16th Infantry Recruiting Campaign The 16th Infantry has completed a week's campaign for recruits. The entire regiment was placed on recruiting duty from January 2 to 5, inclusive, in the city of New York. An attractive poster was designed and each company had ten bulletin boards displaying this poster. The city was divided into company sec*ors, company headquarters were established at a strategic point in the sector. Daily bulletins were published giving the results of the previous day's work. Prior to starting out each morning, a conference of all officers was held in the office of the Recruiting Officer of the regiment. At this meeting, instructions were issued on the day's work and variparts of the work co-ordinated.

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Murray Hulbert, acting for Mayor Hylan. In addition to reaching the large crowd which quickly gathered, a great deal of publicity was obtained in the newspapers and pictorial sections of the papers. The moving pictures were also taken by the various news-moving picture firms for early release in the theaters of the city.

Though the weather was extremely inclement most of the week, the recruiting parties secured 64 recruits and there are yet a number of. ap

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Recruiting In the Fourth Corps Area During December, 1922

The last month of the old year finds recruiting on the boom in the Fourth Corps Area. New territory is being developed and increases are being shown in the number of recruits obtained. For the month of December a total of 436 were enlisted. Sergeant Aaron Winn of the D. E. M. L., stationed at Dublin, Ga., a substation of Fort Benning, Ga., was the leader of the Star Recruiters with a total of 21 enlisted recruits for the month of December. This is a very good record and one of which Sergt. Winn should be very proud particularly in view of the fact that his quotas were limited to known vacancies at Fort Benning, only.

Cpl. Coan of the D. E. M. L., working out of Fort McPherson, Ga., was second on the honor roll with seventeen men to his credit. Pvt. 1st CI. William G. Turner at Birmingham, secured 16 enlistments while Cpl. Aler and Cpl. McKibbon of the Fort Screven district, each secured ten recruits during the month of December.

On the afternoon of January 2, the commanding officer made a short address over the American Telephone & Telegraph Company's radio broadcasting station, in which he gave a brief history of the regiment, and also explained the Recruiting Campaign and made a talk for recruits. His address was made during an intermission in a concert given by the regimental band. Before the band had finished its program, requests began to come in by telephone for them to play certain pieces. So it was quickly demonstrated that both the address and the concert were reaching the public.

Wednesday afternoon, January 3. at 2 o'clock, the regiment, band and colors, assembled in front of the City Hall. All organizations brought their bulletin boards, posters, etc. The regiment was formed on three sides of a square and was addressed by President of the Board of Aldermen,

plicants waiting on various certificates before they can be sworn in. In a preliminary campaign the previous two weeks by a small detachment from Company "C," 16 recruits were sworn in. The total recruits secured by both campaigns was 80.

The recruiting has not closed but is being continued by a specially selected group of the best recruiters of the regiment. Every effort is to be made to fill the regiment to authorized strength and keep it there.

Detailed results by companies for both campaigns are: C Co., 18; B Co., 15; A Co., 7; E Co., 7; Hq. Co., 5; Serv. Co., 5; D Co., 4; F Co., 3;

Encouraging Re-enlistments Thirty-three per cent of the men discharged in the Seventh Corps reenlisted during the month of December, but the Corps Area Commander, Gen Duncan, thinks this percentage too small and has addressed a letter to station commanders urging further action toward securing re-enlistments. General Duncan says that the 33 per cent is the lowest number of re-enlistments for several months.

500 For January is Goal For First Corps Area

Five hundred for January is the goal set by the First Corps Area Recruiting Officer. 281 enlistments were reported for December in that area, Boston leading the list with 86 enlistments.

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25 a Day In Second Corps Area Twenty-five recruits a day is the record of the Second Corps Area under Maj. H. H. Fletcher, corps area recruiting officer. Rochester was in the lead for the month of December and the total for December was 523 enlistments.

First Cavalry Division Has 1413

Recruits For the Year

One thousand four hundred and thirteen recruits for the year for organizations of the First Cavalry Division, stationed at Fort Bliss, is announced in a circular dated January 1. Thirty-five men were enlisted for the division during the holiday week, ending December 30.

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Recruiting For Second Infantry

The Second Infantry, Fort Brady, Mich., has begun an intensive recruiting campaign. For each accepted enlistment for that organization the regimental commander is giving a five-day furlough to the soldier who brings in the applicant. "On the same day that the announcement was made," says the Fort Brady News, "Private Bruzek of the Service Detachment, brought in three applicants, two of whom were accepted, thus entitling him to 10 days' furlough."

Seeks Ethan Allen Papers. A broadside issued by Ethan Allen in 1774, commanding Captain Micah Vail of Danby to raise troops to guard Vermont interests against an invasion of New Yorkers, has been made the basis of a lawsuit in the Rutland County Court.

