(Continued from last week.)
A persuader is Tommy's nickname.
for a club carried by the bombers. It
is about two feet long, thin at one end
and very thick at the other. The thick
end is studded with sharp steel spikes,
while through the center of the club
there is a nine-inch lead bar, to give:
it weight and balance. When you get
a prisoner all you have to do is just
stick this club up in front of him, and
pelicve me, the prisoner’s patriotism
for “Deutschland ueber Alles” fades
away and he very willingly obeys the
orders of his captor. If, however, the.
prisoner gets high-toned and refuses 0:
follow you, simply “persuade” him by:
first removing his tin hat, and then—
well, the use of the iead weight in the
persuader is demonstrated, and Tom-
my looks for another prisoner.
The knuckle knife is a dagger affair,
the blade of which is about eight
inches long with a heavy steel guard
over the grip. This guard is studded
with steel projections. At night in a
trench. which is only about three to
‘four feet wide, it makes a very handy
weapon. One punch in the face gen-
erally shatters a man’s jaw and you
can get him with the knife as he goes
down.
Then we had what we called our
“come-alongs.” These are strands of
barbed wire about three feet long,
made into a noose at one end; at the
other end, the barbs are cut off and
Tommy slips his wrist through a 100p.
to get a good grip on the wire. Ii the
prisoner wants to argue the point, why
just place the large loop around his
neck and no matter if Tommy wishes
to return to his trenches at the walk,
trot, or gallop, Fritz is perfectly agree-
able to maintain Tommy's rate of
speed.
"We were ordered to black our faces
and hands. For this reason; At night,
the English and Germans use what
they call star shells, a sort of rocket
affair. They are fired from a large
pistol about twenty inches long, which
is held over the sandbag parapet of the
trench, and discharged into the air.
These star shells attain a height of
about sixty feet, and a range of from
fifty to seventy-five yards. When they
hit the ground they explode, throwing
out a strong calcium light which lights
up the ground in a circle of a radius of
between ten to fifteen yards. They
also have a parachute star shell which,
after reaching a height of about sixty
feet, explodes. A parachute unfolds
and slowly floats to the ground, light-
ing up a large circle in No Man’s Land.
The official name of the star shell is
a “Very-light.” Very-lights are used
to prevent night surprise attacks on
the trenches. If a star shell falls in
‘front of you, or between you and the
German lines, you are safe from detec:
‘tion, as the enemy cannot see you
through the bright curtain of light.
But if it falls behind you and, as Tom-
my says, “you get in the star shell
zone,” then the fun begins; you have
to lie {'at on your stomach and remain
absolutely motionless until the light of
the shell dies out. This takes any-
where from forty to seventy seconds.
If you haven’t time to fall to the
ground you must remain absolutely
still in whatever position you were in
when the light exploded; it is advis-
able not to breathe, as Fritz has an
eye like an eagle when he thinks you
are knocking at his door. When a star
shell is burning in Tommy's rear he
can hold his breath for a week.
You blacken your face and hands so
that the light from the star shells will
not reflect on your pale face. In a
trench raid there is quite sufficient
reason for your face to be pale. If you
don’t believe me, try it just once.
Then another reason for blackening
your face and hands is that, after you
have entered the German trench at
night, “white face” means Germans,
splack face” English, Coming around
a traverse you see a white face in
front of you. With a prayer and wish-
ing Fritz “the best o’ luck,” you intro-
duce him to your “persuader” or
knuckle knife.
A little later we arrived at the com-
munication trench named Whisky
street, which led to the fire trench at
the point we were to go over the top
and out in front.
In our rear were four stretcher bear-
ers and a corporal of the R. A. M. C.
carrying a pouch containing medicines
and first-aid appliances. Kind of a
grim reminder to us that our expedi-
tion was not going to be exactly a pic-
nic. The order of things was reversed.
