Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
CAY UNIF FORMS
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 means Of attracting recruits and
Of inspiring public interest are sug-
gested by Lieutenant J. 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-
scriDtive 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 II 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 If
those who watch the soldiers, and
| he result is good for the army and
good for the public"
Lack Of Interest Cited.
Somehow Lieutenant GalloRly ad-
mltted, 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 it's personnel" he said. I'm the
army itself. the uniform of a pri-
vate demands for him the same re-
. HI
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 win 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
tillery there are.
Each regiment" he suggested,
might be known by a popular name
and only officially by mineral The
name should be apropos to some
thing the organization has done or
of the location from whence a ma
| iority 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, It was the volunteers
who went out, bravely enough, and
took all the credit and the glory as
heroes. They didn't know how 70
/ take care Of themselves, and a great
many died. They didn't know q 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 Gallogiy, 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 swelled further
July /. when an office viii 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 illiterate. 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
mays go to one of the thirteen trades
schools which the army maintains
| learning to become electricians,
| blacksmiths or farriers. This train
ing entities them to advanced pay.
four or 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
/ 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