Evening star., 1928-12-23
Organized Reserves

First Lieut.. Victor Condos, jr., Coast
Artillery Reserve, a resident of Wash
ington, residing at 1881 Corcoran street,
has Just completed two-month course
of instruction at the Coast Artillery
School, Fort Munroe, Va, this officer
being one of two Reserve officers ap-
pointed by the War Department from
the Sd Corps Area, comprising the States
of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and
the District of Columbia, to undergo this
course of training. In civil life Lieut..
Condos is an assistant architect in the
Treasury Department, and he was
granted two months leave from that de-
partment in order to be enabled to
accept the appointment.
The Coast Artillery School at Fort
Monroe Is one of the highest schools of
Artillery, If not the highest, in the
country, and Its curriculum includes
intensive and highly specialized courses
in harbor defense, railway and anti
aircraft artillery material and gunnery.
1t has been in existence for more than
century, having been founded during
the administration of President Monroe,
from which fact the post derives its
name. Coast Artillery officers of the
Regular Army are given nine-month
course of instruction at the school, while
Reserve and National Guard officers
are offered special and intensive two
month course of training.
Lieut.. Condos has recently been
elected secretary-treasurer of the Coast
Artillery Club of the District of Co
llmbia, of which organization Mai.
Robert M. Zacharias, Coast Artillery
Reserve, Is president. The former off,
Ger received his education at the Uni
versity of Michigan.
Five conferences are included on the
inactive training schedule of the Spe-
cialiSt Reserve, approved last week by
Col. Melville s. Jarvis, Infantry Cd.
o. L., senior instructor of Washing
ton Reserve units, the first of which
was held last Friday evening at local
Reserve headquarters In the oxford Ho-
tel Building. This program of meetings
for Washington officers belonging to the
Specialist Section of the officers Re-
serve Corps was prepared under the
direction of Col George T. Weitzel
Specialist Reserve, who appointed a
committee to work up program. In
addition to himself, the committee was
composed of the following Lieut.. Col
Edward G. Bliss, Maj G. A. Aspinwall
Capt. j. w. Brennan and Lieut.. S. F.
Tillman. This committee decided to
continue course of lectures to be pre-
pared and delivered by officers on duty
in the Office of the Assistant Secretary
of War.
The lectures for January, February
March and April will be held on the
last Friday of each month. They will
be as follows: January. "Transporta-
tion," by Maj. Gilbert Van B. wilkes;
February, Power" by Mai. Beverly c.
Dunn; March, Strategic Raw Mate
rials," by Maj. Roger Taylor, and April
Specific Procurement Plans" by Mai
Donald Armstrong. These meetings are
entirely official in character and credits
for hours of inactive training are grant
ed to every attendant.
Alarm was sounded by the War De-
partment last week over the loss of a
considerable number of Reserve officers
Training Corps graduates to the Reserve
after being commissioned therein,
through failure to maintain contact
with their units. The Secretary of War
is greatly concerned over this loss OF
Junior officers for the Reserve compo-
nent of the Army of the United States,
since in the not very distant future, as
the World War officers are gradually
separated from active participation In
| bllC 1NCoIAf We uAOFCLHCllO, uuC VI age, QlSs
ability, etc. the success of the Reserve
| project must eventually be assured by
the Reserve Officers' Training Corps
graduates who now provide the main
source of recruitment and who furnish
a yearly increment of approximately
| 5000 officers
Every effort will be made by the
| Washington headquarters of the Organ
lied Reserves to have the Reserve ON
GERS Training Corps graduates who re-
side In the District of Columbia and Vi
cinity, to keep up their military educa-
ton so that they will be able to qualify
for an active reappointment at the ex-
piration of their first commission. Tc
keep these Junior officers from vacatine
| their commissions in the Officers Re.
serve Corps, close contact will have tc
| be maintained between them and the
Reserve units to which they have beer
assigned. Ways and means will have
to be devised by the various Reserve
unit headquarters throughout the coun-