WAR DEPARTMENT PENALTY FOR PRIVATE US* , $300 RECRUITING PUBLICITY BUREAU GOVERNORS ISLAND, N. Y. 2: OFFICIAL BUSINESS &r " CO ' J W O 2 O < X id O CO ­ o o£ — o -> =5 >• Q: S A BULLETIN OF RECRUITING INFORMATION ISSUED BY DIRECTION OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE ARMY Qi LLI Ui < 00 > QS- < CQ .-J UJ MAY 15, 1925 H o u- Major General W. H. Johnston presenting Certificates of Proficiency to Post School Graduates at Camp Lewis, Washington 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.