The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-10-18
ONE YEAR COURSE
FOR WEST POINT
MILITARY ACADEMY IS TO BE
UTILIZED TO THE FULL LIMIT
DURING THE WAR PERIOD.
TEACHING FLYERS STUNTS"
Aviation Students to Learn the Aero
battles Quickly or Not at All-War
Department Compeis the Making Of
Clinical Thermometers.


Department Compeis the Making Of
Clinical Thermometers.
tFrom Committee IN Public Information,
Washington.--'Th acting secretary
Of war has approved the recommends
tons of General March, chief of staff,
to graduate the two upper classes ut
| the United States Military academy on
November l, and to authorize one
| year course ut West Point for the re-
mainder OF the war. 1t is proposed to
utilize this valuable and expensive
institution, the war department an
nounces, to the limit during the period
| OF the war. The number Of cadets
graduated each year from West Point
Is now only about 200. Under the new
| system it will be possible to graduate
1000 officers Il year.
| Vacancies resulting from the gradu
alton Of the two upper classes will be
| filled by the war department. If pos
sible, by the admission on November
l, 1913, of qualified candidates. APP
pOintments will be made in the usual
way-through senators and represent
atives in congress. and other customary
channels. The war department de-
sires that candidates to be admitted
on November / shall be not under
eighteen years Of age on that date.
AS the result Of an investigation by
the war department, following the
| fnil nf n~tv,1o ~
obtain supply of clinical thermome-
tiers except at what were considered
exorbitant prices, the general staff has
ordered IS manufacturers in different
parts Of the country to furnish about
G6S,OOO Of the instruments, which are
urgently needed here and abroad.
Under these orders the war depart
ment will not only take the entire
stock of clinical thermometers now
manufactured. but will require the fac
tories to produce In large quantities
for 20 weeks. The compulsory order
specifies that the entire quantity must
be delivered by February 10, 1919.
The price of clinical thermometers
has advanced In the past year from 25
cents each. The investigations of the
military authorities disclosed combi-
! nation between the glass-blowers and
the makers Of thermometers.
The prices to be paid by the gov
eminent for the 668, 600 thermometers
which have been requisitloned will be
fixed by the war department board of
appraisers.
One undertaking in connection with
the registration Of more than 13,OO0.-
600 men for the draft, September IL
is Illustrated by figures by Provost
Marshal General Crowder. A stats
tcian in the provost marshafs Office
has calculated that If all the printed
forms distributed since August in
connection with the work of registra-
ton, classification and mobilization
were placed in II pile ten feet square
1t would tower above the ground to q
height Of SS7 feet, or more than one
and half times the altitude of Wash
ington monument.
Altogether there have been printed
and shipped out. since August Z, 224.
i 100000 forms of all kinds, weighing
100000 pounds, and measuring in the
aggregate, SS,7S7 cubic feet. A tota
of $4,000 mail sacks were used to carry
this vast quantity of matter. The
largest number Of sacks shipped in
single day was 1S2S. These weighed
| about SO tons.
r N
mail train 143 6O-foot postal cnr'
y you'd be required and the train would
4 be one and two-thirds miles long
Placed end to end, the forms would eX
tend 6S044 miles-more than twic,
! the distance around the earth
Many sample cans Of tomatoes sucl
as are used in the army have beer
found by the inspection branch of tn
subsistence division, quartermaste
.orps, to be filed only to three-fourth
If an inch of the top, although weigh
| ing the requisite amount. Instruction
| have been issued that regardless o
| weight, the cans must be filed {
| within three-eighths of an inch of th
/ | IL
in half an inch of the top there Is t
| be REIMBURSEMENT of prices and unde
? no circumstances, 1t is announced, wi
. unidentified cans be sent overseas.
: 1t has been calculated that If thi
saving of three-eighths of an inch wer
made in all cans of TOM. oes pun
!; chased by the army for year,
= would equal 417,OO0 cases, costjn
about 81 100000. The saving of til
plate used in the can would equa
!. about 100000 square feet.
German prisoners are being used /
!. the construction of homes for Belgia
!, refugees in the village which IN
J. American Red Cross is building nea
= Havre, France, for families who wer
t, driven from their country by the Gel
man invasion. Many such prisoner
also have been put to work In tn
fields In the section surroundin