HOME-READING COURSE FOR !
CITIZEN-SOLDIERS j
(Issued by the War Department and all rights to reprint reserved.) •
This course of thirty lessons is offered to the men selected tor
service in the National Army as a practical help in Retting started
in the right way. It is informal in tone and does not attempt to give j
binding rules and directions. These are contained in the various j
manuals and regulations of the I'nited States Array, to which this
Course is merely introductory.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE
l.KSSOX NO. 27
The spirit that dominated the
American Armies at Hunker Hill,
New Orleans, Huena \ ista, (lettys
burg. and Santiago will just as sure
ly dominate the National Army on
the battle fields of Europe.
This spirit is a compound. It is
made up in part of democratic tool
ing, in part of respect and love tor
the Nation, and in part of American
ism.
The United States Army has al
ways been and will always remain a
democratic Army. Every man in the
Army is made to feel that his brains
and his individuality count for some
thing. It is not merely a big, soul
less machine that moves with me
chanical precision. It is a team. '
Each man in the ttam is presumed to
be intelligent and self-reliant.
Democracy in the Army
Of course there can be no team
work without regularity and strict
football or baseball team. There must
also be various ranks and degrees or
authority. And sometimes tins nec
essary organization and close regula
tion creates an impression that tee
Army is not democratic.
But the fact of the case is that
American soldiers accept the reason
able discipline of the Army readily
because they have the good sense to
realize that these things are neces
sary. They accept them without los
ing in the least their independence as
free citizens.
Furthermore. American armies are
democratic because the path of promo
tion is wide open. Any man who has
a reasonable amount of ability can
practice, can study, can cultivate the
qualities of a soldier and a leader,
and can work his way up. And this
is the real test of a democratic army.
In a special sense the National Ar
my is democratic. A great democracy
must always carry on its affairs thru
chosen representatives. You are no
doubt familiar with this principle as
it is applied in time of peace. Now
it is applied in time of war. Through
a process of fair selection the Na
tional Army has been picked to repre
sent all parts of the country and all
groups of the people. Never has
America sent forth an army so truly
representative of the Nation.
There are always pessimists in ev
ery generation who insist that patriot
ism is dead or at least decaying. They
have not been lacking in recent years.
Then comes a crisis such as now con
fronts us. And always the question
of patriotism is answered by a free
outpouring of effort, money, and blood
on the part of citizens of all types in
every section of the country. 1 his is
exactly what is now going on—and
what will continue to go on with in
creasing force until the war is brot
to a victorious end.
Everybody .Must Help
Every citizen of the I’nited States
now has or will have certain duties to
perform, certain sacrifices to make.
The burden hoes not rest wholly upon
you and other men who take up arms.
It rests in part also upon the men and
women who stay behind. For mod
ern war on a big scale demands that
the whole Nation, in a sense, should
go to war. The tasks required of some
may be harder than the tasks required
of others, but all of them are neces
sary in order to make sure of the re
Many manufacturers and workers—
often women as well as men—must
give up their own work and plans in
order to produce war supplies. Those
who remain where they now are—be
cause they are engaged in some occu
pation just as necessary in war as in
peace, such as farming, mining, run
ning railroads, and the like—must go
at their work with redoubled energy
and without expecting profits for
themselves; it would be a great mis
take if everyone were taken away
from these necessary lines of effort
in order to join the colors as a soldier.
All must carry a heavy burden of tax
Ortain men—among whom you are
onti—have been or will be chosen as
rej resentatives of the Nation to de
fend car rights and safety on the bat
tlefield. You and your fellow soldiers
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are selected from the young men of
the country who are best fitted for
military sendee.
This process of organizing the whole
Nation for war cannot, of course, be
completed in a day. but it is steadily
going on. It will necessarily go on
until the end of the war. You will
have back of you and supporting you
the whole country—all its people and
all its wealth. Congress spoke the
will of the Nation in the declaration
of war: “To bring the conflict to a
successful termination all the re
sources of the country are hereby
i pledged.”
