Point-Blank (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 8, 1937 Page: 3 of 4
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P 0 I N T - B L A N K
STAFF
Point-Blank is published by the
ROTC-for-Texas Club.
Contributors to this issue in-
clude: C. C. Kearny Jack Phillips
Guy Kinman R. W. Bliss C. B.
Earle Ralph Moore.
The ROTC-for-Texas Club is
an organization composed of uni-
versity students who know the
benefits of ROTC and wish to pre-
sent the true facts of the case to
the student body.
Prospective members and
other persons desiring information
about the club should get in touch
with
C. C. Kearny President
809 W. 19th Phone 6789
J. C. Phillips Secretary
1708 Enfield Rd. Phone 2-6591
We wish to deny at this point
that this issue was financed
wholly or in part by Messrs Hitler
Mussolini Dupont Hearst the
Military Clothiers Association or
any other avowed enemies of the
proletariat. The above is not how-
ever to be construed as meaning
that we will not accept contri-
butions from these foul fiends or
from any other source.
HODGE-PODGE
"Illinois Faculty Head Hits
R. O. T. C. Training." With this
commanding headline the Daily
Texan achieves one of its most
potent thrusts in its rather rea-
sonless campaign against the R. 0.
T. C. The gist of this firebrand (in
the Feb. 24th issue) is that one
Roscoe Pulliam who is apparently
the leader of a flock of illusioned
youth in some obscure institution
opines that the R. O. T. C. has no
part in his Utopian college. The
fact that there is not a very wide
field for observation in his insti-
tution which does not possess an
R. O. T. C. unit does not lessen Mr.
P's tirade against this bugaboo
evidently the man's ignorance mat-
ches his obscurity. But this dis-
turbs the Daily Texan not in the
least and they gaily publish the
words of this would-be oracle as if
they were the ultimate in author-
itative pronouncements.
In spite of the fact that over
ninety per cent of the college
presidents from campuses where
the R. 0. T. C. exists are unani-
mous in their praise these parti-
san pen-pushers searched all over
the nation until'they could find an
English-speaking individual who
would comment unfavorably.
Is it not a tax upon the reas-
on of the normal college student to
present such an insipid case? It is
our contention that the strongest
booster for the R. O. T. C. cause
is common sense. We quote not
some lone pedagogue deep in the
throes of bucolic bewilderment or
frenzied fanaticism but some nin-
ety per cent of the American edu-
cators who have the R. 0. T. C. on
their campus and whose integrity
and character has elevated them to
the presidency of most of our lead-
ing colleges and universities.
Comments
University of Illinois
"Some of the criticism direct-
ed against military training in col-
leges and universities and against
the R. 0. T. C. may be sincere
but it is in my opinion ill-advised;
some of it has been absolutely vic-
ious and dishonest. The sincere
critics who wish to destroy the R.
0. T. C. or to i-ender it ineffective
as a part of our national defense
are motivated by a conviction that
military training makes students
militaristic. There has been no evi-
dence offered to support that be-
lief nor are many of these critics
m a position to know whether or
not military training has such an
effect. If they were I doubt there
would be many such charges. For
over twenty yeai's I have been on
the staff of the University of Il-
linois which has required military
training of male students since it
was founded. During the period of
my service I have seen no evidence
that the military training pro-
gram of this institution and it
has had for many years one of the
largest Reserve Officers' Training
Corps brigades in the country has
had any such effect. On the other
hand many students have been ben-
efited by the military training
program educationally physical-
ly and otherwise. It has strength-
ened their characters and has made
them more useful members of their
communities. One of the most im-
portant obligations of colleges and
universities in the United States
particularly the state colleges and
universities is to develop in the
hearts and minds of their students
a real sense of social responsibil-
ity. Their military training pro-
gram has done as much if not
more in this direction as any of
their other educational activities."
Arthur C. Willard President
North Carolina State College
I have observed military train-
ing in the North Carolina State
College as a student a teacher and
an administrative officer. There
is no indication that the training
given in R. O. T. C. units such as
we have here creates a militaristic
mind in the student.
At this institution the mili-
tary training is of great value
chiefly in the field of discipline.
Tt imnresses on the young person
who desires to succeed later in the
social and economic world the
nprpssitv of coordinating: his ac
tivities with the activities of others.
J. W. Harrelson
Dean of Administration.
