length of service of this group that the solution I am suggesting should make it acceptable.

In this great Democracy of ours, we are taught in childhood that the sky is the limit, in other words that a man can rise according to his ability, but the promotion list as it now stands has effectually blocked a large proportion from ever reaching in many cases even a majority, simply because some youngsters had a few more days service, due to the fact that they could rush off to the first training camp from school, no business or family to make arrangements for. Then the government called for older men for the second training camp. Due to the difference in age the first camp men will reach the higher grades in due course of time and sit

there while a large number of older men are retired for age, in the lower grades, the government giving no consideration whatsoever to experience and the more mature judgment of the older men. It is not that we object to being ranked by men a lot younger but solely that no matter how hard we work or how efficient we are, our age will get us retired on account of the younger men above us. The other way every one will reach the higher grades.

If any change is to be made or can be made in the list, would not a solution similar to the one I have mentioned (rather poorly set forth) be worthy of consideration.

A. P. KITSON, 1st Lieutenant.

The Army's Opportunity HOUSANDS of doughboys of Tthe Regular Army will be on

the march to and from the various summer training camps in each of the Corps Areas. This summer these marches afford an excellent opportunity to let the people see just how their Army "carries on." To this end it behooves those charged with them to provide those opportunities. The length of marches should be reasonable, even if it takes a day or two longer to reach the destination. The soldier worn out with a 25-mile march behind him is not fit to go on parade or to show up to advantage to the visitors to camp. The camps for the night should be carefully selected along the route so that they may be in the vicinity of towns where the greatest number of people may see the troops. They should be open to visitors. Wherever practicable, a military formation or ceremony should be scheduled for the late afternoon and a big band concert for the evening. Field sports, boxing, baseball, etc., furnish means for creating favorable attention and much publicity.

The Army has a rare opportunity this year to do something for itself; it is to be hoped that full advantage will be taken of it.

tined to starve to death before this year's crops can be made available for food consumption. That is, provided relief from the outside is not forthcoming.

Right along with this prediction comes the news that the Soviet Government is actually exporting grain from Russia in considerable quantities and has a lot more in storage ready to export.

Practical Americans who have donated their money to Russian relief work will demand an explanation of this, and it will be difficult to convince them that there can be any betterment of conditions in Russia until the country has a government which makes the needs of its own people its first consideration.

It is well known that the Soviets are verging on bankruptcy. They have managed to get together a few thousand tons of grain for which they can get some real, honest-to-goodness money, and notwithstanding the fact that the Soviets, a short time ago, tried to abolish money, money is what they want. It is of little concern to them that 8,000,000 of their people starve to death so long as they can keep their pockets filled with the coin of the realm.

stood on the heights of Chapaultepec when that regiment stormed them in the course of the capture of the City of Mexico. The Buff Stick is awarded on the first day of each month to the company that has maintained the highest standard of discipline, appearance and everything that goes to make a company of soldiers, during the preceding month. The Buff Stick is carried by the first sergeant of the company at all formations, and he marches beside the captain when the company turns out. The competition is most keen, and it is considered a great honor for a company to win the trophy.

In the 14th Infantry the motto of the regiment is employed for the purpose of bringing about excellence. This motto is "The Right of the Line." It originated during the Civil War. When General McClellan reviewed the Army of the Potomac the question came up as to the position of the 14th. Infantry and it was assigned to "The Right of the Line" on account of the excellent and heroic service that it had rendered during the campaign. Today, by a series of rigid tests and inspections the best company of the regiment is determined periodically and this company is assigned to "The Right of the Line" in every formation in which it participates. Many of our Infantry regiments have traditions that could be employed in a similar manner. It only remains for them to be searched out and brought into being. As promoters of Esprit de Corps they are of the best as is evidenced by the high standard maintained in the two regiments referred to here. It will pay us to dig up the old-time stuff and make use of it.

Americanization Schools

HE work of the "Reds" and

Ttheir affiliated bodies is mani

fest in the most unexpected places, as illustrated in an article in this issue of the JOURNAL on the Americanization Schools. Here was the grocer to whom appeal was made by an Americanization worker to act as interpreter in interviewing a woman of foreign birth. Apparently he complied cheerfully enough, but as promptly reported the women were not interested in what the American had to offer. It is apparent that the grocer did not want the Americanization worker coming into his neighborhood and enlightening his customers as to American methods, language, and prices. So long as his customers could not make contact with Americans he had them at his mercy to charge what he chose for his merchandise. So the foreign women were fruitful soil for communistic doctrine. The wages of their men-folks, large as they were, were all absorbed in the mere process of existence. Those who live from hand to mouth offer fertile material for socialistic propaganda.

There are some thirty-five hundred Americanization schools in the United States, and that in the District of Columbia is merely typical of the rest, though probably more greatly handicapped than others, because of the dependence on Congressional appropri

ation for maintenance.

