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.

More resplendent uniforms for the
regulars Of the United States army
as a means OF attracting recruits and
of inspiring public interest are sug-
| gested by Lieutenant ]. A. Gallogly,
/ 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 a 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 it not" he said The
English regiments, picturesquely
! 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 pride Of
I 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 a 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
fiCer 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 will 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 not
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
tinery there are.
Each regiment" he suggested.
might be known by popular name
and only officially by a numeral. The
name should be apropos to some
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, 80 little known,
so little appreciated, never gets its
need of credit. In the Spanish
| American War, IL 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 great
many died. They didn't know a great
many things, and II 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
ceeding 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 a 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 swelled further
July 1, when an Office will be opened
in the Leonard Building in Augusta.
ia.
Against a record of twenty re-
cruits 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 initerate 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,
blacksmiths or farriers. This train
ing entities them 10 advanced pay,
four or five times that of the ordi-
nary enlisted man. and 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
! 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
1 the Southern farms. who compose
largely the ranks of the recruits sent
from the Atlanta district, make the
best soldiers, Lieutenant Galogly
I said, although at first they are
anemic underfed and sometimes Il
fliterate.
For one thing" he explained. they
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