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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH Gty in Itself, Great Lakes Naval Training Center Is Largest of Its Kind in the World A WHO'S - NEWS Military Promotions By Merit Easy? Of Newspaper tions ... .t "land-lubber- 1 s" hard-hittin- n, o s. te trail-blaz- When a jelly wffl not set, add few drops of lemon juice and th difficulty will be overcome. ...Limiting Number Army seagoing fighters with Uncle iliary corps take up their quarfor Offi- - Sam's fleet. ters, wr ry f rr 1.01. r unit m rutin cers trainiAt this great naval training base, In WAAC Kick, ng, there 40 miles north of Chicago on Lake no Michigan, far from salt water, the Out Cuardhoute will be guardhouse. navy is undertaking the huge task of fx , CoL Don C. Faith, commandant into 1 transforming men of the greatest g of the corps, says "Standards of conduct of women are generally fleet in the world. Greatest of all naval training cenhigher than those of men. We anticipate no trouble. If there is, there ters in the world during World War will be a discharge, rather than dis- L the station again bears that reputation. In the near future, 11 camps, Color guard at Great Lakes naval training station. cipline." each bearing the name of a navy The tactful Colonel Faith, a hero, will provide training and liv- three inches and no taller than six determine their fitness for naval genial Hoosler who used to be sailhowservice, the "stripping" process bean army educator, will, ing quarters for men on the station. feet four inches. But would-b- e Bron-sowho ors answer this general descrip- gins. First the "civvies" go into These camps will be Barry, ever, allow a beauty parlor, if not a guardhouse. He says Luce, Paul Jones, Perry, Dew- tion are subjected to a rigid and boxes for shipment home. Then the men go through the line. thorough physical and dental examiey, Lawrence, Porter, Moffet, Morthere's no reason why women row and Mclntire, the latter being nation upon arrival at the station, Each enlisted man in the navy or when shouldn't get a hair-dbefore they are finally accepted. the hospital area of the station. naval reserve is given an allotment they need It and there'll be time out for' that But this doesn't Supplying approximately 35 per Primary examinations are given of $118 for uniforms and equipment. cent of the enlisted personnel of the at various recruiting stations and mean a soft time for the soldier-girlMore than 700 experienced stewfleet. Great Lakes is the headquarThere wIH .be seven sometimes physical defects are ards, bakers, butchers and storeters of the Ninth naval district. The overlooked, because many of the classes a day and one keepers man huge mess halls on district Includes 13 midwestern tests required are not available at the period of drill. station, while a veritable army NeSouth and states: North Dakota, The women who have qualified for outlying recruiting centers. Statis- of mess attendants recruits who tics show that between 50 and 60 per must spend some time in mess halls officer's training have been chosen braska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, from several thousand applicants. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ken- cent of applicants applying at re- as part of their training serve the The full complement of the fort tucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. cruiting stations are rejected for Bluejackets. Twelve general mess of the district and eventually will be about 25,000 wom- Commandant officer of the station is physical or mental defects, or other halls now are operated on the staconditions. en. They will serve in kitchen po- commanding tion. Downes. lice, as barracks orderlies, clerks Rear Adm. John The physical examination at Great Cafeteria Style. trainof the Construction original and messengers and in many other is of a routine but thorough of the great number of Because Great Lakes was au- Lakes conducted station at ing been have men which in offcapacities by medical nature, in an men of thorized act three "squares" a by congress consuming used. icers who are specialists in the va1904. Seven years later, Presthe navy serves its food cafeApril, day, examfields of a The medicine. rious Colonel lean The tall, Faith, ident William Howard Taft officialteria style, in compartment trays. ination includes surgical, orthopedIn this kind of orThe men "poish off" their meals at ly opened the station on October 28, his Job takes ic, easily psychological, ganization, 1911. It consisted of 33 buildings andpsychiatric,nose and throat exam- long, cleanly scrubbed tables. To and casually and gives assureye, ear, of land located on a tract the results of which deter- facilitate operations at the concluance that the women will be and it housed 1,400 men. With the inations, a man's physical fitness for sion of each meal, the sailors stack mine inducted smoothly Into army outbreak of war in 1917, 900 build- the service. their trays, dishes and silerware, routine. While be Is friendly and which are then sent to automatic ings were constructed. More than Informal In manner, he is known Each man is