Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1929, Page 38

District National Guard ‘With the appoach of the new year, officers and men of the District Na- tional Guard have their interest centered on new armory facilities, in view of the fact that Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the District of Columbia Militia, recently announced that he ex- pects to have some definite announce- ment to make on armory facilities shortly after January 1. Several struc- tures are known to be under consider- ation, among them buildings in the area which will eventually be occupled by the District of Columbia government. Officials of the Guard have been working for some time in an effort to better the present very crowded condi- tions prevailing at the North Capitol Street Armory, which were further aj gravated several months ago when it was forced to vacate one of the other hotel buildings it was occupying on the plaza, which eventually is to become a Ppart of the present Capitol grounds. The District Commissioners have been informed that the plans for im- proving the plaze are becoming definite, and that unless some plans are made for the Guard it will find itself suddenly ‘without & place in which the troops can be trained. The Commissioners were informed that Senator Reed Smoot, chairman of the Public Buildings Com- mission, who stated to the Guard offi- cials that the matter should be taken up with the Commissioners with a view to preparing some legislation, approved by the Budget Bureau, looking to the provision of the facilities for training. So far as could be learned, no steps have been taken by the Commissioners to make provision for the local troops, and Guard officials have not yet made public any plans which they might be formulating for seeking legislation au- thorizing the construction of an armory here. There appears to be some con- flict in official circles here as to what sgency of Government should furnish the funds for the construction for the District troops. On the side of the tective material and the material is in good condition. ‘The recent scores-made by members of Company A, 372d Infantry, in the individual championship match held on the local rifle range were made pub- iic at brigade headquarters, as follows: Corpl. Merrill Tomlin, 214, winner of winner of silver medal: Sergt. Howard . _Sparrow, 209, winner of bronze | medal; Pvt. Sylvester Fant, 203: Lieut. | Sylvester T. Blackwell, 200: Corpl. Os- car J. Gay, 197; Pvt. (PFirst Class) Charles A. Brown, 196; Corpl. Decatur Trotter, 194; First Sergt. Ira M. Payne, 180; Sergt. Monroe Slaughter, 179; Pvt. (First Class) James L. Horton, Corpl. Edward W. Young, 170; vt. (PFirst Class) Littleton Jackson, 166; Corpl. Leon O. Petite, 157; Pvt. John G. Poindexter, 141; Corpl. James | N. Bush; 139; Pvt. (PFirst Class) John | W. Jackson, 134; Pvt. Gilbert L. Ever- hart, jr. 129; Pvt. Garvie Sharpe, 127; Pvt. (First Class) Samuel Stevenson, 110; Pvt. (PFirst Class) Edward Stew- art, 106; Pvt. (Pirst Class) Willlam F. Olney, 77, and Pvt. George B. Oliver, 45. Opposition to the recently announced policy of limiting the period of duty of National Guard officers with the War Department general staff is expressed by Maj. Gen. Créed C. Hammond in his last report as chief of the Militia Bu- reau. In his opinion, he said, it is not in the best interests of the National Guard, nor in the best interests of efficiency and economy. Based upon personal experi- ence while on duty with the War De- partment general staff, he said, he was convinced that a normal period of duty of one year, with a possible extension of six months in exceptional cases. would be for the best interests of all concerned. The Militia Bureau, he con. tinues, has a primary interest in this matter in view of the fact that all poli- cles, plans, and regulations affecting the organization, distribution, and training of the National Guard must- be reviewed ; 172; Federal Government, it is argued that the District of Columbia should provide | the funds. the same as the State do for their militias, but on behalf of the Dis- does not believe that the average Na- it was said that as the | tional Guard officer can become prop- | local Guard is a Federal organization it | erly informed regarding the War De- devolves upon the National Government | partment organization and method of 1o provide the building. Whatever may | functioning in a period of six months. be the correct viewpoint on this, in its | He also said that. in his belief, the train- finality the matter must go to Congress, | ing received by National Guard officers trict officiale which has the final say. That body could then determine from which pocket the funds for construction should be provided, if it finally decides to provide for the District troops. Judging from the recent action of and Reserves, who would be able to civic bodies here which have taken up the armory question without solicita- tion, there would be no complaint from the citizens if the money was taken | out of the District coffers. Those which have considered the matter have with- out exception asked that an armory be provided for the training of the iocal ‘Guard units. ‘While the