The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-23
FEW REAL SLACKERS T..
SAYS GENERAL CARTER


Maj. Gen. William II. Carter, U. s.
A., commanding the western depart
ment Of the army, with headquarters in
Chicago, in recent report said that
in his opinion the great majority of
men called TO service in the selective
draft, but who failed to report, did SO
through ignorance and not with any
desire to shirk their duties. II is an
injustice, he said, to brand these mer
as "slackersn.
81 believe the plumber who willfully
failed to report is Insignificant said
General Carter, "and these men should
not be branded as slackers. Send them
to camp with their selfrespect.''
Referring to the coming service OF
American troops In France, General
Carter made the following prediction
1They will come back, y he said
''better than when they left, and after
fifty years in the Army / want to pre-
diet that the death rate among our
men is going to be less to the men in.
yolved than IL was in the Civil War
Largest Cantonment
D nc NutAOnuA ARMY EAuIOuUtuE WIFI
the largest population is Camp Lee
near Petersburg, Virginia, where 49,,
S03 men from Virginia, West Virginia,
and Pennsylvania are in training. The
cantonment with the smallest popula
tion is Camp Custer, near Battle Creek
Michigan, with 1886 men. The popu
lation of Camp Upton, when New York
City's full quota reports to the colors
win be 42,230. h q, i...... T. .s.'a
Youngest "Higher-up" De-,
The youngest lieutenant colonel in
the army is Thomas De Witt Milling
next to Brigadier General Foulois, the
Army's most noted flier. Colonel Mill
ing, who was thirty years old a few
weeks ago, is now in France, and is in
command Of the air operations division
under General PershinggS Mi Hing IL from
New ORLEANS, and is West Pointer
of the class Of 1900. PIX .Jasw# q
Was q Reporter 49,. 49,. W
Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN, pay
master general of the United States
Navy, and chief of the bureau of sup
plies and accounts, in the Navy Depart
ment, Is considered by naval officers
the most efficient business man in the
service of the nation. Admiral Ne
Gowan, under whose direction every
cent for the support and maintenance
of the navy is expended, handles that
tremendous job with a force of less
than $50 persons, and this number in
cludes everybody from officers to mes
senger boys. Admiral MCGOWAN, be
fore he entered the Navy, was a Soutl
Carolina newspaper reporter. He II
1 forty seven years of age, and thu
youngest officer ever appointed pay
master general of the Navy. r.
Cost for Sammie ...-
It costs the government $l56.30 t.
equip an infantryman for service il
France. This includes $10l.2l for cloth
ing, $7.73 for eating utensils, $47.3,
for fighting equipment, Items included
under "clothing" include three blank
cts, two complete uniforms, and twt
complete sets of warm underwear ant
two Lairs of army shoes. The fighting
/ equipment consists of one rifle, costinI
$3.50; one bayonet, $2.l5; 100 cart
ridges, So; one gas mask, $l2; one cart
ridge belt, $40S; one bayOnet scab
bard, $l.l3; one steel helmet, 50, ant
one trench tool at so cents.
UP IN the Air
The army school for Notifying Off
GERS of the aviation section is now il
full operation at San Antonio. Tn,
school IS the only one of its kind in thi
country, and is expected TO provide
training for about 800 officers. TIL,
course of-instruction lasts eight weeks
Fifteen instructors constitute the staff
under command of Captain Hubert r
Harmon, u, s A. w., ~"
Vast Artillery Range %. :
1 The largest artillery range in tn
United States is now in process of con
struction at Petersburg, Virginia. Maj
or Gen. Cronkhite, U. s. A., for so man.
years artillery officer of the Easter
Department on Governors Island, will
direct the work at the range, whicl
will be in use within a few weeks. TIL
site of the range is field Of abou
5000 acres. Several regiments of feel,
artillery can be instructed at the range
the man capacity of which is expecte,
TO be about 10000. This range vii
be the place to which artillery unit
4 will be sent for final training Just be