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RPB—5-15-25—9,200 Police Cooperation With Recruiting Service By Maj. B. M. BAILEY, FA, Recruiting Officer, 2nd Corps Area F every policeman in New York City outside of the Corps Area. The normal among the unemployed the most likely once every three years caused one good annual needs for replacements within the young men and recommend that they apply I recruit to join some regiment in the corps area are about 5,000 recruits. to our Recruiting Sergeants for a tour Second Corps Area the question of re­ The Commissioner of Police of New of duty in the Army to tide them over a placements would be solved for all or­ York City, Richard E. Enright, is a period when there is no great demand for ganizations. Colonel, M. P., Reserves, and many of labor ? If every policeman in New York City his assistants also hold reserve commis­ These young men eventually return to once a year caused one good man to join sions in various branches of the Army. New York in far better condition than the Army, there would be no need for All of these able civil servants are deeply when they left. They are disciplined maintaining a recruiting service in the interested in the Army and the War De­ men with an honorable discharge that Second Corps Area because all quotas partment's needs in peace as well as in commands respect from those who employ of the Adjutant General as well as the war. None of them ever recommends an help. They have usually acquired skill needs of local organizations would be undesirable man for service in our Na­ in a new trade. They are always in fine filled. tional forces, notwithstanding the fact, physical condition, mentally alert and bet­ There are over 13,000 active and 500 that there are many such persons whom ter citizens. Civil jobs await young men reserve police in New York City and it is the city would be glad to be rid of. of this type. There is little danger of estimated that each daily comes in con­ Commissioner Enright takes the view their ever becoming police problems. that an idle man on the streets may even­ tact with at least one man temporarily out This is one reason why the Second of employment, who would make a good tually become a police problem. He there­ soldier. fore desires that his patrolmen interest Corps Area and the New York Police The Second Corps Area at its best themselves in all agencies that offer em­ Department coopefate so closely. We aid normally enlists only about 11,000 re­ ployment to the idle. What could be more each other in solving city and Army cruits annually for assignment in and natural than that the police select from problems. Old Forts as Memorials

ONGRESS, according to the New and Bloody Ground. A bill was intro­ lor's daughter. Fort Reno and Fort Ar­ York Sun, has authorized the resto­ duced last month in the Colorado Legis­ buckle in the same State, both famous in C ration of old Fort Vancouver, near lature for the restoration of the fort at the records of Indian warfare, are pre­ Vancouver in Washington State, Conejos county, one of the white man's served in name only. Fort Sill, near Law- as a contribution to the centennial cele­ famous defenses in the eastern foothills ton, Oklahoma, has won a new lease of bration of the founding of this historic of the Rocky Mountins, which was named life by becoming one of the great artillery structure in the spring of 1825. The old in honor of its builder, Lieutenant Zebu- posts of the Army. fort marked the site of the first perman­ Ion M. Pike, the discoverer of Pike's Of the forts that played such an import­ j ent white settlement in tk-. x:csent States Peak. ant part in the Indian wars of Kansas of Washington 'and Oiegon, and it was Lieutenant Pike built this fort, or and Nebraska there survive only Leaven- for many years the most important out­ stockade, in 1807, to serve as a base or worth and Riley. Hays, Dodge and Nio­ post of civilization in the Northwest. In supply station for his expedition while he brara have passed. Few are left of the its restoration the Northwest had shown was seeking the headwaters of the Ar­ northern posts which were bases and ref­ much interest, and this is shared by the kansas and Red Rivers. After his work uges in the wars with the Sioux and their people of other parts of the country who had been finished and he had made the allies. The fame of Fort Grant, Fort are seeking the preservation of other his­ first authoritative report on the region he Apache, Fort Brown, in Texas and the toric structures of pioneer defense. abandoned the fort. The stronghold was Southwest, are preserved only in name. Four years ago, when Congress pro­ lost for years and was only recently dis­ Other posts which are more remote from posed that many of the old forts along covered. Colorado intends to convert the modern lines of travel have fallen to the the Maine coast should be sold, Maine site of the old defense into a State park farmer and the rancher. Nobody has immediately began planning their pur­ and to erect on it a memorial to Pike. cared even to mark their sites and their chase. In the last two years the State This old fort thus fares much better than ruins have in many cases been mercifully has bought eight of the old fortifications many other Western posts that figured in hidden by the lush grass of the prairies. and has converted them into public parks frontier life and Indian warfare. Washington State in restoring Van­ and playgrounds. Historic and civic as­ Fort Gibson in Oklahoma, which was couver, Kentucky and Colorado in pre­ sociations in New York have been making established early in the last century, is serving their early defenses and Maine a strong effort, which it now appears will marked today only by crumbling walls, in saving her old coast fortifications have be successful, to save to the city the site although it was for many years the most dedicated to the nation spots that will al­ of Revolutionary fortifications on Wash­ famous of Western posts. General Grant ington Heights which were constructed ways be of historic interest. There is a under the supervision of General Wash­ was an officer at this post, Henry M. wealth of national lore in the memories ington and Alexander Hamilton, and Stanley taught the post children and of Vancouver and Harrod's Fort, and in which formed one of the earliest defenses Washington Irving stopped here to write the walls of old Fort St. George at the of the city against the British forces. part of "A Tour of the Prairies." Zach­ mouth of St. George's River, Fort Knox Kentucky has undertaken to restore the ary Taylor was a commandant of the post on the Penobscot, the blockhouse at Fort old fort at Harrodsburg, one of the pio­ and there Jefferson Davis, while a young Edgecomb and the works at Portsmouth neer stockaded strongholds of the Dark lieutenant, met and married General Tay­ and Kittery. Page Two Recruiting Service Aids National Guard By Col. H. A. HANTGAN, Infantry, DOL, City Recruiting Officer. Los Angeles, California AN the Regular Army Recruiting How the "One Army Spirit" is tion and favorable comment of the mon: Service be of assistance to the Na­ substantial element of the citizenry. C tional Guard ? Last fall, at a meet­ Fostered in Los Angeles Through Twenty "A" boards were prepared by ing of the adjutants general of the Ninth Cooperation of Two Services the Recruiting Service. These were Corps Area this question was discussed. painted an attractive green with yellow As a result, the Corps Area Recruiting border. For posters the "Let's Go" Officer issued a letter of instruction which listened patiently to my expression of doughboy was used. Printed strips to stated in part as follows : ideas and finally decided to accept our show the name of the regiment, its num­ "The National Guard is part of the help. He and his officers have effectively ber and station, and the location of re­ Army of the United States, and it is the cooperated with us. To date the results cruiting places were provided by the Na­ duty of the Recruiting Service to assist it have been very satisfactory. tional Guard. These "A" boards were in obtaining recruits placed atprominent whenever its officers de­ places in the city. The sire." Regular Recruiting This wholesome ex­ Service maintains these pression respecting the boards and keeps them duty of the Recruiting neat and attractive at Service to assist the all times. work of our comrades Window-cards were in the National Guard prepared in the multi- presented new problems graph room of the Re­ to the recruiting officers cruiting Station. The of the corps area. First, cut, "The Army Builds should the recruiting of­ Afen," was used as a ficers wait for the Na­ center piece. The copy tional Guard officers to on the cards was furn­ request assistance ? ished by the company Second, how could the commanders ; each com­ Recruiting Service real­ pany uses different copy. ly aid the National The National Guard of­ Guard in obtaining re­ ficers distribute the cruits? cards as they will. To wait for the Na­ The Regular Recruit­ tional Guard to request ing Service has no assistance meant that it funds to meet the ex­ in all probability never pense of this class of would request assist­ publicity. The cost, ance. The National however, is nominal, Guard officers in asking merely the price of the assistance would have to paper and ink, and this state just what assist the National Guard ance they required. In pays. The labor, print­ short, to wait for the ing, etc., are done by the National Guard to ask Regular recruiting for help would be a very force. The National effective way to "pass Guard officers are en- the buck," a poor sub- Box sign used in front of main station in San Francisco. Recruiters in picture are couraged to make liberal stitute for action on the two of the best in the San Francisco District, Cpl. Dave Refatti and Sgt. Nathan B. use of this service. part of a Regular Army Williams The value of this kind officer. of publicity is that it The Los Angeles Recruiting Station The second problem, how the Recruiting keeps the National Guard constantly ad­ decided, therefore, to reverse the action. Service could really assist the National vertised. In a city such as Los Angeles It went to the National Guard, not with Guard to obtain recruits, was solved by thousands of people read the data on the an offer to give assistance whenever the following the principles for successful "A" boards and window-cards every day. officers of the Guard requested such, but recruiting for the Regular Army, namely, Thus, instead of hearing something about publicity and personal contact with pros­ the National Guard once a year at the with a plea to permit the Recruiting Serv­ time of the camp of instruction, the people ice to develop some plan by which the pective recruits. It become familiar with the name and num­ Regular Recruiting Service could help was decided that publicity for the ber of the regiment in their community, in obtaining recruits for our brother serv­ National Guard should be twofold in its location, its work, and its part in the ice, and thereby remove some of the bur­ character. First, there ought to be the scheme of National Defense. It creates den from the shoulders of the National same sort of publicity as is used for the conversation and develops interest in the Guard company commanders. Regular Army, such as "A" boards, win­ National Guard. There is no question The commanding officer of the National dow cards, etc. Second, there would have about the value of such publicity. Guard troops stationed in Los Angeles, to be wide publicity of a character to at­ Colonel Walter P. Story, 160th Infantry, tract the attention of everybody in the The problem of creating wide publicity received me with much courtesy. He •ommunity, and to excite the admira- (Continued on Page Eleven) Page Three Standardization of "A" Board Displays By Mtij. MALCOLM P. ANDRUSS, CAC, DDL, Recruiting Officer, Buffalo, N. Y. T has been my observation in studying Stock Posters Used in Construction sub-stations have in the main been pitiful recruiting problems that too much attempts and although the commanders I thought cannot be given to the "A" of Original Layouts According have done their best the fact remains board situation. to Model Designs that in most cases the results have not Thi6 is indeed the day of intensive been at all satisfactory. Constant "nag­ advertising and no matter how much merit ging" is not conducive to morale and re­ there may be in an article fur sale the I may be pardoned for waxing enthusi­ course to such methods is of doubtful demand therefore will be directly propor­ astic over the treatment accorded. value. tional to the amount of effort expended Returning lo the subject—we have at The problems had to be met and con­ in attractively presenting it lo the pub­ nur disposal, then, two classes of show quered and with this idea in view much lic, either in the press, on the bill board rases, one stationary and the other walk­ thought has been devoted during the past or in the show case. ing. It is with the former that I want six months as to just how to proceed. It has gotten so now that show case and tu deal in this article as the latter is It was finally decided to adopt the fol­ window displays have become an integral worthy of special thought and consid­ lowing system : part of the retail game and this activity eration. (a) To prepare carefully two classes is often a determining factor in the suc­ What are we doing to improve the of "A" board displays, one to be called cess or failure of a business. "Window attractiveness of "A" board displays? standard and the other special. shopping" is a practice common to all The standard class was to comprise and the more alluring the "bait" the great­ specially designed displays for each of the er will be the number of "fish" in the following: Infantry, Cavalry, Engineers, creel when the day's books are balanced. Signal Corps, Field Artillery, Coast Ar­ How often do you go into a shoe store tillery, Air Service, Panama, Hawaii, and to make a purchase without first seeing the Philippines. the style of shoe you want in the window? The special class was to comprise a The same is true, in general, of every number of displays advertising specific article we buy whether it be a hat or a organizations for which we are authorized box of candy to take home. to recruit, also such special subjects as / ravel, Opportunities for Learning a Show case and window dressing in re­ Trade, General Recruiting Information, cent years has become an art and many etc. of those engaged in the profession are (b) To make up a number of complete high-salaried artists. 1 Did you ever stop to consider seriously sets of photographs from the two classes what a wonderful potential advertising indicated and to furnish each station with medium we have in our "A" boards ? a reference set in album form. Did it ever occur to you that the Feder­ (c) To require each station to model al Government is being granted a most its displays in accordance with the author­ exceptional concession by the several city ized photographs furnished for the pur­ governments in that we are generally per­ pose, allowing, of course, reasonable de­ mitted to locate our display boards at viations therefrom in order that initiative random—given unrestricted liberty to might not be curtailed along these lines. cover the "high spots" as it were ? Are Anchor Mounting for "A" Board By employing this method we not only we taking full advantage of the excep­ obtain a certain degree of uniformity tional advertising facilities at our dis­ Do we believe in their efficacy or do we throughout the district but at the same posal? What wouldn't commercial firms look upon the work involved as a neces­ time are assured of a more efficient and give for the same privilege—and yet sary evil ? effective advertising medium. Whereas how many of us take it as a matter It is comparatively an easy matter to much thought has been devoted to pro­ of course! paste on some stock posters as a mere ducing the original displays it is com­ If you will pardon personal reference matter of rote and without giving further paratively an easy matter to refer to the thought to the activity other than to see standard photographs and make up what I would like to relate here an incident that to it that frequent inspections are made to occurred in Buffalo only last week as il­ is wanted directly from them, "a short insure neatness. But in pursuing this cut to knowledge," as it were. lustrative of the public spirited attitude of course are we taking full advantage of the the city officials in regard to street adver­ It should be understood that the stand­ possibilities open to us? That is a ques­ ard displays are in the nature of a tising. For some time past I have had my tion that each commander must decide eye on a most strategic "high spot" for mosaic, a potpourri so to speak, of a for himself and it is not my intention to number of regularly issued posters, hand the location of an "A" board in the very foist my ideas on anyone. Personally I heart of the business district, but hesitated bills, and the like, all of which are norm­ court suggestion and I can consistently ally on hand at each station. This fea­ to take the step without special permission say that the Recruiting Neivs, as well as from the "man behind," fearing that such ture, of course, is essential to the proper other recruiting publications, have been carrying action might savor of presumption on my a wonderful help to me in solving many out of the scheme. part. In order to be on the safe side I of the problems with which we are daily In order to give a better idea of the called upon the Mayor and stated my case. confronted in this most interesting nature of the displays a few illustrations Pie handed me his card with the remark: service. are shown on the opposite page. There are about twenty-five sample photographs "Major, this card will entitle you to do It isn't every man who is qualified to anything you want in this city except to in each album although the possibilities design attractive displays for "A" boards, along these lines are naturally unlimited. commit murder. Put your signs anywhere as it involves an inherent ability for crea­ you want to." With backing such as this The Buffalo office will be glad indeed to tive art. In this district the displays at {Continued on Page Fifteen) Page Four UNITED STATES ARMY