subjected to a 125,000 men were trained for the dish washers for a speedy cleansing. in the army as a careful and examination of his chest fleet during the first world conflict. Each mess hall is equipped with a competent officer and, while the and to the various blood and labora- modern erected The hair-do buildings during and galley, butcher shop, vegetheir girls may get tory tests. He is also immunized table locker, World War I were temporary strucbake shop, refrigeraall that, there will be no slack fever for smallpox, typhoid, yellow tures and were dismantled after the store rooms and bread tors, room, administration of the corps. and tetanus. rooms. signing of the Armistice. Today oth"They'll do a grand job," says er temporary structures are being In some cases where there is issuing Fruits and vegetables are delivthe colonel. to handle the daily influx doubt as to the physical or mental ered daily to insure freshness; carHe has held an army commission provided he is sent fitness of an individual, of recruits in this new war. onions and rutabagas are lo25 years, which experience includes rots, to the U. S. Naval hospital here A Unit. grown and locally purchased; cally service on the Mexican border and of observation and for a Extensive facilities of the station study. period at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, and After this period, if the in- cheese, butter, eggs and poultry are unit. There dividual is found to be physically trucked in from Illinois and in the first World war. Ha was on make it a are offices, barracks, mess halls, and Dry provisions, such, as duty in the Philippines in 1922-2mentally qualified, he is outfitand in Tientsin, China, in 1931-3classrooms, drill halls, gymnasiums, ted and takes his place in recruit canned tomatoes, are requisitioned in carload lots from the Navy SupGreat Britain has made a tre- store houses and large hospitals. The training. at Norfolk, Va. Coffee mendous success of its women's aux- station has its own barber shops, In cases where minor surgical ply Depot lots from iliary corps, which now includes hostess house, post office, tailor conditions are discovered, the indi- is received in about 7,000,000 women. Fort Des shop, laundry and shoe shop. There viduals are sent to the naval hos- the Provision and Clothing Depot at Moines is just a beginning for us, are three swimming pools and ten Brooklyn, N. Y., where the navy pital, where the conditions are cor- operates its own roasting plant. and Colonel Faith thinks we can regulation ABC bowling alleys. rected before the recruit is accepted do even better. But more important than the for naval service. Sixteen different varieties of fruits buildings and facilities are the men and vegetables are served in genAll of Life. Walks Men From thousands of Americans ranging mess: Potatoes, cabbage, tureral TV4AJ. GEN. FOLLETT BRAD-V- 1 is a The great leveler. navy nips, tomatoes, broccoli, apples, tanLEY, commanding general of from beardless youths to men in When contingents of recruits pour gerines, their forties who were Bluejackets in the First air force, with headquaroranges, lettuce, 1917 and 1918. Besides being a perinto the naval training station to be- peppers, cucumbers, onions,celery, R. baMitchel rates Y., ters at Field, fect physical specimen, the Blue- gin "boot" training, they present a nanas and cranberries. More Difficult for th" jacket of 1942 is A- in intelligence, colorful picture in contrast but not - courage and patriotism. Anxiously for long. effecleast Japt to Interpret he learns the seafaring lessons beThere are professional men and w" Our Native Idiom Uncle Sam's Bombers ing taught by veterans of the fleet. highly paid factory workers, men in He weapons. will have none of them around the Expectantly he awaits the day when smartly tailored suits, farm boys in field, not even "Remember Pearl he will graduate from the ranks of a overalls, cow hands from the West The history of the U. S. army d boots and sombreros, in Harbor." He is, however, hospitable recruit to that of a bombing planes begins with the n to native, idiom, just as sailor. prosperous men and poor men, men USD-9De Haviland, finished just with long hair, men with short hair it happens along, uses a lot of it Requirements of Recruits. 1918 to see action in the too in late n of a America. himself , and commends the boys Fundamentally, a recruit must be World war. It was powered "who keep the flies oft the horse's between the ages of 17 and 50 and After recruits have undergone First by a single Liberty back," referring to the aerial gun- must be no shorter than five feet physical and dental examinations to "12" engine, America's outstanding ners of his command in whom he contribution to World war aviation, takes special pride. and had a speed of about 125 miles "The expression Is not mine," an hour. It carried a crew of two said the general. "It's their own and a bomb load of 480 pounds. Its and it's very apt. It is a light range was about 800 miles. While way of saying that they keep it had a ceiling of more than 18,000 If destruction away. the aerial feet, the crude bombsights of the gunners