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Citizens9 Military Training Camps, 1925FIRST CORPS AREA E S T .LOCATIONS B R A N C H E S TO BE T R A I N E D D A T E S A T T E N DFt . Adams, R. I.Camp Devens, Mass.

Ft. McKinley, M e.Ft. Ethan Allen, Vt.Ft . Terry , N. Y.Camp Alfred Vail, N. J.

Basic (CAC)Basic (Inf., Engr . )Basic (Inf.)Basic. (FA, Cav. (incl. 2d C. A.))Basic (CAC)SC (see 2nd C. A.)

Tuly 1-30Aug. 1-30Aug. 1-30Aug. 1-30Aug. 1-30Aug. 1-Sept. 1

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SECOND CORPS AREAPla t t sburg Barracks, N. Y.Pla t t sburg Barracks, N. Y.Madison Barracks, N. Y.Ft. Hancock, N. J.Camp Alfred Vail, N. J.Ft . DuPont , Del.Ft. Ethan Allen, Vt.San Juan, Porto Rico

Basic (Inf.)Basic (Inf.)Basic an d Advanced FABasic (CAC)SC (incl. 1st C. A.)Basic (Engr.)Cav. (see 1st C. A.)Basic (Inf.)

July 1-30Aug. 3-Sept. 1Aug. 3-Sept. 1Aug. 3-Sept. 1Aug. 3-Sept. 1Aug. 3-Sept. 1Aug. 1-30June 12-July 11

14251825300200200,200400

THIRD CORPS AREACamp Meade, Md.Ft. Eust is, Va.Ft. Monroe, V a.'Basic (Inf., FA, Engr., Cav.)Basic (Inf.)CAC (incl. 4th C. A.)

22001200530FOURTH CORPS AREAFt. Bragg, N. C Basic ( F A) July 2-31 1000Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Basic (Cav.) Ju ly 2-31 450Camp McClellan, Ala.Ft. Barrancas, Fla .Ft. Monroe, Va.

Basic (Inf.)Basic (CAC)CA C (see 3rd C. A.)JulyTulvJuly

2-312-312-312100420

FIFTH CORPS AREAF t . Benj. Harr ison, Ind.Camp Knox, Ky. BasicBasic (Inf.)(Inf., FA, Engr., Cav., SC) July 8-Aug. 6July 1-30 15002700SIXTH CORPS AREACamp Custer, Mich.Jefferson Barracks, M o. BasicBasic (Inf., FA, Engr . , Cav., SC)(see 7th C. A.) July 23-Aug. 21July 23-Aug. 21 3400

SEVENTH CORPS AREAFt. Leavenworth, Kans.F t. Des Moines, la . Basic (Inf., FA, Cav.)Basic (Inf., FA, Cav.) Aug.Aug. 1-301-30 18001350Ft. Snelling, Minn . Basic (Inf., FA, Cav.) Aug. 1-30 1250Jefferson Barracks, M o. Basic (incl. 6th C. A.) July 23-Au g- 21 1000EIGHTH CORPS AREAFt. Logan, Col.Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.Ft. Sill, Okla.Ft. Bliss, Texas.Ft . Crockett , Texas.F t. Sam Houston, Texas

BasicBasicBasicBasicBasicBasic

(Inf.)(Cav.)(Inf., FA)(FA, Cav., SC)(Inf.)(Inf., FA, Engrs . , SC)

July 28July 28Tuly 28Tuly 28Tuly 28July 28

Aug. 26Aug> 26Aug. 26Aug. 26Aug. 26Aug. 26

50012510502754501000NINTH CORPS AREAFt. Douglas, UtahFt. D. A. Russell, W y o .Del Monte, Calif.F t. W . Scott, Calif.F t . Geo. Wright , Wash.Camp Lewis, Wash.Ft . Worden, Wash.

Basic (Inf., Engr., SC)Basic and Advanced (FA, Cav.)Basic (Inf., FA, Engr., Cav, SC)Basic (CAC)Basic (Inf.)Basic (Inf., FA, Engr., Cav., SC)Basic (CAC)

June 12-July 11June 12-July 11July 21-Aug. 19June 20-July 19June 12-July 11June 19-July 18June 20-July 19

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Military Publicity in North CarolinaBy 1st Lieut. W I LLI S S. BRYANT, 5th FA, Fort Bragg, N. C.

URING 1924 the Recruiting Officefor the North Carolina districtmade every effort to securepublicity favorable to the interests ofFort Bragg in particular and theArmy in general . Every medium ofadver t is ing was used with th e following results :News PapersArticles covering items of general andpersonal interest in matters relative toactivities in this post have been sent topractically every newspaper in the district. The papers receiving such articleshave with few exceptions printed thearticles as signed.Early in the year it was decided to puton an ^educational campaign for For tBragg and North Carolina, General Bow-

ley's idea being to interest the westernend of the state in the affairs of the eastern end. This is a long state, and as railroad lines (main lines) run north andsouth, travel by rail is not one of thefavorite sports of North Carolineans. Inline with this idea arrangements were.made with the Charlotte Observer to putout an advertising section on Fort Bragg.This was done, and a twenty-two pagesection was printed with their Sundayedition of February 2, 1924. We alsoprepared all articles and photographs,and secured advertisers for the edition inthe City of Fayetteville.The Fayetteville Observer issued aneighteen page section under date ofMay 26, 1924. and featured Fort Braggin well illustrated articles furnished bythis office. Ar ran gem ent s have nowbeen completed with the Ashville Citizento send one of their staff men here fora week. His duties will be to write upFort Bragg from "soup to nuts,'1 aswell as to photograph anything he mayfeel would be of interest to the readersof his paper.The Raleigh Nezvs and Observer hasfeatured Fort Bragg, also the GreenboroNews. These newspapers have such awide circulation within the state that wefeel safe in assuming that every newspaper in North Carolina has learnedabout Fort Bragg.Post Publications

In line with our advertising campaignit was decided to issue what is knownas the Fort Bragg Booklet, the run beingabout 10,000 copies. Sec uring the material for this booklet required a period ofthree months. The finished job, a veryhandsome one, was turned out by theCumberland Printing Company.This is an attractively bound bookletof sixty pages, and contains articles covering every line of post activity, as wellas a number of photographs. Each unit's

The Recruiting Officer for N. C.Tells How He Thoroughly Advertised His Post and District

history is presented in an interesting manner, and proves worth while reading.The money for the booklet ($1,500) wasraised by different Chambers of Commerce in No rth Carolina. Copies havebeen sent to every military unit in theU. S. Service, both foreign and domestic.Our idea is to attract ex-service men andsoldiers who are due to be discharged andwho have not decided for what stationthey will reenlist.In addition to the above, copies havebeen sent to every member" of the Senate

Th e da y to start reenlisting aman is the day he takes the oathof enlistment.Reenlistments f or FebruaryDis- Reen- Per-C.A. charged listed centage*lst 84 45 53.57*2nd . . . . . 156 50 32.05*3rd . . . . . 186 65 34.954 th*5th . . . . . 34 20 58.82

*6th . . . . . 86 29 33.727t h . . . . . 147 44 29.938th . 93 1 151 18.179 th* Discharges pe r E T S .and House of Representatives, and tocivic organizations in the leading citiesof the United States. This was our second step in our advertising campaign, andproved to be really worth while.The Broadcasting Station

During the Spring of 1923 the writerwas on duty in Washington, tracing thehistory of the 5th Field Artillery. Whilethere he saw the tractor S-C-R-97 radioset, and got therefrom the idea of abroadcasting station. He wrote to theregimental commander, obtained his enthusiastic approval and as a result oneof these sets was secured and brought toBragg. For the next few months wewere busy as squirrels, building the station. The hearty co-operation of theSignal Corps in this matter is appreciatedby every member of the post.Our big 750-watt set has been on theair continuously for seven months. Thecall letter is A-T-9, 435 meters, and wewould be mighty glad to hear from anyone who picks up this station at any

time. This station has been heard in.every state east of the Mississippi, except the rock-bound State of Maine, thetotal number of states heard from todate being 26. Rep orts from the easternpart of Canada are numerous, and to dateevery report received has been enthusiastic, because the listeners seemed to enjoy the variety and quality of our programs.The 5th Field Artillery Band andBugle Corps, the Jazz Orchestra section, and the Fayetteville Musical ArtsClub have borne the brunt of the work.Other programs included "Lectures onLeadership" by General Eli A. Helmick,"Immigration," by Congressman A. M.Free, of California, "Vocational Training" by Colonel J. C. McArthur, "Military Training and Physical Development"by Colonel Conrad H. Lanza, and military talks by the officers operating thestation. In addition, results of boxingtournaments held at the post LibertyTheatre have been reported from theringside, and have been well received.During the period of the terrific stormsin Georgia and South Carolina, the Associated Press requested this station tostand by, in case the wires went down,and broadcast information concerning thecyclone. A lthough everythin g was inreadiness, it was not found necessary tomake use of us.LecturesThe writer has delivered addresses athigh schools, churches, Reserve officers'meetings, educational associations ofNorth Carolina, American Legion meetings, and luncheons of various civic organizations throughout the state. Someof the subjects covered were "Code ofFlag Etiquette," "The CMTC," "TheArmy as a Career," and "Military Training as a Means of Physical and MentalDevelopment."The people of North Carolina havebeen extremely cordial, and have shownthe greatest interest in Fort Bragg and

the Army. This is due entirely to the untiring efforts of the Commanding General. Co-operationIn 1923 and 1924, during the Fair period in the state, exhibition batteries havebeen sent out to tour the state and aid atFairs. This has proved a most interesting feature >o far as the people of NorthCarolina were concerned, and has produced excellent results. Our stable ofboxers has played no small part in advertising the post.Every officer and enlisted man at Fort

