Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-22
UNCLE SAM TURNING
OUT BIG RADIO ARMY
Approximately Hundred Operators
Leave Harvard Plant Weekly
Ready For service.
ALL STATES REPRESENTED
60 10 Cambridge For Finishing Up
Trimming; soon Become IL
pcrts at Code.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass Aprl -
Uncle sam Is sending out every week
from firy 10 one hundred wireless
operators from the bag Harvard
plant hera which was transferred 20
the eoyernrhent year ago as radio
finishing school II Is tho only insu-
tuition of he kind IN the country. and
lis classes have in the aggregate
. 900 ambitious youths.
From the Harvard grounds and
Harvard square the undergraduate
seem TO have disappeared. most ot
them are IN the service somewhere
The many young men In uniform
give Cambridge much the appear
ance Of a great naval center; GER
tdinly II is not like tho university
city OF old Most OF the Harvard
halls and dormitories that could bc
spared were turned over to the radio
students, whose area of habitation
extends close 10 the famous Gold
Coast. filled now largely with Harry
ard hoys working their way through
college
Memorial Han perhaps the most
famous of all the HAYWARD buildings.
and wherein generations OF under
graduates have dined. Is the main
eating establishment for the radio
army. Three times day fifteen
hundred of them march into Mem
orial Hall like a we'll drilled rcEi-
ment OF blueiackets and set up "A
clatter as they eat. that would do
honor to any battalion OF academic
students.
go TO Boston on Payday
Hut this old hall has IT'S quiet
period, for on pay day, which comes
twice a month, only handful 90
there to dine. The radio boys walk
with the ghost and go him one
better bv taking an elght-minute
subway Jump TO Boston, where they
come up for air an change OF
The raAo stude~s notably are
orderly, They are scattered over n
wide area, many OF them lodging In
private homes without official re-
straint vet police and military
records reveal blank blotters 80 far
as they relate to radio students.
This being IA finishing school only
those who are able TO copy ten words
"A minute in the Continental code,
which Is much slower than the
Morse, or regular telegraph code,
are admitted for. the sixteen weeks
course. To he sent out for service
at sea they must be able TO receive
twenty-five words minute, the
minimum grading. There are many
experts among the teaching force
whose speed runs up to So words a
minute. but beyond that "a radio mes
sage would be hard to yet. From
three TO six operators are assigned
to each ship. with the large number
OF vessels building for the merchant
marine and the navy. the radio
school ls doing its best to turn out
experienced operators as fast as
possible
Come From All States.
The radio men have come here
from every state In the unltno many
OF them under draft age, and
generally eager for active service.
They represent every element OF
society. OF two who we're sitting
on the steps OF the Germanic
Museum the other day. one had
come from Louisiana and telling OF
his work at home he mentioned,
quite incidentally. that on Sundays
he had sung In a Methodist church
choir.
And I come from the East side
OF New York city. his friend broke
in. and | had regular job singing
in a cabaret at i2bth street. But
we are buddies now" and he picked
up a few bars Of song which has
won much war time popularity. We
hope TO be assigned 10 the same
4biy, ha aHdpd zen that u.hen ma
sink Hun submarine VS. can send
out the news through the air In
different languages And. believe
me. mine will be the sort for folks
TO remember,