Under the Heading "Joins rank3 of 100 per Centers" the Infantry Activ
ities department of The Infantry Journal carries an article as follows I .
"Another coiaoany of ioughooys has joined TShe ranksof 100 per cents ^
for the season's target practice. This tine it is Company P, 7th Infan
try stationed at Chilkoot Barracks in far-away Alaska and commanded by Capt.
Gordon P. Savage* The company has completed its firing with the rifle, auto
matic rifle and pistol and there is not a single unqualified nan in the out
fit with the weapon with which he is armed* In the rifle firing, the 59
men participating raa.de a record of 45 expert riflemen, 10 sharpshooters,
and 4 marksmen* In the Automatic Rifle record firing 30 men shot the course
with the result that 22 qualified as experts, 7 as sharpshooters and 1 as
marksman, ihe Company average in pistol firing was 79.8}« with a full 100/fc
qualification. Ihe average score of the Co many with the rifle was 301.3
and with the automatic rifle was 538*25. This is a wonderful record and
Captain Savage isto be highly congratulated on the splendid results attained.
"Your Grace has not the organ of animal courage largely developed,"
said a phrenologist, who "/as examining the head of the Duke of Wellington*
"That is so," answered the great British general. "But for my sense
of duty, 1 would have retreated in my first battle."
"Bring back the regimental colors!*.' ye!3ed an adjutant during the bat
tie of Alma, when the standard was in an exposed position held only by a
junior officer and a few men.
"Nothing doing, "replied the youngster. '*3ring up the men to the colors."
"Ihere will be no slackers anl no profiteers, if we are ever again
forced into war, " said the Assistant Secretary of v/ar, Col. Dwight F. Da
vis, at the 2nd Annual Convention of the Ileserve Officers' Assn, in De
troit. ’The National Defense Act; and the plan for Industrial liobilization,
now being drawn in accordance with it, will provide a place for every man
and will insure that only reasonable profits will be made by industry.
Both man-power and industrial power are necessary in waging war. Each is use
less without the other. In a major war, the strategy of handling the indus
trial resources of a nation may well be as vital to success as the strategy
• f handling troops.1'
Hie problem of figuring the requirements of the Army involves the con
sideration of 23,000 major items and of 700,000 items in all. Under the
new plans, each factory will be furnished with drawings and specifications
and will be given standardized war contracts, so th it, if an emergency
should arise, the slant would immo liately be ready to 3tart manufucturing
a© -oaruicu
;ior
.000
man,
J
purchaei:
.nose
tern assigned to it.
g staff to cbtain the articles required would be almost
staffs must, in time of \mr, according to the plan, be
nanne i gy 3©lectel business men, engineers, casuists, etc. anl men must be
constantly kept available for the important positions by selection unu
'.■raining, -n tme worn tne -
issistant decretory, be of i:
.eserve Officers -is so elation con, says tin
nense value.