The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1918-09-22
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I. SIGNAL CORPS MEN
REMARKABLE DEVICES BY USE
OF WHICH GERMAN MES
SAGES ARE CAPTURED.
WIRES FAR AWAY TAPPED
Student Army Training Corps Plans
Changed to Conform to Lowered
Draft Ages-SoIdiers Want Lemon
Drops and Soluble Coffee.

corps of the army is one of it's inter-
esting activities. Information of the
enemy and his movements is always Of
use, and sometimes of great impor-
lance.
The signal corps operates numerous
listening-in stations close to or within
the enemy's lines, at which, by means
of devices recently perfected, it is able
not only to intercept any radio, mes
sage but also to determine accurately
the location of the radio instrument
which transmits it. This information
as to location is transmitted to the
artillery, which proceeds to put the
radio station out of business.
German telephone wires have been
made to divulge their secrets, though
such wires are well within German ter
ritory where it is impossible to tap
their lines. This is accomplished by
one of the most ingenious instruments
that has been produced. BY means of
it our signal corps man can sit in his
dugout on the front line with a re-
ceiver to his ear and hear any tele-
phone message well within the enemy
territory, even though several thou
sand Huns may intervene between him
and the nearest point to the telephone
wires being used by the enemy.
The signal service of the army came
INTO existence with development of the
telegraph during the Civil war, and
was expanded greatly in the Spanish
American war. 1t was then mounted
organization, mobile as cavalry, and
Used largely to serve the needs of the
cavalry. 1t developed practically a
perfect system for open warfare.
A new system had to be originated
tor trench warfare and experts began
The study of this problem and the use
If telephone and telegraph lines and
he radio as soon as the present war
started. Signal corps men were among
he first units sent to France after
he United States entered the war.
The French system of signaling has
been adopted in part, but with many
purely American innovations. The
he front lines is mass of lines of
Information. There is the wire net, or
telegraph and telephone; the radio;
he visual, or searchlight and fire.
works, and the messengers, runners
Ind motorcyclists.
Plans for the student army training
corps have been changed by the war
department to conform to the lowered
lraft ages. The war department will
Utilize the plant, equipment and organ
cation of the colleges to maintain a
reservoir of officer material for train
ng as officers and technical experts
rom which it will be possible to meet
The enlarged needs of the various
branches of the service.
The length of time during which
men will be trained in the colleges will
depend on the needs Of the service. AS
!ast as one group of trained men is
lrawn from the colleges into the serv-
ce their places will be taken by
lew quota obtained by voluntary in
luction or through the draft. In this
way the educational facilities of the
country will be used to maintain
constant supply of men who are
rained to meet the needs of theNSAmy.
Under the regulations selected young
men who are physically fit for mill
!ary service, who are eighteen years
Of age or over, and who have had
| ha in
lucted as volunteers into the army and
enter upon a course Of special train
ng. Those who have had only gram
mar school education will enter ordi-
larily special training detachments to
be trained along mechanical lines OF
military training. Those who prove
n the course of their mechanical train
ing that they are officer material may
be transferred to unit in one of the
colleges to be prepared to enter cen
ral officers training camp.
Young men who have had a high
ychool education will be allowed to en-
ter the college for more advanced
training as officers and as technical
Experts of various kinds, according to
their experience and abilities. Those
who show promise under this training
will be kept in college until qualified
10 enter an officer training camp or be
cent directly into the service as tech
pica experts; those who do not show
promise under the training will be
Ient either to noncommissioned Off
cers' schools, to the nearest depot bri-
rade or to detachments where men are
trained according to their technical or
mechanical abilities.
Do not use galvanized utensils in
making preserves, jellies or fruit
Juices, say department of agriculture
experts. Some of the zinc with which
the vessels are galvanized may be
changed to salts of zinc, which will
rive the product an acrid and astrin-
rent taste and render it unsuitable for
human use.
Mexicsn laborers In Texas have de-
veloped the taste for cottage cheese.
Government experts have taught them
how to make it. The result is saw
ing In meat.