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Dogs and Things for CMTC

Frenchie, Capt. Mabbutt, and Duke of HampshireCAPT. CHARLES J. M A B B U T T , has been the inseparable chum of CaptainQuartermaster Corps, Recruiting Mabbutt.Officer for the Army at Baltimore, Soon, in the course of events, FrenchieMaryland, is proud of ihe fact that his too is going to bring forth a litter of pup-office secured 140 enlistments during Feb- pies, but under much more peaceful conruary, and that Pfc. William R. Zeller, ditions than those under which she her-of the 59th Observation Squadron, A S ; self was born. The best puppy in thePvt. Harry T. Smith, Company D, 34th litter is to he presented by Captain Mab-Infantry, and P fc. James R. Windham. butt to the student in the Citizens' Mili-Company B, 12th Infantry, three of his tary Training Camps who obtains therecruiters, landed on the corps area re- greatest number of accepted applicationscruiting honor roll for the month. to attend the 3rd Corps Area CMTC dur-He is also proudand let it be said ing the summer of 1925. Records of thethat this item is last but not leastin the registry in the American Kennel Clubpossession of Frenchie, one of the finest of Frenchie and the sire of the litter,police dogs in the United States. On Duke of Hampshire, will accompany theMarch 3, Captain Mabbutt's picture ap- young dog when presented to the winnerpeared at the head of a short but inter- and will render it eligible for registry.esting feature story in the Baltimore The prize dog will have the best of careAmerican, but it was not the 140 enlist- during its puppyhood prior to presentationments, nor yet the three honor roll men to the winner.who were responsible for his appearance This valuable prize is offered becausethere. It was Frenchie, whose likeness of the faith that Captain Mabbutt has inappeared in the American of that date the ability of the Citizens' Military Train-alongside of Captain Mahbutt. who was ing Camps not only to give fundamentalresponsible for the happening. military training, but also to assist inFrenchie, in tlu first plac, is a thor- the mental and physical growth of theoughbred police dog. although her "nation- candidates and in developing the spirit ofality is more or less garbled. She was team work and loyalty that goes to makeborn on French soil, of German parent- good citizenship. Thi s, natu rally, is theage, and under the American flag. Her attitude of all who have come into closemother, a trained dog used b ; the Ger- contact with the CM TC. The dog willman fighting forces, was wounc1 d m the be presented at the close of the CMTC onshoulder during the American advance July 30.toward German}', and was captured by Experts consider Frenchie to be one ofCaptain Mabbutt and Lieut. Harvey Wil- the best trained German police dogs ofcox. A couple of days later a li'ter of America, and rank her with Strongheart,puppies was born, and Frenchie was one Rin Tin Tin, and Peter the Great. Sheof them. Eve r since that time :: n nchie has been mascot of the 3rd Corps AreaPage I'our

football team for the last three years,and is well known throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. She will be presentat the 1925 CMTC of the 3rd Corps Areaand will do her bit by demonstrating herhigh state of training irr public and private exhibitions. At the present time sfieis a splendid accessory for the Recruiting Service in that she never fails to attract a crowd when staging performancesat the Baltimore Recruiting Office.An offer of $1,000 was made CaptainMabbutt for Frenchie by Mr. Lou Brown,purchasing agent for the Jesse LaskyFilm Corporation, in New York, whowanted Frenchie to go into the movies,playing in Ala skan picture s. CaptainMabbutt's fondness for the animal causedhim to decline the offer.* * * * *The CMTC movement in West Virg'nia has been given a big boost in thelast month by the announcement thatState high school students who attendthis summer's CMTC will be allowed aiine-quarter school credit for the month'straining. Upon completion of the fouryear CMTC program, as a result of theruling of the State Board of Education,high schools throughout West Virginiawill allow pupils a full credit towardgraduation. * * * * *A few worthwhile newspaper pointers

to county chairmen are contained inWeekly Bulletin No. 2 of the CMTCOfficer of the Fifth Corps Area. Theyare given herewith for possible use byother CMTC officers or State chairmen:Again we zAsh to call to your attentionthe necessity for visiting the editors ofyour local newspapers if you are not tooverlook a most effective medium for putting over your cam paign. Editors areeveryone's friends and are ever w illingto help along a -worthy project.It is a sad fact that there are a number of editors it'ho knoiv little or nothingabout the CMTC, and others ivho areinclined to oppose it because they do notunderstand its method and motive.We arc concentrating our efforts onpublicity in the nezvs columns and weshall rely on you for EDITORIALS.News stories can tell HOW boys wayattend the CMTC bu t they cannot tellWHY they should. That is the function of editorials.And it is the function of editors to encourage their readers to support everyundertaking they hclieve worthwhilethrough the editorial columns.It should be no herculean task to convince the editors of your newspapers thatthe CMTC merits their endorsement.At any rate, will you do them the justice of explaining it?


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Post Schools A Fertile Source of PublicityTypical Home-Town News-StoryARMY INFORMATION SERVICE

39 WHITEHALL STREETNEW YORK CITY

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Mar. 2.Gilbert Lawrence, son of Charles F.Lawrence, of Walla Wallk, Wash., today received a diploma as a full-fledged motor mechanic from Lieut.-Colonel W. F. Herringshaw, commandant, at the graduating exercises of the Army Motor TransportSchool at Camp Normoyle here.Lawrence, who is serving as an enlisted member of the Seventh FieldArtillery and regularly stationed at Madison Barracks, New York, completed a four-month course in automobile engineering. His courseincluded the theory and practice of gas engine maintenance and repair,the principles of transmission construction and operation, and the characteristics of four well known types of ignition systems.The Army Motor Transport School for enlisted specialists is oneof the largest of its kind in the country . All soldiers who seek train ingalong automobile lines eventually come here for a course under theArmy transportation experts of the school.Lawrence, who was recommended for the course by his immediatecommander because of his excellent record as a soldier and his highmoral character, returns tomorrow to Madison Barracks, where he willcomplete his enlistment before deciding whether he will continue in theService for the advantages of the Army retirement privileges or enter thelucrative field of employment now open to him as a motor mechanic.

WO HUNDRED and three newspapers, circulating among 6,041,000 readers in towns which alreadyhave given recruits to the Army andwhich presumably will do so again,recently received Army news-storiesof local interest.Besides enjoying the local quirk ofthe items, these 6,041,000 possible readers learned incidentally, p e r h a p sthough no less surely:That the Army really does conductschools;That soldiers travel while in theservice, in some cases as much as twothousand miles;That the Army teaches helpfult rades;That the Army rewards good conduct just as other employers do;That the Army encourages ambi

tion ;That the Army regards the soldier's preference for a certain vocation;That -the Army returns a man tocivil life better equipped for civic andeconomic success than when he entered the service;That the Armywell, why go on?Anyway, there aren't many other considerations buzzing around in the mindof the young fellow of today who triesto size up his chances in this or thatenterprise in the industrial world.It was not this array of highly valuable data on the Army as a career,however, which won publication forthe stone s. That was done by theinterest. This touch was impart

ed to each story by "featuring" a soldier from that town who had justgraduated from an Army school.Lists of graduates of post and service schools, sent by commanding officers to the Recruiting Publicity Bureau, Governors Island, N. Y., servedas a basis for the home-town items,which were written up and distributedto the newspapers by the Army Information Service, as the public pressrelations section of the Recruiting

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Publicity Bureau is called. Officerswhose co o p e r a t i o n made this decidedly effective dissemination of recruiting publicity possible include:Lieut. Col. W. F. Herringshaw, commanding Motor Transport School,Camp Normoyle, Texas; Lieut. Col.John E. Hemphill. commanding SignalSchool, Camp Vail, N. J.; 1st Lieut.Ray H. Green, asst. commandant, Motar Transport School, Fort Hancock,N. J.; 1st Lieut. A. B. Ames, asst. commandant, Cooks and Bakers' School,Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas;Capt. William Mayer, Field ArtillerySchool, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 1st Lieut.S. D. Tallmadge, asst. commandant,Cooks and Bakers' School, Corozal,Canal Zone; Lieut. Charles Stallsburg,Cooks and Bakers' School, CampMeade, Md.; Major Paul W. Evans,commandant Meteorological School,Camp Vail, N. J.; and Lieut. S. D. Tallmadge, commandant, Cooks and Bakers' School, Corozal, Canal Zone.

True, not all stories broadcast unfailingly ran the editorial gauntlet unscathed or lived to know the madthrill in whichwe supposethe sixbest sellers revel in their pulpy, parchment hearts. Yet sending out hometown items on graduates is by nomeans an experiment. For two yearsnow the Army Information Servicehas been doing it. And editors thecountry over voluntarily mail that office marked copies of editions in whichthe stories appear. There's a demandfor local stuff.If you haven't already sent in yourlist of post school graduates, do it nozv!

in Skeleton FormARMY INFORMATION SERVICE

39 WHITEHALL STREETNEW YORK CITYFor Immediate Release. No. 33

CAMP ALFRED VAIL, N. J., Feb. 23, 1925.of '., >today graduated with honor from the Army Signal Corps Radio Schoolhere. , who is an enlisted member ofat >completed a six-m onth course in radio communication. His course ofinstruction included maintenance, sending and receiving of radio messages, and the theory and practice of radio engineering. He is nowwell qualified to take the exam ination for a full-fledged radio operator'slicense. , who was recommended for thisschool by his company commander because of his excellent moral character and aptitude, received his diploma from Major Paul W. Evans, assistantcommandant of the Army Signal Corps School at Camp Vail.

