traffic accidents for 12 months, 22,600; deaths in battle for 19 months, 67,813. The traffic toll is more aggravated in matter of serious personal injuries. than wounded in the war. The traffic accidents injured 678,000, whereas the American wounded in the war numbered 192,483. In 1924, up to August 1, 9,500 lives had been sacrificed through automobile accidents alone.

The "outlawry of war" group that is trying to render the United States helpless to defend herself, in the face of adequate preparations by possible enemy nations, might do its country some service by concentrating on "outlawing" traffic accidents.

bonus measure at a later date, or, failing that, a liberal pension provision. Logically, to their mind, those who do not accept the recently authorized bonus stand better chances of obtaining cash payments or pensions than do those who elect to accept the form of "adjusted compensation" now provided for.

To opponents of the bonus measure the present situation brings proof of their former contention that, contrary to widely advertised claims, the majority of the ex-service men did not endorse the bonus movement. These opponents hold that a relatively small but organized group jammed the bill through Congress regardless of forceful but unorganized opposition. They contend, these opponents, that from the day President Harding vetoed the original bonus measure on the ground that the country could not pay the bill

from that day consideration of this vital question dropped from the high plane of a moral matter to the low plane of a financial problem. To these men the fight should have centered around the question: Does the country owe the ex-service men a bonus? instead of: Can the country stand the cost?

The developments of the next few years will be watched with great interest by all concerned and what American can say that he is not concerned?

Construction Programs

HE PERMANENT building

Tprogram for the Infantry

School at Fort Benning, Ga., has received the official sanction of the Secretary of War and the sum of $10,339,500 has been included in the rec

ommendation made to Congress for progressive appropriation. The sum asked for will include the expense of construction of the cuartel barracks for the 29th Infantry, which will cost $385,000. It will complete the entire building project for the school and will correct the unsatisfactory conditions now prevailing in the matter of hous-. ing of personnel and activities. According to the estimates sent to Congress, Camp Meade will receive $5,605,000 for construction purposes.

The housing condition in the Army will receive special attention by the House Committee on Military Affairs, and Chairman Wadsworth of the Senate Committee has expressed himself as favorable to legislation to remedy the acute situation.

The Army earnestly hopes that something concrete will result from the careful study presented by the Secretary of War, and that the discussion will result in a program of fixed annual appropriations to alleviate the present unsatisfactory and demoralizing state of affairs.

His service of twenty-five years in the House of Representatives was largely in the Military Committee. He did much for the Army through all his career, but will probably best be remembered for his work in putting through the Selective Service Act at the time of our entry into the World War. A Republican in a Democratic House and in a Democratic committee and over the active opposition of the committee chairman, he was largely instrumental in reporting out the bill and in actively defending it on the floor of the House.

Picturesque in appearance, he never quite lost the theatric effect of his early training, but he was an ardent advocate of universal military training and preparedness. The Army has, indeed, lost a good friend.

Army Football

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HE Army football season was a successful one. The big interservice clash resulted in a victory for West Point over Annapolis, 12 to 0, on November 29. The Army team suffered but one defeat, that by Notre Dame, and it tied Yale and Columbia. Next year's Army-Navy game will be played in New York.

The Third Corps Area team went down to defeat before the All-Marines, 47 to 0, on December 6. Owing to the new athletic regulations of the Army, the Third Corps Area's officer team will be disbanded. No Army team is on the All-Marine schedule for 1925.

Another victory for the Infantry was scored when the Tank School football team, on December 3, defeated Fort Monroe, 13 to 6, in the final game of the season. The team thus won the 3d Corps Area championship for the fifth consecutive year. It was undefeated this year by any Army team, and this is a commendable record because teams which were met were from Army posts of approximately the same size as Camp Meade.

Grant.

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Tote Yer Guns-Git!

General Pershing tells a Civil War story about a volunteer battalion of rough backwoodsmen that once joined General The latter admired their fine physique, but distrusted the capacity of their uncouth commander to handle troops promptly and efficiently in the field, so he said:

"Major, I want to see your men at work; call them to attention, and order them to march with shouldered arms in close column to the left flank."

