Army-Navy Game at Polo Grounds

The annual Army-Navy football game, which wandered to Philadelphia for a year, will be played next season at the Polo Grounds, New York, on Saturday, November 24, the same field on which the Army mule and the Navy goat have battled for many seasons in the past.

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Sixth Corps Area Camps Again at Custer

It has been decided that the next summer training camp for the C. M. T. C., Officers' Reserve Corps and R. O. T. C., Sixth Corps Area, will be at Camp Custer as last year. The camp will again be commanded by Gen. Moseley.

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$6,000,000 For Newark Base Secretary of War John W. Weeks, has announced that he would offer to sell the Army base at Newark, N. J., for $6,000,000. It is preferred by the War Department to sell the base to the city of Newark, but if this is not possible the property will probably be offered for sale under sealed bids.

Honor General Pershing's Mother

A tablet commemorating the birthplace of the mother of General John J. Pershing has been presented to the Captain Emerson J. Lonas Post of the American Legion by the Tennessee State Historical Society. This will be erected on the farm where General Pershing's mother was born near Marysville, Blount County, Tennessee. The bronze cast is approximately two by three feet in size and bears the following inscription:

"Birthplace of Anne Elizabeth Thompson, mother of General John J. Pershing, born February 15, 1835. Erected by Captain Emerson J. Lonas Post No. 13, American Legion, Tennessee Historical Commission, 1922."

Country's Horse Supply Increased By 1,700 Thoroughbreds The remount service of the United States Army and its ally the American Remount Association have contributed 1,700 husky young foals to the horse supply of the country during the year 1923, according to the report of Major C. L. Scott, chairman of the breeding committee of the American Remount Association.

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National Guard Register

National Guardsmen throughout the country will be interested in the Official Register of the National Guard which has just been issued by the Militia Bureau. This 300page volume will be found invaluable for reference and as a guide to the development of the Guard throughout the country.

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Inspecting 1923 Site For Pulitzer Races

Captain St. Clair Street, Army Air Service, who is in command of the New York-to-Alaska flight, accompanied by B. Russell Shaw, vice chairman of the National Aeronautic Association, inspected the proposed site of the Pulitzer airplane races for 1923 at St. Louis, Mo.

MASSACHUSETTS GUARD

Held Meeting at Boston Dec. 29; Gen. Fries Speaks

The National Guard Association of Massachusetts held its monthly meeting at Boston, December 29. Gen. Ames A. Fries, Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, was the speaker for the occasion and lectured on the developments of the service. Moving pictures and stereopticon slides were used to illustrate the splendid talk.

The Boston chapter, Order of the World War, was present. Major Joseph W. Bartlett, the commander, conducted the ritual of the order in a very impressive manner.

These meetings are open to all military and patriotic organizations. Notices of all lectures are posted on bulletin boards of the State armories and enlisted men are urged to attend.

The National Guard Association is composed of the officers of the active service, and every officer who has at any time held a commission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the United States is eligible. The members are thus brought together for the one common object, the development of the National Guard and the interests of the same.

Dealing With Guard Deserters

The New York National Guard

has adopted a new and undoubtedly effective method of dealing with its deserters. In a recent issue of its Recruiting Bulletin there is published the names of the deserters for the month of November, 1922, with the comment that "Na'tional Guard Summary Court Officers claim that punishment of deserters by losing their civil service rights will greatly reduce desertions. Civil service commissions throughout the state have been furnished with a list of October and November deserters."

"Old Timer" Retires

On December 5, 1922, the 2nd Regiment of Engineers at Camp Travis, Texas, paraded in honor of Master Sergeant John H. White who has been placed on the retired list. Upon the conclusion of the ceremony he was presented with several gifts from the members of the regiment. Master Sergeant White's brilliant record of 30 years' service includes several years in the Philippines, Cuba and overseas in the A. E. F., where he received the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action.

Yale Riflemen Fare Well in In

door Title Matches

The National Rifle Association has announced the completion of several of the indoor championship matches. The Yale rifle team figured prominently in two of them, winning fourth place in the 50-foot kneeling championship and second in the 50foot prone championship.

The University of Pennsylvania won the kneeling championship with a score of 1489; Yale totalled 1448.

In the prone match Sheridan (Wyo.), Rifle Club, last year's champions, won again, scoring 1496. Yale scored 1491.

Fort Benning Going After Recruits

Fort Benning (Ga.), says the Fort Benning News, now has six recruiting sub-stations, located at Columbus, Ga., Macon, Ga., Albany, Ga., Waycross, Ga., Dublin, Ga., and Cordele, Ga.

