Show COURT SYSTEM Secretary Approves s Report of Officer Favors Only Slight Changes rT 4 rn J the thc report report- submitted to him b by MaJ Gen Ceo Francis J. J Kernan h head nd of oC the special war department board on courts martial courts and procedure Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Baker today took tho the official stan stand that the present s system tem should not be changed except In minor details Inferentially the s secretary upheld General Kernan's I view w that courts ou ls martial have o always been agencies for creating and maintaining the discipline of ot armies rather than al agencies for tor the thenice thenice nice exemplification of oC technical rules of la law I The Tho war sar department boards board's report reflected the opinion of oC officers who were circularized More than ha half edt C I I of ot these gave Jav hearl hearty approval al to tho ho I present system m three forty-three condemned It Il a as basically wrong and the re reI remainder re- re I er a total of or sixty seven pointed out specific weaknesses which the they thou thought ht should be he remedied Competent Counsel The most serious defect In the existIng existing existing exist exist- ing system tho lie report asserts arises from rom the lack of or competent trial jud judge c advocates advocate and counsel and amid as a remedy It Is recommended that defense de de- de tense e counsel be bc appointed for each general and special court martial and that inducements be offered d young of officers of- of leers to stu Study y law lass that they may be hc befitted fitted filled for Cor these an and amid other special du du- du II ties ps It I Is noticeable thc tIme report sal said that officers who served ser with fl fighting fight fight- hl- hl III big ing units arc as a class favorable to the present articles on the thc other hand officers whoSe duties kept them theta re remote re- re mote moto from the scenes of or battle view vic the thc system w with th a more moore critical eye cc Would Hurt Discipline Declaring that thal the thc sovereign so remedy rem rem- cd edy proposed by hy the thc mo most t pronounced critics I Is to transfer administration to lo tot t those hose who arc are la lawyers lavers wyen first and soldiers sol so- diers lens b by courtesy y only GC er- er nan expressed the thc opinion that thal this would make it Jl Impossible for Cor the commander commander com com- mander to obtain among hi his hla troops troop the |