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Pupils Show Astonishing Aptitude, and Many
Will Be Finished Pilots in Four Months.
Records Are Already Broken.
WASHINGTON, July 21.—After a
‘ew short weeks of practice the vol
unteers in Uncle Sam's military avia
tion training schools have indicated
thut America will surpass the nations
of the world in fiying. The hundreds
of volunteers gathered at the four
training flelds now in operation have
shown a greater aptitude in aerial
navigation than did the British or
French novices,
In some instances men have learned
the ticklish art of equihibrium within
three hours after they began to fly.
So uniformly successful have the
new aviators been under the instruc
tion of American officers that their
teachers are now laying greater stress
upon their duties as machine-gun
ojperators, photographers, map
sketchers, ete,
“They learn to fly easy enough,” is
the universal decision of the War De
partment experts,
The four fields now in use are lo
cated at Raatoul, 111; Dayten, Ohio;
Mount Clemens, Mich. (near Detroit),
and Belleville, 111. (near St. Louis).
The Wilbur Wright field at Dayton,
largest of the group, will accommo
date 300 students at a time, and now
has 1,700 volunteers on its list. These
include the machinists, canvas repair
ers and others who are not actually
studying aviation. Three hundred
students may be uugh( in one class
on this immense fleld. .
The other fields accommodate from
800 to 1,000 men, and have facilities
for the Instruction of 150 men at a
time. This constitutes one aeroplane
squadron.
Under American Experts.
Contrary te the impression, which
has been spread abroad, the Ameri
cans are not learning flying under the
instruction of French and British ex
perts. These latter are frequently
on the field, but they serve simply in
an advisory capaeity. The actual work
of teaching the young alrmen ls in
the hands of United ‘tatu commis
sloned and noncommissioned officers
who, In the signal crops, have been
studying the subject for years.
The progress made by the young
aimen has caused army officers to
revise hastily certain schedules which
tr,g had preparedi
. When the first camps were opened,
the helief was generally c-xrruud
that the men coyld not be trained in
less than eight months. A fatal ab
sense of that mysterious ‘“sense of
equilibrium” was feared in many of
them. Within a week this time was
cut to six months, and before the sec
ond week was out the officers ex
pressed their belief that the rank and
file could be made ready for France
in four months. Now they are talk
Fighting in Air Is Main
Part of America in War
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Discuss
ing the $640,000,000 appropriation for
alr fleets, Brigadier General Gearge O,
Squier, chief signal oflicer, made the
{cllowing statement:
To develop all the possibilities of
fighting in and from the air in this
present war will by America's great
part. BEurope Is war weary and ex
hausted. The personnel of our allies
for the most effective military avia
tion has been used up, killed in the in
fantry, cavalry and artillery. 1 mean
the young men between 19 and 25
years of age-—the peried of life when
men are at their best for aerial work.
In Germany this class of personnel
has certainly been exhausted. 8o it
remains for us, coming in with a fresh
viewpoint, to end this thing the first
poume minute,
Nothing else counts. Saving a week
of this war would be cheap at any
price, And the United States alone
can make this contribution to her al
lies and the world. We can outman
all other countries invelved, friends
and foes, and we can surely outbuild
them. So we should make this a great
national plan to win,’ to make our
contribution to the cause something
that will be distinctly American in
conception and in magnitude.
Promptness Needed.
And there must be Froxnpmm at
any cost, for the sake of our own peo
ple as well as for the people of Ku
rope. To win quickly by the sheer
weight of the number of our machines
means the sending of the minimum
number of men of the United States
1o the trenches.
We can train our men for actual
war servige in the air in seven
months, comprising elght weeks of
ground work and four months of fiy
ing at the training schools in this
country, and then a month of inten
sive battle plane training work in
France, 1 don't know how many will
be needed. That, again, depends upon
. Von Hindenburg.
