Films for Recruiting Purposes The following named films are now on hand at the Recruiting Publicity Bureau, Governors Island, New York, and will be available for the use of recruiting officers, on request, after April 1: Training of the Soldier series -Pack and Equipment, Bayonet, School of the Company, Manual of Arms, Bombing, Target Designation, Rifle Grenade, Field Fortifications, Courtesy, Map Reading, School of the Squad, Browning Automatic Rifle, Vickers Machine Gun, Browning Machine Gun, Lewis Machine Gun, Gas and Gas Masks, 3-Inch Battery Firing, Physical Drill, Training of Soldier No. 2, Training of Soldier No. S, Harness and Harnessing, Trench Mortar, Regimental Detachment, Field Artillery, Aviation, and Engineers; Frankford Arsenal; Quartermaster Corps; Medical Department; Coast Artillery Corps; Signal Corps; Care of the Horse; Fort Bliss Recruit; West Point; Victory Parade; Call of the Air (2 parts); Camp Humphrey Road Construction; War Risk Insurance; Recruit Educational Center (2 parts); Chemical Warfare Service (1 part); Coast to Coast Tour (1 part); Signal Corps, A. E. F. (1 part); 15 Minutes with Tank Corps; Up in the Air for Uncle Sam (1 part); With the C. A. C. at the Seashore (1 part); Air Service & General Pershing (1 part); Crooked Roads (2 parts); Heroes All (1 part); 30th Division, A. E. F. (1 part); Recruiter Models Statue (1 part); Uncle Sam Awake (2 parts); Troops in Panama (2 parts); Price of Peace (4) parts); Teaching Young America to Fly (4 parts); Engineer Corps in Action (1 part); Second Division (1 part); The Infantry (1 part); Americans in Luxembourg (1 part); 26th Division, A. E. F. (1 part); First 1,000 A. E. F. (1 part); Second Division Horse Show (2 parts); Field Artillery (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Doser (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Furlong (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Sawlenson (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Lt. Williams (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Sgt. Gold (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Lt. Woodfill (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Neibour (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Capt. Miles (1 part); The Heroic Deed of Lt. Frazier (1 part); Cavalry Life (1 part); Cavalry, Fort Bliss (2 parts); Leave Areas A. E. F. (1 part); Flashes of Action (4 parts); Pictorial History A. E. F. No. 250; Pictorial History A. E. F. No. 398; Pictorial History A. E. F. No. 300; Pictorial History A. E. F. No. 354; Pictorial History A. E. F. No. 275; Pictorial History A. E. F. No. 307; Pictorial History A. E. F. 37th Division; The Doughboy (2 parts); Flashes of Army Life (2 parts).

2nd Engineers' Mascot Takes Ribbons The Veterinary Sergeant of the 2nd Engineers, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Sgt. M. J. Doyle, is an enthusiastic dog man, and is the proud possessor of four pedigreed Airdales. His Hillview Yankee Mischief recently brought back three red ribbons from the Louisiana Kennel Club Dog Show at New Orleans, one of them being in the Open Airdale Class, which included champions. In the San Antonio Kennels Club Dog Show last October the same dog took first place in the local Airdale class, third in the American bred Airdale class, first in the limit Airdale class (champions barred) and third in the open Airdale class (open to champions). At the Abilene Kennel Club Dog Show in the preceding month he took one first and two seconds. Hillview Yankee Mischief is two years and a half old, by Champion Yankee Boy of Ashborne out of Hillview Mischief.

Read This Book and Learn About Our War Department

The War Department has just issued a document entitled "The Work of the War Department of the United States," copies of which are being furnished all officers of the Regular Army, Organized Reserves, and National Guard.