L. J. Farris of Danby has brought action against J. B. Wilbur of Manchester to recover possession of the document, which he says is his property. The value of the "broadside" is placed at $3,000. Part of the document is said to be in Ethan Allen's

Fourth Infantry Recruiting

The recruiting methods of the 4th Infantry commanded by Colonel C. C. Ballou continue to bring in gratifying results. During November this regiment secured 121 enlistments from the city of Spokane, Washington, which has a population of little more than 100,000. During the first 8 days of December these recruiters produced 45 enlistments. In proportion to the population to draw from it is believed that these figures are hard to beat. The expense of this recruiting is almost ni inasmuch as no office is maintained except at Post Headquarters, which is of interest in view of the previous recruiting cost in this section.

Kansas City Putting on Drive

During January, special effort is being made at Kansas City, says Lieut. T. E. Whitehead, in charge of the station, to secure men for the Second Cavalry at Fort Riley, for the Service Company at the General Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth and for the United States Disciplinary Barracks guard at Fort Leavenworth. The high recruiter at Kansas City for December was Sergt. Wisener, with 14 accepted enlistments. Sergt. Skirk was next with 11 and Sergt. Bridges and Cpl. Read has 10 each. The total enlistments at the station for December ran 75.

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Eleventh Infantry Has Good Plan

The Eleventh Infantry, stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., has inaugurated a splendid organization recruiting plan. Selected soldiers in the organization are given furloughs to visit towns in the vicinity of Indianapolis and for each recruit accepted the recruiter is paid commutation of rations at the rate of $1.20 a day for six days. In order to draw commutation of rations for the total of 30 days the furloughed canvasser is required to forward to his regiment five accepted recruits.

Capt. Stanley G. Saulnier has been designated as recruiting officer for the Eleventh Infantry and he is now working in conjunction with Capt. John J. Wilson, recruiting officer at

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Recruits in Fifth Corps Twenty recruits for the month of December is the record of Sgt. William A. Hart, D. E. M. L., at Columbus Ohio, in the Fifth Corps Area. The Fifth Corps did well in the month, having a total of 535 enlistments to its credit, divided by stations, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 200; Fort Thomas, 164; Fort Hayes (Columbus), 116. D. E. M. L. men who recruited 10 or more men during the month, follows:

Sgt. William A. Hart, R. S., Columbus, Ohio, 20; Cpl. Coleman W. Lutes, R. S., Indianapolis, Ind., 19; Sgt. Harlie C. Sylvester, R. S., Indianapolis, Ind., 18; Sgt. Clayton A. Blake, R. S., Indianapolis, Ind., 16; Cpl. Frank Raines, R. S., Indianapolis, Ind., 14; Sgt. William Powers. R. S., Cincinnati, Ohio, 14; Sgt. Elmer Stitzel, R. S., Indianapolis, Ind.. 13, and Cpl. Hector S. Cameron, R. S., Columbus, Ohio, 12.

24 Recruits For December Record In Des Moines District

Lieut. E. A. Niblack, Third Field Artillery, recruiting officer at Des Moines, Iowa, writes that the record for number of recruits secured during December was broken by Sergt. Daniel J. Cremens, who forwarded to the post of Des Moines 47 applicants, 24 of whom were actually enlisted. Sergt. Cremen's record for the past four months reads: September. 9 accepted applicants; October 9, November 15, and December 24, a record that is rarely equalled. Lieut. Niblack, commenting, says that Sergt. Cremens' success is mainly due to the fact that he is everlastingly on the job, that he is energetic, loyal, courteous, and is well versed in what the Service has to offer. Among other things. Lieut. Niblack says that Sergt. Cremens never misses an opportunity to talk to a man and can stop any of them without embarrass

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88th Division Has Bulletin. The 88th Division Bulletin is among the most valuable and interesting of our exchanges. It is published in the interest of the

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Recruiting

O maintain a steady and healthy recruitment for an organization some definite plan for recruiting should be adopted and then followed. full One-third of the strength of an organization should be enlisted for three year periods each year and those equally divided into monthly quotas as per following table:

An organization which falls below its monthly quota of recruits is considered unsatisfactory in its recruiting.

This following plan of recruitment is offered as a suggestion for the following reasons:

(a) Affords a definite objective to be reached each month.

(b) After the necessary number have been enlisted, no further worry about recruiting for the month. Additional men who wish to enlist during the month would of course be enlisted. Enlist desirable men at any time.

GRADUAL ACQUISITION OF MEN

(c) A gradual acquisition and absorbtion of recruits without lowering the military efficiency of the organization as is the case when a large number of recruits are cbtained through a drive of short duration.

(d) A gradual loss by expiration of enlistments without seriously impairing the efficiency of the organization.

(e) Company commanders will positively know that the recruitment of their commands is satisfactory.

