The Washington herald., 1917-06-20
Army and Navy News
Rest Service Column in City.

Another sketch of a prominent army
BRIG. GEN. GEORGE. O. sQU1ER.
Chief Signal Officer.
Born in Michigan on March q. 1866.
and appointed to the Military Acade-
my July l. 1853. Upon his graduation.
four years later, he was made a sec
ond lieutenant in the Third Artillery.
In 1899 he was transferred to the Sig
nal Corps 8 first lieutenant, having
| been advanced to that grade while in
the artillery. In 1903 he was gradu-
ated from John Hopkins with the
degree of Phi. d.
Gen. Squier is a man who achieves
things. While in the Signal Corps as
| a colonel he was placed in charge of
aeronauties and with but a limited
amount of money to eXpend he start
! ed out to develop this service for the
| United States army.
| His idea was to specialize in the
various branches Of this arm OF the
| service and to put the members of
| his. corps through most intensive
! training. The result was that when
| Congress finally awakened to a true
| realization OF what aeronaUtiCS meant
to an army and increased his appro-
| in a position to expend this appro-
priation judiciously. The result is
| that the American flier today ranks
! foremost among the fiers OF the
world.
1t is not a concealed fact that in the
respect of field kitchens the United
! States army is far behind the Euro
| pean armies. There has been agita-
! ton for years for field modern kitch-
| ems in which food can be cooked while
! the column in moving.
! No definite action has been taken
up to the present time, and American
| troops had to depend either on field
rations or on the antiquated and un-
wieldy cook stove. This has to be
unloaded and set up before a meal
Announcement has been made that
I a board Of officers has just been ap-
pointed to report upon the suitability
of rolling kitchens for the army. This
| board consists of Capt. w. H. Point.
| Quartermaster Corps; Capt. William
| N. Hughes. jr., general STAFF, and Capt.
| Campbell B. Hodges.
A firm in Jefferson, Ind, manufac-
/ lures these kitchens, and a number
will be shipped to Washington Bar
| racks shortly for q test. Army Off
ciais' are greatly interested in the
Strengthening of the culinary branch
| of the service.
Since most of the field operations of
! the army has been in a climate where
warm food is not essential to the
| health of the men, there has been no
| great demand for a travelling kitchen
| such as is now proposed. With the
! probability Of hard service in the cold,
i wet climate of Northern France ahead,
/ however, the need of such a travelling
| kitchen has become of the first i'm
portance. The travelling kitchens
/ which enabled the German troops to
| have hot stew and coffee at almost
| any hour of the day and night have
| proven one of the big factors of the
| war.
! The design by Frederick Wilson for
| the memorial of which Rear Admiral
! David Glasgow Farragut has been &C.
| cepted by the committee in charge of
the memorial Of which Read Admiral
! John c. Watson. U. S. N, is chair
man, and Comdr. Charles T. Jewell
| u. s. N, secretary.
The magnificent window is to be
| installed in the John Paul Jones Me-
! mortal Chapel at the Naval Academy
| through the generosity of the gradu-
ates of that institution. Since actual
; work has just ben begun on the me-
! mortal by the Gorham Company in
! New York City, it Is not likely to be
! installed before the end of the wear
Thirteen panels of stained glass are
| included in the design of the Farra-
! gut window. The three largest panels
are to be placed above the gallery in
the chapel. above which, in turn, will
| be seven ornamental panels to fill in
the round of the arched space,
The central panel of the three above
the gallery is based on the story told
by Admiral Farragut that in the