Polo in the Fifth Corps Area Major H. E. Mitchell and Lieutenants R. D. Delehanty, Donald M. McRae and R. M. Thoroughman, representing the 5th Corps Area Headquarters, Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, played a team from the 10th Infantry, Fort Thomas, at Cincinnati February 14, at the riding hall of the Cincinnati Polo Club as a preliminary to a match between the British Indoor Polo team and the Cincinnati Polo Club.

Leather Belt to be Worn by all Soldiers

Latest instructions from the War Department authorize the wearing of the leather waist belt by all soldiers "when not under arms." The belt with brass ornaments will be issued to each soldier as equipment. Where bronze ornaments appear they will be polished brightly. The date for the wearing of the belts is to be decided by camp commanders. The belts will not be charged to the soldier but will be issued as equipment.

N. Y. Guardsmen Elect Officers

Colonel Charles I. Walsh, of Albany, commanding the 10th Infantry regiment, was elected president of the New York National Guard Association at the annual meeting at Albany. Other officers elected included Colonel Robert W. Marshall, New York, and Colonel John S. Thompson, Medina, vice presidents; Lieutenant Colonel William J. Costigan, New York, treasurer and Lieutenant Commander W. H. Ferguson, Naval Militia, secretary. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Olmstead, chief of staff of the 27th Division, announced that the annual tour of field service of the regiments in the eastern part of the State would take place at Peekskill, August 26 to September 9.

Bill Seeks Sale of Forts The House Military Committee has reported a bill providing for the sale by the War Department of a number of historical forts and other Government reservations. Places to be sold include:

Maine-Forts Baldwin, Edgecomb, Knox, Machias, McClary, Popham and St. Georges (Robinson's Point), and North and South Sugar Loaf Islands.

New Hampshire-Sagamore Reservation and Portsmouth Gun House at Portsmouth.

Massachusetts-Gloucester Gun House, Salisbury Beach and Fort Standish (Old).

Rhode Island-Fort Mansfield. Connecticut-Lighthouse Point, about five miles from New Haven.

New York-Plum Beach and Fort Tyler.

Maryland-Forts Armistead, Carroll and Foote.

Manual For Chaplains.

A memorandum issued by the Chief of Chaplains, Colonel John T. Axton, says that Chaplains Yates, Scott and McKenna constitute a board that has been appointed to make recommendations concerning a Manual for Chaplains. They will examine the several manuscripts that have been presented and submit material that may be published in pamphlet form for the benefit of the thousand clergymen who are now identified with the Army as chaplains.

New York State Medals For French Generals

Colonel Arthur Little of the New York National Guard decorated three French generals and two other officers with the Conspicuous Service Medal of the State of New York in Paris on Feb

ruary 18. The ceremony took place in the Neuilly barracks. The officers decorated were General Gouraud, General Oisselle, General Legallais-Lebouc, Captain Andre de Fouqu'eres and Lieutenant Tessier. All five belonged to the French army corps in which the 369th United States Infantry served in action during the war.

Training Camp Annuals.

The success of the souvenir C. M. T. C. booklets which were published in the 5th, 6th and 7th Corps Areas during the last training season has resulted in an almost universal demand for their continuance during the coming summer according to a statement issued by the the C. M. T. C. A.

The Mess Kit, Preparedness, Jeffersonian, and Citizen and Barracks Bag were published and circulated through all of the camps in the upper Mississippi valley. This year, due to the requests from most corps area commanders, Doctor James, the publisher, intends to extend his activities greatly.

The books are bound in linen, are illustrated with pictures of various units of the camps and with scenes of student activities. Those of last year were in great demand by the men attending the camps, as souvenirs of the summer training.

Plans for West Indies Air Route

About March 1, six officers under command of Major Thomas G. Lamphier plan a flight from Kelly Field, Texas, to San Juan, Porto Rico, and return. The purpose of the flight is to show the feasibility of establishing an air route to the West Indies. The Chief of Air Service announces that he intends to ask the War Department for authority to extend this flight during the next dry season through the Leeward and Windward islands along the northern shore of South America to the Army flying field at Christobal, Canal Zone. The return route would be made via Central America and Cuba.

Court Victory for National Guard

The National Guard of New York scored a victory before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court recently in its decision against the suit brought by Anthony Bianco, a private in the 258th Coast Artillery, to free himself from military service. Bianco, whose enlistment was accomplished without the consent of his parents when he was but 16 years old, on December 20, 1920, is held not to have come into court with clean hands, "having fraudulently mis-stated his age when he enlisted."

