WAR ^ PllTALTT Ft* FlIVATI UtB, RECRUITING PUBLICITY BUREAU GOVERNORS ISLAND, N. Y. OFFICIAL BUSINESS CO at UJ A BULLETIN OF RECRUITING INFORMATION ISSUED BY DIRECTION OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE ARMTf ^"• JUNE IS, 1925 WEST POINT FIELD ARTILLERY WARMING UP RPB—6-15-25—9,500 WJZ's Contribution to the U. S. Army ARLY in 1922 Mr. Charles B. Pop­ 15, 1923. It is a 1 k. w. station, operating present located on the Aeolian Building, cnoe conceived the idea of a month­ on a wave length of 455 meters and at 33 West 42nd Street, New York City. E ly Army night broadcasting pro­ gram to be rendered to the public via Station WJZ, operated by the Radio Corporation of America and under his A Canvasser's Daily Progress Record management. By Major MALCOLM P. ANDKUSS, CAC, Recruiting Officer, Buffalo, N. V. He approached Major General Harry :i the final analysis it is the morale The board proper is stained aflemish oak C. Hale, then commanding the 2nd Corps ami enthusiasm of the individual can- color with white vertical lines. The days Area, with headquarters at Governors A vasser that spells success or failure in of the month and the number of enlist­ Island, who became much interested. recruiting production. If canvassing is ments are also entered in white. The tabs Early in the summer of that year, as a allowed to degenerate into plain routine on which the names of the canvassers ap­ result, a series of monthly talks was duty nf a perfunctory nature one of the pear are painted red with black lettering begun, featured before and after by a vital elements of the activity is being These tabs slide across the board in un­ concert of the 16th Infantry Band. These seriously overlooked and must of neces­ dercut grooves. The board is hung on the talks covered a wide range of military subjects and were rendered by General Hale personally until the return of Gen­ eral Bullard from South America some months later. General Hale soon convinced General Bullard that this broadcasting was a good thing for all concerned, to such an ex­ tent, indeed, that the program became an official piece of military broadcasting and the relations between the Army and the Radio Corporation of America were placed in the hands of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Corps Area headquarters. The programs have continued along the above lines since. General Bullard soon becoming too bus}- to care for the monthly speeches, G-2 substituted other general officers, such as division commanders and bureau chiefs from Washington. This plan is still in effect. Among the officers who have taken part in these programs are Major Gen­ The Board erals Harry C. Hale, Robert Lee Bullard, sity sooner or later result in lost motion wall in the orderly room next to the bul­ Ret., William Weigel, William J. Snow. and inefficiency. letin board and is brought up to date Mark L. Hershey, Eli A. Helmick, Robert When we speak of competition in a every morning. It is the center of interest C. Davis, Malin Craig, Merritt W. Ire­ recruiting sense we naturally think of the each morning and has paid for its cos' land, Kenzie W. Walker, Harry Taylor, number of enlistments procured by the many times over in results obtained. and Tames G. Harbord, Ret., now Presi­ efforts of the individual canvassers. Their (Note: There are a number of blue lent of the Radio Corporation of Ameri­ mission, as those of us who are continu­ prints of the board available and a copy ca; Brig. Generals William S. Graves, ally face to face with the problem well will be gladly furnished those interested.) Amos Fries, Johnson Hagood, C. L. know, is a most difficult one to accom­ A white print, embodying the same fea­ Ruggles, and John Ross Delafield, Presi­ plish and we should be constantly think­ tures as described above, is hung on the dent of the Reserve Officers' Association ing of ways and means to assist them in wall in the main office and furnishes a of the United States ; and Colonels M. gaining their objective—keeping them ready reference. This is mounted on a B. Stewart and William N. Haskell. This "pepped up," to use the parlance of the beaver board backing and is operated by group of officers, included among which day. means of small red pins. are the present and former commanders If you and I are competing with each In order that the sub-stations may be of various of our corps areas, depart­ other in the recruiting field it follows that kept in touch with the production situa­ ments, and war time divisions, as well as we are intensely interested in our rela­ tion a form is made up covering each ten The Adjutant General, the chiefs of most tive