the field artillery journal - Fort Sill - U.S. Army

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Appreciation
THIS issue is marked by the resignation of Captain
Marlborough Churchill from the position of Secretary-
Treasurer of THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL. Captain
Churchill has filled that position for the past last year and a
half, and under his management the Journal has increased
enormously in circulation and influence. Part of this increase is
fairly attributable to the growing interest in things military in
this country, an interest that has shown itself in the Plattsburg
camp, in pending legislation, in the tone of the press, as well as
in THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL. A large part of this
increase has been due to the personality and persevering labors
of Captain Churchill. He has introduced the Field Artillery to
many persons who hardly knew that such a thing existed, and
an introduction is all that is necessary, for the Field Artillery
has a personality itself that tends to make friends. Although
saddled with a great deal of work and travel in his official
duties as an Inspector-Instructor of a Militia district, he has
given to the service of the Field Artillery much of the time that
should belong to an officer personally for rest and recreation.
Nobody who has played polo enjoys continual afternoons of
office work; and nobody who has enjoyed life likes to devote
his evenings exclusively to a mechanical typewriter.
Captain Churchill is recuperating as an observer with the
French armies.
Field Artillery Legislation
IN its comments on prospective legislation this Journal has
confined itself strictly to the provisions affecting the Field
Artillery. Bills for the National Defense have been reported in
both Houses of Congress. It is now possible to survey the
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