In an opinion written by Justice Victor J. Dowling, the court, while declaring that the State courts have jurisdiction in National Guard matters, decided that the matter of releasing enlisted men from service in case of mis-statement of age or other contingency is one for the Governor alone to pass upon.

Fliers Bring Rain with Electric Sand

Precipitation has been caused and clouds made to disappear in a series of experiments conducted at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, by several civilians in cooperation with the Army Air Service, Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell University, and L. Francis Warren, civilian experimenters, assert that clouds were made to disappear and precipitate the'r moisture by the dropping of electrically charged grains of sand from airplanes. The experiments which have been in progress at McCook Field for the last year and a half will be continued at Moundsville, W. Va., on the Washington-Dayton air route and possibly at Washington, where the fog conditions are more frequent than at Dayton.

In announcing the success of the experiments, Mr. Warren said that elaborate scientific researches had shown that a particle of atmospheric moisture carrying an electric charge had a tendency to grow in size, even under conditions so adverse to enlargement as to cause uncharged drops to evaporate, the theory being that the electric charge diminishes the surface tension of the drops.

ON RECRUITING SERVICE "Old Five-Striper" Writes to

Buddy Back in Outfit

Dear Joe: Well, I been on this here ecruiting job a couple of months now and ot so I think it's jake. At first, like I old you, I wanted to string along with he Battery same as usual and didn't want o be one of them there gilded bricks.. I vas wrong tho, this is a man's job. I'm elling you right, Joe, I get a kick out of t. One of them peaked dudes comes up o me just after they puts me out alongide off of these here hickeys they call "A board," which same is only a stationry sandwich man, Joe, and I see the poor kid alooking at the sign and then me. The poster told all about traveling in the Army and this interested him but mostly he was watching me. As you know, Joe, I ain't no slouch of a military figger, if I do say it myself. Didn't I always make orderly in the old days?

Anyhow this kid looks over the board and me, and I says to him, "want to learn a trade, young fello, and have your uncle pay you for it?" "Yeah," he comes back, but not enthusiastic like, and he keeps looking at my stripes, you know, Joe, them new ones on the blue background. "Well son," I says, "here's your chance, and like the dope is printed there, you can learn whatever you say you want to so as to give you a job when

you get out."

"'At's fine," he admits, "'at's nice. Say, do they ever get to shoot them big guns in the Artillery? What I mean is, do the soldiers honestly fill 'em up and shoot 'em same as in the war?"

Then I see I been shooting the wrong dope

to this lad. You got to

use sikology on this job, Joe. I see that what this here boy wants is to stand by, pull a lanyard and ride a horse and all of them kind of things, same as me and you used to do before 'la guerre.' So I tells him all about how they do it. I ain't sure of him tho, he don't look like no soldier. Like I says before he's kind of a spindlin' lad.

Well, Joe, that kid signed up for the Field Artillery and I was so busy that I almost forgot him. Not quite

tho, he was my first recruit since I had this white collar job.

One day as I'm standing looking over the foot passengers going to my place I feels a awful wallop between the shoulder blades and turns around intending some fresh fisical himirist on the horn and who do you thing I see? Right the first guess, Joe. Here stands this here fello I was telling you about and what do you think? He's a corporal, a corporal with a red hat cord and as straight and upstanding soldier as ever you see. Shakes my hand a la pumphandle and tells me how much he likes it and thanks me for signing him up and all of that. Gee, I felt the same as I did ten years ago when they made me a lance jack, you remember that Joe? It sure was great dope.

RECRUITING FOR GUARD

Securing Members Takes Much Time of Company Commander

"There is no demand that the average National Guard officer is called upon to meet that takes more of his time than that of securing members for his organization," writes Colonel Sydney Grant, commanding officer of the 13th Coast Defense, Brooklyn, in the New York National Guard Recruiting Bulletin.

The Colonel is of the opinion that a great part of this duty should be taken from the company commander. He says, "it would be just as fair to ask judges of our courts to go out and recruit jurors or principals of schools to go out and canvass for scholars as it is to call upon officers of the National Guard to secure their

Altho believing the method of National Guard recruiting at present in vogue to be unfair, he recognizes that the problem must be faced and quotes a regular officer, "a successful National Guard officer must have one qualification above all others; he must be able to recruit his company up to strength and keep it there."

Colonel Grant began his career in the National Guard as a private in the regiment he now commands. His experience, he says, leads him to believe that it is the better plan for an officer to handle the recruiting for his own organization than to depend upon a general recruiting agency.

