The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1918-10-27
ONE YEAR COURSE
FOR WEST POINT
MILITARY ACADEMY is TO BE
UTILIZED TO THE FULL LIMIT
DURING THE WAR PERIOD.
TEACHING FLYERS STUNTS"
Aviation Students to Learn the Aero
battles Quickly or Not at AIi-War
Department compels the Making of
Clinical Thermometers.


items Of General March, chief of staff
to graduate the two upper classes at
the United States Military academy on
November l, and to authorize one
year course at West Point for the re
mainder Of the war. It is proposed to
utilize this valuable and expensive
institution, the war department an
hcunces, to the limit during the period
ct the war. The number Of cadets
graduated each year from West Point
p Row only about 200. Under the new
SYSTEM 1t will be possible to graduate
1.e00 officers a year.
Vacancies resulting from the gradu-
alton Of the two upper classes will be
Alled By the war department, if pos
Mble, BY the admission on November
L. 1918, Of qualified candidates. APP
poihtmentS will be made in the usual
way-through senators and represent
Gdves In congress. and other customary
channels. The war department de-
sires that candidates to be admitted
On November shall be not under
eighteen years Of age on that date.
AZ the result of an investigation by
The war department, following the
fAilurs Of the medical department to
obtain q supply Of clinical thermome-
tiers except at what were considered
sxerbitant prices, the general staff has
ordered Is manufacturers in different
parts Of the country to furnish about
06S, Geo 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.
Fhe price Of clinical thermometers
has advanced In the past year from %
cents and 80 cents to 80 cents and go
cents each. The Investigations of the
military authorities disclosed a combi-
Hatisnl between the glass-blowers and
Che makers Of thermometers.
I The prices to be paid by the gov
eminent for the 66S,000 thermometers
which have been requisitioned will be
Axed by the war department board of
appraisers.
One undertaking in connection with
the registration. of more than 13,000,-
900 men for the draft, September II,
Is illustrated by figures by Provost
General Crowder. A stats
ician in the provost marshal's office
has calculated that If all the printed
forms distributed since August in
connection with the work of registra-
lion, classification and mobilization
were placed in pile ten feet square
Il would tower above the ground to
height OF SS7 feet, or more than one
md half times the altitude of Wash
layton monument.
Altogether there have been printed
rad shipped out, since August Z, 224,-
o00s 600 forms Of all kinds, weighing
I. soc, 600 pounds, and measuring, in the
aggregate, SS.7s7 cubic feet. A total
IL 1900 mail sacks were used to carry
this vast quantity of matter. The
largest number of sacks shipped in
siAsls day was 1928. These weighed
about % tons.
Il these forms were placed in one
nail train 143 60-foot postal cars
would be required and the train would
y enc and two-thirds miles long.
Placed end to end, the forms would ex-
tsad os,o44 miles-more than twice
he distance around the earth.
Many sample cans Of tomatoes such
- are used in the army have been
land by the inspection branch of the
division, quartermaster
corps. to be filed only to three-fourths
II IN inch Of the top, although weigh
Rg The requisite amount. Instructions
aays been issued that regardless of
weight, the cans must be filled to
within thres-eighths Of an inch of the
~. II the cans are not filed to with
a hall an inch of the top there is to
- q rsadjustnent Of prices and under
70 circumstances, 1t is announced, will
aalsrAilel cans be sent overseas.
IN has heea calculated that if this
IayfAs of three-eighths of an inch were
nAle In all cans of tomatoes pur-
lAase1 BY the army for a year, it
vVuta equal 417,000 cases, costing
tbsst N,5oo,Oo0. The saving Of tin
Idats used In the can would equal
lhsut 10000 square feet
German prisoners are being used in
he construction Of homes for Belgian
'efugees In the village which the
american Red Cross is building near
aavft, France, for families who were
lriven from their country by the Ger
nan invasion. Many such prisoners
llso have been put to work in the
lalds In the section surrounding
5avre. They have harvested wheat
nd other crops, thus lessening the
,urden on the women and very old
men who have been operating the
arms while the young and vigorous
aales are lighting at the front.