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s By BRIG.-GEN. J. F. KERR :
- The world has walked the via dolo
__ Toso. From that dificult yet wonder
.. fully glorious jourmey have come
.. Wmany lessons—many blessings. Not
.+ the least among these, insofar as
- Americans are comcerned, is the im
et dfll:tc:hlod et the
o AG institution—the
- United States Army.
r In pre-war times Americans, intent
" upon their immediate tasks their
- Immediate problems—and knowing ‘
~ Opportunity only as it existed in their
- immediate surroundings, appreciated
- ‘but vaguely the purposes of and the
. Obportunities offered by this great
~..and many-sided orgamization.
. The great war and its immediate
- aftermath has literally foreed upon
.. our people a truer understanding,
-~ and today there is scarcely an Amer
= fean of understanding age who is not
-~ familiar with at least one phase of
: ::?! Nation’s most representative
: y.
. _Bituated on one of te beauty spots
. "ot our Natienal Capital and serving
' @8 a veritable human magnet; is the
- Walter Reed Army Hospital, giving
. to mearly 2,000 men the services of
. the-most skilled of physicians and
' surgeons. The Walter Reed Hos
_~“pital is but one of 57 General Hos
_ ritals operated by our Army, each of
== which s located among the most
- pleasant natural surroundings; each
- of_which is employing the most able
epecialists; each of which is caring
~ for guotas of Army men varying in
nnmbers from 800 to imore than
,-2,000. Yet all these together con
. stitute but a single phase of the work
- aud purpose of our Army.
- “The war intensified and drew at
- teution to their great work.
. But the Army is not always at
?-;.;?gfir. It 18 mnot an instrument for
"~ bringing about war. Rather, it is
'oné¢ for preventing war, for a natfon
_#trongly armed is in much less dan
. &er of being assaulted or having acts
. O aggression perpetrated against it
~ than ome not so. well prepared. Nor
- 1= it the policy of the Army to mark
. time in days of peace. In the past,
.. during such periods, the Army en
-28 din work of inestimable impor
. tance—the building of the Panama
\% : one of th: mm,lll?l t::n hu;
* - man ; the rehabi 0
" San mheo after the earthquake
" and fire; the pacification of the Re
f*-y\ of Cuba. And th}; Afmerlcng
.- Afmy of today is preparing for, an
") will be called upon to accomplish,
o greater peace-time achieve
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7, Among the most important of its
: Qé“ “work—a phase already in op
~ weation and training of the individ
'“# Army of today has become a
Ly “University in Khaki,”
S 5 ‘e expert instruction in almost
S skilled trades and pro
r@*#fih offered the young men of
;" Am idea of the scope of its educa
" Jonal plan is wflm the t:ct
. st the Motor Transport Corps has
%‘*“ schools for the training
g 'of chaufleurs, auto-repair men and
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- War Departinent Changes Style
-of Proposed War Service Medal
h- War Department authorizes
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“ww will be awarded to all
. on- sttive duty in the Army of the
. United States at any time between
: April ‘6, 1917, and November 11,
38 8, and whose service was honor
" 2 Battle will be awarded
-for each um-h: major oper
p#. -To be eligible for a battle
" ‘der orders in the engagement.
s g, Somme, Defensive—Between
= 813 t of March and 6th of April, 1918.
Lo - Lys—Between ®th of April
,E;fl.dlflh of April, 1918.
e Aisne—On the OChemin des
© tween 27th of May and sth of Junme,
igj . d. Montdidier- Noyon Between
““-9th of June and 15th of June, 1918.
~ 15th of July and 18th of July, 1918.
iy oO of st 1918,
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-’ g Somme, Offeasive—Between
~ #'% of August and 11th of Novem
., I Olsne-Alsne—Between 18th
and lith of November,
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auto-mechanics; that the schools op
erated by the Air Service are thor
oughly training men in more than
forty skilled trades; that the Enlist
ed Specialists’ School of the Coast
Artillery Corps is instructing men in
all branches of electrical engineering
—telephones, cables, dynamos, mo
tors, etc.; that the Army School for
Cooks -and Bakers is teaching mren
their particular trades; that the In-
Ifantry. the Cavalry, the Field Artil
lery, the Corps of Engineers, the Sig
nal Corps, the Ordnance Corps and
the Quartermaster Corps all offer
courses in highly specialized occu
pations. In fact, there is scarcely a
gle line of endeavor that is not
represented in the curriculum of the
Army’'s educational program.
And by offering such education and
such training the Army accomplishes
two great ends. 1t develops Army
men collectively into a gigantic and
efficient organization capable of han
dling the important peace problems
with which it will be intrusted, and
it prepares the individual man for
greater individual usefulness and
greater individual reward, whether
the man remains in the service of the
Army or returns to clvil life.
In so doing the Army does nol
forget or overlook the individual
There is no tuition charged by the
“University in Khaki.” Instead, its
policy is, “Earn While You Learn,”
and to those who emroil comes not
only good pay: but travel, recreation,
clothing, comfortable quarters,
wholesome food and expert medical
and dental attendance.