As a captain Colonel Grant always kept his company up to strength and had a waiting list. Explaining this unusual feat the Colonel states that his company was always well disciplined, that men will be attracted to an organization which shows excellent discipline rather than to one in which it is lax, and that discipline leads to a high esprit de corps which makes every member an enthusiastic recruiter.

A good field for recruiting for the 13th, according to the Colonel, has been to interest big outside organizations by permitting them to use the armory and then the regiment puts on an exhibit in connection.

HISTORY OF FORT RILEY

Old Army Post Was Established in The Year 1852.

(Continued from Page Seven)" hence in 1866 the 7th Cavalry was organized at the post.

A. J. Smith was its Colonel and the famed George Armstrong Custer, the second in command. Elizabeth Custer in her book, "Tenting on the Plains," speaks very flatteringly of life at Riley in the late sixties. Shortly after its organization the 7th set out for the Indian campaigns of 1867 and 1868. Hostilities were pushed westward and northward, and Riley's brief period of importance as a center of operations was terminated.

The exceedingly small garrison of the post was not increased until 1869, when the organization of a school for light artillery was ordered. Four batteries of light artillery reported for duty commanded by Major John Hamilton. This early experiment of the service school idea endured a checkered career of two short years. In the fall of 1871 the garrison consisted of but one troop under command of Captain Adna R. Chaffee.

In 1884, General Sheridan in his annual report as Commander in Chief of the Army, emphasized the advantages of Fort Riley as a breeding place for cavalry mounts, and the need of a station which would answer the requirements of cavalry training. With this end in view the General recommended that a suitable establishment be developed at that post. Nothing was done to carry out this recommendation until the following year when Kansas Congressmen introduced a project for a school of cavalry and light artillery at Fort Riley. The act of 1887 resulted, which provided for the school and carried with it an appropriation of $200,000 for construction purposes. This was the beginning of the beautiful post and Cavalry School as we know them today.

Four years later the school was organized under the direction of Colonel James W. Forsythe of the 7th Cavalry.

A really adequate curriculum was not carried out, however, until 1904. In 1908 the name of the school was changed from "School of Application for Cavalry and Light Artillery" to "Mounted Service School." In 1917 the entire instruction personnel of the Mounted Service School was ordered away. From then until after the World War the post became a training center for reserve officers. Camp Funston was erected on the eastern part of the reservation at which the 89th and 10th Divisions were organized and trained for overseas service.

In the summer of 1919 the plan of having a service school for each of the several branches was decided upon. Under this plan the school at Fort Riley became known as "The Cavalry School" and took the form which now exists.

Brigadier General Malin Craig is the present commandant of the Cavalry School, and Fort Riley has become a cavalry post in every sense of the word. It is a thrilling sight to see horsemen in great numbers daily drilling and maneuvering over the green hills of the twenty thousand acre reservation.

(Continued from Page Three) very definite part in our system of national defense. In addition to the fact that from it Reserve officers are obtained, it also is a feeder for the National Guard and the enlisted Reserves. Corps area commanders keep the Adjutants General of the the various States in their areas informed of the standing of the various students upon graduation.

A study of the training programs for the R. O. T. C. units for the year will show the wide scope of the various activities carried on within those units During the school year the work is mostly theoretical, such practical work being given as climatic conditions will allow. The summer camps make up the deficiency of practical training. While there

is some theoretical training given in th camps, it is mostly practical. The studen learns by doing. Each branch of th service gives intensive training in it branch, and by these means are the qual ties of leadership developed.

Draft statistics having shown tha nearly 50 per cent of the young men o the country were subnormal and that care ful physical training would have correcte a great many of these disabilities. th War Department program of trainin lays stress upon this subject. As a con sequence, all schedules of training hav well-balanced programs of physical train

ing.

At camp, athletic games are arranged and a keen spirit of competition i aroused. Recreational programs are ar ranged; moving pictures and many socia activities all make the life of the camp very pleasant.

It is interesting to note in the follow ing data, the growth from 1920:

1922 1923

$3,100,000 104,123 No Data *Certificates of eligibility are issued to students who are qualified for commissions when graduated but who have not reached the age of 21 years. Commissions are issued to them when they have arrived at that age.

The foregoing tabulation shows conclusively that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps has justified its organization and that it is functioning most successfully. Its ever increasing supply of officers to the Officers' Reserve Corps and its possibilities as a feeder to the National Guard and the enlisted Reserves entitle it to the most loyal support of those organizations.