Per year. $10.000 9.000 8.000 6,000 4,000 Men receiving $51: Regimental sergeant majors, regimental supply sergeants, sergeant majors (senior grade), quartermaster sergeants of the quartermaster corps, ordnance sergeants, first sergeants, electrician sergeants of the first class, assistant engineers and battalion sergeant majors and battalion supply sergeants of the engineers. Men receiving $56: Sergeants, first class, of the medical department. 3,500 Men receiving $71: Hospital sergeants, mas- In the cases of colonels and other commissioned officers of lower rank an increase of 10 per cent, known as longevity pay, is allowed for each period of five years of service, provided that such increase shall not exceed 40 per cent. Officers of higher rank than colonel receive no increase for continuous service. All officers are entitled to be furnished public quarters, with fuel and light, but if these cannot be provided the officers receive a commuted money value of the same. The allowance for quarters for a second lieutenant is 2 rooms, or $24 per month: for a first lieutenant. 3 rooms or commutation of $36 per month; a captain, 4 rooms or commutation of $48: major, 5 rooms or commutation of $60: lieutenant-colonel, 6 rooms or commutation of $72; colonel, 7 rooms or commutation of $84: brigadier-general, 8 rooms or commutation of $96: major-general, 9 rooms or commutation of $108; lieutenant-general, 10 rooms or commutation of $120, and a general, 11 rooms or commutation of $132. All receive a suitable allowance for heat and light, dependent upon the locality of their stations and the season. While on foreign service officers receive an increase of 10 per cent of their base pay and longevity pay. Aerial Flight Increases. Aviation officers of the signal corps, or officers attached to the signal corps, while on duty which requires them to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, are entitled to an increase in the pay of their grade, under their commissions, as follows: Aviation officers, 25 per cent; junior military aviators, 50 per cent; military aviators, 75 per cent. Each junior military aviator and each military aviator duly qualified and serving has the rank, pay and allowances of one grade higher than that held by them under their commissions, provided that the ranks under their commissions are not higher than that of captain. Pay of Enlisted Men. The pay of enlisted men depends on their grades, ratings and length of service. From June 1, 1917, and continuing during the term of the war the pay of enlisted men is as follows: Men receiving $30: All privates, the army entering grade. Men receiving $33: First-class privates, men promoted to act in minor noncommissioned officer capacity. Men receiving $36: Corporals, saddlers, mechanics, farriers and wagoners, and musicians of the third class. Men receiving $38: All sergeant grades in the line, which include infantry, field artillery, coast artillery and cavalry: cooks, horseshoers, band corporals and musicians of the second class. Men receiving $44: Sergeants of the various corps of the engineers, ordnance, signal corps. quartermaster corps and medical department: band sergeants and musicians of the first class. Men receiving $48: Battalion sergeant majors, squadron sergeant majors, sergeant majors (junior grade), sergeant buglers, master gunners and assistant band leaders of the line. neers. Men receiving $81: Quartermaster sergeants of the senior grade of the quartermaster corps, band leaders, master signal electricians, master electricians, master engineers of the senior grade and master hospital sergeants. Assignment to Special Duties. These are the established grades of the enlisted men, but they may variously be assigned to such special duties as chauffeurs, switchboard operators, cobblers, clerks, camoufleurs. sanitary inspectors, draftsmen, stevedores, accountants, plumbers and such other occupations and trades as are necessary to meet the requirements of army service. In addition to the rates of pay for enlisted men heretofore mentioned, supplemental pay or allowances are made as follows: (1) Increased pay is allowed for continuous service, computed under what is known as "enlistment period." An enlistment period ordinarily represents a period of three or four years, dependent upon the law in effect at date of enlistment. There are seven such periods, covering a period of service of from 1 year to more than 18 years, provided for, and the increases range from $3 to $24 per month, according to the grade and length of service. Men in the grade of private calling for $30 per month are increased $3 per month during the second enlistment period, an additional $3 during the third enlistment period. and $1 per month for each additional enlistment period to include the seventh enlistment period. Men above the $30 grade and up to and including the $38 grade are entitled to $3 per month additional pay for each enlistment period from the second to the seventh for each successive enlistment period. Men above the $38 grade are entitled to $4 per month additional pay for each enlistment period from the second to the seventh. Some Additional Ratings. (2) Enlisted men of the coast artillery, below the grade of mess sergeant, are entitled to the following additional