The Washington herald., 1916-10-03
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Best Service Column in city.

Hundreds Of National Guardsrnen who
have sent their names to the Aero Club
OF America as candidates for the army
aviation service and for the Aerial Re-
serve Corps, are gratihed to learn that
Guardsmen may now receive training
as aviators at the army aviation schools
Alan A. Hawley, president Of the Aero
Club, has issued this statement regard
ing the matter:
"As Congress has provided for train
ing 1000 avtators, of which the army is
allowed only ia and the Aerial Reserve
Corps S7, including the technical officers,
the National Guard will supply at Ieasat
$50 aviators TO be trained at the army
aviation schools. About 5000 noncom-
missioned officers and enlisted men are
needed for aviation mechanics, aviation
engineers, etc.
I THE National Guard throughout the
country will welcome the announcement
from the War Department, for which II
has waited with great expectation. Until
very recently those Guardsmen who ap-
piled for training at the army aviation
schools were told that the army could
rot undertake to train them"
The difficulty OF getting hot meals to
patients when considerab BILE distances have
TO be traversed for each patient has
offered a serious problem aboard naval
hospital ships for many years. This
dlfhculty, however will be overcome when
the new hospital vessel now planned by
the Navy Department is launched. DR..
R. c. Holcomb, Of the Bureau Of Medicine
and Surgery of the Navy Department, has
invented a steam table on wheels which
will be installed aboard the ship.
The steam table will be filled with hot
food in the diet kitchen on the lower
deck. rolled down the hall and into the
elevator and brought out on the upper
deck. thence it will be wheeled into the
ward and down the aisle of beds. the
plate of each patient being taken from
the steaming watts. The unique device
| first was installed by DR.. HoIcomb in a
hospital in Norfolk, making the feeding
OF several hundred patients a relatively
easy matter
Connected with each ward on the ship
will be several special rooms. There will
be quiet room for very serious cases;
special room for kidney and bladder
cases, where everything will be unusual
ly sterile; a special hydrotherapeutic
room and a acknowledgements room. In
addition, there will be numerous other
rooms for special surgical cases when an
operation is a matter OF life and death.
! The ship also will have a biological
! 'eADOl alOiS d utINhl ldDOTdIOTN. ana an
animal yard, where animals may be kept
for testing certain theories of germ in
| feCtion
| The Department Of Agriculture has de-
veloped for military use a new army
emergency ration The nutritive and di-
gestible characteristics have been tested.
and the food has been officially adopted
for use by troops under conditions where
I Z a.
II was intended that the rations should
| be pressed into blocks or cubes for con-
venience in packing and carriage on the
Iperson. It was expected that the ration
would be delivered in large quantities
and this was rendered possible by ar
IranGements with a Boston cracker manu-
| fncturer for tie production OF the article
1T has been found, however, that the
form of the ration will require the in
cannot be obtained within less than eight
months. Ohcials do not want TO wait
this long and other arrangements are
being contemplated.
The Naval Pay Officers School. OF
which Passed Assistant Paymaster Omar
| D. Conger. L. 5. y. is in charge, is in
the midst OF its ninth session. The course
which is being conducted here. will con-
lnue lot a month Inc OBJECT or the
school is TO instruct officers Of the pay
corps Of the naval militia in their duties
IN connection with the custody Of and ac-
counting for government property The
officers have not only to keep the prop
erty accounts and render the returns OF
the naval militia. but, in time Of stress.
1t is likely that they would be called into
active service to augment the pay corps
| OF the regular navy
1t is expected that the session Of the