The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
Army and Navy News
Beat Service Column in City.

Military training in the schools
conceived as military drilling is unde-
sirable and unavailing; military train
ing conceived as a comprehensive pro-
gram of physical. moral. and civic edu-
cation is desirable and even neces-
sary,' declares DR.. W. S. Small, of
George Washington University, in a
chapter on educational hygiene in the
annual report of the Commissioner of
Education. Department of the Interior.
Dr. Small points out that military
training thus conceived offers a possi-
bility of unifying and ennobling the
now confused and disjointed activities
in the field OF physical and moral dis
cipline. The physical and moral values
of both gymnastics and athletics are
well understood, but both lack compre-
hensive and unifying motive. All sys-
TENS of gymnastics are individualistic,
Their appeal is to the desire of the in
divdual for physical perfection. Com
petition is narrowly individualistic.
Systems of athletics are mostly based
upon group competitions, and If prop
erly managed are very valuable, not
only for physical development, but also
for training in the very fundamentals
of social morality. But the philosophy
of athletics is the philosophy of play.
and the philosophy of play is the
philosophy of instinct-a philosophy
that is not comprehensive enough to
serve as a sole basis of physical and
moral education. Military training
rightly conceived includes these mo-
tives and subordinates them to the
ideal of patriotism"
The report describes and discusses
the so-called Wyoming plan," origi-
mated by Capt. E. q. Steever, L. S. A b.;
outlines the plans of the New York
military commission in relation to ply
sical training, and analyzes the rela-
tion of military training to school
organization, including that military
training in the strict and technical
sense will not be grated upon the
schools, but military training in the
sense of a comprehensive program for
physical, moral, and civic education in
which some appropriate military af-
fairs may be included is likely to find
its way into all schools"
Because the United States has only one
observation balloon, and that in Omaha,
Gertrude Atherton and other women in
charge of the Allied Charities benefit
performance to be given at the Century
Theater, in New York City, have deter
mined to buy a balloon and present 1t to
the War Department. 1t will cost s10,-
OOO
Many leaders here advocate the i'm
mediate establishment of a department
Cor 'ministry'O of munitions Euro
pean belligerents delayed this step until
almost overwhelmed by the problem of
supplying their troops with arms, shells,
guns and other things needed. 1t is
urged the United States should take time
by the forelock.
Edward r. Stettinius, former president
of the Diamond Match Co. and now the
plember Of ]. P. Morgan & Co, In charge
of the purchase of munitions for all the
allies in this country is suggested as a
man well qualified for the post OF Sec
retary Cor Minister) of Munitions.
Forty-one motorboats which enrolled
for the training cruise in the New York
district last summer can be made ready
for patrol duty around the harbor upon
short notice.
Some of these boats can make maxi
ma of twenty to twenty-nine miles an
hour. The owners include Ralph Pulit-
ger. William Ziegler. jr.. R A. c. Smith.
Harold L Pratt, August Belmont. 5rs