The Elbert County tribune., 1918-08-09

sired-a sturdy, outstanding brotheriy
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
course lasting five weeks, and the
courses go on continuously. Approx
mately one-fifth of the clergymen who
start the course fall to complete II or
to qualify for the army.
Candidates for admission to the
school must have the endorsement of
their denomination superlors and Or
| ganlzed 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
| S33 month. which Is the pny 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
| tenant of the national army, $1,000
year at home and 5000 year abroad.
The training of n chaplain is practi-
cal and intensive. His days in school
are busy ones. He rises like any com
mon soldier Mt 8 40 a. M. has fifteen
minutes of setting up drill and is re-
| quired to circle around the parade
ground at double time before break
| fast. He must police his quarters like
any other soldier, undergo nm infaD-
| try drill without arms of AZ minutes,
and then attend lectures and recita-
tions. The latter cover military and
international law. service customs.
and field service regulations pertain
ing to chaplain's 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
| tlonal importance md 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. priorItles
commissioner, In a 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 build
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.
"In the opinion of tho board your
industry also is in part one of national
importance in that 4 portion of your
product is used in land drainage oper-
ations and In ensilage savings proc
esses making possible higher produc-
tion 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
ernment 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.
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repairs or extensions to existing struc-
lures involving In the aggregate cost
not exceeding $500.
| The war industries hoard has de-
cided that motor trucks are war es-
sentials and that in civilian industries
they constitute an important trans
portation medium md their produc-
ton should be facilitated and not cur
tailed. But no pledge to see that mo-
tor truck manufacturers got nil the
| steel they wanted was given by the
priorlties division of the board.
Judge Parker. prlorlties commission
er, 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 Il 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 epdaayor IN induce owners and
operators to repair old ones and use
the trucks they have Us long as possi-
BILE. to operate them fully loaded, and.
through shifts of drivers and other
wise to keep them in use during the