Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-09-25

"a AaI tary training which is essential
s&1S WJ for the soldiers.
sAI - nm Hereafter, again congress will
g53 A.--ylSLf Ing, the young men who enlist
in the regular army of the Unit
Led States will receive instruction which will in q
double sense fit them for their country's 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 answer. When their
terms of enlistment are up they will be fitted for
That particular vocation in civil life upon which
choice has fallen. The entrance into the working
Slife OF the country of these young men who have
finished their vocational training, it is promised,
Will benefit the country in the times of peace, as
their military training will benefit it in the pos
sble time of war.
AT Camp Humphreys, w., there is now under
development project known as the New En-
gineer School and Post and College of Military
Research" Admittedly this is cumbersome title,
and one which would benefit by elision in behalf
OF brevity. This school is wonderfully planned.
This is none too high praise. 1t is the heart son
#Of officers Of the army, regulars and National
Z Guardsmen, who have studied the situation, pres
L ent 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 school OF the present, for
there for long time young men have been under
!, going vocational and military training
Ns 1t is the Intention to make the school perma-
s@uelt one III OTQer IIHL every OMcer ana enlisted
4 man may become skilled in those vocatons which
have in them the possibility of double service
army service and civilian service.
# One Of the faults which men have found with
1.-The regular army service of the United States in
ttme 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 an enlistment in the regular
army of the United States in time of peace was
y tantamount to time wasted SO far as preparation
was concerned for usefulness in civil life. If the
81 army students of today are allowed to have their
4 way the day soon will come when the boys of the
country can seek the army with certainty of
securing training which will enable them at the
time Of the expiration of their enlistments to
enter the civilian field certain that they have in
4 them the foundation knowledge Of success.
The school at Camp Humphreys will be an en-
gineer school, but it 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 own branches and which help to
u fit them not only for the army. but for civilian
employment. 1t is the Intention of the government
to 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 it. 1t lies not fnr from the
city OF Washington It has the necessary road,
rail and water connections, for the Potomac
washes It's shores, and, moreover, it has today on
the ground seryceable 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
Sgof the army. Recently the school at what was
Aofdinarily known as Washington barracks in the
BScity of Washington was abandoned So it virtually
certain that tile corps of engineers for 1t must
II laaye school, will continue its educational work
Il az Camp Humphreys at Belvoir-on the Potomac.
Is oh ard
h Park, corps of engineers Of the regular army
SssAsslstsd by Lieut.. Col. w. III. flanagan. has had
Scharse of the preparation of the general plan and
a6detailed estimates for the establishment of this
school Maj H. Il. Kebbon of the corps of engi-
neers has been chief OF the architectural features
MCapts. Mark Daniels and j. A. Mclean and Lieut..
(HJ. w. Baston have supervised, and in fact have
done the landscape work and the modelling. So
as the planning is concerned the work is done,
and to some extent the execution of the plan al
Haready is under way
In planning the layout of the present Camp
3 Humphreys large portion Of the south end of the
Belvoir peninsula was reserved for permanent
EHpost and school by direction Of the chief of
ssgineers, whose mind long had held plan for the
I permanent establishment here Of an institution of
1.-THE corps of engineers. The secretary of war was
heartily in favor Of such a school and was so i'm
pressed with the natural advantages of the locali
ty tina. he directed the chief of engineers to in
clude in his plans group of buildings for col
lege Of military research.
N Lieutenant Colonel flanagan and Captain Dan
iels, who explained to me the functions of the
school. who showed me the beautiful model Of the
completed institution, who explained everything
in detail and who finally took me into every part
of the beautiful government reservation which is
to be the school SITE paid the highest tribute to
3 the constructive genius Of Col. Richard Park and
other officers associated with him in the labor of
preparation and execution. AS for Colonel Lana