Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-08
A NEW SCHOOL FOR MARlNEs-By Frederic J. Haskn

noint. that I, Dung men do not rush into the
service Most of them have had all the nit
itary service they want in the past lew years
And peace-time service in standing army, as
It was before the war, offered very little III
ducement to man of any ambition or energy
few hours of drill every day, and Tor tne
rest "bunk duty"-that is to say loaflng undef
especially monotonouS conditions. Ihere IS
nothing in that to attract high type OF man,
or to act men in any Numbers, and 1t is
we1l-known fact that our professional army ,
never has attracted either
If, therefore, we to have a volunteer
standing army strong enough to make US Sale
in very troubled and unsettled world, some
thing has got to be done to make the service
really worth good mans time, and that some
thing has got to be widely advertised.
This seems to be the logic back of Marine
institute, and the officers at Ouantico appear
to be making a most earnest el1ort 70 I'VE up
to that logic. AS a sample of what they nave
to Offer take their course in automobile engi-
neerng. The facilities which the school offers
come under three heaGS. In the tlrSt place
they have great number of motor vehlcieS
of every type from motorcycle to mult-ton
truck and they have all sorts OF repair shops
and machinery. These are not limited to the
tools ana supplies which would be found in
| frSt-claSS auto repair shop, but INCLUDE also
machine shops with welding outfits and latheS.
man can learn there not only how to fix an
| engine that is out of order, but how to make
and repair structural parts. He could, in fact,
learn how to build an automobile
| In the second place, at the head of this
school is mechanical engineer VINO IS
graduate of one of the leading American en-
| cheering schools, and who gives regular les
| sons to the men.
In the third place. each man is given the
textbooks and instructions OF one OF the
| great correspondence Schols on this subject to
study. When he finishes his course, he can
take the examination and obtain the diploma
OF this school, as we'll as that Of the Marine
institute.
| All of this together certainly seems to con-
/ stitute thorough and honest course in in
struction, with perhaps more in the way OF
practical experience and demonstration than
most other schools offer
man might enter the Marine institute il
literate learn to read and write, get a grammar
school and a high school education, and then
| learn business This, of course, would take
him years-Several enlistments-but his educa
ton would not be interrupted unless by war,
| or by his own bad conduct.
/ The effort, according tc Lieutenant Craige.
| is to give the establishment as much the at
mosphere of university and as little that OF
military camp as possible. Punishment has
almost been done away with The brig" as
+he military prison is called, IS nearly always
empty. man who does not want to study,
and who refuses to conduct himself as gen
tleman, may be transferred to some other or
ganization.
! Lack of space makes it impossible to de-
scribe in detail the other courses offered by
the Marine institute. Each of them combines
the same three elementS-an expert instructor
full practical facilities and an individual cor
respondence course leading to diploma for
each man.
The marine barracks at Ouantico is on the
| Rotomac river thirty-two miles from Washing
| ton. 1t is a tract of six thousand acres
of farm and woodland, and has housing for
ter thousand men, There are only about five
hundred men there now three hundred are al
ready attending the classes of the institute
Many of these are being trained teachers
to be used in establishing similar courses at
other marine barracks. 1t is intended eventually
to make every marine barracks college.
! Men who are interested in this educational
opportunity should address Lieutenant Colonel
William C. Harlee, principal, U. S. Marine in
i Stitute, Quantico, Va. -.