Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-06
A New School
for Marines
Nv EvndOrir H~ak3u
BY Frederic J. Haskin

Washington. d. c., April 3.-Are the
young men II this country. who have
ambition but not money, willing to work
their way through good education by
serving four or FIVE hours day as soldiers,
with the liability Of active service in case
of WARP
That is the question which the United
States Marine Corps is now putting TO
Americans II has established at the
| Marine Barracks at Quantico, Virginia, a
school known as the Marine Institute,
where it is prepared to give men regular
grammar school and high school educa-
tions. and to teach them several highly
| paid vocations, such as automobile en-
| gineering, electrical engineering, sta
| tionary gas engine work, building. con-
| struction and contracting and livestock
! farming
At this barracks it is an absolute rule
that only the morning hours are devoted
to military exercises, and all of the after
noon is spent in classes, and III athletic
work. The routine is much like that OF a
frst-class military school. Men are now
offered enlistment in the Fifth Regiment of
Marines, which is the one stationed ut
Quantico, with the fiat promise that alter
preliminary training at Paris Island, the
recruit will be sent to the Quantlco School,
and will be allowed To stay there until he
has completed whatever course he desires
to take, subject to the single condition
that if the United States gets into war, he
may be assigned to active service.
The opportunity for enlistment under
these terms, which amounts TO contract
with the government to give certain
amount of service in return for an educa-
tion, began on April /.
a - an. l,4. .~f
number of efforts by the government TO
make military or naval service attractive
TO young men by giving them education in
return for their time. Both the army and
the navy have always had some classes
where man could spend a few hours a
day and study g'ammar school courses.
These schools never amounted to much,
and they did not offer vocational courses.
During the war, the Student Army Train
ing Corps and since the armistice, the
army universities IN Europe, have offered
men IN the service much more varied edu-
cational opportunities; but It WAS seldom
possible for man TO remain In any of
these institutions more than few months.
This marine school is a new departure
in two ways In the first place II offers q
man n complete course leading TO q
diploma, and in the second place he is
given definite promise that he shall be
allowed to finish his education TO his
own satisfaction unless the emergency of
war interrupts it.
PITS THEM FOR BUSINESS.
The marine barracks at Quantico Is |
under the command OF Major-General j.
\. Lejeune and Brigadier-General :. ID. |
Butler. For this account of il we are |
TO Lieutenant J. Ii. Cralge, who |
is aide to General Lejeune, and who |
leaves no doubt that the Marine Corps is |
sharing neither expense nor effort TO |
make this school q real school where a
man can fit himself for the business Of |
making a living As Lieutenant Craige |
sees il. this is not merely an effort TO get |
men 10 serve in the Marine Corps in |
return for a certain amount of schooling; |
il is an effort to put the whole business of !
military service on higher plane, and to |
attract to il a higher type of men.
1t is agreed by all that, the state of the /
world being what it is, we must have /
standing army, large navy, |