Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Plans for Training in Field and
Garrison.


With the approval of the President,
General Bates, chief of staff. has prepared
an order designed to increase the efficiency
of the cavalry, artillery and infantry
branches. The order provides that the
practical training of those troops shall be
divided into two distinct garrison
training and field training. The former
win include gymnastics, foot and horse
: exercises. close order drills, ceremonies,
guard duty, riding, mechanism of extended
order. hygienic care Of the person. build
ings and grounds, swimming. etc. The
field training will include range finding.
practice marches. camping and such work
as will prepare the soldier for service in
time of war. In this training the regula-
ton field kit for each arm will invariably
accompany the command and on all
marches, maneuvers, drills and exercises,
and in that part of the target course
where prescribed, the kit will be habitualiy
.earried In the authorized way. There will
be one practice march q week, the infan-
try covering not less than twelve miles
and the cavalry and field artillery not less
than eighteen miles. There Will De one
march in each month of three consecutive
days requiring that two camps shaH pc
made. During that part OF the year II Is
also required that all ORGANIZATIONS shdlI
take the field for twenty-one consecutive
days.
Serious Military Legal Dilemma
The military authorities have been con-
fronted with peculiar administrative OBJ
stacle. and it is probable that Congress will
be appealed to for remedial legislation The
question involves the right of an officer in
command of a military post to keep objec-
tfonable persons off the reservation. 1t APP
pears that the keeper of an alleged dive
near an army post in Oklahoma undertook
to establish line of hacks between the
post and his place, with view to securing
more of the patronage of the post His
place was not of the best repute, and the
post commander was opposed to this plan OF
getting custom. He therefore ordered the
man and his hacks off the reservation, ana
when the man refused to go he arrested him
and put him in the post guardhouse, pend
ing trial. The man has now sued the ofncer
for false arrest and Imprisonment, and the
law officers of the government are prepar-
ing for his defense in the courts. Consid-
Grafton of the case has revealed the fact
that there Is no definite statute which au-
thorizes the commander of an army post to
exclude citizens, Objectionable or otherwise,
from a military reservation. Nevertheless
this supposed right has invariably been ex-
ercised in the cases of all unauthorized per-
sons attempting to enter certain posts, es-
pecially at the coast Notifications, where
national safety requires that the equipment
be kept secret In order to secure absolute
legislative authority for the protection OF
military reservations from intrusion, 1t is
probable that Congress will be asked to
enact law giving post commanders Tull
authority in the matter of admissions to
the military reservations under their COM
mand Only in that way will 1t be deemed
possible to protect the army officer in the
premises SO that he may avoid legal en-
tanglements similar to that into which the
Oklahoma post commander has become in
volved.
Endurance Of High-Power Guns.
Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the naval
bureau of ordnance, concludes, after careful
observation, that modern high-power and
high-velocity guns will require refining after
having been fired about one hundred times.
In the course of a year such a gun in our
navy is put through two practices pre-
liminary and record practice, in each OF
which it is fired from fifteen to twenty
times. In other words five and a half target
practices would make 1t necessary to refine
the gun at the end of two years and a half.
Admiral Mason also believes that it is nee
essary to practice at a target with these
guns.
1T is necessary, III the first place." he
said in his recent heating before the House
committee naval affairs, n order to see
that the gun will stay where it is and will
not tear things to pieces, and to see that
the mechanism of the gun-the parts of it
Will stand the strain that you going to
put on 1t In time of war; in addition to that,
to accustom the gun pointers to the shock
of the gun and all Of the conditions that
will surround them in ,battle--in fact, train
ing them And | think there number
of other things in connection with the con-
troll of the fire of the guns that render tar
get practice absolutely necessary We do
train these pointers a great deal before
put them to firing guns with charges
Cannot Use Title in Business.
The Navy Department has advised Civil
Engineer Franklin c. Prindle z. S. N, re-
tired. that he must take steps to have
changed the title of mining company OF
which he is the president and which bears
the name of the Admiral Prindle Mining
Company" Official complaint had been
made by q naval officer of the line against
Civil Engineer Prindle for. permitting the
use OF the word admiral in exploiting a
commercial enterprise.
Military School for Bakers.
Arrangements have been made to estab-
fish a subschool for bakers and cooks at
Washington barracks. The school will be
In charge of Capt. Francis j. Rooster of
The cavalry arm, detailed for duty as d
subsistence officer and recently on duty at
Fort Riley, Kan, in course of observation
at the school of cooking and baking at that
Poot- 1beie WIN po t"o VI THESE SUD
schools and they will form an important
part in the scheme of giving practical in
struction IN the preparation of food for the
army.
Allowances for Newspapers.
Instructions have been sent out by the
quartermaster general of the army regulat-
ing the purchase of newspapers and peri
odicals for military post libraries for the
coming fiscal year. The schedule for COM
putting the money allowances for that pur-
pose ranges from $40 for posts Of not less
than twenty men to $50 for twelve-company
posts.
To Graduate in Two Sections.
The class of 1907 Naval Academy will
graduate in two sections. The midshipmen
who make 35 per cent of the maximum on