Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1917 — Experienced Men Will Be Called First For Volunteers. [ARTICLE]

Experienced Men Will Be Called First For Volunteers.

In case war is declared, every national guard regiment will be ordered out at once and shortly after a call for 500,000 volunteers will probably be issued. This call would probably be followed in a short time by a call for half a million morfe men. volunteer department of the U. S. war departmen thas issued a pamphlet which gives in detail the plans of the general staff. In order, it says, that the lives of those patriotic citizens who may volunteer for service may be safeguarded and conserved and not risked under persons lacking in experience in the care of soldiers in camp and in battle, the w&r department decided and announced that the appointment to volunteer commissions will be made from those classes of our citizens who have had such experience, and that from these classes the selections will be made in the following order: 1. Persons who have had experience as .commissioned officers in the regular army of the United States and ex-officers of volunteers of proven experience and efficiency. , 2. Noncommissioned officers of experience in the regular army. 3. Persons who have had experience as officers in the militia. 4. Persons who have qualified according to law under prescribed examinations to test their fitness to command and control men in the field. f>. Graduates of educational institutions of military standing to which regular army officers are detailed as professors of military science under the law.