Evening star., 1923-06-24
ARMY

Secreary Weeks will address the
graduates Of the Army War College
Thursday morning on the occasion OF
the annual commencement OF this post
graduate school of military science and
strategy.
This years class includes sixty-five
officers of the staff and line, all above
the grade of major. The list OF gradu-
ates is not yet completed, but 1t is
understood that approximately so per
cent of the student officers now enrolled
will complete their courses and receive
their diplomas from the hand of Sec
retary Weeks or Gen. Pershing, who is
also to be present at the exercises. AS
sistant Secretary of War Davis has
been asked to speak on the OCCASION
but the subject he will choose is not
yet known. The ceremonies will be
presided over by Maj. Gen. McGlachlin
commandant Of the college.
Gen. Pershing, who is sojourning with
friends in massachusetts, for a few days,
following his visit to the Wellesley
commencement exercises. will return
to his desk in the War Department the
latter part Of the week. The completion
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military camps awaits his attention. and
will consume the major part Of a week,
Ii Is understood While the details of
the trip are not yet made up and the
specific camps to be visited have not
been decided upon, 1t is understood that
he will endeavor to visit at least one
camp in each of the nine corps areas.
and may be able to inspect several
camps in each section Of the country.
Training for reserve officers in the
GaUarQl nn-
uled in all corps areas between June
IA and July 25: citizens military train
ing camps at twenty-seven points will
be held for a month. commencing in
areas up to August 2; organized re-
serves went into camp at Meade, Nd,
on June II, and activities at thirty
other camps will commence in July and
Sixty-six National Guard camps open
early in July and each will be in opera
ton for period of fifteen days
1t is obviously impossible for an in
dividual to inspect all the camps, but
, as Gen. Pershing is vitally interested
veloping new commissioned personnel,
it is expected that he will extend his
efforts to cover as many as possible.
He probably will leave Washington for
l. and may not return for, two months
He will be accompanied by his aide
Maj. George c. Marshall. L. s. A.
After, July I only men who have
reached the age of twenty-one years
will be permitted to enlist in the
Army without parental consent. This
law Is expected to handicap the
Army recruiting for a time. as the
age of such enlistments has been
parents. however. young men eighteen
years or more of age may enter the
service as heretofore.
Flyers. both in government and
commercial services. will be inter-
ested In the efforts of the airways
section of the Army air service to
develop standard airways throughout
the country. About month ago
there was instituted a new series of
loose-leaf publications known as Aer-
onautical Bulletins, written and ed
tied by Lieut.. B. S. Wright. A. S. A.
They comprise pocket-sized leaflets
on landing fields in various states,
with diagrams and notes as to foca-
tion. surroundings, marks and condi-
tion Of fields. To date forty of these
bulletins have been published. They
are available upon application to the
superintendent, Of documents. gov
each. Many more bulletins on fields
are in course of preparation, and an
other series, giving cross-country
routes, based upon the standardized
transcontinen air lanes, is being
planned. Pilots at fifteen Army flying
fields are now mapping routes be-
tween important aeronautic centers for
early publication.
The Society of the Sd Division will
hold its annual convention in Phila-
delphia July IS to Is. Army COM
manders have been authorized to
grant leaves of absence or furloughs
to officers and men overseas in the
3rd Division during the world war,
who desire to attend the convention,
provided their absence causes no in
reference in public service.
President Harding recently author
lied the continuance Of the present
recital and subsistence rates for
Army officers for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1924. This provides for
a monthly allowance of $40 per room
pending upon their rank. and a sub
sistence allowance of 60 cents per
diem, according to the Act of Con-
gress approved June 10, 1922.
The ordnance committee Of the War
Department met with automotive
engineers last week at Spring Lake.
| N. J., in an effort to draw up standard
specifications for cross-country
cargo carrying truck, suitable for
military uses in time Of war.
Sixty-fve officers were graduated
as communication experts from the
Signal Corps School at Camp Alfred
Vail, N. j., last week. Gen. Squier,
chief signal officer Of the Army, spoke
on the activities Of the corps.
Shortly after the trials of the giant
Barring bomber, now nearing COM
pletion at Dayton. Ohio, It is expected
that Lieuts. Wade and Harris Of the
Air Service will fly the -triplane to
Washington. Air Service experts are
anxious to show the new Army aerial