In civilian life the doctors generally
come first, with the undertakers tag-
ging in the rear and then the insur-
ance man, but in our case, the under-
takers were leading, with the doctors
trailing behind, minus the insurance
‘adjuster.
The presence of the R. A. M. C-men
did not seem to disturb the raiders, be-
cause*many a joke made in an under-
tone, was passed along the winding
column, as to who would be first to
take a ride on one of the stretchers.
WM
AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
WHO WENT
ANTTHURGUY EMPEY
MACHINE GUNNER, SERVING IN FRANCE—"
60
® %
©97 BY |
ARTHUR F1IY £H°TY
This was generally followed by a wish
that, if you were to be the one, the
wound would be a “cushy Blighty
one.”
The stretcher bearers, no doubt,
hoping that, if they did have to carry
anyone to the rear, hie would be small
and light. Perhaps they looked at me
when wishing, because I could feel an
uncomfortable, boring sensation be-
tween my shoulder blades. They got
their wish all right.
Going up this trench, about every
sixty yards or so we would pass a lone-
ly sentry, who in a whisper would
wish us “the best o’ luck, mates.” We
would blind at him under our breaths;
that Jonah phrase to us sounded very
ominous.
Without any casualties the minsfrel
troop arrived at Suicide ditch, the
front-line trench. Previously, a wiring
party of the Royal Engineers had cut
a lane through our barbed wire to en-
able us to get out into No Man's Land.
Crawling through this lane, our
party of. twenty took up an extended-
order formation about one yard apart.
We had a tap code arranged for our
movements while in No Mau’'s Land,
because for various reasons it is not
safe to carry on a heated conversation
a few yards in front of Fritz’ lines.
The officer was on the right of the
line, while I was on the extreme left.
Two taps from the right would be
passed down the line until I received
them, then I would send back one tap.
The officer, in receiving this one tap,
would know that his order had gone
down the whole line, had been under-
stood, and that the party was ready
to obey the two-tap signal. Two taps
vieant that we were to crawl forward
slowly—and believe me, very slowly—
for five yards, and then halt to await
further instructions. Three taps meant,
when you arrived within striking dis-
tance of the German trench, rush it
and inflict as many casualties as pos-
sible, secure a couple of prisoners, and
then back to your own lines with the
speed clutch open. Four taps meant,
“I have gotten you into a position from
which it is impossible for me to extrie
cate you, So you are on your own.”
After getting Tommy into a mess on
the western front he is generally told
that he is “on his own.” This means,
“Save your skin in any way possible.”
Tommy loves to be “on his own” behind
the lines, but not during a trench raid.
The star shells from the German
lines were falling in front of us, there-
fore we were safe. After about twen-
ty minutes we entered the star shell
zone. A star shell from the German
lines fell about five yards in the rear
and to the right of me; we hugged the
ground and held our breath until it
burned out. The smoke from the star
shell traveled along the ground and
crossed over the middle of our line.
Some Tommy sneezed. The smoke had
gotten up his nose. We crouched on
the ground, cursing the offender under
our breath, and waited the volley that
generally ensues when the Germans
have heard a noise in No Man’s Land.
Nothing happened. We recelved two
taps and crawled forward slowly for
five yards; no doubt the officer be-
lieved what Old Pepper had said, “Per-
sonally I believe that that part of the
German trench is unoccupied.” By be-
ing careful and remaining motionless
‘when the star shells fell behind us, we
reached the German barbed wire with-
out mishap. Then the fun began. 1
was scared stiff as it is ticklish work
cutting your way through wire when
about thirty feet in front of you there
is a line of Boches looking out into No
Man's Land with their rifles lying
across the parapet, straining every
‘sense to see or hear what is going on
in No Man’s Land; because at night,
Fritz never knows when a bomb with
his name and number on it will come
hurtling through the air aimed in the
direction of Berlin. The man on the
right, one man in the center and my-
self on the extreme left were equipped
with wire cutters. These are insulated
with soft rubber not because the Ger-
man wires are charged with electricity,
but to prevent the cutters rubbing
against the barbed wire stakes, which
are of iron, and making a noise
which may warn the inmates of the
trench that someone is getting fresh
in their front yard. There is only one
way to cut a barbed wire without noise
and through costly experience Tommy
has become an expert in doing this.
