The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-07-26
BOARD
FACES HARD TASK
Army Officers Must be Retired. Oues.
ti0n of Morale.

tl0n or Morale.
Washington, July 24.-Thc board of
general officers appointed to under
take the most wholesale "plucking"
Job ever initiated among the regular
army organization will enter at once
upon the duties to which it has been
assigned. The first meeting will be
held tomorrow with Mai Gen. Joseph
IT. Dickman. retired, presiding as
president 1t was to have begun on
ieratiOns towards the elimination or
Idemotion of some $500 officers today.
but was held UP by the absence of
tone member.
Members Of the board which is rep
reSentative Of all arms of the service,
were greatly concerned in their pre-
liminary discussions today over the
probable effect uDon the morale of>the
army of the suspended sentence now
hanging over the head of practically
every officer in the service with the
exception of General Pcrshng and a
bakers dozen of second licutcnants
now In inc army.
Congress, in directing that the Off
GERS CORPS be reduced by January
to 10000, did not include the general
ollcers of the army in fixing the num-
Der to be retained in each grade The
jWar department, in preparing instruc-
tons for the "plucking board" did in
iciudc the general officers in so far as
retirement of any of the major or
,brigadier generals for physical dis
liability would create vacancies and per-
NIT the appointment Of colonels to
general officer rang. reducing the num-
Der OF surplus colonels to that extent.
lnerc appeared also to be much con
Germ among board members as to the
view army officers might take of The
boards action in recommending any
officer for honorable discharge. Pre-
Ilmlnary investigation indicates that
Iprobably more than 100 officers now
on the rolls must be Separated" from
the active service in this way The
board, it is understood, will seek by
every means to impress upon the army
and upon the general public the view
that discharge under these conditions
in no way reflects upon the character
of the service discharged officer has
rendered and that in a majority of
the cases at least, the army would
much prefer. to retain these officers
services,
Board members are understood to
feel that there is little prospect Of find
ing many officers now on the rolls who
merit discharge. The army recently
cleaned house in this regard on it's
own motion and the suggestion of Gen
eral Pershing to congress that, the
strength of the CORDS be fixed at 13, 500
was based uDon the efforts then in
progress to get rid of unsuitable Of
ilcers in the way congress previously
had crowded through efficiency ratings
and the "Class B" ratings.
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