Base Depots Declared Surplus

The Quartermaster Base Depots at Charleston, South Carolina, Newark. New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virginia, have been declared surplus and will be advertised for sale, probably about the end of April. The Norfolk Base includes some 642 acres of land and cost the Government approximately $23,000,000. The cost of the Charleston Base was about $11,000.000.

Gift of "Lucky" Baldwin's Daughter

Thirteen pure bred horses, the gift of Miss Anita Baldwin, daughter of the late "Lucky" Baldwin, have been turned over by the War Department to the Remount Service for the purpose of breeding cavalry mounts.

The stock, which comes from the Santa Anita Ranch, owned by Miss Baldwin in Southern California includes some of the prize mounts of the famous Baldwin collection

Legion Wants Funds To Honcr Dead In order that a fitting tribute may be yearly paid to the graves of the soldier dead in Europe the American Legion is attempting to raise funds to finance uch an undertaking. They hope to have one hundred thousand dollars before Memorial Day.

According to Legion officials this will serve as an endowment fund, the int rest being sufficient to cover the annual expense.

Assistant Secretary Davis Decorated

When Dwight F. Davis, the new Assistant Secretary of War, was inducted into office, Secretary Weeks pinned on his coat the Distinguished Service Cross. It had been awarded Mr. Davis for extraordinary heroism in action and came as a complete surprise. The award was made before it became known that he was to be appointed Assistant Secretary. When the recommendation was laid before Secretary Weeks, who was aware of President Harding's intention to make the appointment, he decided to keep Mr. Davis in ignorance of the fact until the latter had qualified as Assistant Secretary.

As a major of infantry, Secretary Davis, then Adjutant 69th Infantry Brigade, was twice cited for gallantry during the war. After exposure to severe : hellng and machine-gun fire at Baulny Ridge, September 30, 1918, he displayed rare coolness and courage, inspiring the troops to hold against vastly superior numbers. He voluntarily organized such special duty men as could be found when an enemy counter attack had been launched and rushed them to various points of his brigade sector, this selfimposed duty necessitating continued exposure to concentrated fire.

Transports To Carry Athletic Equip

ment

Athletic and entertainment equipment to be carried by all Army transports is authorized in a recent order of the War Department. Boxing gloves, medicine balls, graphophones, and motion picture machines are included in the authorization.

A Regimental Zoo

The largest if not the only regimental zoo is the property of the 25th Infantry, stationed at Nogales, Ariz. The zoological garden is a spot in which all visitors to Camp Little are very much interested, according to The Bullet.

The latest addition to the animals was a fine pair of deer, presented to Colonel MacNab for the zoo by Mr. Frank Diamos, proprietor of a moving picture theater in Nogales. There are now on exhibition a wild cat, a racoon, two wild hogs, a brown bear, four deer, several captured wild geese and a monkey.

Local Military Committees Through the efforts of Major Pascual Lopez, executive officer of the 321st Infantry, the Chamber of Commerce, of Raleigh, N. C., has appointed a military committee which will have charge of all ceremonies and all matters of a military nature which may come before the organization. Major Lopez is presenting this idea to other chambers of commerce in North Carolina. Officers on duty with the civilian components of the Army of the United States will do well to give this matter consideration. With such a committee functioning in a chamber of commerce the requirements of the service may be presented to a definite body of men who are more or less familiar with the subject.

Americans Defend Polo Trophy

The Townsend Cup, international indoor polo trophy, will remain in the United States another year at least. Early this month the American trio defeated the British challengers in three consecutive matches.

The British team put up good polo despite their many handicaps. The saddles of the players were held up in transit so that they had to use American saddles to which they were not accustomed. This served to put a number of their ponies out of the game and the British were forced to draw upon the U. S. players for mounts. The superior mounting and better team work of the Americans were deciding factors in the matches

A museum of Chemical Warfare materiel has been established in the First Corps Area Army Base. Boston, open daily 9 to 11:30 a. m., and 12:30 to 4 p. m.

Soldier Fights Are O. K.'d The New York Athletic Commiss has granted the Second Corps Area 1 mission to use one professional licen boxer in the Army bouts in New Y State on condition that all gate rece are used for the promotion of sports the Army and that not more than such mixed bout be scheduled per me on any one post.