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Some of Major Andruss' Standard "A" Boards Page Five The Coast Artillery Corps N 1789 the entire Artillery organiza- Field Artillery Was Grouped With o f Santiago. Two batteries served as in­ tion of the Army consisted of a single fantry at the siege and capture of Manila. I battalion of four companies with a CAC From 1789 to 1907, When Later on four batteries served as in­ strength of 14 officers and 280 men, Branches Were Separated fantry during the Philippine Insurrec­ known as "The Battalion of Artillery," tion in 1899. and the proportional part of a total mili­ The 6th Artillery served as infantry tary establishment of less than 900 officers then existing sixty companies served as during the Philippine Insurrection, and and men of all branches of the service. light batteries. Prior to the Civil War, four batteries of the 3rd Artillery served Congress increased the artillery person- fory-one companies served in campaigns as infantry in the China Relief Expedi­ nel in 1794 to a total of 95 officers and against the Indians, and after the war tion in 1900, in addition to the light bat­ 992 men, 'and in the reorganization which some of the "foot batteries" took part in teries which played their own role on this then took place they became the "Corps operations against Indians. memorable trip. At various times com­ of Artillerists and Engineers." In 1886, through the instrumentality of panies or batteries of Heavy Artillery In 1798 Congress increased this corps the Endicott board, the War Department (or later Coast Artillery) have served as by one regiment of three battal­ infantry in Alaska, Hawaii, and ions of four companies, and in the on the Mexican border and on following year changed the corps strike duty during industrial and regiment into two regiments troubles. of four battalions of four com­ In 1901 the Artillery was re­ panies each and a total, strength organized as a corps consisting of of 182 officers and 2,088* men. 126 companies of Coast Artillery The Artillery and Engineers and 30 batteries of Field Artil­ were separated in 1802 and the lery, with authorized strength of Artillery reorganized as the "Reg­ 663 officers and 18,922 men. iment of Artillerists," with five The Coast companies were then battalions of four companies and grouped under higher command a strength of 106 officers and in accordance with the territorial 1,520 men. departments of the United States Congress authorized the addi­ and their own stations along the tion of one regiment of Light Ar­ seaboard, while the Field Artil­ tillery of ten companies in 1808, lery batteries were grouped in and in 1812 two regiments of Ar­ battalions at the larger inland tillery. Thus for the War of posts of the mobile Army and in 1812 the Artillery consisted of contact with either Infantry or one regiment of Artillerists, one Cavalry. Here was a well defined regiment of Light Artillery and divergence between the assumed two regiments of Artillery, with missions of the light batteries and an authorized strength of 237 of the Heavy Artillery companies, officers and 6,018 men. the former being grouped with In 1814 the "Artillerists" and units of Infantry and Cavalry the two regiments of Artillery while the latter became identified were combined into a "Corps of with the seacoast and were con­ Artillery," leaving the Regiment sidered immobile because their of Light Artillery as a separate guns were in fixed defenses and unit. In 1821 all of this Artil­ for attack against nival targets lery and the ordnance personnel only. The reorganization also pro­ were reorganized into four regi­ vided for a chief of Artillery. ments of nine companies each, and This was the first provision by thus continued, with only minor Congress for a technical chief of changes, for over forty years. any combatant arm in the Regu­ The 5th Regiment of Artillery Major General Frank W. Coe, Chief of Coast Artillery lar Army since the beginning of was authorized in 1861, and dur­ Government under the Constitu­ ing the Civil War the total authorized undertook the task of reorganizing the tion (the Corps of Engineers had not been strength was 273 officers and 4,666 men. U. S. coast defenses. In 1898, as a war rated as a combatant service up to that After the Civil War the authorized measure, Congress authorized the Sixth time). General Henry Knox had been strength was reduced, and in 1885 the and Seventh Regiments of Artillery and Chief of Artillery under Washington in Artillery consisted of five regiments, com- tripled the strength of the personnel in the Continental Army and General Henry prising sixty company organizations, with all regiments for the duration of the war. J. Hunt was Chief of Artillery of the a personnel of 280 officers and 2,600 men. The batteries of Light Artillery, however, Army of the Potomac during the Civil During the period 1812-1885, the func- still formed part of the regiments of War, but neither of them was of the tions of the Artillery were many and Heavy Artillery, now committed almost Regular establishment. varied. In the War of 1812 the four ex- entirely to coast defense, for only two In 1907 the Coast and Field were de­ isting regiments were actively engaged as types of armament existed, the light field finitely separated into two distinct artillery or as infantry, the latter role pieces and the heavy guns in the fixed branches of the military service. Both predominating. In the Mexican War defenses. branches were increased and the Coast ferty-five of the total forty-eight com- During the Spanish-American War a Artillery Corps was constituted as of panies took active part, again playing the number of the foot batteries were or- 170 companies with an authorized person- double role of artillery and infantry. ganized into Siege Artillery, and two of nel of 708 officers and 19,321 men. It During the Civil War fifty-six of the them participated as such at the siege thus became a service apart from the Page Six UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS mobile Army in all matters tactical and and nothing in between these widely sep­ by the wear and tear of war. technical and retained its administrative arated types. relationship only. The Army Artillery had used French The Coast Artillery and the Field Ar­ guns and British howitzers, purchased In 1916, in the National Defense Act, tillery had been far apart in both techni­ from these countries with all their equip­ the Coast Artillery received a 50 per cent que and esprit—medium and heavy mobile ment. A small portion of this armament increase, which was to be added by five calibers had been lacking as well as any was expended in action, some of it was equal increments during a period of four inclination in either branch of the service •returned to the governments from which years. The previous fixed company or­ to push their development. obtained in the final settlement of ac­ ganization was eliminated and only the Fortunately during the war, due to the counts, but the larger numbers were total corps strength of personnel in each absence of enemy sea power, the Coast brought to this country to form a part of grade was defined. However, in April, Artillery was able to emerge from its the Army Artillery armament since accu­ 1917, when only the first increment narrow role of coast defense and fill the mulated. of increase had been added, we were pressing need for heavy mobile guns in Our Army has today in fully developed in the World War; the remaining support of our armies on the land. More and efficient form those quotas of medium four increments were added en masse, than this, it was shown that not only can mobile guns which the Army of 1916 and we were confronted with the necessity Coast Artillery troops operate their sea wholly lacked. The Coast Artillery has for an immediate expansion to ten coast weapons on fixed mounts and their become in reality the Heavy Artillery of and later to twenty times our pre­ heavy mobile armament in support of land our military establishment and coast de­ vious military strength. fense pure and simple is only a In June, 1917, the War Depart­ part of its mission. It has ex­ ment authorized the formation of tended its scope so as to close en­ the first Expeditionary Brigade of CMTC Enrollment tirely the gap that formerly ex­ Coast Artillery troops intended to isted between the light or Field operate heavj' mobile guns abroad, A summary of telegraphic reports for April 30, Artillery and the Artillery of the this brigade arriving at Mailley- 1925 fixed defenses, and it is prepared le-Camp (Aube), France, by the C.A a b c d e / to go into campaign in support of end of September, which camp 1st . 2,020 1,833 1,249 4,400 45.9 1,551 field armies just as readily as to became the headquarters of the 2nd . 4,354 4,141 1,754 6,500 66.9 2,077 defend our fortified posts. American Railway Artillery Re­ 3rd . 2,584 2,340 1,000 5,600 46.1 1,690 The National Defense Act of serve. In February, 1918, the 4th . 4,489 3,603 2,110 5,700 78.7 4,201 1916, which had increased the first units of this brigade were 5th . 5,165 5,019 2,324 6,000 86.1 2,306 strength of the Coast Artillery disposed to support certain oper­ 6th . 4,274 4,088 2,146 5,600 76.3 2,986 Corps approximately 50 per cent ations of the French 4th Army in 7th . 1,762 1,700 452 6,700 26.3 1,565 and fixed that strength at 1,200 Champagne. From that time on 8th . 1,700 1,184 798 5,000 34.0 1,765 officers and 30,009 enlisted men, the units of this Artillery Reserve 9th . 2,883 2,718 916 4,500 64.0 2,126 was intended to provide, when the operated along the battle line in five annual increments of the in- France until finally, in October 29,231 26,626 12,749 50,000 58.4 20,267 crease were completed, a full and November, 1918, they were Explanatory Note:— manning detail for all guns and concentrated in support of the a. Applications received. mine defenses in overseas posses­ American First and Second b. Number considered acceptable. sions, a full manning detail for Armies in the vicinity of Verdun. c. Accepted and so notified mine defenses and a half manning When the enormous expansion d. Minimum objective. detail for our defenses at home. required of the Field Artillery to e. Percentage obtained. The Act of Congress of June supply the necessary divisional 1924. 4, 1920, does not increase this / • Applications received this date, guns alone was fully realized, the strength, in spite of the fact that War Department assigned to the the Coast Artillery now contrib­ Coast Artillery the task of sup­ utes three brigades comprising ten plying all the Army and Anti- regiments of Heavy Mobile Ar­ Aircraft Artillery for the AEF, while forces with the same methods of accuracy tillery, to the strength of the mobile in the matter of Corps Artillery and and precision of fire, but also that the Army. But this matter is of small im­ Trench Mortars the personnel was drawn newly developed heavy mobile types of portance as compared with the actual from both Field and Coast Artillery guns themselves can play a double role existence of the organizations and the ar­ sources. and can attack, with equal accuracy, tar­ mament of the heavy mobile units so long For the Army Artillery, all of which gets on the sea as well as on the land. previously absent from our regular estab­ was to be tractor drawn or transported, At the date of the Armistice the man­ lishment. the sources of armament supply were the ufacture of heavy artillery in the U. S. Heavy artillery is the most expensive had just reached quantity production and French 155 mm. GPF guns, the British part of the equipment which our Army re­ as a result of completing those contracts quires for successful campaign against 8-inch and 9.2-inch howitzers and the 5­ to which expensive materials and forgings a modern national enemy. It is at the inch and 6-inch guns dismounted from the were already wholly committed, the War same time the longest in production, for U. S. Coast Defenses and placed upon Department is today in possession of a it cannot be improvised on short notice provisional wheeled mounts. heavy mobile armament such as never but entails a continuing process of devel­ The matter of primary importance to before existed in this country and which opment and actual practical tests so that the Coast Artillery Corps after the war now forms an asset of the greatest value when emergency overtakes us, we may was what types, calibers and proportional against future National danger. have available the best types of these numbers of heavy mobile Artillery should The American Railway Artillery in heavy weapons. be retained in the Regular establishment France had used only French materiel, But the question of heavy mobile guns when the new reorganization had become and this was left behind, but the troops was not the only matter to be developed a fact. Before the war we had only Field returned to find a better armament at by the Coast Artillery during the World Artillery and a fixed sea coast armament home, of improved design and undamaged {Continued on Page Fifteen) Page Seven UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS an organization commander on a recruiting officer's request for promotion of an allocated recruiter who had averaged 19 recruits per month for several months. "This man has never done a day's duty with his regi- ment. There are other men in the regiment of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau, Governors Island, N. Y grade of private who are probably just as good soldier An Army Information Bulletin containing a resume of administrative reports, statistical tables, rules, as this man, and who are doing arduous duty with their regulations, and official notices of recruiting for the organizations. It would be decidedly detrimental to guidance of members of the Regular Army, National Guard and Organized Reserves morale to appoint an absentee. Furthermore, were this man made a noa-commissioned officer the regi­ MAY 15, 1925 mental quota of men on recruiting duty would be five non-commissioned officers out of a regimental strength of 42, present and absent, which seems excessive." "Only A Soldier" This officer, like many others, did not appreciate the "I am only a soldier—" wrote a man recently to handicaps and limitations under which the recruiting a representative of the press at the end of a news force works, nor the benefits he derives from its work. item he had sent in. That remark is often heard in If he were to take into consideration the low reenlist­ casual conversation, too, and somehow apologetic ment percentage of his organization—for reenlistments expressions of this kind creep into more than one on the average vary from 8 per cent to 35 per cent—he communication from the ranks of Uncle Sam's would realize how important a part his allocated re­ Army. cruiter is playing in giving him the necessary personnel It cannot be that the traditions of the Army, to keep his outfit going. or its uniform, are responsible for this attitude, for It is easy enough to understand the viewpoint of among honorable things these hold a prominent and the company commander, who is constantly harassed enviable place. What could be more honorable by calls for men to go on this detail or that, and who is and noble than to be a defender of your flag and confronted with the job of completing his organization country, a member of that great body of men who training in the best possible manner. But at the same form the mainstay of law and order ? time he must realize that good work done by his men History is replete with the exploits of men of away from the company is just as deserving of com­ the Army. The Army led civilization westward, mendation and recognition as is work performed in his unfaltering, and protected it after it had secured a firm foundation. The foremost explorers of the nation orderly room or in his kitchen. were Army men—-Fremont, Kearny, Lewis and Clark, Pike, Greely with his Arctic Expedition, and scores of others. The Enlightened Middle West Be proud that your country allows you to wear its The 5th Corps Area is especially blessed in the uniform. There is nothing to be ashamed of in understanding of the educational value of the Citi­ being a soldier; quite the opposite. Don't be over­ zens' Military Training Camps on the part of the bearing or lordly, but show a quiet pride. When you hear that Army men have accomplished a great feat, local educational authorities. The State Board of that they have again proved themselves as did the Education for the Commonwealth of Kentucky on members of the 'Round-the-World Flight, stick out April 17 unanimously passed a decree that high your chest. "I'm a soldier! Thats the army I be­ school students with an approved record at a CMTC long to!" for four weeks should be entitled to one-quarter Act like a soldier ; talk like a soldier, and when the unit in military training, such credit to be counted occasion arrives, fight like a soldier. toward graduation from a high school. The State Be a soldier! Boards of Education for Indiana and West Virginia had already recognized the value of such training Recognizing the Allocated Recruiter by granting a similar credit to all high school stu­ The importance of the recruiter's job is not under­ dents who are graduates from one of the camp stood by many company commanders who have alloca­ courses. Should the State Board of Education for ted recruiters in the field. The 3rd Corp^Area Gazette the State of Ohio extend a like recognition, the 5th for April tells of the following indorsement placed by Corps Area would be unanimous. Page Eight RECRUITING NOTES tt The United States Army builds Men"

Rain or Shine the Same discharge certificate of the latter, 25 West Coast Reenlistments All records for enlistments in the miles distant. After a harrowing ex­ Of the 425 men discharged in the Nashville, Tennessee, Recruiting Dis­ perience in the rain storm, not to men­ 9th Corps Area during March, 85 were trict, since its organization in August, tion the damage done to Cpl. Glover's reenlisted, giving a reenlistment rating 1924, were surpassed in April. The of 20 per cent. One of the very good progressive success of the district, un­ records in the corps area was that of der command of 1st Lieut. Logan W. Vancouver Barracks, Washington, Boyd, Inf., DOL, Recruiting Officer, is WANTED! where 42 men were discharged and 118 due in great part to the enthusiastic reenlisted, giving a reenlistment rat­ and energetic work of the personnel. Printer and Lock-up ing of 42.85. Regardless of office hours the men do not hesitate to suffer inconvenience t. BY JUNE 1 obtain enlistments. The following in­ Departing Recrui/er Gets Write-up stance, which is not unusual for the A Good Makeup Man for On the occasion of his departure personnel, is cited: the News With General from duty as head of the Army Re­ Recently four applicants were re­ Knowledge of Job Work cruiting station in San Bernardino, cruited by Pfc. Jeff W. Sutton, 15th California, after more than five years, Must be Enlisted Man Sgt. Robert Surber was given a splen­ Tank Bn., allocated canvasser, one of of Excellent Character whom had prior service but had failed did write-up in the San Bernardino to bring his last discharge certificate. Evening Telegram of May 7. During A Good rating assured the man his tour of duty in San Bernardino The applicants were anxious to enlist who can make good and leave the date they were recruited Sgt. Surber enlisted 650 men. However, they refused to enlist and Address all communications care The April Infantry Journal wait until the following day when the Recruiting Publicity Bureau, prior service man could obtain his dis­ Governors Island, N. Y. Enough copies of the April, 1925, charge paper. At the time a severe issue of the Infantry Journal have been rain and windstorm was in progress, sent all corps area recruiting officers to making the use of the district truck car, the treasured paper was obtained. allow the distribution of one to each prohibitive, as a portion of the route Lieut. Boyd, who had remained in his main recruiting office and sub-station. to be traversed was almost impassable office awaiting the return of the men, This number of the doughboy monthly due to bad roads. then enlisted the prior service man is devoted to Panama, and the recruit­ Without hesitation Cpl. Thomas G. and his three companions, dispatching er who studies the magazine thorough­ Glover, chief clerk of the district, vol­ them the same night to their organi­ ly will derive an adequate knowledge unteered the use of his personal small zation. Thus four men were secured of Army service in the Canal Zone. touring car, and in company with Priv­ who, in all probability, might not have It should be kept as a reference book ate Sutton set out immediately with enlisted unless prompt action had been in preparation for any future "drive" the prior service man to secure the taken. for recruits for Panama.

