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(May 29.
UR DEPARTMENT BUREAU IS CREATED
' TO PASS UPON PLANS OF INVENTORS
• Trawings and Models of Me-
K chanical, Electrical and
K Chemical Devices and Im-
provements to Undergo Ex
amination by Technical Ex
perts. Personnel of the Ad-
visory Board
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► The following statement is author
ized by_ the war department:
f In order to secure prompt and thor
tough investigation of inventions sub
[mitted to the war department an “int
erventions section” has been created as
fan agency within the general staff.
All inventions of a mechanical, elec
trical, or chemical nature .submitted
t;to the war department for inspection,
i test, or sale are now considered by this
' section.
May Be Sent by Mail.
Inventions may be sent by mail or
may be submitted in person, accompa
r nied by written descriptions or draw-
* ings. They go first to an examining
board having technical knowledge of
the classes of inventions they handle,
. whose investigations determine wheth
er the inventions have merit. Those
with merit are referred to the ad
> visory board, which determines in each
case whether it should be put in the
t hands of some of the numerous testing
and developing agencies, or if it should
go to one of the staff or supply de
partments for test and consideration
of its adoption, and final acquirement
r of title if such action is desirable.
) Personnel of Advisory Board.
Composing the advisory board at
present are the following: D. W. Brun
-3 tbn, member Naval Consulting Board
•r and chairman War Committee of Tech
>r nical Societies: Dr. Graham Edgar,
t member National Research Council;
Col. James W. Furlow, Quartermaster
Department, Chief of Motors Division;
t .’•Col. J. A. Hornsby, M. C., Chief of
hisviospital Division, Surgeon General's
le diffjce; Lieut. Col. Morgan L. Bret,
‘y tlrdnance Department, Engineering
nd* Branch; Lieut. Col. Robert A. Millikan,
rn , S. C., Chief of Science and Research
‘£>'<Division; Lieut. Col. N. il. Slaughter,
Ml. C., Chief of Radio Development Sec
tion; Major Joseph A. Mauborgne, S.
.X, Chief of Electrical Engineering
’’-'-ection.
ven when completed the board will have
es 2 to 15 members to cover fully all of
•ibut’ le var * ous technical problems which
b e .nay come befo.e it.
v j e * Assisted by Agencies.
ha In testing and developing inventions
and in considering problems presented
gj. by staff departments, the advisory
joard works in connection with* a
——•lumber of agencies. Among them
re the following: Research Council;
aireau of Standards; War Committee
National Technical Societies (this
✓ iv-mmittee consists of two members
r . -etailed from each of the ten impor
-tS.a nt technical societies in the United
States); laboratories and shops of the
staff and supply departments of the
•eSArmy; Patent Office; Aircraft Pro
ll- iuction Board; all Army service
schools; C. L. Norton, Massachusetts
i-j-nstitute of Technology, Cambridge,
“ ,ul Mass.; Dr. Chas. P. Steinmetz, Gen
•ggjirai Electrical Co., Schenectady, N. Y.;
' X. 11. Beyer, chairman committee on
iCCtesting laboratory, Columbia I’niver
_ sity, Broadway and One Hundred and
5® # Seventeenth Street, New York City;
■jyrjt. R. Abbott, metallurgist. Peerless
‘Motor (’ar Co., Cleveland, Ohio; Dr.
_ John A. Matthews, president Halcomb
Steel Co., Syracuse, N. Y.; Knox Tay
— lor, president Taylor-Wharton Iron &
Steel Co., High Bridge, N. J.; Howard
D. Coleman, Baber-Coleman Co. Rock
na‘ford, Ill.: Preston S. Miller, Electrical
wa 'resting Laboratories, 80th Street and
East End Avenue, New York City';
a ? taerbert Fisher Moore, University of
Jlinois, Nrbana, 111.; L. F. Miller, met
th jllurgist, Mitchell Moore Co., 1832
apaisylum Avenue, Racine, Wis.; E. J.
. do )key, the Timken Roller Bearing Co.,
janton, Ohio; Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, cur
tor division of physical anthropology,
ash 'nited States National Museum, of
1 “Washington. D. C.
on Information for Inventors.
Any person desiring to submit an
is invention for consideration, test, sale,
<i or development should do so by letter,
ir giving in order the following informa
tion: Name and object of the in ven
j tion; any claim for superiority or nov
i elty; any results obtained by actual
rs- experiment; whether the invention is
patented; whether remuneration is ex
pected; whether the invention has
ca been before any other agency; whether
3ai the writer is owner or agent; whether
le the number of inclosures with the let
ter. A written description and sketch
Jt or drawings of sufficient detail to af
;pr ford a full understanding of the cases
n tshould also be submitted. Should the
nvention be an explosive or other
hemical combination, the ingredients
trend processes of mixture should be
ng ' rated.
