Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11

been assigned TO command the WITTY
Comdr. John w. Wilcox, il. who has
been on duty on board the Y. =. =.
Concord as aide on the stan OF the
commander Of the destroyer squad.
rons of the scouting fleet. will be
relieved by Conldr. Byron McCand.
less, who has been on duty at the
Naval Academy. The former has
been assigned to duty on the STAN
OF the Naval War College.
Six appointments have recently
been made az acting pay clerk In the
Navy of successful candidates among
chief petty officers on examination
held March |. The appointees and
the vessels on which they are serv-
ing are: Ernest NJ, Joyce, Huron.
John w. Haines: Henderson,; George
W. Moores, Bridge: Ernest w. Rogers,
Vestal; Clifford b. Pischner and Earl
w, Gardener. both on the Rigel.
The selection board headed by
Rear Admiral Washington L, Caps,
Construction Corps, named Capt.
Corps, to be selected TO the rank of
rear admiral in the Construction
Corps to I'LL the vacancy made by the
retirement OF Rear Admiral Elliot
Snow, who viii be retired the latter
part Of this month.
Army.
Considerable interest is being
evinced in the chaplain vacancy at
West Point. as result Of the appoint.
ment this past week Of Rev. Clayton
f. Wheat. chaplain at the United
States Military Academy. as professor
of English at that institution, His
term as chaplain normally would not
expire until this coming November.
There are few in the service who are
cognizant of the fact that chaplain
Wheat Is not Regular Army chap
lain, but clergyman appointed by
the President, and drawing the pay
and allowances OF captain. As pro
fessor of English at the military
academy he will be commissioned
lieutenant colonel; which grade he
will hold for 10 years, upon the ex-
piration Of which he will automatical-
~ be promoted to colonel, which grade
he will hold for the remainder Of his
life,
It is interesting to note in this con-
nection that for the past 25 years,
the chaplain encumbent at 1.-The Mil.
itary Academy has been OF the Prot
estant Episcopal faith. the three chap
lains preceding chaplain Wheat, name
ly. Bishop Shipnlan of New York and
Chaplains Travers and Silver, also
being members of this denomination.
There has been feeling for some time
among the other denominations that
this assignment at the Military
Academy should be rotated among the
various denominations represented at
the academy, and this vacancy oc-
curing at West Point, this question,
M anTS fvs To-.
cussion.
There has been feeling in the
regular service for a long time that
there should be q Regular Army
chaplain sent to West Point the
proponents of this contention point
ing out that only regular chaplains
of the Navy are sent to the Naval
Academy and these being detailed to
Annapolis In regular Navy assignment
procedure and changed frequently.
So much surprise was expressed that
the chaplain at West Point has not
been member of the regular service.
that the law covering this assignment
was looked up. It was dated April 8.
1886, from the then headquarters of
the Army, the Adjutant Generals
ONCE, and reads as follows:
That so much of section 1899 OF
the revised statutes OF the United
States as provides for the appoint
ment at the United States Military
Academy at West Point Of one chap
lain, who shall also be professor OF
history, geography. and ethics, and
one assistant professor of the same,
is hereby repealed. provided, that the
duties Of chaplain at the Military
Academy shall hereafter be performed
by clergyman to be appointed by the
President for a term of four years,
and the said chaplain shall be eligible
for reappointment for an additional
term or terms and shall, while so serv.
ing, receive the same pay and allow
ances as are now allowed to captain
mounted :.
During the deliberations OF the re-
cent Pan-Denominational, Conference
held In this city the first part Of May.
the question of appointing a regular
Army chaplain at the Military Acad-
envy was taken UP. as result Of
which the conference reconmnded
such appointment. There. Is a pro-
nounced feeling in the Regular Army
that the above law should be changed,
which would authorizes none other
than a Regular Army chaplain to Of
f1ciate at the Military Acadamy, and
with the appointment Of Chaplain
Wheat, as professor of English at
that institution, which creates
vacancy in the Office of Chaplain, g..
determined effort will be made TO have
the next chaplain appointee at West
Point be member Of the Chaplain
Corps Of the regular establishment.
With the appointment of rs Army
internes as first lieutenants in the
medical corps OF the Regular Army.
the attention of the War Department
authorities is focused upon the extra
ordinary long list of majors in that
corps, all of whom received their APP
pointments to that grade on July ],
1920. This is but one of the many
personnel aftermatl1S of the war which
has disrupted the promotion scheme
of regular medical officers, particular
~ those in this group consisting Of
122 majors of the medical corps, all
of whom were appointed on July 1, d
1920. This list begins with Maj. Al
bert III. Eber, who is number 282, and
concludes with Mai. Arthur p. Mitch
EMS number 403, on that list.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department TO So quartermasters Of
the Regular Army, authorizing them
to pursue the 1927 courses of In.
struction at the Quartermaster Corps
subsistence school, Chicago, ILL.,, the
Quartermaster Corps motor transport
school, Camp Holabird, Nd. and the
Quartermaster Corps school at Phila.
delphia. OF the above quartermasters
who have been detailed to school
duty, eight win undergo instruction
at the subsistence school. which will
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