Evening journal., 1918-09-17
PICK SKILLED men
FORSPECIALSERVICE
Auto Repair Men Also Put
Through Severe Tests
at Meade
MANY MORE ARE
NEEDED AT FRONT

repair men IS growing so strong in the
army that a novel plan has been adopt
ed TO get into this service all who have
the necessary skill and an even more
elaborate plan to keep out the mex
perienced drivers who merely wish to
10 to war riding. The test for motor
experts and for chauffeurs has brougl
such good results in this camp that a
force OF testers from here have been
sent TO Camps Grant, Dodge, Custer,
Funston and pike to start the same
system there. The set OF questions
have been arranged so that the man
who drove his own car In civil life Is
almost certain to find himself at the
wheel again putting speed into the
march 10 Berlin.
The secret symbol card is the novel
device by which a mSn whose guess
tions indicate certain needed skill can
be further questioned and tested with
out knowing what he Is being sought
for by the testers. There are men who
want 10 break away from their old civ
illan lines Of effort when they get in
the service, but the service sometimes
needs Just such men for some essential
part other than firing a rifle or cannon,
In most cases the trade test fts a man
Just where he has a chance TO shine
and get immediate enjoyment out OF
his accomplishments. Tests are now
being elaborated for many special lines,
hut chiefly for work OF driving or re-
pairing automobiles. The track for
driving looks like some steeplechase or
funny playground. The man OF scant
experience quits when he secs what he
is up against and many who have been
driving for a long time fail to make a
perfect score, but qualify as noyices or
In one OF three grades. Lieutenant Earl
Hepburn has charge OF this grade test
ing. His men who made the tour OF
other camps include Harry V. Massey,
Roland y. Dorney. John p. Hines. Law
renee E. Mahan. Paul L. Grafton, VIII
liam r. Reed and Glen McllhenneY
Thirty physicians Of Maryland, in
cluding some OF the most celebrated
specialists OF Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, spent yesterday at camp in con-
ference with army medical officers on
the subject Of examining men for the
coming drafts. The army physicians
have through their long experience
learned almost exactly what type OF
men are untitled for military service
and the conference was for the purpose
Of giving the civilian doctors point
ers" which will enable them 10 better
handle the great volume Of men they
must examine within the next few
months.
Major Joseph Colt Bloodsood, Of
Johns Hopkins University, was in
charge OF the party, which attended
lectures both in the morning and after
noon. Among the speakers were Major
Harold D. Carbusier and Captains A.
C. GILES, Henry James and j. r. Logan,
all OF the medical corps. Every man
cho Is sent 10 this camp after enlist
ment or induction In the regular way Is
on a footing with every other one no
matter what record the man may have
In civil life OF previously in the army.
A man, once a lieutenant, IS here now
a private In line for promotion strictly
upOn the showing he makes.
Many men who had TO be brought
here by policemen because they sought
10 evade service have at once made a
rood showing and won promotion. For
months at a time a single company
with the necessary facilities VIII
handle these casusls without having
any trouble with them. Fellowship
with men who are so earnest and al
The same time so cheerful and gay wins
over at once che man who fed from
Ieryice. because he never had the right
dea about II.
rhance TO Win Promotion
Major General Jesse Mel. Carter,
commander OF the Lafayette Division
has announced the names Of 81 men
pf units OF his command and OF the
Depot Brigade and other camp detach-
nents who have been selected because
pf special qualifications to take the
,ourse OF training for commissions as
lecond lieutenants. The men have been
Ient TO the machine gun central otil-
,ers' training school at Camp Hancock
Augusta, Ga. The list follows:
From the nth lnfantry-Prlvates
John T. Dietrich, Warren P. Morton
md George H. Mummert. From the
I'D Infantry-Sergeant Harry E. Blazer
CORPORAL John T. Denial, Battalion
sergeant Major Leslie A. Griflth, ser
reant John y. Malone, Private, mrs.
slass. Games L. Slider and Sergeant
William II. Welsh. From the 7ist In
antry-Private. FIRST class, Frank h
Williams and Private Millard A. Derr
from the 2iith Field Signal Battalion
Corporal John Elwood Kins. From
he fifth Trench Mortar Battery-Pr-
ate Henry C. Kraft. From the i54tn
Iepot Brigade-Sergeants Lester n
Jergey, William II. Binns, Harold Nj
Porter. Corporals Neal A. Gray, Floyc
n. Howe, Homer E. Roush. Henry Z
Woodward and Privates Fred d. Con
lor. Peter F. Cox. Frank B. Crocker
idney D. Dyer, Emerson c. Gray. anC
rank A. Warren. From the Utilitle:
Sergeant Robert A. Port
corporal John A. Mclaughlin and Prf
ate Ralph S. Merrill. From the Medica
lorps-Sergeant Frank w. Miller. From
he Machine Gun Division-Privat'
hmes z. Poehlman. From the Detach'
nent Ouartermaster Corps-Sergean
,harles w, Schafer.
Sergeant Majors Thomas J. Snyder
4 Allentown; Clarence J. Tabor, o.
: henandoah. and William A. Markert
( Philadelphia. have been commits
loned as second lieutenants in the Ad
liant Generals Department, They tool
course at the Personnel School al
hmp Meigs 20 NJ them for that worl
lefe,