Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-13
NEW ACTIVITY or GOVERNMENT
HAS ALREADY DISTRIBUTED
FIFTY sTALLloNs.
MEMBERS AGREE ON POLICY
Runners and Trotters Ars Best Types
and Racing Should be Encouraged to
ths End that Production Shall be
Continuous.
Army Remount.

Inc new ARMY RemOunt BOaru
which has undertaken the task OF pro
vidin. the fo(EG Of national defense
with horses of the proper sort, has es
tabllshed headquarters If Washington
and begun functioning. Already this
board, which Is made up of a mixed
military and civilian personnel, has
distributed through the country, In dis,
tricts suited to the quick production
Of half-bred horses of robust types, the
ffty-odd thoroughbred stations, most
Of them the gifts to the government Of
horse men and persons Interested In
racing and thoroughbred production.
that had previousl, been acquired by
the war department through the re-
mount board that was called into being
during the progress Of the grent war.
The military members OF the perma.
nent remOu. board are Major Gener-
ais William G. Snow and Jesse Mel.
Carter, Colonies +. s. Armstrong. John
s. Fair, Bruce Palmer and George H.
Cameron, Lieutenant Colonel John F.
Taulbee and Major Hayden Claiming.
Major Charming will not be classed as
a military representative on the board
long. When ne leaves the service.
which he entered for the term Of the
war, he will become one Of New Eng
land's civilian representatives.
Well-known Men on Board
The civilian members Of the remount
bonrd are Major August Belmont,
chairman Of the Jockey Club Of New
York, and one OF tho foremost thor.
oughbred producers Of the United
States; DR.. John H. Mohler, Of Wash
ington; ..rthur b. Hancock. proprie-
tor Of the Ellerslie stud, OF Virginia,
and the Claiborne stud, Of Kentucky,
and another great thoroughbred pro-
Queer, his Ellerslie and Claiborne year
lings having fetched total Of more
than $150.OO0 at the recent Santogu
eales; r. Ambrose Clark, Of New York:
Aigernon Daingerheld, the assistan,
secretary Of the Jockey Club: Major
Robert q. Strawbridge, OF Pennsylva-
mia; Thomas Hitchcock, Of New York.
and Captain Philip n. Walker, Of vir>
glnin. Captain Walker, a retired OIL
Ger Of the regular service Of the Uni.
ted States army, is breeder Of thor.
oughbrSas in Clarke Ouunty, Virginia
The military personnel Of this board
10 not to be permanent. Instead Of
picking the men best fitted BY knowl.
edge and experience for the work OF
directing, In conjunction With the civil
Ian membership, the production OF
horses for tho three great combat
branches Of he military service-cav-
airy. artillery and transport--and Civ.
Ing them permanent billets. the war
department has intlmated that It must
for fear Of violating a century-0Id trH
dltion, shift the military members of
the board from time to time so as /, |
give other officers their opportunities
This sort Of rotation is calculated to
prove wasteful and ineffective, but war
the world over are stick
lers for traditional routine and there
Is not help for It.
Two Types Of Horse.
The situation, as regards the wos.
of the United States Army Remoun,
Board may bo saved by permanent,
civilian membership. There can be no
question Of the sound sense and pruc.
.ical knowledge Of breeds Of horses
ind Of their general and specific use.
illness Of the civilian members Of the
,oard. To the success Of Major Bel
mont, whose Nursery stud has been
represented on American tracks this
'eason by Luculllte, the country's
greatest thoroughbred of matur
ears; by Man O'War, the outstandIn'
champion among thu two-year-olds
ind by Mad Halter; and of Mr.. Han
.ock, reference has already been made
iajor Hitchcock has won distinction
hese twenty-five years as a developer
4 cross-country performers. Mr.. Clark
Ike Mr.. Hitchcock, has been assoclat
ID with steeplechasing In the east, ami
10 has in the course Of the last two
ears rendered signal service and with
nut compensation to the army as O
lvllian member of the wartime re.
Mount board. Major Strawbrldge and
iajor Charming have spent the bet
err part Of quarter Of a century de,
clipping horses of the so-called hunter
ype, which are the sort that have rem
Tered the most efficient service to thu
rmies Of France and England In the
world struggle for liberty. Since the
ivillan m ,mbership is to be perma.
tent 1t is inevitable that the influence
t the civilian members will be power.
III, II 1t Is not controlling, In the
haping Of the policy Of the remount
oard.
Today the remount board, as regards
9th the military and civilian ele-
nents, Is unit on the proposition that
he association between effective ma.
lonal defense and the two types Of
orses that have not succumbed to
he overwhelming competition Of tho
utomobile and the motor truck, which
lmer.cans call thoroughbreds- the
unner and the trotter--is Of sovereign
Importance. The board IL agreed to
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