This pamphlet is a valuable compendium of information on the history of the development of common defense from pre-Revolutionary War days up to the amendment of the National Defense Act in 1920. It includes a description of the organization of the War Department, with the work and functions of the G-'s and all the other divisions of the War Department; a very good outline of what the War Department really does-and the condensed narration is one to open the eyes of even those in the military service who think themselves fully acquainted with the varied duties of the War Department; and the story of the relation the Army has borne and still bears to the civilian population, showing the help it has given in times of National and local distress, in putting across huge constructive undertakings, and in making the youth of the land better mentally, morally and physically through such means as the C. M. T. C. movement. It is a book that all recruiting stations should have, and one which every man on recruiting duty should read.

N. G. Units Reorganized The following National Guard units have been Federally recognized during the period February 11 to March 1: Arkansas, Hq. 206th Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Marianna; California, Hq., 1st Bn., San Francisco and Hq., 2nd Ba San Diego, 250th C. A.; Colorado Medical Det., 1st Bn., 158th F. A Pueblo; Connecticut, Hq., 3rd Bn., 1024 Inf., Torrington-former unit at New Haven disbanded; District of Colum bia, 29th M. P. Co., Washington; Idaho, Co. L, 186th Inf., Twin Falls; Iowa, Hq. 113th Cav., Des Moines; Kentucky, Hq. Co., 75th Inf. Brigade, Bowling Green; Louisiana, Med. Det 2nd Bn., 156th Inf., Layfayette; Mass 101st Photo Sect., 26th Div. Air Service, Boston; Missouri, Co. L, 138th Inf Hannibal-former unit at St. Louis re designated Co. C, 138th Inf.; Montana, Co. H, 163rd Inf., Polson; N. J., Hq. 112th F. A., Merchantville; New Mexi co, Co. E, 120th Engrs., Socorro; North Carolina, Hq. 105th Engrs., Durham; Ohio, Hq. Co., 3rd Bn., 145th Inf., Akron-former unit at Sandusky d'sbanded; Oklahoma, Co. H, 180th Inf Eufaula-former unit at Tulsa disbanded; Oregon, Hq., 2nd Bn., 186th Inf., McMinnville-former unit at Portland disbanded; Tennessee, Hq. Btry., 115th F. A., Memphis; Texas, Hq. Det., 2nd Sqn., 112th Cav., Fort Worth-former unit at Dallas disbanded; Veterinary Co. No. 111, Marshall, and Hosp. Co. No. 131, Athens, 111th Med. Regt.; Hq. Co., 3rd Ba 143rd Inf., Waco-former unit at Hubbard disbanded; Utah, Service Btry, 145th F. A., Salt Lake City; Virginia, Co. M, 183rd Inf., Norfolk; West Virginia, Hq. 3rd Bn., 150th Inf., Huntington, and Co. M, Spencer-recogni tion withdrawn from former Co. M at Logan.

British Safeguarding Capital City

Plans have been perfected to make London the most efficiently protected city in the world against air raids. according to the Canadian Military Gazette of February 26th. Arrangements have been completed for the purchase of enough land to establish a ring of aerdromes around the city. New types of planes capable of carrying new devices to enable movements to be made in combination by groups of planes at night, and capable alsɔ of attaining an extraordinary speed, which until now has been regarded as only in the range of the fantastic, are being built in considerable quantities, while delicate sound instruments capable of detecting the approach of aircraft at hitherto unheard of distances have also been perfected.

Army Recruiting

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The following means and methods will be found successful in any district, to obtain excellent recruiting publicity for the Army:

each post

1. Postmasters.-Mail master in the district a mimeograph letter requesting that he furnish the recruiting office the names of all men in his community between the ages of 18 and 35, enclosing with letter an addressed envelope.

In compliance with a letter requesting above information sent to 1,500 postmasters by the Jackson, Miss., district in 1920, replies were received from approximately 900 within two weeks, bearing more than 5,000 names, in addition to other information valuable for recruiting purposes, such as labor conditions and attitude toward the service. In several instances, when submitting lists, the postmasters made the following notations: "Making inquiry now," or "very much interested." On one occasion the postmaster, instead of sending in a list of names, wrote a letter of introduction for four young men in his town and turned it over to them with instructions to report at the main station. All were accepted for enlistment.