STATEMENT OF ENLISTMENTS AND REENLISTMENTS DURING APRIL, 1925

Dist. U. S. A. BRANCHES OF SERVICE 1st and 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th of in Hawaiian Panama C. A. C. A. C. A. C. A. C. A. C. A. C. A. C. A. C. A. Wash. China Dept. Dept. Total Infantry 121 208 181 272 175 116 107 148 179 17 7 8 1,539 Cavalry 16 2 19 41 1 17 71 164 34 8 . 373 Field Artillery 55 64 157 181 109 33 17 121 42 11 4 794 Coast Artillery 45 71 134 24 93 44 64 5 44 4 6 537 Air Service 13 73 94 9 17 71 15 121 38 5 4 473 Corps of Engineers 1 45 31 16 39 4 10 31 21 13 1 213 Signal Corps 14 46 30 2 10 5 3 22 16 2 2 152 Quartermaster Corps 16 46 49 21 10 14 24 47 35 8 2 273 Finance Department 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 Medical Department (M. & D.) 10 39 64 17 10 15 "ii 50 31 9 1 259 1 1 26 I 2 34 Medical Department (Vet. C.) . 1 2 2 Ordnance Department 5 11 29 "\2 9 4 2 5 2 89 Chemical Warfare Service 1 14 4 19 9 D. E. M. L "io 51 19 10 12 12 13 177 308 658 821 603 484 338 361 756 459 95 15 40 4,938­ TOTAL Page Nine UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS Discharged Men As Eligibles W. D. Orders Affecting Recruifing Finds Education In Army Col. F. B. Watson, Recruiting Officer Capt. Harry H. Dunn, Cavalry, re­ Having become interested in the of the 1st Corps Area, every 10 days lieved from recruiting duty at Phila­ military service while a student at the sends his recruiters a li^t of the men, delphia, Pa., and assigned to 1st Cav­ Pillsbury Military Academy, Robert with addresses, discharged from the alry Division, Fort Bliss. Texas. Gardner, 18 year old son of a dental Army by reason of expiration of term Firsl Lieut. William R. Ilamby, Cav­ physician on the staff of the Mayo of service in that period, who live in alry, relieved from 8th Cavalry, Fort Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota, decided the 1st Corps Area. This should prove Bliss, Texas, and ordered to Philadel­ to enlist in the Air Service. He did so, to be a valuable list of eligibles for re­ phia for assignment to duty in connec­ with his father's consent, and was as­ enlistment and is furnished recruiters tion with recruiting. signed to the Air Service Technical with that idea. Major Wilber A. Blainc, retired, to School at Chanute Field, Illinois. The active duty in connection with recruit­ young man enlisted for three years. New Hoosier Sheet ing at Ashcvjllc, North Carolina. He has qualified for a course in air The Indianapolis Recruiting District First Lieut. William R. Hainby, Cav­ photography, and until the next class forms will be engaged in clerical work has plunged into the publishing field alry, relieved from recruiting duty at which will acquaint him with parts of with a genuine splash, for the firsl I'ort Hamilton, New York, and as­ signed to 4th Cavalry, Fort Meade. hcavier-than-air craft now in use in number of the Hoosier Recruiter is one the Air Service. of which any organi­ His father, having zation would be proud. visited him recently at The mimeographing is Rantoul, found the excellently done, and boy apparently quite the job is bound in an contented, and realizes attractive heavy yel­ that although he low cover stock. The should have liked to contents are well have his son complete chosen and are attrac­ his education in high tively spaced and ar­ school and college, ranged. Robert is on the road to a splendid educa­ Corps Area Leaders tion in his three years Sgt. Henry Sonnen­ in the Air Service. berg, DEMI, led the o 2nd Corps Area re­ Flag Washing Easy cruiters in April with Major I. J. Phillip- 55 enlistments. son, AGD, has re­ Sgt. Frank Raines, ceived word from a DEML, on duty in corps area recruiting Evansville, Indiana, officer that the latter with 21 enlistments for has a way of washing April headed the 22 recruiting flags with­ men on the 5th Corps out the colors running. Area honor roll for He simply washes the month. them in clear luke­ Sgt. P a 1 m a C. Recruiting display and booth at Victory Theatre, Tampa, Florida, in connection with warm water with White, DEML, on Ivory soap, and duty at Boston, Mass., showing of "Classmates." Mr. John B. Carroll, manager of the theatre, furnished the booth without cost to the Government, and after the run of the picture was over believes that from led the 1st Corps Area three to six months recruiters during April gave the booth to the Recruiting Office. S gt. Smith and Cpl. Dudley of the Tampa office are shown in the picture. are added to the life with 10 recruits. of the flags thereby. o Forest Preserves on Posts A. S. School Courses Lebanon Victorious National forests have been estab­ A comprehensive schedule in pam­ With a carton of cigarettes as the lished by executive order on the mili­ phlet form, of the courses and require­ prize, the recruiting sub-stations at tary reservations at Fort Benning, ments for enlisted men at the Air Lock Haven and Lebanon, Pa., staged Georgia, Camp McClellan, Alabama, Service Technical School, Chanute a contest in April. Both of the stations and Camp Jackson, South Carolina. Field, Illinois, has lately been received. are one man posts. The Lebanon sta­ In addition, the President has signed It has been distributed by the school tion, with Pfc. H. M. Carpenter in an executive order establishing nation­ to organization commanders and charge, won over the Lock Haven sub­ al forests on the military reservations others concerned. station, consisting of Pfc. Edward F. at Pine Plains, New York, Camp Up- o Ryan, by 8 enlistments to 3. ton, New York, Camp Dix, New Jersey, Marine Corps Cut o Tobyhanna Artillery Range, Pennsyl­ The Major General Commandant of President's Cup for Services vania, Camp Meade, Maryland and the Marine Corps announced on April Forts Humphreys, Eustis and Lee, (> that the strength of the Marine President Coolidge announced on Virginia. Corps for 1 lie next fiscal year would be April 10 that the President's Cup, Joint investigation by the War and 18,000 instead of 19,500. 'Reduction of awarded October 18, 1924, will hereafter Agricultural Departments with a view strength is being made by restricting be contested for annually by football to selecting more national forests on recruiting and by raising the standard teams representing the Army, the military reservations is continuing. for men accepted. Navy and the Marine Corps. Page Ten UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS Recruiting Service Aids National have his cooperation in completing a beau­ Equipment for Reserve Officers Guard tiful ceremony. The music for the even­ ing was furnished by the bands of the (Continued from Page Three) 160th Infantry and 3rd Regiment, Coast- Ready-made uniforms and accoutre­ to attract the attention of the substantial Artillery. ments for the equipment of officers of business men and other prominent people All the Los Angeles papers carried a the Officers' Reserve Corps may be ob­ of the community required no little full account of the ceremony, giving the tained by purchase from Quartermaster thought. Publicity of this character, to maximum publicity to the regiment. The General Sales Stores at the following be of value, had to excite admiration for result of all this publicity has been to points: the Guard, and had to produce favorable place the 160th Infantry prominently be­ Army Base, Boston 9, Mass.; Chicago comment. fore the citizens of the community. The Quartermaster Intermediate Depot, 1819 Los Angeles,- California, is a great city. city has become interested in its welfare. West Pershing Road, Chicago, 111.; Gov­ It does everything in a big way. Its The Chamber of Commerce feels that ernors Island, N. Y.; Philadelphia Quar­ Chamber of Commerce is perhaps the since this regiment is distinctly a Los termaster Intermediate Depot, 21st Street most up-to-date body of its kind in the Angeles organization it must have active and Oregon Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.; Ft. world today. The people of this city are support. Benning, Ga.; Ft. Bragg, North Carolina ; accostomed to see big things accomplished. Personal contact with prospective re­ Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas; Ft. Riley, Kan­ Hence, any publicity feature to be of any cruits of the regiment will be obtained sas ; 8th Corps Area General Depot, Ft. value at all would have to be something by the Regular recruiting sergeants' as­ Sam Houston, Texas; Ft. Sill, Okla­ beyond the ordinary. First Lieutenant sisting in the work of actual recruiting. homa ; Presidio of San Francisco, Cali­ Dudley H. Woodin, Infantry, DOL, As­ The plan is to have a tent placed in fornia ; Washington General Intermediate sistant Recruiting Officer, was assigned Pershing Square where there will be a Depot, 21st and C Streets, Washington, the task of preparing a plan for a publi­ display of arms and equipment to at­ D. C. (no uniforms carried in stock) ; city feature that would be worth while. tract the eyes of the civilian. The Na­ Corozal, C. Z.; Honolulu and Schofield Based on the idea- of having the 160th tional Guard will detail the necessary Barracks, Hawaii; and Manila, P. I. Infantry adopted as "Los Angeles' Own," clerks to prepare enlistment applications. Reserve Officers desiring to make pur­ his plan included an invitation to all the Regular recruiting sergeants will canvass chases are required to identify themselves, prominent men of the city to be present the prospects who will come to view the whether ordering in person or by mail. at the formal adoption of the regiment military display. At present the regi­ This may be done by furnishing a copy of by the Mayor of Los Angeles. The plan ment is full and recruits are not sought. the official orders received, an extract was accepted by the Mayor and by the The personnel of the Los Angeles Re­ from commission or letter of appointment, regimental commander. Lieutenant Wood- cruiting Station believe that from the co­ or personal introduction. in was given the duty of placing the plan operation of the Regular Recruiting Serv­ Where practicable, a Reserve officer into execution. ice and National Guard in this work there should visit the most conveniently located During the week preceding the event will be evolved a permanent scheme by sales store in person. Where such visit the leading papers of Los Angeles daily which the Regular Recruiting Service is not practicable, he should correspond contributed publicity to call the attention will become a valuable help to the Na­ tional Guard. directly with the officer in charge of the of the people to the coming ceremony. Quartermaster General Sales Store lo­ At 8 :00 p. m. on March 17, in the pres­ That the "One Army Spirit" prevails as a result of this cooperation is shown by cated in his vicinity, stating the articles ence of over 25,000 people, the Mayor of desired and the amounts of these articles Los Angeles, surrounded by city officials the following extract from the regiment­ al commander's letter to the City Recruit­ previously purchased, and certifying that and other prominent men, formally ac­ the articles ordered are required for his cepted the 160th Infantry as "Los An­ ing Officer: geles' Own." "I cannot refrain from remarking that personal use when called into active Fed­ Pershing Square, the scene of the event, the idea of the official adoption as a cere­ eral service. He should also request de­ was brilliantly lighted by search-lights mony was your own, and full credit is finite information concerning the price, accorded you. from the Coast Defense, Fort MacArthur, additional certificate required, and any and by the kleig lights from Warner "However, it might also be truthfully other information pertaining to his order. said that this is only one of the items of If he already has this information avail­ Brothers' Moving Picture Studio. The interest you have in the 160th Infantry, regiment paraded through the principal able, he may, of course, submit his order and in behalf of the officers and men of direct, including a money order or draft streets of the business section of the city. the 160th Infantry, I wish to express our then formed in front of the grandstand grateful appreciation of your valued as­ to cover the cost of same and give the and- was presented by the regimental com­ sistance in many ways. You have been of necessary shipping instructions, authoriz­ mander to the Mayor, who then inspected great value to the regiment." ing shipment by express or freight collect. the regiment. Colonel F. J. Koester, Cav­ alry, who represented the Corps Area It will be of interest to all friends of Should a Reserve officer prefer a special Commander at the ceremony, presented the National Guard to add that on April measurement uniform in place of a ready the, 160th with a new set of colors. A 22, this splendid regiment was to put on made uniform, it will be necessary for celebrated vocalist sang "The Star Span­ a big show under the management of Cap­ him to write to the Officer in Charge, gled Banner." tain H. G. Brown, 160th Infantry. The Quartermaster General Sales Store, Phil­ .'kupert Hughes, famous author and title of the show was "Movie Land Re adelphia Quartermaster Intermediate De­ pot, requesting special measurement photoplaywright, delivered the principal view." All the famous movie stars were blanks (QMC Form 164), samples of address of the evening. This splendid to take part under the direction of Will­ uniform cloth, prices, etc. If practicable, citizen and soldier, a major in the Offi­ iam Desmond, noted director and actor. he may visit tailoring establishments for cers' Reserve Corps, is perhaps the best Some idea of its bigness can be under­ the manufacture of custom-made uniforms loved photoplaywright in the United stood from the prices of seats—box and at the 8th Corps Area General Depot and States. With his willing consent the loge seats, $100 each; orchestra seats, $10 each. But this is the way things are Headquarters, District of Washington, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Moving Picture Washington, D. C. Corporation made it possible for us to done in Los Angeles, Page Eleven UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS The College Student and the CMTC By Major CHARLES D. DALY, FA HERE is a great fact with respect From a more material point of view upon summer military activities by his to the young manhood of our na­ the profit from this service is almost fall prospects as particularly desirable. T tion that should be known to all. equally great. The participant returns This favorable interest need not be based It is that during the World War, when brown of skin and lusty of physique. entirely upon the preparation of a lad's the youth of the nation between the ages Under competent supervision he lives for body for the fall campaign. The spirit of of 21 and 30 were summoned to the colors, a few short weeks that greatest of out­ the summer camp reaches farther and it was found that one out of every three door activities—the life of a soldier. deeper than that. The spirit of democracy of these young men, the flower of the na­ To these students who either through and fair play are common to both the tion's manhood, was incapacitated .for personal predilection or by reason of other athletic field and the Army. The goal bearing arms in the defense of his compelling motives desire to ground them­ of success and victory are fundamental country by reason of defective physique. selves in the essentials of military serv­ motives in both fields. The psychological This favorable interest need not be based ice, life in the summer camp is of the stimulus of the Will to Win with both cators, who guide us and whom we follow, greatest value. Here leadership and dis­ activities is a controlling morale factor. pause for reflection. It is clear that every cipline are taught. If a man returns The few days spent in these summer possible agency for changing such a con­ with but the one asset of the psychologi­ camps certainly will not be soft and easy dition should be encouraged. One of the cal appreciation of that greatest of-mili­ but that they will bear heavy interest most valuable of these agencies is the tary commands, "Follow Me," he is well throughout life no one can doubt. summer Citizens' Military Training repaid for his days at the Army camp. * * * Camp, and this by reason of the splendid In addition, however, he may be the suc­ NOTE—Major Charles Daly, All-Ameri­ physical training and development obtain­ cessful competitor in that stimulating ac­ can, first on Harvard and then on the ed by the young men who attend them. tivity and man-size job of driving an Ar­ West Point team, coached West Point The college student may profit especi­ tillery pair or leading a Cavalry patrol. for some years and is again at Harvard ally by these camps. In any case, if he is a member of an as backfield coach. Percy Haughton, They furnish him one agency through ROTC unit his value and availability as the famous coach, said that he had which he may set an example of the prac­ non-commissioned or officer personnel is learned more in football strategy from tical carrying out of the duties of citizen­ greatly increased. Major Daly than from any other man ship. The college athletic coach should look whom he had ever known.

JUDGE'S SAID T«ey) HARRA5SING VISUAL U/OODA GIVEN HIM A <-, DETACHMENT 5IGNAUNG­ PRIZE" ONLV HE'S TT ^ INTELUGCNT FOR HIS GAUF HIM A CUP AND AS AS HE IS IT BELOMGeD Iti

THE COMMANDER'S DECISION FIRE AND MOVEMENT Military Terms Applied to Civil Life Page Twelve Through The , Telescope

Uses Bank Ad Space Flannel Shirt Changed Major Robert L. Seitner, QMC, Res., The War Department has approved a Women Support CMTC CMTC Chairman for Saginaw County, new type of flannel shirt which con- The Daughters of the American Re- tains many points tending to improve volution have launched a nation-wide Michigan, has secured valuable adver­ its appearance. It is of coat style, the movement in the interest of the tising for the 1925 camps through front plait has been reduced in width CMTC. Each of the 160,000 members banks. Many financial institutions from two inches to 1% inch and ex- has been notified by her chapter head contract for their newspaper advertis­ lends to the bottom of the shirt, the of her patriotic obligation to secure at ing on a yearly basis, the same amount number of buttons in the front has least one application for this year's of space being available for them in been increased to five, the collar, which camp. each issue of the paper. Major Seitner is a standing rolling one, is provided The Women's Conference on Na­ has succeeded in inducing several of with two buttons at the front, the tional Defense as Peace Insurance, at the local banks to give the CMTC the cuffs have been changed from 3 inches their convention recently held at use of their advertising space in occa- to 3% inches, with corners rounded, Washington, D. C, with 17 women's sional issues during the few weeks and finished with two buttons, and the patriotic clubs attending, passed the preceding camp, the advertisement in- elbow patch has been( eliminated. It following resolution: cluding simply the statement "This may be made either of 12 oz. serge "We recommend the Citizens' Mili­ notice published by courtesy of or of olive drab shirting flannel. tary Training Camps to the American Blank National Bank." people, believing the discipline and training received in these In addition, Major Seitner is camps to be of the greatest encouraging enrollment compe- Things the Army Does Besides Fight benefit to the boys of the na­ tition by offering prizes total- Washington, D. C, May 1, 1925.—President tion, and urge that these camps ing $50, contributed by a local Coolidge's economy program has found an active be enlarged so as to enable at ally in radio which, Army Signal Corps officers say, least 100,000 boys to attend each bank and two leading citizens, year. * * *" to the three boys who between saves the Government about $100,000 annually in communication charges. — O ——. May 1 and the opening of camp The Army handles the message business of many sign up the greatest number California's Sponsor Honored of the departments inland just as the Navy takes Two tablets were unveiled at of applicants for camp attend- care of Government coastwise and off-shore traffic, ance. Saginaw County long and the Signal Corps has built up what its officers Fort Mason,- San Francisco, ago reached its original quota, term "the most complete and perfected radio net­ California, on April 16 in mem­ but Major Seitner is continuing work in the world." ory of Col. R. B. Mason, USA, his enrollment campaign on the The message centre of the War Department, after whom the post is named. located in the Munitions Building, is the nerve Col. Mason was military and theory that Saginaw County focus of the radio system. Twelve stations link the civil governor of California in boys may be used to fill the various corps area headquarters with Washington, 1848, and presided over the con- files left blank by Illinois and and within each of the corps units there are radio vention which prepared and Indiana boys from tornado- stations for inter-area work, comprising sixty forwarded the petition of the swept territory who must re- stations in all. There are twenty-one Alaskan sta­ people of California to become main home during the summer tions and seventeen distributed throughout the insu­ lar possessions and Panama. Army transports also a state in the Union. The reconstruction period. are equipped with radio. stones upon which the bronze The Signal Corps is using this Government busi- tablets are affixed were brought QMC Celebration ness to train its personnel, the equipment and over from China in 1851, the The Quartermaster Corps is traffic being controlled from Washington. ship which carried them sink- planning a big celebration in At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Salt Lake ing in San Francisco Bay"~be­ honor of its 150th anniversary City, Utah, are installed ten-kilowatt tube trans- fore they could be unloaded. on June 16. mitters to relay trans-continental messages. From They were only recently sal- Washingon to New York and also to Baltimore the corps maintains leased telegraph wires, but the vaged. Few Refuse Bonus rest of the system is an all-radio one. o Over 1,321,000 beneficiaries Installation and operation are done entirely by C. of C. Gives Cup of the Bonus Act have yet to Signal Corps personnel. In conjunction with its The Chamber of Commerce, apply for their adjusted com­ radio system the Signal Corps maintains a weather San Leandro, California, has forecasting service for Army airplanes. Capt. offered a cup for the company pensation. To date only 180 E. F. French is in charge of the radio net, under veterans have given notice that Col. N. F. McClure, Signal Corps officer in charge of the California National they will refuse either cash of communication facilities.—The Arew York Even- Guard which makes the high­ payment or adjusted compen­ ina World. est record in the annual target sation certificates. practice. Page Thirteen UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS

