1936 Dec US Army Recruiting News Magazine ADNA R. CHAFFEE New York Harbor

Description: Good condition. Binding separated from front and back cover. ----------- 2 ----------- PUBLISHED BY DIRECTION OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL DECEMBER 1936 VOL. XVIII No. 12 IN THIS ISSUE PRESIDENT AT FT. WOOD CHRISTMAS IN ALASKA U. S. SOLDIERS' HOME RECRU ----------- 2 ----------- COCOANUTS IN THEIR OWN FRONT YARD Soldiers Gather them Fresh in Manila ----------- 3 ----------- FORT WOOD "Miss Liberty" on Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor (S tory on Page Nine) RPB ----------- 4 ----------- Triple-Threat Bergin The subject of the accompanying cartoon, Private First Class Edward T. Bergin, is a member of Com- pany G, 16th Infan- try, Fort Jay, New York, with former service in the Ha- waiian Islands. be Alaska Unit Excels at Baseball It may seem in- congruous to writing of baseball in snowbound Alas- ka in this winter month of December, but advices have only just now been received from An- chorage to the ef- fect that the 1st Signal Company's baseball nine at that remote post ac- quitted itself hand- somely indeed on local baseball dia- monds last summer. The signal men finished the 1936 season in a tie for the Anchorage League leadership. To go into this tie, the soldier nine de- feated the Anchor- age A. C. ball-toss- UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING NEWS ers 3 to 2 in a game featured by a timely home run by Turner and five hits by "Slugger" Smith, the soldiers' first baseman.. Going outside their home town AND WHAT'S MORE IF ANY OF THE BOYS IN HOLLYWOOD WANT TO TAKE REST- HE IS ALSO AN ACTOR. THIS BIG BAD WOLF IS ALWAYS STEALING THE LITTLE PIG SKIN AWAY FOR A LONG RUN EDWARD BERGIN- ALL-ROUND ATHLETE HE HAS MORE CURVES THAN MAE WEST... league, the signalmen then travelled to Palmer to defeat that town's nine, 5 to 4. Later, in a baseball tournament at the Matanuska Valley Fair the sol- dier nine defeated the Seward town RINK CHAMPIONS team, 11 to 2 in the first game of a double-header and downed the An- chorage All-Stars, 11 to 9, in the night- cap nine-inning battle. On Monday, September 7th the Palmer nine battled the soldiers to a nine-inning score- less tie. The same evenly matched nines met the next day in the decisive game which re- sulted in Palmer winning by a lone tally, 1 to 0. Barrancas Bas-1 keteers Best The basket ball five representing Fort Barrancas, Florida, which last season won the Pensacola Gold Medal Tournament, the Inter-Gulf- States Tournament and the Mobile, Alabama, Delta Tournament, is pre- paring to repeat its many triumphs on the basketball court this coming season. Soldier Team Wins Defeating the fast Vienna Brewery eleven of Covington, Kentucky, recent- ly by a score of 8 to 0, the "Big Blue" soldier team of Fort Thomas increased its lead in the powerful Dixie Football League from Covington and vicinity. Ice Hockey Team of the Service Company, 15th Infantry, which swept all opposition before it on "Can Do" outdoor rink in Tientsin, China, to win the hockey championship of the regiment for the 1935-36 season Page Seventeen ----------- 5 ----------- ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Chief of Staff, 1904-1906 During the Santiago Campaign General Chaffee dis- tinguished himself anew, particularly at El Caney, where he captured the Spanish position and thereby practically brought the war to an end. For this service he was pro- moted major general of Volunteers in July, 1898. Returning to the United States, he remained at home for only a short time, being sent to Cuba again in Decem- ber, 1898, as Chief of Staff to the military governor of the island. He remained on this duty until May, 1900. A month later, after a brief tour of duty in New York, he was or- dered to China to take command of the American forces engaged with other foreign powers in quelling the Boxer Rebellion. Space does not permit even a brief account of General Chaffee's command in China. The success of the allied at- tempt to relieve Peking, and the American part in that attempt, are facts well known. From China the American troops were sent to the Philippines to put down insurrection in that quarter. In 1901 Chaffee, then holding the rank of major general in the Regular Army, was named to succeed General Arthur MacArthur as military governor of the Islands. This office he filled with his usual efficiency and vigor. Upon the retirement of Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, the first Chief of Staff, General Chaffee was pro- moted to lieutenant general and detailed as Chief of Staff, becoming thereby the senior officer of the Army. Although not due for retirement by statutory provision until April 14, 1906, he requested relief from the duties of Chief of Staff in January of that year and he voluntarily retired on February 1st. Following his retirement, General Chaffee lived in Los Angeles, California, where for several years he was presi- dent of the Board of Public Works. He died at Los Angeles on November 1, 1914. He was buried among the nation's heroes in Arlington. Page Three ----------- 6 ----------- Power House and Laundry PART IV Administration and Interior Economy T HE administration of the Sol- diers' Home from the first, as already mentioned, has been delegated to a specially selected group of Army officers who function under the supervision of the Secretary of War. Matters of policy, including the passing on applications for admis- sion, have always been decided by a Board of Commissioners composed of officers of high rank, while the actual administration has ever been performed by resident officials of the Home. These latter are a Governor, a Deputy Gov- ernor, a Secretary-Treasurer, a Chief Surgeon, and a Quartermaster, under whom, of course, is a staff of assistants. Upon the establishment of the Home in 1851, Colonel I. B. Crane, command- ing the 1st Artillery and a veteran of the