(f) No necessity for special recruit drives which have objectionable features, such as:

tering at one time lowers the efficiency of the company temporarily.

5. Loss of large numbers of men sometimes many of whom have become non-commissioned officers, three years later, with resultant reduced efficiency many times amounting to a re-organization of the com

pany.

(g) Maintains a steady and healthy organization.

(h) Insures more care being taken in equipment of recruits, which will give them the right start and save trouble for the Captain later on.

PLAN HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL

(i) It gets results. This plan was faithfully followed by the writer as a company commander with the result that in one year a company of 55 men reached a strength of 96. This plan of course cannot be adopted in its entirety unless an organization is at its full strength, but it can be followed in principle, by an organization which is at present under strength by its making an effort to obtain as many enlistments as possible over the monthly quota until full strength is attained and then faithfully follow its plan to enlist its quota each month, never falling below its monthly quota if it can be avoided, which should seldom occur in good organizations.

Re-enlistments for one year, gain of men by transfer or one year enlistments by ex-service men of the United States Army should not be considered in the monthly objective to be attained, as such enlistments plus enlistments in excess of monthly quotas of three year men should offset losses by desertion, transfer and discharges before expiration of term of enlistment.

The following table shows enlisted strength expected to be attained without material delay and in any case by October 1, 1922, adopting any plan desired. The plan outlined in preceding paragraphs merely being a suggestion, however, it is the method used at these headquarters in rating companies on recruiting:

URGED TO MAINTAIN HIGH STANDARD

It is desired that the necessary numbers shall be attained without any lowering of the physical or moral standards of recruits. The minimum specifications are to be regarded as the minimum and not as the standard. A large majority of recruits should exceed the standard and men at or near the minimum should be rarely accepted and then only for special reasons. Once the company is at full strength the minimum required of recruits should be raised accordingly with a view toward raising the standard of the entire organization.

It must be remembered that men enlist for the most part for the purpose of becoming soldiers. In the organizations where the officers and non-commissioned officers are studious, zealous and efficient and impart careful and thorough instruction and discipline, there is seldom any difficulty in recruiting. Games, amusements, athletics, sports and social functions are important factors in building up and maintaining an efficient organization but those in themselves are not sufficient, there must be efficient work on the part of the officers and non-commissioned officers in addition. Experience has peatedly shown this to be a fact.

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OUTLOOK FOR 1923

Secretary of War Reviews Work of War Department

BY JOHN W. WEEKS,
Secretary of War.

The opening of the year 1922 found the War Department faced with the double task of completing the transformation of our wartime organization to a peace basis and executing the requirements of the new military policy which was expressed by Congress in the National Defense Act of 1920. The energies of the department have accordingly been occupied, on the one hand with such matters as the disposal of surplus property, war cantonments and camps, the adjustment of war claims, and the reinterment of our fallen soldiers; and on the other hand with completing the organization and promoting the training of the Regular Army, pushing both organization and training in the National Guard, beginning the organization of the authorized reserves, and related activities such as the development of the units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and of the Citizens' Military Training Camps. The result of the year's activity is that we have practically completed the task of returning to a peace basis, and the initiation of the new policy is well under way and needs only continued support to achieve the purposes of the act.

The Defense act of 1920 was the result of America's lessons in the World War and offers a solution of the national defense problem which is effective and yet fully in accord with our peaceful democratic ideals. As wartime activities have been concluded the attention given by the department to plans for our future national security has been increased. It has been encouraging to observe the enthusiasm with which the average citizen has co-operated in this work. There are continual fresh indications that a large majority of our citizens approve of this Defense act which was enacted after such careful study by Congress and that never again will the public approve of that attitude of rash negligence which character

spite of the rather stringent economical situation which has faced our country, it is becoming apparent that the average citizen recognizes national defense as a legitimate object for expenditures and that the dangerous legislative cuts into our military establishment which have characterized the past year, are not indicative of a permanent national policy.

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At the opening of the the Regular Army had already reached a dangerous point with a total approximate strength of but 13,000 officers and 137,700 enlisted men. Under the pressure of economy this figure has been brought down, at the close of the year, to approximately 12,000 officers and 121,600 enlisted men, which is not much greater than the figure of impotence which was determined by the Allied Powers for Germany. The organization of the National Guard has been correspondingly delayed and the project for the organized reserves handicapped, both by shortage of appropriations and available personnel from the Regular Army.

It is to me a considerable encouragement that when we can look ahead into what now seems likely to become a very critical period, with a feeling of assurance that in this one direction, at least, the American people have the intention to support as a continued policy the excellent basic legislation which their representatives have so wisely designed.

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Uses Recruiting News on Bulletin Board

Major J. B. Pate on duty as P. M. S. & T. at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College uses the Recruiting News as a medium for disseminating information to the R. O. T. C. unit at Stillwater. The idea is a good one and is passed along.

