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The Ingtitute has an opportunityof recommending to the next Engin-eer Officers' Training Camp gradu-ates of the Institute, .which willprobably be held at Camp Hum-phreys in Virginia near Washing-ton, the latter part of August orearly in September. The candidatesfor training must be under 29 yearsof age. Those who desire an oppor-tunity of being recommended to theEngineer Corps for appointmentshould address the Registrar, givingmemoranda concerning present mili-tary status, rank, name and loca-tion of organiation, work done sincegraduation, whether or not the can-didatte is married or single, numberof 'dependents and status in thedraft. Tho~se -who are interested inthis opportunity should send wordto the Registrar at an early date.

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Aleanwvhile the W a r Department, rare of the plans of Dr. Sedgwick,

nade enquiries of him concerning theossibilities of special courses for" lab-

rator~v teclmicians, and later issued a11l for one hundred women to take

le place of men in the laboratories ofhe Ui. S. A. base hospitals in this coun-IV. Uinder these circumstances andvithl a somewhat different layout forlie courses, it seemed a proper matteror tile Hlarvard-Technology School ofublic Health to undertake, and yester-avthe registration was completed, the

emconiers received a word of welcomeron Dr. 'Sedgwvick and began at oncewhat wrill be thre---akbone - of theurses, those by Dr. F. H. Slack in liub-

ie health laborator~y works.his school, which will complete its

ourses, ill September, will furnish areasonable share of the specialistsnalled for by the War Department, and

very one of the students is certain ofplace. when the work is completed.The wtork will be pointed directly to-

ard the training of laboratory tech-icians, and the courses will includeacteriology, chemistry, industrial hy-iene. vital statistics, sanitary sciencend public health, laboratory methods,

nd the various laboratory tests for in-etosdsases together with militaryhgeendpreventative medicine. Mostf h okwill be done in the labora,-ore tTchnology, the purely medi-aitm being, taken care of at the

arvard Medical. School. Bacteriologyill be taughlt by C. C. Stock-man, 2d, aadwite "of the Institute, and an in-

kuictor in the regular courses; chemis-'",fMll be in charge of Professor Ed- X

ard Mlueller,' whose specialty at the estittite is biochemistry; Dr. Slack, }

nz '-itll the Boston Board of Healh Sill teach the laboratory methods, whileEhe infectiouls disease tests will be under e

ecrofDr. William A. H~inton of -9arvar Theregistrar and general aanaer f te work is NV. E. Brown,lstrlef~rinthe Harvard-Technolo-Y e

holullrthe general supervision ofr.d Slik. Dr. M. J. Rosenau, who Jdir"ector of the school, and Professor C

eorte (C. W~hipple will aid if occasion Deeds.

Tisintensiv e school has called forcuetS, of the highlest class and a ma- In*of those registered Ibear college t]

"S.ve Radcliffe is represented by fivwe kth women, W~ellesley by four and EB

tnlllrl Smith, Mount Holyoke, Ober- pil nlOregon Aggie by one each, while]s

1 lnn ome from Harvard, Bates, U]itblt~ Tufts, Trinity, and Johns°lAl111 . co

In lair- opening remarks at the first cUtslo of thlis school, Dr. Sedgwick out- fle

-")')'0n of the movements for war serkfor wvomen. He la~d just returned n(

l M 0altar where there are sometlling ac fve' hundred women enrolled f'in o0

e c)1()01 for lvar service suggested by in-E'. A. Winslow, one of the dis-

1 pl'sicq)I alumni of the Institute. Ee kt llhn';lf been very active, for in ad- hi

l z."n to his teaching at Yale, where hi:]s pofessor of Public Health and his HiVcs on the Connecticut H~ealth SIxl! of which he is al member, lie W]

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Capt. G. Chittendei, Sig. R.' . A. S.Commandant; Lt. H. G. Knight, S. C.Asst. Commandant; Lt. L. L. McGrad3'17, Sig. -R. . A. S., Adjutant; Lt. J. BWhite, Sig. R. C A S, Supply Officer;Lt. C. M Smith, S C, Asst. Supply OBfi-cer; Major C. S. Butler M. R. C. ,Medi-cal Officer; Lt. F. W. Bartol, M. R. C.,Asst. Medical Officer; Lt. F. J. MBar-shall, D. R. C., Dental Surgeon; Lt. AHendrichs, S. C., Insurance Officer; Lt.L. Folsom, Sig. R. C. A S, Asst. Adju-tant; Lt. P. L. Brass Sig. R. S. A. S,Instructor in Military Studies; Lt G. S.R. Denton, Sig. R. C A S, Inst. in Mili-tary Studies; Lt. C. H. Ricklighter,Sig. R. C. A. S., Inst in Military Stud-ies; Lt L. H. Bailey, Sig. R. C. A B.,Inst in Mlilitary Studies.

Department of Academic Administra-tion: Prof. Charles B. Breed, Presidentof Academic Board; J. C. MacKinnon,Asst. to Pres. of Acad. Board; Paul C.Leonard '17, Recorder.

Heads of Deparaments and Assistants:Airplanes, F. V. duPont, Lt. S. S. Ma-son, Sig. R. C. A. S. (Asst.); Engines:D. A. Fales, J. G. MacCormack; MotorTransport: A. Matheson, E. P. Sheehani;Signalling: A F. Murray; Observation:A. F. Murray, H. L. Foster; Gunnery:Lt. G. W. Wyman, N. A., Air Service.There are about forty other instructorsand assistants.

LIMESTONE INDUSTRY

The quantity of limestone sold in theBowling Green district, Warren County,Kyv., in 1917 for use in building opera-tions was 201,582 cubic feet, valued at$107,279, or 53 cents a cubic foot, or21 per cent. in quantity and of $12,421,or 10 per cent. in value compared with1916, but an increase over both 1914an 1915. Only four companies reportedsales, a smaller number than in formeryears, and many of the sales in 1917wrere made under contract entered intolate in 1916, when building activity wasat its height. The output in 1917 in-cluded rough stone and rough sawedstone. No sales of finished stone werereported.

