Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 13

MILITARY TRAINING ADVANGES N JAPAN Act Puts 2,500,000 Subject i to Call—475,000 Now % Taking Instruction. & BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Japan is setting a splendid example to the United States with regard to military training in schools, and universities. A very exte! pansion of the scheme has just been put into force by n. “The young men’s tralning act” passed the Diet at the recent sesslon and was officially promulgated in April. With previous laws, which took effect in it is estimated that there are mnearl 2,500,000 Japanese youths, between b 4 20, subject to mili- 1 . men's training act” just come into operation sets forth that it has in view “‘the physical and moral training of the young men in general, for the im provement of public citizenship. A year ago the “universal mil training act” provided for units which there have now been es lished 1,134 among the 1,164 sc in which training may be Under this 1 pulsory military training wa in all schools above the six The training is volunt schools. In were 1,114 active some reserve of training duty in the s esti] ted tha today proximately 000 “young Japanese taking military training, divided as follows: University Normal School st Commercia tudents Agriculture students ... . Middlo School "iou School and High Sch Total 12 to 3 Hours a Week. The course consists of one and one instruction per week and four to six days each year in field training. To this might prop- erly be added some training in bay- onet fencing, which ha S a popular sport in at fir: th but advances stage where rifle en up. A voung ing middle school through the univer: 10 or more yvears of training university and senior schools includes leadership, group in: lectures, field duties and outlines of war history. The Japanese stress the educational feature of their milit training in schools and the government depart- ment of education actually supplies some of the funds for maintenance of the system. The army supplies the instructors, equipment, some cloth- ing, and appropriations of about $1,- 000,000 a vear. NSchool teachers are usually trained in the army and many are reserve offic The “Young Men's Training Act” will officially become operative on July 1 of this ye It applies to all young men between the of 16 and 20, except thos > in schools. Altho untary, those not taking this may be called up for conscript serv ice for the full terms as soon as thej reach the age of It is noteworthy that the administration of the “Young Men'’s Training Act,” an entirely new departure in Japan, will be controlled by the department of education and not by the military authorities. 41,000 211000 117.000 and m; continuing would receive In the Covers Four Years. The course covers four years, in which there are 800 hours of training. 5 s is military drill, 200 ation, 100 hou and citizenship. Credit will be given the course when called tc the colors under the Japanese con- scription law. It may result in shor ening the terms of conscript servic from nearly two years to something less than a year f. Under certain special Where a young man may be already qualified, elementary education and business training may be dispensed with. But there is no exemption for any student in_ethics, citizenship or military drill. The act applies to those vouths in age categorics which will make up four annual classes, or about 2,300, 000 at a time. As some 400,000 will already be taking training in scl or be physically unfit for t ere will probably be only a round 000,000 young men simultaneously subject to the provisions of the act. It will not be long before the two laws herein discussed will put 000 Japanese vouths under pre- seription training Although Japan scription, she has consis cutting down her milita ment since the Washin ence. Originally the tary s arms. maintains years for reduced to two for infantry, then to two ye; all arms. Finally, following the W. ington conference, e in all arms was reduced to 10 months and 20 days. nese army, since the conference, has reduced its budget about 20 i nt, and the number of men on active army serv- ice about 33 13 per cent. Public Favors Plan. There has been some opposition to the military training laws in Japan, but public opinion on the whole favors the system on the