The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-12-17
NEW AcTIV TY OF covERNM EMIT
HAS ALREADY DISTRIBUTED
FIFTY STATIONS.
MEMBERS AGREE on POLICY
Runners and Trotters Are Best Types
and Racing Should be Encouraged to
the End that Production ShaIl be
Continuous.
Army Remount.

The new Army Remount Board,
which has undertaken the task of pro.
vid.ng the forces Of nutlon2l defense
with horses of the proper sort, has es-
tablished Headquarters IL 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
h'iy-odd thoroughbred stations, most
of them the gifts to the government of
horsemen and persons interested In
racing and thoroughbred production.
that had previousl. been acquired by
the war department through the re-
mount board hat was called into being
during the progress of the great war.
The military members of the perma-
nent remou board are Major Gcner-
ais William G. Snow and Jesse Mel.
Carter, Colonies +. S. Armstrong, John
81 Fair, Bruce Palmer and George FL.
Cameron, Lieutenant Colonel John r.
Taulbee and Major Hayden Claiming
Major Claiming will not be classed as
a 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
land's civilian representatives
Wel-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 Fl. MOhler, of Wash
ington; ..rihur b. Hancock, propra-
tor of the Ellersle stud, of Virginia,
and the Claiborne stud, of Kentucky,
end another great thoroughbred pro-
Queer. his Ellerslie and Claiborne year
lngs having fetched total of more
tEGn S150o00 at the recent Saratoga
sales; f. Ambrose Clark. OF New York
Aigernon DaIngerfeld. the assistant
secretary of the Jockey Club Major
Robert Il. Strawbridge, of Pennsylva
MIA Thomas Hitchcock, of New York,
and Captain Philip NJ. Walker, of vir-
g'nia. Captain Walker, retired OH.
GER of the regular service of the Uni
ted States army, is breeder Of thor
oughbreds In Clarke County, Virginia.
The military personnel Of this boari
is not to be permanent. Instead of
picking the men best fitted by knowI-
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 lie military service-cav-
airy, artillery and transport-and CIV
ing them permanent billets. the war
department has lntlmated that Il musr
for fear of violating u century-Old ira
ditlOn, shift the military members OF |
the board from time to time so ns - |
give other officers their opportunities |
This sort of rotation is calculated to |
prove wasteful and ineffective, hut war
departments the world over are slick.
lers for traditional routine and there
is not help for II.
Two Types Of Horses.
The situation. as regards the work
OF the United States Army Iiemonn,
Board may bS saved by permnnen.
civilian membership There can be no
question OF the sound sense ami prac-
teal knowledge OF breeds of nurses
and OF their general and specific use
fuiness OF the civilian members OF the |
board. To the success OF Major Bel
mont, whose Nursery stud has been /
represented on American trucks thls
season by LuculIite. the counIrv's |