The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-02
ARMY IND NAVY
MUST COOPERATE
Prize Paper by Coast Artillery
man Declares History Proves
Such Only Way to Succeed.

NEW YORK, July 16.-Oficers OF
the army and navy are reading with
great interest the Reeve memorial prize
| for 1910, paper emphasizing the i'm
portance of cooperation between the
! two services in time of war. and pro
posing plans that, if followed n time
of peace. it is believed Will make the
cooperation Of the greatest value when
| the emergency comes. Lieut.. Paul d
| Bunker Coast Artillery Corps, L. s. A.
is the winner Of the prize and his pa
! per is the leading article IN the July
August number of the Journal of the
| Military Service Institution Of the
| United States which has just been is
sued
"Upon the army and the navy,
| says Lieutenant Bunker, "devolves the
| task of protecting the nation from all
its enemies, and how can this work be
done efficiently if all parts of the ma.
Cu4Hc are uOg dttuidttiF CONTAMINATED
If any proofs of the value of coopera-
| ton were needed. the history of any
war would afford examples enough. ex.
| amples showing disastrous results
where the two arms have failed to OPP
crate smoothly together, and illustra
tions of the brilliant successes due to
a skilfuI observance of the princip pies
| of cooperation. 1t is not our intention
or desire, to marshal to our aid an ar
| ray of these numerous occasions, for
they are not needed; the simple fact
| that the army and navy must cooperate
is being more fully realized every day
and we are now devising schemes SC
that they shall 90 so.
Lieutenant Bunker then goes on to
| emphasize the Importance of a close
alliance between the navy and the
coast artillery, because, as he puts it
the coast artillery must always keep
in close touch with the navy
An army and navy school, the student
body to be selected from the captains
of the army and the SENIOR Ieutenants
and Heutenant-command of the
navy, is proposed by Lieutenant Bunk
er as a plan that would go long way
toward making possible the realization
of truly valuable scheme of coopera-
ton. He has worked out a curriculum
for this great joint-service school,
Study of modern ships and their
characteristics, a critical study Of mod
ern seacoast Notifications at home and
abroad, study of the oversee eXpedi-
tions of the past, and schemes Of com
bined attack, and the practical work
ing out of some of these schemes he
recommends under the head of theoret-
zeal work, while in the line of practical
work the school would afford a course
thorough in every respect, in target
practise, shore and afioat, and in the
''attack and defense of harbors. -
The value of standardization
would also be emphasized in respect tc
all the munitions of war used by the
two services, even down to the shoes
and underwear and the rations of the
men.
Zone of the most serious impedi
ments.' Lieutenant Bunker writes
''to a thorough cooperation between
the army and the navy might be de
| scribed by the term popular clamor.
In our popular form of government this
| is a serious item, and can not be over
| looked. The best way out of the diff
Guilty seems to lie in educating the peo
| pile 1t should be brought home tC
them that our feet must be foot-loose
they should be made to understand
that if they do their duty by the army
| it will be able. with the help of the
| navy, to annihilate any landing force
of the enemy. They '"uld know that
an oversee expedition Las more impor
| tant business in hand than to scout NJ
| a narrow river, where they would have
| to back out like a crab, simply fol
the purpose of shooting up few farm
| houses. In short. they should have
| confidence in and support their defend