Show I I I r m Bf i B i l bt I i President and Secy Taft Devise Plans to Effect This Reform Re form PROMOTION OF OFFICERS Should ho Sonic Suino SUII Prows Whereby the int tiny 10 IK he Out Oater Bay 1113 D July Jil 7 P to inui riall develop th of GI o the u army were wr taken today lody by n o evelt lt end anil Secy S Taft TuC nt A SiMU hUt In his hi hut lait lt 11 to 10 CJ the tb said ai the I number num r of i posts oit In hka the fn Is U kept In 11 time tm of or orI l I eu 1 1 c I shook hou be I materially diminished and atad the thu pott ire are Ir left made ma curve corre target larger This It is I to be b car 11 hen nt It Mt tiC Il Once o I pott p to I I IK 1 u b by r gen xen In InI gent oiin t I I are a to b be b l I 10 no o oth othi t i me It desired but the fUnds at alIbI th the of ut me Inc m It 01 may mi not II be b IU lent to I their equipment durIng durl the year Nr The posu pUe hl I is ite te I president and aad 1 ety d ck d tol to t enlarge enla to potts ar a are thole ut Fort arl Itile nl Ka la KI hort ort Leaven Leavenworth worth Kin Kun un Kort ort turn cam t Sun Sort w Antonio Tex Tn Koit Foit Robinson on K Neb b Fort Kort I A omI Kort lort I ort ortS Sill S ansi Una 11 Fort Kort r l It I M Is II desired d to have hue one tue 01 In lit Penn und and one on on 01 the Ibe Pacific laII coset M I but hUI those tho will wil have havo to 10 be token taken are of ot later Final action regarding th these i i lOat otts ts will wi he taken n it I week from next heat Monday nhen hn Secy Sey ItY Taft af will make mke a visit I to Oyster O Ir bIas BI The t MIt for lor the he t formulation formula of or n a I com con complete libel plan at this time In the th develop development meet ment of or the new U II I occasioned by b the In the urgency de dl net act nf or the last lut tension which In is II that ill all al tO tio shrill shull be to so ns as n to last but Ja l throughout the Ihl year eur B for or the for lor whirl they were ere senile Mile without a ta Thi appropriation act arl an curries carries curl SO O for the Ih creation of ot army lm post It I also alio all carries for or ks and and for tOI traits tranK of 01 the army Ann this money mone cnn tRI III be he expended a n complete plan plait a as to It shall he e u 11 for or mutt must IU I be I mAIe and nd the lump sum um up tip so p apportioned a that hut no Ito M deficiency will mill 1 be bl treated In Itt attempt log In to Iu carry rr out his t Illan l the th presIdent Is II simply Imply following tl II the e line lne he hI ed e ti to II In III his hil hi me It Is II I his Irm belief 1 lef that the thO army arm should hoth be he trained above aboe nit nil 11 else el to net att In Iii a mass To this end nd he cd pro provision Iro provision vision islon be made ld for maneuvers of a It practical kind In 1 this title plan he Bay Baythe 1 the Ihl generals generala and colonels colonel would have hi to regiments bri brigades br gades gadea and divisions and nd the Ibl commis mry esry Nr and anil medical 1181 departments would be ie tested l In the field What he lie added i u ding In the catch ellb of larger er posts w II as that no 10 local interests Interest be allowed to stand Hand In Ii the t Ie he a of ot the greater part of or the troops whIch would Ht lit II need d form torm our field feld armies In eta sta stations tB lons of or such size site as us P will wi permit time the best bett b training to he be I to 10 the per personnel er fonn 1 of nil ni grades grade rade Including the high and staff To accomplish this eny tn he lie said Mid we jwo mu IUt t have not company and yogI regi regimental mental garrisons but bUI brigode and trod di ill division vision garrisons garrison The follows rollow this with corn com comment bern ment on 00 the process the West Weal Point academy doea on orrow ome and II nil says MP t I ire riS should be hI toine prOte In the army arm that would achieve hl the same rne me end After fier i II a certain age lice has len been reached hd he h says MY the th la 11 unfit to do good wor wora Orl below a certain ef lain tain ade he lie maintains should I ie hlade for lor the promotion of exception exceptionally ally 11 meritorious men over ur the heads of their comrades comrade and for retirement of nf all sU men lumen III On who ha e readied reached a age without beyond R II I rt n 11 rank The olin oln now being worked t out outI by h I the and amid the secretary of war If It U lit Intended will much that the president ha has 1111 a d desire lre for tor In the foregoing recommendations to tn Congress COn The TIlt locations selected see are alt all II pInes where the tilt hw hai h large 11 i where troops may lila be lit 1 mobil mobilised to II advantage for tor maneuver or nr other At t 0 on Ia a the post Ost l I is adjacent to 10 the U National i Irk rk |