ground that it is breeding future generations c | better Japanese citizens. It is a circumstance t has not passed unnoticed in Washington that Dr. Sidney L. Gulick, who made the recent report to the Federal Council of Churches against military training in American schools and colleges, is an executive official of the prominent American group which is trying to or- zanize public opinion in favor of re- peal of the Japanese immigration ex- clusion law. (Covyright Wives File Suits. Mabel Scott, 1544 B east, has filed suit for * divorce from C were married at 19, 1919, and have Cruelty. drunkenness are all named. south- solute They Gal- ‘uit filed Sixth am 13, They ere » Va Decem- 1d have no children. cl s that her husband deserted her in April, Attor- ney Campbell Howard represents the wife. Maintenanee is by Nellic M Denies Divorce Charges. Harry S. Hall, a lawyer, yesterday answered a suit for an absolute di- vorce recently brought against him by his wife, Alpha D. Hall. He de- nies the charges of misconduct and says the woman named as co-respond- ent is his lawful wife. He claims to *.have been divorced in Virginia from (Alpha D. Hall and asks that the suit be dismissed. He is represented Attorneys John Lewis Smith A. L. Bennett, s | ranged Military Hospitals Will Get Captured 120-Proof Whisky By the Assoclated Press. Forty barrels of rye whisky, “rare liquor and tested 120 proof,” have been accepted by Maj. Gen. Ireland, surgeon general of the Army, and will be turned over to Army, Navy and Marine hospitals to be administered to inmates. The gift was made by the prohibi- tion agents in charge of the Tampa, Fla., district. o The liquor is stored at Key West, Fla., and will be turned over to the Army chief co-ordinator, who will arrange for its transfer to the Army medical department. The 40 Dbarrels were captured from liquor smugglers after they had been shipped out of this country and were in the progress of making an illegal re-entry. P |SPELLING BEE FINALS - PLANNED THURSDAY Twenty-Five Boys and Girls to Compete at New National Museum Auditorium. With 25 boys and girls competing, the second national spelling bee, ar- v & number of newspapers in the East, will be held Thursday eve- ning, at '8 o'clock, in the auditorfum of the New Natfonal Museum. The will he admitted. of the contestants has spelled 1l the other spellers in his or her territory, and the contest Thursday night one of them will be declared the champion. The boys and . who range in age from 12 to 14, will begin arriving here today. Prank Neuhouser of Louisville, Ky., will be st at this spelling bee, ent last year by spelling the word “gladiolus” after his remalning rivals had been stumped by_it. Judges of the spelling bee will be Miss Anna L_Rose, dean_of women at George Washington University: Alvin W, Miller, principal of Central High School, and Joy Elmer Morgan, tor of the Journal of the National Education Association. Miss Mary MeSkimmon, president of the Na- tional Education Association, will pre- side. The official word pronouncers will be George E. Wills of the depart- ment of English at Western Mary- land College, and Samuel M. Neth, supervisor _of high schools for the Maryland State department of educa- tion. Two thousand dollars in prizes will be_awarded the winners in the spell- ing bee. In addition, they will be taken on sightseeing tours, feted at « banquet and taken to theaters. The contestants are as follows: Dean Lucas, Akron, Ohio; Frances Kraus, Atlantie City, N. J.; Marian Welsch, Binghamton, N. Y.; Louls Efrid, Charlotte, N. C; Thomas Cheg- widden, Cleveland, Ohio; Janet Mille Des Moines, Towa; Vivian Berner, De- troit, Mich.: Janice McCartwey, Erle, Pa.; Dora Farland, Fall River, Ma; { Herbert Stem, Fort Worth, Te: Samuel Raymond, Hartford, Con tha Loulse Hall, Houston, Tex ul Diller, Lancaster, Pa.; Roy ler, Memphis, Tenn.; Leo Gold- New Bedford, Mass.; Elizabeth tetter, New Britain, Co riet Blumberg, New Brunswick, N. TImogene Reynolds, Oklahoma Cit Okla.; Ruth Adams, Reading, P: Dorothy Casey, St. Louis, Robinson, South Bend, Ind . Connors, jr., Trenton, N. J.; Mary Flood, Wilmington, Del., and Louise Aallen, Worchester, CAR STOP DISCONTINUED. Downtown Platform Temporarily Eliminated. Temporary discontinuance of the car stop at the terminus of the Co- lumbia line of the Washington Rail- way and Electric € at Fifteenth street and New York avenue, was or- dered yesterday afternoon by the Public Utilities Commission due to building operations in that vicinity. Instead of boarding the cars at Fif- teenth street, all east-bound passen- gers will be required to use car-load- ing platform at Fourteenth street. The change will be in effect about three weeks, according to the officials of the commission. FOURTH PLANS IN SUBURB Special Dispatch to The Star. DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md., June 12.