The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-05-23

Delivery Of the first Of the 1,O2e
locomotives ordered by the railroad
| administration will start in July, and
deliveries will continue monthly during
the rest of the year. The locomotives
are Of six standard types, with one
heavy and one light style in each type.
| They vary in weight from 100000
pounds to $4,000 pounds, and the en-
tire order will cost about $6O,OOO,OOO.
The six standard types are expected
to eventually supersede the many
kinds now in service, which embrace
engines built according to 500 or more
specifications. According to the rail-
road administration, this is the first
real step ever taken toward the wide
standardization of locomotives.
An order has also been placed for
100000 freight cars Of standard type
to cost between $25O,OOO,OOO and $780,
100000. Negotiations for the cOnstruc-
ton Of many thousand additional steel
freight cars are still pending. The five
types of cars ordered represent the
standard forms Of freight cars adopted
by the railroad administration.
The adoption Of these standard
types, it is believed, will eventually
substitute a few scientifically worked
out designs for the numerous miscel-
laneous varieties of cars, representing
probably more than thousand differ
ent old styles and specifications now
in use, the accumulatiOns of the past.
Before an airplane can be put into
military service it must be equipped
with at least nine delicate aeronautic
instruments. some of which are abso7
lutely essential to exact flying, and all
contribute to the successful operation
of a plane. One gives the pilot his To-
cation as to height and direction; 9TH
ers tell his speed through the air, the
speed of his propeller, the amount of
gasoline carried, water temperature,
operation of the Oiling system, and
guide his "banking'' on turns. An
other necessary article is the oxygen
supplying apparatus, without which an
aviator could not climb to any great
height.
For operation Of actual combat
planes, such as observing, photograph
ing, bombing, and fighting planes,
other complicated and expensive in
struments and sets Of apparatus are
necessary. Among them are machine
guns, gun mounts, bomb racks, bomb
dropping devices, bomb sights, radio
and Photographic apparatus, electr1-
cally heated clothing, lights and flares.
These bring the total cost of equip
ment for an airplane to several thou
sand dollars each, depending upon the
type Of plane.
Nearly 1000 types and sizes of farm
implements which have been gradually
developed by manufacturers during
peace-time competition have been rec
commended for elimination during the
war by committees of the National I'm
plement and Vehicle association. The
object, according to statement by
the Council of National Defense, is to
conserve materials, labor, capital, and
manufacturing facilities for war use.
In the report of the committee meet
ings to the commercial economy board
of the Council Of National Defense 1t
was stated that no machinery recon-
mended for discard was believed to be
necessary to modern economical agr1-
culture. The lines considered by the
committees consisted of steel and
chilled plows, grain drills, seeders, and
other tillage implements and farm Gull
tivators.
Such of the recommendations as the
board deems suitable, with others from
different sources, are being brought to
the attention Of all implement manu-
facturers and jobbers, aud as many re.
tail dealers as may be reached, through
QuestiOnnaireS.
A number of high-grade news pho
are urgently needed by tlee
signal corps. These men must have |
expert experience in the handling of |
speed cameras, such as Grafex, |
Graphic, and also understand speeds
of lenses and various makes of cam
eras and operation Of same. Only |
those men who can furnish references
as to their actual experience as news
will receive considera-
ton.
The men selected for this branch Of
the service will be sent to a school for |
training. Upon completion of |
the training they will be promoted to |
grades of sergeant, first class, and will |
be ordered overseas in short time.
must be citizens Of the
United States between the ages Of Fl
and 81. ALI communications should be
to Air Division, Training |
Section, Photographic Branch, Wash
ington, D. G.
Advice from Shanghai states that
the subscriptions to the third Liberty
Loan there amount to over 100000,
and report from the American en-
bassY in Mexico City states the sub.