Identification of Officer When burial parties were going o the ground in France they found graves of Lieutenant Dana E. Coates an unknown officer near the railroad tion at Letanne, northwest of Stenay. the Meuse River. On the body of unknown who was evidently an offi was found a laundry mark "L. R. and a coat label bearing the name of hrm in Rochester, N. Y.

This clothing company could give facts as to the sale of the uniform, furnished the names of more than firms which sold their clothing, to all whom letters were written. A store Austin, Texas, replied that they had s one of these uniforms on February 1918, to Lieutenant L. R. Thrall, of School of Military Aeronautics, at A tin. Search of the records of the Fi Air Depot resulted in finding the f that Lieutenant Thrall of the 11th A Squadron had been buried by the ener in France after he had been killed company with Lieutenant Coates.

From these facts the body has be positively identified as that of Lieutena Thrall and his relatives have been notifi

Railway Engineers Reorganized

Names of American railway syster will hereafter appear in the military de ignations of the Railway Engineer un now being recruited as part of the Orga ized Reserves. Under the new plan bo officers and men of the units will occu about the same position they have in the daily work, the men reporting at a ca to the colors to officers who will be t same men now superintending them.

The previous reserve program call for organization of railway battalions corps areas and without regard to ra way systems. The new plan relieves the units from corps area limits, the pe sonnel to be drawn from any part of th system to which the organization is a lotted. Some systems, the Pennsylvan for instance, will have more than o battalion; that road having two battalion in Pennsylvania alone. It is stated th in the event of mobilization not mo than five per cent of the technical pe sonnel of any railway would be draw from the entire system under this pla preventing any shortage of skilled work ers for the railroad itself.

TRAINING PONIES FOR THE ARMY POLO TEAMS

(Continued from Page Three) as fifteen to sixteen pounds. So it averaged about twelve pounds of grain, one pound of bran and about fourteen pounds of hay. A lump of rock salt was kept in iront of the horses at all times. The horses were fed four times each day-at 5 a. m., 11:30 a. m., 4:30 p. m., and 9:30 p.m. A handful of bran was used in each feed. My reason for doing this, is that when the horse is tired, it is better to give him Something to digest. Fresh water was kept in front of the horses at all times. A good way to be sure that your horses have plenty of water at night is to instruct the men to give them all they will drink at the 9:30 feeding time, then fill the pail and leave it outside the stall, then when you inspect your horses before retiring for the night, place the pail before the horse yourself. By doing this, you can see whether he has been properly watered and that he is tied at the proper length. At the same time have a look at his feed box and hay rack. Watching the hay and feed rack and condition of the horse in general is what gives one an idea of how much work to give each horse.

The ponies should not have any hay on the morning of the game. This will keep them from blowing too much.

Aiter considerable experimenting. I found the following style of shoe the best: In front I used a hand-made steel rim shoe set in well at the heels and not too long. The hind shoes were hard to get right, but I think I have finally settled on the proper kind. This was done with the advice of Mr. Joe Ellison of Fox and Ellison, horseshoers at Westbury, Long Island. First, the shoe is a No. 1. light Phoenix shoe, sold by Messrs. Vought and Williams, New York City. The outside heel calk is round and blunt. about one-quarter of an inch high, while the inside calk is tapered thin and runs sloping toward the toe. The reason for this is that when the horse puts his foot down and stops straight on his haunches, the foot will not slip back, as it has the hearing of both calks. It will not slip forward, as it has full bearing on the outside calk, while the sharp inside calk cuts in enough to hold it. Then, when the horse turns on his haunches, the outside calk will hold the foot in place while the inside heel slips over the grass and prevents the horse from twisting on his ankle or hock.

About the care of the ponies during the game-it has been noted that the grooms are inclined to use cold water on the ponies when they are hot. This should not be done, as it causes the pony

12 Recruits in a Month Although he has been on recruiting service only three months, Private 1st Class Mike Gordon, D. E. M. L., obtained 12 recruits at Ashland, Ky., durng the month of February, and is considered a "star" by Captain Wiley L. Dixon, recruiting officer at Cincinnati.

