The Washington times., 1925-11-13

Inc eIeVALlOn OF GSnSr0l 6rOW2
to rank higher will mean promo
ton for Colonel Merch B. Stewart.
commandant of the carps OF cadets
at West Point, who is to be made
a brigadier general, taking the
place vacated by General Brown.
Following is the standing of GER
tain classes of vessels of the navy
in engineering: Destroyer class
Hubert, Sinclair, Convere, Peary,
Doyen, Meyer, Henshaw, MacLeish,
McCawley. Selfridge; mine-sweeper
clasS-Wandank, Heron, Contocook,
Cormorant, UmpQua, Curlew, Orto-
Ian, Kalmia. Finch and Widgeon.
The standing of leading battle
ships in engineering follows: Ari-
IONA, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Colo
RADIO. Nevada, California, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland. New Mexico and
Wyoming. The standing OF leading
Submarines follows: S-43, $50, O-2,
Re-. RI. o., So, OF. ,o-S and SAT.
Lieutenant william w. Schneider,
Of the civil engineer corps of the
navy, has been ordered from duty
in Haiti, upon the arrival there of
Lieutenant I. d. Alexis, Of the same
corps, and he will then come to the
Norfolk navy yard for. further as
signment of duty.
On November 10 the United States
niYersary of the founding of the
corps. Appropriate ceremony at fhe
various marine barracks and sta
tons marked the day.
The War Department is con-
fronted with a problem In the ad.
ministratfon OF the reserve army.
According to a high official of the
adJutant generals office of the
War Department no promotion of
reserve officers OF the specialist
group have ever been made by the
War Department and no procedure
to this end has been prepared by che
department.
Thic Is a serious matter at this
time. In the other branches of the
reserve the promotions are made to
the next higher rank after the re-
serve officer has completed q very
severe examination in the next
higher grade and has served a GER
tain number Of years. He Is then
given a certificate of CAPACITY by
the corps area commander, stating
that he has satisfactory passed the
examination in the next higher
grade and is capable Of performing
the duties Of the higher rank. How
ever, q vacancy In the higher rank
must take place before he can be
promoted as the War Department
mobilization plans stipulate that
tables Of organizations for each
branch shall provide a given num-
Der of reserve officers Of each grade
an0 rank. - a
In the specialist group he must
pass the stated examinations as well
as one Of professional ability and
receive his certificate of capacity.
AS q means Of procedure the regu-
lations say that there must be q
vacancy in the higher grade before
he can be promoted. However, the
specialist group OF reserve officers
has no table Of organization to
govern II.
In the peacetime organization OF
the army there Ii no specialist
group. The records for this class
OF officers are kept in the office
of the adjutant general until war
breaks out just what the War
Department will do about the mat
ter Is indefinite. In the meantime
the reserve officers of this group
must wait on the wishes of the
department in the matter OF pro-
motion.
The enlisted men on duty with
the local reserve headquarters OF
the army have received word from
the War Department that a stock
of old-type officers uniforms win
be issued to enlisted men of the
first three grades. The uniforms
are OF 20-ounce serge. They are
available in certain sizes only.
The recently conducted smoker
of the Reserve Officers Association