The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-17
Benefits of Military
Training in High Schools
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"The home is the place to train
cur boys and girls, but our boys
must come in contact with other
boys. Contact education is better
than self education. Military edu-
cation will bring about this contact
education. We must come into the
light before we can comprehend that
there is light. Gibbon has well said.
There are two educations, one which
man receives from others, and one
which he gives to himself, but that
which man gives to himself is greater
than all other educations." In our
public schools, we teach the arts of
handling things, and this makes him
skillfully trained in his daily under
takings. The boy or girl must be cul-
tured to have proper conception of
the meaning of education. Proper
education improves the mind, and the
physical body, since both of these
must be trained tn make Q perfect
man or woman. This education will
give good moral standing in the
community, will give intelligence and
prestige which no man can condemn,
but all will admire and strive to emu
late.
Military Training is Organized
Activity
Military training is organized ac-
tivity. II is also cooperation; these
two organized and cooperation make
the nation. Cooperation, and unity
come from a prcner. conception of
military training. The discipline and
other benefits of military training
are basic, in all success. Our boys
must organize. In our schools they
are organized. They come and go in
their classes, in their military com
pany, they will be in groups. This
group education. and contact educa-
ton, with discipline. The great army
of human beings that tread the sur
face of the earth also go in groups :
families, brotherhocds, tribes, ma
tions, etc. Man is mind and body.
Both must be cultivated in perfect
education. Military training gives
cultivation. By cultivation mankind
has risen from slavery, and Deepen
dence to become highly civilized, and
the great ones Of the world. Ages
ago unorganized men roved the for
est, and lived in caves fighting for
their lives against wild animals and
their savage fellowman. Now, we
have organized activity, and this has
made man better being in all ways.
Thus by organized cooperation we
cultivate the mind, and body of our
children in the high schools, and they
will accomplish more in the future.
The Use of Arms and Equipment
We must instruct our boys and
girls. in the use of arms before they
can become skilled in handling them.
We teach our children their names.
1t is just as essential to teach them
the use of arms, to defend them
selves, and their country. This train
ing should be for both sexes, for
some day we may be obliged to call
upon our girls to defend the land.
In France, Joan of Arc saved a ma
ton when her greatest men were
helpless against their invaders. Some
day we may have to face the same
crisis, and call upon our girls to
helm save the country. Furthermore,
military training will develop the
bodies of the future fathers and
mothers of America.
Thus, writes the poet Cynewulf.
They prepared their arms, the war
bucklers glittered, trump
cts sang, standards ratified. Among
them scream the fowls of war, greedy
of battle, dewy-feathered, over the
bodies of the host. The dark choos-
ers of the slain; the wolves sing
their horrid evensong."