Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1931, Page 52

MEETINGS THIS WEEK. Monday, 8 p.m.—District of Co- lumbia Department Council of Administration, board room, District Building. ‘Wednesday, Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Thursday, 8 p.m.—Equality-Wal ter Reed Post, No. 284, Pyth ian Temple, 1012 Ninth' street. In a Memorial day message by Com- mander in Chief Paul C. Wolman, he voiced a call to arms for militant pa- triots, with a plea for the mobilization of a peace-time army that will effec- tively offset the increasing influence of Communist activities in America. Comdr. Wolman -declared that unless there is an awakening from the present apathetic attitude toward the growth of Communism in this country the pledges made annually at the graves of our honored dead on Memorial day are made in vain; that passive resistance and tolerant patience have falled as methods of discouraging the Communist and his program of violence. He appealed for veterans' unified fealty to our Declaration of Independ- ence and concluded his Memorial ad- dress with the words: “America is sorely in need of a wave of militant patriotism; not the kind that is in- spired by war-time hysteria, but a cool, deliberate and purposeful spirit of Jealous protection for those principles in which we veterans believe. Without resorting to violence or tactics abhor- rent to all liberty loving people, it is up to us to proclaim, with emphasis, at every opportunity, to the world in gen- eral and Moscow in particular, our steadfast allegiance to those ideals that have been preserved through the years by the deeds of our soldier dead, whose memory we honor on Memorial day.” The national organization has issued 8 charter to Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Ed- wards Post, which has been designated No. 2135. Comdr. in Chief Paul C. Wol- man instituted the post last Thursday evening. and the ceremonial service was conducted at Cairo Hotel, Seventeenth and Q streets. The following elected officers were inducted in their respec- tive post stations: Commander, Gen. George S. Simonds: senior vice com- mander, Raymond J. Queenin: junior vice commander. B. G. Carson: adju- tant, Leonard W. Ahern; quartermas- ter. Nathan D. Golden: judge advocate, Arthur C. Lamb; sergeant of the guard, John Caswell, jr.; council of adminis- tration member, Col. Ralph H. Hallett. Comrades Henry Bruce Holdstock and James H. Graham were elected trus- Several of the it's charter mem- bers who held llation with other constituents posts of the District of Columbia Department have obtained demits which establish their transfer eligibility. There was an attendance of distinguished ranking officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Service, also Department Comdr. ‘William L. Thomas, accompanied by his official staff, as well as a very repre- sentative attendance of overseas vet- erans from the local jurisdiction. Addresses were made by Comdr. in Chief Wolman, Junior Vice Comdr. in Chiet Robert E. Coontz, admiral, U. 8. N., retired; Post Comdr. Simons, Department Comdr. Thomas and others. ‘Tomorrow evening's Council of Ad- ministration session will be the last reg- ular meeting of the incumbent admin- istration and the deliberations of the council will deal mainly with the pro- grammed work at the annual encamp- ment. A full attendance of the council body is assured: and all resolutions to be voted on, and transmitted to the national encampment at Kansas City, Mo., must be offered in typewritten | form. Pront Line Post, No. 1401, held its regular meeting last Monday night at Logan Hall, where mcmorial services were held. Comrade Jennings, depart- ment as well as post advocate, delivered an address on Memorial day exercises at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The me- morial services were conducted by Fa- ther Francis J. Hurncy, as chaplain. Front Line Auxiliary met at Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ Club, last Monday night, when arrangements were per- fected for the M:morial day services at | Arlington Cemetery. The president of | the Auxiliary, Mrs. Virginia Cercell, will | place a wreah upon the Tomb of the | Unknown Soldier. Mrs. Mabel Mercer | pointed to serve as ushers at the Am-| phitheater exercises. The monthly visit to Naval was made on May 22, when cigarettes, | post comrades in their memorial