Aviation Washouts Railway CMTC Advertising West Coast Man Scores A statistical report covering the dis­ The New York Central Railroad The possibilities for promotion and position of all students who entered Company is carrying in its current assignment to attractive details are as the Primary Flying School at Brooks time tables a full page advertisement present in the other two components Field, Texas, between December 1, for the 1925 CMT Camps, reproduc­ of our Army as in the Regulars, as is 1920, and March 15, 1925, has recently tion of which appears on this page. illustrated in the person of a captain been completed. Out of the officers The Rock Island lines have sent to of the Reserves who has recently been who reported for training, 66 per cent each ticket agent the War Department ordered to take a two months' course graduated, while of the cadets only CMTC posters and five postal cards at the Quartermaster School at Phila­ 43 per cent finished the course. This regarding the camps. Ticket agents delphia. Less than two years ago he would indicate that Army routine off­ was a private in the California Nation­ sets age, for the officers average a al Guard, being at the same time a much higher age than the cadets, yet student in the correspondence course it is generally conceded, according to for Quartermaster Reserve officers. the Brooks Field Pilot Book of April Upon successful completion of his 29, that a young man learns to fly course he was given an opportunity much more easily than an old man. to take the examination for commis­ One student out of every hundred sion in the Reserve Corps, emerging in was killed in an airplane accident dur­ the grade of captain. His work since ing the course of the primary training. has been of such high caliber that he In this respect there is no difference in has been selected out of over 900 Re­ the rate between officers and cadets. serve officers in the 9th Corps Area as Academic failures of cadets are 21 per the one representative at the Quarter­ cent against one-half of one per cent master Corps school. for student officers, and 2 per cent of o the cadets are eliminated for deficiency Functions of Post School in both flying and academic work. The Adjutant General's office is pre­ In the disposition chart for Regular paring estimates of funds required for officers, statistics show that 2nd lieu­ The CMTC Route post schools for enlisted men for the tenants have the easiest time learning Yfrtiiifi m,ir>, t-.ixymi uningio f>e Cituvns' Mili­ fiscal year 1927. The estimates are to fly, majors next, 1st lieutenants tary Training Camp in Ju'y or August? being prepared on the basis of an an­ The New York Ccnlial Lints will teko you tu next, then colonels and captains last. every ctunp east of the Misv.s*i;.pi and north of nual expenditure of $4.80 per student Statistics for officers above the grade the Ohio. enrolled during the fiscal year, 1924. of lieutenant cannot be fairly com­ Agt-s—17 to 31. The scope of instruction in the post pared, however, due to the fact that a Branches—Infimtry, Cavalry, FieV! and Coosl schools for enlisted men, according to large percentage of officers are of Artillery, Evsgi?iew9 atul Signal Corps- Write to llw CMTC Officer indicated below for the desire of the War Department, junior grades. ififormsii'j;!: shall embrace grammar school sub­ . For Massachusetts, Maine. CoruitcticuV, Nt-w jects and, principally, instruction de­ Hampr.btic, Vermont and Rhode lsjrtiui, r.iddress: Dope on Edgewood Arsenal CMTC Officer. Boston, Mass. signed to qualify enlisted men to per­ A most interesting pamphlet on For New York Ntw Jf-rsey and Delaware, aci- form the duties of the various spe­ Edgewood Arsenal has been issued by Jttss: CMTC Officer, Gwwnors Island, New York. cialists authorized by the tables of or­ F«r Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the ganization. One-third of the enlisted the United States Chemical Warfare District of Columbia, address: CMTC Officer, Association as a supplement to its Standard Oii Building. Baltimore, Mci. men receiving instruction in post Bulletin No. 8 of April 1. Not only is F«.r Ohio. Indiatia, Kentucky and West Virginia, schools at the present time are pur­ the Chemical Warfare Service itself address: CMTC Officer, Fort Hayes, Columbus, suing grammar school subjects, the re­ Ohio. maining two-thirds receiving special­ well described, but excellent photo­ For Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, address: graphs portray the arsenal as a whole CMTC Officer. 18J9 West Pershing Road, Chicago, ists' instruction. 111. The employment of civilians in con­ and the interior of the various plants, Thirty days in the outdoor*. All necessary such as the chlorpicrin, mustard gas, expenses paid by thv War Department. In­ nection with post schools for the fiscal dorsc-d by PtesideJnt CooJidge and the nation's year 1927 will not be authorized. brombenzylcyanide, chloracetophe­ foremost leaders. none, chlorine, phosgene, shell filling, .—o and gas mask units. The workings of New Planes for AS this little known but important cog The N. Y. C. CMTC Ad At least 325 new airplanes will be in the nation's defense system are ex­ available for issue to Air Service or­ plained in detail in such a way as to have been requested to display posters ganizations in the near future. Of make the booklet a most handy one prominently and to distribute the these 250 are metal fuselage jobs and for canvassers. cards to persons requesting them who 75 are Douglas corps observation might be interested in attending the planes. Twenty-five of the metal fuse­ camps. lage jobs will be constructed for pho­ Where the Animals Go In the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tography and ten will be equipped with The Quartermaster Corps up to date time tables is carried a bold face box superchargers. The Douglas planes during the current fiscal year has pur­ giving the essential data on the CMTC are to be of conventional observation chased approximately 5,000 animals. and the methods by which young men type far surpassing the war-built Of these 1,879 have been issued to the can avail themselves of attendance DH4's in speed and maneuverability, Cavalry, 1,218 to the Field Artillery, thereat. The addresses of the CMTC having a speed of about 150 m. p. h. 261 to the Infantry, and the balance officers in the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th By minor changes in the nose, they are in remount depots being made Corps Areas are carried in the box. can be equipped with either a Liberty ready for issue. Approximately 900 o — or Packard 1A-1500, 500 h. p. engine. of the latter will be given the 8th Corps The day to start reenlisting a man is The fuselage of this job is also of steel Area within a short time. the day he takes the oath of enlistment. tubing construction. Page Fourteen UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS The Coast Artillery Corps and bursting charge, it was already de­ windy day. The accompanying illustra­ signed, and therefore the production of a tion shows the method employed in this (Continued from Page Seven) satisfactory mount, giving all round fire district to insure stability of the frames. War. Prior to 1917 we had made no and elevation up to 80 degrees, was the The concrete block weighs about seventy- practical progress in the line of anti­ task at hand. This the Ordnance Depart­ five pounds. Cemented in the top is a aircraft defense. The subject had been ment has accomplished with satisfactory substantial screw eye to which one end discussed and the need partly visualized results, and although time was not avail­ of a piece of stout wire is attached, the but no more. Therefore along with the able to produce this gun and mount before other end of the wire being secured to a matter of heavy mobile guns the prob­ the war ended the effort has resulted in small piece of angle iron fitting snugly lem of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and meth­ giving us a reserve of this heavier weapon over the junction of the two frame sec­ ods of fire was assigned to the Coast in addition to the many hundreds of mo­ tions at the top. The wire is provided Artillery Corps. The service of anti­ bile 3-inch guns and mounts produced with a turn buckle to insure the proper aircraft weapons even with the Allied during hostilities. tension. The arrangement insures a rigid Armies in France in 1917 was still in the The future of aerial warfare and of frame in practically any wind storm and experimental stage—light field guns had anti-aircraft weapons cannot be safely its construction is simple. been modified and placed upon various foretold; we are only at the beginning of types of mounts permitting all round fire it, but it is evident beyond any doubt The Third Corps Area Mantlemen and high angles of elevation, but the need that we must in the future provide an able for improvement was still great, particu­ anti-aircraft defense for all large centers larly in the matter of telescopic sights and of population along or near our coasts As was the case last year, the "man­ accurate mechanisms for bracking and off­ and for all important fleet bases in orde: tleman" method is in vogue again this setting on the target. One must realize to prevent enemy observation and, so far year in the 3rd Corps Area scheme of CMTC procurement. that shooting at aircraft is exactly similar as possible, enemy bombardment from^he to shooting birds on the wing, with the air and to avoid the necessity of tying our The idea underlying this method is added disadvantage of greatly increased own air forces to the defense of any given that officers of the Army of the United and only roughly determined ranges and point. This is exactly the same situation States, conscious of the fact that in as exists in the matter of gun defense of the complication of time-fused ammuni­ due course of time they must pass on important coast points against enemy nav­ from the active stage of duty in their tion. al attack, namely, that we must not tie our Thus the Anti-Aircraft Artillery or­ fleet to the defense of its own bases but country's defense, should designate ganized and sent to France from Coast defend that base from the shore and leave possible successors worthy to take Artillery sources was destined to struggle the fleet free to operate offensively against their places. Upon these latter the for accomplishment in what was to them the enemy wherever he may be found. "mantles" of military obligation are to a wholly new field. The developments up One has only to think of the many im­ fall when age, infirmity or death shall to that time had shown that the adapted portant centers along our Atlantic Coast eventually require the officers to pass 75 mm. or 3-inch rifles were of insufficient to realize how extensive the necessary along to others the patriotic burden power to meet all the demands and a heav­ anti-aircraft defense of only a part of thi-> of carrying on in their places. The in­ ier and more powerful gun must be de­ country may have to be in future war. stitution of the CMTC training courses signed. o provides a practical means of fulfilling The first hasty American effort pro­ Standardization of "A" Board the patriotic ambition, in that comple­ duced a crude so-called semi-fixed mount Displays to carry the ordinary 75 mm. field piece, tion of its Blue course confers imme­ with recuperator modified to take care of diate eligibility for a commission in the (Continued from Page Four) Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army. recoil at high angles, equipped only with be of service to any headquarters interest­ open sights and very poor means for "Mantleman" applications are con­ ed in the movement for "better 'A' boards sidered as a distinct and preferential corrections and offsets. These guns and and more of them" in so far as furnishing mounts were however only a stop gap and photographs on file is concerned. class in the 3rd Corps Area and given they were hurried overseas to guard the As stated above, in the opinion of the preference so long as vacancies actu­ most important points in rear of our lines writer the value of "A" board displays ally exist. In the case of approved from the Main Regulating station up to cannot be overestimated. It is a fact applications of boys whom Army offi­ the forward ammunition and supply that catchy pictures cause the passerby to cers now desire to designate as their dumps. Practical tests and a close view stop and "have a look." This is where "mantlemen," the CMTC officer of of the problems involved soon showed our the canvasser begins to function and is the corps area is to be notified at once, officers what was required to improve the the opening gun in a "battle" that may so that the boys' papers may be design and construction of both gun and lead to an enlistment. The illustrated stamped accordingly. A survey of ap­ mount and what the accessories should be supplements of newspapers frequently plications submitted last year showed for rapid and accurate shooting. Pro­ contain military pictures of interest and that the basis of individual selection duction at home was promptly started it is always worth while to gather in as of the 3rd Corps Area "mantlemen" along the right lines and many satisfac­ many as possible for "A" board use. was in the following order: first, a tory anti-aircraft guns, though not of any Pamphlet boxes attached to the boards larger caliber than 3-inch, finally arrived son; second, a younger brother; third, also have their place in the order of things a nephew or relative of the same sur­ in France before the end of hostilities. and their effectiveness should not be over­ Although the need for an anti-aircraft name ; fourth, any relative by blood or looked. marriage; fifth, the son of a dear gun of heavier caliber than 3-inch had Before closing this article it is felt been recognized before we started opera­ that a word or two in regard to "A" friend; and sixth, any well qualified tion? in France, the Allies themselves had board anchors might not be out of place. boy of outstanding character, promise not yet produced one and were still ex­ We have all experienced the difficulties and ability. perimenting so that in this matter we were encountered in keeping the boards in o on practically new ground. Our 4.7-inch place, and the time, labor and expense The day to start reenlisting a man is rifle was found to fill the requirements as involved are at times considerable on a the day he takes the oath of enlistment. to weight oT projectile muzzle, velocity Page Fifteen Proposed Sailings of V. S. Army Transports (Subject to Change)

OR the convenience of recruiters who are interested in getting their overseas or coast recruits to the transports in proper time, the following table of sailings of U. S. Army transports for the rest of 1925 is published herewith. It is understood F that the sailings are subject to change. Such changes will be noted from time to time in these columns. The featuring of the sailing date of the next transport to any of our foreign or "other coast" ports has always proven a drawing card for many of the Army recruiting stations which have played it up on their "A" boards.

NEW YORK—PORTO RICO—PANAMA

Leave Leave Arrive Leave Leave Arrive New York San Juan Cristobal Cristobal San Juan New York St. Mihiel 6/11 6/16 6/19 6/22 6/25 6/29 St. Mihiel 8/6 8/11 8/14 8/17 8/20 8/26 ' St. Mihiel " 10/1 10/6 10/9 10/12 10/15 10/19 St. Mihiel 11/24 11/29 12/2 12/5 " 12/8 12/12

NEW YORK—SAN FRANCISCO Leave Arrive Leave Arrive Nezv Yorkk Panama Panama San Francisco Connections Chateau Thierry 5/28 6/3 6/3 6/13 (Thomas 6/17) (Chateau Thierry 6/16) Chateau Thierry 8/11 8/17 8/18 8/28 (Thomas 9/3 ) (Chateau Thierry 9/2 ) Cambrai 9/22 9/28 9/29 10/9 (Cambrai 10/14) Chateau Thierry 10/28 11/3 11/4 11/14 (Thomas 11/20) (Chateau Thierry 11/19) Cambrai 12/4 12/10 12/11 12/21 (Cambrai 12/29)

SAN FRANCISCO—NEW YORK Leave A rrive Leave Arrive San Francisco Connections Panama Panama New York Chateau Thierry 7/7 (Chateau Thierry 7/2) 7/17 7/18 7/24 Cambrai 8/19 (Thomas 8/15) (Cambrai 8/14) 8/29 8/30 9/5 Chateau Thierry 9/23 (Chateau Thierry 9/18) 10/3 10/4 10/10 Cambrai 11/4 (Thomas 10/31) (Cambrai 10/30) 11/14 11/14 11/20 Chateau Thierry 12/11 (Chateau Thierry 12/4) 12/21 12/22 12/28

SAN FRANCISCO—HONOLULU Leave Arrive Leave Arrive San Francisco Honolulu Honolulu San Francisco Cambrai 5/14 5/20 5/23 5/29 Chateau Thierry 6/16 6/22 6/26 7/2 Cambrai 7/29 8/4 8/8 8/14 Chateau Thierry 9/2 9/8 9/12 9/18 Cambrai 10/14 10/20 10/24 10/30 Chateau Thierry 11/19 11/25 11/28 12/4 Cambrai 12/29 1/4 1/8 1/14

SAN FRANCISCO—HONOLULU—GUAM—MAN ILA Leave Arrive Leave Arrive Arrive Leave - Leave Leave Arrive San Fran. Hono. Hono. Guam Manila Manila Chinwangtao Nagasaki San Francisco Thomas 3/24 3/31 4/1 4/13 4/18 4/24 5/1 5/4 5/22 Thomas 6/17 6/24 6/25 7/8 7/13 7/18 7/25 7/28 8/15 Thomas 9/3 9/10 9/11 9/23 9/28 10/3 10/10 10/13 10/31 Thomas 11/20 11/27 11/28 12/10 12/15 12/21 12/26 1/13 WAR DEPARTMENT PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USK, $300 RECRUITING PUBLICITY BUHEAU C/D GOVERNORS ISLAND, N. Y. OFFICIAL ftJSINESS

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RPB—5-29-25—9,200 biaffiffiB The U. S. Army Builds Men By a MASTER SERGEANT, DEML, RS N a few days, after eighteen years' rearing a structure of good, healthy, service and at forty-three years of sound bone and sinew on the foundation, I age, I am leaving the Army. I am and putting on a roof containing a trained leaving the Army because the training the brain, trained to think, to reason logically, Army has given me has fitted me to ac­ trained to judge men, to classify them, to cept a proposition too inviting to be re­ make allowances for human frailties and fused. This is not said with ego nor in to distinguish the frailties from pure a vain boasting bombastic voice, but be­ devilment. Then it puts on the paint. cause I believe it to be true and want to The outside coat consists of poise and let the rest of the world know just what personality, the inside coat of self-confi­ the Army will do for a man. dence, discipline and assertiveness. The fact that it took eighteen years is That is what the Army has done for no reflection on the Army. Rather it me. Knowing the kind of man I was shows what a big job the Army had to do. before I was rebuilt, I believe the Army Eighteen years ago I was a rolling stone, and its officers are responsible for what gathering no moss, flitting from job to I am today. And I owe the Army and my job, always going but never getting any­ superior officers a debt of gratitude and where. Today, at forty-three, I am step­ take this means of thanking it and them. ping out to take a position with a guaran­ I have found few officers who "talk in teed minimum salary of $5,000 a year and bunches." They are not trained that way, with possibilities unlimited. That $5,000 and so when they talk it is usually to say a year can be multiplied many times—it something, and when they say something is up to me—and the Army has given me it is usually worth listening to. Watch the initiative, the ability and the knowl­ how they do things. They are trained to edge that I can and will "make good." be efficient, and when they do something Today I am a trained man, a trained it is, as a rule, done in the most efficient executive, trained to assume responsibili­ manner, so it is usually worth watching. ties, to carry out orders and policies of When you are told to do something my superiors, to take the initiative when­ there is a reason why it should be done. ever it need be taken, and, best of all, in If you can not ask—and ordinarily you spite of all the talk we hear about dis­ can not—reason it out anyway. You will cipline, about obeying orders and asking be surprised to find out why you are do­ no questions, the Army has taught me ing things that seem so unnecessary to not to be a "yes man." "Initiative" is in you now. You will be surprised to find demand in the Army. out how necessary, how important to For the past five years it has been my the proper functioning of the Army some good fortune to be under the immediate of these things are. command of officers who have all the Every large organization has a certain qualities necessary for success, namely, amount of detail work. Every executive executive ability, pleasing personality, a must know what the detail work is and highly developed sense of fair dealing, why. The only difference between the honesty, and the sanctity of the spoken executive and the man doing the detail word—"and I learned how to do things work is that the executive knows why it from them." is being done. The Army slogan, "The U. S. Army You can be an executive. It is all up builds MEN," is the truest and best de­ to you. No man can be made into some­ scriptive advertising slogan in use today. thing he does not want to be but the The Army does just what the slogan says Army can and will make you into any­ —it builds MEN. Morally, mentally, thing you want to be. It is the greatest physically, even financially builds them institution in the country today offering greater than they ever could have been the best training facilities extant. It is built anywhere else, strengthening them the greatest constructor of men that can or eliminating weak points they may have be found, and in every sense presents a laying a foundation by forming a charac­ bona-fide statement in its slogan "The ter of honesty, truthfulness and morality, U. S. Army builds MEN."