Other products of the Bowling, Greendistrict in 1917, consisting mainly offlux and crushed stone, amounted to22,537 short tons, valued at $20,240, oi,90 cents a ton. The outplt of crushedstone decreased considerably, whereasthat of flux increased, and the totalvalue of stone other than building in-elreased $3,747, or 23 per cent.

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The Navy Department authorizesthe following:

Secretary Daniels requests thatphotographs of men of the Navywho have lost their lives in serviceagainst the enemy be sent to Re-cruiting Division, Bureau of Navig-ation, Navy Department, to be pre-served in the Navy's records.

To perpetuate the memory of en-listed men of the Na-,-, lost duringthe war, photographs are now beingcarefully collected. As rapidly asthese pictures are received copiesare made and the originals re-turned to* the owners. A photographof each man is then forwarded tothe training station where he hadbegan his career in the service. Therea memorial gallery of honor or ahero's corner is formed so that forall time the faces of 'the men of theNavy who have made the supremesacrifice may be honored by theyouths of the future sent to thedsta-tion fo rtrainiing.

Relatives of men who have beenlost in the present war who havenot received requests for picturesart asked to mail them to the De-partment for this memorial. Allpictures should be securely wrappedafter they have been marked withthe name, branch of service andtraining station the young- man en-tered after enlistment. These shouiabe addressed to the Rlecruiting Divi-sion, Bureau of Navigation, NavyDepartment,, Washington, D. C.

When copied, the photograph will bereturned to the sender with one ofthe copies.

Michael H. Hoar Keepsin Fine Condition

Track

(Copyright Boston Photo News Co.)The latest addition to the "war build-

ings" at Techn-logy is a band stand.This structure was erected especially forthe band at the Naval Aviation Schoolrhich had been practicing in the al-ready too crowded Walker Memorial. Itwas designed by Professor Harry W.Gardner of the Agriculture Departmentat the Institute and certainly carries outthe original idea of having a buildingwhich would serve its purpose as a';war necessity," and at the same time

be an addition rather than a, blot uponthe appearance of the surrounding build-'ings. The stand is situated betweenthe northeast wing of the Technologyand T"Talker Memorial.

The band practices every morning andis enjoyed by both the passers-by andthe men who are taking courses here atTechnology this summer. It has beenFlmored that concerts are to be given

once a week during the summer months,but this statement has not been con-firmed as yet.

Do not expect our men to die for youif you are not worth living for. Showour Army and Navy that you areworthy of protection. Save to the ut-most of your ability and buy W. S. S.with your savings.

If you will think more of saving thanof spending you will be surprised tolearn that there are many things whichyou do not need after all.

Buiy W ,ar Savings Stamps to the ut-most of your financial capacity, andthen increase your capacity by savingmore.

(Copyright Boston Photo News Co.)MICHAEL IH. HOAR

Among the many celebreties at Tech-nology is Michael H. Hoar, well knownand liked by all men at the Institute,especially those on the track team. Mikehas been ground keeper at the Institutesince it moved from Boston to Cam-bridge, has taken a great deal of inter-est in our track teams and is wholly re-sponsible for the excellent condition ofour track, which has been pronouncedby many to be one of the best in thecountry.

"Alike" was born in Cambridge onJuly 4, 1863. His father was one of theCambridge volunteers of '61 and hisname appears today on the soldiers'monument in Harvard Square. Mike*ame to the Institute upon the recom-mendation of Mr. Frank Ranaly, ourtrack coach, and to the best of hisCnowledge will wind up his career here.Ele has been in the business of eitherromoting or contesting in athleticports for forty years, having started at;he age of fifteen.At the time when Mike started his

-areer as a runner there were practi.ally no amateurs, because the prizes of-ered in all races were purses and cOn-equently Mike has been a professionaliearly all his life. In his time he wasnoted track man and was considered

,ne of the best one to ten mile runnersa the country.Even at this stage of the game hr

eeps himself in training and can holdis own against any man who will giveim twenty-seven yards in the hundred.[is latest challenge is to Frank .hay, holder of the quarter mile record,rho is now at the Naval Aviation Schoolnd Mike is very anxious to have hishallenge accepted.

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AR VARD-TECHNOLOGYSCHOOL IN PUBLIC

HEAL TI ESTABLISHEDUnder Initiative of Prof. W. T. Sedgwick the War

Department Sends Women to InstituteFor Training in Bacteriology

GRADUATES TO SERVE IN BASE HOSPITALS

An important step towards utilizing women in army work hasleen taken by the establishment by the Harvard-Technology Schoolf Public Health of its intensive courses in bacteriology, chemistry

lnd the various divisions of health work and administration. This[chool, which numbers twenty women and nine men, is the directoutcome of a missionary eflort on the part of Dr. W. T. Sedg-

vwick;. Realizing a year ago that waomen pould be called upon toItake thle places 'of men in laboratories whose regular workers wouldbe detailed to duties elsewhere, Profssor SedDl-wick made the tourof Newv England colleges and explaind to womzen studen~ts his plansifor summer course at Techlnology.

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The Institute Crew will bring its of-flcial summer season to a close todaywhen it meets the West Lynn boat(lub in a race at Lynn Harbor thisafternoon at 3.00 o'clock. The crew hasbeen -working hard every afternoon andexpects to win the race. There have beenseveral changes from the regular lineupdue to accidents and calls to duty "Pete"Merrill, '21, blew up a hydrogen genera-tor the other day, cutting his eye, and-will therefore be unable to row. B.EL. Sherman, '19, has enlisted and wasrecently called to Virginia, so his placeat number two has to be 1111ed. Thecourse over -which the race will be heldis one and one-half miles in length.