exer- | following a spaghetti dinner. OW thoroughly aroused, Governor Dinwiddie moved to resist French aggression. Washington ‘was offered full command but, pleading lack of ex- perience in so serious a'matter he accepted service as second in command under Colonel Frye and left Alexandria on April 2, 1754 under orders to build roads for the advancing artillery. Destiny's messen- ger, in the guise of a military courier, soon handed the courageous youth greater responsibilitie: 27 a show was given at the Tuberculosis Hospital by Miss Reed, who is an hon- orary member of the auxiliary. The Overseas Military Band, Drum and Bugle Corps, commanded by John L. King, has carried out a full program duré'x'!( the past week. nig| bandsmen and a burgler served Federal Post at their memorial service, the en- tire corps turned out on Tuesday night for “buddy” poppy parade along Penn- sylvania avenue, escorted On Monday its uniformed detail of four by a National Guard company, and rendered an hour’s concert in front of the District Build- ing, on Wednesday night the drum corps and band held their regular weekly rehearsal at the Guard Armory, on Saturday morning at 8:45 o'clock the corps assembled in front of the Capitol for group photographing, which pictures will soon appear in syndicated news journals throughout the country, and from the Capitol the corps marched up Pennsylvania avenue to Seventh street, from where the corps formation paraded as a unit of the Memorial day line of March to Seventeenth and E and Mrs. Florence Morris Were aD-| streets, where busses were taken to Arlington National Cemetery for par- 1 Hospita1] ticiPation in the patriotic service. National Capital Post. No. 127, hald confcctions and other articles were dis- | its stated meeting May 26 at Pythian | tributed among the patients of Ward H. | Temple. Following a short business session, the | partment encampment delegation auxiliary adjourned in order that the | vote support of the candidacy of Com- members might participate with the | rade Hollingsworth for the office of de- partment commander. cises. Later in the evening Miss Edith | Cavanaugh appointed H. J. Reed offered an entertainment program | acting officer of the day and Lawrence | Mother, placed a_wreath on the Tomb On May | G. Brubaker as post standard bearer.|of the Unknown Soldier in the name of Rock Creek Park The post instructed iis de- to Comdr. Thomas . Clark as | Post Quartermaster Ernest Wickstrand, :hairman of the Entertainment Commit* tee, reported that arrangements for the twelfth annual excursion to Marshall Hall were practically completed, with the out of all last plans at tomor- row night's committee meeting. - The excursion will be June 6 and the Over- seas Band and Bugle Corps will suj workin music on the 10 am., p.m. boat trips. A large cl past six months. ‘The Ladies’ Auxiliary, National Capi- tal Post, No. 127, held its regular meet- President Florence Muschlitz presiding. Chiet of Staff Edith Denbroeder made her of- ficial visit of inspection, accompanied by State Hospital Chairman Roberta Mrs. Beck Wisener and Miss Margaret Keepe were obligated and the auxiliary. Mrs. Burnett and Mrs. Hooks were obligated as color bearers by Chief of Staff Den- broeder to fill the vacancies of Mrs. Lyons and Miss Pirrone. Social Chair- man Sendlak announced that on June 9. after the regular meeting, a bingo ing Tuesday night, Fawcett, welcomed into party will be given. Several members of the auxiliary met May 24 at the grave of Mrs. Balcom in Rock Creek Cemetery, and held me- morial services, at which time a poppy | wreath was placed by the president in with 2:30 and of recruits will be obli- gated June 9. A membership increase of 6¢ recruits is recorded during the the name of the auxiliary. Mrs. Catherine Barritk, a Gold Star Latest Map of SILVER SPRING berland, Maryland, Washington sought his own counsel upon hearing that the half conétructed fort at the Forks had been cap- tured by the French. With the sudden death of Colonel Frye, leadership had again fallen By Jnmel w. Brookl EHIND bolted doors in this cabin, now preserved in Riverside Park, at Cum to this apt pupil in the school of events. Copyright 1930 by James W. Brooks i All Rights Reserved = istorically Correct By CALVIN FADER Sketches - LORD FAIRFAX WRITES on the ?