By Col. J. T. CONRAD, A. G. D.

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1. Don't forget that arrival at a post an officer should at once report to the Adjutant.

2. Don't forget that you must then make an official call upon the Post Commander, at his office. It should be brief.

3. Don't neglect to call upon your battalion and company commander, at their offices or quarters, as circumstances may require. This should be done immediately after your call upon the Post Commander. A recent Army regulation has made this custom mandatory.

4. Don't forget that within 24 hours after arrival an officer should call at the home of the Post Commander.

5. Don't fail to return promptly the calls of the officers of the garrison who, in accordance with existing regulations and the customs of the service, will call upon you shortly after your arrival.

6. If, after arrival, you are a house guest of a brother officer and his wife, don't prolong your stay. Make every effort to get into your own quarters as soon as possible.

7. Don't neglect to call upon the hostess, who so entertains you, within a week after you leave her home.

8. Don't forget to make farewell calls on your Commanding Officer and your close friends (P. P. C.).

9. Don't disregard the many little conventionalities and social amenities which go far toward stamping the observer thereof as a well-bred, considerate gentleman.

10. Don't neglect to answer, within twenty-four hours, a written invitation to a dinner.

11. Don't neglect to reply promptly to a written invitation to any private social function.

12. Don't neglect to acknowledge an invitation to a function of a general nature when such invitation bears the request "R. S. V. P."

13. Don't fail to observe social conventions in the use of visiting cards. At receptions, teas or other similar functions it is customary to leave one for each person in whose name the invitation is extended and for the guest of honor.

14. Don't forget, when calling, to

leave a card for the officer and one for each of the adult lady members of the household.

15. Don't neglect to pay your party or dinner call within one week. This whether the function was attended or not.

16. Don't omit to call promptly upon new arrivals. If you are particularly intimate with certain families, it is customary to call upon guests visiting such people.

17. Don't neglect to introduce the guest whom you take to post dances, receptions, etc., to other members of the garrison. Make it your business to see that the visitor meets your friends.

18. Don't neglect to pay the wife of the Commanding Officer the attention to which her position entitles her.

19. Don't be lacking in politeness to older officers and their wives who may be present at functions simply as spectators.

20. Don't neglect, if invited to dinner and later to attend a dance, to ask your hostess and the guest of honor for a dance. In any case it is incumbent upon all to pay special attention to the hostess and any prominent guest, no matter what the nature of the function.

21. Don't fail, after a dinner or supper, to ask one of the ladies present who has no escort, if you may take her to the dance or any function which may follow.

22. Don't neglect post entertainments for those at nearby cities.

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Harold Teen, seventeen-year-old hero of the Chicago Tribune daily comic strip bearing his name, is one of the thousands of young Americans who have applied for the coming C. M. T. Camps.

All C. M. T. C. graduates are asked to write to Harold Teen, care Carl Ed, Chicago Tribune, giving suggestions for Harold's deDortment while at camp. The artist will especially welcome brief suggestions on post cards.

23. Don't neglect to return your social obligations.

24. Don't be deficient in courtesy by failing to remove your cap when entering the office of another.

25. Don't forget that your knowledge and observance of social customs affect to a marked degree your official efficiency.

26. Don't omit to join the officers' club. Any organization which tends to bring together the officers of the command and to foster good fellowship, adds to the contentment and harmony of the garrison and should be supported.

27. Don't take sides in garrison disputes.

28. Don't fail to live within your means. Keep out of debt. Pay your bills promptly.

29. Don't be careless in your personal appearance. Be a model of neatness for the men of your command.

30. Don't fail to familiarize yourself with the post standing orders.

31. Don't form the habit of carrying your hands in the pockets of your uniform breeches or trousers.

32. Don't hesitate to seek the advice of older officers. They will be only too glad to help you at any time.

33. Don't forget to place yourself on the left of a senior officer with whom you may be walking, riding or driving.

34. Don't forget to treat enlisted men with consideration. Don't be familiar. Don't be arbitrary. Familiarity is just as subversive of discipline as is undue harshness. Accord to them the same treatment which you desire, and have every right to expect, from your superior officers.

35. Don't neglect to cultivate friendly relations with members of the different components of the Army whether Regular, National Guard or Organized Reserves. It is a duty.

36. Don't forget that the salute is one of the most important acts of military courtesy. Make it just as smart as possible.

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37. Don't, by any conduct of your own, lower the public esteem in which the Army is held.

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band makes them feel martial and bellicose, sometimes even to the point of enlisting. Soldiers have a different point of view. "First Call," the strident notes of which break into many happy dreams, is seldom romantic to the man in the Army—in fact, while it very often arouses his fighting spirit, his belligerency is directed not against his country's enemies, but against the bugler, who, with many a left-handed prayer, he hopes will choke, swallow his bugle, or "bust" something in his innards very essential to his well-being.

