The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-07-04

phrase we'll, for ii has more meaning than appears
from casual reading of it, and what that mean
ing Is you will come to understand a little better
further along.
On July there will arrive at the academy some
400 young men who come from every part of
the United States and from every level of the
diversified society which characerizes such a
democracy as the United States of America For
these newcomers are the material from which
the "officers and gentlemen" of four years hence
are made. During the two months Immediately
following their admission to the academy they
will spend in an intensive military training be.
fore they are officially accepted into the United
States corps of cadets This period the most rigid
and exacting of the entire four years at West
Point will be spent under group of selected in
structors from the first class, known as the Beast
Detail,' supervised by officers Of the tactical de
partment of the academy. For these newcomers
in "kaydet slang" the beasts" And 1t
Is not until the termination of beast barracks"
followed by hike of about a weeks duration
that these members, now known as "plebes," are
absorbed into the corps the fourth class and
take up their new academic duties the first week
In September.
The motto of the United States Military acad-
envy is DUTY, Honor, Country" During the pre-
limnary training of the newcomers this summer
one of the first things they will learn is the
real meaning back of that MOTTO Here is that
meaning as it is interpreted in "Bugle Notes."
the little handbook which the "kaydets" call the
"Plebes Bible"
The motto of the corps, the standard by which
every cadet regulates his personal life is DUTY.
Honor, Country" Country" needs definition;
Our Country. right wrong" is the patriots
slogan throughout the nation But the standards
of DUTY" and Honor" at West Point dstinc-
tive and rigid; and because in civilian life the
general attitude as to these two principles from
time to time and from place to place the following
pages devoted in great part to definition of
the attitude of the corps in matters of duty and
honor:
DUTY
Graduates of West Point have always inspired
and set the standard of duty in the army. That
they have been able to do So is due entirely to the
incubation of keen of duty and to the
faithful, conscientious and cheerful performance
of every task imposed upon them while at the acad
envy. Only he who has acquired the habit of dis
ciplne, of duty, and of justice can be trusted TO
act as a leader in a profession which deals with
the lives of
Performance of ones duty implies far more than
mere obedience the letter of the law. In other
walks of life technicalities and evasve tactics
rondoned and lauded indication OF
aleverness. In the army where the lives the
price of failure there techncaities and
order is given, statement received at its face
value When it becomes soldiers duty to obey
order, 1t also becomes his duty to look be-
meath the surface of that order for its spirit and
in so doing to put his whole being into its per-
Torrance. fearless readiness to respor-
sbility and the determination to do, not just the
job, but the whole and the best job are what is
expected of a West Pointer.
Every cadet is expected to make it his indvd-
ual and personal obligation to maintain the high
est possible standard of duty and to do everything
| in his power to dscountenance and discourage any
act spirit which might place premium the
nonperformancs of ones duty
HONOR
Homer is the most cherished principle OF lfe
it is the beacon which guides every during
their stay at the military academy and during the
career of later life.
The fundamental principles of honor their APP
plication to specific acts and problems, and the
methods of administering and enforcing these
principles and applications, have long been desig-
mated by the general term, the Honor System
Almost all educational institutions have honor
systems, varying in severity, efficiency and effec-
tveness-honor systems ty which to a greater or