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History of the Quartermaster CorpiNEARLY one hundred and fifty yearsago, at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, a group of earnest andpatriotic men adopted a policy whichthey thought would be for the benefitof the American Revolutionary Armyand the advancement of independence ofthe colonies which they represen ted. Thisgroup of men was the Continental Congress in solemn session and the policy wasexpressed thus:"RESOLV ED, That there be oneQuartermaster General for the grandarmy and one deputy under him for theseparate army. That the payof the Quartermaster General be $80 per month, andthat of the deputy $40 permonth."The first QuartermasterGeneral was Major ThomasMifflin of Pennsylvania, whowas appointed to that position by the Commander-in-Chief, G e n e r a l GeorgeW a s h i n g t o n . H i st or y issilent as to the officer whoearned the $40 per month.Major Mifflin six monthslater was promoted to thegrade of colonel and finallyto brigadier general and thislatter took him out of theQ ua rte rm aste r G e n e r a l ' sposition and into the fieldwith line troops. Therea fterseveral changes were madeand the probable net resultwas nothing more than disorganization and. ineffectiveness. Th e pitiable winte r atValley Forge determinedGeneral Washington to appoint as Quartermaster General his personal friend,General Nathaniel Greene.

During his regime General Greene prepared a reorganization scheme for hisdepartment which was undoubtedly the first reorganization of many that theAmerican Army has had during its existence. This scheme was emasculated by various agencies to such an extent, however,that he resigned as Quartermaster General and resumed a command in the field.With the ending of the RevolutionaryWar and the reduction in strength of theArmyit numbered 1,216 men in 1790the work of the Quartermaster Generalwas minimized in importance and at onetime was almost submerged entirely, whenon May 8, 1792, Congress enacted:"That all the purchases and contractsfor supplying the army tvith provisions,clothing, supplies in the Quartermaster'sPage Six

department, military stores, Indian goods,and all other supplies or articles for theuse of the Department of War, be madeby or under the direction of the TreasuryDepartment."This situation continued until 1799when a Quartermaster General with therank of Major General was authorizedincidental to the military preparations forthreatened hostilities with France.The anticipated war did not materializeand in 1802 the army was reduced to"peace time proportions." In the processthe appointment of paymasters, assistant

such number of Assistant Deputy Quartermasters as the President's judgementdictated.This may be considered as the beginning of a recognized and stabilized existence for the Quartermaster's Department. Tru e, at various times up to thepresent it has been walking with three orfour tegs or with one, but the essentialvital organs have remained intact for theproper functioning of the body as it nowexists.Th e fore going brief outline of the firstthirty-.Mx years of the Corps' existence isstrongly indicative of twofacts; first, that no armedforce can perform adequatelywithout an active supply department, and second, thatthe American tendency toprocrastinate in military preparedness in time of peaceexisted even in the earlydays of the Republic.The subsistence department, which was finallymerged into the Quarterma ste r Corp s in 1912, existed in one shape or anotheras far back as 1775, when theContinen tal Congress, byresolut ion, p r o v i d e d thatthere should be a Commissary General of stores andprovision s. Th e mission ofthis officer was at the sametime so broad and so indefinite that much dissatisfaction resulted and eventuallyC o n g r e s s c r e a t e d twobranc hes from the one, aCommissary General of Purchases and a CommissaryGene ral of Issues. The Actof April 14, 1818, establishedthe office of CommissaryGeneral and it continued assuch until absorbed by theQuartermaster Corps.

Until the passage of thisMajor General W. H. Hart, The Quartermaster General Act the subsistence depart-

paymasters, and military agents was provided for, upon whom devolved the functions of the quartermaster's department,and without a co-ordinating head otherthan the Secretary of War.This condition, in spite of the protestsof the War Department, continued for aperiod of ten years, when the quartermaster's department again was the "thinred line of 'eroes" sung by Kipling inhis "Tomm y Atkins.." W ar was in sightwith England. On M arch 28, 1812, thedepartment was re-established with abrigadier general as Quartermaster General, four Deputy Qu arter ma sters and

ment had undergone practically the same growing pains as had thequarterm aster departme nt. Contractorsfurnished the army's requirements withoutany system of inspection; as a remedy forthis a purchasing bureau, outside of military control, was established; then therewas appointed a Superintendent Generalof military supplies, whose control extended over quartermaster supplies, subsistence, ordnance, and medical supplies.At the same time the Secretary of Warwas given the right to prescribe the kind;and quantities of supplies to be purchased,which fact indirectly gave him controlover the Superintendent General. The.
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UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWSAct of April 14, 1818, served to put boththe quartermaster and subsistence depart=mcnts on a more secure and certain footing.The Quartermaster General appointedunder this act was Thomas S. Jesup andthe Commissary General was George Gibson, and both officers thereupon beganperiods of most remarkable service. General Jesup served as Quartermaster General from May 8, 1818 to June 10, 1860,a period of forty-two years, one monthand two clays ; General Gibson served fromApril 18, 1818 to September 29, 1861, orforty-three years, five months and elevendays. Their continued tenure in office maybe assigned as a principal reason for thegrowing stability of their two branches.

General M. C. Meigs Was Quartermaster General of the Army during theCivil W ar period. T ehis genius may be at^tributed the fact thatt h e U n i o n A r m ythroughout all that timewas effectively caredfor. General Grant, inhis m e m o i r s , is the Brig. Gen.prime authority that Brig. Gen.this was so, when he Col. D. H.said that the men were,except in rare cases, Brig. Gen..w e l l f e d a n d w ell Brig. Gen.clothed in face of the Brig. Gen.f a c t t h a t t h e w ardragged on for over Brig. Gen.four years. Brig. Gen.In 1866 one of the Brig. Gen.major activities of the Brig. Gen,department was the collection and interment in Brig . Gen.national cemeteries of Maj. Gen.the dead scattered over

lured by prisoners at the Fort Leaven-worth Military Prison in 1878.By Act of July 5, 1884, a corps ofQuartermaster Sergeants was added tothe department.A corps of Army Service men was attached to the department by Act of June29, 1890. The system of record keepingin the Quartermaster General's office waschanged from the book system (LettersReceived and Letters Sent) to the cardindex system November 15, 1890 and laterextended to the field.April 25, 1898, the United States madeformal declaration of war against Spain.Declarations of war have the power tomultiply by ten over night the armedforce of a country, while the supplies instock remain as they were; such was thecase in 1898. Men rushed to the defense

Quartermaster Generals, 18181925

Pacific coasts numbered 69 vessels witha total carrying capacity of 37,000 men.These boats had been freighters andunderwent changes to provide sleepingaccommodations for men and stalls foranimals and eight of them were providedwith refrigerators for fresh meat. Thetransport fleet consisted of 38 boats.Armies of occupation were sent intoCuba and Porto Rico and an armed garrison into the Philippines. The wo rk oftransporting these men and all their supplies was added to the functions of thedepartment. Remittances from appropriations for the department from the closeof the fiscal year 1898 to September 1,1898, aggregated $20,825,212.35, a sumthat reveals the magnitude of the workdone for the Army during its five monthsof war.

T h e QuartermasterDepar tment renderedefficient service to troopssent to China during theBoxer uprising, providing clothing and othersupplies as needed. After many experimentsTh om as S. Jesup , May 8, 1818 to J un e 10, 1860. and tests for low visi-M. C. Meigs, 1860 to February 6, 1882. bility, the khaki colorRuc ker, Fe bru ary 20, 1882 to F eb ru ary 23, 1882. was adopted for cottonand woolen materialsRuf us Ing alls , M arc h 16, 1882 to July 1, 1883. and General Orders No.S. B. Holabird, July 1, 1883 to June 16, 1890. 81 was amended chang-R. N. B atch eld er, Ju ne 26, 1890 to A ugu st 19, 1896. ing the old blue uniformto khaki color, effectiveJuly 1, 1903.C. G. Sawtelle, August 20, 1896 to February 16, 1897.G. H. Wee ks , F eb ru ar y 16, 1897 to Fe br ua ry 3, 1898 T h e QuartermasterM. I. L udin gton , F eb ru ar y 4, 1898 to April 12, 1903. Depar tment rendered

C. F. Hu m ph rey , Ap ril 12, 1903 to July 1, 1907. valuable service to theCity of San FranciscoJ. B. Aleshire, July 1, 1907 to September 12, 1916. in connection with theH. G. Sh arpe , S ep tem be r 16, 1916 to July 2, 1918. appalling disaster ofthe length and breadth W. H. Hart, August 28, 1922 toof the land. New sites Maj. Gen.

Maj. Gen. H. L. Ro ger s, July 3, 1918 to Au gust 27, 1922. their earthquake visitafor national cemeterieswere selected and othersimproved so that at theclose of the year forty-one had been established and ten moredetermin ed upon. Lists of the dead werepublished in newspapers and given to theprincipal libraries of the country. Markedprogress was made in 1867 when the number of national cemeteries was increasedto seventy-two and the number of listeddead given out for publication was 179,092. In 1868 the work had already calledfor $2,680,845.64 and it was far fromcompleted. The total number of gravesreported was 316,233, of which 175,764we re satisfac torily identified.The manufacture of belts, canteens,cartridge-pouches, knapsacks and haversacks was transferred to the OrdnanceDe partm ent in 1872. Th us all leather articles were henceforth made in one department.All shoes for the Army were manufae

of their flag, but they must be fed andclothed with food and in garments thatconform to military specifications, andsuch regulations of necessity require timefor fulfillment.On April 1, 1898, the Army numbered25,000 men, but by June 1 of the sameyear the number had leaped to 275,000.The great problems of the Supply department were the securing of the required number of tents and providing.water transportation for the troops. Thestock of tents had been exhausted by repeated calls for protection of flood sufferers, and this problem Avas met by thePost Office Department's placing its forcefrom the Mail Bag Repair shop at thedisposal nf the Quartermaster Department.The combined fleet of the Atlantic and

tion in April, 1906. Thetotal expense to the department in this worthywork was $1,236,324.96.The estimated damageto posts in the vicinity, of San Franciscofrom the earthquake totalled $218,970 andthe value of the lost supplies at the SanFrancisco depot was $1,915,338.21-.The provisions of section 3 of theArmy Appropriation Act approved August 24, 1912, consolidating the office establishments of the Quartermaster General, the Commissary General and thePaymaster General, and constituting asingle bureau of the War Department, tobe known as the "Quartermaster Corps,"and the consolidation of the Quartermaster, Subsistence and Pay Departmentsto be known as the Quartermaster Corpsof the Arm>, became effective NovemberL, 1912. An actual saving of $47,030 perannum for clerical- hi re in the office ofthe.Quartermaster General resulted. Theconsolidation resulted in greater economy