officials would much pre- fer that a new and special type of Yuilding be provided by Congress, they are nevertheless willing to take any structure which would permit the train- ing to be carried out efficlently. One of the most important needs of the lo- cal Guard is a drill hall, at least large ennugh for the purpose of drilling a bagtalion, but preferably big enough to accommodate all of the units which it 1s necessary to train. At the present time the Guard has no drill hall and must use the public streets for this pur- pose. However, this always results in the upsetting of drill programs, because the weather during the Winter months interferes with drilling in the open. ‘When the ‘troops resume their drill program a week hence they will have Zor their Midwinter goal the annual in- spections by a detail of officers from the ‘War Department to determine their state of efficiency. The officers have been informed as to the detalls of the inspection, just what they will be marked in, and will have full oppor- tunity to correct any defects which might ‘appear before the arrival of th inspection officers. The inspections will cover a period of about two weeks, two companies being examined each night. Many suggestions have been received at the brigade headquarters from com- | pany commanders as to what instruction should be given in the school for mess sergeants and cooks, which it is con- templated to inaugurate soon after the | beginning of the new year. purpose of this school to provide a com- Pplete course of training for these im- portant members of companies, with a view to fitting them to provide good, well balanced meals during the annual encampments. g is one of the most important functions in the Army, and it is the purpose of the Guard offi- cials to do everything possible to so train these men that they can begin the provision of fine meals as soon as they go into the field. Heretofore between encampments there has been little opportunity for the men detailed for this duty to re- ceive any real instruction, with the re- sult that when they go into the field each Summer it is several days before they get settled down to Erovldlng the balanced rations in palatal then the encampment lasts only & few days longer. With the training they are to receive in the school it is lieved that they will be able to start right from the first to order their sup- plies and provide the meals without a hitch or complaint. The possibilities of the use of chemi- cal agents, particularly against partially trained troops at the beginning of hos- tilities, make it essential that all arms be thoroughly trained in the defense against this mode of warfare prior to taking the field in active operations and how to employ effectively counter- chemical measures, the War Depart- ment has informed the Guard. It also points out that an instructor from the Chemical Warfare Service is usually available at National Guard camps, but adds that it is essential for proper training that qualified Guard officers be available. Present instructions provide for the detailing of an officer from the staff of each division as the chemical warfare officer of the division in addi- tion to his other duties. For the coming year, it was said, the best method of securing qualified in- structors for this important subject is through the Chemical Warfare School at Edgewood Arsenal. Two courses for the Army are held at this school an- nually and National Guard officers are eligible to attend either of them. All_National Guard personnel, the ‘War Department said, should be trained to apply efficiently all chemical warfare protective appliances; combat duties to properly executed when protective appliances are used. Sufficient familiar- ity with the action of both toxic and non-toxic gases is necessary, so that 21l military personnel will understand what action is necessary to *obtain full protection. The training school should #lso include a thorough instruction in the use of smoke lackrymotors in ma- neuvers and combat. The mask should be worn during some rart of the time devoted to bayonet tral nlngA rifle-sight- ing exercises, musketry, 1d artillery and cavalry drill. The effect on mark- manship and musketry should be dem- onstrated by employing it during the combat-training season. The regimental and »ztialion gas of- ficers, it wor ciuvea out, perform most important work in the domain of chem- ical warfare intelligence and are the rrincipal and most important sources of chemical warfare information. obtained through field channels. Generally speak- ing, the best distribution of duties be- the latter for the work of training and for the active handling of the ehemical | warfare service situation within his ‘The de- further says that the regi- toeen the regimental and battalion gas | cfficers is to make the former responsi- ble for inspections and intelligence and AtdO ¢ A b Faitalion during operations. Fartment mental gas officer should exercise gen- supervision over the work in chem- 1 warfare within the regiment. He 11 alsy supervise the supply of the with equipment for protec- 3 -ziment 1°n against gas. himself by It ix his duty to as- le style, and | PDesignation Such as