weren't up there doing day made bombing at even a few their job every time one of our thousand feet pretty much of a hit bombers goes out over the Liband miss affair. yan desert or China or the PacifThe first of the bombers would ic, many bomber was the Glenn Marfail In (heir mission and many tin bomber, designed by the U. S. would never get home." army air corps engineers for night This came up in connection with bombardment over . the Western talk of this month marking the genFront during World War I. It had eral's' 23rd straight year in the air bomb bays which were opened to services of the army, and the fact release its "pay" load of 1,040 that operating a fighter or bomber The Glenn Martin weighed pounds. plane is a matter of a complex ormore than five tons. This weight is of human and technical ganization less than that of a modern single-engifactors, undreamed of when the genfighter plane, and less than eral first went aloft. the weight of the "Every bombing mission is a and 4 of today. matter of team work," said Gen- A startling development in army ertl Bradley. "It is not by any bomber design was the high wing means just a piloting job. The monoplane known as Atlantic LB-aerial gunner is a member of Ahead of its time, and an adaptathe team without whom the mistion for military use of the famous sion might fail. So is the bom- Fokker VII transport, the LB-- 2 saw bardler, the navigator, the engiA "Flying Fortress" of the latest series, a with the army air corps beservice Its at way wings neer and everyone else in the more than 300 miles an hour to drop its tons of bombs with deadly accuracy tween 1926 and' 1931. It was capable crew. The failure of one can on an enemy objective. hold seven national speed records and have of carrying a bomb load of 2,000 mean the destruction of all." pounds. He said he was getting a "splendid a range of more than 3,000 miles. With the advent of the of. the young men for all these type army air corps went back to the jobs" and stressed his view that the Now Very biplane design. The had a war would be won by "straight speed of 110 miles per hour and a shooting with bullets and bombs." Unlike Murmansk, the harbor at range of about 750 miles. Both the coming of summer and He was overseas in the last big war, The modern army bomber came Archangel is frozen over from late both as an aerial gunner and pilot, the recent bombing attacks by GerOctober until June, and can be kept of age with the Martin man planes on Russia's which having learned flying in 1912. A Naval academy alumnus from Omaha, pert of Murmansk have turned at- open for a part of that period only attained a speed of more than 200 tention to Archangel, farther east by the use of powerful icebreakers. miles per hour and had a of Neb., with an extraordinarily diver- on the White sea. Archangel Is The January mean temperature of in excess of 1,000 miles. range In sified career, he was transferred to 300 miles farther from seven degrees, Fahrenheit, rises to 1934, a flight of ten Martin July, more than 0 the field artillery in 1912, in ord60 degrees in August. bombers flew from Washington, D. nance from 1914 to 1917, stationed at the North pole than is the of Murmansk, and is about 500 The port also can connect with C, to Fairbanks, Alaska, and remany air service fields, including port the Canal Zone and schooled in sev-e- rl miles closer by rail to Moscow, says the Baltic sea during normal sum- turn, a total distance of 8,290 miles, e the National Geographic society in mers through the sea which was covered in 51 hours and army schools. a recent bulletin. canal, which was completed in 1933. 30 minutes flying time. -- Always warm the. pot befort making coffee, then sprinkle a little salt on the coffee before adding the boiling water. This wi3 improve the flavor. CARTER FIELD From farms, factories, offices and classrooms of the great , Midwest plains area, thousands VAl of men today are on the march. WEEK Since that fateful Sunday oi December 7 when Japanese Br LEMUEL F. PARTON rained on Pearl Harbor, bombs Consolidated Features. WNU BeJeM. been heading toward have they At Fort Des the naval YORK. NEW training station, Great where the fast 330 enbent on becoming HI., Lakes, Auxtrants of the Women's :it StliriTStt RevitwtJ by Thousands of Youths Are Trained There Each Day. THIS yvf HLOUSEHOU) NATIONAL AFFAIRS . er X-ra- y, 167-ac- re photo-fluoroscop- ic nt Wis-consi- nt 3, 2. 