You must grasp the wire about two
inches from the stake in your right
hand and cut between the stake and
your hand.
If you cut a wire improperly, a
loud twang will ring out on the night
air like the snapping of a banjo
string. Perhaps this noise can be
heard only for fifty or seventy-five
yards, but in Tommy's mind it makes
a loud noise in Berlin,
We had cut a lane about halfway,
through the wire when, down the cen-
ter of our line, twang! went an im-
ppgperly cut wire... We crouched down,
Receiving First Aid.
cursing under our breath, trembling all
over, our knees lacerated from the
strands of the cut barbed wire on the
ground, waiting for a challenge and
the inevitable volley of rifle fire. Noth-
ing happened. I suppose the fellow
who cut the barbed wire improperly
was the one who had sneezed about
half an hour previously. What we
wished him would never make his new
year a happy ene.
The officer, in my opinion, at the
noise of the wire should have given the
four-tap signal, which meant, “On your
own, get back to your trenches as
quickly as possible,” but again he must
have relied on the spiel that Old Pep-
per had given us in the dugout, *“Per-
sonally I believe that that part of the
German trench is unoccupied.” Any-
way, we got careless, but not so care-
less that we sang patriotic songs or
made any unnecessary noise.
During the intervals of falling star
shells we carried on with our wire cut-
ting until at last we succeeded in get-
ting through the German barbed wire.
At this point we were only ten fee:
from the German trenches. If we wei
discovered, we were like rats in a trap.
Our way was cut off wnless we ran
‘along the wire to the narrow lane we
had cut through. With our hearts in
‘our mouths we waited for the three.
‘tap signal to rush the German trench.
Three ‘taps had gotten about halfway
‘down the line when suddenly about ten
to twenty German star shells were
fired all along the trench and landed
in the barbed wire in rear of us, turn
'ing night into day and silhouetting us
‘against the wall of light made by the
flares. In the glaring light we were
confronted by the following unpleasant
scene.
All along the German trench, at
about three-foot intervals, stood a big
Prussian guardsman with his rifle at
the aim, and then we found out why
we had not been challenged when the
man sneezed and the barbed wire had
been improperly cut. About three feet
in front of the trench they had con-
structed a single fence of barbed wire
and we knew our chances were one
thousand to one of returning alive.
We could not rush their trench on ac-
count of this second defense. Then
in front of me’ the challenge, “Halt,”
given in English rang out, and one of
the finest things I have ever heard on
the western front took place.
From the middle of our line some
Tommy answered the challenge with,
“Aw, go to h—1.” It must have been
the man who had sneezed or who had
improperly cut the barbed wire; he
wanted to show Fritz that he could
die game. Then came the volley. Ma-
chine guns were turned loose and sev-
eral bombs were thrown in our rear.
The Boche in front of me was looking
down his sight. This fellow might
have, under ordinary circumstances,
been handsome, but when I viewed him
from the front of his rifle he had the
goblins of childhood imagination rele-
gated to the shade.
Then came a flash in front of me, the
flare of his rifle—and my head seemed
to burst. A bullet had hit me on the
left side of my face about half an
inch from my eye, smashing the cheek
bones. I put my hand to my face and
fell forward, biting the ground and
kicking my feet. I thought I was dy-
ing, but, do yeu know, my past life did
not unfold before me the way it does
in novels.
The blood was streaming down my
tunic, and the pain was awful. ‘When
I came to I said to myself, “Emp, old
boy, you belong in Jersey City, and
you'd better get back there as quickly
as possible.”
(Continued next week).
JUST KEEP A FISHIN’.
