Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

known that both President Hoover ana
Secretary Adams have been approached
in this matter with view of adjust
ment. but this may result In embarrass-
ment to the present administration, in
that 1t might appear to be a reversal
of an action taken by the preceding adj
ministration. Such an embarrassment
Is yisihly increased, Of course, by the
pFotraeted delay In taking any action
which shall have the significance Of
being invoked by effective pressure.
Array,
With the prospect that the allotment
OF Catholic chaplains In the Regular
Army will reach Its authorized figure
OF 81 in the near future, the indica-
lions are that the first Protestant chap
lain appointments to the military estab-
iishment IN nearly decade viii he
MADE. There is . story In the nom
appointment of Protestant chaplains
during the past Q or 10 years, this going
back to 1920 when the last chaplain OF
the Protestant faith was appointed. A
study of the Army chaplain system OF
the Catholic and Protestant denomina-
tons revealed the fact that the Catholic
Church makes better provision for its
priests who enter the military service
as chaplains than do the Protestant
churches for their ministers. This is
done in this way: Amy time Catholic
chaplain desires to sever his relations
with the military service, he may re-
turn to his parish. This Is not prac-
ticed by the Protestant churches, and
sometimes 1t is quite hardship for a
Protestant chaplain, who may leave the
service, to adjust himself In a civilian
status.
When the reduction of the Regular
Army became effective in 1922, the
Catholic bishops, on account of the
ease with which their ehaplains In the
Army could be taken back into their
organization, voluntarily offered TO
withdraw number of chaplains Of
their faith (about so in round num-
bers) so that those Of the Protestant
faith and their families might be
spared the hardship Of being separated
from their commissions in the Regular
Army and the subsequent adjustment
of themselves in civilian life, which
would be attended by more or less diff
Guilty. This was done, but on the
agreement, however, which has been
observed for the past seven years, that
the first chaplain vacancies should be
filled by the appointment of Catholic
chaplatns until the authorized allotted
appointment u 0l VI IiihJ ldlth lhu
been filled. here exists at the pres
ent time four vacancies in the Corps
of Chaplains, two OF which will be filled
by the appointment of Catholic chap
lains, at which time their authorized
figure Of 81 chaplains will be reached.
while the remaining two vacancies will
be filled by the appointment of chap
lains of the Protestant faith. AS the
Lutheran denomination Is below its au-
| thorized allotment the first two Prot
estant appointments since 1920 will, in
all probability be selected from that
faith.
| Within the next two or three months
| 10 officers Of the Quartermaster Corps
will come to Washington where, on ar
rival, they will be assigned to duty in
the, ONCE of the ouartermaster Gen,
eral. These new Army arrivals and
their present duty assignments are as
follows: Col. Patrick w. Quincy, COM
mandant of the Subsistence School
Chicago; and Lieut.. Coils. w. C. Jones
recently commanding officer of the
Boston QuartermaSter Depot, who will
relieve Col. M. r. Hilgard as chief of the
War Planning and Training Division
o. H. Sampson, Philadelphia Quarter
master Depot, and Edmund b. Gregory
Harvard School of Business Admins
tration; Maj. Carl A. Hardigg, Army
War College; and Capts. Noble Carter
Fort Mason, Calf; George A. Bentley
Chicago Quartsrmaster Depot; Charlie:
o. Thrashsr and Lee W. Card, to Quar-
termaster Corps School. Philadelphia
Harry A. Springer, Fort Ethan Allen
Vermont; John A. Nelson, Camp Hola'
bird. Maryland; Lewis B. Douglas. New
York Depot, and First Lieut.. Francis v
} Fitzgerald, Quartermaster Corps scheol
!; Philadelphia.