By Oscar Luedtke, Band Leader, 55th Artillery, Fort Kamehameha, H. T.

The Jews, under their leaders like Joshua, fought to the strains of a trumpet band, and the blaring brass added not a little to the discomfiture of their enemies who were not similarly equipped. The Greeks employed martial music to encourage their warriors, as did the Romans long before the days of Caesar. In fact, the stimulating effect of a march or quickstep in arousing patriotic sentiment or in reviving tired and jaded bodies was recognized very early in warfare.

In the Middle Ages the Crusaders sang as they marched, and while much mention

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up from the British Infantry "Tattoo." "Tattoo" as a call can be traced back to the Thirty Years' War (1615-1643) when it was established by Wallenstein. “Zapfenstreich" was the name given it by the soldiers and exactly describes the purposes of the call. It was the signal for the end of the night's beer-drinking bouts and other revels of the troopers. To insure this the Provost Marshal would proceed to every sutler's booth-the equivalent of our canteens- to see to it that the bung (Zapfen) was in every barrel. To make sure that they were not disturbed until his morning's call of inspection, he would draw a chalk-line (Streich) over them. The sutler, next morning, was subjected to heavy penalties if on scrutiny it was found that the line had been disturbed. Our term "Tattoo" is a corrup

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"Tattoo," which means "lights out," is another call that is seldom popular with the Regular establishment. It is a very beautiful thing from a musical standpoint, the longest and most complicated of all the calls, but it sounds invariably when a man, lying on his bunk in sweet contentment, is just at the most interesting and absorbing part of the story, and he has the alternative, either of going to bed at the unearthly hour of nine o'clock or of descending to the recreation room, where the radio is screaming grand opera or telling a bedtime story, or where disputatious comrades are playing cards or talking. No, Tattoo is not a popular call, either.

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Drill Call is another that fails to cause the glow of martial ardour to suffuse the soldier's cheek. In fact, outside of "Chow Call," in manuals called "Mess Call," and "Taps," the reaction of the military to their comrades' sounding brass very seldom partakes of feeling that could be described as tender or romantic.

Perhaps the knowledge of the antiquity of bugle calls, and the consciousness that, even though First Call for Reveille does disturb the progress of his sleep, it has done the same for countless generations of soldiers, may serve to soften the attitude of the military man toward the trumpet and bugle of the Service.

Almost lost in the mists of antiquity is the origin of our modern brass instruments. The cow's horn was the first bugle and in the Old Testament historians find the first reference to it as a means of military signal. The ram's horn of the Bible is a variation, and in Jewish ceremony to this day plays a part in religious observances.

of musical instruments of any kind is not made by the ancient chroniclers, no doubt they were present, familiar as they were to most of the knights from the hunting horn even then popularly used. It is said that the favorite marching song of the warriors of Western Europe who were intent on freeing the Holy Places of the Christian faith from the heathen was sung to the air familiar to us as "We Won't Be Home Until Morning." Certainly that tune is of great antiquity and is known in practically every land. The origin of some of the calls used today in the American Army is lost, but most of the more familiar bugle signals were derived from European armies and adapted. "Tattoo" is the most elaborate of our calls. It consists of twenty-eight measures, the first eight of which are the French "Lights Out" and were formerly played in our Army for "Taps;" the the rest of the measures were made

tion of "Tap-to" or closed, and is obviously derived from circumstances similar to "Zapfenstreich."

We retain the French Infantry "Reveille," and "First Sergeant's Call" is taken from German Army signals. "Retreat" is of very ancient origin and is one of the few calls known to have been used by the Crusaders. The oldest bugle calls preserved in notes are to be found in a composition published in Antwerp in 1545, "La Bataille," by Jannequin, describing the Battle of Mariganno in 1515. Not a few of those ancient battle signals can be found at least reminiscently in our calls of today. The bugle and the trumpet are two separate and distinct instruments, the former smaller and so shaped that it tapers from the bell to the mouthpiece, the latter is of the same diameter for its whole length until it reaches the flare at its extremity. The trumpet is more of a music-producing device than its smaller contemporary and its chief use is for so-called bugle bands. The bugle is much shriller and more penetrating in its tone -a quality which made its strident notes distinguishable even above the din of battle. Both instruments are limited in their range to about an octave. The various notes on the bugle are obtained by lip pressure and use of the tongue, the lips compressing as the notes rise in pitch, with a corresponding increase in "wind" necessary on the part of the musician to accomplish them. The more expert players are given to what is known popularly as "triple-tonguing," which adds (Continued on Page Eleven)

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NE of the peace-time duties of the Recruiting Service is to bring to the attention of the people of the United States the other things that the Army does besides fight. Epoch-making advances along the lines of science and engineering have been the almost constant history of the Army since the Revolutionary War, but, with all due respect to the Service as such, it has not made capital of the fact by judicious advertising.

