The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

gan and G pto1n Daniels 1t ought to be said that
these two officers have given of their best and
still remaining in the service despite the calls of
their business In civil life to forward the project
which has as its essential element military plus
high grade of civilian vocational education for the
youth of America who may become officers en-
listed men of the United States army.
Last June was ut West Point where l wit
messed the presentation of diplomas to go young
second lieutenants of the army who after two
years course at the academy had been sent to
Camp Humphreys for vocational training They
returned to West Point for the purpose of receiv-
ing their diplomas. So it will be seen that this
school at Belvoir-on Potomac has been in
operation for time.
Even in its preparatory stages this school
only has instructed young officers of the army, but
hundreds of enlisted men. They work in machine
shops, in lumber camps. for the peninsula is heav-
lily wooded in carpentry, in printing, in map max
ing in blacksmithing. in railway construction and
railway operation, in electricity. and in fact in
all branches of industry which servceable in
civil life as in the army. The completion of the
school outlined Will give to an officer, regular
reserve National Guard, and to the enlisted man
that roundabout vocational education which it
will be difficult to get elsewhere.
Here is every necessary manufactured product
of the time. Everything that engineering in
genuity has produced is here, might say,
kind of educational sample Camp Humphreys is
a storehouse of the material necessary for instruc
ton along nearly every line of military and
civilian effort.
Appropriations are needed to carry the work at
Camp Humphreys to conclusion. Congress has
been asked for money and the probability is that
it will be forthcoming. No knows today
whether the United States is to have any form of
universal military training not, but if the
csiOn shall be in its favor young men who from
year to year enter their countrys service for field
training will be given opportunity to benefit by
a training Mt this Potomac school
The students who thus far have been under in
Structon at Camp Humphreys, officers and enlist
ed men alike, have started at the beginning of
things. The West Point classes went into the
machine and carpenter shops, laid tracks did sec
tion-hand work and all the other things necessary
to give them practical knowledge of the things
useful to them in their soldier profession later
in any profession trade business which they
might enter on return to civil life. 1t has been
81 school of hard work, of regular living with Il
sufficient amount of recreation, and with things
so we'll balanced generally to promote the
normal working and ''recreating" lives men.
There brOad-guage and narrow-gauge rail-
roads in operation at Camp Humphreys. There
many army trucks, armored trains signal
searchlight and flash range apparatus; forestry
study numbering. bridge laying. and all other
cilities for training a broad scale.
The very character of the terrain and the ample
timber supply at Camp Humphreys will allow the
development of field Notifications large scale
and under varied conditions. Roads already avail
able, from footpathS to modern great highways
furnish the fields for the practical study of COM
munication which forms such important part
of the duties of engineering troops In the field
Five miles of Standard-gauge railroad and 70
miles of narrow-gauge combat railroads. to-
gether with warehouses and depots in all
their operations the functions of the service of
supply.
Adequate areas for target practice and for the
use of gas are already developed. The water
Srpplv is plentiful and of excellent quality The
climate is healthful, and mild enough to make field
work practicable during the entire year. An
ten miles square is large enough for maneuvering
large bodies of troops and is sufficiently varied in
tO
items including fat open country rolling ground,
wooded areas, valleys and ravnes.
Camp Humphreys will be engineer school. q
term which is used to embrace all the phases of
engineering training. There will be Institution
for post graduates Of the military academy and
of civil institutions to prepare them for the work
of the corps of engineers The course will require
two years and will cover many subjects which
be grouped under these heads: Military, military
engineering civil engineering, electrical and me-
chanical engineering.
There will be a cadet school for the completion
full course at the military academy; school for
reserve and National Guard officers; school for
line officers; q correspondence school for reserve
and National Guard officers covering the duties
of engineer officers of the various branches of the
reserve and National Guard. Naturally a large
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