PRIVATE FIRST CLASS MIKE GORDON

to cool out too fast which produces stiffness, removes the elastic condition of the skin and the color of the horse's coat. If you must use water, have it warm or a body wash is better. Any veterinarian will recommend a good body wash.

The pony should be blanketed and walked slowly between periods and not be allowed to cool out too fast. All ponies should be inspected carefully between periods in order to doctor smal! cuts and to see that the shoes are all right. All ponies should be kept moving before they go on the field. It keeps the blood in circulation and prevents that general shock to the system that necessarily follows when a horse goes from a cold standstill to a run at top speed.

In conclusion. I will say that I probably made a number of mistakes in training and handling the ponies, but they won the Junior Championship and there is no doubt that their condition was better than it had formerly been and as we always have something to learn about horses, I have no doubt that I would change some things.

Prize Drill Competition

The 20th Infantry is conducting an elimination contest to pick the best drilled company in the regiment. The winning company will receive a silver cup, the gift of Colonel Arthur L. Conger, who plans to hold similar competitions frequently during the year.

SUMMER TRAINING PLAN ANNOUNCED

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The training at the Organized Reserve camps will be based on a series of seven tactical exercises involving tactical command and staff functions of the combined arms of the division. Additional training will supplement these exercises in such matters as map reading and technique of the various arms.

Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

The reserve officers' training corps summer courses will be of six weeks' duration, commencing June 14. The training of the several type of units will be in accordance with programs furnished by the War Department, which have been prepared with a view to supplementing the separate courses pursued by the units at the colleges during the school year by training that could not practically be undertaken at the institutions It is estimated that approximately 9,000 students will attend these camps.

National Guard.

National Guard units will be assembled usually not in smaller units than the regiment, for 15-day periods. General instructions have been issued by the Militia Bureau with a view to standardizing the training as far as practicable in consideration of the fact that facilities for armory training are quite varied. The dates for the various un'ts have been determined through correspondence with state authorities in order to cause the least general inconvenience to the individual members of the National Guard.

Regular Army.

The summer work of the Regular Army will be directed largely for the purpose of guiding and facilitating the training of the other elements of the Army of the United States.

General.

In all of the summer training efforts will be made to direct the work so as to be of greatest peace-time benefit to individuals and communities. Physical examinations will be held to guide individuals in their own future development and the moral well being of the young men will be looked upon as an important trust. Parents and friends of those under instruction will be encouraged to investgate the camps and make recommendations for any improvements they may consider practicable.

The State of Arizona has requested the President to approach the question of negotiating with Mexico for a strip of land at the head of the Gulf of California.

PROBLEM OF INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION

(Continued from Page One) now charged with its preparation, and in the event of an emergency to be charged with its execution. This plan, when completed, will fail of its purpose if it is locked up in a safe and dismissed from our consideration as an accomplished fact. It must be made a living thing of vital interest to many trained minds, growing and changing from year to year as it develops.

This plan will lead inevitably to one conclusion that I must bring to your attention now. It will point out inexorably our shortcomings in certain finished materiel and strategic raw materials. It will show that unless we actually construct in time of peace sufficient reserves of certain vital equipment and accumulate working reserves of strategic raw materials that we cannot produce within the continental United States, we would not be able to hold our lines during the early period of the war. As a nation we are apparently content to assume that we shall keep control of the sea to the extent necessary to import these strategic raw materials. A plan for national defense prepared on such assumption is unsound, unless in time of peace the Navy is maintained on a basis that will enable it to keep control of the sea and so justify this assumption. In the accumulation through a period of peace of the vital equipment of munitions, we accomplish a second purpose, equally important, possibly more important in that we keep alive the art of manufacture of war munitions, which, once permitted to atrophy, cannot be revived easily or quickly.