But we want enough to operate in
regiments and br\(ufea ilf necessary,
to make all Germany unsafe, to force
her to demobilize her air foroes at the
front and send the men and machines
back to protect the eities. This will
hlind her artillery and render it help
less by depriving it of the range find
ers.
Can Destroy Transportation.
Furthermore, our regiments and
brigades will be able to destroy all of
Germany’s interior lines of transpor
tation for the movement of troops and
supplies. They will be able to rob the
enemy fleet of the security it now en-
Joys at Kiel,
«. Anairplane can now carry and drop
1,000 pounds of explosives. If that is
not enough to sink a dreadnaught It
Wy ecan disable it for three or
m‘mamhl. and then it can be dis
a u%ln in the same way after re.*
pairs, ‘e can make the Kiel Canal
itself useless,
These are some of the things that
American can do if she has a sufficient
preponderance of machines., In addi
tion to all that we can carry on the
Mmore conventional ailrcraft warfare
along the front, working on the three
levels, unmns all the way from the
altitude of 19,000 feet of the solo ma
chines down through the one-mile
level of the range finders to the homb
dropping machines flying as low as
circumstances call for or admit.
Waste No Time.
We will waste no time in experi
menting with battleplane devicep- of
our awn before we hegin the work of
construction. On the contrary, we
ing of “graduating” some of the
l' lasses In two months,
Among the group of pewly acquired
aviators, there are college men, auto
moblle salesmen, mechanics, chauf
feurs, yatehtsinen, horsemen, poio
players and policemen. Such names
as J. P, Warburg, of New York, son
of Prul M. Warburg, of the Federal
Reserve Board; Henry P. Davison,
Jr, and ¥. T. Davison, sons of the
banker who is a partner ™. the com
[pnny of J. Plerpont Morgan & Com
pany;, W. A. Rockefeller, E. R. L.
Gould, G, C, Depew and J, M. Vorys,
of New York, and R. A. Lovett, of
Boston, are found on the lists,
~ The Alrcraft Production Board of
the Council of National Defense, of
which Howard Cotin is chalrman,
has co-aperated with the Federal
Government in a plan of instruetion
which will probably remain effeciive
as long as the war lasts,
It has been necessary for the board
to amplify its original plans cosider
ably since It began operations, It
may be necessary to amplify them
again. But it Is safe to predict that
on whatever seaie tney are conducted
the methods of instruction now used
will be continued,
Rebel Against Strictness.
The gravest fault with the Ameri
can civillan, so army officers have
found. is his rebelllousness u’am.t the
strict regime of military life, Intel
ligent, accustomed to do his own
thinking and to guide his own actions,
ge finds it hard to grasp the idea that
e Is a minute cog in a vast military
machine-—that he must not think for
himself or act for himself.
Officers declare that it is more dif
ficult to reconcile their eivilian puplls
to the idea of military discipline than
it is to tcach them to fly.
~ But by infinite patience and ap
peals to the unselfishness of the stu
dents they have succeeeded in drilling
these lessons into the first aeronauti
cal Instruction eclass.
A certain number of newly-fledged
puplls will be retained at the fields
for the instruction of those who come
after themn. Thus the army and navy
will establish a sort of “endless
chaln” system of praetical teaching
whereby the ,udunlnn class wil
undertake the improvement of the
“freshmen.”
Within a year this country will
have turned out 20,000 pilots, at the
lowest estimate. With mechanics, ob
servors, machine gun operators and
photographers this represents an
aerlal force of some 70,000 or 80,000
men.
The estimated cost of a training
acroplane of standard tyvpe is $6,000,
A battleplane, it has heen estimated,
will cost from SBOOO to &' o 0
will call on our allies to furnish us
with their best plans and specifica
tions, with which we can rush our
building program.
It will require necromancy, how-l
ever, to enable the United States to
carry out an effective aviation pro
gram within a year. Though war was
declaredgmore than three months ago,
the great aviation phm‘. still on pa
per and was not even conceived six
weeks ago.
