The Dermott news., 1917-05-24

'
 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 cd States can get officers of spirit and understanding.
 Siackers Not Good Officers.
 Here is what an American soldier has said:
 'No stacker ever made a good col onel. nor a good second lieutenant, nor a good corporal, nor a good private. l Sometimes the stacker Is only indiffer- ent in temperament and when he gets i into the service he makes good sol dier, but he needs proper leadership. 1 He could get It from the men of will ing spirit and adaptability to the les sons of command. If all such men i had to he taken into the ranks at the 1 first and sent to Europe. there perhaps to be killed or maImed, who would he left to give to the stacker who is only l lethargic the proper training to make of him n good first line fighteri"
 Some of our troops probably will 20 quickly 10 Europe. but enough good soldiers will stay here for training l purposes When the troops of our army get into the instruction camps they will enter school which Is diff i ferent in its instruction and in It's 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 barhed wire and of obstacles to advance which make the old pointed stake obstruc- i ton seem easy going. The American troops will be trained to get over and through things. no matter what they are.
 Wall scaling is n comparatively easy practice. but wall-scaling Is the eas- lest 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. C., to take command of the Southeastern department: Maj. Gen. !. Franklin Bell has moved into the quarters just vacated by General Wood Tt Govern or's Island. and Brig. Gen. Clarence k. Edwards has found station and quarters as commander of the New England department with headquar- ters at Boston.
 So fl is that May, the moving month of Americans has seen the first army | tranSportations probably solved. Gen eral Wood, ranking officer of the Unit cd States army has gone to his semi subordinate command at Charleston with Il loyalty to orders and cheer fulHess of demeaRor that marks the true soldier.
 Major General Bell, who will find that his predecessor General Wood. has set things In order for him i'll the big New York department, Is soldier of rare experience and rare attain ment. IL Is understood that he feels the responsibility which rests upon his shoulders to make good In command 1 In which superior officer made good. General Edwards. who left his for mer command on the lsthmian Canal Zone two weeks ago, stopped in Wash ington for day and then went 10 New York 10 confer with General Wood. and thence he went to Boston 10 take up the problems which will confront him in the newly made de- partment.
 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 10 East Cape. Maine. were solved in large part by the man who has gone to Charleston.
 New Problems Confront Them. II must not be thought. however, that the three general officers now on the eastern coast and the other gen eral officers, Pershlng in the South west. Barry In Chicago, Slbert on the Pacific coast and others elsewhere. will not have new problems confront ing them. A great army is to be raised and trained. and detachments of 1t will 1 go into camp Tt different places l throughout the United States. The re- 1 sponsibilty for the proper training of | these men, for the proper care. and for i turning them as quickly as possible in- to good soldiers will rest on the major generals and brigadler generals in whose departments the camps are pitched.
 The factors in the problem are many. | Some of them are prime factors and before the solution comes the proper methods 10 he followed in arriving at |