Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-10-12

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World war, for the national defense
have participated IN field training.
Everywhere throughout the United
States the outstanding features Of the
training camps have been enthusiasm
with which all concerned have thrown
themselves i.st5 the work, and as a
necessary sequence. the generally high
level of accomplishment, Regulars,
national guardsmen, reserves, reserve
officers training corps, and civilians
of the military training camps have
worked side by side with 3 growing
appreciation of the necessity for each
element In the national defense, and
of TIE role each Is to play. Conse-
quently the work of this summer is
believed to constitute a long step to-
wards uniting the several elements
into one homogeneous citizen army.
The organized reserves made their
first appearance this summer in the
training camps of the new army. Suf-
ficient funds were available for calling
less than 1900 into camps. The great
er part of those attending had been
commissioned officers during the World
war. Programs for their training &c
cordingly we're calculated to refrseh
their memory as to war time methods,
and to acquaint them with the changes
| in organization and tactics since the
close of the war. :. strong element In
the undoubted success of these camps
kh s,f f,rIIx
lied and prepared teams sent out by
| the army service schools at Leayen-
worth to conduct the more important
parts of of the instruction. The re-
serve officers generally left camp With
the strong feeling that their period
therein had been distinctly profitable,
and that the reserve organizations to
which they belonged could no longer
be justly called paper army. but that
in reality they represented most pow
erful element in the real military
strength of the nation.
Nearly three times as many citizens
participated in military camps this
summer as In those of 1921. Instruc-
tion in all was so organized as to get
the greatest possible results with the
least expenditure of time and energy,
to the end that the government would
attain substantial results towards the
betterment Of its young man power
without oyerworking the individual.
! Life in the camps was made as pleas.
ant as possible by the selection of
camp sites in agreeable surroundings,
by providing such entertainment fea-
lures both in, and in the neighborhood
of the camps as local conditions per-
mitted, and by leaving ample time
from purely military work for recrea-
tion and amusement. Instruction was
carried on by experts, many Of whom
were recent graduates of our special
service schools. In addition to in
structors from the regular army, each
corps area used about 100 reserve Of
ficers.
Peace Use for Smokeless Powder.
Tests made by the United States
bureau of mines show that large
supplies of smokeless powder left
in the possession of the federal
government at the close OF the World
war can, in the form of comminuted
smokeless powder, be used effect
lively for certain industrial blast
ing purposes. Field tests made by
the bureau at the explosives expert
ment station at Bruceton, Pa, nave
demonstrated the practical value of
this powder for stump blasting, boul
der breaking and ditch digging pur-
poses. AS the result of experiments
previously made by the bureau look
ing toward the industrial utilization
Of other types of military explosives
more than 100000 pounds of sur
plus trinitrotoluene, 100000 of pic
re acid and about 100000 pounds of
grenade powder have been allotted by
the War Department to other depart
ments Of the government. These allot-
ments have been used In industrial
blasting, on a great variety of gov
eminent projects. with entire salts
faction.
The adaptation of smokeless pow
der to use as an Industrial blasting
agent is due to the discovery by Mai
John Herbert Hunter. ordnance de-
partment, U. S. A., that when smoke
less powder is ground to fineness the
ground material can be detonated by
No. 6 detonator, and therefore may,
in this condition, be used as blast.
ing agent. Major Hunter has dedi-
Gated to public use In the United
States the patent granted to him for
this discovery. Therefore all are free
to use the process without payment OF
royalty. In his specifications Major
Hunter points out that the rate of
detonation Of this comminuted smoke
less powder varies with its fineness
as measured by sieves of s TO so
mesh it is possible, then. by regulat-
ing the grinding and sitting, to pre-
pare explosives having differently de-
termined rates of defamation. thus
/ suitable for various kinds of blasting
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