for a period of four
months (exclusive of time for mo
bilization and demobilization) of all
young men between the ages of IS
and 21, and for a preliminary in
tensive training of all illiterates
during a period of two months. It
provides after this training for the
grouping of all these recruits into a
reserve organized territorially and
subject within the next five years to
two two-weeks periods of camp train
ing.
It provides for a federalized Na
tional Guard system and allows
alternate training under the Nation
al Guard for young men of any
State up to one-third of its author
ized strength each year. It pro
vides further that young men who
receive the four months training
may thereafter at their choice en
list in the National Guard (up to its
authorized strength) instead of pass
ing into the original reserve. There
shall be moreover a National Guard
Division of the War Department
with at least one-half of its person
nel consisting of reserve officers en
rolled in the National Guard.
It provides for army reorganiza
tion as proposed by the most expert
military and civilian authorities, es
tablishing a General Staff, chiefs for
each combat service, a separate Air
Service and a single promotion list,
giving opportunity for further mili
tary service in the organized reserve
to all veterans of the World War,
and prescribing a 25 per cent mini
mum personnel of citizen (reserve)
officers on the General Staff.
It provides for a universal mili
tary training system, formulated for
administration in the most flexible
manner. No compulsory service in
times of peace. The Regular Army
and the National Guard, and the Re
serve are called upon for officers and
enlisted men to form the training
forces. Existing cantonments are to
be used for training purposes. The
four months training is to be given
two different groups each year. All
young men to register at age of 17.
Aliens to be trained or be ineligible
for citizenship. Only the unfit to be
exempted. Provision is made for de
velopment of defectives. Men in
training have all expenses paid to
gether with medical and dental care.
With consent of parents physically
fit young men may take training at
17. (There is full provision for the
continuance of the R.O.T.C.) Every
young man of capacity and interest
may become a candidate for appoint
ment to the military academy or for
a commission in the organized re.-
serve or in the National Guard. The
training proposed is planned for mil
itary preparedness and for physical,
civic and vocational development.
Illiteracy is to be eliminated,, civic
understanding and responsibility is
to be developed, and vocational
training adapted to individual pref
erence is offered in varied and suit
able forms to the end that every
young man at the end of his train
ing period shall be not only a mili
tary asset but also a more intelligent
and patriotic citizen and a more
efficient workman.
THE JOLLY LIFE
She was a lady of the chorus and
with an abbreviated skirt and seven-
dollar hose she looked Some Chicken
from the Bald-head row. Binocu
lars “borrowed” from the Signal
Corps were unable to bring out a
defect. And besides, he was lone
some anyway and sort of blue and a
little disappointed because his hap
pened to have a previous engage
ment on that nite. At any rate when
the show was over and he was par
taking of pie and milk at the nearest
rival of Delmonico’s and she entered
and took a seat at a table, he could
n’t resist a flirtatious glance. Nor
could she resist returning it—for,
you know, he was a Senior and all
macked out in the full regalia of an
R.O.T.C. officer. Casually, with the
balse manner of a Broadway he-
vamp, he sauntered over and opened
up with “You’re looking lovely to
night and a little bit sad—can’t I
help put a little joy in life?”
With a baby stare and a theda-
barish wiggle to her shoulders she
sweetly replied, “Sure go to it kid!
I am a little sad and lonely tonight.
I missed my daughter’s regular let
ter today and when I do that I al
ways get to thinking about my poor
grandson who was killed in France!”
The restauranteur called an am
bulance—the Senior had swooned!
He wanted a girl.
He got her.
She wanted a diamond.
She got it.
They wanted a wedding.
They got it.
And then what do you think they
got?
A divorce!
AT THE LYRIC
Norman Talmadge Lies and Loves in
“She Loves and Lies”
Does a woman lie when she loves?
She certainly does, and Norma Tal
madge proves it in “She Loves and
Lies,” a Select special in which the
popular star is appearing at the
Lyric theatre today.
True, Miss Talmadge has a good
excuse for her fibs, for she must win
a fortune and in order to do this she
must marry a man, while she is mas
querading as a woman of fifty-two,
who happens to be the man she really
loves and he really believes she is
the age she represents.
Some task, but Miss Talmadge is
so versatile that she not only makes
the aged woman convincingly lovely,
but compels her youthful husband to
become so wrapped up in her that
when he has a chance to escape what
to some would prove a distasteful
marriage, he will not let her go.
Then comes the surprise when the
young man finds out that his bride
is a girl full of the buoyancy of
youth and the joy of living.
The best picture ever in your city
today and tomorrow at the Lyric
Theater—Norma Talmadge in “She
Loves and Lies.”
WM. B. CLINE, M. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Specialist
4th Floor City National Bank
Building, Bryan, Texas
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