day K. P. to pay for dat gun.' For thirt day I peela de pertat, I washa de dish. Las' week I see on de board, 'Fin de Great Com Devise.' I go to teach. I say, 'I ain't seen no Great Com Devise!' She laugh and say, 'Never min', Tony, dat ain't fer you! Dat for 'rithmetic class. Now today I see on de board, 'Fin de Lees Com Mulp. I look good, in desk, under chair, I can't fin.' I go to teach agin. I say, 'Teach, I ain't seen no Lees Com Mulp,' and she laugh an' say, 'Yes, you is, Tony. It's in de book in your desk.' I look anoder time. I don' fin'. An now I queet. I ain't goin' to K. P. for nobody no more."

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Infantry Team Fund

We are pleased to acknowledge a few more contributions for the Infantry team of 1921. The team will soon be in process of formation. Things are shaping up for the tryout which it is expected will be conducted at Camp Benning. Every man in the Infantry stationed in continental United States has a chance for the team. We are looking for the best men the men that can produce bull's-eyes and win again the handsome trophies that now grace the office of the Chief of Infantry.

This fund that the INFANTRY JOURNAL is sponsoring is for the use of the team to secure the accessories that the Government does not provide. It is a worthy cause-one that every Infantryman should be interested in.

If all our Infantry companies would "pass the hat" the money would be forthcoming. This is one of the things that regimental adjutants can do to keep up the Infantry spirit. Try it out in your regiment. Get behind the proposition and give it a little personal touch and attention. Let's make it it two pages for next month's JOURNAL.

A blithe and sweet young thing walked into a bank the other day and addressed the paying teller.

"I want to have this check cashed." "Yes, madam," replied the teller; "please endorse it."

"Why, my husband sent it to me. He is away on business.”

"Yes, madam, but just endorse it. Sign it on the back, please, and your husband will know we paid it to you." She went to the desk, and in a few minutes returned to the window with the check endorsed, "Your loving wife, Edith."-San Francisco Chronicle.

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Training Camps for 1921

Offering to the youth of the Nation a month of military instruction and carefully supervised physical training, the War Department has practically completed plans for the establishment this summer of a number of citizens' military training camps throughout the entire country.

These camps, which are in furtherance of the policy of volunteer military training, strongly endorsed by President Harding, will be so apportioned that any young man who is eligible to attend them may find one within reasonable distance of his home. The present plan allots at least one camp to each corps area.

Special emphasis will be laid by the War Department this year on the enrollment of candidates for the camps. giving basic training which will be open to men up to thirty-five years of age who have had little or no military training and desire practical instruction in the field.

Attendance will be without cost to the candidate. Upon being accepted for enrollment he will proceed to the camp designated and upon his arrival

will be reimbursed for the amount of his traveling expenses. All instruction will be given at permanently established camps where the candidate will find selected Regular Army instructors prepared to train him in the elementary duties of a soldier. Physical training will occupy a permanent place in the program, and medical officers, chaplains, and hostesses will be in constant attendance. No educational qualifications are required, but the applicant's intelligence must be such as will permit him to understand and obey commands.

Applications for these camps should be made to the corps area commander in which the camp is located. The Headquarters of the nine corps areas and the States allotted to them are as follows: First Corps Area, Boston, Mass., Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Second Corps Area, Governors Island, N. Y., New York, New Jersey, and Delaware; Third Corps Area, Ft. Howard, Md., Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia; Fourth Corps Area, Ft. Mcpherson, Ga., North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; Fifth Corps Area, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky; Sixth Corps Area, Ft. Sheridan, Ill., Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin; Seventh Corps Area, Ft. Crook, Nebr., North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas; Eighth Corps Area, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas; Ninth Corps Area, Presidio, San Francisco, Calif., California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah.

another. Military books that are invaluable to a man on one occasion may not be worth the paper they are printed on under other circumstances.

A staff officer's manual is priceless to an officer on staff duty in the field, or to an officer preparing for staff duty, but it is utterly worthless to the officer who is up against the task of beating a bunch of recruits into shape in record time. On the other hand, the best manual ever written for platoon leaders would be worth about as much as a sore thumb to the staff officer.

In brief, military books, like the Mikado's punishments, must be selected to fit the crime.

So, when you ask me what books you ought to have, I must reply with a question-What do you want them for, amusement or business, and if for business, what's your job?

If your job has to do with the training and handling of a platoon, what you want is a book that concerns itself with the making of a platoon, a book that tells you what to do and how to do it.

If you are a battalion commander, your chief concern is with regard to the way in which to train and handle your battalion in combat, and the books that tell you just that are the books you

want.

If you are a staff officer, you want the books that will tell you about the operations, the administration, and the supply of your organization.

And so on, up the list to the top.

Few men have the time to read, or the money to buy, all of the military books that might be of general interest to them. Most of us are fortunate if we have the time to devote to the books we need in our daily work.

A very good clue to what we need

in our daily work is furnished in the Infantry Drill Regulations, in which it is prescribed that the captain of a company is responsible for the theoretical and practical training of his officers and noncommissioned officers, not only in the duties of their respective grades, but in those of the next higher grades.

That is a very good rule for the busy man to follow-learn your own job first, then the job of the man next higher up. That keeps you always one lap ahead of the game, and it will keep you busy, too.

With this rule in mind, look over almost any list of books from reputable military publishers and pick out the titles that fit your job. If of unofficial authorship, select those by authors of established reputation, and you won't go far wrong much of the time.

Finally, if your selection is not what you want, don't hesitate. Send it back and get something that fits your needs.

Remember, you are buying books to acquire knowledge of your immediate job-not to accumulate a library.

The two keys to success are luck and pluck-luck in finding some one to pluck. -Life.

Contouring Simplified

Let me quote an expression often heard at West Point-"Cons are bad, Tours are worse, but Contours are simply Hell."

The more I try to teach the subject of topography the more I agree with the author of the quotation.

The B-H Relief Map has helped immeasurably in making the relation between contours and the relief they are designed to represent more easily understood.

In the course of teaching the nature and employment of contours we have all used sheets showing a drainage system and a number of critical points. In using these sheets the student is working in the dark, since he can not see the ground that is represented. Of course, if the sheet represents the locality in which it is used, then the student can proceed intelligently.

We have devised a scheme here at Lehigh University which may, or may not be new, but the fact remains that it is practicable, efficient, and simple, as well as being not generally known. The system, if it may be called a system, is as follows:

A tracing is made from the 6-inch reproductions which accompany each B-H Relief Map set. This tracing shows the watercourses, incipient watercourses, and a sufficient number of critical points to form a framework for the contours. Mimeographed copies are made of this framework and issued to the students. The block of the B-H Relief map which corresponds to the area is placed convenient to the students and they are enjoined to consult it in putting in the contours.

A test was conducted wherein some of the students were not permitted to consult the relief block, while others were allowed to use it. Results showed conclusively that the use of the block was of very material aid. The papers turned in by the students who used the relief block were markedly s perior to those turned in by the other men. Now all use the block, and thus unconsciously dovetail the contours and the relief.-q. e. d.

I have suggested to the B-H Relief Map Company that they prepare and issue for sale, at a reasonable price,