Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

Brig. Gen. Roy Hoffman, president
of the Reserve officers Association OF
the United States, issued a call last
week for members of the executive coun-
Gil of the association, representing OIL
GERS from all of the nine corps areas,
for meeting that was held last Tues
day in Chicago. The primary purpose
of the meeting was to study the report
of the Reserve officer committee, which
met recently in the War Department to
report to the Secretary of War ON the
operation of policies pertaining to pro-
motion and retirement of Reserve Off
GERS. The report was made to the War
Department on July %. and the refer
ence of the report to the Reserve as
ISOLATION has been viewed in some cir
Giles as a most unusual course of action.
Views and opinions exchanged by a
number of Washington Reserve officers
on this subject are both pro and con.
There are large number of reservlStS
who hold to the opinion that the APP
pointment of the Reserve committee,
duly and officially convened by War De-
partment orders, was correct military
procedure, despite the fact that there are
some Reserve officers who differ on this
question and who have questioned the
right of certain members of that COM
mlttee to sit on that board. The chief
source of difficulty in this controversy
is the establishment of separate Re-
serve division in the War Department.
on which proposal the majority report
OF the board went on record as opposing
The merits of whether the separate
Reserve division should be established
in the War Department or whether it
should not be established is not raised
in this discussion, for that is matter
to be settled among the Reserve officers
of the country themselves and Con-
gress. but the point raised last week
was whether the reference of the Re-
srve committees report to the Reserve
association, after 1t had been officially
ANNOUNCED by the War Department, was
not creating a precedent. If so, 1t was
pointed out last week, reports of the
| Infantry board should be referred to
| the Infantry Association, and the other
boards. such as Field Artillery Coast
Artillery, Cavalry and other branch
boards would refer their reports to their
respective branch associations. Those
In favor of such procedure point out
that the association should be given the
| opportunity Oh IdIIlllldIlZlIlS OH CHAP
| tiers of the association of the topics up
for discussion by any Reserve board
meeting in the War Department, so that
representative opinion may be ex-
changed when any such board meets,
but those opposed to the procedure in
sist that the recent Reserve board was
officially convened and fairly repre-
sented the Organized Reserves. 1t is
expected the proposal to establish a
separate Reserve division in the War
Department will be aired at the ap-
preaching session of Congress.
For the year 1929, eight instruc-
tional conferences will be held by Wash
| ington Reserve officers belonging to the
Judge Advocate General Reserve. The
| instructor for the entire series of eight
conferences will be Lieut.. Col. E. c.
Abbott, j. A. G. D., the first of which
will be held on October %, and which
will embrace the articles of war and
the manual for courts martial; history
and relation. The dates of the other
conferences and the subjects which will
be discussed thereat, are as follows:
November 26, courts-martial jurisdiction