Page Two Army Library Service In Panama By SCHAKLOTTIE STEWART, Department Librarian, in The Library Journal OES anyone ever question what ever became of the books that were Doughboy Literature in the Canal rison are covered insofar as funds have D so liberally given under the war Zone Suffers Strenuous Handling been available and by the use of the col­ impetus when nothing we owned or ever lections at Headquarters. From eight to expected to own was too good for the men by Bookworms of Both Varieties ten thousand troops are garrisoned in the in the service? Years after the Armis­ Zone and are served from the Department library. Readers are served by a branch tice, not a day passes but in every army cers, the ladies of the posts and the child­ post some of these books are used. To library at each post with headquarters at ren, so that a variety of demand on li­ Quarry Heights. be sure, a vast number are worn out and brary facilities makes the supplying of discarded, but to the original gift of the Twelve branch libraries are located at reading matter not one of routine, but the individual posts and are under the American Library Association and wel­ rather a question of quick judgment and fare organizations operating in Europe care of a specially detailed officer who resourcefulness. has the library as a part of his regular and at home has been added a little new The population is scattered over a ter­ technical literature, a little non-fiction of duties connected with the education and ritory ten miles wide by fifty miles long, recreation of troops, but the actual desk a general sort and some fiction, new as and there is no method of communica­ well as standard. There has been a steady work is done by an enlisted man who is tion save by rail, or boat with some of the relieved of certain other duties in order use of the service, though the character more distant posts. There is, however, of the demand has changed from year to to give time to the work. To a large ex­ adequate free telephone service and all tent the interest the men on the posts year as the army has gradually changed posts can be communicated with daily back to a peace army footing. It is a take in their libraries is in direct propor­ from Headquarters building. The cli­ tion to that shown by the men in charge, real war time addition to the peace time matic conditions all tend to make for less army. both officer and librarian. Aside from and less reading and the distance from this local influence, there are also the A Scattered, Varied Clientele centers of civilization leaves one so far demands of the particular branch of the The library service in Panama—a pro­ behind that contact is lost in matters of service, and magazines directly bearing ject which may have a greater interest world interest. However, against that is on the work of the individual branch are due to the geographical location—has been the intriguing local history, filled as it is supplied. Besides the service magazines, developing along clearly defined lines for with thrilling deeds of bandits and bucca­ a rather full subscription list is main­ the past five years and results are begin­ neers, which creates a demand all its own. tained for all post libraries and forms ning to show. By the method of centrali­ Branches Serve 10,000 Troops the chief attraction for the man with an zation of all activities at Department On Quarry Heights side of Ancon Hill, idle hour on a rainy afternoon. headquarters it has been possible to stand­ overlooking the beautiful Bay of Panama Traveling Libraries Popular ardize the work so that with an official —the Pacific entrance to the Canal—with The system of traveling libraries insti­ visit once a month to each of the posts and its fortified islands, is located the Head­ tuted almost three years ago is still work­ stations, the work done can be easily quarters building. From here a system ing and working hard. The Zone is checked. Furthermore the Department of twelve branch libraries is operated. divided into three circuits of four post library has stood as a training school for Each branch has its stations at outlying libraries each. The paper work has been enlisted men who have the direct care of posts where men on isolated detail for reduced to a minimum, and books are the collections at the various posts. Three many months are served, never quite ade­ used by different groups of readers every separate schools have been conducted in quately, but commensurately with the rest two months. At all posts the advent of the past, and now there is at all times a of the service. a new traveling library is looked forward man in training to fill any post library Because of the various branches of the to and the cards are rapidly filled up. vacancy that may unexpectedly occur. service, the needs are widely different. Packages always contain several non­ The reading public is almost entirely en­ Though their collections are mostly fic­ fiction volumes and many of the old stand­ listed men, young fellows from sixteen tion and almost identical with the collec­ bys in bright new bindings. The new years up, with a most varied educational tions of fiction available in the store­ binding is the bait to catch someone who background, but also there are the offi- room, the needs of each particular gar­ {Continued on Page Eleven)

In camp, Darien Indian County, Republic of Panama. Books are a luxury here. Page Three The March of the Mounted Riflemen ENERAL: The order which I The First Installment of the Re­ me. Every stitch of clothing I had on have here annexed will show the was'thoroughly drenched, and in this con­ G duty assigned me by you; and in port by the Expedition Quarter­ dition I was taken with a fever,, which compliance with it I took my departure master on His Return in 1850 lasted several hours; but during the night from Washington City on the 25th day it passed off, and in the morning I was of April for Fort Leavenworth, Missouri, much gratified to find myself able to re­ where the Rifle Regiment had been di­ traveled much more rapidly. Not being sume my journey. rected to assemble, to make such prepara­ able to do so, I had no time to lose, and My outfit was as indifferent a one as tions as a march like the one contemplated on Sunday, at two p. m., I left for Fort ever left for any station, much less the might call for. Kearny. Rocky Mountains. The mules were poor, I arrived at St. Louis on the 8th day May 20—Last evening was very pleas­ unbroken, and by no means calculated for of May, and finding that the cholera was ant, and the sun, in setting, left behind a such a march as we had to perform. The prevailing to a very alarming extent, left bright sky, which was indicative of a drivers were not only stupid, but totally on the 10th on board of the steamer San fair 'morning; but contrary to our ex­ ignorant of their duties, as they had never Francisco, after making a hasty outfit pectations, it became cold and commenced been employed in this capacity before, and there. It will not be out of place here to rain during the night, which made it seemed to have no other object in view to remark that the cholera was not only extremely disagreeable for our party, than to reach the gold region with the in St. Louis, but had spread through every whose only shelter was a common tent, least possible expense and trouble to them­ town on the Missouri river, and in selves ; they were, however, best many instances had raged with great among those left at Leavenworth by violence on board of several steam­ the regiment, and I had no alterna­ ers, one of which, after losing nearly Quartermaster General's Office tive but to take them. thirty passengers, was entirely aban­ Washington City, April 25, 1849 I had men of this description with doned and left tied to the shore. We me in Mexico, who generally made were, however, more fortunate on Sir: You will proceed to St. Louis, out to destroy more public property board of our boat, having but one Missouri, and report to Colonel Mackay from gross ignorance than would case. for service with the Oregon expedition. have hired double the number of good The troops had just passed up the Detailed instructions will be sent to you teamsters, but from the system that river. With so great a number it from this office as soon as certain matters is now observed, it will always be. could hardly be expected that they now under the consideration of the War difficult to remedy the evil. It is a would not be more or less affected Department be determined. So soon as laborious life, and the sum of $15 by the epidemic: I was, therefore, the troops shall be established on the per month will never bring into the exceedingly anxious to reach Fort Columbia, or in the Territory of Ore­ service good and efficient men who Leavenworth, to ascertain what ef­ gon, and the necessary arrangements are calculated for such duty; and fect a pure atmosphere would have made for their future supply, you will be it is to be regretted that some plan in dispelling a disease with which all expected to return to this city, via the cannot be adopted to supply the de­ were in some degree threatened who Isthmus or Mazatlan, and through Mexi­ partment with experienced drivers, traveled the Missouri river, and I co, so as to arrive, if possible, early in who are so indispensably necessary was much pleased when I landed on the next session of Congress. upon long marches like the present the 19th instant at that place, after Respectfully, one. I had been in favor for some a passage of nine days from St. TH. S. JESUP, time of enlisting men who are par­ Louis. Quartermaster General. ticularly qualified for this duty; and It was expected that the regiment Major OSBORNE CROSS, I regret that the plan you have so would be in readiness to take the long recommended has not yet been field by the 1st of May, but it was Quartermaster, Washington City. adopted. not prepared to do so, for several May 21—Whoever has witnessed reasons, until the 10th. To organize the scene of preparing unbroken properly a train and make all ne­ but as they had to come to it sooner or Mexican mules for the road will not cessary arrangements incidental to be at a loss to imagine the position of one a journey of 2,000 miles, required much later all took it quietly and made them­ with men who had hardly ever taken a more time than was at first anticipated. selves as comfortable as their means whip in their hands, and were now in The officers were to make an outfit for a would permit. charge of such teams. This, in a word, permanency in Oregon, or at least they It had threatened to rain all morning, was our condition; and I witnessed were to be separated from the civilized and continued cold. The sky was becom­ enough yesterday to warn me of what world for some time with their families, ing overcast by heavy clouds that were might be realized before arriving at Ore­ and it was by no means an easy task to rising rapidly in the southwest, and it be­ gon, or even Fort Kearny, and the dis­ make all proper arrangements even for gan to rain very hard before reaching the play this morning did not tend to lessen their comfort while on this long march; base of a hill over which our road led; my conviction. This was the beginning but in addition to this, the spring had not here we began to realize the labor and of a long and hazardous journey, filled advanced sufficiently to justify' an earlier trouble which were in store for us. with difficulty and labor. We were soon move. It continued to rain very hard; and to find ourselves on a desert waste, cut I learned that the troops were ten days as wood was scarce, and we had no off from all resources except those we in advance of me, which was a very long means of kindling a fire, the party placed might have with us, and it certainly was start, as my mode of traveling was the themselves under cover as soon as pos­ no time or place for experimenting. same as that of the regiment. If I could sible, without having eaten anything since I sent back this morning for an entire have procured a few pack mules, in place morning. As for myself, I was com­ outfit; but the post teams, being consid­ of wagons, it would have greatly facili­ pletely overcome by fatigue, and much- ered by far too valuable to be spared tated my movements, as I could have harassed at the gloomy prospects before for such service, were withheld prob­ Page Four UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS ably because it was thought I was on highway in the United States, leading overtook at the Ncmahaw, passed up, the same footing with the balance of the from St. Joseph's and Western. Large and by good management were able to regiment. trains were coming in from all points keep with the command, which generally We arrived at Wolf Creek at half past of the Missouri River, on trails inter­ traveled faster than the body of emi­ five o'clock this evening, having made a secting this great highway which was grants. march of twenty-one miles today. I had to lead them, after endless toil and much The cholera now began to make its thrown away nearly all of the two loads suffering, to the gold region. All these appearance along this route, and the num­ when starting yesterday morning, so that trails followed ridges, which placed the ber who had died with it was sufficient we had but little more than our trunks wagons frequently in such positions that evidence that the emigrants were suffering to transport, which could be very easily they seemed to be crossing the prairie in greatly from its effects. They were truly packed. every direction, and, as their white covers to be piucd, as no aid in any way could Since leaving Fort Leavenworth we had were well trimmed, they looked at a dis­ be afforded them ; on the contrary, they met with no one, and our two days' march tance not unlike vessels on the wide ocean were often compelled to travel when was very tiresome and monotonous. This steering for different parts of the globe. it was almost death to them to be moved. evening our camp was visited by a Sac For the first time we passed one or two May 25—The rain fell in torrents Indian, who was dressed, as is customary wagons today that had broken down, and through the night, and was accompanied among that tribe, with a red blanket and also several persons returning, who had by sharp lightning and heavy thunder. head ornamented with The bottoms of our feathers. tents were partly un­ He presented me a der water, particular­ paper which had been ly those that were not given to him by the protected by an em- sub-agent, the purport ban k m ent. which of which was to re­ should always be made, quest emigrants pass­ whether the evening is ing this way to make clear or cloudy, as these Indians a small little calculation is to present for the use of be made upon the their wood, which they weather during the had complained of rainy season in this having been destroyed country. by the emigrants. He When the call was also made quite a talk sounded at four o'clock about the grass which this morning, one of the animals consume, my teamsters was ab­ and appeared to be sent. This man, find­ fully impressed with ing that he knew noth­ the idea that they were ing of his duty, and entitled to some com­ having exhausted the pensation for it. patience of all who en­ We gave him some­ deavored to teach him, thing to eat, and sent thought it the safest him off very soon plan to relinquish his after, evidently dis­ situation as teamster appointed and much to the Oregon expedi­ displeased at not re­ tion, and had run off ceiving money, for he during the night, leav­ had doubtless made up The Command Fording a Stream ing us, the wagons, his mind on having a and but one teamster, fine frolic on his next visit to St. Joseph's already lost their cattle, which they were to get on the most convenient way that and Western, places which are frequently ready, of course, to attribute to the In­ could be devised by the party. The cor­ visited by them for that purpose, much dians, and not to their own neglect. The poral of the escort scoured the country, to the annoyance of the inhabitants. trutn was, they had become discouraged, without being successful in finding him. It is surprising why those employed and were willing to make any excuse to May 26—It was cold and rainy this with Indian tribes are disposed to humor return rather than to continue the journey. morning, which prevented us from them, as is often the case, with erroneous In this day's march I overtook Captain leaving as early as usual. We left our impressions. Here, for instance, was an Granger, of the rifle regiment, whom I encampment at half past seven, and soon Indian furnished with a paper to receive passed, and about six o'clock in the even­ came to the banks of the Vermilion, a a tribute from all who passed ; and more ing made my encampment on the prairie, stream about one hundred feet wide, quite than probable, if he should become dis­ entirely destitute of wood, there being- rapid, and barely fordable at this time. pleased by not receiving some compensa­ hut three solitary trees to be seen. The From this point the road commenced to tion, the tribe were likely to annoy every day was fine, and the distance traveled ascend gradually; the ground was firm, one by stealing horses or in some other was about twenty-five miles. I learned and the wagons were able to move rapidly way. today that the command was not over through the day. The country was not so rolling as heretofore, but presented rather We had been traveling for the last seventy miles in advance of me. They had met with much difficulty with many a series of plains, rising one above an­ three days on a trail made partly by the other. Oregon expedition, but had not proceeded of their teams since leaving Fort Leaven- It would be useless to attempt to enu­ very far this morning before a new scene worth, which had given us the opportunity of gaining already considerable on them. broke suddenly upon our view. We here merate the deaths tlv.t occurred among came into a road as large as any public May 24—One or two families, whom I {Continue^ on Page Tivelvc) Page Five C M T Camps and the Reserves

