Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-29
PHRASES OF GREAT
 WAR ARE DOOMED
 70 DISAPPEAR SOON
Over the Top and LiaisOn'
 are Among the Doomed

Washington. Feb. 2S-Such phrases as lover the top" and s'laison" which were common part of the parlance of war literature and conversation. are doomed to disappear from Ameri- can military phraseology and will not be included in the army text books of the future. The new field service regulations Of the United States army and the manuals of the various arms Of the service. now being prepared by the General Staff. will differ in but minor details from the regulations in force before the world war, and will show practically no traces of the passing vogue Of foreign methods.
 The formulation of strictly Amer jean doctrine of tactics, and the es- tablishment of a system of uniform instruction in all military schools IS the aim of the training section Of the General Staff, according to high off, cers here. So-called trench warfare" was only passing episode in mili- tary history, in the view of the off, cers, while the fundamental princi- ples of war are the same as those employed by Napoleon at Jena and by Grant at Gettysburg.
 This policy was stated to students of the present class at the Army Serv- ice schools at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., by Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, director of the line school, who was chief of staff of the First army over seas.
 "Our experiences in the European war have been suffieient and the re- suits SC creditable,' General Drum said, "that we have little or no need to borrow tactical doctrines from 8 foreign country" General Drum said that such terminology as "open, "po. sition," stabilized" and trench" war, fare would not be recognized or em- ployed, as the same tactical princi- ples apply to all of those so-called classes of warfare.
 Just as General Pershing insisted on training the American Expedition. orv Forces for "open" warfare, so a, the service schools, General Drum said, "the inculcation of an offensive spirit, which must be the primary object of the course, is best obtained by the study of open warfare often sive situations"
 At the same time, it is the plan O the General Staff to make due allow ance for new weapons developed II recent years, especially infantry wea pons such as the one-pounder, guns automatic rifles, and machine guns These weapons have made necessar. the creation of new units and sligh notifications of old infantry informa ton.
 Foreign words will be eliminated from the terminology of the manuals For example, "information" will talk the place of "laison." 'Laison off cers," war product, will be knowl hereafter as ''information officers"
 The service schools will compile their own text books, General Drum said, and German authorities studied before the war will be discarded.
 While the use of new weapons ha caused some changes in organization it must not be forgotten, officers em phasize, that infantry remains tn principal branch of the army and tha other services are auxiliary arms. Il In this connection it was recalled tha General Pershing. in letter to tn chief or the air service commenting upon the functions of airplanes, sai that "an air force by itself cannot ob tain decision against forces on tn ground"
 ..An air force," the General added acting independently can of its ow account, neither win war at tn present time, nor, so far as we ca tell, at any time in the future"