The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-12-16
ARMY REMOUNT
| BOARD At WORK
NEW ACTIVITY OF GOVERNMENT
HAS ALREADY DISTRIBUTED
! FIFTY sTALLioNs.
MEMBERS AGREE on POLICY
Summers and Trottsrs Ar Bet Txo..
and Racing Should be Encouraged %
The End that Predweelen sAaN b
cSatiauOvs.
Army ReNsount.

Army RsMeuut-
The new Army RemOunt Board
which has undertaken the task OF pro.
yiding the forces Of national defense
with horses Of the proper sort, has %.
tablishsd headquarters In Washfrrton
and begun functioning. Already this
board, which II 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
frty-odd thoroughbred stations, most
OF them the gifts to the government Of
horsemen and persons interested In
racing and thoroughbred production,
that had previously been acquired by
the war department through the re-
mount board that was called into being
during the progress Of the great war.
The military members Of the perma-
nent remou- board are Major Geuer-
als William G. Snow and Jesse Mel.
Garter, Colonies +. S. Armstrong, John
9. Fair, Bruce Palmer and George H.
Tauibee and Major Hayden Charming.
Major Claiming will not be ciassed as
o military representative on the board
long. When he leaves the service.
which he entered for the term of the
war, he Will become one Of New Eng
lands civilian representatives.
WeIi-known Men on Board,
The civilian members of the remount
board are Major August Belmont,
chairman OF the Jockey Club of New
York, and one Of the foremost thor
oughbred producers of the United
States; DR.. John II. Mohler, Of Wash
hgton; Arthur b. Hancock, proprfe-
tor OF the Ellerslie stud, Of Virginia,
and the Claiborne stud, OF Kentucky,
and another great thoroughbred pro-
Queer, his Ellersl1s and Claiborne year
nnss having fetched totaf Of more
than $4,000 at the recent Saxatoea
sales: +. Ambrose Clark, % New York !:
Ngeruon Daingerdeid, the assistant
secretary Of the Jocksy Club Major
Robert e. Strawbridse, or Psnasyiva-
mia: Thomas Hitchcock. Of New YORK.
and Captain Philip NJ Walker. Of Viz
gsnia. Captain Walker, q retired ON.
Ger Of the regular service OF the Unit
ted States army. Is breeder Of thor
ouehbreds In Clarke County. 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 the three great combat
branches Of he military service-cav-
airy, artillery and transport-and CIV
ing them permanent billets, the war
department has intimated that IL must
for fear Of violating a century-old ira
dition, shift the military members OF
the board from time to time so as 70
give other officers their opportunities.
This sort of rotation is calculated to
prove wasteful and ineffective, but war
departments the world over are stick
lers for traditional routine and there
10 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 no
question Of the sound sense and prac-
teal knowledge of breeds Of horses
and Of their general and specific USE
fufpess Of the civilian members of the
board. To the success Of Major Bel
mont whose Nursery stud has been
represented on American tracks this
season by Lucullite, the cOuntry's
greatest thoroughbred of mature
years: by Man O'War, the outstanding
champion among tn, two-year-olds.
and by Mad Halter; and Of Mr. Han
cock, reference has already been made
Major Hitchcock has won distinction
These twenty-five years as a developer
OF cross-country performers. Mr.. Clark,
Ike Mr.. Hitchcock, has been asSOciat-
ed with steeplechasing in the east, and
ne has in the course of the last two
years rendered signal service and with
ont compensation TO the army as q
civilian member of the wartime re-
mount board. Major Strawbrdge and
Major Claiming have spent the bet
ter part OF quarter of q century de-
veloping horses of the sO-called hunter
trpe, which are the sort that have rem
dered the most efficient service TO the
armies Of France and England I'm the
world struggle for liberty. Since the
civilian m mbership Is to he perma-
nent II is inevitable that the influence
o. The civilian members will be power
nj, IL Ii is not controlling, In the
shaping OF the policy of the remount
board
To-Day the remount board, as regards
Doth the military and civilian ele-
ments. IL unit on the proposition that
the association between effective ma
aonal defense and the two types OF
horses that have not succumi,ed to
the overwhelming competition of the
automobile and the motor truck, which
Americans call thoroughhreds-t
runner and the trotter-is of sovereign
Importance. The board Is agreed to
man that not only must there be no