War of 1812, was called from the field as first Governor. His Deputy Governor was Brevet Major Larkin. Smith, 8th Infantry, veteran of the Mexican War and a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point, class of 1835. The first Secretary-Treasur- er was Brevet Ma- jor W. W. Mackall, also a graduate of the Military Acad- emy and a veteran of the Mexican War. The first Chief Surgeon was Benjamin King, who had been in the ser- vice since 1818, and held the rank of assistant s surgeon; his war record, if any, is not given by Heitman. The first Board of Commis- sioners consisted of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Page Six Kitchen ----------- 7 ----------- "Miss Liberty" Celebrates a Birthday F President Roosevelt Heads Group of Distinguished Guests at Anniversary Exercises OR half a century there has stood on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor an internationally fa- mous figure. A green bronzed figure of grandeur and striking lines, holding in her uplifted giant right hand the torch which is the promise of free- dom to all in this New World of the United States of America. "She" is the Statue of Liberty, monumental gift of the French to the American people, and on October 28, 1936, the famous goddess celebrated her fiftieth birthday, host to a dis- tinguished company of guests headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The golden anniversary of Miss Lib- erty was observed with music, song and oratory. At the pedestal of the statue President Roosevelt delivered the chief address of the day, stressing the symbolism of the Statue of Lib- erty as "the mes- sage of liberty which America sends to all the world." Before going to Bedloe's Island to participate in the ceremonies at the statue, the Chief Executive visited Governors Island, headquarters of the Second Corps Area. There he was re- ceived by a special guard of honor and was conducted on a tour of the post along roads lined on either side with sol- diers of the 16th Infantry standing at "Present Arms." He was the guest of Major General Frank R. McCoy, commander of the corps area, at luncheon and im- mediately after the luncheon he and his William C. Bullitt. Other distinguished speakers included the French Ambas- sador to the United States, the Honor- able Andre de Laboulaye, and Secre- tary of the Interior Ickes of the United States Cabinet. As nearly as possible the program was patterned after the exercises on October 28, 1886, when President Grov- er Cleveland of the United States was conveyed to Bedloe's Island to dedi- cate the statue. The great colossus came into con- crete being as the result of the desire of the people of France to show their appreciation of the many evidences of friendship which Americans had given the sister republic during the Franco- President Hayes to set aside a site on Bedloe's Island and to provide funds for the statue's maintenance. According to the plans finally adopted, the French were to furnish- the statue and the Americans the ped-1 estal. The total cost of both statue and pedestal was about one million 1 dollars, and this sum was raised by popular subscription in France and the United States. After completion in Paris on Oc- tober 24, 1881, the statue was shipped, in pieces, to New York, the pieces fill- ing 214 immense packing cases. The North Atlantic Squadron of the United States Navy met the French steamer carrying these pieces and escorted it- in triumph into New York Harbor, The pedestal, in the meantime had been built, and so the pieces were assem- bled and set up on this base. -Photo by New York WORLD-TELEGRAM President Roosevelt (at reader's left in rear seat of car) passing between lines of 16th Infantry soldiers on Governors Island party again boarded the special Man- hattan ferryboat for the short trip across New York Bay to Bedloe's Is- land. His departure was featured by a guard of honor from the 18th Infan- try. President Albert Lebrun of France. addressed the throng on Bedloe's Is- land by radio broadcast from Paris, being introduced by the American Am- bassador to France, the Honorable Prussian War. It was finally decided, by the French, to present a gigantic statue to the United States; this great. monument to be placed in the New York Harbor which was then, as now, the portal to the New World for Euro- pean immigrants. Frederick August Bartholdi, a tal- ented young French sculptor, came to America to look the site over, and on February 22, 1877, Congress authorized "Miss Liberty" has withstood the storms of fifty years and today is as structur ally. sound as she was when dedicated. The sight of her at the threshold of the New World has en- couraged and in- spired countless thousands of immi- grants, and she has, been the soul-stir- ring beacon of home: for the veterans of two major wars, re- turning to New York in troopships after combat ser- vice in Cuba and in France. The Statue of Liberty was flood- lighted, by the turn of a switch by President Woodrow Wilson on Decem-1 ber 2, 1916, becom ing then a spot- lighted goddess of liberty by night as well as by day. Bedloe's Island is named after Isaac) Bedloe who held patent to the twelve- acre island plot shortly after thei American colonies won their independ- ence. A portion of the reservation, known as Fort Wood and a sub-post" of Fort Jay, New York, is now gar- risoned by the Headquarters and Mili- tary Police Company of the 1st Divi sion. Page Nine ----------- 8 ----------- Major General EDGAR T. CONLEY The Adjutant General ----------- 9 ----------- Ev A re th eUFaCE G Or- y try ed er- mi- 0- at n. Private First Class Wm. Smith, Co. E, 3rd Q.M. Regiment, Presidio of San Francisco, with portable tool kit he designed and constructed. Complete with spotlight and inner lights, it can be worked in the darkest night as well as in midday sun. The soldier-inventor hails from Little Rock, Arkansas ress en's

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