years will tend to mold him for good or evil. The wisest educators understanding this have surrounded their academies with the atmosphere of lofty tradition, or it may be the glories of architecture or the beauties of nature. Here it may be remarked that a prominent officer of the National Educational Association once proposed that over the door of every public school in America be carved the motto, "Peace, Prosperity and Happiness" as an incentive to the lives of the students. When we come to analyze this apparently laudable slogan, so truly typical I of the spirit of many minds, we find it open to criticism. Peace-perhaps at the sacrifice of all that honor and religion hold dear; prosperity-no matter how obtained; happiness-at any cost! Nay, rather let us take as a motto the immortal words that are graven in the eternal granite of our parent military academy, DutyHonor-Country. These three words typify in their spirit the call to manly service to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to our State, that is the dominant thought underlying the military school idea as a system of education. Difficulties The Office of the Chief of Infantry is confronted with the difficult task of spreading a very limited amount of funds available for mileage and transportation over a large area of Infantry activities. In the first place the foreign garrisons must be officered up to approximately 100 per cent. The officers whose tours of foreign service expire have to be brought back to the States and transported to the stations to which they are assigned. The officers at the Infantry School who complete the course in May have to be transported to their new stations on completion of the duty assigned to them at the summer camps and finally the new classes have to be transported to the Infantry School. It has been tentatively decided that approximately 200 officers will go to the school for next year's classes. It is planned to get the orders out just as early as it is practicable to do so, and officers may be assured that it will not be delayed a day longer than is absolutely necessary. MR. SISSON: Mr. Chairman, I had not intended to say anything at this time or consume any of the time of the committee in its consideration of this bill, because I am reasonably well satisfied with its status. But I do feel at this time that somebody at least on this side of the aisle should say something for the Army officer. He does not need any defense against the charge of dishonesty. Whatever may be the fault of an Army officer or a Navy officer, it is not that he is dishonest. I want to say for the Army and the Naval officer, having been in close touch with him for 12 years and having heard him before the committee not only before the war but during and since the war, that I have yet to see a single Army or Navy officer, a graduate of either of the academies, whose honesty and integrity has ever been questioned. There are two things that you can say of the Army or Navy officer. He will not lie and he will not steal. That is not the trouble with Army and Navy officers. General Goethals tells us of the trouble and the weakness of the Army and Navy officers. They have been working all their lives for a client with an unlimited supply of money at their disposal, and they have never had to give the question of money any consideration, because that is not a thing that is demanded of them. The only thing demanded of an Army or Navy officer is results. We want results. Therefore he may be extravagant, for he spends money ruthlessly. That is not the case with all, but that is the rule generally, that he spends money ruthlessly, with a view only to obtaining results. I believe there is no man who can truthfully say that the Army or Navy officer is not as a rule the most honest fellow in the world. These men are taught at West Point and Annapolis to hate a liar. They are taught to hate a thief. These young men go through that four-year course, and when they come out they despise a thief and they despise a liar. Those two things are emphasized in their instruction. They believe in manhood and courage, and manhood and courage are always accompanied, as a rule, with honesty and integrity. Therefore, this present debate having assumed this angle to this extent, I thought it proper that these men, who can not speak on this floor themselves, should have some one speak for them who knows them, and I am delighted to bear testimony here to the fact that they are as truthful and as honest a bunch of fellows as ever served a government on earth. (Applause). by efficiency reports submitted by them during the past three years, has been analyzed. The results of this study have been tabulated, and in future revisions of ratings of officers this tabulation will be of great value. When efficiency reports are received. which rate an officer higher or lower than his former reports, reference to the Tank School, the U. S. Military Academy, or who it is desired to have specially prepared for definite lines of work in connection with particular Infantry projects. Sending Infantry Officers to RECENT the table will show whether the "Rat- Rtions require that the foreign serv ing Equation" of the reporting officer is high, low or normal. This is of particular interest in the case of unfavor able reports. Such reports, when rendered by an officer whose rating equation is low, will have less effect upon the record of the officer reported upon than would be the case had the reporting officer been a "normal rater." Detail of Infantry Officers to Civil Educational Institutions REQUESTS are now being received from officers who desire to attend civil educational institutions under the provisions of Section 127a, National Defense Act, as amended. Many of these applications indicate a desire on the part of the officer to complete an otherwise unfinished education. The detail of an officer for this purpose is contrary to policy. In furtherance of the subject, a limitation has been placed on Infantry officers who may attend all classes of schools, and it has been necessary to make a marked reduction in the number who may be detailed to attend educational institutions. It is therefore, intended, at least for the present year, to send to civil educational institutions only those officers for whom there is a definite assignment, as Instructor