“Hi Somers was the durmdest cuss
Fer ketchin’ fish he sure was great!
He never used to make no fuss
About the kind of pole or bait,
Br weather, neither; he'd jest say
‘I got to ketch a mess today,’
An’ toward the creek you'd see him slide,
A whistlin’ soft an’ walkin’ wide.
I says one day to Hi, says T;
How do you always ketch ‘em, Hi?
He gave his bait another swishin,
An’ chucklin’ says, ‘I jest keep fishin.”
It wasn’t so much the bait or pole,
It wasn’t so much the fishin’ hole,
That won for Hi his big success;
'Pwas jest his fishin’ on, I guess;
A cheerful, stiddy, hopeful kind
Of keepin’ at it—don’t you mind ?
And that is why I can’t help wishin’
That more of us would jest keep fishin’.
—The Penn Mutual Life Ins. Co.
lished by MacMillan Company:
Fuel Requirement:
| Breakfast:
Fruit
quettes, cheese sauce or egg,
~ Rolls
Dinner:
Potatoes or rice or baked banana
Spinach or other green vegetable
Crackers or bread and butter ....
Fuel Requirement:
Breakfast:
Cream
Luncheon:
Potatoes or macaroni
A Days’ Food Plan for a Woman.
Dr. Mary Swartz Rose and given in her book “Feeding the Family,” pub-
eC vet edes shrines vis escent ens isn nt ny
Cereal or omelet or bacon ........
Toast or muffins ........ccc00nte
Bruit vor. cioneeisvrnniiinrven
SOUP 2: cevsnaiinri on ranaasnney
Croutons or crackers ............
Roast beef or nut loaf or meat pie
Ces es eset n ssn ene
Lettuce, tomato or other simple Salad... vai een
Sherbet. or custard or fruit jelly or whip ............... 200-300 Calories
Fresh or stewed fruit ...........
Creamed fish or fish balls or eggs .
ana ra a 100-200 Calories |
Toast or MUffing ...ccescvesonse.
sess sss sss ss ss see
ciek stare seme tie esses aisle ae siecle ns 0 swe nies bees ey
Thick soup with crackers or cheese or nut salad or scal-
o Yoped eggs and tomatoes or cold meat and potatoes. .250-400 Calories
read... i. ieee
sss ssnssssssesssssesssase
Seale ease s0242300-200 Calories
Dinner:
Soup with rice, noodles or vegetables .......c0venneens 25-100 Calories
Roast rump of beef or mutton or pork chop ........... 200-350 Calories
Boiled onions or other seasonable vegetable ........... 150-200 Calories
Simple vegetable salad or celery or olives .......... ... 50-150 Calories
Ly BO ER er RS NE rR 50-200 Calories
Butter ........... Faesavesinetsinehanvararnnvsinnane 50-200 Calories
Fruit gelatin or tapioca or brown betty or fruit pie ..... 200-400 Calories
Total range of Calories as given in this plan 2200-3400 Calories
Next week—“A Days’ Food Plan for a Man.”
'
Health and Happiness, Number 43.
:
|
To aid in planning meals and knowing approximately how much energy |
is being supplied we give the following daily food plans, as worked out by
|
|
i
A Day’s Food Plan for a Sedentary Woman.
1800-2300 Calories :
100 Calories |
50-100 Calories
50-200 Calories
Butler oe ci ii iiirssenrelossiiirevinansinn 33-100 Calories
Cereal, coffee with cream and sugar or milk or cafe :
AR 1a OF COCOB .....csecivsvssscsesansaarsnnisnns 100-200 Calories |
400-600 Calories |
Luncheon: |
Cream soup or creamed meat on toast or macaroni cro-
fish, or cheese salad. .150-250 Calories !
Cetera ie valentin 100-150 Calories
50-100 Calories
Cia ee ie eet ae 100-150 Calories
ea tenes sven 150-175 Calories
600-800 Calories
Ca 250100 Calories
25-50 Calories
ii iia 150-300 Calories
i eas irra 100-150 Calories
10-50 Calories
15-50 Calories |
75-150 Calories !