The names of prospective applicants by towns and counties should be alphabetically arranged, and should constitute the mailing list for the district.

Ten days or two weeks before a canvassing party is sent out to the town or towns of a county, each prospective applicant in the district to be visited is mailed literature. A mimeograph letter is also enclosed stating that an Army Recruiting representative will visit such and such a town for a period of so many days for the purpose of interviewing, accepting and forwarding applicants for enlistment in the Army. Before a canvasser is

sent out he should be furnished the names of prospective applicants who live in the town or towns he is to visit, and a reel of motion picture film and picture slides depicting Army life and the advantages to be obtained by enlisting.

2. Newspapers.-At the close of business each day, a news item should be mailed to the papers in each accepted applicant's home town, using a form similar to the following:

"John T. Smith, age 23, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, applied and was accepted for enlistment in the United States Army, December 20, 1920, at Denver, Colorado, for the purpose of receiving a course of instruction in auto mechanics in addition to a military educa

tion. Young Smith left Muskogee today for Fort Logan, Colorado, accompanied by four other Oklahoma boys."

A consolidated list of accepted applicants for each days' business should then be released to the daily newspapers in the city where the main station is located. This method is especially practicable where a large percentage of the men who apply for enlistment are residents of the state in which the main station is located. This

Advice for C. M. T. C. Publicity Promoters

Where you intend to lay particular stress upon the value of training derived through the Citizens' Military Training Camps, I would advise that you limit, more or less, your presentation to the benefits given to the young man, his home, his community, the state, and the nation now-in times of peace; that the military training given is but a means-and the best means of teaching self discipline, respect for proper authority and the rights of others and the promotion of physical and moral courage; that the camps break down casts, remove misconception and make for true Democracy. If such a line of thought is followed and interest in the camps obtained, interest in the problem of National Defense follows of its own accord. I offer this merely as a suggestion, and as an idea that I have found in my experiences to be an excellent line of approach.—Brigadier General C. H. Martin, A. C. of S., G-1, W. D., in letter dated March 1, 1924.

was evidenced by the fact that in Oklahoma a large number of editors requested these news items be furnished them.

3. 'Wholesale and commission houses. -one of the best methods to get Army recruiting publicity to the places that would ordinarily go untouched is to furnish wholesale and commission houses, in each city or town where recruiting offices are located, with posters and pamphlets and a request to the packers to enclose several of each in every box or package of goods to be shipped. There should also be enclosed with this literature a mimeograph letter requesting the receiver of the advertising matter to hang the poster in a conspicuous place and to distribute the reading matter

among the young men in his community.

The advantage of this method is that it gets the desired information to the out of the way places, as wholesale dealers are constantly sending supplies to communities where no postoffices are maintained. The advertising will also find its way directly into the homes of the people living in the rural districts, who buy large quantities of supplies in bulk from wholesalers.

Another unique and effective method of advertising the Army was made possible by an enterprising publicity department in Jackson, Miss., during the "recruiting drive" in 1920, with the aid of a multigraph machine and the cooperation of the laundries, in the following manner:

Arrangements were made with the laundries to deliver each week to the recruiting station the blank card boards placed inside each laundered shirts, in the quantities that each laundry concerned estimated it would use during that week. These cards were then multigraphed on both sides with laundry and Army advertising. By printing only the estimated number of cards used each week, the recruiting office could show any new feature or inducement to enlist within a few days after its receipt.

The use of the above method placed information regarding the Army directly within the hands and homes of the male of the classes as well as the

masses.

4. Miscellaneous Advertising.-Posters should be furnished and maintained in good order in as many as possible of the following places throughout the district:

Postoffices, auto filling stations, shoe shining parlors, barber shops, railway stations and crossings; American Legion, Red Cross, and Y. M. C. A. headquarters; and also on the main roads leading into towns where recruiting stations are located.

Literature should be kept constantly in libraries, doctors' and dentists' offices, and in the reading rooms and headquarters of all civic, patriotic, welfare and fraternal organizations.

