The Washington times., 1925-03-27


officers Of the medical department
will hold an initial meeting next
, week at the Graham Building
| Major General NJ. Ireland, the sur
geon general of the army. is very
much Interested in the proposed
| meetings, and has made arrange
| ments for each officer. or certain
officers, on duty here, to conduct
the various conferences. Some o.
the leading physicians of Washing
| ton are members of the medical re-
serve, and it is expected that the
meetings will be largely attended
Assigned to Reserve Corps
Major Charles H. Patterson, U. 5.
A, of the Inspector General De-
APARTMENT, has been detailed to duty
with the local reserve corps head
! quarters. Major Patterson, coast
artillery officer, will assist in the
! general headquarters functions.
Captain Harold Rarnes. U. S. A.,
! OF the Quartermaster Corps, who
| has been on temporary duty with
| the local reserve headquarters. has
been relieved of this duty. Captain
Barnes is on duty with the world
| war adjusted compensation division
of the A6jutant Generals Office OF
the Army, and his duties there
were too heavy for the work with
| the reserve headquarters.
Several applications have been
received by the chief of infantry
from officers desiring details to
various colleges under the pro
visions Of the National Defense
Act. The attendance of officers is
practically limited in two ways. o.
The allowance of tuition money for
| fiscal year 1926 this was $1,000.
! (2) The limitation of the number
of infantry officers allowed as stu
| dents at all schools. except the War
College, and Commandant General
Staff School, for the fiscal year
1925, was $50.
Due to restrictions, chief of in
| fantry grants preference to the Of
ficers recommended by the superin-
tendent of the Military Academy,
ana the commandments of the i'm
fantry and tank schools. with the
view of their detail as instructors
upon completion Of their courses.
General FarnSwOrth Retires.
Major General Charles S. Farms
| worth, U. S. A., chief of infantry,
will retire from the army today,
after serving more than forty years
in the service. General Farnsworth
is succeeded by Colonel Robert II.
Allen, who will have the rank of
major general while serving as
chief OF infantry.
Reserve officers of the quarter
master corps will meet tonight at
the Graham Building for their reg
ular conference.
The ammunition division OF the
Ordnance Department of the Army
was the subject Of an address by
Mr.. A. Alderman, before the March
meeting Of local reserve ordnance
officers at the Graham Building
Monday evening.
Times Sword Presentation. -
Final plans for the awarding of
the saber presented by the Army
and Navy Department OF The Wash
| ington Times to the reserve officer
of Washington doing the most for
the 1925 Citizens Military Training
Camp of the Third Corps Area,
| have just been completed, accord
| ing to Lieutenant Colonel John
Scott, local executive officer of the
reserve corps units. The contest is
| open to all reserve officers within
| the scope of the local headquarters.
This embraces the District OF Col
umbia, Maryland and Virginia.
| Colonel Frederick A. Delano, ORC,
and Major Walter Bruce Howe,
ORC, and Captain C. c. Glover, jr.,
ORC, comprise the board of judges.
The following general principles,
which will govern in making the
decision as to the winner of the
contest, have been adopted.
THE board appointed to award
to the reserve officer who accom-
plishes the best results for the
| CMTC enrolment in 1925, the prize
of an officers saber offered by the
Army and Navy Department of
The Washington Times will make
it's award either Oh account of the
number Of applications received at
headquarters of Washington units
of the Organized Reserves and bear
ing the name of competitors, or on
account of efforts and methods to
stimulate enrolment, although not
directly traced and from cause to
effect or on account of a combina-
ton Of results and efforts"
This information has been sent
to every officer, in the form of a
general circular. by the local re.
serve headquarters.
Too much stress cannot be laid
upon the desirability of every re.
serve officer becoming a member
OF the Reserve Officers Association
of the United States. The annual
dues in the local associa ton is but
two dollars, of which one-half goes
to the national organization, and
the other dollar remains with The
local association treasurer. 1t is
through the local, state and national
organization of the association that
the voice of the more than $4,000
reserve officers is heard throughout
the land.
Drive for Membership.
In the u. s. Veterans Bureau,
where many of the employees and
officials are reserve officers, Majors
John d. Cutter, Ralph Routsong
and Omer w. Clark, are doing every
/ thing possible to assist in the mem.
bership drive.
Approximately eighty per cent Of
the reserve officers served as of.
ficers during the late war, and about
| fen per. cent have had National
! Guard experience. The other ten
! per cent are men with experience
! with the Citizens Military Training
! Camps. During the month of Janu.
, airy. 622 new appointments were
/ made I'm the infantry reserve corps
alone.
The War Department announces
: that 1t is engaged in the prepara.
ton or d series OF monographs COW
ering the world war. The depart-
ment desires to do full justice to
every unit in the American army
and to record accurately the events
as they transpired. The department
| is seriously handicanad h, .t,a IL