Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-08-10
The army Is in need of chaplains,

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the welfare of the soldiers.
There IS a special school for armr
chaplains at Camp Zachary Taylor
near Louisville, ny. About 200 chap
lains come from this school to take VI.
their work with the army after q
course lasting five weeks, and the
courses go on continuously. Approx.
mately one-fifth of the clergymen who
start the course fail to complete 1t or
to qualify for the army.
Candidates for admission to the
school must have the endorsement d:
their denomination superiors and or.
| ganized religious bureaus and boards
recognized by the government authort
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
$33 month. which is the pay 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
takes the rank and pay of first lieu.
tenant Of the national army, $1,000 .
year at home and 50 200 a year abroad.
/ The training Of chaplain is practi-
cal and intensive. His days in school
are busy ones. He rises like any COM
mon soldier at 5:45 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 an infan-
try drill without arms of As minutes,
and then attend lectures and recita-
tons. 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
service he will he mounted officer.
The priOrities division of the war
industries board has decided that hOl-
low tile manufacture is in part of M
tiOnal Importance and continued man.
ufacture Of tiles throughout the war
period will be safeguartled by giving
the industry a place on the prefer
ence list for fuel and transportation.
Judge Edwin B. Parker, priorities
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 vet indispensa-
bic housing programs which are being
and will he prosecuted in communities
where soldiers, sailors and war work
crs are being concentrated.
I'm the opinion Of the board your
industry also is in part one of national
Importance in that portion of your
product is used in land drainage Oper-
ations and. in ensilage savings proc
esses making possible higher produc-
ton 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
eminent 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.
sales of small quantities of tiles for
repairs or extensions to existing struc-
lures involving in the aggregate cost
not exceeding $500.
The war industries board has de-
cided that motor trucks are war es-
sentials and that in civilian industries
they constitute an important trans
portation medium and their produc-
ton should be facilitated and not cur
tailed. But no pledge to see that mo-
tor truck manufacturers got all the
steel they wanted was given by the
priorities division of the board.
Judge Parker. priorities commission
er, observed: "The manufacturers and
dealers fully realize that steel is today
the worlds most needed metal and
1,ok in 1-;ov Of no
mands of this nation and the allies,
it Is we'll nigh reasonable to consume
pound Of it 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 endeavor to induce owners and
operators to repair old ones and use
the trucks they have as long as pOssi-
BILE, to operate them fully loaded, and.
through shifts Of drivers and other
wise to keep them in use during the
greatest possible portion of the day."
The department Of agriculture sug-
gests to farmers a gas attack on bean
and pea weevils, which annually de-
stroy millions of dollars worth of
valuable food and feed. Use carbon
disulphid. The weevil has not discov-
cred the advantage of gas mask.
Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director OF
the women in industry service of the
department of labor, announces the
creation of a committee Of experts.
The committee will visit various
centers where women have been drawn
into industries at work on war con-