Requesting that he be furnished with two copies of the News Major Pate says:

"I clip a great many of your articles and post them on the R. O. T. C. bulletin board, but cannot post those printed on both sides of the same sheet.

"The cadets are greatly interested in these clippings and I should like

NEW SPORT BODY

Has Indorsement of the War Department

Delegates from various sections of the country, attending the first annual convention of the newly formed National Amateur Athletic Federation of America at New York, December 28, elected officers, passed upon the rules governing various sports, appointed various commissions to carry on the work of the federation, adopted a point-scoring system for athletic contests and standards concerning physical ability measurements, and arranged a tentative budget for the coming year.

Colonel Henry Breckinridge, former Assistant Secretary of War and now president of the organization who presided at the meeting, and various other speakers laid great emphasis on the fact that the federation is not a controlling body in any sense of the word, explaining that it is composed of self-governing agencies none of which loses any of its local authority or responsibility by coming into the organization. The federation is simply a voluntary grouping together of experienced units for the purposes of stimulating wider interest in physical recreation for the average individual through intelligent, friendly co-operation of standardized methods.

Following the report of the Nominating Committee the following officers of the organization were elected for the coming year: Honorary President, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States; Honorary Vice Presidents, John W. Weeks, Secretary of War; Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, and Colonel Robert M. Thompson, President of the American Olympic Association; President. Henry Breckinridge; Vice Presidents. Julian S. Myrick, President of the United States Lawn Tennis Association; General Palmer E. Pierce, President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, President of the Girl Scouts: Executive Officer, Elwood S. Brown.

Secretary Weeks has indorsed the new body and says, "the War Department will be glad to co-operate

The following will be on the committee:

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Lt. Col. Harry P. Ward, Infantry, O. R. C., Fifth Corps Area (Hamilton, Ohio); Lt. Col. G. G. Reiniger, General Staff, Personnel Division, Fourth Corps Area (Ashville, N. C.); Lt. Col. Ralph E. Cameron, Engineer, O. R. C., Seventh Corps Area (Wichita, Kans.); Maj. John Perkins. Coast Artillery, O. R. C., Eighth Corps Area (Alpine, Texas); Capt. John D. Seymour, Engineer, O. R. C., Sixth Corps Area (Chicago, Ill.).

These officers will represent the great body of reserve officers. They will work in conjunction with the following regular officers: Col. W. R. Smedberg, Jr., General Staff, Personnel Division; Col. L. B. Kromer, General Staff, Operations and Training Division; Maj. Clark Lynn, General Staff, Personnel Division; Maj. C. B. Hodges, General Staff, Operations and Training Division, and Maj. J. L. Benedict. General Staff, Personnel Division.

There are on duty in the War Department other reserve officers, so that the opinion from every Corps Area will be available to the committee.

The regulations for the Officers' Reserve Corps have now been in operation sufficiently long to permit formulation of all the more important questions, which should be covered in the work of revisior.. Ameng these are promotion, the status of officers belonging to both the Officers' National Reserve Corps and the Guard and determination of the qualifications for appointment as general Officers.

PROMOTION.

The present regulations provide that a reserve officer must serve for three years before being eligible for

ATHLETIC PROGRAM

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TO PROMOTE GENERALS

Secretary of War Favors Increased Rank on Retirement

Recommendation that the rank of Lieutenant General be conferred on Major General Enoch H. Crowder, Judge Advocate General of the Army, and at present on duty as President Harding's personal representative in Cuba, will be made by the Secretary of War at the first favorable opportunity, says a Washington special to the New York Times. General Crowder is due for retirement February 15, the date of the expiration of his four-year tour of duty as Judge Advocate General.

If General Crowder did not retire on February 15 he would revert to the rank of Colonel in the Army and would be forced to retire on April 11 on account of age, with threequarters the pay of that rank.

At the same time Secretary Weeks will recommend other Major Generals on the retired list for grade of Lieutenant General. The Secretary thinks it regrettable that the Government has not seen fit to give greater awards to certain men who contributed in an important way toward the winning of the war. While he refrained from naming the other Major Generals, the Secretary did mention Major General Hunter Liggett as one, pointing out that he commanded a million men in battle, or about five times as many men as were commanded by Civil War Generals who obtained the retired rank of Lieutenant General.

Even in the case of General Pershing, the Secretary indicated, full honor had not been done by the nation not he did receive inasmuch as the rank of General, active service, The Secrefor the rest of his life. tary said the failure of Congress to place General Pershing on the active list for life was all the more remarkable inasmuch as it had the precedent of Admiral Dewey before it.

Home from Germany

Men of the A. F. in G. were somewhat depressed by the formal order for homeward movement Jan. 10. It means the loss of an income of about 3,000,000 marks annually and upward.