No one understands the colossal
difficulties confronting the United
States in its aviation program hetter
than, Captain de la Grange, of the
l“ren&h ariny, who is here to give the
Administration the benefit of his ex
perience in developing the fying
forces of France.
Aviators Quickly Made.
The formation of a large aviation
section by the United States, he said,
is anly a question of money. It takes
three to four months to train a Y“Ol-
We already have seen how quickly
sturdy young men ean be turned imnto
excellent aviators.
In less than a year it would be pos
sible to have more than 5,000 pilots.
These pilots would be trained for the
first few months in the United States
and for the last months in the Ameri
can schools that is now being created
in France at lssoudan. J
The important question is that of
material. If the Government wishes
to, before April 1, 1918, it can have a
tremendous aero fleet. Suppese it de«
clded to have only §,OOO planes and
10,000 motors. In order to keep that
number of aeroplanes always at the
front it will be necegsary to bulld 2,000
planes and 4000 motors %er month,
viz.: 18,000 planes and 86,000 moters
during the next nine months. There
fore, between January 1, 1918, and De
cember 31, 1918, the United States
must build 22,600 planes and 44,000
motors. ¥
Factories Must Do Big Work.
This means a great effort on the
part of the American factories. They
can make this effort, as they have al
ready the buildings, the workmen and
Lnr\ of the machinery needed. They
ave also a large number of the best
sclentists and techniclans. The size of
the orders given them will insure ob
taining the money necegsary to organ
ize the plants for their construction.
Two difficulties will be met at once.
The first that of ski Med labor. In
constructing alrplanes, machinists are
not sufficient; very good engineers are
needed and a great number of them.
The necessary steps should be taken
to recruit these men as soon as pussi
ble, and, in view of this, the board of
production is sendMng a commission
composed of skilled workmen to
France, so that they should study the
methods used in the factories there,
When finished they will return to the
ited States, will apply all they have
learned, and will be able to train
workmen as well,
20 Motors Each Month at Plants.
The second difficulty is that of man
ufacturing quickly enough the ma
chines and tools necessary for build
ing such a large supply of planes and
motors. Although the best American
engineers are giving all their atten
tion to this, it will be impossible, I am
afraid, to build these machines fast
enough so that on January 1, 1818,
each factory will be able to produce,
not ten motors a month, but twenty
and thirty,
la my opinion, there is only one
way in which this difficulty ean be
surmounted. It is to realize that the
Iwcrk must go on night and day, and,
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN _ A Newspg_ppr for Pe_ople Who Think — SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1917.
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From Lustig Blaetter, of Berlin.
Many Towns Bid for ‘
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U. 8. Nitrate Plant
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Representatives of cities and towns!
in the Chattahoochee district, compos
ing the Chattahoochee Nitrate Com
miission, will hoid a conference with
officers of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce on Tuesday, August 3, in
an effort to agree on a point which
will be recommended to the United
States officials for the location of the
Government nitrate plant.
rPactically every city in the Chat
tahoochee River system is making a
bid for the plant, including Atlanta,
Rome, Columbus, West Point and
Cartersville,
Believing that by uniting their
forces they will stand a better chance
s\f having the plant located in this sec
tion, the claimants are urged to at
tend the conference to decide on a
po}n! agreeable to all.,
1. R. MeClatehey, ?renident of the
Rome Chamber of Commerce, will
head a delegation from Rome. Infor
mation was received Saturday that a
delegation is coming from Carters
ville. '
Martin ¥. Amorous is chairman of
the commission.
Expect Billy Sunday
Members of Victor H. Kriegshaber's
committee on providing recreation and
entertainment for the 40,000 men to
be in Atlanta military camps this fall
have come to the conclusion that the
Billy Sunday revival will #elp them
solve the problem, several of them |
sald Saturday. The matter was dls-|
cussed at a meeting of the gommit
tee at the Chamber of Commdyce.