HE Citizens' Military Training service of that period apply as the re­ increasing number of young men who will Camps have begun to assume this quisite, providing that service was for a seek and be given commissions. T year an increasing and important year or more. It is not necessary that the Applications for enrollment at the part in the development of the Officers' aspirant previously be an attendant at one thirty-nine camps to be conducted this Reserve Corps of the United States of the CMTC assemblies. If he is be­ summer under the supervision of the head­ Army. This is due to the fact that it is tween the ages of 19 and 31 years, has a quarters of the nine corps areas into expected that the enrollment in the high school education or its equivalent— which the United States is divided are "Blue" or final series of camps will be and for the technical branches, the ne­ now being received in a mounting tide. greater than ever before. It is from the cessary technical training—and meet the Some quotas are already filled in parti­ graduates of the Blue courses—who must physical requirements for Reserve offi­ cular sections of the country arid in a few also pass a. thorough test by a board of cers, the World War veteran can qualify weeks many of the quotas will be over­ examiners—that the Officers' Reserve for enrollment. Personality, bearing, ap­ subscribed. Consequently The Adjutant Corps will gain additional officers. pearance, tact and general acceptability General's office has issued a warning to World War veterans who have had for future training as a Reserve officer, those who have been considering attend­ more than twelve months of service, and should he complete the Blue course at one ance at a camp this year, to act promptly who have not yet passed the age of thirty- of this year's CMTC's and be recom­ in applying to the local headquarters and one years, are afforded an additional mended for a Reserve commission by an completing their enrollment. This action chance to qualify for a Reserve commis­ examining board, are also considered. will prevent disappointment if the appli­ sion, through attendance at a Blue camp, Owing to the regulations governing cant finds the quotas filled and no means which will serve to refresh their mem­ admission to the Officers' Reserve Corps of sending him to camp as he desires. ories. The month of intensive training as applied to the general civilian field, the Prompt application will also expedite the will then put them in a position, after Citizens' Military Training Camps of the preliminary work of procuring the per­ successfully completing the work, to ap­ future are expected to produce an ever sonnel for the camps. pear before an examining board and qualify for an appointment as a Reserve officer of the Army of the United States. While the basic principle of the Citi­ zens' Military Training Camps, which will Direct and Indirect Publicity care for 35,000 young men this summer, By Major I. J. PHILLIPSON, AGD, in Charge of Recruiting Division, AGO is the development of those qualities which will make them better men and HAVE often found it worth while to avail the Army little unless the advantages better citizens, physically, mentally, and stop for a moment in the rush of the thereof are brought to the favorable at­ morally, a commission in the Reserve 1 day's task to reflect on the mission tention of the people who supply the Corps is available as an ultimate prize. under which I am working and to con­ money and furnish the recruits. Thus if a boy of 19 enters a CMTC and template the tools furnished me for ac­ Recruiting publicity which includes the starts with the Basic course the first complishing it. Today I am going to ask spoken and the written word in all its year, and progresses through the Blue or you to join me in this journey to the varied forms of appeal stands forth as final course, and demonstrates his qualifi­ realm of thought. one of the most important essentials in cations, he becomes eligible for a Reserve All advertising has for its object the creating and maintaining an army. Com­ commission as soon as he passes his creation of a state of mind. Its effective­ bined with intelligent canvassing it fur­ twenty-first birthday. ness is measured by the number of in­ nishes the drive by which we arrive at This is now the fifth year of the dividuals it influences to follow desired success. Speaking in tactical terms, pub­ CMTC's and the enrollments for the Blue lines of action or to perform particular licity is the artillery barrage which beats course in particular show an increase, services. Recruiting publicity must no* down resistance and permits the infantry which indicates a developing interest by only build a background favorable to in the form of the canvasser to arrive those who are desirous of obtaining Re­ the Army and its activities but also sug­ at its objective. Just as a stubborn enemy serve commiss'ions. For the Blue course gests in the individual, eligible for serv­ cannot be dislodged by artillery fire alone the maximum age limit is thirty-one years. ice, a willingness to perform that service. but must be driven from its position at The regulations require that all civilian The former is called indirect, and the the point of the bayonet, so publicity alone applicants for this final course specifically latter direct publicity. will not complete enlistment. The deal declare their intention of taking an exam­ Recruiting publicity, both direct * and must be closed by the canvasser. The ination later for admission to the Re­ indirect, endeavors to secure the favorable ideal situation is a combination of the serve Corps, for which one requisite is attention and good will of the people for two methods so arranged as best to ac­ military service for at least one year in the Army. It focuses the attention of complish the results sought. the Regular Army, the National Guard the country not only on the advantages o or the Organized Reserves. Previous of service in the Army but also on the Jobs for Ex-Soldiers military service will be counted toward value of the Army and its peculiar rela­ this necessary period of service, or the The Director of Public Buildings and tion to the country. Public Parks of the National Capital applicant may be accepted for the Blue From a recruiting standpoint it is of course if he agrees to complete this re­ no avail that the Army offers opportuni­ has asked that the Adjutant General quired twelve months of service subse­ ties for young men if the young men are bring to the attention of deserving re­ quent to the camp and prior to his appear­ kept in ignorance of these opportunities. tired enlisted men the fact that retired ance before the examining board which It matters little if there are vacancies enlisted men who have served in the will consider his qualification for a Re­ for Cavalry on the Border or Infantry in Army may, among others, be appoint­ serve commission. China, unless the information is carried ed as guards in his department when, It is now possible, under the changes directly to the country and the country is in the opinion of the Commission, it is in regulations, for young men who served in a frame of mind to contemplate it. not expedient to make appointments during the World War, to have their The most beneficial military training will from competitive examination. Page Six Fort Wadsworth, New York By 2nd Lieut. ROBERT H. THOMPSON, JR., 16th Infantry HE great harbor of New York has Fifty Minutes From Broadway, and defenses. In a time of national unpre­ the graceful shape of a piece of old paredness the defenselessness of New T pottery; a flat base, a globular A Peaceful Retreat From the York was a matter of notoriety. Con­ body, and a tapering neck with a narrow Turmoil of Gotham sequently, the State of New York appro­ mouth. The shores which shape this priated $22,000 in 1813 for further for­ body of water are Long Island to the east tification of Signal Hill, this amount pre­ and Staten Island to the west. So closely lethargy which followed the Revolution sumably being required to supplement the do these shores approach each other at as it follows all wars; perhaps it was a grand total of $11,500 expended for all the mouth of the harbor that one thinks premonition of the conflict of 1812. At the defenses of New York City in 1812. entrance and exit might be barred by a any rate, Governor Tompkins of New Conflicting reports followed in 1814, the chain stretched from shore to shore, as York reported in his "Papers" that "dur­ Governor reporting the works incom­ the Hudson was barred plete, Jonathan Will­ at West Point during iams, Colonel of En­ the Revolution. Early gineers, reporting that in the growth of New five hundred men could York its citizens recog­ withstand an attack on n i z e d this fact and the fort by five thou­ sought always to main­ sand, and furthermore tain a chain across their that the works could ac­ door, a chain of flying commodate fifteen hun­ shot and shell. Here, dred. then, at the Narrows The colonel's report was the ideal and im­ stated: "The fort from pregnable location of its superior force and the defenses of the city. commanding position As passage through over all the subordinate the Narrows is neces­ ones and the surround­ sary to reach New ing adjacent country has York, so passage a pre-eminence for its through the historical protection and the de­ background of New pendence on it for a re­ York is required to sort in case of surprise bring us to any account or secret sorties being of the Narrows and made against them; as what is there. In the well as from its own first place, the defen­ force in an extensive sive power inherent in fire upon the enemy in such a location as af­ any direction." Thus forded on either side the natural advantages has always been obvious. of Signal Hill were sup­ Call the harbor a bottle, plemented by works, and you must call forts which from their loca­ at the mouth the cork, tion and design were the heavily wired and considered impregnable, sealed stopper. and doubtless were at The harbor was left that time. unsealed during the al- Fort Wadsworth, with Miller Field plane overhead and the "Majestic" as background It is interesting here tercations between the to note that Colonel Jonathan Williams, who Dutch and the British, ing the winter of 1808 and 1809, some two but once the latter were established they constructed the works on Staten Island hundred and fifty persons were given and others on Governors Island, was the desired to run no risk of unfriendly en­ first Superintendent of the Military Acad­ trance through the open door. Back in steady employment on the fortifications at the Staten Island side of the Narrows, emy at West Point. In a controversy 1758 a Colonel James Montresor, Eng­ which arose as to the selection of the land's Chief Engineer in America, de­ the legislature of New York having ap­ propriated $100,000 for the purpose. location of the Academy, he expressed signed batteries to command the Narrows. himself as follows: " * * * but I This project lagged, however, until Sir Three works were under construction, think I can shew undeniably that the nu­ Henry Clinton, in 1778, sent an Engineer the principal of which was Fort Tomp­ merous deficiencies in the site of West officer to construct a redoubt on Signal kins." A temporary blockhouse had been Point will be amply compensated in that Hill, the elevation on the Staten Island added to the redoubt formerly constructed contemplated at Staten Island; while side, which is now embraced in the limits to cover the workers engaged on the new every advantage that can be attributed of Fort Wadsworth. permanent fortifications. It is else­ to the former exist in an equal or greater Undoubtedly this redoubt sufficed for a where mentioned in the "Papers" that the degree at the latter place." The effect number of years. New York, however, laborers were paid twenty-five cents and which the location of the Academy at Staten Island instead of at West Point began to feel uneasy in 1808 about its one ration per day. The value of the ration is certainly problematical. might have had upon its development and defense. Perhaps this was simply public (Continued on Page Fifteen) opinion freeing itself from the pacific Work did not proceed rapidly on the Page Seven UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS mounted riflemen from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver. The journey was an arduous one, and the account thereof was buried away in a musty volume, only two copies of which are known to be extant. The Recruiting Publicity Bureau, Governors Island, N. Y Recruiting News was so fortunate as to secure the An Army Information Bulletin containing a resume of administrative reports, statistical tables, rules, loan of one of these copies, and is thus able to give this regulations, and official notices of recruiting for the historical account to its readers. guidance of members of the Regular Army, National Guard and Organized Reserves —o- Duplication of Work JUNE 1, 1925 Carelessness on the part of some few recruiters in the field in the preparation of enlistment papers is Lieut. General Nelson A. Miles responsible for a recent order to corps area com­ A great soldier died on May 15. Taps has been manders to take such steps as are necessary to in­ played for Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, sure the proper preparation of enlistment contracts familiar to every schoolboy in the past two score in the future.. All enlistment papers should be years, and one of the "grand old men" of the Army. checked carefully, in accordance with the clear and The story of General Miles' glorious life and the explicit instructions provided, before being sent to description of his successful career have filled the the Adjutant General, so as to obviate their being columns of our daily newspapers in such wise that returned for correction. Work twice half done is it is not necessary to recount them. The Secretary tiring, and prevents really worthwhile original of War has best summed up General Miles' rela­ thought. tion to the service he loved so well in the following o words: Morale "In the passing of General Miles the country loses one of the most heroic figures of the Civil War Morale is a military term. It means the spirit of as well as one of the most potent instrumentalities general feeling of the troops. When soldiers are all in the pacification of the western frontier. As a sub­ united in purpose and enthusiastic and determined, they ordinate commander he received the commendations can easily conquer disheartened foes. Morale is just of his superiors for his brilliant, able and gallant as necessary in a business as in an army. When we all conduct in the many engagements of the Civil War, love our work, are enthusiastic about the business, are in which he was wounded several times, and in the not jealous and contentious, and work cheerfully to­ gether, we can accomplish great results.—Dr. Frank Indian campaigns which followed that war. As a Crane. superior commander in later life he exhibited those qualities which marked him as a soldier of the highest type." Nearly All Banks Advertise

-o It was not so many years ago that bankers looked A Tale of '49 askance at any form of advertising. The daily news­ From Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver in 1849 papers now and then carried financial statements and a vast wilderness extended inhabited only by savage nothing more. Today eighty-six per cent of all the and hostile Indians and visited by a few traders. Dur­ banks in America are consistent users of advertising, including for their use every known medium, and they ing this period the War Department sent several ex­ are unanimous in their opinion that it pays good divi­ peditions of mounted riflemen along the emigrant trails dends.—Philip Chandler. to make a show of force and overawe the Indians. Some of these expeditions established forts and garri­ o soned them for the protection of the California or Ore­ More Telephone Workers Than Regular Army Men gon bound travelers; others rode up the northern There are three times as many persons employed in routes and back along the southern, constituting a rov­ the telephone industry in the United States as there are ing patrol to safeguard, the westward march of civiliza­ enlisted men in the entire United States Army. v: j : tion. \' " / o In this number_t\iz Recruiting News prints the first The day to start enlisting a man is the day he installment of an acj:Q^f.Q,f,,|;he march of a regiment of takes the oath of enlistment. Page Eight RECRUITING NOTES The United States Army builds Men"