Han- | inspections that the =% hes sufficient supply of pro- by committees of the general staff or- ganized and prescribed in the national | defense act. He says further that he assigned to the general staff is inci- dental only and that the primary pur- pose of the law was to make available in the War Department general staff a number of officers of the National Guard bring to bear on all questions of policies, plans and regulations affecting the Na- tional Guard and the Organized Re- serves their experience and knowledge of local conditions. He expressed the hope that the policy would be reconsidered. Interest is being shown by Guard or- ganizations in the preparation of his- tories of their units, and during the, E‘st year 18 additional outline histories ave been received in the Militia Bu- reau and forwarded to the historical section of the Army War College for review. Up to and including June 30, 1929, 192 outline histories sufficiently complete to justify consideration by the War College historical section have been recelved, or approximately 81 per cent of the color and standard bearing organizations now sufficiently organized to justify the submission of histories. The publication of more extensive his- tories of regiments and corresponding organizations, inaugurated in the 1928 National Guard Register, has been con- tinued this year. The Militia Bureau of- ficials expressed regret that it has not been possible to include every organiza- tion with an allowed history in the 1929 register. PRINCESS MARIE-JOSE GETS FLOOD OF GIFTS, Belgian Ministry - Congratulates Fiancee of Humbert as Date of Marriage Draws Near, By the Assoclated Press. BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 28.— | Princess Marie-Jose, flancee of Crown Prince Humbert, received the members of the Belgian ministry in a special audience yesterday. ‘The members of the government bade her farewell and gave her a splendidly worked crystal flower bowl, designed by | a prominent mrtist and manufactured | by the famous Val St. Lambert Works. The princess’ wedding takes place in | Rome on January 8 and a steady flow | of presents has been coming to her. Naming of Rivers In Indian Tongue Offers Obstacle! gorahakwasepoo for Stream Proves Hard to Remember. Gov. Green of Michigan-objectedl to | Carp River as the name of a stream in | his state and suggested that there were | Indian names more suitable for it. The | Detroit News “thinks there are plenty‘ of Indian names that might be given the | beauty spots of Michigan in exchange ; for the homely and undistinguished | titles they bear,” says the Indianapolis | News. “The only trouble is they are sometimes a bit hard to remember.” Almost every State uses Indian names. | Some are beautiful, while others are | complicated. In war times Mrs. Wood- | row Wilson selected Indian names for | & group of small fighting ships, but only a few of them could be remembered or pronounced by the public. Indiana has the Wabash, Mississinewa, Miami, Tip- pecance, Kankakee and other rivers bearing Indian names, although some THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Our E'nvloy‘ (Continued From Third Page.) ducks concealed under his tattered gar- ments. Now it seems to be the purpose of ! the foreigner in these mixed courts to temper Chinese justice with Western mercy. So Johnson, true to the temper of his job, insisted that since there was gold medal; Sergt. Oscar G. Blue, 213, | no “evidence” to prove that the man | had stolen the ducks, | free. And, accompanied by the quack- he should go ing of the ducks, the poor Chinese de- parted. Next day was “suon chang,” or “household reckoning day,” and_John- son’s number ‘one boy came to him to cast up accounts. “One thousand cash rice for the cat,” he enumerated, “2,000 cash new cloth for mop, 1,000 cash meat for dog.” And then he ended: “Velly sorry, master, h plece duck!” The birds that had quacked their way out of the courtroom had been Johnson’s own. Johnson loved the joke on himself. For him, the intellect is only one of the tools of life. Learned, scholarly, as he is, he can, as some one put it, “sit at home in the Hals ofl Learning with his fees on the table.” His manners are those of a man so completely at home in any world that they are always equally completely adapted to ‘his environment. ‘With Orientals, he has the suavity of the Oriental.” With business men, the easy approach of the good fellow. With women, the courtesy of the diplomat. With every one, humanity. His large blue eyes turn upon the stranger with the expectancy of kind- ness, listen to a friend with the sym- pathy of understanding. His is a genial face under its thinning pale gold hair, a face all colored in shades of pale pink, protruding into an aquiline nose, a strong chin, and outlined by pale gold evebrows and very thick, long, pale gold eyelashes. : Registers Humanity. It is intelligence more than intellect, and humanity more than anything else which register when you first know him. For always behind the laughter and the happy way you sense something else, something elusive, but beautiful. You know those Chinese balls of ivory, carved delicately in patterns of flowers and leaves through whose open