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WAY to the Southwest of Golden Gate, on the threshold of Polynesia, lies Hawaii, -the paradise of the United States Army.

For twenty years the Service has garrisoned these delightful islands, adding each year to the strength and beauty of its holdings, until today every element of our complex military organization is here smoothly working in an environment which makes the Hawaiian Department the acme of the American soldier.

Work and play, a healthful balance of each in the midst of a natural fairyland, these are the things which make the Hawaiian tour a never-to-be-forgotten epoch in the career of every member of the United States Army who was so fortunate as to draw this assignment.

The American soldier, coming as he does from every walk of American life, has a many-sided conception of the ideal. Yet scarcely a professional or recreational hobby can be imagined which is not satisfied to the fullest in Hawaii. Even the hardy Montanan who longs for his blizzard-swept hills can always find, on the summit of Mauna Kea, sufficient snow to make him feel quite at home; while on the coral beaches, beneath tall cocoa-palms, is to be sensed all the lure of the South Sea Islands.

By Lieut. Col. STEPHEN O. FUQUA, G. S. surf-lined beaches, back through all the color of a sub-tropical foliage until it ends in a distant source of joy to the lover of beauty, a poignant memory after the tour is finished.

And the "malihini," the native name for the newcomer, is not long in Hawaii before he finds that the Army has taken every advantage of the opportunity so presented to make the Hawaiian tour a pleasure to the individual as well as a credit to the Government.

Sports, for instance, play an im

cially built pool with diving boards and bath houses for use of officers and men from other posts. Fort Ruger is less than a mile from the splendid beaches skirting Diamond Head. Luke Field, the Air Service station in Pearl Harbor, is surrounded by water and is equipped for every aquatic sport; in fact, it has recently developed a new one, "areo-surfing," or sledding with plane-propelled surfboards. Forts Armstrong and Kamehameha are both on the ocean, with private beaches for their garrisons ;

while Schofield Barracks. the headquarters of the Hawaiian Division, has its own swimming pools and is not far from Haleiwa and Waialua Bay, which is unsurpassed for bthing. The non-swimming Hawaiian is an anomaly. And the soldier who, in Hawaii, does not swim, dive or surf-board. is equally exceptional.

Surf-boarding is the particularly native aquatic sport which can seldom be enjoyed elsewhere. On account of the very gradual slope of the Hawaiian beaches, the breakers run from a half mile or more off shore. Swimming with the board for this distance, and skillfully mounting an incoming wave, it is possible to ride all the way to shore with a "kick" which is experienced in few other sports. The outrigger canoe, too, is equally hazardous and exciting, and therefore vies with the surf-board for first place among water sports.

portant part in the everyday life of the soldier in Hawaii; sports which can here be enjoyed out-of-doors the year 'round and which send him back to the mainland a better man than when he came.

Swimming the preeminent Hawai'an sport, is particularly fostered by the Hawaiian Department. All Army posts are at or within easy distance of one of the Hawaiian beaches, where surf or still water swimming is as pleasant in December as in June. Fort de Russy, the Coast Artillery post at Waikiki, has a spe

The out-of-doors season, as has been indicated, extends the year 'round in Hawai. Yet the sporting calendar approximately follows that of the mainland. Football extends a little later into the year, followed immediately by basketball and, early in the spring, by baseball. Specially organized training companies, composed of candidates who are relieved

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from military duties, enable each command to pit its best men in the final contest in each field sport.

A feature of the athletic life of the Service in Hawaii is the monthly smokers held at Schofield Barracks, in the Hawaiian Coast Artillery District and at the Pearl Harbor Naval Station. A snappy card always insures a big crowd and an enjoyable evening at the ring-side. Competition between the Army and Navy is naturally keen and, despite the fact that the sister service is outnumbered in the Islands, the Navy usually sustains her reputation with the gloves.