The line-up for the race is as follows:MI. Burroughs, '20, 8; M1. Untersee, '19,7; A.Wason, '20, 6; R. Lee, '21, 5; M.A. M~ichaels, 119, 4; J. J. Falkeub-arg,v aq 111m Da~aMI jR2!q aex lauS Droll

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Announcement is made of the mar-riage of Miss Doris Catherine Shattuck,daughter of Franki Herbert Shattuck ofFlorida street, Springfield, to LieutenantHenry Lafayette Miller '17, of FortBanks, '"Tinthlrop, son of Mrs. JennieElizabeth :Miller of Manchester N. HoLThe ceremony was performed on Satur-

rday evening, at the home of the bride's.br~other and his wvife, 11r. and Mrs. Ray-

mond Shattusek of Florida street. Rev.James Gordon Gilkey, pastor of SouthC~ongregational C:hurch, officiated. Thebride had for her matron of hionor hersister-in-law, Mrs. Raymaond B. Shat-

LIEUTENA14T H. L. MILLER.

tuck, Gvllose husband attended Lieuten-ant Miller as best man.

A military note predominated in theUecorations whielh consisted of flaga in-termingled with palms and flowers.Lieutenant and Mirs. Miller were assist-ed in receiving their guests by thebridegroom's mother, the bride's father,and by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shattuck.Lieutenaft Miller and his bride came toBoston on their -wedding trip. TheyeNvill make their home for the present inWinthrop Highlands, as Lieutenant Mil-ler is stationed -with the United StatesCoast Artillery Corps. Lieutenant Mil-ler was graduated from Technology inthe class of 1917.

Harold G. 'Watkins '17 of Wakefield,reported slightly wounded, is a masterengineer with senior grade in tlle Four-teenth Railway Engrineers. HSe attendedTeehnology where be wvas track andcross-country captain in 19107'11 andleading two-miler of those years. In1911, he left college to work with theengineering staff of the Boston &TMaine Railroad, -where he remained un-til 'his enlistment in June, 1917. For atime he lived in Fitchburg, but re-moved to Wakefield before hee went toFrance. He is married and his wife andchild are livting in Fitchburg. His mo-thier and father, Ir. and Mrs. Sidney(G. W~atkins, livze at 43 Elm street,Wakefield.

LEAD AND ZINC PRODUCTION

The productive lead and zinc territoryin the Central States naturally falls in-to sev-en regions, three of which, includ-ing two of the most productive, are notlimited to any sinale Staie. Tablesshowing the quantity7 of "dirt" treated.the quantity of each kind of lead andzinc concentrates recovered, and the re-coverable content of such concentrates byStates are desirable, but tables showingthe production by natural regions, irre.spective of State lines, are also desir-able.

As stated by T. P. D~unlop, of theUnited States Geological Survey, De-partment of the Interior, the south-easternl Missouri region produced morethan 75 percent of the lead output otthe Central States in 1917. Th-e pro-duction from central Missouri was lessthan usual, and for convenience it is in-cluded with that of southeastern M~is-souri. The output of zinc in these tworegions remained comparatively insigni-ficant. The Joplin reunion produced 22per cent of the lead and 77 per centof the zinc of the Central States in 1917an d continued to be mulch the largestproducer of zinc in the United States.

The Uppfer Mississippi V alley regionyielded 1.7 per cent of the lead andabout 20. per cent of the zinc outputof the Central States in 1917.

Approximately 25 ,000,000 tons -of orewas mined and treated to obtain lead'and zinc concentrates vallled at 11,77.597,-763, an inerease of about 5;00,000 tonsin qllantity of ore treated and of .1$2.-900,000 in value of the concentrates re-coveredl. The avera-e vlulle obtained bvthe operators of lead and sine mines inthe Central States per ton of crude oremined and milled in 1917 was $3.06.an increase of 39 cents a ton over 1916.The inerease Eras comparatively smalland lvas more thain offset by the in-creased cost of mining. Aforeov cr. theincreased value wvas confined entirely tolead concentrates.

The total value of lead concentrates ofRll classes sold or treated by producersin the Central Statesg in 1917 was $38,-506, 878, against $26,070),323 in 1916.

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R. II. S'mithwick '21 ....................... Night Editor

SUMMER READING A DISSERTATION

BEFORE the war, when we had time to think and breathe com-fortably, we used to say a great deal about the appaling lack ofliberality in an engineering education. The product of the en-

gineering school, they would have us believe was only a gigantictrained computing machine. Since the war, care only that he shallbe a good machine and worry not at all about his liberality in anything but paying Liberty Bonds.

The English Department has been talking advantage of all this,and while our mind has been diverted elsewhere has been uising usto experiment on and has been infusing the liberal into our flat andta.§te1_ess~1ife svheth6er-or no-we ass~ent: Not -content with the regularEnglish courses and a history cours e to play with( they take a feweof our summer houlrs and tell us what to do with them. W~e are nowvPlinting at summer reading.

Summer reading fills, to our mind, a long felt want and a realplace in our private economy. There are a lot of good and classicalbooks that fire have heard refered to so many times that it becomeslike the hackneyed acknowledgmnt of introduction: "No, I've nevermet Gwendolyn but I've heard Herbert speak of her so mtlch that Ifleel quite as if we were old friends." The spell is frequently broken,and we find that we w ere not such old friends after all, but frequent-ly find that wie should have been, and -0od ones too. The effect onthe whole is really good though and the compulsion behind it sortof relieves us of responsibility just like the draft. The course opensulp a new point of v~iew, as the ogentleman said when he turned thecorner. Can you imagine some people reading poetry! Why, evenfituring, out howt to -et reading done in the least possible time isan education all by itself.