ratings, according to established individual qualifications: Casement electricians, observers of the first class, plotters and coxswains, $9 per month; chief planters, observers of second class, chief loaders, gun commanders and gun pointers, $7 per month; enlisted men of the field artilleryexpert first-class gunners, $5 per month: firstclass gunners, $3 per month, and second-class gunners, $2 per month; enlisted men of the cavalry, engineers and infantry-expert riflemen. $5 per month; sharpshooters, $3 per month, and marksmen, $2 per month; enlisted men of the medical department-surgical assistants, $5 per month; nurse (enlisted man), $3 per month, and dispensary assistant, $2 per month. (3) Enlisted men of the signal corps, while on duties which require them to participate regularly in aero flights, assuming that they have rating of aviation mechanician, receive 50 per cent increase in their monthly pay. Housing and Subsistence. (4) All enlisted men, while on detached duty' not in the field where there are no army quarters available, receive in addition to their pay $15 per month to cover the expense of housing and also a suitable allowance for subsistence and for heat and light. (5) Enlisted men, if serving in a foreign country or beyond the continental limits of Rear-admiral, upper half. the United States (Porto Rico, Hawaii and Rear-admiral, lower half.. Panama Canal Zone excepted) receive 20 per Captain cent increase in pay computed on the base Commander pay and service pay prevailing prior to June 1, 1917, when an act of congress increased. for the term of the emergency." the pay of all enlisted men in amounts ranging from 50 per cent to 8 per cent. (6) Enlisted men attached to the United States Military academy are entitled to the same pay and allowances as other enlisted men of the regular army of the same grade and additional compensation provided for performing certain duties upon detail therefor in orders. For deeds of valor, recognized by acts of congress, officers and enlisted men receive certificates of merit which entitle them to an additional compensation of $2 per month. Allowances at Retirement. Enlisted men can apply for retirement after 30 years of service. They are retired on 75 per cent of the monthly pay drawn at the time of retirement, and $15.75 a month additional in lieu of allowances. Officers are retired for disability or after 64 years of age, and receive 75 per cent of the pay of the grade held at date of retirement. An enlisted man in active service has no necessary personal expenses except for barber and laundry. Uniforms, underclothing, shoes, hats. quarters, medical attendance and subsistence are supplied them at government expense. Such materials as tobacco, postage. confectionery and incidentals of individual taste may be purchased at the post exchange at cost. Officers, while in hospital. are charged $1 per day for subsistence. They are not entitled to clothing or equipment and are required to subsist themselves, purchasing their supplies either from the quartermaster through the ordinary channels of trade. NAVY PAY TABLE. or From official statement issued by committee on public information, Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, 1918. All commissioned officers of the active list of the navy receive the same pay and allow. ances according to rank and length of service. Officers of the medical, pay and construction corps, chaplains, civil engineers and professors of mathematics have the relative ranks of the various grades of the line, the annual base pay of each grade being as follows: Admiral (in command of fleet). Vice-admiral (second in command of flect) .$10.000 9.000 To each commissioned officer below the rank of rear-admiral is allowed 10 per cent of his yearly base pay for each five years of service in the army, navy and marine corps, but not exceeding in all 40 per cent. Additional provision is made by law that the pay of a captain shall not exceed $5,000, a commander $4,500, and a lieutenant-commander $4,000 per annum. Sea and Foreign Shore Duty. An officer on sea or on shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States receives while so serving 10 per cent additional of his pay. An officer on shore duty where no government quarters are furnished is paid $12 per month for each of the number of rooms to which his rank entitles him, that is: Lieutenant-commander Lieutenant Rooms. 9 3 2 Lieutenant (junior grade) Aids to rear-admirals of the upper half are each paid $200 per annum and aids to rear. admirals of the lower half $150 each per annum. Student Naval Aviators. Officers of the navy appointed student naval aviators and while detailed for duty involving actual flying in aircraft receive the pay and allowances of the rank plus 35 per cent increase thereof, and those officers who have qualified as naval aviators shall, while so detailed, receive the pay and allowances of their rank plus 50 per cent thereof. Boatswains, gunners, pay clerks, machinists, carpenters, sailmakers and pharmacists are known as warrant officers and are paid as follows: On Waiting At sea. shore. orders. First 3 years' service....$1.500 $1,125 8875 Second 3 years' service.. 1,625 1,250 1,000 Third 3 years' service... 1,750 1.625 1.125 Fourth 3 years' service.. 