Evening star., 1924-06-08

-FOUR meetings
held during the coming week of the
organized Reserves, all meetings be-
ing heid in the Graham building. 14th
ana streets northwest. Tomorrow
night, Signal Corps officers; Tuesday
night Air Service officers; Thursday
night, regimental muster of the 320th
infantry: Washington Citizens Mill
tary Training Camp Club, Friday aft
ernoon at $3.50 o'clock.
At the May meeting of the reserve
finance officers, last week. Lieut.. Col.
Speakers Capt. I. Y. Todd. G. S A..
1lhance department., who is on duty
with the local reserve headquarters
rs assistant executive officer. spoke
on matters relating to the finance otii-
GERS.
The annual convention Of the Re-
serve Officers Association of the
United States for 1924 will be held in
columbus. and not Cleveland. as pre-
Niously announced. Gen. John Ross
Delafield president of the association.
will attend. No announcement has
been made relative to the candidacy
OF Delafield for reelection to this
office.
In furtherance of Gen. John j. Per
shing's reserve army idea, modelled
after the Swiss citizen army system.
L
serve Corps announces the opening
or country club camp for reserve
officers at Blauvelt, two miles west of
Nyack. \: Y. The military ton
combination at the camp is for the
purpose of fitting the officers to be-
come real leaders.
An effort is being made to obtain
t the approval of the Secretary of War
of the revision of the reserve Off
GERS regulations SO that they can be
distributed in time for the summer
training camps: 1t has been neces-
sary to revise the regulations to COM
ply with section 3S of Senate bill
o16s. which it is believed will become
law before the adjournment of Con-
sress. This is the provision that
IDEA for the Army of the United
States. Under it National Guard off,
GERS will be authorized to hold re-
serve commissions as long as they are
federally recognized.
The regulations will contain three
separate parts or grand sections. One
section will cover reserve officers be
low the grade of general officers who
The second section will cover those
who are in the Reserve Corps only.
and the third section will be an
nounCed later.
Local reserve officers of the 31Sth
F1eld Artillery and 320th Infantry are
brushing up on their technical stud
les in preparation for the coming
will be held from August | to August
10. Col. Heron. commanding the ar
tillery regiment has urged his officers
to perfect themselves in their studies.
The S0th Division, as an organization,
will not be ordered to camp-this year.
only three units of the division going;
the 313th Field Artillery and the 319th
and 320th Infantry regiments.
Plans are being perfected by the
War Department for the practice
mobilization of the Reserve Corps. in
cooperation with the Regular Army
and the National Guard. are nearing e
completion. The Reserve Officers As
sociation has taken up the matter and
unit mobilization plans for company
commanders prepared by Lieut.. Col. j..
A. Baer. L. s. A.. instructor at the
Army War College, are published in
the current issue of the Reserve Off
ton the T6e 6n an, srfan ned o5 the
preparation for M-Day. to include
completion of the training cadre and
preparations to receive selective serv-
Ice men, as well as organization. ad-
ninistration and training of the COM
pany. The mobilization will be held
on September IL. the day scheduled
for the retirement of Gen. John j.
Pershins from the Army. The mobili-
zation contemplated as a tribute to
the work of the chief of staff in per-
fecting the organization of the Army
of the United States.
A tentative distribution of funds of
the War Department for the training
of reserve officers for the fiscal year
1925 for the first time makes provi-
sion for training by the chiefs of
branches Of the branch assignment
reserve officers. The chief of ordnance
contemplates holding two large camps
and two smaller ones.
From the funds available, it is be-
lieved that approximately. sixty re-
part of the United States will take
two weeks training at Aberdeen
Proving Grounds, Md, from August 3
to August II.
The following second lieutenants
have been attached to the 320th In
fantry: Philip w. Dimon. John H.
Farrell, Frank A. Gould, Clarence g.
liam F. Murray, Everett M. Pershing,
Edgar F. Russell. Eugene 3. Schild-
hauer. Floyd NJ. Soule, Granger G..
Sutton. Francis E: feeling and Benia-
min w. Thoron, all infantry officers.
The militia bureau has adopted a
policy of Withdrawing federal recog-
milton from all companies receiving a
rating. of very unsatisfactory on the
annual armory inspection of last
spring, unless the state authorities
can show excellent reason why such
action should not be taken. Those
units with rating of 'unsa tisfac-
tory will be placed on probation for
few months in the hope that their
condition can be improved sufficiently
to justify continued expenditure OF
federal money for their maintenance.
Due to the organization of higher
headquarters. such az brigades and
divisions, as we'll as to the fact that 1t
is difficult to maintain National Guard
units on peace strength level the
days of low ratio between officers
and enlisted men in that service are
past. Beginning with a ratio of one
commissioned to thirty enlisted in
1919, the proportioned increased slow
Iy until it stood at one to twenty
due to the organization of regimental
headquarters. it rose rather sharply
to one to eighteen by the end of the
fiscal year 1921.
The ratio stood at the last. named
figure for an entire year. but since
1922. with the organization OF bril-
gades and division headquarters,
Coupled with the difaculty of holding
National Guard organizations at
nance strength level the proportion
has risen until it now stands at one
to fourteen. The militia bureau be-
lieves that II is not likely to vary to
any great extent from this point in
the future.
The following Regular Army Off
cers, who have been on outy win
various units Of the organized re-
dered to Camp Meade, Md, for duty
during the training period, as instruc-
tors in terrain exercises for the or
ganized reserves, June 20: Lieut.. Col.
C. H. Baird, cavalry; MAI. B. Lyer1y,
field artillery, and Capt. b. Moore, also
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