It is with regret that we announce the resignation of Donald D.Way 'i9 from the ofice of General Manager of THE TECH, dueto press of academic work. Mr. Way has served THE TECH faith-fully and efficiently for three years starting at the bottom wshen afreshman and working his wlay to the top by shear merit. Duringthe summer of I9I7,' when it was decided the paper should runthroughout the suemmer months, Mr. W~ay threw all his energy intoThe Wrar-Time TECH, and it was mainlv his skill and endeavorthat maintained in the face of a shrinking staff the necessary wtorkof publishing the accurate news of Technology's part in wninningthe war. Issue, after issue that summer weas written and made tipby Mir. Way. In the fall followin-, when the Institute was oncemore filled wvith men, the staff wvas again replenished, but a newsdifficulty arouse in the shape of enlistments from the staff. THEfiTECH'S service flag, would showe many stars. M~r. -"Vay neverthe-less has -one brave~ly on, getting out 'the paper with a staff w-hichclhanged tsmake-up wsith arnost kaleidoscopic rapidty.

In addition to the bard work whlich lie has done for THDETECH, Tir. AVav has engaged in several other activities. He ivrasa prominent member of the Institute Committee and is wvell knownzas the Chairman of the Technology Committee on Shipyard Employ--m ent. -I . ''.:. _$_. '

W~e hear that a large percentage of men from training stationsleave been dismissed from the Navy because of chronic seasickness.The local stations need never wXorrv about this. A trip in a flivverover the wvavy tar road in front of the buildings whould determineonce and for all a man's susceptibility to "mal de m-ere" and wvouldserve an admirable seasickness test for applicants.

We never felt worried over the possibility of air attacks untilwe heard that anti-aircraft guns wvere to be mounted in the PublicGardens. Somebody Is always taking the joy ouit of life.

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about our men, our ships, our munitions. It is still possible to get suchinfonnation through to Germanxr, where thousands of these fragments-often individually harmless-are patiently pieced together into awhole which spells death to American soldiers and danger to Amencahomes.

But while the enemy is most industrious in trying to collect infor-mation, and his systems elaborate, he is not superhuman-indeed, he isoften srenT stupid, and would fail to get what he wants there lt notdeliberately handed to him by the carelessness of loyal Americalls. is4 Do not discuss in pul)lic or with vice in the Expeditionary Force, and otherstrangers any news of troop and tales certaln to disturb Americctn patriotstransport rnovements. of bits of parents.gossip as to our military prepara- And do not wait until You catch sometions which come into your post lane putting a bomb under a factory, effort the man who spreads pessimisticsession. stories, divulges-or seelssollfidential

Do not permit your friends in military illformation, cries for peaces orservice to tell you-or write you bellttles our efforts to xvin the lvar.-"inside" facts about where they if tShenydatrlleeinatlmlse:Sf of sltc}lelrjSons evenare, lvllat they are doinb and of Justice, Washington. CXise all theseeing. details you can, with names of xvitnessesol of the beat him at sllio50vOltlle TIun tl]at. the canHun lay passing on the malicious, scattered information and putting it to

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a part, and there have been a number -- CREW RACof instnces in which it was Thought thatrating officers had allotted their personal (Continued fromfeelings or prejudices to effect material-My tile rating given their subordinates. the Institute, and beeSome of these cases are being reviewedvill be the regular classand an effort avid doubtless be made to been decided to eount tl:readJust the ratings on a basis that frill final Field Day scorebe fair. In some of the stair corps whereueeess of a crew race isso many additional officers have recently dent upon the weather cobeen commissioned the lack of oppor- formerlv thought impracttunity for personal observation upon race count in the Fieldvhich the points of ratings are neces-from nolv on it ssi]l cousarilJ based has been a difficulty, the Z > nd he members of therating is being carried out as rapidly v.i]l get their numerals-as is consistent with justice. 2

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STATICS OF ALIEN SOLDIERS

Speaking to the House of Representa-ti^-es on June 3 Representative Meeker,of Missouri, presented data to sllolv thatin the not far distant future it may be-come necessary to hold a council of na-tions to n ork out a sJ stem of earinofor alien soldieWs who may pass fromone country to another. AIr. l!leeker\zrllo has given a year to an investiga-tion of the subject, said: "About a yearado, after lve had entered the xvar, evea seovered that some 40,000 or 50,000American citizens had entered thearlnies of England and France, andCanada especially. \07e learned at thattimetllat the men who had taken theoath of allegiance to the British Crownhad decitizened themselves. Steps xveretaken to repatriate those citizens. Thatlegislation has already been enacted.However, at the time that bill n as underdiscussion in the (Comrnittee on Immi-gration and Naturalization the questioncame up as to the status of alien sol-dier3 in the different nations throughoutthe world, and, upon lny suggestion, Itook up the question with the reprcsell-tatives of the several countries t}OUtIl-out the w orld. I first requested thatthey provide me with the oath whichone who desires to enter the militaryor naval service lllUSt take. I also re-qllested that they supply me with in-formation on the following subjectsFirst, as to how the taking of this oathafleets the citizenship in the nationwhose army the alien enters. Second,does thetal;illg of the oath make hillsa citizen in Bhole or in part in thatcountry? Third, how does it affect ilimas regards bbe right of franchise, devo-lution of property, marriage and divorceand receiving a pension from the govern-ment? Fourth, should an alien, who hastaken the oath of allegiance and servedin the military or naval forces and forthat service has been granted a pension,become a citizen of another nation,would he thereby forfeit his pension?

