Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
CAY UNIFORMS
ARE URGED To
BUILD Up ARMY
Atlanta Recruiting Officer Would
Likewise Give U, S, Regiments
Distinctive Names.

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Of inspiring public interest are sug-
gested by Lieutenant ]. a. GaHogIy.
Coast Artillery Corps who is in At
lanta in charge Of the recruiting
office
Also he would see distinctive
names attached to the regiments. de-
scriptive Of a particular service or
Of section, that thereby a personal
pride and appeal would be engen-
dered.
Handsome uniforms in themselves
reveal a professional glory and dig
nifty that rightly belongs TO the army
although the American at present
seems to see Il not" he said. The
English regiments, picturesqueiy
uniformed, every man alive and
awake. jaunty with his swagger
stick, proud Of himself, of his coun-
| try, and Of his calling, are figures
| imbued with romance. There is a
! pride Of the soldiers and a pride Of
those who watch the soldiers, and
the result is good for the army and
good for the public
Lack of Interest Cited.
| Somehow Lieutenant Gallogly ad-
mitted, there is a lack of public in
| terest toward military matters among
| Americans, and rather superciliOus
attitude toward the enlisted man.
This is due to the ignorance that
exists generally regarding the army
and its personnel he said. In the
army itself, the uniform Of a pri-
/ vate demands for him the same re-
| spect and consideration from his Of
| ficeT as the uniform and the rank of
/ the officer demands from the en-
listed man. There IS a dignity that
| is attached to the soldier, which the
| public steadfastly seems to disre-
gard.
There is no calling which offers
so much in reward or advancement
| for the young man without means Of
| education, for the yonung man with
out wealth or powerful parents. than
/ that Of the army. The opportunity
exists for any young man to enlist,
| to enter the army schools to become
an officer and ultimately to become,
| If his viii power is sufficiently pow
| erful to hold him to the task, a gen
eral officer Of the first rank.
Pleads for Gay Uniform.
This the public does not realize
| Probably the appearance of the
! American soldier in the prescribed
uniform helps toward this attitude
of the public. Certainly more SNOWY
and distinctive uniforms-except, Of
| course, for serviCe-wOuld help to-
ward generating more of admiration.
envy. or desire, and would help to
| bring that picturesque glamor with
out which no calling has an appeal.
The American people have main
| tanned the attitude OF contempt for
| gaudy uniforms for the soldiers
and yet can there be named a sin
gle secret or social organization
which affects uniforms that does nos
prescribe the most snowy and gaudy
/ trappings for its members The
love Of gay uniforms is innate"
What the public doesn't know
about the army its features, its ia
cilities for training and education.
| is rather appalling. the recruiting
officer explained, there being not one
civilian in thousands, probably, who
knows how many regiments Of in
fantry, Of cavalry, and Of field ar
tillery there are.
Each regiment" he suggested,
might be known by a popular name
and only officially by a numeraL The
name should be apropOs to some o
thing the organization has done or
of the location from whence a ma
jority of its enlisted men hail.
Praises Regular Army.
THE regular army, so little known.
| so little appreciated, never gets its
need Of credit. In the Spanish
American War 1t was the volunteers
who went out bravely enough and
| took all the credit and the glory as
/ heroes. They didn't know how to
take care of themselves, and a great
many died. They didn't know a great
many things, and it was the regulars
who bore the brunt of the work and
the campaigning. But nobody hears
of the regulars"
Lieutenant Gallogly, in telling yes
terday how the army men are sue
ceedng in making the army attrac-
/ tive to sincere young men, and gave
proof Of progress.
When he took charge Of the dis
triCt, less than year ago, there
were only the offices in Macon and
Atlanta Now the two are augment
ed by the office in Birmingham. and
the number viii be sweiled further
! July I, when an office will be opened
/ in the Leonard Building in Augusta.
Ia.
Against a record OF twenty re-
| CrIits a month from the district a
! year ago. we are sending fifty or
sixty men into the army each month, -
/ he said More than that, the army
men are beginning to prove that the
army has much to offer a young man
| as a calling Men have come into
! this office to enlist who practically
are iliterate. Sent to the common
/ schools at the posts and treated like
men. they become good men and good
soldiers. If they have fitness for
any particular line Of work, they
may go to one of the thirteen trades
| schools which the army maintains
/ learning to become electricians,
! blacksniths or farriers. This train
/ ing entities them to advanced pay.
/ four OF five times that of the ordi-
nary enlisted man, and a number of
/ privileges.
Chance for Enlisted Men.
And if they are even more am
| bilious. they may study, work hard
and become commissioned officers.
! Only about thirty eight per cent Of
1.-The officers in the army to-day are
Academy men, the others coming
! from the ranks or from civil life"
/ The crude products Of the Tennes-
! see and Georgia mountains, and Of
| the Southern farms. who compose
/ largely the ranks Of the recruits sent
| from the Atlanta district, make the
| best soldiers. Lieutenant GaloEly
said although at first they are
|anemic, underfed and sometimes IL
/ literate.
For one thing" he explained. they
Iare of true Anglo-SaXo stock. They
/ have a foundation of physical assets.
and they can shoot we'll
/ Lieutenant Gauogly explained a