The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-10-16


JSR ing, the young men who enlist
in the regular army of the Unit
ed States VIII receive instruction which will IN a
double sense fit them for their country's service.
If the call ever should again for soldiers to
take the field the youths who have been given this
training viii be ready to ar swer When their
terms Of enlistment up they will be fitted for
that particular vocation in civil life upon which
choice has fallen. The entrance into the working
life OF the country of these young who have
finished their vocational training It Is promised.
VIII benefit the country In the times of peace,
thelr military training will benefit II In the pos
sibe time of war.
At Camp Humphreys, Va, there is now under
development project known the New En-
gineer School and Post and College of Military
Research" Admittedly this Is a cumbersome title,
and one which would benefit by eision 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
Guardsren, who have studied the situation, pres
ent and future, from cry possible viewpoint OF
the service and who have agreed upon plans for
This school of the future In fact this institution
Camp Humphreys Is school of the present, for
there for long time young men have been under
going vocational and military training
1t Is the intention to make the school perma-
nent one In order that every officer and enlisted
man may become skilled in those vocatons which
have in them the possibility of double 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 IL 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
tantamount to time wasted so far MS preparation
concerned for usefulness IN civil life. If the
army students of today are allowed to have their
way the day soon will come when the boys of the
country can seek the army with a certainty of
securing training which Will enable them at the
time of the expiration of their enstments to
enter the civilian field certain that they have in
them the foundation knowledge of success
The school at Camp Humphreys will be
gneer school, but II 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
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 sense be
all embracing
The site of the school has all the attractions
that nature give It, II lies not far from the
city Of Washington. 1t has the necessary road,
rail and water connections. for the Potomac
washes its shores. and, moreover, 1t has today on
the ground serviceable material for instruction
purposes in all vocational branches which cannot
be duplicated ia any other place In the world
Camp Humphreys will be the engineer school
Of the army. Recently the school Mt what was
ordinarily known Washington barracks in the
city of Washington was abandoned So 1t virtually
Is certain that the corps Of engineers for II must
have a school, will continue Its educational work
at Camp Humphreys at Belvoir-on- he-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. r. Kebbon of the corps OF engl-
neers has been chief of the architectural features.
Capts Mark Daniels and J. A. Mclean and Lieut..
j. 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 to 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
BeIvoir peninsula reserved for permanent
post and school by direction of the chief of
gineers whose mind long had held q plan for the
Dermanent establishment here of an institution of
the corps of engineers. The secretary of war was
henrtily in favor OF such a school and was i'm
pressed With the natural advantages Of the locali-
ty that he directed the chief of engineers TO In
cude in his plans group Of buildings for col
iege OF military research
Lieutenant Colonel flanagan and Captain Dam
ieis who explained to me the functions OF the
school, who showed me the beautiful model Of the
completed institution. who explained everything
I'm detail, and who finally took me Into every part
Of the beautiful government reservation which Is
to he the school site. paid the highest tribute TO
the constructive genius Of Col Richard Park and
other officers associated with him In the labor OF
prenaration and execution. As for Colonel Lana