Sir. Meeker found that a search inthe Congressional Library failed to dis-cover any book showing how aliens enterthe armies of the several nations. Afterthis he took up his correspondence,xvith the resultant discovery that notfifty per cent. of the representatives ofthe different governments of the worldknow anything about the laws bearingon the question. Proms data which he! as collected, he submitted to the Houseas much information as he has beenalzle to obtain. These data, thou« in-complete, are amply sufficient to showthat practically no two nations have thesame system of taking aliens into ser-vice, or the same rules providing forthe men after their service. The ques-tion of pensions, their grant, extensionand forfeit. is also a vern important part*,f this subjeet. No two nations havethe same rules on that question; somehave none; others still are very looseanal uncertain in their bands and regu-lations. In all tsarenty-nine nations arerepresented in AIr. WIeeker's data. Ineoneluding his address he said: "Thisoorrespondenee has convinced me thatthe IJnited States has gone a centuryahead of any other nation in providinaanal earing for the aliens echo enter hernilitarv service. There is much worldvet to be done lool;int toward the finaladjustment of the relations that shouldbe maintained bets een our Governmentand the aliens who have served underthe colors of our eo-belligerents svllo arer eturnina to this country in the hopeof onee more being with their families."

RATING OFFICERSThe neav plan of rating officers is beine

thorouohlv discussed throughout theArmy and there is decided difference ofopinion as to its entire success. Atreat many officers do not consider theplan as at all necessary in making rat-inCrs for the officers of the RegularArmy. It is their contention that.therid system has been tried out and hassvorked successfully, and that it is rarethat during the vears of service an of-ieer does not ultimately find his properlace. If one oXeer in an efliciency re-ort did another an injustice, in vielv)f the mlmber of times the report is re-,�ielved, tllere lvas little cllanee th.^t tllenjtlstice rvould beeome r)ermanent. Onhe other hand, there is little questionf the lallle of tlue system and its use-ullless in arriviny at an estimate of thellousands of otTivrers ^ llo eomln ise tllenmmissione(l personllel of the Nationaltrlll+-. 1'lle oflieels ner to the Serricen the Xational Arnls and the lxeser+-eorl)s, thlollvll tlle mcdinm of the comlete eard system are enable to ac-uaillt t lueir sueriors ^-ith their es ervualification. There is little lilcelilloodf stuelie(l iniltstice in mnlzing tlle rat-nas un(1cr the fise regllired points, ando far tllere 11as lteen no intimation thathe ratinCs llavc leen wlfair, tllouqhnintentional injustiee maDr occasionallyarc been done and the persongl elementannot be ianored.lVIzat has leen snid of the CElegularnd tlle National Army regarding theatin.- sstem does not altogether aply to the Nntional Guard. Officers wlloavc e5;nmined the rntings sent in fromtmc of the Nntional Guard units do nofesitate to say that politics lve played

,l:as been on a mission to Russia, and1lolv on his return lzas started this greatsummer school for women. The Countwomen are under instruction in nurs-illg and other X Cations of mercy andin splendid numbers. Dr. Sed,,nviel; wasa speaker before this school and laterin the season Professor XVinsloxv xvill bez lecturer in the Harvard-Technologyschool here.

Among the other colleges for lvomenwhich have started to do lvar work isAlount Holyoke, while various of the ceeducational institutions have taken upone kind of work or another, and stillother schools like the Lonvthorp Schoolof Landscape Architecture at Groton,rlsich is instructing women along gardening and farming lines, are pursuingcourses closely in touch with lvar needs

Technology finds itself conducting aschool composed largely of women withthe ease and lack ot selfbpraise that hascharacterized its other bits of educa-tlonal stork since the war began. Thecourses in lv}lich the Institute has beenintelested have from the beginning beenopen to lromen as well as men and llasexpected of them the sable work that Ithas demanded of the men. :Ellen H.Richards in her quiet country homelearned of the Institute, and coming toBOStOll entered its Ails in the RogerslSuildino and opened the way for women.She made the path easier for the wo-nien who came after her. She and helsuccessors in the student ranks havenade the presence of women no Ilovelty,

and tile coming of so large X group atone time demands no changes at Tech-nolog.

lJut although the event is a matter ofcourse at the Institute, its meaning tothe outer world is of great importance.Under stress of war conditions, espeei-ally in the Allied countries of Europe,svomen have taken up work normallyunsuited to their strength, or Heir nat-ural inclinations. In foundries, anL-idthe whirring machine tools of the mu-nitions factories and in heavy laborthey are to be found in thousands. Atthe close of the war they will return totheir former stations in large degleefor manual labor of the kind is unsuit-ed to the "gentler sex." But the workundertaken by the school of Harvardan(l Technology is very different in itscharacter. chemistry has been appeal-inc more and more to women and lab-oratory assistants have been malting,ood the world over. In public health*l ork there is a field equally suitableand es-en more promising This is dueto an ezstent to the chan¢,in,, positionoL the pubIic health worker. Alore and

ore the sanitary engineer has dividedss its the phvsiciln the duty of caringtor tlle health of the people and in theanalysis of modern health a(lministra-tiGIl; quite as much appeals to the enUi-neer as to the medically trained man.lout botil of them lllElSt depend union thebacteriological laboratory for theireiiagnostic Ivory and every year there is

ore and more demand for intelligent.1llel practisell baeteriologists. Tile xvorIzis light, luueM of it delicate and refinedand it is emilselltl) suited to As omen ]Ille voting people just enrolled have for ;their present torll at the end of a sea- ..9911 with the co-operative sellool, an a-I)( riellee in the base hospitals of thearms in this country, and xvithollt 1cloubt, altlloufl no lvord of it has retbeen xvllispere(l, in the hospitals abroad.Itut this is by no means the finality ofthe moment. For the needs of the lvarhealth offices are being drained of theirassistants and through the lvar at- ttention is being focussed ellormousl)on health needs. The lvar is itself an cefficient though unfortunate means of cedueatiny One people in this essential. 1

A\rhen the lvar is or er there M ill be itaco nelv conditions; there Ovid be a de- Xmand by the people for Ilealth a(lminis- atration on n scale never before dreamed 51o f on the one hand, and on the other, teom)arative searcitnT of health officers. hifor manor of those surviving rvill drift I'