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U N I T E D S T A T E S AR M Y R E C R U I T I N G N E W S

Recruiting Publicity Bureau, Governors Island, N. YAn Army Information Bulletin containing a resumeof administrative reports, statistical tables, rules,regulations, and official notices of recruiting for theguidance of members of the Regular Army, NationalGuard and Organized Reserves

APRIL 1, 1925

Grand Old Man Passes OnCol. Benjamin W. Atkinson, Ret., died recently.He was well known to all on recruiting duty in theNew York District, of which he was in command

for several yea rs after the war. His death is regretted by all his friends in the Recruiting Service.oBacking Up the R. P. B.An article entitled "Backing Up the R. P. B." in theRichmond Recruiting Bulletin of March 20 calls tothe attention of the recruiters in the Richmond Districtthe necessity of making best use of material furnishedthem by the Recruiting Publicity Bureau. The articlewas most p leasing to us of the JR.ecruir.ing PublicityBureau, for it showed that the front line recruiters

appreciate the work we have been doing for themwhich is the greatest reward anyone can hope to obtainfor services rendered."It would be impossible to carry on recruiting successfully without the aid of the Recruiting PublicityBureau, and I am certain that those of us who areresponsible for securing replacements for the Armywill agree with me," states Captain Skaggs in the article mentioned. "A recru iting service without a publicity bureau would be like a ship without a crew; itwould never get anywhere."Now th en: Are we backing the Bureau up by usingwhat we receive from it to good advantage? Do weshow by our production that we are using all advertising matter received from the Bureau the way weshould ?"Do we place the expensive Army Pictorials in placeswhere the young men and traveling public can see them,read them, and become interested in them ?"Are we telling the Recruiting Neivs about our experiences in the field ? Do we know that the Recruiting News is our official magazine, and that its success

depends upon our efforts to keep its pages filled at alltimes with interesting recruiting data and new recruitPage Eight

ing ideas ? Are we doing our part to make each issue ofthe Recruiting Netvs better ?"The above are only a few of the questions that theRecruiting Service personnel should ask themselves,and are just reminders for those of us who fail tosupport the Bureau and appreciate the wonderful workit has accomplished in the past, and what it can accomplish in the future if we support it as we should."Major A. G. Rudd, Chief of the Bureau, alwayswelcomes suggestions for new posters, etc., in fact anything that will promote, the interest of the RecruitingService and the Army in general.

"Out of the large number of officers and enlistedmen who are on duty with the Recruiting Service, veryfew furnish data for the Recruiting News. Manytimes it is quite noticeable that there are only a fewwho write for the Recruiting New s, thereby placing theburden of the contents of this publication on the shoulders of the personnel of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau."While our district .has always stood behind the Bureau and furnished data for the Recruiting News, stillthere is much more that can be done, and every enlistedman in this district should turn to and back up theR. P. B. and send in suggestions and items for publication.

"We are all fond of the Recruiting News and havepraised the Bureau for its activities from time to timebut what we should do is some thinking and writingthat will assist the Bureau in its publication to a moresuccessful career."Filling the Blank Files

This is the time of year when all organizations whichexpect to attend the summer camps should be at fullstreng th. The success of these camps depends upon the_ efficiency of our regular organ izations. If they arenot at regulation strength or are filled with rawrecru its their efficiency is greatly impaired.The surest way to popularize the summer camps withthe enlisted men of the Regular Army is to have everyunit filled with trained soldiers when the camps open.Then the work will be much lighter for everyone, desertions will be fewer, the camps will run m ore smoothlyand it will be much easier to procure boys for theCMT Camps the following year.In some corps areas there are a number of unitsconsiderably under strength. Let us bend every effort toward filling them, at least with partially trainedmen, a month before the camps start. This would

materially lighten the load of everyone and do much toinsure the success of the camps.


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RECRUITINGN O T E S The United States Army builds Men"

A 200 Per Year ManSgt . Frank Raines , DEML, RS, incommand of the sub-station at Evans ville, Indiana, in the Indianapolis R ecru i t ing Dis t r ic t , is said by his commanding Officer, Lt. Col. R. S. W o o d -son, Retired, to be one of th e bes trecruiting sergeants in the United

Sgt. Frank Raines

State s Army. The sergeant is 27 yearsold, an d is a native of Williamson,Wes t Virg in ia . He has secured, unaided and alone, in the past two years ,over 400 enlistments from th e Hoos iertowns of Terre Haute and Evansvillc.Col. Conrad to Manila

Colonel Julius T. Conrad , A. G. D.,sailed on March 24 from San F r a n cisco on the Army T ran spo rt "Th om as"for Manila, where he will be stationed.Col. Conrad was th e first chief of th eRecruiting Publicity Bureau in NewYo rk City. Late r he was placed incharge of the Recruiting Divis ion ofthe Adjutant General's Office in W a s h ington, being followed, upon completion of that detail , by Major W. V.Car ter , the immediate predecessor ofMajor I. J. Phillipson.

Army Not Jail Subs t i tu teIn spite of frequent notice fo thecontrary, the impression is still prevalent in some circles that th e Army isa dumping place for criminals. Thelatest example of this to come to ourat ten t ion is th e case of an 18 ye ar oldbo y in Owensboro, Kentucky, who washaled before a local judge on a chargeof chicken stealing. His motherpleaded for him, stating that she wouldhave him join the Army or Navy if hecould be released.The judge consented and the caseagai nst him was filed away . The misc r e a n t la te r a pp ea re d at t h elocal recruiting office and filed his application. Cpl. A. B. Wilson, DEML,in charge, rejected the application assoon as he heard the circumstances."Judge Watkins need not think hecan unload his prisoners on the Gove rnmen t . A man who will not obeythe laws of his country is not a fitman to fight for it," the corporal isquoted as having s tated by theOwensboro Messenger of February 14,which played up the corporal's praiseworthy stand at considerable length.The Adjutant General has written Mr.Urey Woodson, editor of the OzvcnsboroMessenger, a letter of thanks and appreciation for the patriotic support giventhe Army by his paper in this instance.

Applied Direct Mail MethodsAn ardent advocate of the value ofdirect mail recruiting publicity is Cpl.Har ry C. Moses, in charge of the recruiting s tation at Elmira, New York.To all prospects whom he cannot seepersonally he writes a well worded,neatly typewritten letter telling of th eadvantages of the military over civilianlife, and incloses pertinent recruitingpamphlets , such as the RPB "ArmyTraining," "Some of the Advantagesof Being a Soldier" and "The UnitedStates Army Builds Men." As openings for specially qualified men or forservice in special branches occur, hewrites a follow-up letter to the pros pect covering these points . And, asthe Corps Area Recruiting Officer saysin speaking of Cpl. Moses' work, "Hegets men."

Competent B ut ModestSince Colonel J. P. O'Neil has impressed upon the recruiters of theThird Corps Area that "Quality isEssential ," recruiting is not so easyas formerly. De spite this fact th eScranton Recruiting Distr ict , underthe charge of 1st Lieut. Joseph J. Gut-

Corporal Hiawatha Yates

kowski, has been making strides ingaining an opportune place in th estanding of the districts of the area.In February it gained two over thestanding of the previous month.The s tar recruiter of the district isCorporal Hiawatha Yates , of th e 96thBombardment Squadron, Air Service,who in December procured 13; ' in January, IS. and in February. V) men. Corporal Yates is one of the most conscientious recruiters in the business,and is one of the most modest of men.The men at the Scranton office hadto inveigle him to the photographer'sto have th e above photo snapped.oPhillips Heads 5th C. A.Cpl. Edward Phillips, RS, on duty atSouth Bend, Indiana, secured 18 enl is tments in February, heading the 15recruiters in the 5th Corps Area whosecured 11 or more enlis tments forthe month.

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UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWSCPI. Ross, SASRS, CAC Cat Complicates Matters Creating a Mailing ListCpl. Robert Ross is in the Sub-Aqueous Sound Ranging Service of I lieCoast Artillery. His bran ch boa sts .1formidable title and its duties areunkno wn to the read ing world. Capitalizing on this fact, Cpi. Ross, inscouring the country around his post

in search of men, has found the newspapers ready to write articles on hisquest and on the functions of hisbra nch of the service. Th e new spaper releases handed out by Cpl. Rossare not only compendia of recruiting information but arealso interesting descriptions ofthe li t t le known instrumentsemployed by his corps in listening for ships approachingou r shores . This is out of theordinary, and appeals to newspaper publishers .Buckley Heads 1st C. A.Sgt. James A. Buckley enlisted14 men in Feb ruary , thus heading the six men in the 1stCorps Area who secured 10 ormore recruits for the month.The others were Sgt. WilliamA. Gilger, Sgt. Joseph Bloom,Cpl. John J. Smith, Sgt. JohnWestfill, and Sgt. Joseph T.Theriault .

N o Arrested DevelopmentHerePfc. Charle s R i d g w a y ,DEML, reported for duty atHeadquar ters , Recru i t ing Dis trict of Arkansas on September10, 1924, and since that timehas developed into the best recruiter in the Arkansas District. Fro m S epte mb er 10, 1924to Ja nu ar y 31, 1925, he enlis ted71 recruits out of a total of 122working days.