Field day is a regular monthly holiday on the Hawaiian Army calendar. Track events then have the floor. The competitions between posts and regiments are of course exciting, and are frequently won by men with no other than Army athletic training. To those who find exhiration in hiking and mountain climbing, Hawaii affords exceptional opportunities. The islands are geologically of volcanic orig.n; the mountains are abrupt with sheer peaks which, in many places, will not support a man. The upper highlands abound in precipice and crevasse and may only be traversed by the most agile and hardy, although the nearer hills are easily accessible and well rePry, with the vistas which

While Oahu, the most important of the group, is the only garrisoned island, it is no longer necessary to spend the entire tour there. Realizing the importance of an occasional change of scene, the present commander of the Hawaiian Department, General C. P. Summerall, arranged about a year ago for the provision of a military rest camp at Kilauea, on the island of Hawaii, 200 miles from Honolulu and near the famous volcano known in Hawaiian folklore as the home of Madam Pele.

Here is to be seen one of the most wonderful spectacles of nature; the fire-pit, Halemaumau, where molten lava seethes and boils and occasionally runs over, displaying a most awesome example of the Creation.

of the late A. E. F. This improvement, which has been repeatedly commented on by high military and naval officials who have recently passed through the Department, has only been attained and maintained by an unusual amount of work by the whole command.

It is safe to say that the training schedule of the Hawaiian Department is at least as strenuous, if not more strenuous than that of any Corps Area on the mainland. This is a necessity by virtue of Oahu's outpost position and is possible because Hawaii is a year-'round out-of-doors country where artificial heat is unknown and because everyone, from "buck-private" up, is playing the game.

At Schofield, where infantry and

they open up, the energy expended in their ascension. And nowhere throughout the islands are there poisonous insects or reptiles to be found.

Angling, tennis, golf, polo; these and kindred out-door sports are always available to the soldier in Hawaii and his participation in them is always fostered and encouraged by the military authorities.

Each Hawaiian post has its own moving picture theater with a nightly program of the favorite film stars seen in the States. The film service arranged by the Department Recreational Office makes possible the showing of feature pictures simultaneously with their release in the mainland.

Besides the volcano, Kilauea and the island of Hawaii abounds in points of interest. The camp, well up the side of Mauna Loa, is decidedly cooler than is the ordinary Hawaiian temperature. Ten days of this invigorating atmosphere, with no calls except mess calls, sends the soldier back to duty with renewed pep. The whole trip is covered by a detached service status, may be taken any time during the year and the slight expense can be "jawboned."

But soldiering in Hawaii is not all play. The Department has, during the last year, reached a high state of effectiveness in both personnel and materiel, an efficiency which compares favorably with that of the best units

field artillery are concentrated with all the auxiliaries of a wartime division, terrain exercises and field maneuvers are had throughout the year, on a scale possible at few other Army posts. Here the recruit and the old campaigner see worked out and actually take part in military operations on a scale really simulating modern warfare.

Here another phase adds to the attractiveness of Hawaii from the soldier's viewpoint. Being in a sense an expeditionary force, ready for instant action far from bases of supply, the Hawaiian Department is one place actually on a war footing so far as pertains to equipment. If he is a coast artilleryman at Fort Ruger, he plays pool at the Service Club with the man who inflates the observation dirigible. Or, if he is an anti-aircraft gunner at Fort Shafter, he is quite likely to turn out of his own accord to see his buddie, the operator of a 60-inch searchlight, stand night drill.

This is the spirit of the Hawaiian Department; work and play, with real play and work so interesting that the morning drill period is fascinating as the afternoon hour on the beach. That is what, to rookie and old-timer alike, makes Hawaii the soldier's paradise.

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ROM the small number of en

rollments of officers in the Army Correspondence Courses it is apparent that a great many reserve officers do not fully appreciate the value of the courses.

The Organized Reserves were created by Congress in the realization that the battles of the United States will always be fought by a citizen soldiery and that the great mass of officers of that army who must of necessity remain in civil pursuits during time of peace, must be men of military training and experience if this country is to be spared humiliating and costly defeats in the initial stages of preparation after declaration of war. They are the sinews of the nation and must be kept strong and fit for emergencies.

Former officers of the World War constitute the bulk of these citizen officers of the Organized Reserves of whom there are now approximately 80,000 holding commissions. They have had actual experience and training in the face of the enemy. The Reserve Officers' Training Corps is a reservoir which yearly adds to the roster of reserve officers numbers of intelligent young college men who have voluntarily taken four years of military training in addition to their ordinary college work. The Citizens Military Training Camps add their increment of young officers to the total each year.