Our most notable deficiency at the present time is in the matter of aircraft. The situation in the Army Air Service is most critical. Up to the present time this service has been using very largely equipment produced during the war. This supply is now practically exhausted. What there is left of it is rapidly disappearing due to deterioration and to the inevitable losses while in actual use. The amounts appropriated for the purchase of new aircraft are insufficient to provide what is necessary for even the normal peace-time equipment of the present small Air Service organization. The aeronautical industry in the United States, built up to large proportions during the war, has shrunken rapidly and is now practically facing extinction. Until commercial aerial transportation becomes a fact, the only demand for such equipment originates with the military branches of the Government. Unless the Government places with aircraft manufacturers sufficient orders to enable them to continue

in operation, the industry as such will disappear.

The Army Air Service is faced with this condition of affairs: Its war-time manufactured equipment has been practically used up. The amounts of money appropriated for new aircraft are SO small that within two years it will have on hand less than one-half the number of aircraft necessary for its normal peace-time work. There will be no aircraft to equip and expand the Air Service in time of emergency, no reserve on hand, and it will be impossible in less than a year to expand the remnant of the aircraft industry which may be left or to create it anew so that this material can be manufactured in sufficient quantity for use in such an emergency. This situation is not only serious, but is actually alarming. As an economic measure and likewise in the interest of national preparedness, the aeronautical industry in this country should be maintained in such condition that it can supply our peace-time needs and be prepared to expand adequately to meet a war-time demand.

The Army Air Service should be large enough and adequately equipped so that it would be prepared instantly to meet any air force which an enemy might bring against us. The importance of the role which the Air Service will play in national defense should be thoroughly understood and this component of the Army should be increased to its proper strength. The Air Service should then have a definite procurement program which would insure its proper equipment, replacements and a reserve supply of aircraft for use in an emergency, and until war-time requirements could be met by increased production. Such a program would call for an average expenditure of approximately $15.000.000 per year for the next five years. Thereafter this annual expenditure could no doubt be decreased. In addition to this expenditure for new aircraft there will be required approximately $10,000 000 for operating the Service.

While the sums just named are large. they are not incommensurate with the actual benefits which would follow their expenditure. It is strongly urged that the War Department and Congress should give serious consideration to this matter and that this necessary expenditure be authorized. It is necessary if we are to be properly prepared to meet a war-time emergency and at the same time it is of economic importance in order that the aircraft industry in this country may be kept alive, ready to respond not alone to a war-time demand, but to the demand for aircraft for commercial purposes which will inevitably eventuate within the next few years.

Over and above the results that it is hoped may be accomplished in carrying out the wise provisions of the Defense Act, which I have thus briefly sketched to you, I have come to realize that this work will contribute materially to an adequate national defense in another way. From these plans and from the data accumulated for them we shall be able to prove beyond a doubt the need for a carefully drawn legislative program to provide in time of peace the appropriations necessary for the accumulation, in adequate volume, of munitions of war and strategic raw materials. Without them the outbreak of a major emergency would find us not only unprepared but unable to prepare. It is, of course, farthest from my intention or desire to appear pessimistic, but what I really mean to say is that, in default of adequate provision having been made for the necessary elements above referred to-that is, without having the necessary airplanes and reserves of certain strategic materials, such as nitrates, tin, certain metal alloys and medicines, and the like-we shall never be really prepared successfully to meet the task imposed upon us by a great war.

The National Defense Act, as amended to date, is the clearest and most definite statement of a military policy which this country has ever had. Section 5a, which assigns certain duties to the Assistant Secretary of War, is the first official recognition which has been given to the fact that military plans must remain incomplete and inadequate unless proper consideration is given to the industrial questions involved in the production of military supplies. It is evident that the military plans prepared by the General Staff, and the industrial plans prepared in my office must be closely coordinated and harmonized.

The military plans which are prepared by the General Staff form the foundation of the industrial plans for procuring supplies. I feel that this report would not be complete without expressing the great appreciation which I feel for the interest which General Pershing and General Harbord have shown in the matter; their kindly interest and cooperation have done much toward insuring the progress which has been made on the plans to date.

You well understand my high appreciation of the service which has been rendered by the officers who have been detailed for work connected with my office, as I have frequently mentioned the matter to you personally. As I relinquish my present task I wish to thank you for the understanding and sympa thetic interest which you have always displayed; I feel that your direct and indirect assistance and support has done much to facilitate the task in hand.