800-1000 Calories |
Total range of calories as given in this plan 1800-2500 Calories |
A Day’s Food Plan for an Active Woman.
2600-3000 Calories
50-100 Calories
50-150 Calories !
Cas Site aa ee 100-300 Calories |
eR rae Ee ey 100-200 Calories
hh Ee saa 50-150 Calories
. 50-100 Carories
i
i
|
600-800 Calories
i
i
ne ng 100-200 Calories
a ora 200-400 Calories
. 700-1200 Calories
heed aaa a eles 150-250 Calories
900-1400 Calories
Have any of my little readers ever
eaten too many “sweets” or green ap-
ples and afterward felt awfully sick?
N-a-u-s-e-a is a big word for little
people but spell it over several times
and learn how to speak it correctly
for many grown-up persons do .not
know. “Sick at my stomach” is how
we usually describe this uncomforta-
ble feeling but nausea is a better word
and the proper one to use. :
Running the finger down the throat
or drinking a large quantity of warm
water will often cause vomiting and
this is a speedy means of getting over
the sick feeling. A teaspoonful of
mustard or salt in a cupful of warm
water is easy to get and easy to take
First Aid Lessons
FOR
BOYS and GIRLS
LESSON IV—EMETICS.
for the same purpose. You have all
heard of ipecac, I know, and this rem-
edy “should be in all first-aid cup-
boards. It is given in doses of from
one to two teaspoonfuls.
But, dears, don’t eat too much of
anything even if it does look and
taste very good and chew, chew, chew,
your food. These are the best rules
for preventing n-a-u-s-e-a.
Later, I am going to tell you more
about foods and what you should eat
for if you learn when you are little
then you won’t have to have all the
pains and aches that grown-ups have.
Wouldn’t it be nice to keep well all
the time? And that is what I am
going to try and help you to learn.
Flan Drastic Cut in Pleasure Cars.
Washington.—Leading automobile
manufacturers of the country met a
few days ago with officials of the fu-
el administration and war industries
board to agree upon a voluntary cur-
tailment of passenger automobile
manufacture which probably will to-
tal 7b per cent. after July 1. There
already is a 30 per cent. curtailment
order in effect.
Final action was not taken owing
to the failure of several manufactur-
ers to reach the city in time for the
meeting. The fuel administration
has adopted the policy of asking at
least 75 per cent. of any industry
whose production is under considera-
tion for curtailment to be represented
at such conferences. It is expected
that within the next day or two a suf-
ficient representation of the industry
will get together to carry out the pro-
gram.
While no official statement as to the
percentage of curtailment to be
stated in quarters close to the man-
stated in quarters close to the man-
ufacturers and the fuel administraton
that the manufacturers have recog-
nized that drastic restriction of the
output of pleasure and other passen-
ger cars would be made necessary
owing to the shortage of chrome and
manganese. The fuel administration,
it is understood, has determined on a
75 per cent. curtailment and the man-
ufacturers virtually have agreed. It
is expected a formal order will be is-
sued in ten days or two weeks, effec-
tive July 1.
The policy of the government will
be to convert to war work the facili-
ties of plants freed by the curtail-
ment order. Much of this will be the
manufacture of light trucks for use by
the government in relieving pressure
on the railroads. ;
One effect of the curtailment will
be to release many expert mechanics
for essential war industries.
na emir mts
— New Jersey State Highway
Commission will employ convicts in
the construction of the State highway
system.
War Garden Onions.
While some kind-hearted souls dis-
like onion odor, most war gardeners
will find it profitable to grow them,
even if they are not desired at the
family table. Green onions may be
sold in small bunches, and many a
youngster can collect numerous thrift
stamps peddling the onions about the
neighborhood. For all people don’t
dislike green onions!
