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Show If CHAPLAIN SCHOOL I MEN GRADUATE Clergymen Fitted for Entering Into the Military Scheme of Things. NO THEOLOGY TAUGHT Many Technical Military Subjects Sub-jects Must Be Familiar to the Army Chaplain. , LOUISVILLE. Ky . May 3. The only I school of chaplains ever maintained by ; 1 I i lie United States army soon will grad- 1 I; uate ta second olass ai ( amp Znchary i, ' Taylor. There are ninety students in j , I thr class which is made up of minis- Jj j ters of man denominations, some of - whom until recently, served as pastors of bis city Churches. Some of the crad-uates crad-uates already have been commission 'i j ed as chaplains while others are "ap is p proved candidates for chaplain await ing appointment." 1 No instruction on thoolocical sub- ' jects is attempted at the school. Tho whole effort is centered upon fitting I :j j clergymen, fresh from civil life and jj i ihe problems of civil life, into the II military scheme of things. I ( If private Bill Jones gets what he 8 considers a "raw deal" from his cap- 1 tain, ten chances to one, he will find jl it convenient to talk the matter over with his chaplain, lor it is to the chap lain the "buddy" goes in time of trouble. trou-ble. When Bill Jones appears wltlj bie ! i tale of woe, he must got a sympathetic hearing, and then if-he has been wrong all the time, and his injury is but fancied, fan-cied, the chaplain must know enough of military law and military regulations regula-tions to tell him definitely Just how and why, what was done to Bill was the right thing. Therefore, the school j for chaplains bears down hard on Instruction In-struction in military law and the army 1 regulations. It Bill is in the right, the chaplain, if ; he is politic will not tell Bill so, but I will suggest that he sec him again. In the meantime the chaplain has been Ins commanding officer and risked thai such unintentional Injustice as may have been dour i: rectified before Bill I comes hack. How it was done Bill Ijnay never exactly know, but if the Chaplain had lacked the knowledge of just how to go about the thing the injustice in-justice undei which he suffered might havo gone uncorrected. Fitted for Intelligent Advice, in the words of one of the instructors instruc-tors at ih'' School this is not intended to make of the chaplain a "guard house lawyer " but merely (o fit him to give intelligent advicp to soldiers. It the men in the army are to look 'up to a chaplain, it Is necessary that (he have their confidence to the small-I small-I est detail. And. 2s the men of the nn -tional army, are rapidly becoming experts ex-perts there must be no risk of their coming to regard the chaplain wiih the half contempt nous amusement the experts feel for an amateur, because of any lack of knowledge of military custom cus-tom on the chaplain's part For this reason great attention is paid also to instruction in military etiquette. The chaplains class is also taught the very highest of high sports in international in-ternational law. In addition there is I instruction in equitation, in the care of person and clothing in the field, for jthe chaplain follows the men With I whom he serves into the trenches, and I may frequently "go over the top" With them If not he will be found assisting assist-ing in the care of wounded men on the fl I.I under fire I'nder such conditions, jhe. like every one elso connected with an army in the field, must shift for himself and must know how. Chaplains Not Favored. While attending the school of hoi-lains. hoi-lains. the students are quartered in barracks oripmally built for enlisted men; they get 'government straight" to eat three times a day, and they wash up the moss kits from which they eat just as would any enlisted men In addition they sleep on the samp straw -filled mattresses to bo found on the beds of enlisted men. In this way they are learning something some-thing of the conditions under which an enlisted man lives and works, and most of them are fimlmg the experiences exper-iences really enjoyable. Their attitude is summarized In the answer to a query given by one of them who said. "Oh boy! This bunch of preachers never know how Kood real food could taste or how soft a straw tick could be until they started putting us through this course of sprouts eleven and one half hours every day. The school is In charge of Major A. A. Pruden. a regular arnn chapl.nln. and ho Is assisted by four instructors all drawn from the regular army. |