Evening star., 1925-03-15

iations for the Officers Reserve Corps
were promulgated this week by the
| war Department under Army Regu-
lations 1908, Army Regulations 140-
10 and Army Regulations 1920.
Army Regulations 140-15 is now in
the hands Of the Government printer,
and as soon as printed will be dis
triouted by the War Department.
Army Regulations 1908 covers re-.
serve officers not general officers nor
federally recognized members of the
National Guard; Army Regulations
140-10 deals with members of the
National Guard below the grade of
general officer: Army Regulations 140-
Is applies to general officers. and
Army Regulations 1920 prescribes
the examination for appointment to
the grade of general officer.
Greater interest is being evinced
by reserve officers perhaps in section
S. of Army Regulations 1905. which
governs promotion, than In any of the
others. The promotion system en-
bodied in the regulations is based
upon the fundamental principle Of
military efficiency that no person
should be promoted to military
office until he shall have demonstrat-
ed under reasonable tests that he is
qualified to perform the duties of
such Office If called to active service
therein. 1t is pointed out by the
War Department that the creation of
the certificate of capacity serves not
only a just procedure for peace-time
promotion. but it provides an eligible
list from which officers Will be Sc
lected for promotion to fill vacancies
in the event of war.
In order to be promoted during
peace time. a reserve officer must
o nf
secondly. there must be an appro-
pirate vacancy in the grade and sec
tion in the corps area, branch or ac-
tivity allotment made by the War De-
partment under the procurement OBJ
iective of the War Department gen.
eral mobilization plan: and thirdly.
he shall have served a minimum time
in grade in any component OF the
Army or in the federally organized
National Guard, or both, as follows:
AS second lieutenant. two years; as
first lieutenant. three years: as cap
tain, five years; as major, five years.
and as lieutenant colonel, three years.
Reserve officers coming under the
regulations and who are prepared to
undergo the written examination re-
ouired for one or more of the sub
jects prescribed for certificate of
capacity should apply for such ex-
animation through military channels,
to their regtmental or Independent
unit commander. by whom the appli-
cation will be referred to one of the
examiners designated to act as such
for his unit. Upon the successful
completion of the written examina-
,ions which are required for certtn-
cate of capacity. reserve officers viii
be given a practical test for final de-
termination of his qualifications for
this certificate. In order to take the
practical test for certificate OF ca
pacity for the next higher grade IN
the section in which appointment Is
held, the officer shall have completed
a minimum time in grade, as follows:
AS second lieutenant, one year; as
first lieutenant, two years; as captain,
three years; as major, three years; as
lieutenant colonel. two years. In
computing the minimum time for any
grade, double credit will be given for
active service in that grade or any
higher grade between April 8, 1917,
and November II. 1918.
An exception is made to those re-
serve officers. however, who served as
commissioned officers on active duty
for at least three months between
April s, 1917, and November II, 1918,
or who have been at any time COM
rnissioned officer of the Regular
Army, Navy or Marine Corps for at
least three years. Reserve officers
coming under this class may make
application for the practical test for
a certificate of capacity for the next
higher grade in the section In which
he holds appointment at any time.
rega rdles9 OF time served in anv
grade, after he shall have attain ed
the following ages: AS first lieuten-
ant, % years: as captain, 26 years; as
major, 81 years; as lieutenant colonel,
Sc years, and as colonel, SO years.
Should an officer be unsuccessful in
his effort to pass the practical test. he
will not be re-examined within one
year, and application must be made
for such re-examination-
Credit is also given toward qualifi-
cation for certificates of capacity for
satisfactory equivalent work already
done by reserve officers under War
Department regulations, including
equivalent satisfactory work at serv-
ice schools.
According to information recently
received by Lieut.. Col. John Scott,
Infantry, executive officer of the Organ
lied Reserves in Washington, the candi
dates for the citizens military train
ing camps, blue course, will not be
required to have served enlistment
in one of the components of the Army
of the United States. However. they
will have had to serve at least one
year either in the Organized Reserves.
National Guard or the Regular Army
before they will be commissioned as
officers of the Reserve Corps.
Announcement was made this week
by Lieut.. Col. Scott that SO medical
reserve officers in Washington and
vicinity will conduct, without charge,
the physical examinations Of the
young men residing in this area who
will attend the 1925 citizens military
training camps, 1t is urged by Col.
Scott that the young men who ex-
pect to take the approaching Summer
camp training go to the medical off,
Ger nearest their homes for their ex-
animation. These examinations Will
also be conducted by Capt. F. o. Stone,
NJ. c., in the headquarters. district of
ashington; Lieut. Col. Frankland,
United States Public Health station.
Post Office Building. Twelfth and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest;
naval recruiting station, 306 Ninth
street northwest, and Col. Thomas NJ.
Foley, Farragut Apartments. The list
of reserve officers is as follows. Coils.
Joseph NJ. Heller and Abram B. Hooe,
Lieut.. Coils. w. H. Littlepage, William
]. Mallory and Augustus c. Gray,
Majs. Watson w. Eldridge, Stewart
NJ Grayson, Rowland III. Ford, George
b. Jenkins, James w. Lindsay. Thomas
A. Poole. Eugene C. Rice, jr.. Win
throp A. Risk and Benjamin F.
Weems, Capts. Charles B. Campbell,
Jerome F. Crowley, Sidney c. Cousins,