General, President

So much has war become a matter of organization, of administration, of "business," that many a ranking officer of the U. S. Army has found himself invited to assume control of a great industrial enterprise, has smoothly, easily shifted over from camp to conference, from aides to stenographers. Major General James G. Harbord became president of the Radio Corp. of America; Brigadier General Albert C. Dalton became president of the Emergency Fleet Corp.; last week Major General Robert Courtney Davis, Adjutant General of the U. S. Army, announced his retirement, effective July 1, to become president of Photomaton Co., Inc.

Photomaton, Inc. is the company which, organized last April (TIME, April 4), paid one Anatol Josepho the sum of $1,000,000 for rights to his invention, the "Photomaton." This device is a kind of automatic camera, enclosed in a slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 12, 1876, graduated from West Point in 1898, was a first lieutenant during the Spanish-American War. During the World War he was Adjutant General of the A. E. F. In April, 1922, he was made Acting Adjutant General of the U. S. Army and took charge of the planning and administering of the Adjusted Compensation ("Bonus") Act. His organization had to compute the number of days served by each War veteran, then accurately figure his compensation, allowing for deductions, exceptions, transfers, promotions, for the thousand-and-one factors in the equation. Major General Davis has been Adjutant General since Sept., 1922.