Evening star., 1924-03-13
FIGHTER SUPERIOR
TO WAR DEVICES
Gen. Drum Tells Military
Schools Session Importance
of Manhood.


battle. as in other walks of life. and
dominates the Instruments OF his ere
alton, reducing their values in battle
by his superior qualities of leader
ship, and mental, moral and physical
attributes.
The comparison of merits of man
ana machinery was stressed by Brig
Gen. Hugh A Drum in an address
To-Day before the Association of Mill
,,ary Colleges and Schools Of, the
Cniteu states in session here.
Speaking as chief of the operations
ana training section of the general
stan, Gen. Drum said he feared man
hood ana citizenship education. was
100 olteh submerged by great COM
inerciai, industrial and financial de-
veIopment going on" and appealed to
the schools. universities and COLLEGES
represented in the association Ito al
mhSs insist upon the predomnance OF
the human element"
soundness and Loyalty.
With sound manhood and loysi
cltizenry," Gen. Drum said. 1--WE need
never rear for the commercial, indus
'riai and financial problems"
IL, IN the Meuse-Arsonne offensive. the
81 tie"lest battle America ever fought,
nghting continuously for twentv-nins -
GAYS In rain and cold, with guns. gas
Iines, oayonetS and fists, defeated the
@ Iesnan- man, although the American
on par"
At the conclusion of Gen. Drums
auaress, brief talk on the work of
Ine Il. u L. {. was given by Col. Leon
N. hromer, followed by a few re-
Col. % Rov on I, SSs9,operation." co by Lieut..
Johns 10y MI. r.; Farrand, president of st.
1onh .Aiiitary Academy, Delafield,
Wis. AT 1890 the assoc;ation aS'
Journed for lanch. Gu
During the afternoon sessions Col
yoseph Hill of the I'M Military
"J'He nss, o, Oregon Will speak on
present engaged in fighting the con
stitolonaiity of the law, which viii
prevent all students under sixteen
n,i1its GSrs from attending private and
other speakers of the afternoon
sessions will include Or. Bovd Ed
wards and Rev. DR. Walter MifcbeIl
Election of officers will pracade ad-
Journment, late this afternoon.
hatioh OF men trained in military
uutlts IS one Of the coHntry's greatest
assets, because it develops the nhvSiN
Sai. moral and economic side of life
MAI Cen. John l. Hines. deputy chief
ol stan declared at the annual ban
qoet OF The association last night.
InSttlls Good Qualities,
IN ddVocatinE the system of mill
cary instruction now employed in the
various schools and colleges of this
country, he said, il teaches seff-cnn-
troll, obedience, respect for law honn-
ana loyalty. One cannot be a good
CitiZen without being Il good soldier.
ne said. He expressed opposition to
d measure now pending that would
require commanding officers to serve
at least three out of each five vsar.
with field troops.
president Newhall, who acted as
postmaster said there were more
oficers sent to the world war from
the mliltary colleges than there are
now men in the Regular Army.
The Army will neverrbe one Of the
great professions, but will be the CEN
ter or our educational system, DR..
frank Crane told the assembly. He
said he hoped the day would come
when every boy and girl would he
compelled to devote at least one year
to military training.
Service Of Marines.
Maj. Gen. John A. Lajeune, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, de-
scribed the marines on land and sea
and told of plans for proposed legis-
lation creating training schools for
the Navy and Marine Corps, where
young men may be trained for re-
serve officers the same as in the
Army training schools Gen. Lejeune
said there is no competition between
the various government services:
they are all part of one force and
should Cooperate to give the great
est possible service to the country.
The military training of youth is
one of the most momen ntous tasks of
the nation, Mai. Gen. Charles s.
Farnsworth, chief of infantry, said.
Military education is the most logical
thing for the development of physique
and character, he declared, and the
tendency toward this training is
shown by the fact that in 1914 there
were ninety-five colleges in the coun-
try onering military instruction.
while today there are nearly eight
hundred institutions.
Maj. Gen. Hanson f. Ely presi-
dent of the War College. lauded the
military training schools as a dis
tinct asset. and said the graduates
Of such schools are best fitted for
reserve officers.
Gen. Georges Dumont, military at
tache OF the French embassy, out
lined the system of public and mill
tary schools in France. j. F. A Cecil,
first secretary of the British embassy,
spoke of the school system of Eng
land
Colleges and preparatory schools
should both realize that they are cogs
in the great machine of education,
William Mather Lewis, president of
George Washington University. told
the delegates yesterday afternoon.
The subject of DR.. Lewis address
was What the College Expects of
the Preparatory School, What we
new definition of what education il
in America Interpreted in terms of
the twentieth century,. In colleges
today We, feel We have to go over a
great lot of ground that. should have
been done in the preparatory school
in, the history OF civilization and
nodernizaE our educatiopal standards.
iF1tness Tor Bdue.tisu. =
Colleges wish that the preparatory
schools would send in more records
of individual students and ;fit them
Training them just for the next grade
is not emo 1Sb,y bscauBe ANY. of them
drop cut before they get there. Col
leges are! going to ask, not for the
required credits, but whether this
worthy" -
DIR. Lewis in closing urged the pre-
paratory schools to fit their students
physically and spiritually as well as
educationally. He stated that the
student must be strong enough to
bear the burdens of life, and that
spiritual teaching was what the ma
tion needed today. The theologians
who are spreading today the doc
trfnes and rankings of non-essen-
tials are as great a curse to the ma
tion as teacher Of atheism, he said
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