- "We look for a heavy attend@pce on
the meetings from the army camps,”
sald one of the Atlanta committee on‘
the Sunday meetings. “Army officers
whom we have questioned belleve tne
Sunday revival will be of great value
to the men, giving them somewhere to
g 0 and something to think “about in
their leisure time, They said it was
probable Mr. Sunday would be askea
to address the men in camp upon sev
eral occasions.”
l Studying the Peanut
I J. D. Weaver, of Dawsaon, Ga., is
seeking to “put the peanut industry on
a practical and successful basis” in
Georgia. And he will leave this week
on an automoehile tour of North Caro
lina and \l:glnia to get first-hand
information®en the rulnln% of peanuts
and the marketing thereof.
Mr. Weaver is Mayor of Dawson,
and one of the largest planters in
Terraell County. He spent Saturday in
Atlanta in conferenceswith officers of
i the Southeastern Exhibit Association.
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LW.W, Is First Man
Drafted in Arizona
BISBEE, ARIZ, July 21.—The first
number called in Cochise County was
Alexander Durate, a member of the
Industrial Workers of the World, now
lin the aetention camp at Columbus,
N. Mex.
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in consequence, to orgww night
shifts so that the machings will never
be idle. :
1 am convinced that the quickest
way in which the United States can
help the Allies is by aviation. In nine
months Nom now, on April 1, 1918, I
am sure it will be possibie to have a |
corps of 5,000 aviators trained. eauip- |
ped and armed.
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Letter to Sammie
Must Be Prepaid
Thg following statement has been
issued by the Postmaster (General in
regard to mail addressed to members
of the expeditionary forces in France:
“In order to prevent delay in dis
pltch and secure prompt delivery ol“
létters, postcards and printed matter
addressed to the United States ex
peditionary forces in Europe, to which
the domestic rates of postage apply.\
it is important that postage be fully
prepaid. To nis end postmasters are\
requested to give the matter the wia
est possible publicity and advise pa
trons to hand in at the postoflice mail
addressed to the expeditionary forces
in order that it mai be weighed, rated
and have the full Amount of postage
affixed before the sender leaves the
office.”
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Careof Defectives
Is Urged on State
The Georgia Legislature this ses
sion will be asked to make appro
priation and establish an institution
for the care of defective and delin
quent children.
The bill is being fostered by the
Georgia Branch of the National Con
gress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher
Asgsociations. It is.shown in state
ments prepared bv members of the
congress that if defectlve and delin
quent children are taken in hand early
and given practical and scieptific
| training, they develop often into self
|supportlng citizens, These arguments
will be put before the committees
to which the bill is committed.
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Thomasville Women
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THOMASVILLE, July 21.—The
woman in Themasville who does not
nit now is the exception, as, young
d old, they are all at it. Some are
knitting for the men of the battleship
Georgia and some for the boys who
are going into the army. Knitting
parties are fashionable with society
women and budiness women carry
their knitting along to the offices or
aléra: and knit between times when
they are not bhusy.
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Heavy Rains Help
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Thomasville Crops
THOMASVILLE, July 21.—Heavy
rains have fallen here during the week
and the crops all over the county have
put on new growth,
Rainy weather is said to be just the
kind in whieh the boll weevil multi
plies and grows. Much of the cotton
is open, or is openi very fast, and
reports from around \he county say
that in some sectiong the crop is go
ing to be larger than was expected.
Canning Factory for
Huntsville Workers
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. July 21.--A
canning faectory has been established
in West Huntsville by four mills, the
Merrimack, West Huntsville Cotton
Mill, Lowe and the Knitting Mill for
the benefit of their employees who
wish to can vegetables and fruits. A
small toll wil be charged in money
or fruits or vegetablos, the same as
at a corn mill. The plant is large
nnourh to serve tue general publie
and it is expected to be a greaf help
1o the people of the city.