@LESSL\'GS OF THE P RISES were now becoming P lPEL the dtepping- #lones to greatness. for this resolute youth. Lord Fairfax, always present in body or spirit as grave hours approached, sent this “1 would that you smoked a pipe. counsel: 1t confers great equanimity in times of deubt, and the Indians hold it to be helpful in council: for while a man smoke o | Indeed, my dear George. when I refira #atues of worthless kings and the monume in graveyards where the dead lie and the » he cannot dis- course, and thus mu#t needs obtain tim for sober reflection. upon the many 'nts to scoundrels living lie about them, I am inclined to set up a fine memorial at Greenway Court to the unknown Indian who invented this blessing of the Pipe. He must have been a great genius.” President Margaret Jacobson placed dent Gladys La Scala on the grave of Mrs, mer member. ply 6:45 Spanish War Veterans Monday—Lawton Camp, Pyth- ian Temple; Astor Camp, United States Soldiers’ Home; Dewey Auxiliary, Northeast Masonic ‘Temple. ‘Tuesday—Astor Auxiliary, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. ‘Wednesday — National Lineal Society of Spanish War, Pyth- ian_Temple. ‘Thursday — Harden Camp, Pythian Temple. Camp Visitations. Monday—Harden Camp visits to) wton. Thursday — Pettit Camp to Harden. dent, U. 8. | service have been completed. on board the U. S. S. Apache. 10:30 am. the auxiliary on Memorial day. Past wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Civil War Soldiers. Senior Vice Presi- laced a wreath itehouse, a for- A special meeting will be held Wed- nesday, at 8 pm, at Pythian Temple. Bertha R. Cook, department presi- W. V. Auxiliary, announced |Inst "week that arrangements for the memorial services of the men who lost their lives at sea in their country's The exercises will be held M.Thy e | boat will leave the navy yard wharf, at the foot of Eighth street southeast, at | Representative Hamilton Pish, jr, of New York, will give the principal address. Past Department Comdr. Lorin C. Nelson, U. 8. W. V., will be master of ceremonies and music will be furnished by the Navy Band. The ritualistic service of the U.8. W. V. Auxiliary will be conducted under the direction of Bertha R. Cook, de- partment president, assisted by Janet M. Sikken, department senior vice pres- ident; Catherine Huhn, junior vice president of the department, and Emma Tull, department chaplain. composed of B"T‘ R. Cook, depart- ment president; Huhn, department junior vice president; Edna R. Summerfield, department secre- ‘The Committee of Arrangements is | inet Sikken, depart- | ment senior vice president; Catherine | Navy. ‘There was issued last week by the Navy Department an outline of ex- aminations for promotion of naval line officers. For promotion to the ranks of captain and commander officers will be examined in general and military law, strategy and tactics, communica- tions, aviation and international law. A War College diploma, senior course, will be accepted in lieu of examination in strategy and tactics, except in the case of officers markedly deficient in | written examinations or record. For promotfon to the ranks of lieu- tenant commander, lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade) officers will be examined in general and military law, strategy and tactics, communica- tions, aviation, international law, sea- manship, practical navigation, naviga- tion and plloting, ordnance and gun- nery, marine engineering and elec- tricity. A War College diploma, senior, junior, or correspondence course, will be accepted by the department in lieu of examination in strategy and tactics, with the same exception as described under captain and commander. Officers for engineering duty only will be examined in general and mili- tary law, international law, marine en- gines and boilers and electricity. The examinations in military law and in- ternational law will be of the same character as those given line officers, while those in marine engineering and electricity will be of more advanced character. 