The Washington herald., 1917-09-13
Army and Navy News
Best Service Column in City.

Although it has been several weeks
since the names OF officers selected
for promotion permanently and tenn
porarily to the grades Of rear adj
miral, captain, and commander were
placed in the hands OF the Secretary
of the Navy by the selection board
and approved by the President, for
some unknown reason there has been
delay in the requisite formal recon-
mendation from the Navy Depart
ment to the White House that the
officers concerned be nominated 10
the Senate for advancement, and up
to this writing none Of the names
has been sent to the Senate. II
does not appear why the Secretary
OF the Navy has delayed the matter.
The efforts to have enacted pro-
vision of law allowing quarters or
the allowance of quarters for the
+; families Of army officers who are
on duty in the field have been re-
newed in view OF the fact that the
administration measure providing for
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men, but specifically confines that
part of the measure to them. SEN
ato- Watson, of Indiana, and Rep
resentative Gould, Of new York. are
expected to propose amendments to
the bill in line with bills hereto
fore offered by them. When the
army went to the Mexican border
the War Department decided that
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manent duty and not entitled to the
monthly allowance for quarters. The
same rule applies to officers now
in France and TO all recently COM
misioned officers OF the national
army. There is, however, opposition
TO further allowances for the mill
tary-naval personnel, particularly
among members o. the service conf
mittces of the Senate and House.
The following regarding the discom-
fort of tight collars on uniforms is
printed in the Army and Navy
Register:
Your correspondents have called
attention to the discomfort which the
American soldier is forced TO undergo
on account of the high and tight col
lar of his uniform. But the disCOm-
fort of it-bad as that isis a small
matter in comparison with its unhy-
gicnic character.
I'VE know now more definitely than
ever before the enormous importance,
for the preservation of health, of keep
ing the functioning of the skin at its
highest possible point of efficiency.
Invaiids are now sent South in the
winter not for the sake of a balmy
air to breathe, but in order that, the
body not being swathed in heavy
warm clothing, the SKIN can be kept
in its most active possible condition.
Clothing that is loose. as porous as
possible, and no heavier than warmth
demands is indispensable to good
health. To force the poor soldier, who
will need, in the trenches, all his pow
ers of endurance, to wear clothing so
ii hit in the neck that there is no
inflow of air to the skin of the body
is to give him a not inconsiderable,
and a wholly Unnecessary, handicap.
1T has been stated in the dispatches
from Washington that this matter of
clothing loose at the neck (such as is
worn by the English SOLDIER. is to be
taken up at once by the War Depart
ment. Certainly no time should be
lost in making this change, so far as
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erncd.
THE foolish way that men who are
not soldiers have of sticking to their
high, tight collars, as well as their
wooden clothing, throughout the heat
of the American summer, since there
is no official regulation of the matter,
can only be an instance Of the I'M
reasoning character of the human
mind.
CHRISTINE LADD-FRANKLIN.
Columbia University"