Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1933, Page 10

GENERAL RECALLS FIGHTS ON MARINES eclares Past Efforts to Abolish Corps Have Met With Failure. e Ghroere o ziasis 3with talk of the Marine Corps vanish- dg in a Navy Department reorgani- wltion, Brig. Gen. George Richards, the paymaster of the famous outfit, Friday jght delivered an address at the Wash- gton Navy Yard, before the officers of the Volunteer Naval Reserve, asserting that previous attempts to wipe out the arganization or diminish its functions Have failed. *Recalling that Marines were utilized from the earliest times and that in 1740 thwo regiments of American Marines were r¥cruited, “the first of their kind in this Hemisphere,” Gen. Richards said that in his own day the proposal has been put | forward that the vresence of the Marine aboard ship was an obstacle to develop- ment of the military in the seamen. 4 Settled in 1913. “Not until 1913 was Lhe matter defi- nitely or finally settled,” he said. “A President of the United States had championed the thought of this school— he ordered all Marines in the fleet ashore. He said the Marines had aug- mented to themselves such importance | and their influence, which they had| gained by pandering to every political influence, had given them such an ab- normal position that they had simply invited their own destruction. And he added that he did not hesitate to say that they, the Marines, should be ab- sgrbed into the Army and no vestige of their organization should be allowed to remain. But the Congress of the United | States thought differently. At that time, 1§09, Congress, after exhaustive hear- ings on the subject, provided, in mak- ifg appropriations for the support of the naval establishment, that no part of the money appropriated should be avail- able unless the Marines were restored to their service at sea. By 1911 the best | minds of the Navy had persuaded the | Navy Department to place itself in ac- cord with this view of the Congress. The existing policy with respect to sea service of the Marine was then an- nounced. * * * Aim te Be Versatile. “Two years later, in 1913, effort was made to_reverse this policy, but the General Board of the Navy on July 25, 1913, squelched that movement. And the General Board at the same time put | further discussion forever at rest.” ~Gen. Richards pointed out that Ma-| rines are part of the fleet, operating under the admiral. resulting in unity of command “a perfect co-ordination of the Navy's soldier and sailor.” The military _organization of the Marine | Corps differs considerably from that of the Army, the general asserted, as “the | company rather than the regiment, with ug is the basis of our organization of field units. Neither “officers nor men are likely to spend a long period of time im any one organization or with any one arm—we aim to be versatile,” he said. SWOMEN PLAN BANQUET | Home Missionary Fete of Business | Organization Tuesday Night. The annual banquet of the Home Missionary Commitiee of the Busi- ness Women's Council will be held at! the Calvary Baptist Church Tuesday night, when pledges will be received for the continuance of the work of the | council in supporting a missionary | teacher in the mountains of North Garolina. Miss Virginia Jenckes, Rep- resentative from Indiana, will be the HE SUNDAY STAR. WASI! NGTON, D. C, MAY 14, 1933—T AT ONE. 50 Years as School Head SIDWELL’S SCHOOL PRINCIPAL HONORED. RIDAY was the 50th anniversary as principal of the Sidwell's Friends School, 3201 Wisconsin avenue, for Thomas W. Sidwell. The photo shows Dr. Henry K. Craig (left), one of Mr. Sidwell's first pupils in 1883, con- gratulating hlm —Star Staff Photo. GIRL SCOUTS SELECTED Mrs. Monte Appel, Mrs. Henry Flather, B i JMrs. B P Cheatham, Mrs Mariin _ | Jones, Mrs. Horace Westcott and Miss Five to Represent D. C. at Union- | gorier °G johnson. The conference town Regional Conference. will take in groups from Maryland, 5 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West The Girl Scouts’ Council of the Dis- | Virginia and the District. trict will be represented by five dele- A gates at the Fourteenth Annual Re- A tube works in Glasgow, Scotland, gional Conference of the Girl Scouts | recently bent a steel tube weighing one of Region 3 at Uniontown, Pa., May 15, | and one-half tons to a radius of 2 feet 16 and 17. it was announced yesterday. |8 inches. ‘The District representatives will be il A Real Treat to Washington MUSIC LOVERS Regular $650 Grand Piano *195 Here is your chance to buy one of the finest miniature ! grand used pianos at a price within reach of your pocket- book. ACT QUICKLY NO MONEY DOWN Batisfaction guaranteed, and we will accept your old upright piano or radio as part pay. FREE PIANO LESSONS speaker, and Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl will be in charge of special music. 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