Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-03
EDUCATION IN
The A! {, 5. army \
System is One Of the Highest and
Best in the World; No Other
" Equals It.

b" Equals It.
How Uncle Sam keeps the officer:
and men in his army up to the tor
notch of efficiency is told in a spe
cial report on Educational Systems
in the American Army in the An
I.Tal Report of the Commissioner o.
Education just issued. The statement
was prepared by Capt. Douglas Mac
Arthur and approved by General Leo
nard Wood.
Very Complete System.
No country in the world has as
complete, q system of professional
scholastic training for its officers as
the United States" declares Capt
MacArthur. This is due to the In
herents difference between the mill
tary establishments OF foreign ma
lions and that of our own. Their
armies are at all times kept upon a
war footing, as a result of which they
have ample opportunity for the per
feet training Of the personnel IN the
practical duties Of the military pro
fessiOn.
Efficiency 10 Aimed At.
I'm such an army, the main object
is to train every man for the eff.
clent performance of his duties in the
grade which he holds when war
comes. A lieutenant does not dream
OF becoming a captain merely as the
result Of war except as a vacancy is
made for him in the casualties Of bat
tie. Only in the same way does a
captain expect to become a colonel;
nor would the idea be tolerated that
great numbers of trained line officers
Ore to be suddenly transferred to var
tous staff positions.
No Mystery About War.
Their organizations are founded
upon the theory that there is nothing
mysterious in the art OF war; thar
technical and scientific training is
needed by only a small portion of mil.
itary officers; that certain things
which a Napoleon must know, every
officer must know, and can as read.
lily acquire as he; while those things
which d~ifferentiate a Napoleon froL!
other generals "a not be acquired in
any school, not even in that Of war.
unsound Doctrine.
Such a system would be thorough
ly unsound If transplanted to the
American Army, the organization Of
which is quite different from CONT
neIflal armies. In fact, the most
striking feature in our service Is the
absence of what constitutes the very
essence of the foreign establishments:
that is, a great standing army serving
in corps, divisions, and brigades, in
which the average officer of any
grade learns the details OF his profess
sion by practical work and with the
minimum of theory.
Must Distance Others.
Our system of military education
must therefore differ from that Of
the other great nations of the world.
It must be such as to educate our
officers so that they will be able at q
moments notice, when the war ex.
pansion comes, to perform the duties
OF f~ar.advanced grades and to render
service in branches of the Army, both
line and staff, in which they are not
commissioned in time of peace. For
this reason we have established q pro-
gressive system of schools designed to
teach officers and men, limited only
by their. individual capacities for it's
az assimilation, the duty of the 1nan-in.
arms in all grades from lowest to
highest. 49, t@ '' "' 81,
Many Institutions. visa +"
THE military educational system
of the United States comprises: The
Military Academy at West Point for
the education OF cadets; post schools
for the instruction Of enlisted men;
garrison schools for the instruction
Of officers in subjects pertaining to
the performance of their ordinary
duties; the Army Service Schools at
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., including
the Army School Of the Line, the
Army Staff College, the Army Sig
nal School, the Army Field Engineer
School, the Army Field Service and
Correspondence school for medical
officers; the Special Service Schools,
of the Engineer School,
Washington Barracks, D. c., the
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe,
Va, the Mounted Service School, fort
Riley, Kans., the Army Medical
School, Washington, D. c., the
Of Fire for Field Artillery,
fort Sill, Okla, the School of Musket-
~, Fort Sill. Okla, the Signal Corps
Aviation School, San Diego, CAL, the
Schools for Takers and Cooks, Wash.
Barracks, D. c., and Preside
San Francisco, Cal, the Training
School for Saddlers and for Battery
Of Field Artillery, Rock
Island Arsenal, Ill.,. the School of In.
for enlisted men of the reg
ular army selected for detail for duty
With the organized militia, the Engi.
nees Trade Schools: the Army War
Washington, D. c.; the
schools Of instruction for college stu
dents, and the military departments
Of civil institutions at which officers
Df the army are detailed under the
provisions of law"
SUPPLYING COAL 70 POOR.
The, city of Prague has for some
winters supplied its poor with coal,
either free or at reduced rates. I'm
der the plan first adopted the mum.
went into the coal business,
dep0ts and offices in different
sections of the city, in charge of off.
Gals who made the distribution. The
coal was bought, direct from the mine.