Inan(l such mcn and \volnen, an(l particla- iota other branches of service or other I'larl+ the xvomen since tllel nre a nerv employ ment. To fill partiallv the (be-senrce of suppl<, avill l)e (ieman(le(l for nll^alth oI}icers and for laborntorv X ork. o'rl( Harvard-TeellIlo]oCr Sel;onl <)f fl'lllslic Ilealth is cne of� half a elozen t{ollefres in i}le country carrxinfr forlvar(l c)<lrallel eollrses in bacteriolo<fS anel AX nlulic healtll at the instance of tlle \A'al .IwWpart]nent actin(r on tlle initiative eyf C['rofessor Sed>nviel;. an(l the xvorlo isIJir avith rcsults favorable to tlle flltllre Irf intellitent pllbliC IlCalt}l Ul(llllilliStl'- n

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The statements presented to the chair-man of the House C~ommittee on NavarAffairs' bv Admiral Benson and RearAdmiral Palmer, present a most strikingpicture of the difficulties under whichthe officer personnel of the Navy isstruggrling, at the present time. Thepotencyr of these Navy officers' facts asarguments in favor of the desired in-crease, backed up by the non-profes-sional appeal of Secretary Daniels, wasshown on Jllne 1S by the action of theHouse -otin,, to tyrant the increase oftile pernian-Lent enlisted strength olo theiYavv to 131,4853 men. In his statementASdniiial Benson expressed the hope thatno amendments would be added to thebill that "further limit the number ofofficers in the highler grades by still fuir-ther restrictions." Bv this he doubtlesseras referring- to the previous action ofthe Houlse, which leas nullified in theSenate by striking ollt the proviso, inattempting to limit the number of high-er grade officers to be temporarily ap-pointed by the President to "four cap-tains and seven commanders."

The increase in the permanent enlist-ed strength to be added to the Navywrill be 44,485 men. This wvill require,n additional officer personnel of 1,779n the four per cent. basis establishi-

oy the personnel section of the Act. ofAug. -29, 1916. Worked out by the per-centages established by that act, thisvould call for only eighteen flagq officers,vet Admiral Palmer states that weshoulld have niot fewer than twenty.sev en additional rear admirals immedi.ately "nilerely to man our fleet properlyand to makce our war organization effi-cienlt." He also states that by July 1,1919. eve should have six additional rearadmirals, makincg tllirty-tllree additionalin all. This would be almost double thenumber of flag officers provided by theAct of Akigust, 1916. In the proportionsestabl1ished by that law to make ourofficer personnel maintain a proper bal-anece with the increased enlisted strengthnolan gra"nted Mwe must havte the followvingnumnber* of newr permanent officers: Cap-tains. seventy-one; commanders, 126;lieutenanlt commanders, 249; lieutenants,578S lieutenants (jg)and ensigns, 729,

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porary increases that Congress may manding officer has not been selected aigrant. As Admiral Benson so wisely and Yet.prudently says, the affairs of the world Col. Laurin L. Lawson, U. S. A. haswvill be in a troubled state for some time been made commander of the School otto omne if peace should be declared to- Fire for Artillery officers at Fort S-morrow. And to meet these conditions About 1,200 Artillery officers are givenadequately we must have a properly an advanced course there, the coursemanned and officered fleet in being. To continuing for ten weeks, and a newput the fleet in its most effective state class of 120 officers starting each week.there should be no hesitation in grant- Besides the officers, a brigade of Artil-ing to the Navy its additional flag of- lery is located at the post. The equip-ficers, for as Admiral :Palmer shows ment at the school includes a number olthrough many illustrations -that part of 155-mm. howitzers and French 75-nmmour Military Establishmeht, -as ynievous- guns. Fort gill is the only place in thisly hampered by its lack in'.is Respect. cutywhere the French 75 rnrn gunsHis presentation of the fad that our have been used in training so far. Ad-cruiser force is not ready to operate as ditional guns, sufficient for four batta-a scout force (owing to the fact that lions however were sent to this coun-the rear admiral commanding the cruiser try byr the French government a monthforce is also commander of the trans- ago. Some of these will be Sin that partport force, "to which most of his at- of the military reservation known astention is given") is a complete justiflea- Camp Doniphan where a National Guardtion of the repeated warnings voiced in. division was trained. One brigade ofthe past by our farsighted Navy officers Artillery already is in camp and an-that if wve ever went to wvar we should te is moving in. Lieut. Col. Ed1-find our fleet sadly crippled by just such mund L. Gruber N. A., is in commnand ofconditions as are before us in actuality. the training center. CBomplete ArtilleryAnd unfortunate as is the shortage of brgde ill be pelt through an inten-officers required for the most effective sive period of training for eight to tenoperation of the fleet, conditions ashore sveeks. Tlvo brigades will be handledR le in an almost impossible state. For at a time receiving final preparation forexample, one flag offider, as in the case service in France. Each Artillery bri-of Rear Admiral Coontz, is supposed to gade !includes about 4700 men.be on both sides of Puget Sound at once The Artillery brigade training centerin performing the- double duties assigned at Camp Jackson also has facilities forhim; and C~aptain Moffett has to admin- two brigades. One brigade is thereister the affairs of the l; rgest naval nowe and another w vill arrive shortly.training station in the world and the Lieut. Col. Thomas D. Osborne, N. A., isbusiness of a naval district at the same in command. The Field Artillery re-time, his two stations bein- forty miles placement depot at Camp Jackson is inapart. command of Lieut. Col. Robert M. Dan-