Photographs of Army life, preferably those taken by Signal Corps or Air Service, should be on display under the glass tops of writing desks in postoffices, banks and other business buildings where permission can be obtained.

If animated electric signs, advertising the Army, are obtainable, arrangements should be made to display them alternately each week in the best places possible.

JANUARY, 1924

OFFICER IN CHARGE

Lt. Col. W. B. Cowin, Q. M. C., D. O. L.
Lt. Col. Wm. R. Taylor, Cav., D. O. L.
Col. C. C. Ballou, Inf., D. O. L.
Capt. S. B. Wiener, Inf., D. O. L.
Capt. L. W. Skaggs, Inf., D. O. L.
Col. F. J. Koester, Cav., D. O. L.
Capt. A. P. Sullivan, Inf., D. O. L.
Major E. H. Pearce, Retired
Major Alfred Bal in, Inf., D. O. L.
Col. J. N. Straat, Inf., D. O. L.

1st Lt. Michael F. Cooney, Retired

Col. C. E. Morton, Retired

Major R. L. Weeks, Retired

14.

*Harrisburg, Pa.

Capt. C. J. Mabbutt, Q. M. C., D. O. L., Acting

15.

*Buffalo, N. Y. *Newark, N. J.

*St. Louis, Mo. *Scranton, Pa.

*Oklahoma City, Okla. *El Paso, Texas

*New Orleans, La.
*Portland. Maine
*New Haven, Conn.
*Albany, N. Y.
*Providence, R. I.
*Portland, Ore.
*Milwaukee, Wis.

Major E. O. Halbert, C. A. C., D. O. L.

1st Lt. L. M. Wightman, Cav., D. O. L.

Capt. H. H. Reeves, Q. M. C., D. O. L.
Capt. F. G. Bisl op, Inf., D. O. L.
Major R. P. Rifenberick, Re.ired
Lt. Col. A. A. King, Retired

Major Gulie mus V. Heidt, Inf.. D. O. L.
Lt. Col. Thomas Thomas, 5th Inf.
Lt. Col. Ode C. Nichols, Inf., D. O. L.
Capt. D. Swanton, Inf., D. O. L.
1st Lt. Elliott R. Thorpe. Inf., D. O. L.
Major T. J. Cecil, C. A. C., D. O. L.
Col. A. Johnson, Inf., D. O. L.

29.

*Charleston, W. Va.

30.

*Denver, Colo.

31.

*Springfie d, Ill.

Lt. Col. R. S. Woodson, Retired Capt. J. L. Garza, Inf., D. O. L. Capt. R. Eng es, Q. M. C., D. O. L.

32.

*Seattle, Wash.

Col. G. W. S. Stevens, Retired

*Charlotte, N. C.

*Springfield, Mass.
*Dallas, Texas
*Atlanta, Ga.

*Grand Rapids, Mich.
*Charleston, S. C.
*Jacksonville, F a.
*Chattanooga, Tenn.
Washington, D. C.
Kansas City, Mɔ.
Omaha, Neb.

48. Birmingham, Ala.
Minneapolis, Minn.
*Spokane, Wash.
*Memphis, Tenn.
St. Paul, Minn.
*Knoxville, Tenn.

*Savannah, Ga.
*Pensacola, Fla.
*Columbus, Ga.

Des Moines, Iowa

Tacoma, Wash.

Capt. Henry D. Bagnall, Inf., D. O. L.
Col. E. W. Tanner. Inf., D. Ó. L.
Col. E. L. Butts, Inf., D. O. L.
Capt. I. S. Curtis, Inf., D. O. L.
Lt. Col. W. H. Brooks, Retired

1st Lt. F. S. Mansfield, Inf., D. O. L.
Capt. Joseph Yuditsky, Cav., D. O. L.
1st Lt. Anton Zeman, Q. M. C.

Capt. A fred G. French, Inf., D. O. L.
Col. C. Reichman, Inf., Retired
1st Lt. D. H. Woodin, 4th Inf.