2,000 1.750 1,250 After 12 years' service.. 2,250 2,000 1.500 Warrant officers on shore duty receive the same allowances for quarters and heat and light as an ensign. After six years from date of warrant these officers are, if duly qualified, commissioned chief warrant officers and receive the pay and allowances of ensign. After six years from date of commission each commissioned warrant officer with a creditable record receives the pay and allowances of a lieutenant (junior grade), and after twelve years from date of commission the pay and allowances of a lieu tenant. Warrant officers while attached to a seagoing ship are paid a ration allowance of 40 cents per day. All officers in the regular navy are required to provide their own uniforms and to pay for subsistence both ashore and afloat. The Enlisted Personnel. The enlisted personnel of the navy is of vari. ous classifications, depending upon their duties. Entry into the service is usually made in the lower ratings and the men are advanced upon the establishment of qualifications for the higher ratings. The following tables show the classifications and the base monthly pay of each rating during the present war as provided by the act of May 22, 1917: Chief Petty Officers. Chief carpenters' mates. Chief pharmacists' mates.. Chief commissary stewards. .$77.50 61.00 61.00 72.00 61.00 83.00 72.00 61.00 61.00 72.00 61.00 72.00 63.20 83.00 72.00 Any of the above-named chief petty officers who has served as such for one year with credit is given what is known as a "per. manent appointment," which increases his base Steerage stewards... pay to $83 per month. Petty Officers, First Class. Master at arms, first class.. Machinists' mates, first class. Shipfitters, first class.. Electricians, first class.. Blacksmiths Plumbers and fitters.. Sailmakers' Steerage cooks Warrant officers' stewards Warrant officers' cooks .$46.50 41.00 46.50 41.00 $52.00 Mess attendants, first class (United 52.00 States citizen)... 41.00 52.00 61.00 Mess attendants, second class (United 52.00 77.50 States citizen).. 37.00 66.50 Mess attendants, first class (not United 66.50 States citizen)... 38.40 66.50 Mess attendants, second class (not Unit61.00 ed States citizen). 37.00 61.00 Mess attendants, third class (not United 55.50 States citizen).. 32.60 Petty Officers, Third Class. Carpenters' mates, third class. 52.00 In addition to the pay as provided in the 52.00 above tables the following amounts are also 52.00 paid monthly to each enlisted man who is 52.00 qualified to receive them: 46.50 $1.50 for each successive re-enlistment for four years within four months of date of honorable discharge from previous enlistment. $5.50 for first re-enlistment and $3.30 for each subsequent re-enlistment, if citizen of the United States and completed previous enlistment. $2.20 if a seaman gunner. $2.20 if a graduate of a petty officers' school. $5.50 to a steward or cook who holds a certificate of qualification and is a citizen of the United States. 83 cents for each good conduct medal a man 46.50 holds. 52.00 Pharmacists' mates, first class. 52.00 52.00 47.60 72.00 Ships' cooks, first class.. 66.50 Bakers, first class..... 55.50 Master at arms, second class... Boatswain's mates, second class.. Gunners' mates, second class... Quartermasters, second class. Machinists' mates, second class. Electricians, second class... Shipfitters, second class... $46.50 46.50 52.00 52.00 Oilers 48.70 Carpenters' mates, second class. 46.50 Printers, second class.. 46.50 such articles as are usually sold in civilian stores and shops. Officers on the retired list receive threefourths of their active duty pay. Enlisted men are retired after 30 years' service and are paid three-fourths of total pay and allowances they received at date of retirement and cash in lieu of quarters and subsistence. Officers and men of the naval reserve force and the national naval volunteers while on active duty receive the same pay and allowances as those of same rank and length of service in the regular navy. When first called into active service in time of war or national emergency a uniform gratuity of $150 is allowed each officer of the naval reserve and $60 each enlisted man. RECONSTRUCTION HOSPITALS FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS. The following statement was issued by the United States war department Aug. 1, 1918: The surgeon-general, with the approval of the general staff, announces the completion of plans for the physical reconstruction of disabled soldiers in the general military hospitais. These plans are formulated with a view to close co-operation with the war department committee on education and special service in the work of restoring men to full or limited military service, and with the federal board for vocational education. which is authorized by the law to provide vocational training for disabled men after their discharge from the army and navy. disabled in line of duty, even though not ex pected to return to duty, will be discharged from service until he shall have attained complete recovery or as complete recovery as may be expected when the nature of his disability is considered. In furtherance of this policy. physical reconstruction is defined as comp.ete mental and surgical treatment carried to the point of maximum