—An old-fashioned Fourth of July with firecrackers and a sports carni- val will be held by residents here Monday, July 5, in recognition of this suburban town’s first annlversary. Athletic events will be held in the morning and afternoon. Richard L. Connor, assistant secre- tary of the Washington Board of Trade, will be in charge of the sports events, and will distribute prizes. There will be speaking d4nd a gen- eral program of entertainment. Established 31 Years Finest Quality Shur-on Frames Finest Quality Toric Spherical $ Sold regularly, $15 to -$22. KAHN on 7th St. PRICE, Monday and Tuesday. ... ..... THE SUNDAY, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 13, TYPOTHETAE PLAN OUTING SATURDAY Lew Thayer Will Pilot Auto Caravan to Benedict, on Patuxent. The annual outing of the Typothetae of Washington and allied trades will be held next Saturday at Benedict, Md., tke trip to be made in automo- biles, starting from the Botanical Gar- dens, First and Pennsylvania avenue, at 10:15 o'clock. Lew Thayer, as of- fictal pilot, will head the caravan. The first stop will be made at Robinsons Woods, just south of the village of T. B., and after lunch the trip will be | continued to Waldorf, Bryantown and | Hughesville, arriving at the banks of the Patuxent River about 1 o'clock. The afternoon will be spent in fish- ing, boating, swimming and a base ball game between the printers and supply men. This will be supplement- ed with a program of athletic game: for which prizes have been donated. The following committees were an- nounced yesterday in connection with the outing: Dinner—James Sullivan, chalrman; William Schaefer, Jo- oph_D. Ashby, Ed. L. Hutchison, A. W. Noack, S. M. Hudson, S. Percy Oliver, Howard §. Fisk, Roger W. Wheeler, Bernard Wagner and Ben F. Durr. Decorating cars—James Sullivan, i ; Benton Webb, Louis Tyrell, Wood. . Fisk, chair- ‘reeman, Unger and John P. man; Willam N. Murnan, Ralph Lee Ruppert. Tickets—Ben F. Durr, chairman; John H. Davis, Peter M. Becker, ir. Program and _ advertising—Karh Elker, chairman; Ralph A. Packwood, Oscar Fauth, George McClosky. Prizes—James D. Bligh, chairman; Earl McPhilomy. Guests—Frank P. Howard, chair- man; Charles ¥. Crane, William N. Freeman. Seating in cars—George A. Simonds, chairman; Thomas L. Moore, Will Dunn, James D. Bligh, Frank B. Keyes, William L. King. Lunch boxes and soft drinks—Har- ry Stanford, chairman; Carroll Ross, Sidney Olivér, Ed L. Hutchison, Thurston L. Ferris, Fred Stringer. Merry-go-round—Ralph A, Pack- wood, -~ chairman; Walter = Connolly, James D. Bligh. Athletics—William A, _ Edelblut, chairman; Lee 1. Eynon, Karl Eiker, Carroll Ross, George B. Kennedy, George Cole, Al L. Tennyson, E. A. Merkle, Charles Wood, Charles Cooke. Fishing—Lew Thayer, chairman; Clarence E. Bright, Charles F. Crane, Robert McP. Milans, Samuel M. Dar ragh, O. T. Wright. One of the features of the outing will be the fishing contest. Lew Thayer, chairman of the committee, announces that under the new fishing rules adopted at the recent annual convention of the United Typothetae Fishing Association only small fish will count. WILLIAM D."HAM BURIED. Builder Who Died Friday Interred in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Funeral services for William Deane Ham, rs old, well known builder, who died Friday in the Wash- ington Sanitarium, were conducted vesterday afternoop at_the undertak- ing tablishment of W. R. Speare Co., 1623 Connecticut avenue.' Rev. Dr. Earle Wilfley officlated. Inter- ment was in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Ham spent much of his early life among the Indians in the old In- dian Teritory, and served as body- guard to William Goebel during the latter’'s campaign for governor of Kentucky. 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