Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
GAY 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 Eug~
[ Bested by Lieutenant j. A. GaIlogIy,
/ Coast Artillery Corps who is in At
/ -anta in charge Of the recruiting
! office
Also he would see distinctive
| names attached to the regiments. de-
| scTiptive 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 1t not" he said. "Tne
English regiments pictuTesqueiy
awake, Jaunty with his swagger
/ stick, proud of himself, Of his coun-
Z try, and OF his calling, are figures
/ imbued with romance. There is a
pride OF the soldiers and a pride or
Lnose who watch the soldiers, and
/ the result is good for the army and
I 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 superclllous
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,
II his viii power is sufficiently pow
erful to hold him to the task, gen
eral officer Of the first rank
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 seTvice-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, it's 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 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.
1.-The regular army. 80 little known,
so little appreciated. never gets its
need Of credit. In the Spanish
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 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 will be sweled further
July l, when an office will be opened
in the Leonard Building in Augusta
Ia.
Against a record OF twenty re-
crults 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 illiterate Sent to the common
schools at the posts and treated like
men. they become good men and good
soldiers II they have fitness for
any particular line of work, they
may 20 to one Of the thirteen trades
schools which the army maintains
learning TO become electricians