Septic Tank Blows Up
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Injuring 3 Children
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DALTON, July 21.—A large septic
tank of the city sewerage system in
the southern part of the city exploded,
and three children of Policman Sam
Vaugkn, who were on top of the tank
when the explosion occurred, were
hurled several feet in the air. E 4,
aged 6 years, was severely burned
from the knees downward, and Seab,
aged 4, had all of his hair burned off
and was burned about the body. Tom,
the other boy, was hurled 10 feet in
the air, but was not injured.
Just what caused the explosion is
not known, but the sewer gases in
some manner beeame ignited.
Several of the covers for the man
holes in the tank were blown off by
the force of the explosion, and Seab
Vaughn, the younger boy, was falling
down oae of the holes when his
brother jerked him to safety.
New Road to Connect
EUFAULA, ALA, July 21.—Anoth
er graded highway is to be construct
ed from Eufaula to Clayton, which is
nearly halfway across the county. It
will take a route north of the present
road and will be 5 miles shorter than
the latter, although about § miles of
the old road will be used as a link
in the new one. The construction will
be under the supervision of a Govern
ment engineer, The new road will
become a part of the National High
way from New York to New Orleans
by way of Atlanta.
Milledgeville Man
TgQ ganize Unit
. MILLEDGEVILE, July 21.—Dr. W,
' A. Ellison has been appointed chair
‘man of the State of Georgia to form
A commission and receive appl{‘u&tions
for a neuro-psychiatric unit for base
hospitals. These units are attached
to United States military base hos
pitals both in America and abroad.
| Dr. Ellison is a member of the Amer
[{can Medico-Psychological Association
and receives commission from Dr,
Pearce Bailey, chairman of the Amer
fcan Commission of Mental Hygiene,
New York. Dr. Ellison is ready to
receive applications at Milledgeville.
Chattanooga Pastor
| lled to Bt. Paul
Called to St. Pau
CHATTANOOGA, Juyy 21.—The
Rev. 1. R. Robinson, for nine years
pastor of Shinn Memorial Universal
ist Church, Chattanooga, has resigned
to accept a ecall to the First Univer
salist Church, St. Paul, Minn,
Dr. George A. Gay. of Little Falls,
N. Y., retiring president of the Young
People's (‘hrfsflan Union, which has
just finished its annual session here,
has been called and accepted as Dr,
Robinson's successor.
Judge Patterson
Judge T. E. Patterson, president of
the Georgia Prison Commission and
chairman of the State Highway Com
mission, has appolied for admission to
the second officers’ training camp,
which begins next month.
Judge Patterson is 48 years old, and
is one of the hest known men in the
publie life of the State. However, he
says, he's willing to give it all up to
Lecome an officer in Uncle Sam's
army. He went out (o Fort McPher
son Fridny to stand the vphvgical ex
amination.
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Work of Weeding Out Ineligibles
Due to Begin Within Five
Days—Lists Now Going to the
Local Boards.
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gested in official circles today. And
it likely will be well along toward
the last of that month before the men
are assembled at the campß where
they are to be whipped into shape as
'a real fighting force,
| Drawing Pleases Officials.
| Officials were hlf,hly delighted
'over the success of the draft draw
ing. A new problem had been met
and solved. While the original plans
had been upset by failure of officials
to observe concrete instructions,
there was a feeling in official circles
‘that maybe, after all, the plan put
through yesterday was the best. At
least, it gave each individual his own
opportunity instead of having him
chosen “en bloc.”
If preliminary advices are any cri
terion, there will not be the rush that
was expected for exemption. From
every section of the country tele
grams were received here today and
they indicated that the ‘“campaign
of edueation” put threugh by the
Administration to remove the stigma
usually attached to “drafted” has been
successful. The reports say that the
majority of the men called in the first
drawing have accepted the fact
philosophically and that in most cases
they have welcomed the opportunity
for service, This fact is especially
pleasing to officials who, now that the
draft is an actuality, admit that they
have been more or less apprehensive
about the result.
