McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-08-09

| sired-a sturdy, outstanding brotherly
man, between twenty-one and forty
five years, who has deep solicltude for
the welfare of the soldiers.
There is a special school for army
chaplains at Camp Zachary Taylor,
near Louisville, KY. About 200 chap
lains come from this school to take up
their work with the army after a
course lasting Ave weeks, and the
courses 60 on continuously. Approx
mately one-fifth of the clergymen who
| start the course fail to complete 1t or
to qualify for the army.
Candidates for admission to the
school must have the endorsement of
their denomination superiors and or
ganized religious bureaus and boards
recognized by the government authori-
ties, and must pass the physical tests
of the local army draft board. At
the school the student receives free
| subsistence, lodging and uniform and
$33 month, which is the pay of first
| class private. After completing the
course successfully the government re-
turns the student to his home, and
when he is appointed to the army he
takes the rank and pay of first lieu
tenant Of the national army, $1,000
year at home and $4,000 a year abroad.
The training of chaplain is practi-
cal and intensive. His days in school
are busy ones. He rises like any com
mon soldier at 5 AS a. M, has fifteen
minutes of setting up drill and Is re-
CURED to circle around the parade
ground at double time before break
fast. He must police his quarters like
any other soldier, undergo an infan-
| try drill without arms of 45 minutes,
and then attend lectures and recita-
tons. The latter cover military and
international law, service customs,
and field service regulations pertain
ing to chaplains duties. The school
surgeon instructs him In sanitation
and first aid, and experienced chap
lains give clinics ON actual work with
the army. He Is given instructions
also In horsemanship, because In field
service he will be mounted officer.
| The priorities division Of the war
industries board has decided that hol-
low tile manufacture Is In part of ma
tional Importance and continued man
ufacture Of tiles throughout the war
period will be safeguarded by giving
the industry place on the prefer
! ence list for fuel and transportation.
Judge Edwin B. Parker, priorities
commissioner, In letter to the hollow
| tile manufacturers, says: "The prior
tiles board is of the opinion that yours
is in part war industry because your
product Is used in many Of the bhil0
ing operations carried on directly by
the war agencies of the government,
and In the collateral yet indispensa-
BILE housing programs which are being
and will be prosecuted in communities
where soldiers sailors and war work
ers are being concentrated.
TN the opinion of the board your
| industry also is In part one of national
Importance in that portion Of your
| product is used in land drainage oper-
ations and In ensilage savings proc
esses making possible higher produc-
ton per acre and per farmer of foods
and feeds, taking into account the la
Dor expended in applying such prod
ucts to the land"
Hollow tile manufacturers must give
a pledge of cooperation with the gov
eminent that they will not use mate
rails except in the manufacture of
products for essential uses as defined
and applied by the priorities division
of the war industries board, and that
they will guard against resale Of the
! product for any except essential uses.
There will be permitted, however,
sales of small quantities Of tiles for
repairs or extensions to existing struc-
1 lures involving in the aggregate cost
not exceeding $500.
The war industries board has de-
/ cided that motor trucks are war es-
/ sentials and that in civilian industries
they constitute an important trans
/ portation medium and their produc-
ton should be facilitated and not cur
| tailed. But no pledge to see that mo-
/ tor truck manufacturers got all the
steel they wanted was given by the
/ priorities division Of the board.
i Judge Parker, priorities commission
err, observed: "The manufacturers and
dealers fully realize that steel is today
| the worlds most needed metal and
that, In view OF the urgent war de-
mands of this nation and the allies,
/ 1t is well nigh reasonable to consume
pound Of 1t that can be saved. They
| pledged themselves to reverse their
/ practices Of normal times and, instead
of selling through solicitation as many
| trucks as possible and furnishing new
trucks to replace old ones, to use their
| utmost endeavor to induce owners and
/ operators to repair old ones and use
the trucks they have as long as posi-
| BILE, to operate them fully loaded, and,
through shifts of drivers and other
| wise to keep them in use during the
greatest possible portion Of the day."
The department of agriculture sug-
gests to farmers gas attack on bean
and pea weevils, which annually de-
stroy millions of dollars worth OF
valuable food and feed. Use carbon
dlsulphid. The weevil has not discov-
cred the advantage Of gas mask.
| Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director OF
the women In industry service of the
department Of labor, announces the
creation of committee of experts.
The committee will visit various
centers where women have been drawn
intn industries at work on war con-