This interest in the individual is
shown in other respects. Promotions
in the ranks, with accompanying
higher pay, come swiftly to thé am
bitious; opportunity to enter W
Point as cadets comes to ninety men
each year, while to additional num
bers comes the opportunity of gain
ing commissioned ratings by direct
promotion from the ranks. And, after
thirty years of service, the Army" be
stows upon the individual for the re
mainder of his life three-fourths of
the pay of the grade held by him up
on retirement, plus $9.50 per month
for clothing and rations, plus $6.25
per month for quarters, light and
heat, plus the privilege of purchasing
his supplies at cost from Army supply
depots.
Everyone is familiar with the
pkrase—"The Greatest Mother in the
Woarld.” It is the very apt charac
terization of the American Red Cross,
and no one denies that it truly typi
files the .ml humanitarian aim of
that wo ul organization. There
is a vastly similar phrase now com
ing into use. This pkrase fs—*‘The
Nation’s Greatest Father.” It is be
ing employed to éharacterize the aim
of the United States Army—THE
NEW UNITED STATES ARMY—in
ts relation to the individual soldier,
and just as truly as the aim of the
Red Cross is symbolized by its ex
pression, “The Greatest Mother. in
the World,” so is the purpose of our
Army made clear in the newer slo
gn—_-“'rhe Nation’s Greatest Fa
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i. Ypres-Lys—Between 10th of!
A and 11th of November, 1918. '
. St, Mihicl—Between 12th of
Septomber snd 16th of September., |
19 '
k. W&—mm!
of September and lith of Novem-|
bell':“l& . e
Vittori-Veneto—Between 24
of October and 4th of November.,
3, Clasps will be awarded to each
officer and emlisted man who served
overseas and is not emtitled to a bat
tle clasp under paragraph 3, as fol
ows:
a. France—TFor service in France
between April 6,. 1017, and Novem
ber 11, 1918,
b. Italy—For service in Italy be
tween April 6, 1917, and November
11, 1918, :
c. Siberia—For any service in Si
beria.
d. Russias—For any service im
European Russia. £
e. England—For service in Eng
land -between April 6, 1917, and Neo
vember 11, 1918. :
4. A bromze star, 8/16 fnch i+
diameter, will be placed om the sor- |
ice ribbom for each battle clz::
awarded. When an officer or en:is:-
ed man has been cited im orders i-:
sued from the headquarters of a
force commanded by a general officer
for gallantry in action, not justifying
the award of a medal of honor, dis
timguished service cross or distin
guished service medal, he will wear a
star for each such citation.
5. Pending the procurement and
On France In 1500 Years
Here is some interesting history
quoted from the New York Tr&’nne:
One hundred years before rist
300,000 Germans invaded Frauece,
murdering, burning, pillaging as
they went. At Aixen-Provence they
were stopped and defeated. They
sued for peace and swore they would
never do it again. R 4‘
Sixty years afterward 240,000 Ger
mans invaded the Jura district of
France. Six years later 400,000 Ger-l
mans invaded the terrltor‘hbetwm‘
the Meuse and.the Oise. ey were
beaten. They swore they would
never do it agan. !
Sixty years before Christ the Ger
mans invaded the left bank of the
Rhine. Two hundred and thirty
years after Christ the Germans in
vaded- France. They were beaten.
They swore: they would never do it
again. 2 i :
Twenty years later another inva
sion, another defeat, another solemn
pledge. -
In 274 A. D., the Rhine basin was
invaded by the Germans. In 275
northeastern France.
In 301 Langres was invaded. The
| invaders were beaten and they swore
““Never again.” %
issue. of the Victory Medal, organiza
tion commrianders are authorizedl to
permit those serving umder them to
wear the service l’lbgfl.l-l stars to
which they are emtitlied as shown by
their neonil‘;{ B & o i
B § o ar.
Y A RrON O MARCH,
General, Chief of Staff,
Ofiicial: Ly
P. C. Harris,
The Adjutant General.
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1 In 351 they reconguered the left
bank of the Rhine.
| In 354 they devastated Lyons, in
1860 Besancon.
| In 364 they invaded and plundered
| Belgium. . _
Here is the chonology of the subse
'|quent invasions: 372, 400, 400, 410,
413, 800, 853, 978, 1134, 1214, 1513,
; 1567, 1569, 1576, 1587, 1636, 1675,
{1707, 1708, 1744, 1792, 1798, 1814,
11815, 1870, 1914,
{ Thirty-three invasions in a little
over fifteen hundred years. An aver
{age of one invasion for every fifty
years. Whenever they were success
| ful they celebrated with unspeakable
| atrocities, Whenever they were
| beaten they swore they would never
tldo it again.
1 This is certainly a fearful record.
| We have taken time to verify some
of the dates and it looks like a clear
{case. Not only is this compact his
| tory true, but it is not all the story.
This refers only to France. Theé same
|indictment can be brought against
| Germany with regard to Anustria,
Italy and other smaller nations like
| Denmark. Indeed, the German boys
|and girls are taught in the German
schools that Germany has won her
{great place by fighting and that the
{only nation that can live is the fight
{ing nation.
{ If the good of the rest of humanity
| was truly considered, there would be
no question about what ought to be
done with Germany. But what ror
or combinations of nations is in
human enough’ to perform the opera
tion? No nation save Germany is in
shape to do it. That is, no mation is
cruel and brutal enough to do to
Germany what she deserves.
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