No Serious Resistance Expected.
Reports of organizations formed at
certain places to resist the draft have
no confirmation here. It is admitted
that.there will be a eertain proportion
of men called whe will endeavor to
keep from serving. But it is not ex
pected that any such movement will
be formidable. The country is aware
that the war must be fought to a fin
ish, and public opinion is solidly
aligned now in favor of the present
'method of securing an army.
Officials said today that they be
lieved exemptions to persons having
dependents will be reasonably easy on
the first call. There are so many
eligibles who have no dependents, it
is explained, that officials are ex
pected to endeavor to make the ex
emptions absolutely fair. And until
the Government can make some ar
rangement for caring for families of
lmen sent to the front, it is not ex
| pected that hardships will be imposed
'nn women and children by forcing
! the breadwinners to serve.
Missing Mobile Girl
Fourfii in Baltimore
MOBILE, ALA., July 20.—After dis
appearing from her home in Mobile
months ago, Miss Evelyn Randall, a
pretty 18-year-old girl, has been
found in Baltimore, Md., in company
with Walter H. Livingood, 35 years
old, a blind man, who admitted to
city detectives of that city that he
has a wife and three children living
in Seattle, Wash.
Livingood was given a preliminary
hearing and was held in SI,OOO bail for
a hearing August 1. Miss Randall
was committed to the House of the
Good Shepherd.
Miss Randall has a sister, Mrs.
Charles Kennedy, living in this eity,
at Bay avenue and Bascombe street.
Miss Randall has been leading Livin
good along the streets and has visited
many sections with him. She says
that he paid her for leading him. She
says that Livingood enticed her away
from home through an advertisement
that appeared in a Mobile newspaper.
Livingocd is charged with a statu
tory offense and violating the Mann
white slave act. He denied the charge
and protested against being separated
from Miss Randall.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, July 2’.——""oung
man, go ahead and get married today.
Don't mind what the public has to say.”
That is the way the Rev. John L.
Tait, local clergyman, feels about the
war bridegroom. Mr. Tait, who has
maried several couples since the United
States entered the war, dislikes the way
newspapers have featured marriages in
the last few weeks.
‘“At this critical time,” he said, “‘when
the outlook is darkest, we should not
discourage marital ties. The slaughter
of thousands of our young men is not
among the impossible happenings. We
know not what the future has for us.
England had her marriage proposition
to face after the war began. So let's
not call the young man who marries
now a ‘slacker.”
He said that those he married prom
ised to go to war if called.
Girl Awarded Auto
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- Her Sweetheart Won
PITTSBURG, July 21.—Judge McKen
na in County Court decided that Miss
Marcella Craig, of Springdale, could
“joy-ride’ 'with whomsgever she wished,
even if the car she was using was won
ir a raffle for her by a former sweet
heart.
Last fall Fred Atkinson, of New Ken.
sington, bought a 10-cent raffle ticket
for an automobile. She was awarded
the car.
For a time they used the car togeth
er. Later Miss Craig began to '‘joy
ride” with other men. Angry, Atkinson
took guuuion of the car and Miss
Craig brought suit for itg recovery.
.ludge McKenna ordered the car re
turned to Miss Craig.
OF SCHEDULE.
Effective Sunday, July 22, L. & N.
train No. 31 will arrive Atlanta 11:45
a. m. Train No. 33 will arrive Atlanta
10:25 p. m.— Advertisement.
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Dr. Floyd Mcßae Points Out Men
i
~ace of Sending Medical Stu
dents Into Service.
The belief that emdical students
should be exempted from the draft in
order to guard against a/ scarcity of
medical experts for civil and military
life is voiced by Dr. Floyd W. Mcßae
in a letter to The Sunday American.
