The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-17
ONE YEAR COURSE
FOR WEST POINT
All ITARY ACADEMY is TO BE
UTILIZED TO THE FULL LIMIT
DURING THE WAR PERIOD.
TEACHING FLYERS "sTuNTs"
Aviation Students to Learn the Aero
bates Quickly or Not at AII-War
Department CompeIs the Making Of
Clinical Thermometers.
From Committee on Public 1nformationD

From COMMITTEES ON Public InformationD
Washington.-The acting secretary
NJ war has approved the recommends
+ions of General March, chief of staff,
70 graduate the two upper classes at
the United States Military academy on
November l, and to authorize a one
vpar course at West Point for the re-
mainder of the war. 1t is proposed to
utilize this valuable and expensive
Institution, the war department an
nounces, to the limit during the period
Of the war. The number of cadets
graduated each year from West Point
is now only about 200. Under the new
system it will be possible to graduate
1900 officers Il year.
Vacancies. resulting from the gradu-
alton of the two upper classes will be
filed by the war department., if pos
sible, by the admission on November
/. 1918, Of qualified candidates. APP
pointmentS will be made in the usual
way-through senators and represent
atives in congress. and other customary
channels. The war department de-
Sires that candidates to be admitted
on November l shall be not under
eighteen years Of age on that date.
AS the result of an investigation by
the war department. following the
failure of the medical department to
obtain a supply of clinical therInOme-
tiers except at what were considered
pXOrhtant prices, the general staff has
ordered IS manufacturers in different
parts of the country to furnish about
66S,0OO Of the Instruments, which are
urgently needed here and abroad.
Under these orders the war depart
ment will not only take the entire
stock of clinical thermometers now
manufactured but will require the fac
tories to produce in large quantities
for 20 weeks. The compulsory order
specifies that the entire quantity must
be delivered by February 10, 1919.
The price of clinical thermometers
has advanced in the past year from %
cents and 80 cents to so cents and 60
cents each. The Investigations of the
military authorities disclosed a cOmbi-
nation between the glass-blowers and
the makers of Thermometers.
The prices to be paid by the gov
eminent for the 66S, 900 thermometers
which have been requisitiOned will be
fixed by the war department board of
appraisers.
One undertaking in connection with
the registration Of more than 13,OOO,-
600 men for the draft, September II.
is Illustrated by figures by Provost
Marshal General CrOwder. A Stats
tician in the provost marshaPS Office
has calculated that If all the printed
forms distributed since August in
connection with the work of registra-
ton, classification and mobilization
were placed in pile ten feet square
1t would tower above the ground to Il
height of 987 feet, or more than one
and half times the altitude OF Wash
lngtOn monument.
Altogether there have been printed
and shipped out since August Z, 224,-
100000 forms of all kinds, weighing
100000 pounds, and measuring, in the
aggregate, 88,787 cubic feet. A total
this vast quantity Of matter. The
largest number of sacks shipped in a
single day was 1923. These weighed |
about SO tons.
II these forms were placed in one |
mail train 143 6O-fOot postal cars |
would be required and the train would |
be ono and twO-thirds miles long. |
Placed end to end, the forms would ex-
tend 1904 miles-mOre than twice |
The distance around the earth.
Many sample cans of tomatoes such
as are used in the army have been
found by the inspection branch of the
subsistence division, quartermaster
corps, to be filed only to three-fOurths
OF an inch of the top, although weigh
ing the requisite amount. Instructions
nave been issued that regardless of
weight, the cans must be filed to
within three-eighths of an inch of the
Top. If the cans are not filed to with
IN half an inch of the top there is to
DC REIMBURSEMENT Of prices and under
no circumstances, it Is announced, will
u'derfilled cans be sent overseas.
It has been calculated that if this
saving of three-elghths Of an inch were
made in all cans of tomatoes pur-
chased by the army for a year, 1t
would equal 417,OOO cases, costing
about $1,5OO,OOO. The saving Of tin
pate used in the can would equal
about 100000 square feet.
German prisoners are being used in
he construction of homes for Belgian
refugees in the village which the
american Red Cross is building near
uaVre' France, for families who were
ur'Ven from their country by the Ger
Inan invasion. Many such prisoners
oSo have been put to work in the
re'us In the section surrounding
H"Vre They have harvested wheat
ana other crOnS Tins loSSaninp tho