At present the United States Army is subsidizing and conducting an around-the-world flight which is occupying the attention of the press of the world. The man on the street is intensely interested in the progress of the flight, inasmuch as our national prestige will be greatly boosted as a result of the successful encircling of the globe by the intrepid aviators who are carrying the Stars and Stripes, especially since a British plane is providing them some spectacular competition on their extremely dangerous venture.

Since practically every true American is following the progress of the Air Service representatives, through the medium of his daily newspaper, any well

executed and properly displayed graphic representation of the flight will excite his attention. The two cuts on this page show a large map, "Progress of Around the World Flight," which is proving an excellent advertisement for the Recruiting Servite in Des Moines, Iowa. Designed by Captain J. P. Glandon, Recruiting Officer, it was constructed and painted in oil by Pvt. Hans Forrer, D. E. M. L.,

R. S., and is located in a large rotur in front of the Frankel Clothing Co pany of that city.

The outside dimensions of the map 32 inches by 9 feet. The land is sho in brown, with the coast outlined in de blue and the water colored a light bl The route to be covered by the Ame can flyers is indicated with a red line, a as the flyers progress, this is changed

yellow, small Americ flags designating the e act location of the flye at all times. The sp where Major Mart crashed is represente by a small crushed to airplane.

A panel to the left o the map shows a sum mary of the flight from its beginning, the num ber of miles and flyin time of each jump, and the total miles and fly ing time to date. On panel to the right of the map are carried the lat est cable and wireless dispatches, which are received by special arrangement with the Associated Press. Through the courtesy of Mr. W. H. Chamberlin, who piloted the Fox News photographic plane accompanying the flyers from Los Angeles to Seattle, actual photographs of the flight are

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weapon was used for the first time during the World War, the possibilty of its employment had been considered often. In 1899 at the First Hague Peace Conference the matter of asphyxiating gas was referred to a special committee and voted against by representatives of Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Norway and Sweden, Japan, Holland, Denmark, Turkey, and Italy.

The United States refused to vote "No" on the proposition on the grounds that the matter had not yet reached a stage where an intelligent opinion could be expressed that no shell capable of emitting such gases had been yet perfected and that there was no real data on which to base the statement that the use of gas would be cruel and perfidious. Great Britain took the stand that any prohibition should refer only to such shells-whose invention was more than improbable as emitted asphyxiating gases. When the matter came up again before the Peace Conference, the United States again took a stand against a resolution prohibiting the use of projectiles whose sole object was to diffuse asphyxiating gases.

Under the circumstances, then, the

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War-Time Weapon and Its Counter Agents A Source of Continuous Peace-Time Study

of chlorine gas. This was notice to the Allies that the Germans intended to place no limit on means to win the war and that it behooved them to set about at once to devise means of defense and to turn the enemy's weapons against him.

Allies in the Great War gave no particular thought to this sort of weapon, assuming that the enemy would observe the rules of The Hague Convention, especially one to which they had so consistently given their approval. But in this as in other matters the Allies did not know the stuff of which their enemies were built.

On the morning of the 22nd of April, 1915, the Canadians and British in the trenches at Ypres noted with curiosity a yellow cloud that was rolling across No-Man's Land. The next minute they were strangling and choking as they breathed in the fumes

and boots.

They were successful in both, and Germany was probably a loser by the introduction of the use of gas. Before the end of the war the Allies were easily out-gassing her and were more successful in the manufacture and use of masks, both of which results were due largely to Germany's lack of raw material. The effective blockade kept her from getting the things she had to have to produce gas in the huge quantities needed or to make the right sort of masks.

However, Germany's action has definitely made gas a weapon which must be reckoned with in any future

lum consists of three courses: the Regular course, the Line and Staff Officers' course, and the Enlisted course.

The first is prescribed for Chemical Warfare officers, including the National Guard and Reserves, and has for its scope the technique and tactics of chemical warfare and includes the duties of Chemical Warfare officers within the division. It is of three months' duration.

The Line and Staff Officers' course is

for such officers as the War Department may designate from all three branches of the Army. This course, two months in length, has for its scope technical instruction in chemistry and physics and the characteristics of chemical agents, and application of these agents with particular reference to pro

tective and defensive measures.

The Enlisted course is intended primarily for line personnel. Three months in duration, its scope includes instruction in properties of chemical agents, their general tactical use and the care and application of protective

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Instruction in the school is given by three departments-Technique, Military Art and Research, and History. The Department of Technique teaches fundamental chemical principles gov erning the use of chemical agents and their properties and effects, and also (Continued on Page Eleven)