at the Infantry School, ice garrisons be filled to 100 per cent strength not later than September 30th of this year. Seventy-five per cent of these vacancies are located in Hawaii and Panama. A check has been made of the 1923 preferences submitted by of ficers who have had no foreign service and it is noted that practically 75 per cent of them expressed a preference for either China or the Philippine Islands, first or second choice. It is necessary that these vacancies be filled as soon as possible and it is contemplated that about eighty (80) officers will be under orders for foreign service by the end of June and will sail in July of this year. In view of the foregoing and also because of the shortage of mileage funds it is obvious that a great many of these officers cannot be sent to the stations for which they expressed a preference either as first or second choice. Seventy-five per cent of the vacan cies that will occur in the next fiscal year on foreign service due to the expiration of tour are also located in Panama and Hawaii. Since the replacements for these vacancies will have to be furnished from officers who I have had no foreign service it is also obvious that a great number of such officers will not be able to be stationed where they desire. This information is published in THE HE Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal are denoted in the Army Register by the initials "D. S. C." and "D. S. M.," respectively, but no notation is made of the Oak Leaf Cluster. The Oak Leaf Cluster is equivalent to an additional award of the Distinguished Service Cross, and is given in lieu thereof. As a result of the above, recommendations were recently made to the Adjutant General of the Army that a notation of the award of the Oak Leaf Cluster be included in the Army Register. The recommendations were approved and future issues of the Army Register will include the following notation under the officers' names: D. S. C. (1 Oak Leaf Cluster); D. S. C. (2 Oak Leaf Clusters); etc. whom will become leaders in case of another emergency. Those who have attended these comps have also increased their friendships. They look back on former camps with pleasant memories. A number of camps have sent to the Chief of Infantry copies of their camp albums which generally contained kodak pictures. They have proved very interesting. In addition to these, one 1922 Camp Book has been received which only recently came off the press. The book referred to is 81/4" by 11", and consists of 82 pages, bound in heavy dark paper of fancy design. It is dedicated to the Military Training Camps Association. In the front of the book is a form "Presented to Student Co........... Bn., C. M. T. C., 1922," followed by a place for the sig nature of the Corps Area Commander. The contents are a history of the Camp, names of students by units, a description of the courses, the honors awarded, the final standings, and athletics and its awards. The book is profuse in pictures, which include one of the Commanding Officer, and others of the various instructors and students. In fact, the book resembles, on a smaller scale, the year-book of a college. Such a book serves not only as a reminder of pleasant memories but helps indirectly to keep alive the association between the individuals who compose the Army of the United States. I Coat of Arms, 18th Infantry T HE Coat of Arms of the 18th Infantry, which appears on the cover of this number of the INFANTRY JOURNAL, was approved by the War Department on April 22, 1922. The blazon and history of the Coat of Arms are as follows: BLAZON Shield-Azure, a saltire argent, between in chief two arrows in saltire of the second armed and flighted or, in fess the insignia of the 8th Army Corps in the Spanish War proper, and a bolo of the second hilted or. On a chief indented of the second, a bend between two fleurs-de-lis of the field. Crest-On a wreath of the colors an acorn azure. (For unofficial use, en circled by a fourragere in the colors of the ribbon of the French Croix de Guerre proper.) Motto-In omnia paratus. HISTORY The regiment was organized in 1861 and was in the 3d Division of the 14th Corps, Army of the Cumberland, during most of its operations during the Civil War, the badge of which was a blue acorn. The prominent feature of the Confederate flag was the saltire cross. The crossed arrows represent the regiment's Indian campaigns, the old 8th Corps badge of the Spanish War recalls the Philippine service dur ing the Spanish War and the bolo for the operations in the Visayas. In the World War the regiment was awarded the fourragere for its part in the Soissons offensive of July 18, 1918, and the operations of early October around. Exermont and Hill 240 in the old province of Champagne. The chief bears the bend of the arms of Champagne between the fleurs-de-lis of the arms of Soissons. The fourragere may be used around the crest or around the shield in all unofficial uses, on stationery, for decorations, etc. The Infantry Entertains HE Washington Branch of the ciation turned out in full strength Saturday night at the City Club as hosts to the officers of the National Guard and Reserve Officers of the District of Columbia and the immediate vicinity. The party numbered more than two hundred and the occasion was thoroughly enjoyed by all of those who attended. Col. George S. Simonds, Infantry, president of the Washington Branch, was toastmaster. and introduced the speakers of the evening. A Hawaiian orchestra fur nished music for the occasion. Maj. Gen. George C. Rickards, chief of the Militia Bureau, was scheduled for a talk on the National Guard. He was called away from the city and Col. E. J. Williams, his executive officer, substituted for him. Colonel Williams read a message from General Rickards expressing his regrets at not being able to be present, after which he outlined the program of progress for the National Guard and explained in a most interesting and lucid manner some of the problems confronting the National Guard. He stated that in the near fu ture at least ten complete Infantry divisions of the citizen soldiery would be completed and federally recognized and that three Cavalry divisions would soon be on that same desirable status. Gen. A. M. Record, adjutant general of the State of Maryland, also talked on the organization and progress of the |