Word: lining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dwelt on the wonderful opportunity afforded by the presence of Captain Amann as an instructor in the science of modern warfare and the fact that if no other result was reaped from the courses offered, coming in touch with a man who has actually been on the fighting line was an experience never to be regretted. Canfield urged the importance of discipline for without it the Corps would not deserve the name of a military organization. Every man should know the ground covered perfectly, high than grade A, and for those who intend to become specialists in some other branch...
Military organizations designed to train officers for the line came, to an end with the completion of the summer camp. That work was taken over by the government, which, however tardily, came to the realization that there must be officers, specially trained, before a mob becomes an army...
...naval course will fit men for positions as junior officers of the line of the navy, and for service in our merchant marine. That is possibly an even more important work than training army officers. An army officer may sometimes be born with the gift of leadership. A navy officer is always made, and by a slow and exact course of study in the sciences of the sea. The preparation, being more thorough, is therefore more permanent. When the peace note has been signed in Potsdam, we shall still need our merchant marine. Men who understand the study of navigation...
...construction, equipment and maintenance of soldiers' public libraries in every cantonment and camp in the land. Library facilities also are to be provided from this fund for the sailors afloat and ashore, for the wounded and the sick, and even for men on the firing line...
Hardly had the week for the campaign been chosen when Governors fell into line from every corner of the country. Among the first to respond was Governor James Withcombe, of Oregon, and shortly after his enthusiastic endorsement came a message from Governor Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi. Governor T. W. Bickett, of North Carolina, was among the first to respond, and Governor Simon Bamberger, of Utah, and Governor Lynn J. Frazier, of North Dakota. "I will issue a proclamation for Soldiers' Library Week at once," they wired...