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Young Recruit Writes Letter to Yonkers Canvasser

Private Jacob Siegal, D. E. M. L., one of the energetic Yonkers, New York, recruiters, has received the following letter from a recruit whom he recently enlisted: Dear Sir:

This is Anthony Virgolitto writing. You enlisted me a month ago in the United States Army.

Am stationed at Fort Hamilton. N. Y., and I leave for Panama the 23rd of December.

I think the army is a good place for me to make a man of myself as it's a place to be in.

Any boy who wants to be something and learn a trade should join the U. S. Army, as it will make also a man of him.

This is just to remind you that I can't forget you.

Yours truly,

Pvt. Anthony J. Virgolitto D. R. Section, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, N. Y.

P. S.-I met another Yonkers boy here by the name of William Farrel.

Ex-Service Men May Wear Decorations on Civilian Clothes The Secretary of War has issued a statement in which he says that nothing in uniform regulations for the Army should be construed as prohibiting ex-service men who are now civilians from wearing decorations of the United States or foreign governments with civilian clothes. The War Department considers it very desirable that authorized medals and decorations be worn on every appropriate occasion with any kind of civilian clothes.

Chaplains Hold Christmas Services

Not since the days of the war have post chaplains held more elaborate services than during the recent holidays. Copies of attractive programs have been sent to Recruiting News by the Chief of Chaplains, Col. John T. Axton and almost every Army post in the United States is represented.

open-minded consideration of individual cases, and complete co-ordination between various departments of the barracks. The executive officer has immediate charge of the prisoners, and controls them through his five principal assistants, viz: the police officer, who is in charge of the cellhouse and takes care of prisoners' clothing, bathing, barbering, etc.; the mess officer; the employment officer, who makes all work assignments; the trial officer, who investigates all reports of misconduct and recommends the summary punishment to be awarded, and the guard commander, who trains and administers the three guard companies and assigns the guards to the duties for which each is best fitted. The adjutant keeps a complete record of each prisoner in the form of loose leaf booklets, furnishes proper information to relatives and friends of the inmates and is custodian of all money belonging to prisoners or sent to them. The surgeon, in addition to his medical and sanitary duties has charge of the important department of psychiatry and sociology, which makes a thorough and scientific study of each prisoner's history and qualities, and furnishes other departments with valuable data as to proper treatment and training of abnormal or subnormal pris

tion officer conducts the schools, library, entertainments, athletic sports and other morale features. The chaplain keeps a religious census of all the inmates, conducts weekly services for the Protestants, sends those of Catholic faith to mass at St. Ignatius Chapel, assists the local Rabbi in arrangements for Jewish services, helps the prisoners with their correspondence and co-operates with various civil organizations to assist those about to be discharged. The judge advocate not only acts as legal adviser to the Commandant, but also helps prisoners in such matters as habeas corpus, divorce proceedings and administration of estates. The total authorized strength of the command is 26 officers, 374 enlisted men, such prisoners as may be in confinement, and a number of civilian employces with technical training, who know how to work with prisoners.

On a high bluff overlooking the Missouri River, the Disciplinary Barracks has grown from humble beginnings to a great institution. The wall, of native limestone and solid concrete, is nearly a mile in length. from 16 to 31 feet high, and two feet wide across the top. It incloses 11.57 acress-filled with busy shops and offices; the gigantic cell-house; the hospital, and a power plant of 3,000 H. P. capacity, which supplies all electric light and power, and steam for cooking, heating, refrigerating and laundering. There are twelve guard towers on the wall, and gate towers before each entrance-one at the main

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gate and one at the west gate, where wagons and railroad cars are admitted. Outside the wall, extensive regions of forest, hill, field, and meadow, have been converted into timberlands, quarries, farms and gardens, and pasture for high-bred stock. Prison labor. well supervised, keeps this whole investment running, and also contributes to the care of roads and grounds in and about Fort Leavenworth.

More momentus than material growth, is the advancement of the institution in ideals and purpose. Nearly 2,000 men are yearly released from its confining limits. They re-enter civil life, better or worse, according to the habits and impressions acquired during penal servitude. To clarify the prisoner's views of human relationship, to purge his mind of bitterness and vengeance, to prepare him for entering life's struggle with a reasonable chance for success, to give him another chance, and still another and another-these things the Disciplinary Barracks endeavors to do. In spite of mistakes and failures, the effort is always made, experience pointing out the best methods to follow, and accomplishments of similar institutions being studied for helpful suggestions and adaptations. Far from resembling a medieval torture house, as uninformed critics have pronounced, this institution is a credit to our nation, whose glorious symbol -the Stars and Stripes-looks down on all its varied activities, and finds no cause for shame.