Col Reichmann LeavesCol. Carl Reichmann, U. S.Army, Retired, recruiting officer at Minneapolis , Minnesota,has been relieved from furtheractiv e d uty, effective Ma y 1, 1925, andwill proceed to his home.o Three-Year Terms PredominateOu t of 140 enlis tme nts m ade by th eRecru iting Officer for Portl and Ha rbor, Maine, since Jan ua ry 1 of thisyear, only one was for only one year.This seems to show conclusively thatwhen an applicant is acquainted withthe advantages of a three year enlis tment in an efficient manner he willreadily be attracted to the longer enlis tment and its increased opportunities.Page Ten

Coincident with the arrival of ordersdirecting his transfer from duty inNew York to the Pacific coast, Col.C. C. Ballou, R ecr uit ing Officer for theNew York Distr ict , was presented witha litter of kittens by his tabby, Joanof Arc. Ju.'in and her flock we re discovered by the colonel in the bottomdraw er of his Ar my desk. It is notknown, however, if he will take Joan'sentire family with him to his new post.

Col. Ballou and Joan's familyA 28 to 1 RatioOn March 9, 1925, the Sth Corps Areamade 28 enlistm ents and had only onerejection. While the 28 enlis tm entsdo not approach the Corps Area record, it is believed by Major J. F.Crutcher, Corps Area Recruiting Officer, that the ratio of enlistments torejections is an outs ta ndin g one. Alany rate, it shows that the canvassers,especially the NCO's in charge of sub

stations, art alive to tho importantpart they must play in the nation'sprogram of economy.

The Recruiting officer at Richmond,Virginia, has devised a memorardumwhich is handed to all newly enlistedrecruits , on which the recruit is askedto write the names of any youngfriends whom he would like to havewith him in the Service. Th e memorandu m st at es : "If you will give usthe names of your young men friends,we will try to get them to enlist inthe organization to which you havebeen assigned- W e w ant only thenames of dependable young men whocan pass the examination andwho are otherwise qualifiedfor enlis tme nt. W hen youhave filled out this form, give itten the 1st sergeant, who willsee that your friends are communicated with at once andevery effort made to havethem enlisted and follow youto the organization for which3'ou have enlisted."

A form letter is wri tten thefriends named by the recruitnotifying them that he has enlisted in the Regular Army andhas expressed his desire tohave them in the same organization with him. Literatu re isinclosed which shows the newprospects the benefits to be derived from an Army enlistmen t .Notes from Iowa

The Burlington and Dubuquesub-stations of the Iowa Recru iting s u b - d i s t r i c t wereclosed on Jan ua ry 2 and F ebbr ua ry 3, respectively, as theywere low producers , and FortDodge and Mason City reopened on Janu ary 5 and February 4, the latter cities havingproven to be more fertile terr i tory .On e of the 11 qualified re cruits enlisted by Sgt. Daniel J.Cremens, top man in the subdistrict for February, was Alexande r Orr, a former Infantryman of the British Army whoserved on all fronts and in 20 battlesduring the World War and was decorated twice for bravery.

Aerial AdvertisingRecruiting and CMTC posters willbe dis tr ibuted by Capt. Thomas W.Hastey of Ft. Sam Houston, and Lt.Reuben D. Biggs, of Kelly Field,Texas, in the course of a trip over

Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, forthe purpose of locating and markingemergency landing f ields .


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UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWSHistory of the QuartermasterCorps

(Continued from Page Seven)and efficiency where functions necessarilyoverlapped, inevitable competition in making contracts and a duplication of otheroffice work.Nineteen fourteen was momentous inthat it was an unforeseen beginning ofmilitary activities in connection withMexico. Adm iral Mayo, in commandof the American vessels stationed off theport of Tampico, ordered the local commandant to salute the U. S. flag, which herefused to do. A German steamer loaded with war materials for Mexico approached Vera Cruz and this movementwas the one for action on the part of theU.' S. Government. The Gulf fleet wasordered to occupy Vera Cruz and thesame day saw the entire city in possession of U. S. sailors and ma rines. General Funston with 6.CL0 men occupied theconquered city.These troops were withdrawn November 23, 1914, but marauding expeditionswere now more frequently disturbingAmericans on the frontier, which madeit necessary to call out the militia in connection with U. S. troops for protectionof the frontier. These events ran into1916, and entailed arduous duties uponthe Qua rterm aster Corps. Besides thetrcops at Vera Cruz and along the Texasborder, large numbers of Mexican prisoners and interned (including women andchildren) had to be subsisted, which wasaccomplished with great credit to thecorps.War was declared against Germany inApril, 1917, and the United States launched itself on a military effort whose gigantic preparation and facilities astounded the world. On M ay 23, 1917, the Secretary of War authorized the Quartermaster General to enlist 15,993 men forthe Quartermaster section of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and from this number were formed 235 wagon companies,106 auto truck companies, 20 bakery companies, and 24 pack-train companies. Atraining school was established at Washington, D. C, for reserve officers inwhich the duties of the Corps were taughtby lectures which were distributed inpamphlet form to the officers; anotherschool was conducted at Philadelphia.During the summer of 1917 one millionmen were transported to camps and vastquantities of materials of war to assembly points by railroads without suspension of commercial traffic and practicallywithout inconvenience to the public. Ex perts in their respective lines of businesswere commissioned from civil life, theirbusiness acumen swinging the products ofmobilized industry into a perfected linebehind our fighting forces.During the fiscal year there'was a gen

eral reorganization of the Corps. ByJune 30, 1917, the Corps supplied about250,000 troops; by June 30, 1918, thenumber of troops had climbed to twomillions and a half, of whom one millionhad been equipped for transportation toFra nce . The personnel of the Corps onJune 30, 1917, consisted of 1,124 officers,8,446 enlisted men and 20,500 c ivilians ;on June 30, 1918, there were 8,200 officers,191,038 enlisted men and 89,788 civilians.The appropriations for the former year'were $1,569,580,636.34; for the latter,$4,265,927,663.15, while those for the following year were $6,408,107,262.93.

On so large a scale was constructioncarried on by the corps in the building ofcantonments that the Construction andRepair Division of the Office of the Quartermaster General was made an independent division, reporting directly to theSecretary of War.So great had become the problems ofstorage and traffic and embarkation thatthese functions were organized as an independent service with Major General G.W. Goethals as Chief, as well as ActingQuartermaster General, and from December, 1917, until May, 1918, the Storage and Traffic Service and the Quartermaster Corps were under the same headwith a resulting close coordination of thework of the two organ izations. All motor transportation of the Army was consolidated under the Motor TransportCorps under general orders of the WarDep artmen t, A ugust 15, 1918.On October 11, 1918, the office of theDirector of Finance was created and onMay 6, 1919, the supervision of all matters relating to water, rail and animaldrawn transportation activities were consolidated in the Transportation Service,which reported directly to the Secretaryof W ar. With the purchasing and distributing and the financial functions gone,and all activities relating to water, railand animal drawn transportation consolidated in the independent TransportationService, all that remained of the Quartermaster General's office was the controlof the personnel and the operation of theRemount Service and National Cemeteries.The control over storage, distributionand issue of all supplies of the Army wasgiven to the Quartermaster General, notas Quartermaster General, but as Director of Purchase and Storage. At thesame time, the Director of Purchase andthe Director of Storage were appointed,both to report to the Director of Purchase and Storage. After the signing ofthe Armistice the Remount Service andthe Cemeterial Service were taken intothe Purchase and Storage organizationwhile the control of Quartermaster personnel was made a part of the Purchaseand Traffic Division, a change whichmarked the last removal of a function

from the Quartermaster Corps.On June 30, 1918, the enlisted strengthof the Quartermaster Corps was 191,038.The enlisted strength reached the maximum of 230,714 men September 15, 1918,and the civilian employees of the Quartermaster Corps had increased from 20,500on July 1, 1917, to 100,133 on July 1, 1919.Congress by Act of June 4, 1920, transferred back to the Corps, the Transportation Service ; Motor Transpo rt Corps ;Construction Division and the Real Estate Service. The same Act made theFinance Service an independent service.The title of Director of Purchase andStorage assigned during the war to theQuartermaster General was abolished.This sketch of the Department of theQuartermaster General (later known asthe Qu arterm aster Co rps ), from 1775 on,shows a steady growth in power to function for an ever increasing army, growingas the Union has grown, step by step,until today the Corps, like the country,ranks as an equal with any similar organization in the world.Real Assistance

Whereas the co-operation of theMotion Picture Theatre Owners ofAmerica with the War Department ofour Government in the matter of visualizing scenes associated with military activities, the building up of virileAmerican manhood and providing inthis way for our common defense, hasbeen productive of excellent resultswhich have secured for theatre ownersthe approbation of high officials in thisdivision of our national affairs, and

Whereas this screen presentation ofthe Citizens' Military Training Campactivities under the direction of theWar Department as the same was soforcibly explained to us by GeneralMalvern Hill Barnum at this, Convention and M ajor Gen eral A. W . Brew ster at our annual dinner, has beenof real service in bringing to the people of the nation this outstanding andmeritorious plan for inculcating in theminds of our young men the elementsof good citizenship,

Therefore, be it resolved by the delegates of the Fifth National Conventionof the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America that we approve of theservice already tendered to the National Government in this relation andearnestly urge all theatre owners inthe United States to co-operate fullywith ihe representative of the WarDepartment in this relation. Resolution adopted by National Conventionof the Motion Picture Theatre Ownersof America.

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UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWSWarning to Recruiters Discipline Business Requisite New Army Observation Planes

A man named James R. Wilson, believed to be a professional crook, wasaccepted for enlis tment in the Armyat Cleveland, Ohio, on February 14,and arrived at Columbus, Ohio, on the'same date. On Febru ary 15, WilliamS. Silberberg, who was likewise enlistedat Cleveland and who accompaniedWilson to Columbus, reported thatWilson had represented himself to himas a former officer of the RegularArmy; that upon arrival in Columbushad donned the uniform of a1st lieutenant of Infantry, later exchanged this for a new Army uniformjust purchased by Silberberg, borrowed Silberberg's wrist watch and $20,and disappeared. Silbe rberg laterfound that some of his clothing, cashand property had accompanied Wilsonwhen he disappeared.Wilson's height was 68 inches;weight, '135 pounds; eyes, dark; hair,dark brown and scanty; complexion,rosy. He s tated that he had had aboutsix years' service in the AmericanArmy .

