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JUNE 12.
Putting The Knock
Into innoculation
By “ACTING CORP.” WM. 3. GOFF
(32d Co., 152 d Depot Brigade, Camp
Upton, Long Island, N. Y.)
Army life Is jest one denied innoc
ulation after another. The average
soldier is as full of holes as a porous
plaster. They aren’t bullet holes, but
are apertures through which all sort*
of anti-bugs are introduced into his
system. Each soldier is issued a bil
lion bugs, for whose up-keep he is
held responsible. They hike hither
or thither through his system. They
drill on his spinal column and hold
sham battles on his cerebrum. He
spends half hla time getting innoc
ulated, and the rest of it getting in
noculated, then the rest recovering
from the innoculations.
Here is the schedule of a typ
ical day in training camp when !
the doctors are in an innoculw- )
ting mon£:
0 A. M7 Reveille.
6:15. Report to Dr. Jabb for
innoculation against sleeping
sickness.
6:30. Breakfast and Innocula
tion—indigestion is the thing
this time.
7:00. Drill.
7:11. Report to Dr. Poke for
innoculation against baldness.
8:00. All men must be innoc
ulated in the left shoulder blade
against Tasmanian epizooty, in
case the army goes to Tasmania.
9:01. Report to Dr. Jabber to
have 7,765,899 anti-prickly heat
germs Injected in the right funny
bone.
11:07. Second innoculation
against flat feet and warts.
12:00. Mess. Men will be in
oculated with one plate of stew
and four cubic Inches of bread
pudding.
1:00 P. M. Report to nearest
doctor to be innoculated with
any germs he happens to have
around.
2:20. All men suffering from
fox-bite or squirrel-bite report
to Dr. Kneedie for innoculation.
2:30. Drill (if able).
2:55. Ankle inspection by Dr.
Slasher.
3:33. Bring your calves to Dr.
Punch—lnnoculation for frost
bite.
4:00. Special innoculation by
Dr. Muff. All men suffering
from alimony, pip, cauliflower
ears, free verse, persistent sneez
ing or aversion to work, must
report for prophylactic treatment. '
5:00. Mess. Each man will I
be issued one pill, the equivalent
of one plate of beans, one mug
of tea and one piece of bread.
He may take it Internally or
use it for ammunition.
. 6-9. All men must stay in
their tents, as the doctors may
think up a new innoculation, and
may want someone to practice
on.
9:16. All men who are still
conscious will be innoculated
against insomnia and mule-kick.
10:00. Taps (for survivars).
N. B. The only thing they
don't innoculate you against in
the army Is innoculation.
THUS 9\YKTH THE ROOKIE
FROM SQVAD 4-11-44.
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All Infantrymen Armed
on Sailing for France,
Ordnance Bureau Says
The following statement is au
thorized by the Acting Chief of
Ordnance:
The Army Ordnance Department
has thus far met every demand im
posed by the new program for
overseas shipment of American
troops. Despite the great accel
eration in the sending of Amer
ican forces to France no infantry
man goes aboard ship without a
United States model 1917 rifle
(modified Enfleld), bayonet, belt,
haversack, pack carrier, bando
leers, bayonet scabbard, and full
mess equipment.
Tonnage is today a limiting fac
tor in the shipment of ordnance
material overseas, especially be
cause of the present necessity of
increasing the transport of infan
try regiments. French 75 mm.
and 155 mm. and sufficient supplies
of artillery—American heavy rail
way artillery—are already in
France to meet the present de
mand. Sufficient machine guns
are also immediately available for
American forces in France.
869,000,000 A MONTH
Monthly disbursements by the Ord
nance Department of the Army were
169,000,000 during the first year of
the wax.
TRENCH AND CAMP
BROWNING GUN IS
SUCCESSFUL IN AIRPLANE
PROPELLER TEST
The following statement is authorized
by the War Department:
The Browning machine gun has suc
cessfully undergone a test to determine
its value for use with aircraft. This is
one of three types of machine guns with
which the rate of fire can be so synchro
nized with the revolutions of the pro
peller of a tractor airplane that the gun
can be fired by the pilot of a combat
plane through the revolving blades. Fir
ing in that fashion, it is necessary to aim
the machine gun by steering the plane
directly at the target. The direction of
the plane gives direction to the fire and
the pilot can fire the machine gun while
controlling the plane.
Connected With Engine,
Airplane propellers revolve at from 800
to 2,000 revolutions per minute. The ma
chine gun is connected with the airplane
engine by a mechanical or hydraulic de
vice, and impulses from the crank shaft
are transmitted to the machine gun. The
rate of fire of the machine gun is con
stant and its fire is synchronised with
the revolving propoller blades by ‘'wast
ing” a certain percentage of the im
pulses trip or pull the trigger so that the
gun fires just at the fraction of the sec
ond when the propeller blades are clear
of the line of fire.