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
. . both faculty and executive
Committee voted unanimously to
keep military science ... in our
curriculum."
Carroll Wilson
Assistant to the President.
University of Chicago
As a result of our experience
here in the University of Chicago
I believe that the training of re-
serve officers on a voluntary basis
is beneficial both to the individual
who elects to take the course and
to the Government. The intellec-
tual discipline of the student is
supplemented by the development
of self-reliance and capacity for
leadership.
Frederick Woodward
Vice-President
Louisiana State University
"I feel that the training that
a young man gets in the ROTC is
of inestimable value to him. . . "
James M. Smith
President.
Yale University
My personal impression from
observing the operations of the
system for a number of years is
that it is distinctly beneficial to
the students who participate in it
and that the indirect effect on the
institution maintaining it is . . .
desirable.
James R. Angell
President.
Johns Hopkins University
The class-work has been ad-
mirable and of real college stan-
dards. Inquiry from many of the
young men who have taken part
in the organization convinces me
that they have obtained a great
deal of good from an educational
standpoint from their work. The
effect upon the morale of the
students has been good. In short
I have nothing but good to say of
the system.
Joseph S. Ames
President.
University of Oklahoma
I have become thoroughly con-
vinced from a rather long exper-
ience that military training as
taught in our colleges and uni-
versities today is of inestimable
value to the students. . . I am con-
vinced that students taking these
courses are acquiring habits that
will be of great value to them in
any vocation or profession that
they may pursue after leaving
college.
William B. Bizzell
President.
Stanford University
Our experience at Stanford
with the courses in Military Science
associated with the Reserve Offi-
cers' Training Corps has been very
satisfactory. These courses are
on a voluntary basis. Since the
establishment of our units in Field
Artillery and Ordnance there has
been a close relationship between
the facultv of the School of Engin-
eering and the staff of the R. O.
T. C.
I think those students who
have taken the work in Military
Training have profited materially
from it. At the same time they
have taken a new attitude toward
their responsibilities as citizens
and are in a position in case of
need to serve their country along
military lines.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
President.
Indiana University
Every question has two sides.
The argument urged against the
R. 0. T. C whether because it
FACTS
Since considerable confusion
exists in the minds of many su-
dents as to the distinction between
the CMTC the junior ROTC the
senior ROTC the National Gaurd
and the Regular Army we are giv-
ing here a short description of each
of these organizations.
1. The junior ROTC.
Junior Reserve Officers Train-
ing Courses are offered in various
high schools and military schools
in the country. They may or may
not be compulsory according to
the views of the heads of the
schools. Junior ROTC units are
for the purpose of teaching the
students a certain amount of mili-
tary drill and the fundamentals of
military tactics.
2. Senior ROTC.
.Senior Reserve Officers Train-
ing Course are the only courses
especially designed for men with
college training.. Units are now
established in most of the larger
colleges and universities. They
provide training designed to fit
the higher type of men generally
found in colleges for positions of
leadership in case of national emer-
gency. In land-grant colleges the
training is compulsory for the first
two years in other colleges the
training is voluntary so far as the
government is concerned. It is
a senior ROTC unit of Field Ar-
tillery which is propsed at present
for the University of Texas.
TheN National Guard.
The National Guard is the state
militia. It is organized and com-
manded by the civil authorities
but is subject to a great measure
of federal control. Its organiza-
tion armament training and uni-
form are the same as the regular
army. The training in the Nation-
al Guard is simply that given to
an enlisted man and does not us-
ually prepare men for positions of
leadership.
The C. M. T. C.
Citizen's Military Training
Camps are run in the summer for
any citizen of good moral character
who is physically fit and who de-
sires some military training. Four
years of CMTC training prepares
a person for a commission in the
enlisted Reserves or in some cas-
es in the Officer's Reserve.
The Regular Army.
The Regular Army is of course
a professional army. It is of moder-
ate size (at present it is 17th a-
mong the world powers) and its
purpose is to cope with minor em-
ergencies and to furnish instruct-
ors for the other organizations in
time of peace.
involves required work (all re-
quired work is opposed) or because
of weightier reasons are entitled
to free expression and to careful
consideration.
Careful consideration of the
whole matter has been given by
Indiana University with the re-
sult that we agree with the judg-
ment of the several departments of
our government and of other uni-
versities. Wm. Lowe Bryan
e President.
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