Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-17
@. M. C. HOST TO
BUSINESS MEN
>INANNIVERSARY
Propose Organization to Ce
ment Relations Between
Army and Industry.

Plans for effecting industrial prepared
ness for war and cementing relations be-
tween the Army and private business
concerns through the organization Of the
Society Of the Quartermaster Officers,
were outlined by Maj, Charles C. Drake,
O. NJ. c., U. S. A, at a banquet given last
night at the Claypool Hotel to Indian
apolis business men by members Of the
Quartermasters' Corps IN celebration of
the one hundred and forty-sixth ami
versary of that branch Of the Army.
Major Drake explained that in the in
terest of national defense the purposes of
Che society are:
- sTo promote the efficiency Of the
Quartermaster service of the United States
Army and maintain its best standards
and traditions; to preserve the spirit of
mutual understanding and helpfulness
that came into being during the World
War between the Quartermaster Corps
and business men of the country, and TO
help in effectinE industrial preparedness
for war by promoting affiiiatiOn and CO.,
operation between the Quartermaster
Corps of the United States Army and the
branches Of business and Industry in civil
quartermaster supplies in the event of
an emergency; to perpetuate and cement
the association among commissioned Of
ficers who have served or who may serve
with the Quartermaster corps; to en-
courage such of these officers as have
returned to civil life to retain their as
ISOLATION with the United States Army by
enrolling in the Quartermaster Reserve
Corps, and to disseminate for these Of
hcers professional knowledge that will
better fit them to properly discharge the
duties of Quartermaster officers to the
end Of that the Army may have available
an effective body Of Quartermaster off
GERS prepared for active service in the
event Of an emergency; to stimulate help
ful relations among commissioned Quar-
termaster officers Of the National Guard
and Quartermaster officers Of tie regu-
lar Army and the Reserve Corps to fos-
ter between the Quartermaster Corps and
other branches Of the service a helpful
spirit of mutual understanding of their
respective functions"
Col. S. T. Bottoms. Q. VI. C.. United
ates Army, presided at the dinner and,
n addition to a talk by him there were
addresses by John B. Reynolds, secre-
tary of the indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce and a lieutenant colonel in the
lations Of the Business Man to the
Army" Lieut.. Col. Theodore Schultz, F.
p, United States Army. who spoke on
subject of THE Army on a Cash
Sis" Howard VI. Gay. a major in the
NJ c, The Quartermaster Reserve
Eps;" Capt. John V. Rowan, Q. NJ c.,
led States Army, The Quartermaster
PSI Mai. Gen. George W. Read.
lited States Army. THE Relation Of the
r. Cuartermaster Corps to the Fihhting
Man" and Governor Warren 7. McCray,
"IndianA and the Armv"
CITE ACHIEVEMENTS
IN WORLD WAR.
Warm tributes were paid to the work
of the quartermaster corps during the
World War and during preceding wars
in which the United States participated,
and a message from the War Department.
office Of the quartermaster general, In
which the history Of the quartermaster
corps was outlined by Mai. Gen. H L.
Rogers, quartermaster general of the L.
S Army, was read by Col. Bottoms
Messages Of greeting were received
from other places in the United States,
where similar dinners were being held,
and one bearing greetings from Mai. Gen.
II. l. Rogers was received.
In his address on Relations Of the
Business Man u the Army" Mr.. Reyn-
olds said that the relations Of the bus
Iness man to the Army should be, in
fact, the same identical relations as ex-
|, Ist between business men and organiza-
tons. The Army is, IN the final anaiy-
sis, one OF the biggest businesses in the
word and the Quartermaster Corps,
which is tonight on this suspicious coca
sion celebrating its 14Cth birthday, IS
the active agency which handles a very
great part Of the business Of the Army"
He said that 1t is highly important
that industry should be so organized in
Pooperation with the Army that we will
De ready If war ever comes again. which
God forbid -