Ratings for RecruitersWe rate marksman and gunnerswrites Major B. M. Bailey, Field Artillery, DOL, recruiting officer of the 2ndCorps Area, to his office under date ofFebruary 9so why not rate canvasserson their efficiency in getting recruits ?The War Department would probably beglad to grant authority to have a recruiter's rating placed on his service record.A canvasser who secures 10 recr uits amonth is listed on the corps area monthlyhonor roll. A canvasser whose name appears on this roll six times in the calendaryear is entitled to be called "A Good Recruiter."A canvasser whose name appears uponthe honor roll nine times within the calendar year is entitled to the rating "AVery Good Recruiter," and one on thehonor roll each month for a year, "Superior Recruiter."A canvasser who does not make goodas a recruiter should be returned to hisorganization and notation made on hisservice record "not suitable for recruitingduty" or "not qualified for recruiting."Many men sent back to their organizations for failing to get recruits nowchange corps areas and again show up asrecruiters, either DEML or allocated.In a national emergency the RegularArmy and the National Guard must recruit up to strength in 24 days. To beprepared to do this job we must know whothe qualified recr uite rs are. W ha t couldbe easier for a company commander than

going over a descriptive list and selectingthe rated men to send out ?Page Ttvclve

Wherever men are employed in occupations endangering their l ives orthe lives of others, writes ColonelC. A. Rome yn, C aval ry, Chief of Staffof the 94th Division, discipline is a requisite. In order of seve rity his observation rates the following as mostexacting in this respect:1. Merchant marine,2. Steel manufacture ,3. Naval forces,4. Railroads and f ire departments ,5. Marine Corps and Army.All "big business" insists on discipline and could not exist without it.The Duke of Wellington is quoted assayin g: "An Arm y with out discipline is an armed mob, harmless to itsfoe and dangerous only to itself andits friends."A F T E R W A R D S

The years go by and a man forgetsOld barricades in the bitter fray,The ancient wrongs, and the dull regretsHe knew so well in a younger day.The slogging hikes and the sudden fearsThat haunted him in the mud and rainAre gilded soon in the passing years,Wiped clean again of the crimson stain."Never again," is the soldier's cry,And deep in his soul he means it all:But after months have drifted byHe leans again to the bugle call,Soon forgetting the Army slum,The blasting shell in the swampy glen.His dreams sweep back to the rollingdrumAnd a life on the open road again.The reveille of a rainy dawnAn endless road with a gun and pack,A "bawling out" when the line is drawnWith never a chance to answer back.Broken dreams where the Fokkers drift,Even the stockade dull and grey,Drudgeries of a K. P. shiftThey all look good, when you're faraway. Grant land Rice.

Military Publicity in NorthCarolina(Continued from Page Three)ing officer, and the support rendered hasbeen all that could be asked. Officers,men and motors have been sent out whenrequested, whenever funds were availablefor expenses. At the time the resultshave not always been what the writerhad hoped for, but it was soon learnedthat you could not always swat the ballon the nose at the first swing.However, the way was paved for abetter understanding between the civiland the military. W e are now cashingin on our efforts.

The War Depar tmen t has awarded$70,000 to the Curtis Co. and $60,000 tothe D ouglass Co. for the ex perimentalobservat ion a i rp lane manufactred byeach of these companies , and the development work involved in the production of these planes.The Army Air Service is seeking asafer and more maneuverable type ofairplane for general observation usethat will replace the war-built DH's .The awards were made as a result oftests conducted at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, on Ja nu ary 23 by a boardof officers convened for that purpose.Members of the board were all expertaviators or observers and made actualtests of the new designs of observation airplanes which had been submitted by the Curtis , Douglass , andWright Companies .The speed of the tested types wasove r 130 miles pe r hou r, with ceilingove r 20,000 feet. Th e Curti ss model exceeded the basis of rating by threepoin ts , sco ring a total of 148 poin ts ;and the Douglas came up to the requirements with a score of 145.Kentucky Youth Hikes 185 Milesto Join ArmyNashville (Tenn.) Tcnncssean, March 4, 1925

Co m ple tin g a hike of 185 miles fromhis home near Shively, Ky., John L.Dezarn, 25-year-old farmer, s trolledsmiling into the local Army Recruitingoffice Wednesday morning and announced his intense craving for a uniform and a Springfield rifle.Dezarn didn' t think much of thewalk. He did more work than thaton the farm. But he explained thatsome little time ago he read in TheTcnncssean that the Army needed men.He had saved sufficient money to procure food and lodging on the route,and his arr ival Wednesday morningfound him in excellent condition.Lieutenant Logan W. Boyd, officer

in charge, defined Dezarn as a fine, intell igent young mantypical of thebest of the Southern farmer class.His application was readily acceptedand Dezarn will be shipped to FortM cP hers on, at At lan ta. In the springhe will go to Camp McClellan, Ala.,for special training.The announcement in The Tenncsseanto the effect that the 22nd Infantrywas in a position to accept qualifiedapplicants was responsible for Dezarn'sjourney to Nashville and subsequentenl is tment in the Army. oThe day to start reenlisting a man isthe clay he takes the oath of enlistment.


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Crack Outfit Celebrates Hoosiers Favor ServicesThe 20th Infantry, stationed at Fort Recently the Indiana legislature, Mounted Police DwindlingBenning, Georgia, celebrated its or- without a dissenting vote, passed a bill The Royal Canadian Mounted Policeganization day on March 3. An a tt ra c- is dwindling in size. Wh ereas in 1920permitting the attendance of childrenof Army, Navy and Marine Corps perive, well printed program was pub- it had 73 officers and 1,598 men, inlished in commemoration of the day, sonnel at schools in the state without 1924 it had o nly 58 officers and 962included in which were the events of the payme nt of tuition. It is though t, men. The number of horses decreasedthe day, the history of the regiment, according to the Fifth Corps Nczvs, that from 924 in 1920 to 433 in 1924. Thethe story and description of the regi- Indiana is the first state to grant such number of cases handled, on the othermental coat of arms, the rules for dis- privileges to the children of the Serv- hand, increased about 86 per cen tplay of the Stars and Stripes, and a ices. last year, numbering 30,680.reprint of the folder "Some of the More than a third of this notableAdvant ages of Being a Soldier." The service is stationed in Ontario, 72 be-World Flyers Rewardedprogr am carries a splendid re cruit ing ing at headquarters in Ottawa and 295By direction of the President, Dis-appeal, in spite of the fact that it was at other points in Ontario.t i n g u i s h e d Service Medals werenot published primarily as such. oawarded on March 19 to Major Fre d- CMTC AdditionsIncidentally, a period was set aside erick L. Martin, Captain Lowell H. As will be seen on page 2 of thisdaily, prior to the organization day, for Smith, 1st Lieut. Leigh Wade, 1st issue, several new CMT Camps haveinstruction in the history and nomen- Lieut. Erik H. Nelson, 1st Lieut. Leslie been established this year. Fo rt Willclature of the regimental coat of arms. P . Arnold, 2nd Lieut. Henry H. Og iams, Maine, in the First Corps Area,This instruction was to be continued den, 2nd Lieut. John Harding, Jr., and Fort Eustis, Virginia, in the Third,until every member of the command Tech. Sgt. Alva L. Harvey, of the Air Fort - Oglethorpe, Georgia, in thewas thoroughly familiar with the Service, for services rendered by them Fourth, Fort Benjamin Harrison, In-subject. incident to the Around-the-World diana, in the Fifth, Jefferson Barr acks ,Flight. Missouri, in the Sixth, Fo rts CrockettoCanadian Veterans' Settlement and Bliss, Texas, in the Eighth, and

Since the establishment of the Sol- A Chaplain on Recruiting Forts D. A. Russell, Wyoming, andChaplain John R. Edwards. U. S. George H. Wright, Washington, indier Settlement Board in Canada, 30, Army, Retired, now in Denver, Colo- the Ninth, are all new stations for the604 re tu rn ed soldiers ha ve been pla'ced rado, has been placed on active duty 1925 CMTC.on the land, according to the Canadian in Denver in connection with recruit-Military Gazette of March 10, and of ing for a period of 30 days, at the ex- Lower Rates to Panamatha t tot al 24,148 have been gra nte d piration of which he will be relieved The Panama Railroad Steamshiploans. Of this la tte r numbe r, 4,229 are from further active duty. Company has recently announced aon free Dominion lands, 2,463 on priv . rate of $30 for first class pasately owned lands, and 17,456 sage for. officers tr ave ling be -on purchased lands. The total Things the Army Does Besides Fight tween New York and Panamaamount of loans in force is and $75 for membe rs of thei r$103,150,098.73, and the averag e Washington, March 19.A resume of the op families. This is a mark ed reerations of the airways system of the Armyloan per sett le r $4,266. Of this duction from the March fareAir Service from its beginning in the fall ot$59,800,229.35 is for purchase of of from $100 to $120. Hait i is1922 to M arch 1, 1925, shows t he followin g:land, $2,559,259.71 for removal touched on both trips. ThereNumber of completed flights, 480.of e n c u m b r a n c e s on land are three sailings per month.Miles flown, 692,700.owned privately by settlers, Passengers carried, 688.$10,608,979.67 for permanent im- Express carried, in lbs., 56,280. Blue Course Age Limitsprovements, $29,782,430.69 for Crashes, 15. The corre ct e limits forgageFatalities, none.Injuries, 1. .stock and equipment, and the the Blue Course, CMTC, areremainder disbursed to Indian The model airways system is being conducted 19 to 31 yea rs, and not 18 tosettlers. by the Army Air Service as an incidental func- 31, the Adjut ant General an-A tot al of 727 soldier s ett lers tion in its tra inin g and prac tice. On airwa y nounced on March 10.flights data is collected on mete orology, lan d-have repaid their loans in full, ing fields, efficiency and stabilit y of airpla nes, Bonus Time Extendedof whom 336 have sold out and and motor efficiency. Valu able experimen tal The time for filing of applidiscontinued farming. Aban- work in instruments for aerial navigation is also cations for the New Jersey soldonments since the beginning cond ucted . The Signal Corps of the Army cooperate s with the Air Service by furnishing diers' bonus has been extendedof the settlements number weather reports. by an act of the legislature to5,203, or 21.5 per cent of the include July 1, 1925.whole. Page Thirteen
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U N I T E D S T A T E S A R M Y R E C R U I T I N G N E W SBusiness Boosts CMTC