functional restoration, both mental and physical. To secure this result all methods recognized by modern medicine as conducive to cure will be utilized. In other words, not only the ordinary means of medicine and surgery, including all specialties, will be utilized. but also physical measures such as hydro, electro and mechanotherapy, active exare employed under physiotherapy, including ercises, indoor and outdoor games, and passive exercise in the form of massage. Provision in the form of adequate buildings and equipment for physiotherapy have been adopted in each of the hospitals. FUNCTIONAL RESTORATION, AIM. The records of 516 cases treated in four hospitals show 134 men able to return to full military duty, 210 fit for limited service and 172 who are eligible for discharge. In the last group twelve are classed as helpless or institutional cases. 121 are able to return to their former occupations, and thirty-nine will need further training to fit them for earning a livelihood. These figures show the division of responsibility in the work of reconstruc-ademic. scientific. or technical instruction, or tion. The task of fitting men for further military service is at present the most pressing need because wherever an ablebodied man behind the lines can be replaced by one less fit physically, but vocationally capable, a soldier is gained for active duty.. The reconstruction work in the hospitals, therefore, will empha size technical training in all lines capable of adaptation to the physical limitations of disabled men and in which employment will act as a therapeutic agent. When play and work and study will help a man to get well, this kind of medicine will be prescribed to the patient. If the work he does leads to further service in the army or to better prospects in civilian life so much the better. Modern medicinal treatment does not end with physical cure. Functional restoration is the final aim of the modern physicians and surgeons. It is conceded that the physical rehabilitation of disabied men is peculiarly dependent upon their mental attitude. The more serious the disability, the greater the danger of mental depression and an indisposition to respond to medical and surgical treatment. The educational work should begin, therefore, at the moment when the man has arrived at the stage where he begins to worry about his future, whether in this country or overseas. The first problem is to divert his attention by simple recreation, through reading, pictures. games, handiwork occupations and the like. with a view to securing a genuine interest in the attainment of some worthy end-the end most certain to hold his attention and to claim his best efforts in his future vocation. Hence, by gradual steps he may be induced to supplement his previous vocational experience by acto choose a new vocation and begin preparation for it if such a course is necessary. The nerd of "cheer up" work in the hospi tals extends to all who are mentally capable of planning for their own future. This means a relatively large proportion of the entire number. The beginning is made at the bedside with handicrafts of various kinds grouped under the term "occupational therapy." When the man is able to leave the ward and can be benefited physically by technical training. he has the opportunity of working at specific trades either in the curative workshop, in specially provided classrooms, or out of doors. HOSPITALS DESIGNATED. General hospital No. 2. Fort McHenry, Md. The teachers for this work have been secured from the convalescent disabled soldiers who are already skilled in their vocations and from the enlisted personnel of the army secured by transfer or by induction of 'registrants disqualified for general military service, but quali These instruc tors work under the direction. of educational officers chosen for their professional standing in civil life and commissioned in the__sanitary corps of the medical department. The gen for 119 educational officers for this purpose, General hospit 1 No. 7. Roland park. Balti-eral staff has just authorized commissions more (for the blind). General hospital No. 8. Otisville, N. Y. General hospital No. 4. Fort Porter, N. Y. General hospital No. 9. Lakewood. N, J. General hospital No. 11, Cape May, N. J. General hospital No. 16, New Haven, Conn. General hospital No. 17, Markleton, Pa. Letterman General hospital. San Francisco. Cal. United States Army hospital. Fort Moins. Ia. Plattsburg Barracks hospital. Barracks, N. Y. Des Plattsburg General hospital, Fort Bayard. N. M. POLICY TO BE FOLLOWED. The policy to be followed in these hospitals, as announced by the surgeon-general, is that hereafter no member of the military service CLASSES OF DISABLED SOLDIERS. From the military, standpoint disabled sol diers may be placed in three general classes: (a) Those who can be restored to full duty, (b) Those who can be fitted for limited service. (c) Those disabled to the extent of unfitting them for further military service. It is the announced policy of the surgeon general that patients of the first class (a) should have, when circumstances warrant it. the benefit of therapeutic treatment through play, work and study. as may be prescribed by medical officers, in order that their morale may be stiffened, their special skills