1st Lt. John R. Tighe, Q. M. C., D. O. L.
Col. Carl Reichman, Inf., Retired
Capt. Thomas N. Williams, Inf., Retired
Capt. Wendell L. C'emenson, 8th Inf.
1st Lt. Oscar G. Stevens, Inf., D. O. L.
Capt. George E. Kraul, Inf., D. O. L.
Capt. T. A. Bryant, Cav., D. O. L.

1st Lt. W. S. Bryant, F. A., D. O. L.

Capt. R. A. W. Pearson, 13th Inf.

Capt. R. L. Hammond, 8th Cav.

1st Lt. James F. Morison, F. A., D. O. L.

Lt. Col. H. M. Fales, Retired

Capt. Chas. F. Craig, 8th Inf.

Capt. Chas. H. Dayhuff, Cav., D. O. L.

Capt. Joseph P. G andon, Q. M. C., D. O. L. Col. P. H. Mullay, Inf.

Capt. Daniel Becker, Cav., D. O. L.

Officer not reported

Lt. Col. C. F. Andrews, Inf., D. O. L. Officer not reported

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HE Primary Flying School for the Army Air Service is located at Brooks Field, about six miles and one-half from San Antonio, Texas. The station is one constructed during the World War and is named in honor of Lieutenant Sidney Brooks, who was killed in an airplane accident in 1917.

At the time of the Armistice the Government had a large number of trained aviators and many cadet

aviators whose training had not been completed. These latter were given an opportunity to complete their training if they so desired, of which a considerable percentage took advantage. As this work was completed the training fields throughout the country were abandoned or reduced to an inactive status.

The Air Service was a product of the World War and entirely new as a combat arm, and passed through a long period of uncertainty as to strength and organization, its strength now being fixed at 1,062 officers and 8,500 enlisted men, including not to exceed 190 Flying Cadets, by the Act of June 30th, 1922. To provide a means for training as fliers of the officers detailed in or transferred to the Air Service and to build up a reserve of fliers who could be called into service in the event of war, the Primary Flying School was first constituted at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida, on

READY TO MAKE PARACHUTE TEST

November 17th, 1919. Later, to follow out a policy of concentration and economy, Carlstrom Field was abandoned and the school transferred to Brooks Field, the movement being completed on June 30th, 1922.

The course at the school covers a period of about six months. Classes begin on the second Monday in September and the third Monday in March.

The course is divided into three parts, as follows: Part One: Basic Military Course. given to all Flying Cadets.

Part Two: Regular Ground School Course, given to all Student Officers and Flying Cadets.

Part Three: Flying instructions given to all Student Officers and Flying Cadets. The Ground School Course and flying instructions are given concurrently, the mornings, in general, being devoted to flying and the afternoons to ground instruction, subject to weather conditions. As indicated by its title, part one consists of Infantry Drill, Army Regulations, Military Courtesy, Army Paperwork,

AERIAL VIEW OF BROOKS FIELD

Property Accounting, Customs of the Service, Military Hygiene and First Aid, Military Law, Field Service Regulations and. Interior Guard Duty -a total of one hundred and thirtytwo hours. Part two includes Theory of Flight, Theoretical and Practical Radio, Aerial Navigation, Airplane Motors, Meteorology, Military Sketching and Map Reading, Aerial Photography, and a study of airplanes; instruments and machine guns. The instruction is thorough and complete, considering the amount of time available, and it can be seen why the educational requirements for eligibility as Flying Cadets are the equivalent of a High School education. Part three involves approximately sixty hours' flying for each student, and is designed to give a complete practical knowledge of flying. The Gosport, or "all through" system, a combination of English and American training methods, is used.

As appointments as Flying Cadets are very much sought after, it might be of interest to give some details of the requirements. These are more fully set in Army Regulations No.

615-160.

Flying Cadets may be appointed either from the enlisted personnel of the Regular Army or direct from civil life. Candidates must be, at the time of app cation, unmarried male citizens of the United States, between the ages of (Cont'd on Page 12)