2 IV__Political activity of Government employees.-The following War Department circular is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: CIRCULAR: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 7, 1920. At the request of the Civil Service Commission the following provisions of law are published for the information of all officers and employees of the War Department: “Warning.—Presidential appointees are forbidden by statute to use their official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body, to make any contribution for a political object to any other officer of the United States, or to solicit or receive contributions for political purposes from other Federal officers or employees, or to discriminate among their employees or applicants for political reasons. Otherwise, presidential appointees will be allowed to take such a part in political campaigns as is taken by any private citizen, except that they must not use their offices to control political movements, must not neglect their public duties, must not cause public scandal by their activity. Competitive employees, while retaining the right to vote and to express privately their opinions on political subjects, are forbidden to take an active part in political management or in political campaigns. This also applies to temporary employees, employees on leave of absence with or without pay, substitutes, and laborers. Political activity in city, county, State, or national elections, whether primary or regular, or in behalf of any party or candidate, or any measure to be voted upon, is prohibited. Employees are accountable for political activity by persons other than themselves, including wives or husbands, if, in fact, the employees are thus accomplishing by collusion and indirection what they may not lawfully do directly and openly. Political activity, in fact, regardless of the methods or means used by the employee, constitutes the violation. Sections 118, 119, 120, and 121 of the Criminal Code (see 35 Stat., 1110) provide that no legislative, executive, or judicial officer or employee shall solicit or be concerned in soliciting or receiving any money or contribution for political purposes from any other officer or employee of the Government; that no solicitation or receipt of political assessments shall be made by any person in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee of the United States; that no officer or employee shall be discharged or demoted for refusing to make any contribution for political purposes; and that no officer or employee of the Government shall directly or indirectly give or hand over to any other officer or employee in the service of the United States or to any Member or Delegate to Congress any money or other valuable thing for the promotion of any political object whatever. The Supreme Court has decided, in United States v. 3 Thayer (209 U. S., 39), that solicitation by letter or circular delivered by mail or otherwise to an officer or employee of the United States at the office or building in which he is employed in the discharge of his official duties is a solicitation within the meaning of section 119 of the Criminal Code, and that such solicitation takes place where the letter is received. Section 122 of the Criminal Code provides that whoever shall violate any provisions of the four preceding sections shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three years or both. It is the duty of any person having knowledge of the violations of any of the foregoing provisions of the Civil Service Rules or Criminal Code to submit the facts to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C." This circular should be posted conspicuously in all buildings in which civilian employees of the War Department are on duty. [230.771, A. G. O.] NEWTON D. BAKER, V__Executive order defining the boundaries of Paitilla Point Military Reservation.-The following Executive order is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: EXECUTIVE ORDER PAITILLA POINT MILITARY RESERVATION The area hereinafter described as Paitilla Point Military Reservation, formerly situated within the Republic of Panama, but acquired by the United States Government and now a part of the Canal Zone, is hereby set apart as a military reservation under the control of the Secretary of War, the said reservation, however, to remain subject to the civil jurisdiction of the Canal Zone authorities in conformity with the Panama Canal Act. The said area is described as follows: PAITILLA POINT MILITARY RESERVATION Starting at a triangulation station marked "Paitilla 1914" on the map (Panama Canal Drawing No. X-6053-1) the geodetic coordinates of which are Lat. 8°-58′ plus 3045.82-feet and Long. 79°-30' plus 5847.92 feet, go on an azimuth of 180°-00' for a distance of 1399.24-feet to a concrete monument, marked "A" on the map, which is the point of beginning on the boundary of the reservation; thence on a line the azimuth of which is 270°-00' for a distance of 1146.95-feet to a concrete monument marked "B" on the map, which monument is on the extreme high water line on the shore of the Bay of Panama; thence along the extreme high water line, in a general south 4 westerly direction, for a distance of 6000-feet more or less to a concrete monument marked "C" on the map, which monument is on the extreme high water line; thence on a line the azimuth of which is 123°-43′ for a distance of 67.3-feet to a concrete monument marked "D" on the map, which monument is on the extreme high water line. The last mentioned course between "C" and "D" cuts off the extreme end of Paitilla Point and coincides with the old Panama City boundary. From "D" follow the extreme high water line in a northerly direction along the east bank of the estuary of the Rio Matasnillo for a distance of 4000-feet more or less to a concrete monument marked "E" on the map; thence on a line the azimuth of which is 270°-00′ for a distance of 1088.76-feet to a concrete monument marked "A" on the map, which is the point of beginning. All bearings are true. In addition to the above, the Secretary of War shall have control of all land on the eastern side of above described area between extreme high water line and low water line within the confines of the prolongation of boundary lines E-B and D-C; also all land on the western side of above described area between extreme high water line and low water line, but in no case further than the center line of the Rio Matasnillo, between the confines of the prolongation of boundary lines B-E and C-D. THE WHITE HOUSE, 1 Sept., 1920. [680.1, A. G. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: WOODROW WILSON. PEYTON C. MARCH, Major General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: P. C. HARRIS, The Adjutant General. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1920 BULLETIN WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, October 26, 1920. Section. I II Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in certain institutions_ Method of signing requisitions for disbursing funds---. Establishment of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in certain educational institutions---- III I__Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in certain institutions.-1. Cornell College; Mount St. Mary's College; Purdue University.-The authority for the establishment of an Infantry unit of the senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, in each of the following-named institutions granted in the bulletin referred to after the respective names, is withdrawn: Name of institution. Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa. Authority granted in-Bulletin No. 2, War Department, 1919. ment, 1919. Mount St. Mary's College, Em- Bulletin No. 2, War Depart- 2. Peacock Military College. The authority for the establishment of a junior unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in Peacock Military College, San Antonio, Tex., granted in paragraph 2, section IV, Bulletin No. 43, War Department, 1919, to Peacock Military Academy, is withdrawn. 3. Vanderbilt University.-The authority for the establishment of a Coast Artillery unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., granted in paragraph 4, section IV, Bulletin No. 43, War Department, 1919, is withdrawn. [000.862, A. G. O.} Name of institution. Spring Hill College, Mobile, 2 Authority granted in— Bulletin No. 2, War Department, 1919, to Spring Hill College, Spring Hill, Ala. University of Kansas, Law- Section IV, Bulletin No. 34, rence, Kans. War Department, 1918. [000.862, A. G. O.] IV. Establishment of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in certain educational institutions.-1. Air Service units in certain institutions.-By direction of the President, and pursuant to the authority vested in him by the provisions of section 40, National Defense Act, as amended by the act of Congress approved June 4, 1920, and in response to the applications of the following-named institutions, the authorities of which have agreed to establish and maintain a two years' compulsory or elective course of military training as a minimum for its physically fit male students, which course, when entered upon by any student, shall, as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, to allot a minimum of an average of three hours per week per academic year to military training and instruction during the first two academic years and to arrange for five hours per week during the remainder of the course for students selected for advanced training, and to use their endeavors to promote and further the objects for which the training corps is organized, there are hereby established in the following-named institutions Air Service units of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Tex. University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 2. Medical Corps unit in Washington University School of Medicine. By direction of the President, and pursuant to the authority vested in him by the provisions of section 40, National Defense Act, as amended by the act of Congress approved June 4. 1920, and in response to the application of the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., the authorities of which have agreed to establish and maintain a two years' compulsory course of military training as a minimum for its |
