framework sheets of the eight blocks of the Relief Map. Doubtlessly they will offer them for sale at an early date.

JOHN W. LANG, Major Infantry.

Sketching and Map Reading

Word has come from the Office of the Chief of Infantry to the effect that officers who contemplate attending the courses at the Infantry School should brush up on their sketching and map reading. There is little time available to be devoted to instructing in these subjects during the course, and they are constantly used, especially map reading, in the solution of problems and in practical work.

All officers are presumed to be proficient in these two subjects when they go to the school. The Infantry Association, realizing the necessity for all officers having a knowledge of map reading, published a complete course in the subject in the INFANTRY JOURNAL during 1920. The demand was so great for the instalments of the work that we have had them assembled in a handy booklet. The text contained in "Map Reading" will provide you with everything you will need to know on the subject. Our book department will be glad to forward you a copy at the small cost of 60 cents. As for Sketching, the Association is the distributor for Major Grieves' book on the subject, of which there is none better. The price is $1.50 per copy.

Five-Dollar Prize

One of our members has requested a solution to the sketching problem that appears on pages 20 to 22 of "Map

Reading," The Infantry Association booklet.

We shall award a prize of five dollars ($5.00) to the member of the Association who submits the best solution to this problem on or before July 1, 1921.

The letter of our member reads as follows:

THE EDITOR:

May the writer, as a member of your Association and as a Reserve Officer who is not so far advanced in the art of war as he aims to be, request a solution of a problem found on page 20 of "Map Reading"? Many an hour of anguish have I spent on this problem, only to be obliged to give up in despair.

The problem in question seems to me to be one that tests a person's knowledge of map reading; therefore, the student should know how far from perfection he is on this subject. To know that he must compare his solution with that of an experienced officer.

The purpose of this letter is to request your Association if you can furnish me a solution or if you can refer me to anyone who is capable of giving one. I should be much indebted to you for any assistance you may render me along this line.

C. E. NELSON, Inf. R. C.

Try your hand at this. Besides being fine practice in sketching it gives you a chance to win the award.

The winning sketch will be published in the INFANTRY JOURNAL for August, 1921.

Change in Infantry Drill Regulations

Paragraph 59 of the "Infantry Drill Regulations" (Provisional), 1919, has been changed to provide for a cadence. at the rate of 128 steps per minute.

The order for the change reads as follows:

59. Change the first subparagraph to read as follows: The length of the full step in quick time is 30 inches, measured from heel to heel, and the cadence is at the rate of 128 steps per minute. (C. I. D. R. No. 1, Jan. 29, 1921.)

Paragraph 177 has also been changed as follows:

177. Being in line, to change direction: 1. Right (left) turn, 2. MARCH, 3. Forward, 4. MARCH.

Executed as described in the "School of the Squad," except that the men do not glance toward the marching flank and that all take the full step at the fourth command. The right guide is the pivot of the front rank. Each rearrank man obliques on the same ground. as his file leader. (C. I. D. R. No. 1, Jan. 29, 1921.)

Officers not included in the distribution of these changes (Reserve Officers and Officers of the National Guard, etc.) from the War Department should make note of them in their personal copy of the "Drill Regulations."

All changes in the "Infantry Drill Regulations" will hereafter be published in the INFANTRY JOURNAL in order that our members may keep up to date on them.

Notice

We desire to secure a copy of the May, 1919, INFANTRY JOURNAL for one of our members who wants it to complete his file. Any member who has an available copy may have his subscription extended for two months by forwarding it to this office.

A foreigner who used splendid dictionary English was on a business mission to this country.

As he took leave of one of his associates he said:

"I will no further cockroach on your time."

"Really," said the American, to whom he was speaking, "we do not use the word that way."

"I quite understand," said the foreigner, "if I were talking to a lady I would say hencroach."

Qualification Card - Rifle Marksmanship

THE EDITOR:

1. Atttached hereto is a sample of the Qualification Card designed and used in this regiment for the preparatory work in rifle marksmanship. This card is an elaboration of that specified in "Rifle Marksmanship" (page 66). One copy is kept in possession of each man under instruction, one copy (with columns extended) for each squad, and one for each company.

2. At the suggestion of Colonel Johnson we are bringing this card to your attention with the idea, perhaps, some other organizations would like to get them at the reduced price due to the fact that the cost of set-up has already been paid by the 41st Infantry. The cost will be $16.75 per thousand. This,

until proficiency is

3. Please be assured that we are not attempting any propaganda in this matter, nor suggesting methods to organizations. The 41st Infantry has no interest in the matter financially and will benefit in no way. We are simply aniWe are simply animated by the spirit of the regimental motto of "Cooperation."