Ninety-f ive inst i tut ions, includingtelegraph and cable companies, manufacturers of all sorts of products, depar tment stores, banks, f inancial inst i tut ions, l ight and power companies,rai lroads, etc . in the metropoli tan district of New York City have offeredthe War Depar tment the i r wholehear ted coopera t ion in making the1925 CMTC a success.Quartermaster Enterprises

The Quartermaster General is nowcompleting plans for construction atthe Dayton Air Field involving an annual expenditure of $500,000, with anultimate cost of approximately $5,000,000, an d for the first two un its of th eAtlantic Storage Plant in Panama, theexpenditure in connection with whichwill be some thin g over $500,000. Heis also completing a comprehensivestudy of construction in the MedicalCenter at Walter Reed Hospital , whichwill involv e aro un d $3,000,000. Pla nsin connection w ith the con struc tionof quarters at Fort Benning are alsounder way.Eliminating ElopementsElop eme nts from the Fo rt B enjamin Harr ison depot branch of the Indianapolis recruit ing distr ict , whichvaried formerly from 7 to 9 a month,have been entirely el iminated, according to a recent story in the Fifth Corps

News. Back in the days when elopements were still not at all unusual, itwas decided, in order to nullify them,to give the receiving station a homeatmo sphe re. The walls of the sleeping apartment were painted in two-tone colors, at tractive curtains shaded the windows, and pictures suggestive of home, great statesmen, militarylife, and so forth, were hung on thewalls. A large table, provid ed w ithgames, magazines and writ ing papercompleted the homey effect.Then an old- t imer , whose methodswere far f rom the hard-boiled type,Technical Sergeant Will iam Cameron,was instal led. By his exce edin gly f'nipersonali ty Sgt. Cameron made theboys feel that it was a privilege tojoin the Arm y. The best mess onthe postfor a good mess is alwaysan asset to recruit ingwas selectedfor the men, and good quarters provided. Pr io r to this time the menwere kept at Fort Harr ison for weeksunti l shipped to their permanent stat ions, and were quartered in tents because of the crowded condition ofthe post. Now they are held only 24hours before being shipped to corpsheadquartersj which has better faci l i t ies for quarter ing them.Page Fourteen

Police Want Army SystemPolice Commissioner Richard E.Knright, of New York City, speakingat a dinne r given on M arch 20 by theofficers of the Police Reserves, askedhis listeners to work out a plan whereby young men seeking to enter thePolice Department might serve an apprenticeship in the Reserves underRegular officers borrowed from theArmy or Navy. This system, he declared, ought to produce a higher typeof recruit.

CMTC EnrollmentRepor ts received up to March20, 1925:

C. i. a b e d c1st 1,218 1,152 935 4,400 27.72nc 1,179 1,157 741 4,400 18.13rd 539 498 194 5,600 9.64th 2,088 1,241 . . 5,700 36.65th 2,307 2,263 1,455 6,000 38.46t h 2,289 2,2291,257 5,600 41.7t h 29 0 218 100 6,700 4.38t h 72 2 664 577 5,000 14.59th 63 5 595 97 4,500 14.1

11,276 1 0,017 5,356 50,000 22.55Explanatory notea Number of applications receivedb Number of a considered accept ablec Number accepted and so notifiedd Minimum objectivec Percentage of d obtained

Prizes for Star RecruitersA prize of a standard safety razoris bein g offered each canva sser in th e2nd Corps Area w ho secures 10 ormore recruits for the Army at largeand to each canvasser who securesf ive or more recruits for orga nizatio nsor stations in the corps area and lessthan 10 recruits in al l during Marc h,1925. The donor , the manufacturer ofthe razor , through Capt. W. F. Gent,in the office of the Recruiting Officer,2nd Corps Area, has offered a similarproposit ion to al l other corps area recruiting officers. oPublicity PlusSergeant Henry L. Poor , DEML, RS,in charge of the sub-station at FortWorth, Texas, was given an excellentwrite-up in the Fort Worth Record re cently. The article was. headed "R ecruiting Officers' Many Duties Are Multipliedin Times of Peace," and was accompanied by a cut of Sgt. Poor in the act of

preparing an application for bonus for aveteran.

W. Va. Proud of RecordThe West Virginia Recrui t ing District has 148 enlis tme nts to its c reditfor January and February, which, consider ing the quotas received and thesize of the par ty, is a good record.As to quality of applicants, writes Col.B. P. Nicklin, Infantry, DOL, in command of the distr ict , there are nonebetter . "W hen you try to f ind a better class of men from which to makesoldiers than the native West Virginiamo unta ineer s," Col. Nicklin sta tes, "i tjust can't be done, for they are bornsoldiers, dependable, always on the job,and good shots, and 'fight' is theirmiddle name (when necessary) ."

.Three West Virginia recruitersSgt . John J . Franc is , Sgt . HermanZimmerman and Cpl . Caddo Thomas,a l l DEMLwere honor men in January and Febr uary . The genera l average for all recruiters in the districtwas 12 enlistm ents per recruite r .The securing of bonus applicationsis practically finished, more than 80per cent of the World War veteransof West Virginia having filed application s. Th e district, in additio n to itsregular recruit ing activi t ies, is nowpushing the CMTC procuremen ts tothe l imit , and assist ing the State Aideand county chairman in every waypossible. oNew Militia ChiefCol. Creed C. Ha m m on d (Infan tryReserve) Oregon National Guard, hasbeen appointed by the Secretary ofWar to be Chief of the Militia Bureau,with rank of major general , for theterm of four ye ars effective J un e 29,1925, vice Major General George C.Rickards, whose term expires onJune 28.

Asks MOWW HelpCol. Blanton Winship, officer incharge of CMTC affairs in the 1stCorps Area, has enlisted the aid ofthe members of the Mili tary Order ofthe World War in securing suitableyou ng men for the 1925 camp s. Aform letter, with an application blankattached, has been sent to every member of the order in the corps area, withthe reques t tha t he procure a candidate for the camp.Fine WorkA splendid display of CMTC pictures, covering two whole pages, is inthe San Francisco Chronicle rotogravuresection of M arc h 11, 1925. No t only arethe photographs numerous and artisticbut they are extremely well chosen. TheCM TC Officer of the 9th Corps ,A r e ais to be congratulated upon securingsuch a spread.


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Army Schools and HospitalsGeneral Hospitals The Coast Artillery School School for Bakers and Cooks

Army and Navy General HospitalHot Springs, Ark.Fi t z s immons G e ne r a l H osp i t a l . . . .Denver, Colo.Letterman General Hospital.Presidio of San Franc isco, Calif.Sternberg Genera l Hospi ta lManila, P. I.Tripler General HospitalHon.olulu, HawaiiWal te r Reed Genera l Hospi ta l . . .Army Medica l Center , Washington, D. C.Wm. Beaumont Genera l Hospi ta lEl Paso, Texas

Special Service SchoolsThe Ordnance SchoolWater town Arsena l , Mass .The Ordnance Special ists ' SchoolRar i tan Arsena l , N. J.The Signal SchoolCamp Alfred Vail, N. J.The Chemica l War fare School! . . . .Edgewood Arsenal , Aid.The Cavalry S c h o o l . . . F t. Riley, Kans.The Field Arti l lery SchoolFt. Sill, Okla.

Ft . Monroe, Va.The Infant ry Sc hoo l . .F t . Benning, Ga.The Tank School . .Camp Meadc , Md.The Air Service Advanced FlyingSchool Kelly Field, Tex asT he Air Service Primary FlyingSchool Brooks Field, TexasThe Air Service Tactical School. . .Langley Field, YaT he Air Service Technical SchoolChanute Field, 111T he Air Service Balloon and Airship School Scott Field, 111.The Air Service EngineeringSchoo l McCook Field, OhioThe Army Music SchoolWa sh ing ton Bks, I). ('The Chaplains ' SchoolFt. Leavenworth, Kans.The Finance SchoolWa sh ing ton , D. CThe Quartermaster Corps SchoolPhiladelphia, Pa.The Quartermaster Corps Subsistence School Chicago, 111.The Qua r te rmaste r Corps MotorTransport SchoolCamp Holahird, Md.