Dr. Mcßae believes the United States
should guard against a repetition of
the blunder made by England, which
found itself greatly in need of physi
clans. His letter follows: \
Editor The American:
I feel a very great interest in
the medical department of the
army, especially the proper med
ical officering of the new volun
teer and draft armies. 1 think
that the matter of draft in its re
lan%to medical students is one
that Witally effects the nation, and
that I am justified in requesting
your aid and advice in the mat
ter.
In my judgment at least 90 per
cent. of the medical students can
be drafted. These men have al
ready finished their high school
course and all have had at least
one year of college or university
work. These are the minimum
preliminary requirements for en
trance to Class A medical schools.
On account of the high standard
of educational requirements the
number of medical students in
this country has materially di
minished in the past five years.
It seems to me that Congress
should pass some special legisla
tion ot provide exemption, or fur
lough, or detail to students to
continue their medical studies.
The students want to avoid the
appearance in their home com«
munities of being “slackers,” or
from feeling that by continuing
their medical studies they are do
ing less than they should be for
their eountry, or because, Th =<~
uncertainty of whethér they can
complete their medical education,
they are unwilling or unable to
assume the heavy flnancial bur
den of a medical edueation,
1 am not acting with the selfish
purpose of relieving individuals
from the draft or of preventing
the loss to medical schoeols from
a diminution of student enroll
mentbut solely with the purpose
of maintaining the annual supply
of trained physicians for military
and civil needs in time of war.
We want to prevent this country
from repeating Ens:&nd's blunder.
I was in London en war was
declared by Germany in 1914,
Medical students were allowed to
enlist in the British army. As a
consequence these patriotic young
men, many of them, became pri
vate soldiers. Now there is a
great dearth of medical men in
the allied armies and thev are
laoking to us to supply this defct
ency.
There should be an executive
proclamation or deeclaration of
~ the Intention of the Government
~ towards medical students so that
they will know what is expeeted
of them and how to aet in the
premises. I am not connecle”
with any medical school. T have
one son in the armv and twd
others ready and wtig lo #0
when called. My interési Is "7
of a patriotic cittzen who
knowledge of the situalfon a¥
realization of the danger con
fronting us impels me to write
this communication.
(Cordially yours,
FLOYD W. McRAE.
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St. Philip’s Dean to
.
Speak at Capitol
' Dr. Thomas Henry Johnson, of St.
Philip's Cathedral, will speak at the
open-air union services on Capitol
'lawn, instead of Dr. Porter, as was
formerly announced.
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'Hillyer Still Held
i Charles Hillyer, the young attorney
who made a spectacular attempt to
escape from the Courthouse Friday
afternoon after he had been place
under a $2,600 peace bond by Judge
L. Z. Rosser, Jr, in the Municipal
Court, Saturday had been unable 1,
make the bond and still was In the
Tower.
Hillyer's troubles were said to hava
been caused by his apparent infatua
tion for Mrs. May Donaldson, a young
vaudeville actress, which had resulteg
in his arrest once before., He wa.
‘placed under the pesce bond Frida.
on evidence that he had threatened
‘ to kill the young actress becauss sho
refused to marry him, Mrs, Donald
son was In court as a witness,
Hillyer created a dramatic scene
when he dropped to his kneesg hefore
Judge Rosser and pleaded for mercy.
When this demonstration proved un
availing he dashed from the court
room and down seven flights of stairs
to the Courthouse entrance, where he
was captured by Deputy Marshal
Green and Custodian Clarence Buch
anan,
Witness Fee Paid
MURFREESBORO, TENN. July
21.—Colonel Hickman Weakley has
just collected from the Chancery
Court here a witness fee of several
dollars which he bought in 1874, or
forty-three years ago.
In the year named Weakley was
Clerk and Master of Chancery, having
Leld the office for more than thirty
years. During his incumbency a wit
ness put In a claim for attendance
upon court and in order to obtain the
cash without a long wait for the liti
gation to end, sold it to Weakley.
The ldtter filed the transfer and
forgot all about it. The present Clerk
resurrected it while rummaging
among coyrt records, turned it over
to the owner and then redeemed it.
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