New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-08-06
ARMY SCHOOL IS
GREATEST OF ALL
MORE THAN 100000 ENLISTED
MEN ARE NUMBERED AMONG
ITS PUPILS.
CANAL FOR IMPERIAL VALLEY
Land Belongs to Government and
Sooner or Later Will Be Opened to
settlement; Likely to Be Pareeied
Out in Small Tracts.
BY JAMES p. HoRNApAY.

BY JAMES p. HoRNADAY.
WashingtOn.-The worlds greatest
university, in the words of Secretary
OF War Newton ID. Baker. is the regu
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 its first class. and next
september another class will be or
ganized to study all the winter in or
de 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 he motor transport corps one is ed
ucated as II tirst-class mltomotive me
chanic; in the bakers school, a baker
is made. and SO on with almost a score
OF such vocational training schools.
In the graduating class Of the Gen
eral Staff college. there were twenty
five men who served as b%rigadier gem
erals In the world war: and fifty 9th
ers served as division chiefs Ct staff or
similar Offices of Importance. The
general staff of the army. under n 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 nre 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 the 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 O~fiicer-pupils who may
attend the Army STAFF college at Fort
Kansas. During a years
training at LeavenwOrth, the officer Is
schooled In problems affecting the
brigade or division. He is taught how
to arrange the transportation of food
and ammunition TO his men ut the
front, how to establish and maintain
communication under all conditions OF
warfare. Graduation from Leaven-
worth entities an officer To appoint
nent as an army staff officer, such as
a division commander or aide to such
m officer.
These graduates from the Array Staff
also are the officers tYo,p
among whom are chosen the pupils Of !
he General Staff college. tie most nd
'anced course Of military training
an officer.
The course OF study includes such
subjects as the country's industrial
'esOurces, the procurement of raw
supplies and the potential fighting
strength of the country. The re-
of men and material Of every
country are studied, as also
,roblems that would arise Ia event Of
var. All these problems are worked
nut TO the last detail.
General Pershing, addressing the
|rst graduating class of the General
,taff college, quoted Washington us
aying ito remark 10 n military man
ow all important the general staff Of
n army is to its weil-being, and how
consequently to the
seems unnecessary"
How Training Counted.
an the light Of experience" added
Pershing. II declare without hes
that but for the training IN gen.
raj staff duties given u officers at I
,e service schools at home before the /.
ar. and in France during the war, our !
lccessful handling Of great masses I
! partially trained troops In opera I
MS. while at the same time provid- =
q their enormous needs Of food and
aterial, would not have been pos 9
v
Secretary Baker. speaking at the v
me commencement exercises, refer a
d to the 100000 enlisted men en- d
lged In study. and added that tie q
neral Staff college was '.the worlds n
university" Its graduates u
e secretary described as the post q
aduates Of the army schools"
When an officer has completed all Of
e courses of the various schools and
lleges, II Is expected that he will d. :,
the army Of the United States in =,
e best and most efficient manner g
whether in war or peace. :,
Not all of the officers now being O.,
ected for duty on the general stan. N
ich Is being reorganized under the o,
Of a new law. are graduates 8,
the General Staff college. but as the n
Ter officers drop out the new staff n,
come to be composed entirely Of v
|. products of what Mr.. Baker re- of
red to as "the worlds greatest uni W,
The new organization law re
-mits officers who during the war W
nmanded n division or tactical unit of
similar size-45.O0O men-to he or
to the general staff II their at