The Post of Highest Honor
The patriotic spirit which moves the
whole country will find its highest ex
pression in its soldiers—the men who
are assigned to the post of danger and
of honor. They will go all the more
willingly since they know that behind
them the whole Nation is organizing
for the national service. Their spirit
will be one of patriotic devotion fully
as intense as that of American armies
in previous wars.
The spirit of democracy and of pa
triotism is to be found also in the ar
mies of other nations fighting against
German aggression. In addition the
National Army will have its own spirit
of Americanism. It will have Amer
ican enthusiasm, good humor, fairness
even to the enemy, and self-confi
dence. It will go at its work not half
heartedly but with a vim. If there
I are temporary setbacks it will accept
them and keep on “plugging.” These!
are some of the American traditions
that will enter into the spirit of the|
National Army.
Fighting in that spirit and with the
, full strength of the country to back
1 it up. the United States Army can not
fail to achieve its objects. “Once more
we shall make good with our lives and
fortunes the great faith to which we
were born, and a new glory shall shine
in the face of our people.”
THIS SEASON
IS FAVORABLE
TO TORNADOS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20th, (By
Mail).—The present season is partic
ularly favorable to the development of
tornadoes, according to the weather
experts of the Department of Agricul
ture, which has issued a bulletin giv
ing warnings ami descriptions of
storm conditions.
It says that tornadoes are usually
preceded by high temperature and hu
midity—a weather condition generally
; said to be “sultry,” “sticky,” or “op
pressive.” Uain may come before,
with, or after a tornado, or, very rare
ly, there may beno rain at all. The ba
rometer does not foretell a tornado
though it indicates low pressures; and
tornadoes always occur in a “low
area.
The season in which tornadoes may
be expected vanes according to the
region. They may visit the Gulf states
in winter, and as the season advances,
the region of greatest frequency is in
the plains states and the Mississippi
Valley, from April to September in
clusive. In this region May is the
worst month, with April next, hast
of the Appalachian Mountains, how
ever, tornadoes rarely occur until
after July. Generally they come be
tween 3:30 and 5:00 p. m., but they
may even come at night.
Persons may somewhat avoid toma:
! do danger, by watching the local j
signs and reading the weather maps,1
which at least show the conditions
which favor tornado formation. The
local signs are heavy, dark clouds,
first in the southwest, almost immedi
: ately followed by clouds in the north
west and north. A funnel-shaped
cloud is a sure sign, though there may
be a tornado when such a cloud is not
readily seen. If a funnel cloud can
not be seen, the whirling motion of
the air may be known by a peculiar
roaring noise, somewhat like the rum
' ble of distant thunder or the approach
of a heavy train of cars.
If one can see the cloud and get an
idea of the direction in which it is
moving, the zone of safety is at right
angles to the direction of motion. The
southern margin is usually more dan*
gerous than the northern, and this
' should be remembered in seeking a
place of sufety. The width of the
path of greatest destruction is ordi
narily not more than a few hundred
yards, though this destructive diume
ter may be from some rods wide to
half a mile, or sometimes wider.
In some of the Plain states there
are so-called “cyclone0 cellars, and
where these are not available the
southwest corner of the cellar of a
frame building is the next best place.
Brick buildings are not safe, but the
cellar is probably the safest place in
them.
Weather men define a tornado as a
violent windstorm with rain or hail,
thunder and lightning, in which the
air masses whirl with great velocity
around a central core while the whole
storm travels across the country in a
narrow path at high speed.