The grantincr of the permanent in- ford, N '. A. Artillery recruits, includingcrease of the, enlisted personnel by Con- drafted men from all parts of the coun-,gress nowa puts us in the position of be- try. are being sent there. The replace-in- able to man our fialitinao fleet with ment depot acommodates about 24,000

other than temporary forces, which was men. Surplus and unassigned Artillerythe chief weakness of the former posi- officers are stationed there also, abouttion. Accordingy to Admiral Palmer's 2,000 being there at present. The sui-tables, ive a-re to have four iisw battle- mer training camp for Artillery units ofships in commission within the coming the Reserve Officers' Training C 7orps offiscal yeats requiring 4,400) additional Yale University and Virginia Militarymen for these ships alone, while the Institute w vill be conducted from Aug. Ifleets of destroyers and of the Eagle toSept. 1 at this camp under Colonelclass w vill require 25,992 mnen beyond Danford. The fourth Artillery catmp,those already on destroyers and torpedo- the site of which has 'not yet been deter-boats. In fact, the Eagrle class fleet in mined, w till consist only of a brigadoitself "wnill require probably two rear training center.admirals for its organization if it is to The plan for the reorganization ofbe operated properly." This final state- Artillery activity with all units conlcen-ment is proof of howo utterly inadequate trated in four camps, instead of bei-n-is the number of our flag officers, to say scattered throughout divisional camps,nothing of the shortage in all the grades has been wvorked out by Brig. Gen. Wfilbelow v them. liam J. Snow, Chief of Field Artillery.

The advantagres of concentration includeHelp your Government and l yourself economy1 in the use of trained offi ers,

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In order to furnish to chemists in-formation regarding, such domestic

tbrands, it was decided by the UnitedlStates Bureau of Standards to com-

i pare them with those of foreign make.These results of the bureau's tests indi-cate that all of the American-made

.wfares tested are superior to Kavalierand equal or superior to Jena ware for

.general chemical laboratory use. Re-suits of these tests are given inl Tech-

A nologic Paper No. 107, "ComparativeI Tests of Chemical Glassware," which

may be obtained from the Superintend-ent of Doculments, Government Prinlting

,Office. (Commerce Reports.)

A. E. F. PARCEL REQUrEST RUBLE

Every elffort is being made by the WarD~epartment to reduce the quantity of

.unnecessary parcels sent to Americansoldiers in France by relatives and

,friends. The Adjutant General's Office.gives notice that it will no longer passupon reguests for shipment of parcelswhich have not been approved in therequired manner by the military au-tholities in France. Hlereafter no ex-ceptions will be made to the rule thatparcels when presented to post offces,express companies or freight stations forshipment must be accompanied by a'written request from the soldier ap.proved by a major or higher command-,ing officer. Persons connected %with theY. M. O. A., the, Red Cross or other or-ganizations in France must make a re-quest for articles in a similar manner,the 9-pproval of an executive officer ofthe organization being necessary in such

I case. About 1,000 letters in which re-quests are made for permission to send

lParcels to France have been rieceiveddaily recently by The Adjutant General'sOffice. Up to this time it has been pos.

.sible for relatives and friends to submit!to TbheAdiutant General's Office for ap-

I proval requests from France made priorIto M~ay 1, which did not bear the signa.

, ture of a, major or higher commandingI officer.. Sufficient time now has elapsed

to withdraw this privilege. 1n the fu-ture letters will be returned to the send-

i er without action. Parcels with the prop-; er approval by he authorities in France

will be received at post offices, expresscompanies or freight stations withoutany reference to The Adjutant General'sOffice. The original order provided thy,a; regimental or higher commander shouldapprove a request. This has been modi-

. fied so that a major or higher commanderI may do so. The approval of a company

commander is not sufficierlt.

SUJLPHUIR DEPOSITS IN ALASKRA

The known sulphur deposits of Al-aska are of volcanic origin and lie inthe belt of active volcanoes that extendsthrough the Aleutian Islands and Al-aslka Peninsula. Deposits on Unalaskaand Akun islands and near StepovakBay, on the Alaska, Peninsula, were. ex-amnined in the summer of 1917 by A. G.Maddren, of the United States Geologiccal Survey, Department of the Interior.

The examination showed that al.though there is some sulpllur at eachplace examined there is little proba-'bility that any of the deposits can beprofitably mnined at present or in theimmediate future, for they are notof large area, most of them are proba.bly shallows and contain only dissemni-nated sulphllr, supplies and labor are'lot obtainable near the deposits, tileopenl season is short, the work oftransporting the sulphur from the minesto the ships 'would be difficult, and thehaul to the larger marketq would belon-r. Howvever, these deposits from partof America's -sulphur reserves, and sinii-lar deposits undoubtedly occur at manyother places in the volcanic belt ofSoulthwvestern Alaska,. When materialand labor are more easily and cheaplyobtainable, when transportation is cheap.er, and awhen fihe demand for sulphur on

th~e Pacific coast is larger, the 'sulphurdeposits in Alaska can doubtless bemined profitablyl The area -within whicli,workable deposits of sulphur may befouned in Alaska is large and most oft iis Irnexplored, so the place at whicliC}sulphlur can be first and mnost profitablyniinled is not certainly known.

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greater part of the chemical laboratoryex~ploitation. Unalaska and Algin Is-gtlasswvare used in this country was im- lands are near the east end of the Aleu-ported from Germany and Austria. The tian Islands, in latitude 54 degrees N.,cutting off of imports from these coun- longitude 166 degrees W., about 1,750tries caused a very serious shortage of miles from Puget Sound. Stepovak Bayglassware in this country, wchich is Wt cat, * n d anof Alaska Penin-yet entirely overcome. IrOwsever, *wht eialf, in latitude 55 degrees 50 feet N.,

thepas tlO ear a umbr f Ameri- longitude 159 degrees 40 feet WV., aboutcan manufacturers have increased their 1,600 miles from. -Puget Sound.production of such flare, or are manu- The sulphur deposit at Mfakushin V~ol-facturing, grades of chemical glassware cano is about 12 miles wvest of Dutchthat they- did not produce before. It is Harbor, or 5 or 6 miles north of Maku-probable that praebically our wbole I hnBay. It is about 5,500 feet aboveavailable supply at this time is of do- I sea level, in the only part of the cratermestic manufacture, much of wh~ich is f that aMCears to be Dermane~ntlv bare of*I 1,11 11U UUIU VI