Without a moment's hesitation the major yelled to his fellow ruffians: "Boys, look wild thar! Make ready to thicken

and go left endways!

Git!"

Tote yer guns!

The maneuver proved a brilliant success and the self-elected major was forthwith officially commissioned. I

Coat-of-Arms of 6th Infantry

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HE COAT of Arms of the 6th Infantry is reproduced on the front cover of this issue. It is described as follows:

Shield Argent, a scaling ladder vert, in fess an alligator statant proper, on a chief wavy gules a cross of the field.

Crest-On a wreath of the colors a lion's face gules.

Motto-Unity is strength.

The 6th Infantry engaged in the Canadian campaigns of 1813 and 1814, shown by the crest. It was in several Indian campaigns, notably the Seminole War, when it bore the brunt of the fighting at the battle of Lake Okechobee, December 25, 1837. This is represented by the alligator.

The regiment was with General Scott in Mexico, serving with marked distinction at Churubusco and in the assault on the citadel of Chapultepec. This is commemorated with a scaling ladder by means of which the walls of Chapultepec were stormed, green, the Mexican color, being used.

The "chief" is for the crossing of the Meuse near Dun, and is the arms of the ancient Lords of Dun, a silver cross on a red field. The partition line is wavy to represent the river. The color of the shield is white (argent) which was the color of the Infantry facings when the regiment was organized.

Col. David L. Stone commands the 6th Infantry, which is stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

She (a lover of animals)-"Ah, what would polo be without dashing ponies?" He (sadly)-Hockey.

"Tactical Principles and Decisions"

NCLUDED in the list of books

suggested by the Chief of Infantry to be read by all Infantry officers is "Tactical Principles and Decisions." This work is under revision by the General Service Schools and will ultimately be published in pamphlet form. The entire text will comprise some forty chapters, though a number of the chapters are divided into several parts. The tentative price of the pamphlets with maps has been fixed at 20 cents, or 10 cents for the text alone. It is estimated that the cost of the entire text will approximate $8.00.

As the pamphlets are to be punched to conform to the Training Regulations, officers will do well to procure a Kalamazoo binder, and assemble the several pamphlets therein as issued. This will be far better than to attempt to keep them in a desk drawer awaiting completion of the entire set before having them bound. Purchased singly, also, the cost will be of no consequence. Undoubtedly the Secretary of the General Service Schools will be glad to enter subscriptions for the pamphlets to be sent to officers as issued.

ual matches in which it entered competitors excepting two. The team, captained by Capt. John H. Knuebel, Infantry, has received the congratulations of all the services and the country at large for this splendid triumph.

The team scored 1,331 points in the Peruvian team match, against 1,327 by Cuba, 1,289 by Peru, and 1,278 by Argentine. In the Pan-American team match the lead was much larger; scores: United States, 5,123; Cuba, 5,048; Argentine, 4,934; Peru, 4,788. Lieut. S. R. Hinds, Inf., was high man in this match, scoring 1,034 points for his team; Sgt. Morris Fisher, of the Marines, was second with 1,033 points.

In the individual matches the North Americans garnered several clean-cut wins. The Carton match was won by Lieut. G. A. Rehm, Cav., with Lieut. R. E. Vermette, Inf., second, and Mr. S. D. Monahan, third. In the limited reentry match, Rehm was first, with Monahan, Vermette, Gunner Lloyd of the Marines, and Sergeant Coulter of the Marines, finishing in the order named. In the 300-meter three position event, Martino, Argentine, was first, with Lieutenant Hinds in second place; both scored 286 points. In the position championships, Arro of Cuba won the standing event; Lieutenant Hinds, the kneeling, and Sergeant Coulter the prone. Lieutenant Vermette won the special Argentine trophy match by one point; Diaz of Cuba was second.

And Then the Christening! Mose: "What am yer new mule's name?"

Artie: "Ah ain't named him yet. Ah's waitin'."

"Waitin' fer what?"

"Something to happen to me."