traceries you see another ball, as delicately carved, and inside that still another? He is something like them. If he reads this he will laugh and say, “No, solid ivory!” Yet he will go on catching every nuance of. thought and of experience. He will go on carrying everywhere with him his well thumbed copy of “Alice in Wonderland"—quaint picture of exquisite fantasy. “Alice” is not the only book that shares his somewhat lonely life—he has never married. Since those first days in Mukden when his Chinese teacher handed him “The Sacred Edicts of Ching Dyn"—the 10-character classic (which he calls “a sort of Chinese Guffey’s Reader”) he has ceased to read old and new writings in Chinese. His bookcase, his bedside table in Peiping, will contain the sort of books he likes, books he reads far into the night—books on geology, on economic botany and stories that are neither bit- ter nor sordid nor tragic. He Is “Earminded.” Like all natural linguists, he is “ear- minded.” He learns more easily to speak a language than to read or write it. When he began his work in China he studied with a Chinese who spoke no English, He learned the Chinese for the single expression: “What fs this?” and so, by gesture and reiteration, came finally toward a mastery of the spoken tongue and then into a knowledge of ve loosee four- | Its thousands of symbols. And all the time Johnson had his part to do in our consulate at-Mukden, high on the hill above the Russ and Chinese interplay ¢much like:this mo- ment’s). Still studying—now the “Analects” of Confucius—he went from Mukden to Harbin, from Harbin to Hankow. And there, walking in the Bund, he saw the flare of flame across a river, and, being in charge, he crossed to see. He saw a high wall with Chinese snipers look- ing down upon dead Chinese at the foot of it. He saw a flag of rainbow stripes—the first flag of a new republic. He later saw the viceroy flee to Shang- of these have been modified to simplify spelling and pronunciation. Many Eng- | | lish names are translations from the {Indian. Driftwood Creek, for instance, was Ongwasaka in Miami and Hangon- | ahakwasepoo in Delaware. Both meant | the same as the English title. Eagle | Creek, in Marion County, was known | {to the Indians as Lauashingapaimhon- | ! nock, meaning middle of the valley. | White River was Inguashagua to the | Indians. Some of the English names are In- i dian corruptions, such as Wawasee. The | Indian name for this body of water was | Wawiassi, which was the name of a | Pottawatomie chief and means full 1 moon. One authority says the Delaware aame for Fall Creek was Soosoocpahaloc, While the Miamis called 1t Tcanktun: | The Delaware word meant “split | ungi. water” and the Miami “makes a noisy place.” Both referred to the falls at { Pendleton. The Boy Scouts at their reservation near Indianapolis on_the | | banks of Fall Creek use one form of the | Indian name in referring to the stream. A new combination of steamer and | | airmail service has cut the traveling { time of letters between Penang, Straits ‘Se'.lltmen! and London nearly 15 days. | e e N el e L e N e e T N D. C., DECEMBE to the East hai and Li Yuan-hung become first President of the Chinese republic. Through all the fighting and burning he remained on duty in the consulate in Hankow. Foreigners, in those days, were usually left alone: but Johnson had already been busy enough getting Americans from Hankow to Shanghai, and, after the shooting had quieted, he went there himself to work in the con- sulate and to sit (as I have mentioned) in the Mixed Court at the age of 23. ‘The ‘proud province of Hunan knew him as Changsha (which is Chinese for “Long Sands”). There Johnson re- mained for about three years, finding a great interest in the high quality of its citizenship. For Hunan had for long furnished more men to the civil service than any other province and Changsha was filled with retired schol- ars and representatives of the best of the life of old China. After six months in Shanghai he was back in Washington, in the Far East division, to contribute his share, an “expert,” now, to the necessary work of the Versailles Conference and after- ward of the Disarmament Conference. Then, under our system of alternating service, he was promoted to be consul general at large, and started off to in- spect our consulates in China, Japan, Australia and the Straits Settlements. He saw the first three. Then came the Japan earthquake. That news reached him in Shanghali, and within a week he was in Yokohama doing his bit. “His bit” included start- ing the first hotel—a tent colony made possible through supplies he got from Admiral Badger (who happenzd to be a childhood friend at school in Wash- ington), a hostelry afterward taken over with commercial success by a Frenchman and well known thereafter as the “Tent Hotel.” “His bit” also included setting up a lot of portable houses, Named Assistant Secretary. When the earthquake service was over, Johnson went back to his knitting and visited all the score of consulates in China. He was going on with his work of inspection in Australia when he was ordered to return to the depart- ment in 1925 to head the Far East division. And two years later he