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UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWSPittsburgh Bears Chip onReserve Officers Receive G. S. Army Officer Wins Fencing ShoulderTraining Laurels

Eleven Reserve Corps officers, allcolonels or lieutenant colonels, reported on March 16 to the W ar Department General Staff for five weeksof active duty. All nine corps areaswere represented.These Reserve Corps officersCol.George L. Tay lor, FA, of Alstead,X. Y.; Col. Xewhold Morris, FA, of\e \v York Cit y; Lt . Col. Western Jen kins, Infantry, of Rome, X. Y.; Col.H. C. Jones, Infan try, of B alt imore,Aid.; Lt. Col. L. Kempter Williams,Infantry, of Patterson, La.; Lt . Col.Jesse Peck Dice, FA,of Akron, Ohio; Lt.Col. Grant N. Miles, ofPeoria, 111.; Col. A. J.Elliot, FA, of KansasCity, Mo.; Lt. Col. San-ley Gale Eaton, Infantry, of Sioux City,Iowa; Lt. Col. RalphH. Durkee, Infantry, ofSan Antonio, Texas;and Lt. Col. Harry V.G. Wurdemann, MC, ofSeattle, Wash. cameto Washington for thepurpose of familiarizing" themselves with existing policies governingthe direction, operation,and administration ofOrganized Reserve matters both in the WarDepartment and thefield, and to make practical criticism and suggestions for their improvement. They are formed intothree committees for thepurpose of making theirreports, One committee will study and draftr e c o m ' m e n d a t i o n s o n"Active Duty Training for Reserve Officers and Enlisted Men;" another on "Inactive Duty Training;" and a third on"Organization for Training." These subjects will be considered from the standpoint of practice in performance ofinitial mobilization duties and practicaltraining for combat.Among the subjects to be consideredare methods, means, f requency andtime of training; the establishment ofprescribed courses for inactive training; credit for performance of military duty on an inactive status; responsibilities of unit commanders forthe efficiency of their organizationswhen inactive; and the re-al locationof reserve units in order that thesemay fulfill their mobilization and training requirements more sat isfactor i ly.Page Sixteen

The Pittsburgh Recruiting District readSecond Lieutenant John V. Grombach, with interest the article entitled "Theathletic officer for the 16th Infantry, atGovernors Island, New York, is a little- Rise of Pittsburgh" written by J. R.heralded but justly renowned figure in Matthews, formerly 1st Sergeant of theAmerican athletic circles. As a cadet at Pittsburgh District and published in thethe USMA he was on the boxing team Recruiting Neivs of February 1, 1925in the years 1921, 1922 and 1923, during (writes Lt. Col. W. B. Cowin, Recruit-which time he never lost an inter-collegi- ing Officer at Pi tts bu rg h) . It was anate bout. In 1923 he earned the title of excellent article but the only troubleInter-Collegiate Heavyweight Champion. with it was, it did not go far enough andIn 1V24 he was a member of the United tell of a recruiting record which wasStates Olympic boxing team, and accom- established later.panied it to France. This district decided that 304 men wasWhile he was at the Olympic games his a monthly record which was too easy to beat, so decided to establish one which couldnot be beaten. Therefore we enlisted 309 inOctober, 1923, in November, 354, and in December 337 men, a totalof 1,000 men in threemonths, or an averageof 333 men a month.Not satisfied, this district opened the newyear by enlisting in January, 1924, 413 men.So we then decided tosee if we could not beatan average of 304 menfor 6 months. In February we enlisted 256,and in March, 262, atotal of 1,931 men in 6months or an average of321 men a month for aperiod of 6 months.Having made this remarkable record, thisdistrict started on a record for selected recruitsand enlisted between theperiod of March 31,1924, and December 31,

Lieut. Grombach as Fencer and as Boxer 1924, 1,193 men, not oneo f w h o m w a s d i s -cousin, Lucien Goudin, of France, the charg ed for minori ty. Only one wasdischarged for physical disabilityandworld's champion fencer, induced him to this man was examined and passed attake up fencing. On his return to this a sub-stat ion by a local physician.country he joined the Washington Square When the question of economy enteredFencers' Club, in New Y'ork City, even- the race on a reduced budget, Pittsburghtually entering the National Epee Fencing said, "Let's see how much we can re-Championship tournament, in which he duce," and reduced the cost of recruitingtied for first place. He lost the tie and for the qu arter ending D ecember 3 1, 1924,was awarded second place. by $31.45 per man or a total reduction ofIn addition to being coach and player $8,680.20 for one quarter.on the Fort Jay football team and athletic This is the history of "The Rise ofofficer of the 16th Infantry, Lt. Grom- Pittsburgh." W e can beat it! Can anyone else ?Adv.bach is Secretary of the InternationalBoxing Federation for North and South Capt. Post New R. O.America. Captain Audley M. Post, 12th Fieldo Artillery, is detailed as Assistant PostThe day to start re enlisting a man u Recruit ing Off icer , Fort Sam Houston,the day he takes the oath of enlistment. Texas.
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CivilianDO not believe that all thinking Americans fully appreciate the beneficialeffect of military colleges and schools

d activities. Such institutions

that must be classed as national 'Military Training from a national stand

the sword. No more convincingand colleges are notably free from

n some of our other educational instituThe Americanism of the militarynever been questioned. Asa matter of fact, the Reserve Officers'Training Corps is now recognized by thetrustees and faculties of our large universities as exercising a most wholesome influence upon studentswhich is the critical age from a character standpoint.Man Same in Peace and WarI am also one who believes that because of its intrinsic educational andcharacter-building merit, military trainingmakes for the individual's personal success. Soldierly qualities are valuable inthe office, the shop and the farm as theyare on the battlefield. Th e same, not adifferent kind of man, is needed in peaceas in war. The re is no doubt that military training strengthens a man physically, mentally and morally and developsthose habits of thought and action whichmake him a more efficient, capable andreliable man to work with, for, or under.The preparation that fits anyone to holdhis own, and to cooperate with his associates for their mutual benefit, when hisife, their lives and that of his countryre at stake will surely stand him in goodtead at less trying and less critical andimpler tasks. Undoubtedly soldierly

ntific. Military training teaches ahis life. I know of no substitu te

In this connection, it is well to recallthe most enthusiastic advocates of

Address of Secretary of War ReadBe j ore the Association of Mili

tary Colleges and Schoolswars. They are certain that it will maketheir sons and their neighbor's sons morecapable and useful citizens. The y havehad its value to the individual personallyproven, although of course in their advocacy they are not unmindful of the needsof the national defense.Army Not ReformatoryWe at the War Department are oftenannoyed by some judge offering to refrainfrom sentencing a young offender on condition he will enlist in the Regular Army.

By One Who Knows/ desire to record the wholehearted support of the Disabled American Veterans in the Citizens' Military Training Camp movement. Itis felt that no cross section ofAmerican citizenry is more thoroughly qualified to discuss the horrors of war, and none is more readyto aid in eliminating the probabilityof recurrence of conflict than themen for whom the World Warstill endures.While sane training for potentialsoldiers is valuable, we feel that thecamps really constitute a universityin better citizenship, not only inimproving physical condition, butinculcating the higher principles ofAmericanism and leaving the youthof the country better fitted to perform his obligation to the nationas a citizen.Extracts from letterwritten by Frank J. Irwin, National Commander of the DisabledAmerican Veterans, to the Honorable John W. Weeks, Secretary ofWar .

We are justly annoyed because the Armyis not a corrective institution, because ofour strict requirements, because theAmerican uniform is a badge of honor,because the Army code of conduct isso exemplary, and because of the unintentional reflection upon the character ofour soldiers. But actually the judge ispaying the Army a genuine compliment.He has recognized that the boy is worthsaving and believes that he can be made auseful and law-abiding citizen. The judgerealizes that military training and discipline will bring out whatever latent goodthe culprit possesses and help him findhis better self, even when his own community has not and probably can not.I know that you are also annoyed by

somewhat similar instances. Paren tswhose sons have become unruly and arein danger of becoming even worse, areadvised to send these boys to a militaryschool. Th is you resent, because yourschools are not houses of correction,because of your strict and high entrancerequirements and standards, and becauseof the excellence of your student bodies.However, here again is recognition of theman-making worth of military training,that you can save the boy and make him auseful man, although his own parents,associates, schools and environments havefailed.I have discussed from time to time thevalue of military training to civilianswith business men who have large commercial organizatio ns. Those employerswho have given the subject serious consideration, who have compared men withand without military training at the sametasks, and the work of certain other menbefore and after receiving military training, inform me that it increases the efficiency and capabilities of their employeesas civilians. Th e number of organizations which permit their employees toattend our summer training camps at fullpay increases each year.Sound Body an EssentialThis policy is adopted by large corporations not only for patriotic reasons, butbecause it is proving to be a paying investment. Undoubtedly one of the important accomplishments of military trainingis its physical results upon the individual.Not only does it develop a boy physicallyat his most critical age, but also impressesupon him the necessity of keeping in condition through out life. The advantagesof starting any career with a sound bodyand keeping sound throughout the spanof life cannot be over- stressed . I sometimes think that our educators as a wholedo not appreciate the vital relation of thebody to the mind. No t only does a soundbody result in more working hours duringa man's life and thus materially extendhis effectiveness, but it also makes forclearness of thought and purpose and increased efficiency. A t our Citizens' Military Training Camps it has been demonstrated that even a month as a soldier willproduce noticeable and lasting physicalbenefits. Sold ierly habit s, once acquired,are not easily lost.In this connection, the commendablepride in appearance that is instilled shouldbe mentioned, as it is a practical asset.A favorable physical impression madeupon associates and those with whom onehas business dealings increases their confidence and their possessor's earnings. Anerect carriage, courteous manner, poise,neatness of dress, and a generally excellent appearance have money values of

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Engineer Reproduction Plant

Snqinser Meproductior~ P l a n t

T HE operations of amodern army in thefield require largequantities of maps. Campaigns are planned on them,intelligence reports are basedon them, artillery fires according to them; accuratemaps are indispensable to themodern army. One of thenumerous duties of the Corpsof Engineers in the theatreof operations is to providethe army with maps. Surveying partiesmu?t be organized and equipped to prepare new maps and reproduction plantsmust be provided to print them.In time of peace the Twenty-ninth Engineers, "the mapping soldiers of theRegular Army," carry on these duties.This battalion consists of reproductionand surveying companies. In order toprovide a base reproduction plant for theArmy and to provide a training centerfor the men to learn map reproduction,the Chief of Engineers established theEngineer Reproduction Plant at Washington Bar rack s, D. C. The equipmentof the Engineer School Press, the CentralMap Plant and the Photographic Laboratory, all located at Washington Barracks,was consolidated and in the spring o

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