The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-21
CAPTAIN MASSEE
! OUTLINES SCHEME
T0fRA|N YOUTHS
Older Students Of Punahou Will
Be Given Course In Mill
tary Development

| holH tOulu NOte NJ JnPlf MONIES ana
neither could vote away from home.
The dPnouncer of the soldier subsidized
Rath Against shooting
James A. Rath spoke at length in
opposition TO the drill features of the
plan, after he had listened to Captain
Massee 8 elaboration of the commit
tee 5 scheme rs,I
~ can agree in some things with
Captain Massee, said Mr.. Rath, "but
not in everything. I agree with him
what he says concerning the value of
calesthenics in building up the body,
but when 1t comes to the matter of
teaching boys how to shoot, ] most EN-.
| phatically disagree with Captain Mas.
see. Why do we want to show our
boys how to shoot their fellowsl
"In Germany, boys must he twenty
years Of age, before they are really
taught soldiery. They realize that you
can't take immature boys and irin
them without hurting them physically.
In most colleges now, the boys are
compelled to engage in some kind of
athletics, Int they are not compelled to
take military training.
"Mr. Emerson has talked about the
| present generation not having manners
Military training is not going to teach
them manners. No, they are all taught
their manners before they are seven
years old. The idea that military
training is going to better them is not
right, for as soon as they are away
from the drill grounds they are just
simply boys. r..
GA man once told me that of all the
hoys who came to his college, from pub
lie schools, private institutions, and
from military schools" those who almost
invariably stood BIGGEST were those
from the public schools. The boy to,
day is no worse than he was fifty years
ago. | know for L handle about seven.
ty of them every Sunday.
A few years ago | stood with you
I thought that military training would
do them good, aud 80 / engaged a ser
geant to drill them. The result was
that they were no better, and although
| they were no worse a lot of time had
been wasted which I now am convinced
could have been spent more profitably.
And so l say, trustees, before you
decide this matter, think about it long
and carefully, and l say, PunahOu, go
slowly in this matter.
Judge Dole F1ails Northeastern
| A reference by one of the non-re.
sisters to the horror that would be felt
could hear of .tfesplan to train the
youths of Punabou in drill and target
practise elected a strong reply from
Judge Dole, who recalled the days Of
| 1868, when he and the other Punahou
students had daily drill under a Ger.
man sergeant.
"This will not be the first time mill,
tary instruction will be had at Puma
| hon. he said. cit was given to us in
the sixties by German sergeant. It
was harmless and it did me good, and
| it did not make any of rs blood
thirsty cut.throats feel that it
would be benefit to the Punahou boys
now, and / feel that at least a trial
| should be made, for it certainly will
not hurt them. If it is not found sat
! isfaetory, it can be given up"
Walter Dillingham; reminded those
present that the greatest man Punahou
| ever turned out, the man of whom they
were prOudest, was General Armstrong
a famous fighter and the founder of
| Hampton Institute. His military train
ing aud his years of fighting had not
| prevented him from being one of the
! great Christian leaders of the nation
| Endurance, preparedness and an
ability to scrap was the spirit which
built up PunahOu,' he said. of ever
he time comes, ! want my boy to be
able to do his bit and do it WELL"
| James A. Wilder made a plea for the
/ inf hn d., l..
pecially for the younger boys, stating
that the Scout trimming gives to the
youth all the necessary elements of sol
diering that he can pro6tably absorb
and teaches him other useful things a.
| well.
Other speakers were J. s. Emerson
! d. Richards, Sherwood LORrey, Wallace
| K. Harrington, Major Lenihan and Cap
tain Massee
Massee Plan of Training
The latter outlined very carefully
what the plan of preliminary training
is 10 consist Of, if the report of the
committee be adopted. He said:
| Captain Massee said:
1.-THE few months remaining Of the
present school year preclude a sched
ule or framing extending much beyond
| physical and disciplinary exercises. II
Is expected that the first few weeks
will be devoted to physical exercises
without arms, these exercises being
graded in severity according to the ply
steal condition of the student. In al
these exercises the student will be in
formed that as soon as any muscle be
comes OverwOrked, he may, without
further permission, discontinue the rX
ercise until he feels sufficiently reste
80 resume work. These exercises will
he so varied as to bring into play al
the muscles of the body, without un
necessary fatigue, to bring about {
proper set up, and to effect activity an
proper balance. This will be followe,
by farings, marchings, squad, platoon
aud company movements without arms
the physical drill without arms consti
tuting a part of the exerciEe through
out the year.
"This work will he followed by tn,
manual of arms for those armed will
the rife, the care of the rife, anc
physical exercises with arms.
"AlI this followed by combining tn,
| work M TINT thn gtulanta will NAT ,nu,