4. If any other organization is inter

printer, with whom the organization may deal direct. The printer is holding his form set for a short time to enable organizations to get the benefit of reduced prices if they desire it. The cards cost the 41st Infantry about double the amount quoted.

Respectfully,

WOODELL A. PICKERING,

Major, 41st Infantry.

Disarmament

"We should steer clear of drifting into a pacifist state of mind simply because we are discussing this subject. None of us wants war, but we do not want to be caught unprepared if war comes. Until some agreement is had I would say that the safe policy for the United States to pursue would be to continue our Army and Navy program and not allow ourselves to be caught unprepared as we were at the beginning of the World. War. It is unsafe and unwise for one nation to disarm at such a time as this unless the others do likewise. I think I am in a position to know better than any other man what unpreparedness meant at the beginning of the war."

These are the words of General Pershing in his recent testimony before the House Naval Committee. He speaks authoritatively and the men who are at the helm guiding our ship of state will do well to heed what he says. He appraises the value of preparedness by the workings of unpreparedness which came under his own eyes. There is no one American who appreciates the necessity for preparedness more than he and he does not want the country to again. be unprepared.

With the state of unrest in Europe

and elsewhere the world is far from being in a state of even approximate peace. The last war has not been fought and America cannot and must not lapse into a state of pacifism at this time.

Where is the call for America to lead in this matter of disarmament? We cannot see it. We did not initiate the movement that saddled the old world with great armaments. If they are weary

of their burden, let them so signify and demonstrate it by beginning to unload. They will not find America unsympa

thetic.

Labor-Capital

Labor and capital are absolutely dependent upon each other. Labor can no more hope for steady and remunerative employment without capital than the latter can hope for existence without labor. Neither can get along without the other. Their interests are common. The greater the good will existing between them, the greater the prosperity and success of both.

We do not want the "one big union" that a lot of radicals are harping over. The big union we want and need today in this country is the "union of labor and capital. We want the workers to looks upon their employers not as their enemies but as their friends. We want the employers to consider their workmen not as machines to be exploited but as their allies. Then we will get results in industry that are of lasting value.

During the war and since labor was well employed at unheard-of wages. Capital could afford it for it, too, was making enormous profits. In the past few months things have changed. Business is slowing down and in some quarters has practically come to a standstill.

Prices are dropping and dropping. Factories are closing down or working on part time only. Labor is no longer unobtainable or even scarce. The S. O. S. has gone out, "Get a job and stick to it."

Capital says it can no further cut prices without cutting wages.

The question is, "What's going to be done about it? Will labor accept a reduction or will industry have to go on a part-time or perhaps a no-time basis?" Either course will tend to upset the equilibrium.

tion.

The solution lies in greater producThis is labor's opportunity to prove to capital and incidentally to the world, that it is capital's intelligent friend and ally.

Will labor take advantage of this great opportunity or will it listen to the prattlings of the professional agitator, I. W. W., and communist, who has no other interest in the worker than to exploit him for their own purposes?

If such be the course we will witness the stagnation of American industry. We will see our exports drop to nothing and our great fleet of merchant marine tied up rotting at the docks. We will witness the busy activity of the European and Asiatic producer and exporter as he gains the prestige and business that we are so grossly throwing

Mexico to extend the operations and influence of legally organized labor he ran against a radical element of overwhelming strength, which made his efforts vain. How deeply the bolshevist influence has affected the political situation remains to be demonstrated, but it is stated that at least five states are beyond control of the central govern

ment.

I

Get the Criminal-Keep Him Judge Landis of the United States Federal Court made a statement with respect to the problem of the suppression of crime before the Missouri Bar Association recently that hit the bull'seye squarely in the center. He said:

"Get the criminal, and when you get him, keep him."

Remarking on this subject of getting the criminal and keeping him, the St. Louis Globe Democrat avers that there must be a tremendous revolution in the present machinery. It goes on to say:

There must be an entirely different spirit and attitude toward the matter on the part of the bench and the bar.

Assuming that the police are successful in catching a robber-and that is what the robber himself at the present time does not assume-the road from that point to the penitentiary must be shortened, widened, and straightened, the crooks taken out of it, and all the by-roads and side-tracks removed or closed up and the road hard-surfaced for speed. It is done in other countries. It can be done here.

We have more criminal courts and less results to show for them than any other land under the sun. It is not a credit to our intelligence and our com

mon sense.

It is the certainty of punishment, and not its severity, which exerts a restraining effect upon the commission of crimes in other countries. It is the lack of that certainty which gives us our unenviable