The Washington herald., 1916-11-15
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Best Service Column IN city.

Training OF 1900 civilians on the Great
Lakes each year is planned by the Navy
Department, according to announcement
made by Franklin ID. Roosevelt, Assistant
Secretary OF the Navy
Mr.. Roosevelt has pointed out that the
training station at Lake Biuff can care
for several hundred more than usually
are in training. and that during the sum-
mer 5000 can be accommodated In tents.
The Navy Department has announced
that all available units of the Pacifc
Fleet VIII be assembled at San Diego.
Cal, the latter part OF this month dur
ing the visit of the naval commission,
headed by Rear Admiral James Helm.
The naval board, 1t is understood. will
consider the proposal to establish n per-
manent naval aeronautical training base
at North Island. in conjunction with the
present Army Aviation School. and also
will look into the matter of constructing
supply and submarine station In
adjacent territory.
Army slang is in a class by itself, ac-
| cording to word from the Mexican bor-
der. Not even the picturesque argot OF
| baseball surpasses 1t in originality and
In that quality known as punch
A person passing a group of soldiers
eating dinner in the open air at the vari-
Gus regimental camps that encircIe the
Headquarters of the punitive expedition
might hear a conversation something like
| this:
Slide the grease this way. pal"
"Al right: gimme a hunk OF the punk.
Another busy eater says to the cook:
I'll take some more Of the slum.'
| "A little more Java for me-" requests
another.
Got any wireless left?'' queries a third
Here is list Of few Of the slang
\ terms in use on the border: Grease. but
ter; punk. bread: slum, stew: Java, cof-
fee; wireless. macaronI; goldfish sal
| mon; chew. food of any sort; kitchen
cops, soldiers working in the kitchen and
mess hall; dog-robbers. men who serve
officers as strikers or servants: shave
tail. second lieutenant; slum-slinger
cook: punk-slicer, the man who cuts
| bread: lance-jack, lance corporal; pill
roller. hospital corps soldier; wagon
soldier, artilleryman; horse chambermaid
a soldier assigned to duty cleaning sta.
bles; mud-splasher. infantryman; dough.
boy. infantryman; orderly, a soldier who
| borrows clothes from his comrades; pen.
pusher. a regimental or company clerk;
beat, a soldier who continually lodges
work; mitt-fopper. a private who tries
TO ingratiate himself with his first
sergeant; buzzard, a discharge; blind
money imposed by court-martial: busted
| stripes taken from noncommissioned OF.
flcers by order OF a court-martial; six.
| sixty. a sentence of six months in prison
and forfeit Of $50 in pay, and the Kay-O
the commanding officer.
Not one of the seventy-hve forts in tbs
| United States coast defense system has
an areoplane, observation balloon. oI
dirigible. This deficiency in aerial defense
has been brought out by Alan 2. Haw'
| ley, president Of the Aero Club Of Amen
ca. in his annual report. The report alsc
points out that the -forty-five field artil'
lery batteries are likewise without aeria
equipment.
! The Aero Club has resolved to submit
to President Wilson. Congress. the Coun'
ell of National Defense. and the Secre-
taries of War and Navy the need of build
ing up at once an adequate air defense
Upon all national officials and bodies will
be urged the necessity OF providing seven
teen aero squadrons, 127 kite balloons, and
six dirigibles. 1t will also be proposed
| that aeronautics be made part Of the
curriculum OF West Point and Annapolis