5,000-pou- nd -l full-fledg- high-heele- home-grow- A Edi- A finger cnt from an old jlov and slipped over the end of a Feature Bell Syndicate curtain-ro- d enables it to be pushed of the finest through curtain-hem- s wcnivr.Tnv Rnm of the criti- - net without catching and tearing cism of British generalship and of the fabric. certain admirals in our own nav- yChamois leather gloves will not is nhsnlutplv iust. But it is a gooa deal simpler to criticize than to find dry stiff if, after washing, they are rinsed in warm water to which a the answer. teaspoonful of pure olive oil has General The statement that been added. Rommel, were he in the British atnow have army, might by Never run your electric cords tained the rank of sergeant, is an argument that, if followed . under rugs. through to its logical conclusion, Porch rockers will not "walk" would lead to some interesting if a strip of felt is glued on the thoughts. bottom of each rocker. Certainly it is not true that in the not a United States navy anyone Kerosene will soften boots and graduate of Annapolis could never shoes that have been hardened by a even nor admiral hope to be an water. captain. Few men promoted from the enlisted personnel have ever gotten beyond the grade of lieutenant commander two grades below captain. J. Naval officers will explain, when By JERRY LINK on the defensive, that usually the men are so much older, when, for some demonstrated ability, they reach the commissioned rank, that it is not in the nature of things that they should get very much further up the ladder of promotion before retirement for age. In the army it is much easier for a Point man to get up, especially if he had a good education before entering the service. But most of these cases also will be found not to have resulted from promotions from the enlisted personnel. Usually these men went into the Uncle Jed always used to Bay, army as commissioned officers be"Thlngs'd be a whole lot cause of qualifications suited to the If folks would just live so's of induction. period they'd never be ashamed to sell WVU nwvi'" . Fuller Pep non-We- st pleas-ant- er Nazis Do It We Don't The real problem comes right down to this what is there about the German system which makes the development of a Rommel possible, and which makes such a development in either the British or U. S. army and navy almost unthinkable? There is no doubt that there could be some form of liberalization of our promotion systems, and the British, which would result in a substantial improvement. But it is not half as easy as it sounds. It is so easy to say that men should be promoted by merit rather than seniority. But HOW is that merit to be determined and by whom? That's where the trouble comes in. The moment we aban don seniority in a democratic form of government, or a country recognizing the class system as unofficially and extra legally as Britain does, we open the door even wider to favoritism than is alleged to have been the case in Britain. It is well to remember that our own army and navy have not been free from political promotions. Each war we have engaged in has brought forth political pressure for certain military appointments. This business of determining promotions is far from easy. the family parrot to the town gossip." An' speakln' o' parrots, reckon I must sound like one, the way I'm always talkm' about vitamins an' KELLOGG'S PEP I But it's mighty important to get your vitamins all of 'em! And g KELLOGG'S PEP is in the two vitamins, Bi and D, that are most likely to be short In ordinary meals. An', PEP'S plumb delicious, toot extra-stron- anal that nipptia per urr'm (1 or.): tht full minimum daily need of vitamin D; 14 tht daily nted of ritamin Bu A dtliciotu Having Contentment The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich. George Eliot. liTnTuMMl'lMniil co MUCH FARTHti AI v 'WWIM JUST A DASH IN FEATHERS. T3 cross-sectio- , twin-engin- ed ne one-four-th B-- 17 B-2- . 2. B-1- B-3-A , Russian Summer Port Busy rn B-3- A B-- B-1- ice-fr- ee Baltic-Whit- Fear of Restrictions on Freedom of the Press There is a very strong desire on the part of the government to curtail the number of editions put out by newspapers in big cities. Naturally there is considerable fear that any attempt to butt into this situation will be resented as an interference with the freedom of the press. The fact remains that a reduction in the number of editions would help tremendously in saving rubber. In most cities where this is important the publishers would love to have some excuse to curtail, always providing of course that their competitive interests are not hurt. Thus if there are two morning newspapers in one city (there are only about eight such cities) both papers would save considerable money if there should be no edition of either until say 10 o'clock at night. There is another element which makes the whole issue a hot potato. Government interference would be bitterly resented in certain cities where the paper, which might reasonably contend that it was hurt by the restriction,, is branded as an I'T.i,.'. Mormon vrt low l" i . HtW 550.000 ,H- - tnn ,ihtf. paper. But there is another complication both in these cities and in the greater number of cities where there is only one morning newspaper, but keen competition between the morning and afternoon newspapers for circulation and advertising. This is that at present the morning paper gets a certain additional amount .of circulation by reason of very early editions. As a matter three newspaper men out of four the writers, not the publishersdespise early editions only read them, or rather glance at them, because it is a part of their job. SETTER OF STANDARDS Advertising is the great setter of standards in American business life. Adver- tised goods are the standard by which you spend your income, confident of getting your money's ' worth every day. , |