Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-14
NAME COMPANY OFFICERS
EACH DAY AT FORT MYER
Applicants for Commissions Tut In Flu
tire Charge of Respective Conn
Pantes for Sl-Hour Period.

kHc ShdFSe OF respective Com.
Pantes for c4-HOur Period.
WASHINGTON. July 13.-Henry J..
Spalding, OF Hyattsville. is one of four
teen men selected at tho Fort Myer
training camp for reserve officers yes
terday to report for instruction Mon
day at tho aviation ground school in
Princeton. N. j. Each week hereafte
n large group of men Will be assigned
from the camp to the aviation school.
Others named yesterday wore: Cliff
ford w. Allsop. Newark. N. j.; Matthew
l.. Cahill. Montclair. N. j.: John W.
Wood. Blacksburg. Va; Henry w.
Crumbaugh, Wilmington. Del; Edward
NJ. Field. Jr.. Elizabeth. N. j.: Robert
=. II. Mclean. Baltimore: William X.
Andrews. Jr., Roanoke. Va: Holbrook
B. Cushman, Princeton, N j.; Arthur
NJ. Billiard, Upper Montclair. n. j.: Wal
worth p. Pattison. New Brunswick, n.
j.; Godfrey l.. jacob. Orange, n j.:
James b. Rocky. University Of Virginia.
and Emo Campbell. Bernardsville, N. ].
The speeding-up process started in
good earnest yesterday. when an
nouncement OF new system was made.
This provides for applicants for COM
missions to be named each day as cap
tains. lieutenants, platoon commanders.
guides and corporals to take entire
charge Of their respective companies
for one day. Heretofore the officers
have been changed in each company
each week.
Sham battles in the territory near
the camp are the order OF the day and
each branch Of the service gets actual
field experience.
To vary the routine Of the camp life
speech was made last night in the
y. N. G. A. recreation hall by Speaker
Champ Clark. who was the guest of
Colonel Charles w. Fenton. the camp
commandment He impressed upon the
men the privilege that they are en-
joying and the duty that is theirs to
fit themselves for the great task before
them. He told them that they will be
not only officers of a great national
army. but that they will be given the
glorious privilege of leading their men
In the final actions of great war for
humanity.
Abraham Lincoln was elected Presi-
dent of the United States because of a
quotation from the Bible which he Wig
orousiy employed" said Mr. Clark.
That quotation was. a house divided
against itself cannot stand
The Continental Congress in the
days Of the Revolution. even with the
poor Treasury balance II had. sent to
Europe and bought 10000 Bibles for
its soldiers. don't know whether this
Congress will appropriate money to buy
Bibles for soldiers. but IL II doe not.
the people OF the United States will so
down into their pockets and provide
them"
There was large attendance Of
guests last night for the regimental
review ard drill by battalions with
fixed bayonets. Captain A. H. DoiS
was regimental commander. and the
battalion commanders were Mai. Arle
c. Whitaker Of the New York Military
Academy. Cornwall on the Hudson;
Major Richard stockton. Jr.. comman-
dant OF the Bordentown tN. J) Mil
itary Institute. and Major Henry A.
Du Rubiou Of Washington.
Three men from the camp have been
designated assistant instructors.
These are Major Stockton, Captain
Evelyn A. Harrison. of Baltimore and
Lieutenant William s. Manning. Jr., of
Washington.
National suardsmen in the camp re-
ccived their full pay of 800 a month.
the same as the other candidates for
commissions. for the first time yester-
day. instead of the $50 a month they
have been receiving.
Applications for ordinance work and
for the Quartermaster Corps are being
filed to-day with the company officers.
This Is In response to notice by Cap
tain Conrad S. Babcock. the adjutant.
that twenty men will be designated for
ordinance commissions and 200 for the
Quartermaster Corps.