The pilot operates the gun by means of
a levtr which controls the circuit and al
lows the impulses to trip the trigger.
Severe Test Given Gun.
The test given the Browning gun was
severe. A gun was mounted on the frame
of an American combat plane and con
nected with the airplane engine. The test
was conducted on the ground and in
place of the propeller a metal disk was at
tached to the crank shaft. The Brown
ing speeds from 400 to 2,000 revolutions
per minute. The slightest "hang fire”
or delay in action on the part of the gun
would have been shown by the failure
■ of the bullets to hit precisely on the spot
on the disk representing the center of
the zone of fire. The gun functioned per
fectly.
The Browning gun to be used with air
craft is the heavy type with the water
jacket removed.
Will Also Use Marlin Gun.
Besides the Browning, the United
States will also employ the Marlin air
craft gun as a synchronized weapon.
Several thounsand of • these have been
manufactured and the gun is in quantity
production.
The British and French use the Vickers
as as ynchronibed machine gun.
The Lewis aircraft machine gun is used
by the British. French and American
forces, but for a different purpose. In a
two-seated combat plane, fixed machine
guns aer mounted forward to be operated
by the pilot and flex ible guns are mounted
Jo be operated by the observer in the rear
'seat of the plane. The observer operates
Dewis guns on flexible mounts, firing to
right or left of 4he plane.
tl is of vital importance to have abso
lute reliability of function in a synchro
nized machine gun on tractor airplanes.
Delays in fire or malfunctions due to
faulty construction or imperfect ammuni
tion causes bullets to strike the propeller
blades. As many as 15 bullets have been
known to strike a propeller blade with
out causing an airplane to fall, but the
danger of such occurrences Is neverthe
less obvious. For that reason, every ef
fort is made to provide the most perfect
type of weapon for this work. Only spe
cially selected ammunition is used.
EXPRESS COMPANIES IN
ONE BIG ORGANIZATION
UNDER R. R. DIRECTOR
The United States Railroad Admin
istration authorizes the following:
Director General McAdoo announces
that, with a view to handling the ex
press business of the country in the
most efficient and economical man
ner, he has sanctioned the plan of
the four principal express companies,
(Adams, American, Wells Fargo, and
Southern) forming a new express
company, with which he will make a
contract for the carrying on of the
express business for all of the rail
roads under Federal control.
Under Director General’s Control.
Under this arrangement the new
express company will be the Director
General’s agent for carrying on the
express business. The character of
the service and the character of the
rates will be under the Director Gen
eral's control and subject to initiations
by him.
An important feature of the ar
rangement is that the new company
is to be capitalized only to the extent
of actual property and cash put into
the business, and that the Government
will share on a progressively increas
ing scale in any profits derived from
the business.
General Method of Compensation. !
The genera! method of determining
the compensation is that the Director
General-will receive 50 1-4 per cent
of the operating revenues (or gross
earnings), and out of the balance the
express oempany will pay operating
expenses and taxes and a dividend of
5 per cent on its capital stock. Out
of the next 2 per cent available for
distribution the express company will
receive 1 per cent and the Government
1 per cent; out of the next 3 per
cent available for distribution the
express company will receive 1 per
cent and the Government 2 per cent;
any further amounts available for dis
tribution will be divided, one-quarter
to the express company and three
quarters to the Government.
Parent Marla, what was y'U and
and young Gassam doin’ last night
when your little brother caught you?
Clever Maid —Nothing, pa, except
quietly discussing practical experimen
tation of osculatory theories.
Parent —And that precious young
rascal told me was a-kissin’ you.
ALLEN S FOOTEASE
The Antiseptic Powder. Shake it into your
Shoes, Sprinkle it in your Foot-Bath.
, It makes Standing
on ie eas y»
Walking a delight.
For all men
drilling for
Military
Service ~ \
ft W^ re Q uen f
useof ■ lilaTffl
Alien’s Foot=Ease
increases their
efficiency and ?
insures needed
I physical comfort.
The Plattsburg Camp Manual Advises
Men in Training to shake a little Foot-Ease
in their shoes each morning.
Do this and walk all day in comfort. It takes the Friction
from the Shoe and freshens the feet. At night, sprinkle
it in the foot-bath, and soak and rub the feet. For over
25 years Allen’s Foot=Ease has been the STANDARD
remedy for hot, swollen, smarting, tender, tired, perspir
ing, aching feet, corns, bunions, blisters and callouses.
Used by the American, British and French troops in
Europe. One war relief committee reports that of all the
things sent out in their Comfort Bags or “Kits,” Allen’s
Foot=Ease received the most praise from the soldiers and
men of the navy. Why not order a dozen or more 25c.
boxes to-day from your Druggist or Department Store to
mail to your friends in training camps and in the army and
navy. Sold everywhere. Sample FREE by mail. Address,
ALLEN S. OLMSTED, LE ROY, N. Y.
I Soldiers, Attention!
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