improved, their future usefulness increased, and their recov ery hastened. Patients of the second class (b) should have, whenever conditions permit and the medical officers approve. such specific training-physical and vocational-as will in the judgment of the educational officers best fit such patients for limited service of a particular kind. At present patients are being, trained in general hospitals for limited service as general and Vocational teachers, typists, printers, tailors, cobblers, harnessmakers, welders, motor mechanicians, painters, machine workers, woodworkers, bookkeepers, statisticians, telegra phers, photographers, telephone operators, cooks, storekeepers, electricians, etc. LIST TO BE EXTENDED. The list will be extended with the advice and co-operation of the committee on education and special service of the war department to meet other needs as they arise. In connection with the large general hospitals there is abundant opportunity for practice in many trades and occupations. At Fort McPherson. for example, practical experience can be gained in twenty different trades. Moreover, there is immediately adjacent to the hos pital a large quartermaster's mechanical repair shop, covering all phases of mechanical repair and construction to which men can be assigned for limited service or to gain experience. Patients of the third class (c) should be encouraged in every possible way to accept the benefits accorded them for vocational training by the federal board for vocational education. To this end they should have while in the hospital such physical training and general education as will best promote their physical reconstruction and at the same time contribute most to their vocational training. Patients who do not elect or who are not eligible to continue their education under the federal board should receive such training as the medical and educational officers deem best in each individual case. The machine gun company has 6 officers and 172 men. It consists of the headquarters (3 officers and 21 men), 3 platoons (each with 1 officer and 46 men), and a train (13 men). Its armament is 12 machine guns of heavy type and 4 spare guns. Transportation and Equipment. The transportation equipment of the regiment is: 22 combat wagons, 16 rolling kitchens, 22 baggage and ration wagons, 16 ration carts, 15 water carts, 3 medical carts, 24 machine gun carts, 59 riding horses, 8 riding mules, 332 draft mules, 2 motorcyles with side cars, 1 motor car, 42 bicycles. New fighting equipment for each regiment, in addition to the usual rifles, bayonets, pistols, etc., includes 480 trench knives (40 to each company), 192 automatic rifles (16 to each company), and 3 one-pounder cannon manned by the one-pounder cannon platoon of the regimental headquarters company. Headquarters Company. Each regimental headquarters company is made up of 7 officers and 294 men, as follows: One headquarters platoon (93 officers and men) including 1 staff section (36 officers and men), 1 orderlies section (29 men), 1 band section (28 men). One signal platoon (77 officers and men) including 1 telephone section (51 men), 1 section with headquarters (10 men). 1 section with 3 battalions (16 officers and men). One sappers' and bombers' platoon (43 officers and men) including 1 section sappers (9 men) for digging and special work, 1 section bombers (34 officers and men). One pioneer platoon (55 officers and men) for engineer work. One one-pounder cannon platoon (33 officers and men). 164 768 .16,420 5,068 262 1,666 337 962 472 84 1 sanitary train composed of 4 field hospital companies and 4 ambulance companies..... 949 27.152 Artillery and Machine Gun Strength. The new organization increases the ratio of artillery and machine gun strength of infantry. In place of the old division of three brigades with three infantry regiments in each are two brigades with two infantry regiments in each. But in the new as in the old organization there are three regiments of field artillery in each division, making the ratio of artillery to infantry regiments three to four, in place of three to nine. A trench mortar battery, added to the artillery brigade, and a one-pounder platoon, attached to each infantry regiment headquarters company, adds to the gun strength of the division. A division now includes a total of fourteen machine gun companies. Each of the four infantry regiments has one: each of the two brigades has a machine gun battalion of three companies, and the division has a machine gun battalion of four companies. This gives each division a mobile machine gun strength of ten companies, which can be used as special needs require, while each regiment still has its own machine gun equipment in one of its component companies. And, in addition, there are forty-eight sections of autoriflemen, each section carrying four light machine guns (automatic rifles), one section in each of the four platoons making up each rifle company. SPECIAL AND TECHNICAL TROOPS. General order 108. 1. Under authority conferred by section 2, act of May 18, 1917, the president directs that there be organized for the period of the existing emergency, the enlisted strength being raised and maintained by voluntary enlistment or draft, the following special and technical engineer troops: |