These schools are of great interest to the Army for they are solving the same problem that the Army met in the Development Battalions necessitated by the draft.

That their work is worth while is shown by their recognition by the

Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Once a month one of the justices of this body sits as a Naturalization Court and the District Attorney questions the candidates for admission to citizenship as to their to their knowledge of our Government, their education, and other qualifications for admission.

This Court now accepts the certificate of the Americanization School as to the qualifications of the new citizens and his appearance in Court is merely for the purpose of taking the formal oath of allegiance.

The Infantry Association is so much interested in these schools that it has been glad to make a contribution to continue the work during the summer by supplying at least a small part of the deficit caused by failure of Congress to appropriate the necessary funds for maintenance.

Operations of the Reds

10 those who are familiar with

Tthe aims and the dastardly programs for the inciting of trouble and disorder in the country the operations of the Reds stand out on every hand.

The Communists and their allies under various and sundry names are now conducting a nation-wide drive. for the purpose of securing funds with which to oppose the criminal syndicalist laws of the States where they have been enacted and are being carried out. At least six speakers have been on the boards for several weeks haranguing their hearers into parting with their long green. Chief among these is one Eugene V. Debs, who adopts this means of showing his

appreciation of the leniency extended to him by the National Government in commuting his prison sentence. He now calls it, among other choice names, "a plutocratic, graft-infested institution."

The defense of the Communists arrested at Bridgman, Mich., and the fight against the California Criminal Syndicalist Law are the chief purposes for which funds are sought. Foster is still one of the defendants in the Michigan case and Mrs. Stokes is also to be tried because of her participation in the illegal Bridgman convention. The speeches of these advocates of violent revolution in the United States are marked with bitter attacks upon the form of government here which they, at the behest of the Lenin and Trotsky group of Communists, are endeavoring to destroy by "armed insurrection."

The fight in California, which is conducted in the main by the I. W. W. as a result of which Upton Sinclair was arrested recently with a score or more I. W. W.'s, has gone so far as to call upon the radicals of the country to boycott all California products, including moving pictures. The first of fourteen demands made by the Wobblies is for the "release of all political, class-war prisoners." The fourteenth point calls for the boycott "until the Criminal Syndicalist Law has been repealed." The other points deal with wages and conditions of work except for the twelfth point which, entirely Communistic, provides for a Ship's Committee which "shall be recognized by the Master of the Vessel." This, of course, would result in the ship's committee instead of the captain, running the vessel.

The American Civil Liberties Union has been branded officially as follows:

A supporter of all subversive movements, and its propaganda is detrimental to the interests of the State. It attempts not only to protect crime but to encourage attacks upon our institutions in every form.

This quotation is taken from the official report of the Lusk Committee, which exposed the radical movement in New York State directed against the Government. The chief leader in the American Civil Liberties Union is Roger N. Baldwin, the draft-dodger who served time for refusing to aid the United States in time of war.

The American Civil Liberties Union never has aid to give the poor man who steals a loaf of bread to feed his children, but if anyone attacks the Government of the United States this organization offers the services of money and lawyers almost without limit. It boasts that it commands the services of more than 800 lawyers in the United States and it is constantly raising funds to be used for the defense of conspirators against this Government. William Z. Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn are officials of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Perhaps the frankest confession of this organization that it is interested only in radicals who seek the destruction of the American Government was contained in its circular relating to its interest, or lack of interest, in one Linn A. E. Gale, who beat the sheriff of New York across the Rio Grande by only a few feet. Gale was a draftdodger, like Baldwin, and was wanted for other crimes in New York. He went to Mexico where he published

a weekly paper devoted to attacks on the Government of the United States and to praise of the Germans and more particularly of the Russian Communists. His activities in connection with indecent advertisements finally led to his expulsion from Mexico when he was seized by the United States officials, tried, convicted and sent to the Leavenworth penitentiary. All the time he was in Mexico and during his trial he was supported and indorsed by the American American Civil Liberties Union. But Gale recanted and renounced his Communist doctrines. Whereupon the American Civil Liberties Union broadcasted a circular in which it said:

Linn A. E. Gale is wholly undeserving of the support of those interested in political prisoners for he has repudiated his beliefs and severed his connections with the radical movements.

It will be interesting to the loyal citizens of the United States to find upon the National Committee of the Labor Defense Council which is fighting for the Communists arrested in connection with the illegal Bridgman convention, besides Foster, Browder, Dunne and Ruthenberg, defendants, Debs, Baldwin, Holmes and Miss Flynn, the name of Father John A. Ryan, of the National Catholic Welfare Council. Father Ryan is the man who is quoted in a petition calling for clemency for one Nicholai Mansevich, who admitted that he believed in government by assassination of public officials, that "American industrial life. is better as a result of having men of the type of Mansevich in its ranks."