For the moment, then, the United States has nearly 100,000 trained officers, including those of the Regular Army and National Guard, to rely upon for National Defense. But

Four years have passed since the World War ceased.

The majority of Reserve Officers returned to civil life within six months after the signing of the Armistice and have since been engaged in pursuits commercial and professional which have led them far afield

By Major VERNON G. OLSMITH, Inf.

moments their thoughts often dwell on the old Army days, the tyranny of the K. C.s, the mud of the trenches, the rattle of machine guns, those marvelous leaves in Nice, Cannes and that mecca of pleasure-lovers, Paris.

But how many of them give a thought to the dull prosaic duties which fill nine-tenths of a soldier's life. The care and feeding of his men, clothing requisitions, reports and returns, hygiene, company and platoon drills, guard duty in the cantonment, field training in map-reading, patrols, out-posts, advance guards, the principles of combat?

These things and many more the reserve officer must keep fresh in his mind if he is to return to the colors in time of national need, a useful and efficient cog in the military machine. When the danger arises there must be officers trained and ready to take charge of the mass of untrained citizenry which will be swept into the ranks of the Army.

And as so many of those who

served in the World War have suffered military knowledge to become submerged entirely under the flood of civilian thought which of necessity must be uppermost in their minds, so will those youngsters from the R. O. T. C. and the C. M. T. C. find themselves drawn into a current of thought which will sweep them into the mid-channel of civil life far from the currents of military thought unless they are strong swimmers and make the effort to remain near slack water.

In order that the reserve officer may keep abreast of the military profession the War Department has provided several ways chief of which are: (a) Details to the special service schools of the various arms. (b) The fifteen-day training period on active duty each summer. (c) The Army correspondence courses.

The first method can, of course, be

mal proportion of the numbers of the Officers' Reserve Corps.

The second is contingent upon Congressional appropriations and during the next fiscal year, even if the total amount requested by the War Department is appropriated, but 15.000 or slightly less than 19 per cent of the reserve officers will be called for training.

It is therefore apparent that the one sure method of systematic and progressive training open to the reserve officer is that furnished by the Army correspondence courses.

It is realized that many reserve officers have not enrolled in any of the correspondence courses because of a fear that the work would demand more time than they could devote to it. Such fears are groundless. With the sole exception of Course D, an advanced course in the tactics and technique of combined arms for field officers above the grade of major and for officers on the initial General Staff list, only, the War Department requires that a student complete a minimum of 39 hours' work in any school year to remain enrolled. He may devote as many additional hours to the work as he desires but must not fall below the minimum.

An hour a week!

Is that too much to require of the reserve officer upon whose knowledge and ability the national defense of our country depends?

Quite Naturally.

A Missourian who called his newly employed hired man out of bed at four o'clock in the morning was surprised a few moments later to see the man walking off down the road.

"Say! Come back and eat breakfast 'fore you go to work!”

"I ain't going to work," the man called back. I'm goin' tto hunt somewhere to stay all night."

ISSUED

The Adjutant General of the Army issued the following letter on December 18, 1922, giving the recruiting requisitions for January, 1923:

HAWAII.

The transport Grant, capacity 1,850, will sail from New York for Honolulu about February 5, 1923, stopping at Charleston, South Carolina, to pick up Hawaiian recru's from the Fourth Corps Area Corps area commanders will have ready for this transport the following numbers. Present requisitions for Engineers, Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department and Ordnance Department will be completed and the remainder of the Grant quota filled by enlistment of Infantry, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery Corps approximately evenly divided. All Hawaiian reIcruits left at Fort Slocum and Fort Hamilton after sailing of Cambrai December 22 will be considered as belonging to the Second Corps Area to be used in filling its quota for the Grant. Any recruits shipped to Fort Slocum or Fort Hamilton after December 22 under special authority from this office will be considered as belonging to the corps area making shipment and counted towards filling its quota below.

The First, Second and Third Corps Areas will each enlist for Fort Benning, Georgia, 10 Field Artillery and 65 Infantry. These men will be sent to Fort Slocum and forwarded to Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, via transport Grant, February 5, 1923. Men will not be enlisted south of Baltimore or north of Boston due to shortage of transportation funds.

PHILIPPINES.

