The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

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S-v EFORE long, congress willing, 1t
@y will be possible for enlisted men
[%M and officers Of regulars, reserves
A and National Guards 10 receive
81 vocational training Of Il high de-
ar \ gree in connection with the mill
M XG~0T tary tYaining which is essential
m for the soldiers.
20 Nm Hereafter, again congress Will
HH( Ing, the young men who enlist
in the regular army of the Unit
ed States will receive instruction when VIII III n
double sense fit them for their country service.
If the call ever should come again for 'Soldlets 10
take the field the youths who have been gwen thiS
training will be ready to answer. When their
terms of enlistment are up they will be htted TOT
that particular vocation i'm civil life upon which
choice has fallen. The entrance into the WorkihS
life Of the country Of these young men VINO nave
finished their vocational training, 1T is PROMISED
will benefit the country in The times OF peace us
their military training will benefit it III the pos
Sble time Of war.
At Camp Humphreys, Va, there Is now uhuer
DEVELOPMENT a project known as the New En-
gineer School and Post and College OF Military
Research Admittedly this is 4 cumbersome utie,
and one which would benefit by clision III behaH
of brevity. This school is wonderfully planned
This is none too high praise. 1t is the heafl son
Of officers of the army, regulars and Natlohal
Guardsmen, who have studied the situation pres
et and future, from very possible viewpoint OF
the service and who have agreed upon plans Tor
this school of the future. In fact, this institution at
Camp Humphreys is Il school Of the present, for
there for a long time young men have been under
going vocational and military training.
1t is the intention to make the school a perina-
nent one in order that every officer ana enlisted
man may become skilled in those vocations which
have IN them the possibility OF double service
army service and civilian service.
one of the faults which men have found with
the regular army service of the United States III
time OF peace has been that it has fitted officers
and men only for the life military. there nave
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 as preparation
was concerned for usefulness in civil lie. III the
army students of today are allowed to nave their
way the day soon will come when the boys OF the
country can seek the army with Il certainty or
securing a training which will enable them at the
time of the expiration of their enlistments to
enter the civilian field certain that they have In
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
fit them not only for the army, but for civilian
emplOynent. 1t is the intention of the government
TO establish other schools than that ut camp hum
phreys, but that institution probably will be much
larger than any of the others. and In a sense De
all embracing.
The site of the school has all the attractions
that nature can give it. 1t lies not far from the
civ of Washington. 1t has the necessary road,
rail and water connections, for the Potomac
washes it's shores, and. moreover, 1t has TO-DAY on
tho ground serviceable material for instruction
purposes in all vocational branches which cannot
be duplicated in any other place in the world.
<,--~ IJ,pnnbrcys will no tho anOiRppr school
of the army. Recently the school ut what was
ordinarily known rs Washington barracks In the
city of Washington was abandoned. So 1t virtually
is certain that the corps OF engineers, for it must
have a school, will continue its educational work
at Camp Humphreys at Belvoir-On-the-P Potomac.
Credit goes where credit Is due. Col. Richard
Park. corps of engineers of the regular army.
assisted by Lieut.. Col. w. IL. flanagan, has had
charge of the preparation of the general plan and
detailed estimates for the establishment of this
school. Mai. ii. Il. KebbOn OF the corps of engi-
neers has been chief of the architectural features.
| Giants. Mark Daniels and J. A. Mclean and Lieut..
T w. Baston have supervised, and in fact have
done the landscape work and the modelling. SO
for q 9 the Manning Is concerned the work is done,
and 70 some extent tie execution of the plan al
| ready is under way.
Tn claiming the layout OF the present Camp
Humphreys a large portion of the south end of the
Belyoir peninsula was reserved for a permanent
most and school by direction of the chief of en-
u;peers. whose mind long had held a plan for the
permanent establishment here OF an institution OF
tho corDs of engineers. The secretary OF war was
heartily in favor of such a school and was so i'm
dressed with the natural advantages OF the local.
nv that he directed the chief of engineers TO in
clude in his plans a group of buildings for a col
lege of military research.
Iieutenant 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
,r detail and who finally took me into every part
of the beautiful government reservation which Is
70 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
nrenorpilcr aud execution. As for Colonel Lana