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next to the bridge, and it will be some time before repairs euu be niinle aft-r the commissioners' court takes the matter up and decide# what to doThis causeway was constructed twi or three yeur# ago at a cost of more than $5000. Commissioner Kirk esti mated that it will cost at leaHt $2000 to repair it, and such repairs as might be made would be only temporary and would probably be swept away with the first high water in the river.T N*LOUI8VILLK, June fi. The only School for Chaplains ever maintainedby the United States army soon will graduate its second class at Camp Zachary Taylor There ure ninety students in the class which is made up of ministers of many denominations, some of whom until recently, served as pastors of big city churchSome of the graduates already hav*j been commissioned as chaplains while others are “approved candidates for chaplain, awaiting appointment ’ No instruction on theological subjects is attempted at the school. Tie whole effort is centered upon fitting clergymen, fresh from civil life and the problems of civil life, into the military scheme of things.If Private Hill Jones gets what heconsiders a raw deal from his captain, ten chances to one, he will find it convenient to talk the mutter over w ith his chaplain, for It is to the chaplain the “buddy goes in time of trouble, When Hill Jones appears witlt hi i tub* of woe, he must get a synipathetic hearing, and then if lie hasteen wrong all the time, and his injury Is but fancied, lin- chaplain must know enough of military law ami mil Jtary regulations to tell him definitely just how and v*,hy what was dona to Hi 1 i was tlx* right thing. Therefore, the School fo»r Chaplains bears down hard on instruction in military law and army regulations.if Hill is in the right, the chaplain,if Ik Is politic will not tell Hill so, but will suggest that he see him againJu the meantime the chaplain liasseen his commanding officer and asked that such unintentional injustice as may have been done »* rectified before Hill comes buck How it was doneHill may never exactly know, but If the chaplain had lacked the know! edge of just how to go about thething the Injustice under which hesuffered might have gone uncorrected.in the words of one of the instructors at the schools, thik is not intended to make of the chaplain a “guard house lawyer,” but merely to fit, him to give intelligent advice to soldiers.If the men in the army to lookup to the chaplain, It is necessarythat he have their confidence to thesmallest detail And, as the men of the National Army are rapidly becoming experts, there must be no risk of tioir coming to regard the chaplain witlt the half contemptuous amuseFor this reason great attention is paidulso to instruction In mllltury etiquette.The chaplains' class is also taughtthe very highest of high spots in international law. in addition there is Instruction in equitation, in the care of person ami clothing In the field, for the chapluin follows the men with whom he serves into the trenches, and may frequently “go over the top witlt them If not he will be found ansis*-ing in the care of wounded men on the field under fire. Under such conditions, he, like every one *.|se connected with an army in the field, mur shift for himself and must know how.While attending the School of Chaplains, the students are quartered lit barracks originally built for enlistedmen; they get government straight'to eat three times a day, and they wash up the mess kits from which they eut just as would any enlisted men In addition, they sleep on the same straw-filled mattresses to Is* found on the beds of enlisted men.In this w«y they are learning something of the conditions under whichan enlisted mail lives and works, and most of them are finding the expe-rfen ‘h really enjoyable. Their attitude is summarized in the inswer to a query given by one of them, who safd;Oh, boy! tins bunch of preachers nev* r knew how good real food couldtaste or how soft a straw tick couldbe until they started putting us through this course of sprouts elevenand one-half hours every day The school is in charge of MajqrA A Pruden. a Itegular Army Chaplain. and he is a isisfeti bv four inment the experts feel for an amateur,. -because of any lack of knowledge olJftructors. all drawn irom the Regularmilitary custom on thy chaplain's part. Armf.
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Abilene Daily Reporter
Abilene, Texas, US
Thu, Jun 06, 1918
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