Onions are grown from seed, sets
and multipliers, one bulb containing
three or more onions, each will grow
into a separate onion. The sets are
very small one-onion bulbs, and pro-
duce but one stalk and one bulb.
These are best green.
Onion seed is sown early in the
spring, as early as the ground can be
spaded, and take from 140 to 150 days
to mature, but may be pulled earlier
and eaten green, part of the stalk
with the bulb. “When the stalk dries
the bulbs may be taken out and stored
for winter use.
The seed should be sown half an
inch deep, in rows about a foot apart.
Care should be taken to keep the
weeds down from the very start. An
onion row gives harder weed work
than anything else, for the onion
plants are so tiny when young that it
is hard to keep from tearing them out
as weeds are hoed, and weeds have a
mean habit of growing near the tiny |
onion seedlings. Weed by hand. ¢
If you plant sets, dig a trench
about three inches deep, and cover
the bulb, which should be set upright
in the furrow. Plant two or three
inches apart in rows and from eight
to twelve inches apart.
This season onion sebs are going to |
be so high in price that it may be
more profitable to use seed almost ex-
clusively. This makes it needful to
get an extra early start, by sowing in
hotbed or window box. Don’t pull up
the seedling; try to scoop up the soil
around it and transplant the whole
thing. This will be easier if the seed
is well moistened a few hours before
transplanting.
AMERICA’S MEN.
We are America’s men,
Strong, forceful, and free,
We are America’s men,
Children of liberty;
Ready to march at a trumpet’s call,
Ready to fight, ready to fall—
| And ready to herald “Peace for all!”
We are America’s men.
We are America’s men,
Brave, dauntless, and true,
We are America’s men,
Ready to dare and do;
Ready to wield the sword with might,
Ready the tyrant’s brow to smite—
And ready to sheathe the sword—for
Right!
We are America’s men.
We are America's men,
Loathing the despot’s rod,
We are America’s men,
Under the rule of God;
Ready to battle giants grim.
Ready to fight till day grows dim,
But ready to sheathe the sword—for Him!
We are America’s men.
—Thomas Curtis Clark.
Forest Fires and Fire Wardens.
Another forest fire ravished a con-
siderable area on Bald Eagle moun-
tain northwest of Bellefonte last Fri-
day evening doing considerable dam-
age. Fire fighters from Spring and
Boggs townships worked hard and
succeeded in checking the flames be-
fore they reached any farm buildings
located on the mountains. While the
damage from forest fires grows less
as the season advances and the brush
becomes green with leaves yet the mid-
summer season is always the worst
when everything is burned almost as
dry as tinder by the sun. For this
reason everybody who goes into the
woods should exercise the greatest
care regarding fires. And if a fire is
discovered anywhere and it is impos-
sible to extinguish it yourself prompt-
ly notify the nearest fire warden. For
the information of the public general-
ly we append a complete list of the
fire wardens in Centre county:
Boggs.—Edward Reese, Snow Shoe.
Burnside.—James Sankey, Pine Glenn.
College.—J. Frank Wasson, Lemont.
Curtin.—Oscar C. Weaver, Howard.
Ferguson.—J. I. Reed, Pine Grove Mills.
W. T. Wrye, Warriorsmark.:
Grege—L, Bs Smith, Spring Mills.
; Rachau, Madisonburg.
W. H. Weaver, Spring Mills.
Haines.—C. D. Motz, Woodward.
A. S. Stover, Aaronsburg.
L. L. Weaver Woodward.
H. J. Wingard, Coburn.
Halfmoon.—J. P. Eves, Stormstown.
Harris.—Robt. G. Bailey, Boalsburg.
J. H. Jacobs, Boalsburg.
J. H. Keller, Boalsburg.
W. A. Leech, State College.
J. W. Swabb, Linden Hall.
Huston,—H. K. Mattern, Julian.
Liberty.—J. W. Crader, Blanchard.