standing from day to day. If you are day period and a copy sent out to each of our branches and the Commandant of leading by one man or so isn't it natural out of town canvasser. This form list- cadets at West Point has given through that I should go out and "scratch gravel" all the canvassers and stations, the num­ the courtesy of WJZ, the population of just a trifle harder? Herein lies the ber of applicants brought in by each, the the Eastern coast of the United States a psychology of competition. number accepted, those enlisted, those re­ better appreciation of what the Army In order to take advantage of this truth jected for physical or other causes, elope­ means to America in time of peace as the "Recruiting Canvassers' Daily Prog­ ments, declinations, failures to report, etc. well as in war. ress Board" has been devised for use in Although this daily production activity Station WJZ is the second oldest broad­ this district. It consists of a finished involves a little extra work it is felt that casting station in the United States, being board, 30 inches by 40 inches, on which the results obtained warrant its embodi­ first erected early in 1921 at Newark, appear the names of canvassers, the days ment in the routine administration of the N. J., moving to New York City on May of the month and number of enlistments. office. Page Tzvo The Flag of the United States ITH a very few exceptions, the Developed Through Nearly A Cen­ the soldiers of the three counties took Stars and stripes is the oldest part in King Phillip's Indian War, and it W national standard and ensign in tury and A Half of Conflict was carried to Concord by the Minute the world. That of Denmark, the colors of and Progress Men of Bedford on the fateful morning Savoy, a red swallow-tailed flag with a of the 19th of April, 1775, in response to white cross, was adopted in 1219, and is the cry of Paul Revere, "The British are the oldest of European national flags. Massachusetts until 1635 as the accepted Coming!" The second in order of age in Europe is standard of the Puritans. In November, Other flags there were, especially the flag of Switzerland, a red field with a 1634, complaint was recorded that John through the early days of the Revolution. white Greek cross, adopted in the 17th Endicott had defaced the English ensign The most notable of these were the varie­ century. In 1698, Peter the Great of at Salem. Endicott, a court assist­ ties of the pine-tree flag, some of which Russia established the Order of St. An­ ant, hid cut out with his sword a part bore the motto, "An Appeal to Heaven," drew, the symbol of the patron saint of of the red cross in the flag hanging be­ the rattlesnake flag and an improvised that country, an X-like cross of blue fore the governor's gate, declaring that it ensign raised over Fort Johnson, South which has been placed on a great variety savored of popery. For this insult tu Carolina, after the place had been cap­ of flags. the king's colors he was removed from tured in resistance to the Stamp Act. The standard of Spain was established office and disqualified to hold any public Under the latter flag, a blue field with in 1785; the tri-color of France in 1794; of lice fur one year. three white crescents—one for each com­ the standard of Great Britain, a blue field Endicott was not without sympathizers. pany of the volunteer force which took bearing the conjoined crosses of St. Soon after some of the militia refused to Fort Johnson—the Declaration of In­ George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick, in march under the symbol that to them was dependence was proclaimed to the people 1801. Portugal's national flag came into idolatrous. A grave controversy followed un August 8, 1776. being in 1815, the ensign of the German which was not concluded until December, The origin of the flag with thirteen al­ Empire in 1871, that of the United King­ 1635, when the military commissioners ternate red and white stripes, represent­ dom of Italy in 1861, and the flag of the designated colors for each company, leav­ ing the United Colonies, with the sub­ Netherlands. 1806, in which year it was ing out the red cross in all of them. It joined crosses of St. Andrew and St. last changed. was summarily agreed that the king's George in a blue field, which was raised The national ensigns of China and colors should be displayed from ships on Prospect Hill, Cambridge, on the first Japan had their origin at a more remote and from Castle Island, Boston, the lat­ day of January, 1776, has never been offi­ period than those of any other nation now ter belonging to the king, and this flag cially determined.