The Washington herald., 1917-01-16
Army and Navy News
best service ceIunaa B. cfty.

A ffty-foot military type cruIeer. COM
pletely equipped in every detatA y 70 "
shipped in few days from AiwauAce
and be placed on exhibition in the ofano
Central Palace, New York City. where ~
will be an attraction during the annual
motor boat show, which will open on
Saturday. January "a, and be feature
for eight days The cruiser Is remark
able craft This is one-rnan controi
vessel, equipped with comfortable and
. luxurious accommodations for party
of eight and crew OF two.
In addition to having remarkable ac-
commodations for vessel Of Its 0ze TINS
motor boat can mount two rapid nre
guns for operation against submarine ana
aircraft and for general patrol service.
This yacht is built by the Great lakes
Boat Building Corporation. Among lose
who have purchased craft from fiis con-
Germ are Alfred /. du Pont. Mrs. Foster
Milliken, r. T. Wilson, William Girbert,
Harry c. Good, Mrs. Ida Seybert, Henry
Ringing. and e. L. King, and several OF
these are now in Florida waters.
The show this year will have a strong
naval aspect. The fad with yachtsmen
is for patrol or scout cruisers and there
have been SO many orders placed for
craft of this type that all the builders
are rushed with work and the feet OF
new craft next spring will be large. These
will not only be used for cruising by their
owners, but will take part in the naval
maneuyers held in the summer at diff
ferent points on the Atlantic coast
Another attraction at the show will be
a Curtiss aerohydroplane. The flying boat
has already appealed to many yachtsmen.
and there is a strong possibility Of races
being arranged for these craft which will
show their ability to skim on the surface
of the water and to rise and fly.
To follow out the navy idea the decora-
tions In the Palace will be blue and gold,
the navy colors, and these decorations
will be artistic. but not at all ornate. as
the building itself is so handsome that
very little decorations are needed.
Led by Prof. John Dewey the edu-
Gator of Columbia University, the forces
OF the American Union Against Militar-
ism made a second assault yesterday
upon the Chamberlain compulsory train
ing bin before the Senate subcommittee.
In the morning the committee heard
from prominent educators opposed to the
measure, including Prof. Edward Potts
Cheyney, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania; DIR. John Lovejoy Elliott, of New
York City, and Prof. A. A. Walton, of
Philadelphia; and in the afternoon owen
r. Lovejoy, OF New York City, secretary
of the national child labor committee;
Oswald Garrison Willard, president OF the
New York Evening Post, and President
James II. Maurer, of the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Labor, opposed both
the Chamberlain and the MosIey bills.
DR.. Dewey attacked the suggestion that
compulsory military training would
make for civic discipline.
Educators disagree on a great many
points," he said, but they are absolute
ly unanimous today in their agreement
that the military method is the worst
possible method of establishing discipline
in schools. l know a New York school
principal who took charge of a school
where formerly rigid military rule had
prevailed. He happened to look out of
a window at the boys in the playground
and when his back was turned a shower
of stones crashed through the window.
Today. after three years of modern DEM
ocratic methods, he stands in his window
and watches a yard full of boys in order
ly, contented play. That illustrates the
difference between the old idea of disci-
pline, with its inevitable violent reac-
ton, and the new"
At the afternoon session Oswald Gar
rison Willard made a vigorous attack
upon the regular army establishment for
its alleged 'Ineficiency," and declared
that 1t was preposterous to expect COM
pulsory training to provide adequate de-
Tense "as long as the present military
establishment was allowed to shirk its
duties and to blunder along unchecked
and uncorrected." He said in part:
"An army in which so gross a scandal
could take place as that which took
place in the Signal Corps last winter,
with its open revelations of graft and
the deliberate attempts to mislead Con-
gress, without anybody being reprimand-
ed or punished for it. is not an efficient
army. An army in which, in a single
regiment, nearly 12 per cent of the en-
listed men can desert. as happened in
1916, without anybody being held account
able for it, is not an efficient army. With
such an establishment on our hands
there Is no guarantee that compulsory
service would bring about efficiency"