Negative News Quaker City Dodgers Do Waivers Pay? With most of us something of inter- Three different multigraphed hand- The Recruiting Officer for the 2nd est must happen before we can make bills have recently been put out by the Corps Area, Maj. B. M. Bailey, is mak­ a news feature out of it, but the palm Philadelphia Recruiting District. One ing a study of the service of certain must be handed to Sgt. Albert G. of them, "Get Your Pay from the classes of recruits admitted into the Barksdale, on recruiting duty at Bak- U. S. A.," is a three-color job, and the Army under waiver. Commanding of­ ersfield, California, for getting riews- other two, "Built a Future For Your­ ficers of posts have been requested to paper space when the opposite is the self" and a combination "Young Man make a survey of their commands and case. The following story, which ap- —Are You Satisfied" and "The Army render a report thereon, giving corps peared in the Bakers field Californictn Builds Men," are each one color. The area headquarters the benefit of their of May 11 under the heading "Lack . work is clean, and the text well suited first-hand information upon this phase of Good Army Timber Cause of Trip," for the purpose. of recruiting. could not have been obtained had not The underlying thought of the sur­ the very best relations existed between vey is that most of the young or un­ the sergeant and his journalistic dersized recruits develop favorably and friends : New Reprints grow larger physically and become as­ "Sergeant Albert G. Barksdale, local Reprints have been made by the sets to the Service. The reports to recruiting officer of the United States Recruiting Publicity Bureau of the be rendered will include the number Army, is worried, he says. And why? . •two folders "Are You Satisfied" .of soldiers below 64 inches, the number Recruits. That's the entire story in and "The United States Army below 120 lbs. and the number of each a nutshell. , , Builds Men." Requisitions for of these below the age of 21. The "Recently he rose at 6 o'clock- and these pamphlets will be honored as minimum standard at this age is 64 journeyed through the business ( dis- received. inches in height, 120 lbs. in weight, tricts in search of good, promising ma- In addition, a baseball score card and chest at expiration 30 inches with a terial for Uncle Sam's forces. A similar to that issued last year by two inch expansion. friend appeared and with that friend this Bureau has been printed, and o ' in his machine the sergeant toured the will be sent to recruiting officers Reenlistrnents for April upon request. highways and byways from Bakers- Corps Dis- Reen- Per- field to Arvin, stopping each pedes- ; Area charged listed centage trian who plodded along in the dust along the side of the highway, and • 1st peering into his face—just like Dio- Cpl. Smith, Publicity Artist 2nd 275 94 34.18 genes searching for his honest man, Cpl. William Smith, at Watertown, 3rd 275 79 28.73 only the sergeant wanted recruits. De- New York, is keeping the local papers 4th 372 156 41.94 spite his best trade talks, however, in full, of- short Army items relative to 5th 129 23 17.83 which he injected, every rosy feature recruiting. Many of these are only 6th of Army life, he came back again emp­ three or four lines long, but so num- 7th 226 84 37.16 ty handed. erous that it is practically impossible 8th for the newspaper reader to avoid 9th 368 79 21.47 "Sergeant Barksdale has some fine them. Recently Cpl. Smith borrowed o opportunities for young men to learn a truck from the Commanding Officer Explaining our Front Cover trades in the course of their service of Madison Barracks, Major John The front cover of this issue of the with the nation's Uncle. Be it to Greely, 7th Field Artillery, fixed it up Recruiting Ncivs shows a float prepared learn stenography, radio engineering, with appropriate recruiting signs, and by Sgts. Louis Norman and W. C. medicine, or flying in the cockpit ol toured northeastern New York in an one of the fast Army pursuit air- Sessions and Pvt. A. H. Hildebrand effort to interest the young men of of the 8th Corps Area Recruiting Of- planes, the sergeant has the appoint- that area in the Army. ments waiting in his Arlington build- fice for the Battle of Flowers parade ing offices. o in San Antonio in April. The float represents the Quadrangle at Fort "He depicts present day life in the A Twelve-Hour Day Army as the 'golden opportunity' for Capt. Charles J. Mabbutt, Recruit- Sam Houston, well known to any who young men who are serious and willing ing Officer at Baltimore, finds that it have ever served at that post. to learn and will be glad to have an pays to have canvassers on the streets o earnest chat with any who visit him in from 6 in the morning until 6 in the Capt. Pulling to Rochester his offices to talk over the matter of evening. He divides the work into two Capt. Lewis A. Pulling, Cavalry, entering the Service." shifts, the first from 6 a. m. to 2 p. m. DOL, has been assigned to the Buffalo : :—O and the second Jrom 10 a. m. to 6 p. m., with .an overlapping from 10 a. m. to 2 Recruiting District, with station at The day to start reenlisting. a. man is Rochester, New York. the day he takes the. oath. of .enlistment. . p', m. Page Nine UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS A No. 1 Recruiter Retire* A Voice from the Sagebrush Adios, Fischer After 30 years' service in the United Lieut. Col. William H. Brooks, USA, Master Sgt. Martin W. Fischer, States Army, Sgt. Arthur C. Seymour, Ret., commanding the Salt Lake Re­ DEML, RS, foreman of the Recruit­ DEML, on duty with the Recruiting cruiting District, received on May 9 ing Publicity Bureau printing plant at Officer at Philadelphia, Pa., was re­ from Col. F. J. Koester, 9th Corps Area Governors Island, New York, leaves tired on April 28, 1925. Sgt. Seymour Recruiting Officer, letters commending the Army on June 1 by purchase, in has a letter of commendation from the Sgts. Harlie Pipes and James Bow­ order to enter the real estate business Adjutant General for contributing the man, 38th Infantry, allocated recruit­ at Miami, Florida. largest number of recruits for January, ers, and Cpl. William Armer, DEML, Of the eighteen years of his military 1924, in which month, he made 59 en­ RS, for obtaining five or more re­ service, Master Sgt. Fischer has been listments. In 1923 he enlisted a total cruits in April for assignment within busy in the printing end for over 14. of 218 men; in 1924, 307; and up to the 9th Corps Area. Enlisting in August, 1904, in the Ma­ the date of his retirement in 1925, 89. As Sgt. George F. Smith, of the rine Corps, he served in all grades up He opened and had charge of the first Salt Lake Recruiting Office, writes, to and including that of warrant offi­ CMTC office at Baltimore, Maryland, "You of the recruiting game know the cer. Nine years of this service were when the first CMT Camp was started difficulty experienced in recruiting spent by him in the print shop. Mast­ in 1922. men for local assignment, so you will er Sgt. Fischer opened the printing Sgt. Seymour fought at El Caney agree that the commendations were plant of the Marine Publicity Bureau and Santiago, served with the in April, 1913, and continued Army of Occupation in Cuba, as foreman of that plant un­ with the 16th Infantry in Al­ til February, 1919. In 1920 he aska, with General Funston at enlisted in the Army for serv­ Vera Cruz as a member of the ice with the Recruiting Pub­ 7th Infantry, was on the licity Bureau with the grade Mexican frontier prior to the of master sergeant, which Punitive Expedition, and then, grade he has held up to the during the World War, day of his discharge. He has served as captain of the Na­ been foreman of the RPB tional Arm y He has sol­ print shop continuously since diered in nearly every import­ his enlistment in the Army. ant garrison in the United Practically every impres­ States. sion that has gone out from this printing plant has been Recruiters Rewarded for supervised by Sgt. Fischer. Bravery He has successfully managed In appreciation of the serv­ the printing shop, has had in ices rendered by them at a many instances to train un­ recent fire at the Crocker skilled men in the running of House, New London, Conn., the various presses and in the Sgt. Roger \V. Hayward and knowledge of the various Cpl. George R. Carroll, both printing trades, and has con­ stationed at the Recruiting sistently turned out work Office in that city, have been which would do credit to a presented each with $200 in first class printing shop any­ gold by Mr. James Knott of where in the country. The the Knott chain of hotels. Recruiting Publicity Bureau Both Sgt. Hayward and Cpl. Sgt. Arthur C. Seymour sincerely regrets his going, Carroll not only rendered ef­ and trusts that he will be as ficient service in saving property in well merited. To those who do not successful in his new job of buying the hotel, but they carried from the know, the Salt Lake Recruiting Dis­ and selling Florida land as he has been burning building four persons and as­ trict comprises the state of Utah and in his Army job for the past five years. sisted a fifth in making his escape. the southern part of Idaho with sub­ stations at Ogden, Utah, and Poca­ tello, Idaho. With a population far Army Orders Affecting Recruiting Recruiters Aid Reserves Col. James F. Howell, Ret., is placed As a part of the third annual con­ less than any other district in the United States, never, to the knowledge on active duty and ordered to report vention of the New York State Re­ of the writer, has this district failed to to the Commanding General, 2nd Corps serve Officers' Association the Army obtain the quotas given it." Area, Governors Island, N. Y., for as­ signment to duty in connection with Recruiting Office at Albany, New o York, published a beautifully mimeo­ recruiting. He will stand relieved from New ARO in DC further active duty on June 30. graphed program in two colors. The Major Henry H. Pfeil, Adjutant Army Recruiting Office opened its Capt. Wilbur C. Carlan, FA, ordered General, now on duty in the Office of from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Phila­ doors to the visiting Reserve officers the Adjutant General, will report on and offered ils services in the procure­ delphia, Pa., for duty in connection June 7 to the Commanding General, with recruiting. ment of Pullman reservations, the giv­ District of Washington, for duty as First Lieut. John B. Lord, 5th FA, ing of information, and helping in Assistant to the Recruiting Officer, relieved from duty at Fort Bragg, general the Reserve officers in any Washington, D.C., in addition to his N. C, and ordered to Baltimore, Md., way they might need. other duties. for duty in connection with recruiting. Page Ten UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS Army Library Service in Panama source of loss as no man is detailed to Magazine material is not available as attend church service to protect the prop­ there is no fund for binding and no at­ (Continued from Page Three) erty of the library on Sundays. Another tempt has been made to collect files. is sure to ask for something else by the post, where much reading is really done, Current material is drawn on, and the same author. Although this lot of books has its books tucked into a small room Canal Zone Library also makes all of its needs no advertising, as it is the best sell­ back of the stage in its fine new moving resources available to the military library. ing argument for the libraries, its arrival picture hall. Still another has a small A system of inter-library loans is in oper­ is always announced at the movies. From section partitioned off from its officers' ation which virtually gives each the en­ one of the posts four outlying stations are club and one has to be satisfied with its tire resources of the other. supplied with ten new books on each trip books shelved around the school room. Recreational Feature Paramount of the rations boat, and perhaps no set The main library is almost compelled to The real reason for the library in the of forty titles is ever read with such purchase twelve entire collections of ref­ Army, however, is its recreational feature. avidity. Only three, four or five men are erence and standard works for the posts. The attempt is made more or less to guide stationed at these isolated artillery posts, Where ordinarily one set of an expensive reading away from low-grade fiction. encyclopedia would answer, twelve are re­ Direct contact with the enlisted personnel and with no other amusement offered, quired. The geographical factor is al­ reading has no rival, and many men here is, however, through men who have se­ ways here. It is necessary to have com­ cured the appointment as post librarian lay the foundations for later promotions. plete sets of military manuals at all posts The system of traveling libraries is so not due to any particular knowledge of and twelve copies of certain magazines, books, but because of some clerical ability flexible that new collections or new sta­ where ordinarily three or four copies tions can be added at any time. that can be used in some other channel as would answer, have to be carried on the well. The only chance to assist in the Mildew—Cockroaches—Bookworms subscription list. The main disadvantage selection of the reading is in the purchase A habit is easily formed of blaming thus encountered is that the libraries are of the books and this matter is left to the everything, good, bad or indifferent on the thereby limited to fewer titles, as the ap­ librarian and to the department recreation tropics. And fairly at times the tropics propriation is a fixed amount. Special officer. must bear the burden. The humidity is collections of interest to single posts are responsible for the mildew which grows also built up for Coast Artillery, Aviation The post library is supplemented by the so rapidly and causes the leather bindings and Infantry. old established company library which has been in existence since first there was to deteriorate. Paste dissolves, but seldom School Courses Create Demand dries in the wet season, making it next an army. For the most part it is made The educational features of the library up of "sets" of obsolete works, of the to impossible to effect the ordinary simple service have been strongly featured from repairs. Cockroaches, with an insatiable lighter novels and of current magazines. the beginning of the organization. In the It is only this year that any assistance appetite for green cloth and sweet paste; early years there were large numbers of bookworms with seemingly no special idi­ has been asked of the department librar: men who had enlisted with the under­ ians in the development of these collec­ osyncracy, but devouring any and all standing that the securing of further edu­ books in order to make a comfortable tions, and that is only because of certain and dark nest—these are among our chief cation was a part of the contract. Classes small savings that can be effected by the petty annoyances. in almost everything were conducted. combination of magazine orders and the Trades, elementary courses, and in some distributing of them by the main library To protect our property against these cases advanced courses in engineering and A possible future for the development of depreciations books cannot be shelved too mathematics were in the curricula. From the post library is in the combining with tightly, else they mildew; nor can they be that extreme to the other where no at­ it all of the present company libraries shelved too loosely, else the cockroaches tempt at education was made other than at a post and in having both adirinistercd remove the bindings, or the ants build too teaching illiterates their three "R's" was by a trained assistant. easily. Every new book is given a poison bath in a book varnish specially prepared the next swing of the pendulum, but a Some Unusual Functions for us in the government laboratories, much better balance has now been struck, There are certain activities which fall which protects it for some time and which and such trades as are essential to the outside the regular line of library duties tends to preserve the color of the bind­ conduct of the daily life of the army are but in which the library is pleased to have ings, which otherwise fade very rapidly taught. some small part. It happens often enough in the tropical sunshine. The blue mold Schools for cooks and bakers, motor that a transport arrives with a case or is also held a bit in check and the books transport, blacksmithing, clerical workers two of measles or mumps on board and all do not grow blue beards quite so rapidly. and the West Point preparatory classes the troops are held in quarantine the During the wet season electric lights of for enlisted men, are those making most required number of days. Under such high power are burned between the stacks u&e of our library educational features. circumstances a request is usually re­ and have some slight drying effect. Old Furthermore, every once in a while some ceived for old magazines and worn fiction. books are re-varnished as often as possible officer is doing a special piece of work And the request has always been filled. and are brushed and dusted in an attempt and more or less complete bibliographies In the dry season the Engineers make ex­ to keep even with an ever losing game. have been supplied him. Our military tensive trips into the jungles and establish Library Facilities Only Fair problem here is considered to be more or camps for many weeks at a time. As a less the same as that existing at the Dar­ part of their equipment they carry with The physical side of the libraries is not danelles, with a result that a demand is them a couple of cases of worn fiction— all that one can wish for. Corners in here for information covering past cam­ which before they are ready to return is noisy service clubs, in unused barracks, at paigns in that territory. At times it has "worn out through fair wear and tear in distant points in the posts, really do not seemed wise to go to the extreme of writ­ the government service." furnish an incentive to read. However, ing to the Library of Congress for biblio­ Even if it falls far short of the original graphic material, but the distance from there is one building, beautifully located vision for War Service Libraries, the and for the exclusive use of the library. this and other large libraries makes this borrowing rather unsatisfactory. It has Army Library fills a place in camp or Though somewhat isolated, still the quiet station that, were it discontinued, would * and dignified surroundings make reading been found necessary to depend on our leave a pleasure. One post makes use of the own resources and what is not available in a gap regretted by even the most un­ rear part of the chapel—a wonderful one form must be made use of in another. interested soldier. Page Eleven UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS The March of the Mounted Rifle­ of them had passed Fort Laramie, and at late years that they are no longer feared men all the most convenient places for stop­ by the neighboring tribes; the Sioux are ping, the grass had been pretty much fast encroaching on them, and frequently consumed. The Platte valley, which in make war on them successfully. (Continued from Page Five) dry weather is generall very fine to travel Grazing for our animals in the vicinity the emigrants. The graves along the road over, had been so cut up by the immense of this post is extremely good, but I too plainly told us that the cholera was emigration that he found much trouble apprehend that grass for hay is very dif­ prevailing to an alarming extent. At this in traveling, and it was highly probable ficult to procure in the fall. The emi­ point we were one hundred and thirty- that we would find it but little better. grants had not been permitted to encamp eight miles from Fort Leavenworth, and It was extremely gratifying, however, to immediately around the fort, which gave one hundred and seventy-two miles from know that we were so near the command, our animals a fine field to range over dur­ Fort Kearny, entirely cut off from all as­ as it would enable me, should I overtake ing the time they remained; and they sistance or the least possible means of them, to get clear of the sick, who in my stood greatly in need of it. getting any relief. It was out of the present condition had become a great bur­ This day's journey had not only brought question to lie by; for, being in the rear, den. me to the regiment, which I had been pur­ we were compelled to move rapidly on to Since striking the Blue River, I have suing with all possible speed for ten days, overtake the command. It was a serious not met with any buffalo, as the passing but also to Fort Kearny, a distance of subject to think of, and I know of no of the emigrants this spring has driven three hundred and ten miles from Fort danger that I would not sooner be exposed them entirely off. Not more than a half a Leavenworth, and I now considered that to than again suffer the uneasiness of dozen have been seen within the last ten I had fairly reached the point where my mind which I experienced at this time; days. Deer are equally as scarce, and duties were to commence. for we had not only full proof of a prev­ you seldom meet with either without The march from Fort Leavenworth was alence of this dreadful scourge along the traveling some distance on the prairie back a very severe one. The rainy season hav­ road, but were actually carrying it with from the river. ing set in, it rained nearly every day us in our wagons. May 30—We left our encampment at from the commencement of our journey I hired an emigrant last evening to five o'clock this morning, and continued to our arrival at Fort Kearny. drive one of my wagons as far as Fort up the Blue River about four miles, This is a part of that great prairie coun­ Kearny, in place of the teamster who had where the road turns off ffacross the try which ranges from the Red River of deserted us, and I found him a very effi­ prairie to the Platte River. The night was the North to the Rio Grande, and can cient man, who earned well his dollar threatening, and- it commenced raining be traversed throughout the whole dis­ a day, which I was compelled to give him early in the morning, and continued until tance without the least difficulty. As far while in my employment. ten o'clock, when it cleared off, and the back as 1828 cattle were driven from May 27—The bugle this morning called remainder of the day was more pleasant. Independence, Missouri, to St. Peter's us up at half past four o'clock, and after We pursued our journey through the day River, which empties into the Mississippi the usual preparation for braekfast, we until we came in sight of the hills which River a little below latitude 45 degrees; were ready at half past five to resume our form a small range that divides the and it was not unfrequent for sheep to march. prairie from the valley of the Platte, be carried as far as the settlement on The road lay over a flat prairie all day. where I encamped for the night. Red River in the British Territory. From which was very muddy and difficult to May 31.—We left our encampment at Lake Qui Parle to the Yellow Stone, it was commonly the route taken by the pass in bad weather. We overtook at least five o'clock this morning for the fort, traders to carry their goods, instead of as­ one hundred wagons, and met one man the distance being about ten miles over a and his family, returning to the States. cending the Missouri River; and there sandy road, and reached it at ten o'clock is nothing to prevent this whole range Many of these people were from Illinois, simultaneously with the rifle regiment. who had crossed the Mississippi at Palm­ from being traveled as far as the Rio The regiment made their encampment Grande, except the danger of encounter­ yra and struck the Missouri at St. Jo­ about two miles above the fort, intending seph's and Western. Those destined for ing hostile Indians, who are frequently to remain until the whole train was exam­ met with between Independence and Santa Fe generally stopped at Independ­ ined, reorganized, and put in a condition ence and Liberty, which are below the Santa Fe, and particularly the Comanche to renew the march. tribe, who are constantly ranging between mouth of the Kansas River. Fort Kearny is situated on the right May 29—It is not frequently the case the Arkansas and the southern boundary bank of the Platte River at the head of of Texas. that you meet on the prairie mountaineers Grand Island. It is garrisoned by a troop Game of every description is found on returning with their peltry; but today I of the First Regiment of Dragoons, and met with a Frenchman who left Fort this prairie; buffalo, elk, and antelope a company of the Sixth Infantry. This are seen in great number; but this year Laramie with two wagons loaded with post was located here as a substitute fi$r buffalo skins, and had been twenty-three vrey few have been met with, owing, the one formerly at the mouth of the doubtless, to the great emigration passing days from that place. Although he gave Platte, being more on the direct route me the cheering news that the regiment this way, which has driven them further from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, south. was only one day's march in advance, as well as the small towns on the Missouri he was the harbinger of unpleasant in­ River from whence emigrants generally While at Fort Kearny, I had occasion formation relative to the country over take their departure. It is very well lo­ to converse frequently with Colonel Bon­ which he had traveled for the last three cated to keep in check the Pawnee and neville, the commander of the post, who weeks. He stated that there had been Sioux Nations, and is also a great pro­ had been many years ago among the In­ much rain between Forts Laramie and tection to the emigrants who travel this dians in the Rocky Mountains, and had Kearny this spring, which had swollen the route to California and Oregon. Platte River, and made the trail very obtained while there much valuable in­ heavy; and there was every possibility The small-pox as well as other diseases, formation which he freely imparted to that it would be too high to cross on our has greatly diminished the Pawnee Na­ me; and I found it, in more than one arrival. tion. A few years back they were looked instance, of great importance, before ar­ From his statement, several thousand upon as a large and powerful tribe, but riving on the -Columbia River. wagons were already ahead of us. Many they have dwindled away so rapidly of (To be Continued) Page Twelve Through The # Telescope

