The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-09-26

|l5Lf ing, the young who enlist
in the regular army of the Unit
ed States will receive instruction which will in a
double sense fit them for their countrys service.
II The call ever should come again for soldiers to
take the field the youths who have been given this
training will be ready to answ,~. When their
terms OF enlistment are up they will be fitted for
mat particular vocation in civil life upon which
choice has fallen. The entrance into the working
NE or the country of these young men who have
mashed their vocational training, 1t Is promised
VIII benefit the country in the times of peace, as
Their military training will benefit it in the pos
sibe time of war
Al Camp Humphreys Va. there is under
Development project known as the New En-
gineer School and Post and College of Military
Research" Admittedly this is a cumbersome title,
and one which would benefit by elsion in behalf
Of bresity This school is wonderfully planned.
RMS is none too high praise. 1t is the heart
OF oIhcers OF the army, regulars and National
Guardsmen who have studied the situation, pres
en and future. from every possible viewpoint Of
the service and who have agreed upon plans for
this school of the future. In fact this institution at
Camp Humphreys Is a school Of the present for
there for long time young men have been under
going vocational and military training
II is the intention to make the school perma-
nent one In order that every officer and enlisted
may become skilled ink Nose vocations which
have IN them the possibility yof double service
army service and civilian service.
One Of the faults which men have found with
The regular army service of the United States In
time Of peace has been that 1t has fitted officers
and men only for the life military. There have
been parents who have thought. not entirely
rightly however, that enlistment In the regular
army OF the United States| In time of peace
tantamount to time wasted so far preparation
concerned for usefulness In civil life If the
army students of today allowed to have their
way the day soon Will come when the boys OF the
country seek the army with certainty of
securing a training which will enable them at the
time of the expiration of their enlistments to
fnter the civilian field certain that they have in
them the foundation knowledge of success
The school at Camp Humphreys will be
gineer school, but 1t will supply courses to which
men of other branches of the service can be sent
TO get that training which is not supplied by the
schools of their branches and which help to
ht them not only for the army, but for civilian
employment. 1t Is the intention of the government
10 establish other schools than that at Camp Hum
phreys, but that institution probably Will be much
larger than any of the Others and in a sense be
all embracing.
The site of the school has all the attractions
that nature can give 1t. 1t lies not far from the
city of Washington 1t has the necessary road.
rail- and water connections, for the Potomac
washes It's shores. and. moreover, 1t has today on
the ground serviceable material for instruction
purposes in all vocational branches which cannot
be duplicated in any other place in the world
Camp Humphreys will be the engineer school
of the army. Recently the school at what was
ordinarily known as Washington barracks In the
city of Washington abandoned. SO 1t virtually
is certain that the corps of engineers for 1t must
have a school. will continue its educational work
AT Camp Humphreys ut Belvoir-on- the Potomac.
Credit goes where credit Is due. Col. Richard
Park corps of engineers of the regular army,
assisted by Lieut.. Col. w. Ii. flanagan. has had
charge of the preparation of the general plan and
detailed estimates for the establishment of this
school Maj. IL. e. Kebbon of the corps of eng
neers has been chief of the architectural features
capts Mark Daniels and j. y. Mclean and Lieut..
]. w. Baston have supervised, and in fact have
done the landscape work and the modelling. So
far as the planning is concerned the work is done.
and 10 some extent the execution of the plan al
ready is under way
In planning the layout of the present Camp
Humphreys a large portion of the south end of the
Relvoir peninsula reserved for permanent
n,st and school by direction of the chief of en-
gineers whose mind long had held plan for the
permanent establishment here of an institution OF
the corps Of engineers The secretary of
heartily in favor of such school and was so inn
pressed with the natural advantages of the locali-
~ that he directed the chief of engineers to in-
clude In his plans group of buildings for COL
iege Of military research
lieutenant Colonel flanagan and Captain Dam
iels who explained TO me the functions of the
school who showed me the beautiful model of the
CONNECTED institution who explained everything
in detaIi and who finally took me Into every part
of the beautiful government reservation which is
70 be the school site. paid the highest tribute to
Tho constructive genius Of Col Richard Park and
,tber officers associated with him In the labor of
prepataiion and execution. AS for Colonel Lana