The Washington herald., 1917-01-15
Army and Navy News
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Considerabls interest centers around the
attack upon compulsory military train
Ing for boys made by DIR. Dudley A. Sar.
gent, OF Harvard University, before the
senate subcommittee on Saturday. DR.
SARGENT based his arguments solely upon
lhygienic grounds. He said that military
training was too soft for boys.
Growing boys need struggle and ef-
fort." he said. ito bring about full CO.
ordination of their minds and muscles;
they need something to make them exer-
else Judgment in unusual and even In
trying circumstances. Military training
lacks these elements. There is scarcely
an outdoor American game which does
not tend TO make better soldiers of boys
than does military training.
This is evidenced further by the fact
that the most militaristic nations have
entirely abandoned compulsory military
training for boys In school.
/ Military drill does not teach boys the
real art Of war, since they are too young
70 handle the real weapons and undergo
the rfgors of adequate instruction. 1t is,
however, likely to foster bombastic piili-
tary spirit, spirit Of tin soldering and
to imbue the youth with false sense OF
what constitutes patriotism"
The democracy OF the dog tent was
attacked by Max Eastman.
Robert Dunn. of Yale. told the com
mittee that Plattsburg had destroyed
all interest in International affairs among
the undergraduates at Yale.
Before Plattsburg there was a great
deal OF interest in international affairs.
he said. but when the boys came bach
from the training camps they had beer
dlled up by Gen. Leonard Wood with the
Idea that We were Immediately going t.
De attacked and that big army ano
! navy were the only factors which
counted In international affairs"
The King Soup Cart" designed by
Capt. Harry L. King, u. 8. A, cavalry
branch, and built at the quartermaster' s
| depot, Jeffersonville Ind, was recently
given trial in Texas. 1t was one OF
several designs tested by the First Wis
| consin Infantry during the march of the
Twelfth provisional division from San
Antonio to Austin and return.
This cart is designed to furnish soup
stew or wet roast and coffee for q
battalion of infantry at war strength
(63o mem and is equipped with two
| boilers for stew with capacity of sixty
two gallons each and two for coffee
with q capacity. of forty-two gallons
| each.
1t cooks by gas generated from kero-
sene by a burner invented and patented
ps w" II. bOTseyp engineer at JeHersoh-
Vile. Ind. and the body of the kitchen
proper, being lined with asbestos, keeps
the contents above cooking point d6o de-
grees) for more than six hours after the
fire is put out. The tank has a capacity
of ninety-four gallons of oil. and the en-
| tire trip of twenty days was made cook
| ing for q battalion, on seventy gallons
of oil. The total cost was about $3.50 for
the trip, as compared with from SIS to
$50 for battalions that burn wood.
The kitchen carries out the idea OF a
| fireless cooker with the added advantage
of direct initial heat. There is carried
nested. on the kitchen four company cook
| ing units to be used at a halt for bak-
ing, roasting. and frying either by wood
| fire or by gas burners attached to the
| tank or for use should the battalion be
split up. The gas is generated either at
halt or while moving, and. being under
pressure. the movement of the cart,
wind. or rain in no way affects 1t. The
trial was an entire success as the kitchen
did far more than was required Of it