Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-05-23

have made good officers, volunteered at the outset of the war and bore the brunt of the fighting following the bat tie of the Marne, and suffered terrible casualties. The result was that the officer-making material was sadly de- p1eted and when it came to raising other armies the men were lacking for instruction and for leading purposes.
 American army authorities from the very beginning have laid stress upon the necessity of training officers for the forces to be raised. The country read about the Officers Reserve corps and other things and formed half idea that everything would be all right so far as the commissioned ranks were concerned. The army, 1t is held here, however, will need officers and more officers, and if all the willing men, and men in whom the qualities of command are latent and can be brought out, are sent out with the first forces, 1t Is asked if 1t is to be expected that out of the ranks of the unwilling the Unit ed States can get officers of spirit and understanding.
 SIackers Not Good Officers.
 Here is what an American soldier has said:
 sNo stacker ever made a good col onel, nor good second lieutenant, nor good corporal, nor good private. Sometimes the stacker Is only indiffer- ent in temperament and when he gets Into the service he makes a good sol dier, but he needs proper leadership. He could get 1t from the men of will ing spirit and adaptability to the les sons of command. If all such men had to be taken into the ranks at the first and sent to Europe, there perhaps to be killed or maimed, who would be left to give to the stacker who is only lethargfc the proper training to make of him a good first line fighterY
 Some of our troops probably will go quickly to Europe, but enough good soldiers will stay here for training purposes. When the troops of our army get into the instruction camps they will enter school which is diff ferent in it's instruction and in its methods from the army schools of an- other day. On the continent maneu- vers, tactics and strategy have shown marked changes from the battle and campaignings of other years. Men read daily of entanglements of barbed wire and of obstacles to advance which make the old pointed stake obstruc- ton seem easy going. The American troops will be trained to get over and through things, no matter what they are.
 Wall-sealing is a comparatively easy practice, but wall-scaling is the cas- jest of the things which the recruit soldiers of eight weeks standing will be taught at the American camps of military instruction.
 Generals in Their New Posts.
 Maj Gen. Leonard Wood has gone into headquarters at Charleston, s. O., to take command of the Southeastern department; Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell has moved into the quarters. just vacated by General Wood at Govern or's Island, and Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards has found station and quarters as commander of the New England department with headquar- ters at Boston.
 Major General Bell, who will find that his predecessor, General Wood, has set things In order for him In the big New York department, Is soldier of rare experience and rare attain ment. It is understood that he feels the responsibility which rests upon his shoulders to make good in a command in which a superior officer made good
 General Edwards, who left his for mer command on the Isthmian Canal Zone two weeks ago, stopped in Wash | ington for a day and then went to New York to confer with General | Wood, and thence he went to Boston to take up the problems which will confront him in the newly made de- partment.5
 Edwards, like Bell, will discover that Wood has helped him much. General Woods former command included all the eastern part of the United States. The coast problems from the Gulf to East Cape, Maine, were solved in large part by the man who has gone to Charleston.
 New Problems Confront Them.
 It must not be thought, however, that the three general officers now on the eastern coast and the other gen. eral officers, Pershing in the South west, Barry in Chicago, Sibert on the D4h c1e