The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-25
SKY P|[0TS ARE:
 GOING THROUGH
 ARMY TRAINING

"' 'ho ohlleu states army soon Will graduate its second class at Camp Zachary Taylor There are ninety students in the class, which ;s made up or ministers of many denomina- tons, some of whom until recently served as pastors of big city churches. Some of the graduates already have been commissioned as chaplains, while others are approved candi- dates for chaplain awaiting appoint ment."
 No instruction on theological sub- jects is attempted at the school The whole effort is centered upon fitting clergymen, fresh from civil life and the problems of civil life, into the military scheme of things.
 If Private Bill Jones gets what he considers ''raw deal' from his cap tain, ten chances to one he will find it convenient to talk the matter overI with his chaplain, for it is to the chaplain the buddy" goes in timeI of trouble. When Bill Jones appears with his tale of woe he must get al sympathetic hearing, and then if heI has been wrong all the time, and his injury is but fancied, the chaplain must know enough of military law and military regulations to tell him def-I nitely just how and why what was done to Bill was the right thing Therefore the school for chaplains bears down hard On instruction in military law and the army regula- tions.
 If Bill is in the right the chaplain, if he is polite, will not tell Bill so, but will suggest that he see him has seen his commanding officer and asked that such unintentional injus- tice as may have been done be recti-I fled before Bill comes back. How itI was done Bill may never exactly know, but if the chaplain had lacked the knowledge of just how to go about the thing the injustice under which he suffered might have gone uncor- rected.
 In the words of one of the instruc- tors at the school, this is not in- tended to make of the chaplain al ''guard-house lawyer" but merely toI fit him to give intelligent advice toi soldiers.
 If the men in the army are to look up to a chaplain it is necessary that he have their confidence to the small est detail. And as the men of the National army are rapidly becoming experts, there must be no risk of their coming to regard the chaplain with the half-contemptuous amusement the experts feel for an amateur, because of any lack of knowledge of military 1 custom on the chaplain's part. For this reason great attention is paid also to instruction in military eti- quette.
 The chaplains' class is also taught the very highest of high spots in in ternational law. In addition there is instruction in equitation, in the care of person and clothing in the field, for the chaplain follows the men with whom he serves into the trenches, and may frequently ''go over the top" with them. If not he will be found assisting in the care of wounded men on the field under fire. Under such conditions he, like every one else con- nected with an army in the field must shift for himself and must know how.
 While attending the school for chap lains the students are quartered in barracks originally built for enlisted men; they get government straight" to eat three times a day, and they wash up the mess kits from which they eat, just as would any enlisted man. In addition they sleep on the same straw-filled mattresses to be- found on the beds of enlisted men.
 In this way they are learning some thing of the conditions under which an enlisted man lives and works, and most of them are finding the experi- ences really enjoyable. Their atti- tude is summarized in the answer to a query given by one of them, who said:
 "Oh, boy! This bunch of preachers never knew how good real food could taste or how soft straw tick could be until they started putting us through this course of sprouts eleven and one-half hours every day"
 The school is in charge of Major A. A. Pruden, regular army chap