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All Field Artillery activity in thiscoumtry henceforth will be concentratedat four camps. Three -of them hEvebeen designated and the fourth will beselected within a few days. The threeare Fort Sill, Okla. (embracing both theold Regular Army military reseivationand the former National Guard campk~nowvn as Camp Doniphan); Camp Jackc-son, Columbia, S. C.; and Camp Zach-ary- Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Fort SHiland Caulp Jackson are in operation asArtillery camps and activity wvill startat Camsp Taylor -within a wveek. At nllfour camps Artillery brigade trainingcenters wvill b~e located. There wvill bcArtillery replacement depots also atCanlp, Jackson and Camp Taylor. Onlyone Artillery officers' training schoolvill be conducted in the future. Tli will be at Camp Taylor. Thle school offire for Field Artillery officers, where apost-graduate course is given, is located

lat Fort Sill.lLieut. Col. A. H. Carter, who will com.-

.imand the Camp Taylor Officers' Train-inog School, reached Louisville on June 14.The school wvill be opened about June 20

,with an attendance of between 2,000 and!3,000 men who mow are in the midst of

l instruction in the fourth series of train,ing schools conducted at the variousdivisional camps. They will completetheir course at Camp Taylor. Followingtheir graduation, new men will be re-ceived, starting probably in August.Thlereafter, a new class will be startedevery two weeks for a twelve weeks'course of training. Fventually 200 of-ficers wvill be graduated every two weeksThe maximum capacity of the officers'training school at Camp Taylor will be5,000. Regulations regardling, the ad-mission of men in the Service and alsocivilians with special qualifications tothe school in the future will be anlnounced soon. Lieut. C~ol. Charles S.N. A., wvill command the Field Artillerybrigade training center which will beestablished in connection with CampTaylor. This will be located about fif.teen miles distant, at West Point, Ky.,where there now is an Artillery range.The training center will be established'with-in a week. A Field Artillery re-placement depot also will be establishedat Camp Taylor soon with accommoda-

snow and ice. This bare area, covers 20to 30 acres. Thle surface here consistsof loose, porous, disintegrated, and de-cayed lava. In the floor of the craterthere are many cracks, pits, and otheropenings from which hot volcanic va-pors issue constantly. In -several augerholes drilled in the cooler parts of theearth hot oulphurous vapor was tappedat depths" of 4 to 8 feet. The ground isso hot that deposists of sulphur are notat all likely to be formed except nearthe surface.

The deposits includes a richer sur-face zone, I to 2 feet thick, which formsa crst, because of the sulphur deposi-fin it, and a subsoil zone which consistsin greater part of moist, hot, porous de-composed material, in which, a smallquantity of sulphur is disseminated asgrains and 'blebs to a depth at someplaces of at least 16 feet.

CRITICISM OF HIONOR MEDALS

The National Sculpture S~oiety, whoseheadquarters are in New York city, hassent to Secretary Baker a letter protest-ing against the present designs of theDistinquished Service Cross and the Dis-tinguished Service Medal recently author-ized by the Wax Department. Paul W\.Bartlett, Sculptor, president of the so-ciety, signed the letter, which expresses"the sincere regret of the society con-cerning the commercial designs which are,being used for the M edals of IEonor andthe War Merit Crosses that are to begiven to our soldiers abroad for heroicdeeds in battle-" The society then ex-presses surprise and disappointment tea,its members were not asked to make de-signs, and points out that in view ofwhat the medals mean, "how they wvilalso be awarded to heroes in the Alliedarmies and be worn side by side withithe medals of other nationalities, someof which are pure masterpieces of art,it- becomes . apparent that the greatestcare should be used in the designs andevery effort made to secure for this pur-pose the best altailable talent in thecountry." The hope is expressed thatthe first medals should only be used asa matter of temporary expediency andthat Mir. Baker will give the Americanartists the opportunity to design a medalworthy of the cause, the country ahdthe heroes who will wear them. It wasstated by members of the society thatlittle hope bras held of having their pro.test heeded "as the medals were being,made by 9. Philadelphia firm of silver,smiths."

This is a striking example of so muchof the criticism "after the event" thattwe hear of the War Department fromcivilians. The history of these two nelvwar honors is very clear and should be,particularly well known in New York;city, where practically every member ofthe Sculpture Society lives who atte-tthe meeting at which the above actionwas taken. Agitation for additionalwar medals weas conducted last winterwith a great deal of vigorous publicspirit and patriotism by Dr. W. T. Horn-aday, director of the Bronx ZoologicalGarden. He wrote letters to the papers,

several of which appeared in the co~amnsof the Army and Navy Journal, andwith force, variety, and frequency of exsurged the creation of such war medalspression. The members of the NationalSculpture Society appear to have takenno notice of that commendable agitationnor of the passage of the bill creating,the new war honors. And naturallyenough in the press of its mnany dllties-the War Department had not time tothink of a society with wvhich it couldnot be very familiar.

On the other hand, there were threeNew York City artists who in winningcommissions and enlisting in the Cam-onlflage Setion of the National Armsdid not wsholly forget their antecedentprofessio S. They Nvere Capts. AndreSmith and Aymer E. Embury, 3d, and'

Pvt. Gaetano "Ceeere, all of C~o. B. 40lilEnI(Irs-, then stationed at Camp AmericanUniversity. Captain Smith, etcher inprivaste life, Captain Embury, archliteelby profession, and Private Cecere, scul-

tor, comindind wrin wrig out a modelfor the Distinguished Service Cross andoffered their design to the Warr Depart-ment. The crux of the matter is thatthese three artists had become imbuedwith the Army spirit of "'doing some-thing" instead of such belated 'discussionas that of the members of the NationalSculpture Society.

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