The Big Sandy news., 1919-12-26
NEW ACTIVITY OF GOVERNMENT
HAS ALREADY DISTRIBUTED
FIFTY sTALLloNs.
MEMBERS AGREE ON POLICY
Runners and Trotters Arc Best Types,
and Racing Should be Encouraged to,
the End that Production Shall be
Continuous.
Army Remoun..

- Nv WV AIllA b'HluhHi' i'ph'u'
wllcli has undertaken the task of pro.
NidIHG the forces snf national defense
Miill hnrseS Of the proper sort, has eS.
a'tiShed AeI1quarters lr Washington
.Hy1 begun functioning Already this
nunrd which is nude mp of n mixed
military and ciyiian personnel, has
flisrf.bitcd through the country, In dis
rlcis suliCd 70 the quick production
Wlalf.hrcd horses of robust types, The
ii,luld thoroughbred stations, most
filem thc gifts 10 The government Of
aerstmru and perSnps Interested In
Icug and thoroughbred production,
hat had prcviousl. boon acquired hy
ihr. war department through the re-.
wumJ hnnrd hat WAS called INTO being
during the prOgrrsS OF the great war
Tile military rncmberS of the perlna.
ucfii frmou hoard are laior Geuer.
MS William G Snow aud Jesse Mel,
CAujer Colnnefs +. s. Armstrong, John
: Fair, Bruce Palmer and George II.
fsmcrun, Lieutenant Colonel John +.
Cauhcc and Major Hayden Charming,
Major Chanting will not be classed as
- military representative on the boarI
ioDg. When he leaves the service.
Which h. riilcrcd for the term OF tbr
war, he viii become one OF New Eng
mud's civilian representatives
Wel.Known Men on Board.
The cIflhan nlemsers Of the rcumuui
Fnird arr Major August Belmont,
thdIwngn, of the Jockey Club nr New
Iul'k, aud one OF the foremost Ehor
ipghhrra producers az the unitrG
;5GNrS5 Br John II, Mohler OF WASH
nglon ryhur B. InncocR proprIe
Gur pi The t,llcr>lie srud, of Virginia.
lud tte Claiborne stud. Of KenruckN
nd Another great thoroughbred pro-
.llcrr. bis Ellcl.slie anil Chlhorip Year.
.NgS having fetched - toml nf more
hau Sl50,lgN ~ the recent Sarutuga
.acsEF ambrose Clark. OF New YORK
MgelunG FninccrAcld The assistant
srrlcfnfl pf the Jockey Club Muinr
l;pheri T. Sfrawbridge. of pennsylvn
Nr Thomas Ilitchcock, of New York.
aud Captain Philip NJ Walker, Of rir-
sinia Captain Maker. Il retired OH
Ger of The regular service Of the Uni.
led States army, is II breeder Of thor:
nu-tbrcdS IN Clarke County, Virginia
Tile military peEsnnnel OF this board
is not 10 hc permanent Instead Of
picking the men best fitted by knowl.
nd6e and experience Tor the work Of
directing, in conjunction With the cIvll
inn- membership, tile production o!
llorscs Tor tire three great cumbay
branches Of le military service cav.
airy. artillery and transport md Civ
Ing them permanent hillets, the war
department has intimalcd that II muSt
for fear of violating n century old ira
dition. shift tile military members Of
the bmI,d from time TO time so ~ tr
give other officers their opportunities
This sort of rotation is calculated to
prove wasfeful and ineffective. but war
the world over are stick.
lprs for traditional routine and there
Is NOT help for It.
Two Types OF Horses.
The situation, as regards The work
of the United States Army Remoun'
Board may b. saved by permanent
civilian membership. There can be ilp
Iprstion Of the so-md SENSE an,l prnc-
tcai knowledge OF breeds of horses
and OF their general and specific use-
fulness of the civilian members OF the
board. To the success of Mnior Bel
mont, whose Nursery stud has been
on American trucks this
season by Lucullite. the country's
greatest thoroughbred of mature
years by Man O'War, the outstandIn.
champion among tn two-year-olds.
and by Mad Halter and of MIR Han.
rock, reference has already been made ]
Major Hitchcock has won distinction
these twenty-five years as a developer
VI cross-country-nerfor Mr. Clark,
ike Mr.. Hitchcock, has been assocat-
I'd with steeplechasing in the east, aud
he has in the course Of the last two
years rendered signal service and with
cut compensation to the army as a
civilian member of the wartime re-
mount board. Major Strawbridge and
Major Chnnning have spent the bet.
ter part of II quarter Of century de-
reloping horses OF the so-called hunter
type, which are the sort that have rem
iered the most efficient service to the
armies Of France and England IN The
world struggle for liberty. Since lhe
civilian m mbership is to be perum
1ent II Is Inevitable that the influence
Df ihe civilian members viii be power
ful, II II is not controlling, In the
shaping Of the policy OF llic rclnounf
board.
Today the rem0unt board. as regards |
both the military and civilian clc-
ments, Is unit on the proposition iln. |
he association between effective ma
tionnl defense and the two types Of
horses that have not succumbed 10
he overwhelming competition OF fhe |
and the motor truck. which
Americans call lhoroughbreds--tlie
runner and the trotter--is Of sovereign
The board Is agreed to
/ man that not only must there be no
'arther interference through the