5. The Ninth Corps Area will enlist the following for Philippines:

50 Infantry, 15 Air Service, 4 Engineers and 5 Ordnance.

LEATHER WAIST BELTS.

6. Enlisted men, D. E. M. L., recruiting and other enlisted men detailed on recruiting duty will wear the russet leather waist belt. These men will be frequently inspected to see that they maintain a high standard of personal appearance.

DES MOINES POLICE AID

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7th C. A. RECRUITERS

Chief of Police John H. Hammond and his Des Moines, Iowa police force are co-operating with the local Army recruiters with splendid results. With the approval of the Chief, the letter that follows was sent to all members of the Force by the Recruiting Officer, Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

The scheme is an excellent one and should result in many prospects getting information on the Army from an authority that will carry considerable weight. But even if the plan accomplished nothing more than to inform the police of the location of the various Army recruiting stations, it would be well worth the effort:

"Your Chief, Mr. John H. Hammond, has given his endorsement and approval to an idea for having you men of the force do a service to your country. You will also do a service to certain employed and unemployed men by suggesting to them an enlistment in the United States Army.

"The Army offers to a man, physical and mental development, outdoor life, travel, education, a certain future, free board and lodging and good companionship, and pay ranging from $21 to $157 per month. How many average men do you know who has $21 per month left after he has paid for the most necessary of the things named above?

"In order to pass the examination a man must be between the ages of 18 and 35. Young men are preferred. He must be sound and healthy, physically. He must be morally and mentally capable. He must be able to read and write the English language. Men with any kind of criminal record or of low character will not be considered.

"The Army Recruiting Station is located on the second floor of the old Post Office building, at corner of Fifth and Court streets. The telephone number is Walnut 3925. Please call us if you know of a man we might interest in an enlistment. If you can assist us, remember us, your companions in Arms. Your co-operation will be much appreciated."

Corps Area Commanders:

Holiday Greetings and very

best wishes for the New Year to yourself and the members of your command, with keen appreciation of their fine spirit and the efficient and soldierly manner in which all duties have been performed through the difficulties of the past year.

John Harshing

Religion in the Army.

"Each officer and enlisted man of the United States Army is credited by the Chief of Army Chaplains with an average attendance of twelve times a year. There were 13,000 religious services held in the army this year, and the attendance at these totaled 1,284,834. There was, therefore, an average attendance of about 100 men at each service. It must be remembered, in guessing at a comparison, that men exclusively determine the size of the army congregations. In civilian congregations

they are outnumbered by women. Perhaps the American woman goes to church one Sunday out of four. Certainly the American man does not. It should be interesting to compare the attitude toward religion of, let us say, twenty great military leaders and of twenty men of equal eminence in other kinds of work. At a guess the soldiers would prove the more religious minded."-New York Herald.

Stop It.

Protest as vehement as it is justifiable has been voiced by Major General R. L. Bullard. commanding the 2nd Corps Area, against the practice on the part of certain judicial officers of giving convicted misdemeanants the alternative of serving a term in a reformatory or enlisting in the U. S. Army or Navy.

We quote from the December issue of the U. S. Army Recruiting News:

"Peter D'Andrio, age 18 years, of Corning, New York, will not be enlisted in the Army.

"The above-named man was arrested for intoxication and disorderly conduct and given a choice to enlist in the Army or Navy within a week or serve a year in the Elmira Reformatory.

"Recruiting Officers will be especially careful that this man be rejected when he applies to any recruiting office."

There is a difference between the Army olive drab and Sing Sing feline grey. Men who have worn the latter are not wanted in the Army and Navy.-New York Evening Tele

gram.

Self-Respect in the Army.

Recently a judge sentenced a young man either to a year in the reformatory or to enlist in the Army. Immediately a circular was sent to all army stations not to accept the man for enlistment. Why, it was asked, should self-respecting young soldiers be forced to associate with a man convicted of a misdemeanor? The uniform of the military service of the United States ought to be a badge of honor. The men who wear it consider it so and treat it so. We should be grateful that the military authorities insist that it shall be so.

There was a time when the uniform appeared to give the wearer license to misbehave. Now the soldier whether in uniform or in mufti conducts himself decently from selfrespect. That is how we would have our American soldiers act. The Providence Journal.