Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pole, and a Russian. These men are graduates of the Army School at Camp Dix, one of six Army Schools which take the illiterate and non-English speaking recruits and by means of a thorough course in English and citizenship, coupled with instruction in the fundamental duties of a soldier, turns them out intelligent, patriotic and disciplined Americans...
Unlike Penrod, William Sylvanus Baxter, or Ramsay Milholland, the main character of the story, has passed the more difficult period of youth and has reached the age where real romance may be his. Clarence is a discharged soldier hero, who in the course of four amusing acts falls in love with and finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet...
General Pershing as a professional soldier echoes the very word spoken by thousand of private citizens unreasonable. Why cannot the nations get together? From all quarters the movement is growing, abroad as well as at home. Nothing is more encouraging to the thousands who advocate reasonable and practicable disarmament as the path to both peace and economy than the support of a great soldier like General Pershing...
General Wood's long record as a doctor and a soldier fit him peculiarly for this task. In Cuba and the Philippines he has solved much the same sort of sanitation and general relief problems that exist in Armenia, as well as demonstrating his capabilities as an executive. In the army camps before and during the World War he has shown his power of organization, his grasp of details, and his popularity as a leader...
...take advantage of the correspondence system, which is difficult to administer at best. But the whole non-military public will appreciate the effort originating within official circles to spread the "citizen army" idea. The A. E. F. showed for all time that the common layman can make a good soldier when trained; it remains to reverse the situation and train the soldier to be a good citizen. If recruiting is stimulated to such an extent that the whisper of "militarism" is heard again, it will be sufficient to recall that no longer is the soldiery an end in itself...