Show R wn west point a at war by maj gen gm francis B S wilby jab cupi ot of west point academy being a newspaper columnist and reporter Is a new experience for or me however I 1 feel that I 1 can give you a reporters report to the nation from west point which should be of interest to every red blooded american I 1 wish that everyone could visit west point for just one day and see what I 1 see you would get an inspiration that you cannot help but feel when you see the men ol of the corps and what they are doing they are arc not only fitting themselves lor for winning this war but also tor for winning the peace and preventing if 11 possible the recurrence of such another world conflagration as we are passing through today As you know a 8 cross section of american youth is selected from all parts of the country to come to west point they are selected by the most democratic of methods many of them by winning competitive examinations ami aminat nations lons starting with these young men we al aim to develop a rigorously trained soldier officer a job which is greatly facilitated by the fact that tile the cadets cabets themselves sincerely desire to make the most of the op opportunity they have here with the rapidly changing weapons and new methods developed in modern warfare we are constantly working to keep up to date and give the latest most accurate information and training tr a ining to the cadets cabets WA WALTER WINCHELL on a tout of duty outside continental V S durias his bis ab absence contributors will wil sub substitute stitt the cadets cabets learned and were doing everything a thoroughly trained enlisted man ought to be able to do and before the summer was over they looked like veterans summer maneuvers dont end the story of tough training at west point summer maneuvers are just a phase of the year round program which is built to train fighting leaders every minute of the 16 hour day 6 a m to 10 p m is filled by a tight schedule of 0 instruction study and athletics plus tactical training to in the arms and branches of the service the program is designed to turn out officers schooled in all types of army operation and each cadet Is familiarized with the use of every weapon from the pistol to the airplane so one can see the west pointer Is TOUGH physically and mentally ue has to be at the close of the summer the cadets cabets came back into the classrooms tor for what we call academics during the winter months emphasis Is placed upon academy academic instruction while the schedule in tactical training is somewhat reduced A A reporter probably would say that we have a highly mathematical andt and stiff engineering course perhaps that is right but the west point curriculum alms at teaching a man man to think to reason and to draw sound conclusions expressed clearly and concisely mathematics and the sciences provide this training of the mind which we believe is so essential in order to produce the finest military leaders I 1 am happy to announce that this week the west point instruction is being given a firsthand first hand inspection by some of the leading educators educator in our country I 1 have invited doctor compton president of the massachusetts chu institute of technology and doctor hopkins president of dartmouth along with the principal military experts on training in our army today major general bull of the replacement training center of the ground forces brigadier huebner of the training division of the services of supply brigadier general edwards of the training division of the war department general staff and colonel of the flying training command of the army air F forces arces to meet confer and review 0 our ur plans for the new 3 year course at the military academy with this course we propose to produce a graduate of west point who will have the finest education and training it is possible to afford in the time available by constantly keeping abreast of the latest developments we aim to do the job which america and americans have asked lis to do in the days of robert E lee and U S grant west point produced men to meet the challenge of that era johnj pershing fulfilled his task in the days of the kaiser during the past summer over 2000 west pointers went through the most rigorous field maneuvers that have been held in the history of the academy every phase of combat training was given the cadets cabets they worked they sweated they maneuvered over the hills and through the rivers of northwest new york state as well as here at west point they had a good taste of how modern modem campaigns are fought during these maneuvers some of the toughest combat problems weri were carried out by the cadets cabets |