The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-08-05
ARMY SCHOOL IS
GREATEST OF ALL.
MORE THAN 100000 ENLISTED
MEN ARE NUMBERED AMONG
ITS PUPILS.
CANAL FOR IMPERIAL VALLEY
Land Belongs 20 Government and
Sooner or Later viii Be Opened to
Settlement; likely TO Be Parceled
Out in Small Tracts.

Settlement; likely TO Be Parceled
Out in Small Tracts.
BY JAMES p. HORNADAY.
Washlngtou.-The worlds greatest
university, in the words of Secretary
of War Newton u. Baker, Is the rcgu
lar army Of the United States. More
than 100000 enlisted men are enrolled
as pupils in its various schools. their
education ranging all the way from
reading and writing to the most tech
nical courses Of study. No one in the
army is too young to start to this
school.
Only recently has the government
taken the view that the army officer Is
not too old or too experienced to stop
adding to his military knowledge, The
General STAFF college in this city has
just graduated it's first class, and next
September another class will be or
ganized to study all the winter in or
der to qualify for diplomas next June.
But the General STAFF college applies
itself solely to military problems,
which Is not the case with the enlist
ed mans schools. In the latter, the
pupils are taught trades-for instance,
In the motor transport corps one is ed
ucated as frst-claSs automotive me-
chanlc; in the bakers school, a baker
is made, and so on with almost score
of such vocational training schools.
In the graduating class of the Cen
eral Staff college, there were twenty
five men who served as brigadier gen
erals in the world war; and fifty 9th
ers served as division chiefs CT stan or
similar Offices of importance. The
general staff Of the army, under new
law, is limited to lightweight officers
and in time all Of these will come from
the General Staff college.
Pass Through Three Schools
There are three schools through
which an officer must pass in order to
qualify as a candidate for appoint
ment to the general staff. THE school
Of the line" is TIE first Of these, for
there he is taught the fundamentals of
troop leading, handling units the size
Of a regiment or smaller.
From the graduates of these schools
are picked the ofiicer-pupils who may
attend the Army Staff college at Fort
LeavenwOrth, Kansas. During a years
training at LeavenwOrth the officer Is
schooIed in problems affecting the
brigade or division. He Is taught how
to arrange the transportation Of food
and ammunition to his men at the
front, how to establish and maintain
communication under all conditions OF
warfare. Graduation from Leaven-
worth entities an officer to appoint
ment as an army staff officer, such as
a division commander or aide to such
an officer.
These graduates from the Army Sta
college also are the officers from
among whom are chosen the pupils Of
the General Staff college, the most adj
vanced course Of military training
given an officer.
subjects as the cOuntry's industrial
resources, the procurement of raw
supplies and the potential fighting
strength Of the country. The re-
sources of men and material Of every
foreign country are studied, as also
problems that would arise In event Of
war. All these problems are worked
out 70 the last detail.
General Pershing, addressing TIE
first graduating class Of the General
Staff college, quoted Washington as
saving "to remark TO n military man
how all important the general stan OF
an army is to It's welI-being, and how
essential consequently TO the comman-
der-ln-chIef, seems unnecessary"
How Training Counted.
"In the light of experience" added
Gen. Pershlng. 81 declare without hes
itation that but FOR the trimming In gen
eral staff duties given our officers at
the service SCHOOLS mt home before the
war, and in France during the war, our
successful handling of gr"at masses
Of partially trained troops in opera
tlons. while at the same time prOwd-
ing their enormous needs Of food and
material, would not have been pos
Bble."
Secretary Baker, speaking at the
snme commencement exercises, refer
red TO the 100000 enlisted men en-
gagged In study, and added TINT TIE
General Staff college was "the worlds
greatest university" It's graduates
the secretary described as the post
graduates Of the army schools"
When nm officer has completed nll Of
tie courses Of the various schools ana
Colleges, II Is expected that he will dl-
rect the army Of the United States in
the best and most efficient manner
possible, whether In war or peace.
Not all OF the officers now being
selected for duty on the general stan,