Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 July 1919 — Page 17

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1919.

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AFRAID WLST POINT SURRENDERS TOSMBS

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In the ranks were men who were socially and mentally the equal of their superior officers. They all realized that discipline was necessary, but they also realized that the system of military cast© which characterized the Wo»t Toint attitude was not American. With very accurate discernment they ^called it a "Prussian" military attitude.

Makes a Cheap Aristocracy. The irulf between the men and the officers under this system, was as wide as the gulf between the professional military man and the civilian had been In days of peace. When 'I talked to reserve officers, their reflections were unanimous to the effect that the system of West Point has produced risirlty, narrowness, and a cheap aristocracy in officers. It created out of a democratic American lad a stiff sort of snob, who lost his initiative and suffered that peculiar men-

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Allen, the Kansas Editor,

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Writing In the North American Review for July, Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas discusses the weaknesses and failures of America's military system as demonstarted in the war, under the title, "Wanted Army Reorg-anisatlon." Extracts from the article follow.

NEW YORK. July 18.—The professional army officer failed to realize that he was dealing with a different &a4« of Americans than those who make up the regular army in days of peac«. The artny which went to Prance in national guard and national array units %vas a cross-section of •whatever community the unit came from.

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tal debility which results from training only one set of faculties to look at life altogether from one single viewpoint .An Intelligent observation by a lieutenant colonel oX engineers from civil life ran something like this: "The officers from civil life caught on rapidly because Ihey knew their need of training. They were bound to no system. Their minds had been kept alert by their practical problems in private enterprises. Their sense of initiative had not become atrophied in an atmosphere of ancient theories. They developed into valuable men for the emergencies of the day over there because the background of their lives before they joined the war, was full of actual problems."

Must Make Good In Civil Life. I think this officer spoke a truth that is fundamental* lie had come from the real life of the civilian, not the artificial life which is presumed necessary to fit the professional soldier. In real life from which these civilians came there was one unvarying standard of success—a man must make good. If he held & position requiring efficiency, it was a position won and kept by actual merit. In this practical .school there was no protection for an inefficient man, no masonry of military cohesiveness that kept a man in a position where he commanded other men even -though he I was markedly unfit to lead.

The professional army has some Instlnets that resemble the rules of aM mutual benefit association—the strong! men carry the load and the weak men

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keep their jobs. The elasticity of a system in which a man must make ^ood in order to hold his job is conspicuously absent from the West Point condition.

There were splendid officers from the West Point group. Their success was duo more to their native talents than to their professional army training. This was proved over and over again by the continued presence of notoriously unfit officers of the regular establishment who had graduated from West Point and served long and colorless careers. Although thev were conspicuously weak, they kept commands. "Point" as Finishing School.

The suggestion has been made that West Point shall hereafter be a finishing school rather than a training I school. This plan would have some strong arguments in its favor. A lad

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vho goes to West Point at 17 years! of age and grows up in that atmosphere, is no longer a rounded citizen.! He is a soldier, trained to fight in ai certain way. He has missed all the i opportunity of becoming a generallyI informed citizen. He would be a better officer if he had taken a course in liberal education in a civilian ui\i- i versity, studied along with his other! departments of knowledge the fundamentals of a military education and gone to West Point for a finishing course. His mingling with other citizens in a civilian university life would have gven him a breadth not possible to attain in a soldiers' professional school.

The suggestion has also been made, that no man should be admitted to West Point until he has served a pe-1

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All of our history has proved that our wars In the last analysis are fought by civilian soldiery, the regular army being used as a sacrifice to hold the line while the civilian forces are coming up. What we need/ of course, is a system which will guarantee the growth of a sufficient military intelligence to provide officers for the future. The composition of the differences between West Point and the na

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riod In the ranks and become acquainted with the rights and duties of a private soldier from the private soldier's viewpoint. The advantage of this is palpable. Such knowledge would have saved from becoming failures in their command a good many West Pointers during the past two years.

tional guard, so that each may be strengthened, is greatly to be desired.

Must Have Trained Officers. It has been suggested that national guard officers and reserve officers of proved ability should be permitted to enter staff schools and the war college. Every opportunity should be given to develop real leadership. No man can be a successful officer without this natural quality. Any man with this natural quality and an educated mind can be turned into a firstclass officer. No amount of education can make a man without this quality a brilliant officer.

Possibly the best American system would be to have a small regular army, with a well trained force of offi

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cers qualified to» aid in the training of a great force of citizen soldiers, these soldiers to come from men who are not permitted to carry on their occupations and at the same time have an extensive military training. There can be no doubt as to the benefit of military training. Every man who is returning from Franc^ today attests it, though most of them oppose the idea of a compulsory system. The national guard units in this war proved that men who have had even a limited training are of great value.

I have heard it suggested both by regular and civilian army officers that residence of officers at army posts should be abolished. They should be obliged to live in communities where they would be in touch with citizen^.

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.More of them should be detailed to the national guard as Instructors. The contact with this civilian atmosphere would be broadening.

The American historian who writes of the period immediately preceding the recent great conflict will find Jiimself utterly at a loss to explain the stupid failure of a usually keen nation to make any preliminary preparation for a crisis whose inevitable approach must have been apparent to those in power.

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