5 se ‘ The Invention Section will not bear
re expenses of preparation of draw
vay ’ R an( ’ descriptions, nor advance
lany nd® for personal or traveling ex
lay, mses of inventors.
aret All Matter Confidential.
Any matter submitted will be treat-
•TRENCH AND CAME
ed as confidential. The inventor will
be notified of each step taken during
the investigation of his invention. All
communications should be addressed:
Inventions Section, General Staff Army
War College, Washington, D. C.
THE LOST AMERICAN
By THURSTON ROSS
Ord. T, C. Camp Hancock
Continued from last week,
smouldering remorse, became a f.’ery
Madness, too great and too insane to be
called hatred. Karlson was looked upon
by his superior officers as an ideal com
mander on the American front, so it was
there he was sent to give vent to the
bitterest fury.
He -was not told, however, what troops
he would face—none of the men knew.
Their only mission was the mission of
the empire—to kill and conquer.
Attacks on the European front last but
a few minutes—yet the time seems to
draw on until hours have been made—
often even days until the few minutes
finally extends into centuries and years.
Karlson remained in his trench on the
morning when the attack was expected.
It did not come. He was there the next
day and the next until on the seventh
day, in the mist of the morning, No
man’s Land burned w r ith fire and finally
became alive with troops. Bullets struck
about him and bits of steel and dirt
clinked on his helmet and stung his body.
His parapet was well concealed and in
the rush was not destroyed. Some of his
men were dead —some wounded. The
machine gun post which had been in the
German front line was now in No man’s
Lad—without ammunition. Not a man
could be spared to bring in fresh belts
for the guns so the officer went back.
He had proceeded down the connecting
trench but a few yards when he found
it blocked. Turning in another direction
he crawled into a tunnel, broke through
a.crust of earth and peered through in
a trap set for the invaders. A glance
was sufficient. Karlson’s grandfathers
had outwitted savages on the plains.
They had crept into tents where Indians
in war paint slept and returned. The
grandson could accomplish the feat. It
was a perilous trip through shell holes
but a buried store of machine gun cart
ridges was found. He strapped the belts
to himself and crawled back. He had
almost reached the entrance to his trench
When a sentry discovered him. Hardly
a second passed until he was the target
of a dozen guns. But a shell hole af
forded him temporary safety.
Had it not been for that shell hole.
Karlson might have returned safely to
his parapet or he might have died a
German. But as he lay there, he glanced
up over a ridge and in the trench be
fore him he saw the American Hag. Was
it possible the Americans were really
there? He heard his own language—he
heard the call of his own blood. His
boyhood—youth—and young manhood
passed before him in a flash. He saw
the evil-eyes von Haupt. Hlntzman
flashed by and it was all clear. He had
been tricked by the old intrigue he hart
studied in the German schools. He had
been victimized by the same “Kultur” he
fought for. A betrayal maddens a man.
Ail the hatred for America was turned to
love and the love for Germans was turn
ed to more bitter hatred than he had ever
held against his homeland. He was safe
in the shell hole but 1 e was a traitor.
The flag burned into his very soul and
purged it of Teutonism and Prussian
ism. Carlson leaped from the shell hole.
He would die an American. Throwing
off the machine gun belts, he stood alone
in the fatal strip of Jand between two
front line trenches. An instant passed
and then a tattoo of bullets rattled. But
before the fire opened K had changed
back to Germany had lost an officer
and the Stars and Stripes had reclaimed
the lost American.
JUDGMENT
I think of the homes Flanders —
The little happy homes—
Raped by’the hell-mouth’s vomited iron,
Pitiful heaps of stones.
Raising their cry to Heaven
Lifting their voice to Him
Who mastered the storm on Galilee,
To judge the unspeakable sin.
And I think of the birds of Flanders—
Their little, happy notes
Choked at. their birth in horror!
Slain in their gasping throats!
And I think of the hearts of Flanders,
Their happiness turned to gloom;
Bowed to the earth in sorrow,
Menaced by death and doom.
Their ghosts in the twilight whimper
ing,
When the dead day draws away,
Make lonely wail in tjie slaughtered
woods
Where the peasants stop to pray.
Theirr wail will rise at evening
And blend with the cries of them
That He in thgir blood in No Man’s
land— *. *
Ruined wrecks of men!
It will rise till the God of Nations
Hears at His Great White Throne,
And He’ll summon the Hun—the mur
derer
Os hearts and birds and homes.
—H. M. D.
Wanted for Guard Duty
Men with military or similar experience
preferred, between the ages of 21 and 45
who can furnish highest references from
employers. Salary $75.00 per month to start. Furn
ished quarters, fuel and light free. Men may trans
fer into production after three months satisfactory
service on the guard. Write for application blank to
H. H. Alcock, New England Westinghous Company,
Chicope Falls, Mass.
8,000 MOTOR TRUCKS
ORDERED BY WAR DEP’I
Washington.—Orders for 8,000 three to
five ton motor trucks have bsen placed
with fifteen automobile manufacturers,
the War Department announced.
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