A cyclone, in the definition of the
Weather Bureau, is not necessarily a
windstorm of great velocity, but rath
er a widespread storm that moves
with no great speed. Its width may
cover several States. This cyclone, or
area of low pressure — indicated as
“low” on the weather map—gives con
ditions essential to tornadoes. Many
cyclones never develop a tornado, but
a tornado never develops without the
cyclone, and almost invariably tne tor
nadoes occur in the southeast quarter
of the low area. About 120 cyclones!
pass across the United States each
year, moving in a general way from
west to east. They are of great bene- \
fit because they induce a movement of
surface air from the south and south-;
east, and the rainfall that makes the
great interior valleys a rich agricult
ural region is dependent upon these
southerly, moisture-bearing winds.
Tornadoes almost invariably move
in an easterly direction and generally
from southwest to northwest. The av
erage length of the path of destruc
tion is about twenty-five miles, and
this path may not be continuous, il
the funnel cloud is not in contact with
the earth during its whole course.
Sometimes it rises and goes for a con
siderable distance before descending»
again. +
WORLD SERIES
NEW YORK
AND CHICAGO
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NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—In view of
the keen intersectional interest which
will surround the coming World Ser
ies between the New oYrk Nationals
and the Chicago Americans the rec
ords of the inter-league contests of
the past assume unusual prominence.
Although so-called World Senes were
played as far back as 1884, it was not
until 1905 that the National Commis
sion took charge of and promulgated
rules for the annual autumn climax
of the baseball season.
Since that year the winning clubs
in the American and National Leagues
have met each October to decide, in
a series of the best four games out
of seven, which team should be en
titled to the championship honors of
the professional baseball world for the
ensueing twelve months. Of the past
twelve series which are now part of
diamond history, the American League;
standard bearing clubs have won sev
en and their National League rivals
five.
During these series sixty-six games
have been played giving an average
of five and a half games per series
including tie contests of which there
luive been two. In games won the:
American League leads with thirty
three to the National's thirty-one,
while of the 445 runs scored the Na-|
tional League clubs have accounted:
for 22.‘» to the Americans 222. To,
Philadelphia falls the honor of being
represented in more series by pennant,
winning clubs than any other city on
either major league circuit. Out of
: the past twelve inter-league contests
Philadelphia has participated six
times, with Chicago next with five
clubs, including the series of 190C,
whe nthe Chicago teams fought out
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the question of supremacy between
themselves, each having won the pen
nant in their respective league. Bos
ton and New York are tied with four
each, while Detroit comes next with
three and Pittsburgh and Brooklyn
complete the list with one apiece.
The shortest series of the twelve
was that of 1014 when the Boston Na
tionals defeated the Philadelphia
Americans in four straight games. The
Chicago Nations of 1007 also won four
straight from the Detroit Americans
but this run was preceded by a tie
game with the score standing 3 to 3
when darkness halted the play. The
longest series was that of 1012 in
which eight games were played with
the Boston Americans winning four
and the New York Nationls three with
one tie game thrown in for good
measure.
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6,000 POUNDS j
WHEAT CAN BE
SAVED IN A DAY:
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HONOLULU, T. H., Oct. 1. — Six
thousand pounds of wheat a day can
be saved the United States if Hono
lulu families will only eat graham or
“war” bread instead of the regulation
white loaf. Such is the announce
ment of the territorial food commis
sion which has inaugurated a foodj
conservation campaign that is expect
ed to produce results in the home thru
the school children.
Governor Pinkham issued a procla
mation on the first day of school call-1
ing to the attention of the children
the necessity for economy in food and
clothing and emphasizing the imper
ativeness of avoiding waste during the
course of the war. The schools will
conduct a special propaganda design
ed to strike home to every parent thru
the lessons to the children.
Approximately 20,000 pounds of
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residents of Honolulu and if this con
sumption were entirely of graham
bread, the above mentioned saving in
wheat w’ould result and as all flour is
imported from the mainland Hawaii
would consequently be less of a drain
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The action of the government in fix
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per bushel, is not expected to have
any effect on bread prices here. Bread
is now* selling for ten cents, a loaf that
costs six to eight cents in the States,
while the standard ten-cent loaf sells
here for fifteen cents.
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