Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-09-06
.L|STEN'NGlN BY
SIGNAL CORPS MEN
REMARKABLE DEVICES BY USE
OF WHICH GERMAN MES.
sAGEs ARE CAPTURED.
WIRES FAR AWAY TAPPED
Student Army Training Corps Plans
Changed to Conform to Lowered
Draft Ages-SoIdlers Want Lemon
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drops and Soluble Coffee.
The listenlng.in service Of the signal
corps of the army is one of its inter.
! estlng activities, Information of the
enemy and his movements is always of
use, and sometimes of great impor
lance.
The signal corps operates numerous
llstening-ln stations close to or within
the enemy's lines, at which, by means
OF devices recently perfected, It is able
not onl? to intercept any radio mes.
sage but also to determine accurately
the location of the radio instrument
which transmits It. This information
as to location Is transmitted to the
artillery, which proceeds to put the
radio station out Of business
German telephone wires have been
made 10 divulge their secrets, though
such wires are well within German ter.
their lines. This is accomplished by
one Of the most ingenious instruments
that has been produced BY means Of
1t our signal corps man can sit In his
dugout on the front line with Il re-
celver to his ear and hear any tele-
phone message well within the enemy
territory, even though several thou.
sand Huns may intervene between him
and the nearest point to the telephone
wires being used by the enemy.
The signal service Of the army came
into existence with development OF the
telegraph during the Civil war; and
was expanded greatly In the Spanish
American war. II was then mounted
organization, mobile as cavalry. and
used largely to serve the needs Of the
cavalry. II developed practically n
perfect system for open warfare.
A new system had to be originated
for trench warfare and experts began
the study of this problem and the use
Of telephone and telegraph lines and
the radio as soon as the present war
started. Signal corps men were among
the first units sent to France after
the United States entered the war,
The French system Of signaling has
been adopted in part. but with many
purely American innovations. The
whole fighting area within ten miles OF
the front lines is mass of lines OF
Information. There is the wire net, or
/ telegraph and telephone; the radio;
/ the visual. or searchlght and fire.
works. and the messengers, runners
and motorcyclsts.
| Plans for the student army training
corps have been changed by the war
| department to conform TO the lowered
draft ages. The war department will
utilize the plant, equipment and organ
lzation OF the colleges to maintain a
reservoir of officer material for train
Ing as officers and technical experts
from which ii will be possible 10 meet
the enlarged needs of the various
branches of the service.
The length of time during which
men will he trained In the colleges will
depend on the needs of the service. As
fast as one group Of trained men Is
drawn from the colleges into the Serv-
Ice their places will be taken by a
new quota obtained by voluntary in
ducton or through the draft. In this
way the educational facilities of the
country will be used 10 maintain Il
constant supply OF men who are
trained to meet the needs of the army.
Under the regulations selected young
men who are physically III for mill
tary service. who are eighteen years
Of age or over, and who have had a
grammar school education may be in.
Quoted as volunteers into the army and
enter upon a course of special train
ing. Those who have had only n gram
mar school education will enter ordl-
narily special trai ming detachments to
be trained along mechanical lines Of
military training. Those who prove
In the course Of their mechanical train
ing that they are officer material may
be transferred to unit In one of the
colleges to be prepared TO enter cen
trail officers training camp.
Young men who have had high
school education will be allowed TO en-
ter the college for more advanced
training us officers and as technical
experts of various kinds, according to
their experience and abilities. Those
who show promise under this training
will be kept In college until qualified
to enter an officer training camp or be
sent directly into the service as tech
meal experts; those who do not show
promise under the training will be
sent either to noncommissioned Off.
GERS schools, to the nearest depot bri-
gade or to detachments where men are
trained according TO their technical oil
mechanical abilities.
Do aot use galvanized utensils In
maklLk preserves, jellles or fruit
juices, say department Of agriculture
experts. Some Of the zinc with which
the vessels are galvanized may b,
changed to salts OF zinc, which will
give the product an acrid and astrn
gent taste and render II unsuitable fol
human use.
Mexican laborers ln Texas have de
veloped the taste for cottage cheese
Government experts have taught then
how TO make 1t. The result is say
ing In meat.
Why waste potatoes by putting then