The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-08-01
Students Warned Not to Burn Mid.
night Oil.

STUDENTS Warned Not to Burn Mid
night Oil.
The supply Of kerosene will run
short next winter and the Govern
ment is urging every user to do his
rart toward making every gallon to
DO full war duty by giving forth its
full measure Of light and heat. Saw
ing can be accomplished, it is said,
only IL care is given lamps. lanterns,
heaters and stoves.
The director Of oil conservation of
the United States FuelAdministration
issues these rules for fuel-oil saving
Keep all lamps and lanterns clean.
Let the light out; don't confine il be-
hind smoked and dirty chimneys.
See that burners and wicks of all
oil burning devices are clean. Clean
burners require less oil and give bet
ter lights.
Don't allow a lamp, lantern, heater
or stove to burn a minute longer than
is necessary. Don't light one you
can do without.
Don't use coal oil for cleaning
purposes. Hot water will do the work
Allies Now Have Bombing Planes
Working in spusdrons.
There were no aerial bombing or
carnations in the allied flying corps
during the first year Of the war. Prac-
tieally all the work in the air was in
the nature of observation. No pilots
could be spared for anything else.
Today probably25 per cent of the
aerial arms are bombing squadrons
of u machines per squadron.
The first bombing was done by vol
unteer pilots who flew over the Ger
man lines and dropped three or four
bombs, made from artillery shells,
on concentration camps, and canton
ments. Showers of small steel ar
rows were spilled sometimes on con-
voys, troop trains, and bodies of
massed men. The Germans began
day bombing Of cities in 1915, and
the allies bombarded Karlsruhe in re-
prisal later in the same year. Since
then evolution in organized bombing
developed rapidly and the French be-
gan night bombing, but this was not
undertaken by the Germans until
August 1916.
At the present time large groups,
including several squadrons of bomb
ing machines go over the lines from
time to time and completely Destroy
their objective, be it a city or camp
a column of troops, or trench sys-
tenn. Unfortunately the allies air
forces have to travel for many miles
over hostile territory defended by
anti-aircraft guns to attack German
cities, while the enemy can attack
French cities by flying only a short
distance beyond the allied lines.
The allies are developing large
bombing planes which carry sufficient
fuel for long excursions and arma-
mens 70 protect them when they are
attacked by fighting airplanes. Bomb |
ing squadrons are escorted usually |
over the lines by fast fighting squad
rons Of IS planes to squadron, and
then left to their own devices for the
fighters seldom carry sufficient fuel
to permit them to accompany the
bombers on the round trip.
The dropping of the bomb is SINH
lar to shooting a rifle. First, you
set your sight and wind gauge, you
hold the rife properly, and finally
you pull the trigger at the proper
moment. If your ammunition is
standard, your sight correct, you hit
the target. So with bombing. If
you set your sights correctly, fly your
plane correctly over the objective
and drop the bomb at the proper time
you will hit the target. If the am
munition manufacturers gave you
good. bombs the objective will be de-
stroyed.
Ideals that Inspired Recent July
Fourth Celebration
New ideas that inspired the recent
July Fourth celebration we're outlin-
ei clearly to the Division on Women's
War Work Of the Committe on Public
Information by Miss Josephine Roche
director of work with the foreign
born. She said:
eve proclaim a new Declaration
ef Independence for the whole world
which all the people will share, in
stead Of America alone. We have
ways been proud Of Independence
Day and the ideas that brought it
INTO being, and on this particular
Fourth. 1918, IL the women Of 1875
could be here they would realize that
their defendants have not drifted
away from these ideas and that the
Americans who have come more re-
Gently TO this land have been drawn |