was made Assistant Secretary of State—the youngest man on record, I believe, to hold that post. I have spoken of the two major re- quirements in the man who shall well represent us abroad as being that of knowledge of the country and knowledge | of our policy. | . Johnson's knowledge of the country |is that of the man who has been of |China. His major hobby when he is |in China (aside from riding and golf, which he practices when he is short of time) is to take long walking trips through the back country. There in tea house and in temple he mingles with the people themselves and through that humanity of his, which offers barrlers to no class or race, he gains his inti- mate feeling for the people. I can quite imagine him under those circumstances, He is so utterly with- out “side,” so pleasantly always himself, he makes so few demands, he willingly gives so much in human intercourse, that I can fancy the man who has been Assistant Secretary of State—no mean position as Washington office goes, and who now is further promoted to be our Minister—continuing to swap stories with coolie and mandarin in the bond of common humanity, continuing to re- fresh his knowledge of the country from the real sources at the roots of the people themselves. And, on the side of policy, he has so long been at the core of it, so long been an element in the carrying on of it, that there is no question that through him American ideas will always find their outlet in action. a few sentences. Most of us feel that we are aware of it in a general way. Many of us think that when we send— as we do send—gunboats a thousand miles up the Yangtze River we are mak- ing a curious gesture for professed “friends of China.” That sending is described as “assistance in policing” hy almost obstinately friendly. Policy Called “Self-Denial.” by Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, expert on Chinese questions and chief of the Far Eastern division of the State Depar EEEE——:EENACHMANEEEEEE‘ After-Christmas Sale Clearance Of All Odds and Ends 159% to 509 and More Off Only Five More Days of These Real Bargains Only 50 of Porcelain-Top Tables $12.50 Value $4.95 Large Drawer, White Enamel Legs ACHMAN “You’ll Always Do Better Here” CORNER 8th AND E STS. N.W. Em@mfimlfim:——fll@- That policy is difficult to sum up in| government which insists upon being Our policy in China has been called | & ment, “a course of self-denial and re- straint § It" envisages in “respect to the other powers interested in China the princi- ple of equality of opportunity. With respect to China herself one may quote the words of Secretary Kellogg: “The Government of the United States has watched with sympathetic interest the nationalist awakening of China, and welcomes every advance made by the Chinese people toward re- | organizing their system of government.” | During all these years of “awaken-| |ing” and “reorganizing” Nelson John- son has been close not only to the| leaders of the new movements but.to| the le themselves. Jofilqsrm will move into that mud-l gray brick legation of ours, with its pillared veranda and spreading rooms filled with American furniture, with a smattering here and there of things! Chinese, as naturally as you go from one room to another in your own house. | But he will not take into that legation a collection of objets d'art, either Chi- | nese or American or anything else. One takes it for granted that a man who has lived two-score years in China ! |owns at least a dozen Tang horses and a lot of Quons, and jade, and embroid- eries, and scroll paintings, and teak furniture, and graven brasses. Not so Mr. Johnson. For he has great taste. If his taste had been less or his pocketbook more, it might have been; different. But he knows, Imfflrlunn(cly.] perhaps, even Chinese art too well to be content with the inexpensive. ! When he takes up his residence in| that legation it will be with a suit cue! of clothes and a suit case of books— and “Alice.” Co he will go on into the next step of a life which is too human to be; called quite a “life of the mind,” but! might be called just a life of the spirit —the spirit of brotherly love. So he will identify in his own being both his own understanding of his fellow ma even the difficult Chinese, and the pro- fessed foreign policy of his country and; ours. TEXT OF PROPAGANDA | NOTES MADE PUBLIC British Dominions Are Made Par-| ties to Agreement Between England and Soviet. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 28 —The foreign office last night made public the nntesl exchanged on December: 20 between For- eign Secretary Henderson and Ambas- sador K. Sokolnikov of Soviet Russi: confirming the protocol on propaganda | drawn up at the Anglo-Russian conver- sations at Lewes in October. The United Kingdom of Great Britain | and Northern Ireland thereby agrees with Soviet Russia to abstain from propaganda. = Ambassador Sokolhikov's. note accom- panying the main-document says, after confirming the propaganda articles in | the treaty of August 8, 1924, that lhe| Russian government ‘“has considered | that undertaking as extending to the | | British Dominions (Canada, Australia, ! 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