1In general, the questions given will be of a nature to demon- strate the fitness of the candidates to perform the duties of the rank for which they are being examined, those for the junior ranks being specific and technical, while those for command rank will be more general and admin- istrative. Cap. John H. Towers, who has been | on duty as assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, will relinquish this duty on June 6 and go to duty as chief of staff of the com- mander of aircraft of the battle force. Three Navy officers will shortly arrive in Washington for duty. Comdr. Wal- ter K. Kilpatrick, now on duty as flag secretary on the staff of the present Armyand Navy News Army, ‘As the result of the War Department plan to dispose’ of 53 military posts, either wholly or in part, five chaplains of the Regular Army who are now on duty at five of these posts will have to be assigned elsewhes S ‘wty. Ten of the 53 posts are listeu for complete dis- posal and the five Army chaplains who will shorfl{ be assigned elsewhere to duty are all serving at posts in this list. The five chaplains and the posts which they are now serving are: F. W. Hagam, Fort Eustls, Va; M. Stephen D. Little, Ariz.; E. Fort Missoula, Mont.; C. L. Miller, Fort | D. A. Russell, Wy, and F. H. Moehl- | mann, Chanute Field, TIl. Already operating under a low person- nel quota, the recent suspension order of the War Departm-nt prohibiting, un- il further notice. appointments to the Regular Army, will work an added hard- ship on the corps of Chaplains. At the present timie the corps lacks five chap- lains from being up to its authorized figur= of 125. A survey of the chaplain activities conducted last year indicated that there were approximately 40 posts having a population of moure than 200 that were without the services of a chaplain. Although the rel-ase of the five chaplains named above from their present stations, due to the post aban- donment program of the War Depart- ment, will help the personn<l distribu- tion problem of Army chaplains, it will | not releive the situation to any great | extent. The fact that this corps and | * the Medical Department ar= professional | e de ne, | 4 these two corps. ~Applications for ap- | pointment to either of these corps must | © possess specialized- training and unless | V they mect the requirements of their | — branch they are not accepted by the | War Department. | Two clergymen have been examined and their appointments are being held in suspense until the embargo on Reg- | ular Army appointments is lifted. The | embargo was placed in effect up to and | | including June 30, 1931, the end of this | fiscal vear, but it is possible that this the West are |CAVALRY IS NECESSARY, ITALIAN GENERAL HOLDS Armored Car Has Not Replaced ‘War Horse, He Tells Deputies. ROME, Ttaly (#).—Cavalry is still & ecessary part of the army, and the | war aorse has not been driven out by the armored car, Minister of War Gen. ‘Gluerl told the Chamber of Dsputies |in presenting the budget of the war epartment. “Cavalry has been subjected to re- ,&eatea and unjust censure,” sald Gen. \ | Gazgera. objec- 5. Caver, GAMD | tions consist in the affirmation ot : | cavalry is too vulnerable and that dur- |ing the last war it did not give prac- tical results. “In substance, these “The truth is that cavalry during the |last war was not much employed, or was badly employed. and that when it ‘w»lz!weu employed it gave excellent re- Horses Could Eat Grain Surplus. Decrease in the number of working horses and mules in this country is | blamed for part of our grain surplus. | Between 1920 and 1930 these animals lecreased by more than seven million, | this number requiring more than 18.- 000.000 acres for their maintenance. Motor vehicles have supplanted horses to such an extent that the balance of supply and demand for grain has been set. ers on the big farms of being urged to use horses nd mules again for fleld work and D the Horse Association of Ameriea 1is lines adds to the difficulty in securing | demonstrating to farmers ways of o hitching four and eight horse teams the desired type of offic:r personnel for | o T S m T f miniature animals, harness and ehicles. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'’S PUZZLE SEDAN A tary; Cora M. Campbell, department commander-in-chief of the Asiaiic treasurer; Ida Kimmerling, president Ad- | fleet, will come to duty at the Navy miral George Dewey Naval Auxiliary; Vir- | Department, in the office of Naval| ginia Cureton, president Gen. M. Emmett | Intelligence. Comdr. Claud A. Jones, Urell Auxiliary; Annie M. Berthioume, | now serving as aide on the staff of the president Col. James S. Pettit Auxiliary; | commander of the battle force, will as- Margaret Morton, president Col. 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