The 29th Infantry US MA School CMTC Rewards Recruiting officers have frequently Additional scholarships being offered QM Animals in Show told prospective recruits that if they the most proficient students in the An interesting feature of the Na­ joined the Army they would have an 1925 CMTC's of the 3rd Corps Area tional Capital Horse Show soon to be opportunity to try for West Point or are the following: held in Washington will be an exhibit for a commission, and that they would The University of Pennsylvania, of mares and colts arranged by the be given all the assistance possible. To a 4-year scholarship to be awarded the Quartermaster Corps. These will in­ carry out this promise the Command­ most proficient student as designated clude animals from the Quartermaster ing Officer of the 29th Infantry decided by the military authorities; the Dick­ Intermediate Depot at Front Royal, to establish a regimental perparatory inson School of Law, Carlisle, Pa., Virginia, and those produced through­ school for such candidates as desired a 4-year scholarship under similar out the entire eastern section of the systematic coaching. Of the thirty conditions; George Washington Uni­ United States. Probably a majority enlisted men who signified their wish versity, the Catholic University of of the horses shown will have been to attend the school fourteen were dis­ America, Washington Business Col­ sired bv Government stallions. qualified in the preliminary physical lege, Loomis Radio College, and the examination. Temple School, Inc., Washington, Two officers were detailed to organ­ D. C.; Charlotte Hall School, Char­ U. S. Troops Going to Canada ize the school and to act as instructors. lotte Hall, Maryland; and the Pace Upon invitation of Lord Byng of The candidates were excused from all Institute, a professional school of ac­ Vimy, Governor General of Canada, military duty that would conflict with counting and business administration the War Department has authorized their attendance at the school. Four o Major General Charles P. Summerall afternoons a week are now being de­ Illinois Appreciates Aid to send United States troops to Cham­ voted to classroom work, the school In appreciation of the cooperation bly, Quebec, June 2, to participate in hours being from 1 p. m. to 4 p. m. and assistance given in the relief work unveiling ceremonies at the tomb of The subjects being taught are algebra, for tornado victims in Illinois by the Brig. Gen. John Thomas, commander geometry, composition and grammar, Chicago Quartermaster Intermediate of American forces in Canada dur­ history of English literature, general Depot, Governor Small of Illinois has ing the Revolutionary War. The de­ history and American history. written the following letter to Colonel tachment will be in charge of Colonel o James M. Graham, commanding Platts­ Clyffard Game: burg Barracks. Fire Destroys Fort Dade "I feel that I should express to you Old Fort Dade, Florida, on Egmont my sincere thanks and the apprecia­ key, 35 miles south of Tampa, was re­ tion of the people of our State for all Sons' Service Admits Alien cently destroyed by fire, according to you have done to alleviate conditions Despite his inability to speak the fishermen of the vicinity. The fire was in the devastated area. Your prompt English language, a 70 year old Italian accidentally caused by the crew of a and generous action in furnishing gar­ was admitted to American citizenship United States rum chaser when it set rison equipage was very fine." on May 13 at Gary, Indiana, when it fire to underbrush in order to was learned that he was the smoke out rum runners who father of seven sons who had had taken refuge on the island. served with the American The old fort, named after Things the Army Does Besides Fight Army during the World War. Captain and Brevet Major New York, May 21.—Two way communication Francis Dade, 4th Infantry, between an airplane flying over New York and a Another CMTC Scholarship who was massacred with his combined sending and receiving set in the auditor- A scholarship is offered to command by Indians during ium of the Engineering Society Building was main- the Basic student in the July the Seminole War, was estab- tained here for about half an hour tonight when CMT Camp at Fort Adams, lished to protect the entrance Captain Harold M. McClelland spoke from an air- Rhode Island, who evidences to Tampa Bay. It has long plane on the subject of "Accessories of Aircraft." in the greatest degree the been abandoned but is still the The plane used by him was a Martin Bomber, and qualities essential to civic and property of the War Depart- the transmitting and receiving set the Army Air Service S. R. 314 type. military leadership. The win- ment. ner may chose between Brown The bomber flew over 42nd Street for about 15 and Northeastern Universities One Corps Quota Complete minutes, piloted by Sgt. Gresham of Mitchel Field, and Rhode Island State Col- The 5th Corps Area obtained with Sgt. Moseland as observer and broadcaster. lege. its quota for the 1925 CMTC The plane carried a 50 watt transmitter, its call letters being CT4. The voice of Captain McClel­ on Saturday, May 16, and was land was taken by land wire to Mitchel Field and The clay to start reenlisting a thus the first corps area in the there sent out. United States to complete its man is the day he takes the procurement job. oath of enlistment. Page Thirteen UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS New Military Exchanges New Horses for Army Alaskan Notes Three new exchanges have been re­ The Quartermaster Corps recently The Chilkoot Post of May 8 reported ceived by the Recruiting Nczvs in the purchased, at the end of the New Or­ that mosquitoes had already put in their appearance at our Alaskan sta­ past few weks. The Write-About of the leans racing season, nine excellent tion, and that they seemed to be large 5th Infantry at Portland Harbor, Maine, stallions, among them Lion D'Or, a The Crest, published by the 11th Coast and hungry. Artillery at Fort H. G. Wright, New sprinter formerly owned by Mr. Sam The fish are biting well in northern York, and the Saber and Spw, the new Ross, a good stake horse in the east waters, according to the same source. publication of the 2nd Squadron, 106th during the time that Man O'War and Lieuts. L. H. Rockafellow and W. R. Cavalry, Illinois National Guard, are all Sir Barton were establishing records. McMasters caught a halibut in the mimeographed publications dealing large­ Two hundred and fifty small horses, first week of May that weighed 40 ly with local happenings, interestingly ranging in height from 14-2 to 15 hands pounds and was the first of the season. written and neatly printed. The Write- have been purchased for the Philip­ o About, a complete file of which was pine Scouts. These horses are exceed­ CMTC Broadcasting •kindly sent by the editor, includes among ingly well bred, up to carrying the Station CMTC, with a wave length other features a section devoted to re­ of 400 meters, was on the air for the cruiting notes, as well as the very worth­ weight of the Filipino soldier and his first and last time at 7 p. m. on May 19. while poems of Sgt. Frank McPartland. pack, and are also of excellent polo A talk on the Citizens' Military Train­ The purpose and needs of the Saber type. They were secured at half the ing Camps was given from an airplane and Spur are treated in the initial editor­ price of larger horses. flying over Cincinnati and the vicinity ial of the magazine. "The pur­ in an intensive effort to en­ pose of the Saber and Spur," roll southern Ohio young men states the editor, "is to pro­ for the July camps in the 5th claim to the world at large that CMTC Enrollment Corps Area. we undoubtedly compose the C.s I. a b c d e / finest National Guard Cavalry 1st 2,349 2,107 1,328 4,400 53.3 1,779 QMC Reserve Blank Files unit in the United States, bar 2nd 5,176 4,910 2,098 6,500 79.6 2,684 none. It will appear once a On May 14 there were 5,448 3,414 5,600 60.9 2,197 month with the aid of God and 3rd 3,049 1,261 vacancies in the three junior a few enthusiastic trooper cor­ 4th 4,929 4,001 2,599 5,700 86.4 5,412 grades of the Quartermaster respondents. It is a lusty 5th 5,740 5,574 2,717 6,000 95.6 2,987 Corps Reserves divided as fol­ youngster and craves literary 6th 4,713 4,566 2,449 5,600 84.1 3,655 lows : 2nd lieutenants, 107; nourishment." 7th 2,251 2,148 824 6,700 33.5 2,252 1st lieutenants, 4,018; and 8th 2,004 1,620 920 5,000 40.0 2,174 captains, 1,323. Army Stallion List 9th 3,544 3,411 1,123 4,500 78.7 2,767 The American Remount As­ 34,120 31,386 15,319 50,000 68.24 25,907 Army Protects Civilian sociation has just published Aeronautics the list of stallion assign­ Explanatory Note :— a Applications received. In order to foster the ments by states for 1925 un­ growth of the civilian aero­ b Number considered acceptable. der the plan for the encour­ nautics transport industry, agement of the breeding of c Accepted and so notifiec in the interest of national de­ light horses operated by the d Minimum objective. fense, the Adjutant General Remount Service, QMC, e Percentage obtained. has enunciated the policy, in USA, in cooperation with the f Applications received this date, 1924. regard to the use of Army American Remount Associa­ airplanes for carrying news­ tion. The name, breeding, paper and news reel photog­ age, parentage, and description of all Depot to Make N. J. Uniforms raphs, that all forms of Army compe­ stallions are given, together with the tition be eliminated. name and location of the agent manag­ Tailor-made uniforms for the en­ listed personnel of the New Jersey Na­ Whenever requests are received ing them. Three hundred and nine from other than Federal agencies for stallions on hand are thorobreds, 26 tional Guard will be manufactured at the Quartermaster Intermediate Depot the use of Army airplanes for trans­ Arabs, 24 Morgans, five standard bred, portation of whatever nature than in at Philadelphia, approval therefor two saddle bred and one hackney. the military service, or for the carry­ o having been given with the under­ ing of passengers other than those spe­ CMTC Approach Through Stomach standing that all cloth, findings and cifically provided for in paragraph 5, The Chief of Staff of the 91st Divi­ material will be furnished by the State A. R. 95-15; and whenever it is clear sion, at the Presidio of San Francisco, of New Jersey and the full manufac­ that civilian aeronautics transport has sent out to county representatives turing cost, including overhead, will be companies are in the position to rend­ and committeemen for the CMTC in charged. er and are desirous of rendering the California a number of copies of menus o service for which the Army aircraft actually used in the 1924 camps. The Hawaiian Outfit Stands High is desired, the request will be denied. menus as printed are an excellent ad­ The 19th Infantry, stationed at . o vertisement for the camps, which will Col. Hanigan Leaves Los Angeles Schofield Barracks, Hawaiian Terri­ be equally appreciated by the candi­ Col. Henry A. Hanigan, Infantry, dates and by their fathers and tory, is another regiment with a good is relieved from recruiting duty at Los mothers. reenlistment record. In the month of Angeles, California, and will report o April 44 per cent of the men dis­ to the Commanding General, 7th Corps The day to start reenlisting a man is charged from the regiment were re­ Area, Omaha, Neb., for duty in con­ the day he takes the oath of enlistment. enlisted. nection with National Guard affairs. Page Fourteen UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS Fort Wadsworth, New York are now inseparably connected with post At Wadsworth one can sit in the quiet history. The chief change was the desig­ restfulness of a country estate and see {Continued from Page Seven) nation of the entire reservation as "Fort over the bay the heart of the city, the functioning is a matter for speculation as Wadsworth." The old fort which had soul of activity, the body of business. It interesting as it is futile. borne that name was called "Fort Weed." is pleasant to go from the fort to the The fortifications on Staten Island, Heroes of the Mexican and Civil Wars bustle of the city; it is good to return however, retained their purpose of pro­ were remembered in the titles of grim from the turmoil to the quiet of the post. tecting New York Harbor and the city, batteries: Ayres, Barry, Catlin, Dix, The charm, then, is in the contrast. instead of being diverted to use as a mili­ Duane, and Upton yet stand in the service In the days when the only fortifications tary academy. In 1814 the armament con­ of their country. were those at the water's edge beautiful sisted of ninety-seven guns variously dis­ General Wadsworth was a native of homes and lovely gardens of old estates tributed among Forts Hudson, Richmond, New York and was appointed to the dotted the hillsides. Only traces of that and Tompkins, the redoubt and block­ Army from that state. He was Volun­ past, transient grandeur remain, but the house, and "the small battery south of teer aide de campe to General McDowell gorgeous prodigality of nature is everlast­ Fort Tompkins." Fort Richmond, named at one time, and later became brigadier ing. It is the possession of all who after the county in which it was located, general of Volunteers in 1861. He was serve at Fort Wadsworth. To see it is was an effective water battery and the appointed brevet general of Volunteers to love it. earliest of the forts in* time of comple­ May 6, 1864 for gallant conduct in the tion. Fort Hudson was another effec­ Battle of the Wilderness as cited above, "Keep Me on the Roll" tive water battery, and Fort Tompkins, and died two days later of his wounds honoring the governor of that name, had received there. Appropriately his mem­ the many advantages claimed for it by orial is in his native state. Major General Harry C. Hale, com­ Colonel Williams. Two thousand militia In 1912 the post witnessed a strange manding the 6th Corps Area, recently from the Hudson River counties were ceremony. A site was dedicated with fit­ received a letter from Port Wing, Wis., sent to garrison the forts. ting rites for a monument to the Ameri­ in response to a notice which had been A good many peaceful years followed can Indian. The Honorable William written an applicant about the comple­ without bringing any material change in Howard Taft, then President of the tion of the necessary vaccination and in­ the status of the forts, until in 1847 the United States, Major General Thomas H. oculation to make him eligible for this United States Government acquired them Barry, Rear Admiral Osterhaus, and year's CMT Camp. That the young chap by a grant from the State of New York. thirty-three Indian Chiefs participated. is thoroughly in earnest about wanting to Adjacent lands were acquired from indi­ The monument was never erected; the site attend camp is shown by the letter : viduals by purchase. The titles bear un­ remains unmarked. The project was "Dear Sir: familiar names, German or Dutch, be­ sponsored by a prominent New Yorker, "Am sorry you had to write to me about cause those nationalities predominated in nationally known as a merchant and my inoculation for typhoid. Don't think backed by a committee of well known I have put it off as I have had two and the settlements on the nearby parts, of the will take them every week until done. Island. citizens. A recent and important change took "WILLIAM WALCOTT. When the Federal Government obtained "P. B. 6. the post two major works were com­ place on October 9, 1921, when the Ar­ tillery command was relieved by the 34th "P. S. As I live 18 miles from Iron menced: Fort Richmond, jutting out into River, it is hard for me to get in every the waters of the bay, and Fort Tomp­ Infantry. A small Coast Artillery de­ tachment is maintained, however, to care few days, so Dr. Tarter said I could kins, replacing the old fort of the same come every 10 or 7 days. As there ia name crowning Signal Hill. Both forts for the batteries and the mine system. At present the garrison is the Third Bat­ only a mail stage running between the were designed after the school of Vau­ two villages it is hard to get enough ban, and stand as interesting relics. Fort talion of the 16th Infantry. Fort Wadsworth has had an untroubled money to ride. / walked out the first Richmond is the companion work to Fort time. Hope this will not be too long a Lafayette, which is on a small island off existence. It has never been involved in an engagement, and still stands threaten­ wait for you, but sir, please keep me on the opposite shore of the Narrows, bear­ the roll. I'm doing my best. ing the same relation to Fort Hamilton ing an invader and covering the entrance to New York City. Old Fort Weed "Vours respectfully, which Fort Richmond bears to Fort "W. WALCOTT." Tompkins. The new fortifications were turns back only the encroaching tide, and first garrisoned on August 8, 1861. bears atop its sheer walls a guide and not The Civil War did not affect the post, a menace, a lighthouse which sends out Remount Figures except that an event growing out of the alternate red and white beams to direct A total of 28,400 mares have been war gave the name of "Fort Wadsworth" the many vessels passing under its sides. bred to remount stallions in 40 states to that part of the works formerly called Fort Tompkins now houses the bulk of since the inception of the horse breed­ the garrison. Its great depth of wall, its "Fort Richmond." War Department ing plan in 1921, the reported foal arches and passageways, its moat and crop being 13,100. However, as it is Orders, November 7, 1865, made the many loopholes for riflemen form a change "in memory of gallant and patri­ extremely difficult to induce farmers gloomy old world picture which captures and breeders to send in reports of their otic services of Brigadier General James the imagination. B. Wadsworth, killed in Battle of the foals it may be safely assumed, accord­ Wilderness, Virginia, May 6, 1864, at the Fort Wadsworth has a charm, a charm ing to the Quartermaster General's head of his command." evident yet subtle. The explanation lies in Office, that between 2,000 and 3,000 The post continued its unruffled exist­ the view, which should not be belittled foals were never reported, so that the ence as a Coast Artillery post after the by adjectives. To the south is the open percentage of foals obtained to the Civil War, growing in armament and sea; to the east over a narrow stretch of number of mares bred is safely esti­ keeping abreast of the best contemporary water is Fort Lafayette, backed by Fort mated at between 50 and 60 per cent. practise. Finally in 1902 orders came Hamilton 'and Brooklyn; and to the north­ For the 1925 breeding season it is esti­ east, so magnificent as to be unreal, so from the War Department again with mated that 13,000 mares will be bred to distant as to seem fanciful, is the skyline 360 stallions, and that the resulting designations for the defenses, this time of Manhattan. Therein lies the charm. giving to the batteries the names which foals should be between 6,000 and 7,000. Page Fifteen UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS How 4th CA Recruiters Aid nel is enjoined to lend every possible aid New York's Best CMTC Booster CMTC to the procurement of candidates for the CMTC." All of us in the recruiting end For several years one of the leading of the Army know that comparatively In a letter under date of February 2 spirits in the procurement of candidates few of our recruiters can make a for the 2nd "Corps Area CMT Camps has the entire recruiting personnel of the 4th success at CMTC procurement. The Corps Area was instructed as follows: been Col. Howard L. Campion, Reserves. men on recruiting duty are chosen pri­ In private life a corporation counsel' with "On February 15, 192S, the CMTC marily with a. view to enlisting men for officer at these headquarters will send every day's schedule full, he has never the Army, and in many instances may been too busy to take time off to concoct publicity material covering the coming not be entirely "at home" in the procure­ CMT Camps to each member of the some new scheme for interesting boys ment of young men for the CMT Camps. in the CMTC or to put.the scheme into DEML, RS, and each organization can­ Every officer on recruiting duty should vasser on recruiting duty in this corps operation. "put out" on the job of CMTC procure­ The latest >(stunt" arranged and car­ area. This action is being taken with a ment. But the recruiters themselves will view to placing CMTC publicity before ried through by Col. Campion—and in­ be first to recognize the fact that the cidentally this was but the duplication of the public. The entire recruiting personnel job of inducing a man to sign up for is enjoined to lend every possible aid to a similar event staged by him last year— three years and that of pointing out to a was conducting a group of 600 boys from the procurement of candidates for the young fellow the value to be derived CMTC." New York and Brooklyn out to Fort from a month's training are scarcely in Hancock, on Sandy Hook, New Jersey. A recent visit to a number of districts the same category. They are two sepa­ shows that the above instructions are The boys were taken from the Battery, rate jobs, and there are only few sales­ New York, to Sandy Hook on board the being carried out, and that the recruiting men who can peddle two products suc­ personnel, both commissioned and enlist­ government boats Captain Fred L. Perry cessfully. Either they can sell one, and and General Ord. The trip down the bay ed, is aiding in every way possible those neglect the other, or have indifferent in charge of CMTC procurement. was broken by a visit to Fort Hamilton, success with both. Those who can handle and enlivened by a lecture on deck on the The following is a synopsis of a report two commodities at once, and success­ rendered by Capt. Paul S. Roper, CAC, functions of an Army mine layer by Lieut. fully, are the exceptions. W. F. Putnam, of the 7th Coast Artil­ Recruiting Officer at Savannah, Georgia, o upon the completion of a trip in the in­ lery. terests of CMTC procurement: Army Culinary School Lauded Following the trip through the Narrows "The entire trip was made on schedule Following a recent trip of inspection to and past the south shore of Staten Island, and it was apparent that the people with the School for Cooks and Bakers at Fort the boys were met at the Fort Hancock whom I came in contact were all in favor Hamilton, on the Long Island side of the pier by the garrison band, which marched of the CMTC. Full explanation was Narrows in New York Harbor, Miss them up to the parade ground. A second given in each case of the reason for the Katharine A. Fisher, Director of Good section was led by the' Western Union CMTC, and. the methods of travel, meals, Housekeeping Institute conducted by the band. At the parade ground they wit­ medical attentance and other points were Good Housekeeping Magazine, wrote a nessed, a review by the 7th Coast Artil­ brought out very clearly. Many questions letter of appreciation to 1st Lieut. Talr lery Regiment, which was followed by ex­ were asked by persons interested and mage Phillips, QMC, head of the school. hibition drills by the Lenox Road Cadets were answered as fully as possible. All Miss Fisher, together with two other and the famous Provisional CMTC Com­ were told that if anything came up that members of the Institute staff was shown pany. was not covered by the information everything connected with the school, And then came the big treat for hun­ folder, they should write direct to the from the class rooms in which the theory dreds of the boys who had never known CMTC officer at corps area headquarters, of dietetics is taught to the kitchens anything of military, life. Mess call who would be glad to give them all the where the theory is put into practice. sounded,, and the youngsters marched to information available. It is believed that "Lieut. Phillips, has a splendid organi­ the different barracks and' messed with the trip was a success, not only as a re­ zation and one which he has developed the enlisted men. Army chow, which they cruiting trip for the CMTC, but as a along very interesting lines," writes Miss had so often heard both cussed and dis­ means of imparting information about Fisher. "We were very, surprised to find cussed, was at last shown of its mystery. the CMTC which had not been done that he has worked out so carefully the While they were digesting their noon heretofore." whole question of instructing his students meal, Col. Campion took the boys to Capt. Roper visited eight towns in in food values, in kitchen sanitation and watch exhibition sub-caliber practice at a Georgia and South Carolina, speaking in general along lines which give his stu­ floating target by the fort's 6-inch guns, at schools and other public places, and dents useful knowledge concerning the following which a trip was made ,to the cooperating fully with the local CMTC daily diet and the use of food in nourish­ 12-inch rifles which are the heart of the representatives. ing human beings adequately. We can­ military defenses at Sandy Hook. 1st Lieut. W. S. Bryant, FA, in charge not speak too highly of Lieut. Phillips' of the recruiting district of North Caro­ work and we will watch it with great Col. Campion has several times man­ lina, made a similar trip in connection interest. aged similar trips to the United States with CMTC procurement in his territory "One thing which interested us exceed­ Military Academy at West Point, and has with satisfactory results. ingly was the fact that many of his been actively in charge of various CMTC The CMTC officer at corps area graduates are going into public kitchens, exhibitions in the armory of the 13-th headquarters has been encouraged to such as cafes and restaurants. In doing Coast Defense in Brooklyn. No man in make use of the District Recruiting- this we feel that the Army through Lieut. the New York area is so well known to Officers in forwarding candidates to the Phillips is doing an excellent piece of the CMTC boys of the past and the pres­ coming camps. work in vocational training. We feel end and this coming camp as Col. Cam- * * * * too that wherever these graduates go pion,, and there is no other one individual EDITOR'S NOTE :—Only one feature of the they will carry with them high standards who has been so successful in inducing above story requires comment. In the in kitchen cleanliness and in the prepa­ young men to take advantage of the great second paragraph the following sentence ration of meals which are really bal­ summer military outing arranged by the is carried : "The entire recruiting person- anced." government. Page Sixteen