White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-06

IN INC VffoS't0t WIN SS'' -.
Few Months by educational Com
mission In American Expeditionary
Force In Franee--Men and ofncsrs
Eagerly Grasp Chance to Study.
great new educational force la the
shape of the American regular army
will come into being IN the United
States in the neal future II the present
plans of government officials, army OF.
fcers and prominent civilian educators
are realized.
Briefly II is proposed to make Uncle
Sans standing army n huge university
in which the young men OF the coun-
try will receive not only physical and
military training but will be given OPP
portunlties to acquire academic and
vocational learning which might be be
yond their reach Ia civil life.
The old days of virtual wastage Of
time which represented almost blank
pages in the life diary of The soldier
will be a thing of the past. Instead or
being turned back into civil life in a
more helpless state than when he en-.
tered the army n will be equipped to
wage a vigorous light for his place In
the sun Of the business or professional
world.
100000 Soldiers IN Classes.
The possibilities of this plan have
been demonstrated In the wonderful
work done during the past few months
By the educational commission In the
American expeditionary force In
France. Since the signing of the ar
mistlce something like 10000 Ameri-
can soldiers have been ~sppreciably
benefited by the army schools. which
have been pul within the reach of ey-
cry man and which have provided ia
cillties to study almost every coneeiv.
able subject from farming 10 philos0-
ply.
Few Of the army educators 10
France realized at the outset how
great n work they were starting. The
avIdity With which the enlisted man
and his officer have seized upon the
proffered opportunities has astounded
them.
army has been inspired to carry or
this work at home in the standing
forces. The project assumes, II Is un-
derstood, that the standing army OF
the future will be a comparatively
large one. and that there may be a
short period of compulsory training
for the youths OF the country, although
the scheme is not dependent upon the
compulsory feature.
Under the new system all subjects
would be taught. from A, b. C's for the
illlterate up through perhaps the first
year of university work. Vocational
training would naturally form u most
important phase of the program. Boys
who had had no opportunity for
schooling before entering the army
would be started on their way and
would be permitted to- re-enllst at the
expiration of their service in order to
carry on their studies. Others. who
perhaps had finished high school,
would be given a chance to begin their
college course so that there would be
no waste of time in case they were
planning to go into professions or busi-
ness.
There would be military training, of
course, and the soldiers would be made
as nearly physically perfect as pos
slbie. A large part of their time, how
ever. would be devoted. II they so de.
sired. to improving their minds. Thus,
the army believes. any boy, no matter
what his standing In society. would be
materially benefited by his period Of
service with the colors.
Help to Get Good Positions
Probably the man who would profit
most would be the one who had ac-
Qulred either no education or had been
forced to leave school at an early g /;
for example. q New York East side
boy who has left school to help sup.
port the family and has no equipment
to enable him to secur lucrative work
and so drifts about In unskilled labor.
Ii he enters the army. he Is TO be put
to work In the school. housed and fed.
and paid a regular wage which he can
send home to his people. At the end
OF the year IT Is expected that he win
be proficient enough In his trade so
that he q get a job with good pros
poets. The gate to the broad highway
will be opened to him.
II Is believed by educators that
many poor youths will devote not only
IA year to the army. but will remain
for several years, In order to acquire
at least some higher education.
This, In brief, IL the plan which IL
being worked on In Paris now by
prominent men who have every hope