Wm. Counsil, Monument.
C. W. Bartley, Zion.
J. W. Holmes, Nittany.
Miles.—Clem H. Gramley, Rebersburg.
Leslie M. Stover, Livonia.
John L. Wolfe, Livonia.
Milesburg.—Ed. Quick, Milesburg.
Millheim.—E. J. Musser, Millheim.
Patton.— Walter J. Stine, Waddle.
Geo. B. Thompson, State College.
Potter.—H. A. McClellan, Tusseyville.
Frank Philips, Centre Hall.
W. F. McKinney, Spring Mills.
J. C. Rossman, Centre Hall.
Rush.—L. E. Hess, Philipsburg.
Miles Hoover, Sandy Ridge.
0. P. McCord, Philipsburg.
Chas. McMullen, Philipsburg.
Geo. W. Pfoutz, Sandy Ridge.
Snow Shoe.—Jas. F. Uzzle, Snow Shoe.
Spring.—L. G. Barnes, Pleasant Gap.
J. H. Cole, Bellefonte.
W. R. Hoover, Bellefonte.
Taylor.—Al Newman, Port Matilda.
Union.—Ed. T. Hall, Fleming.
Walker.—Wm. M. Harnish, Mingoville.
Wm. KE. Kessinger, Nittany.
Worth.—John Kelly, Port Matilda.
H. C. Woodring, Port Matilda.
Marion.
Many Good Government Positions
Open.
Positions are open for hundreds of
trained men and many women in the
ordnance department of the army,
and the United States Public Service
Reserve is endeavoring to recruit the
quota assigned to Pennsylvania. Po-
i sitions range from clerkships to high-
ly technical posts and salaries are
from $1000 to $4500.
So necessary is it for the ordnance
department to fill the posts that civil
ed in all cases excepting for clerk-
bookkeepers.
A list of the positions open and
number of workers desired follows:
64 assistant to business manager,
$1800; 47 expert in business adminis-
tration, $2000 to $3000; 32 statistical
experts, $1800 to $4500; 466 mechan-
ical engineers, $3500; 335 supervising
inspectors of ordnance material,
$2500 to $2900; 470 assistant inspec-
tors ordnance material, $1600 to
$2400; 92 mechanical draftsmen, $1200
to $1800; 97 junior chemists, $1020 to
$1800; 116 metallurgical chemists,
$1000 to $2400; 134 powder and ex-
plosive chemists, $1000 to $2400; 9 in-
spectors of cartridge cases, $1600 to
$2400; 9 inspectors of assembling,
loading, etc., $1600 to $2400; 9 inspec-
tors of forgings, $1600 to $2400; any
number inspectors high explosive
shell loading, $1600 to 2400; any num-
ber ballistic inspectors, $1600 to
$2400.
Positions for men and women:
9 clerks qualified in statistics, $1000
to $1800; 9 clerks qualified in office
administration, $1000 to $1800; 9
clerks qualified in accounting, $1000
to $1800; 9 clerks qualified in business
administration, $1000 to $1800; 56
clerk bookkeepers, $1100 to $1200.
Applicants are requested to com-
municate immediately with the near-
est director of the Public Service Re-
serve. Men in class 1 of the draft are
not eligible for these positions.
State College Engineers Named for
Officers’ Camp.
Four recent graduates of The Penn-
sylvania State College have been des-
ignated for appointment to’ the first
engineer officers’ training camp which
will open May 5 at Camp Lee, Peters-
burg, Va. The State College appoin-
tes are: G. P. Bodnar, 18, of Pitts-
burgh; G. A. Winchester, ’18, of Be-
mus Point, N. Y.; Earl D. Miller, ’17,
of McKeesport, and P. J. F. Derr, '18,
of Tamaqua. They were selected
from a large number of applicants on
the basis of schoralship and military
EE mar——
— Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
ability.
serivee requirements have been waiv-"
&
Nod
%
-n