Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 38

Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, chief of Chemical Warfare Service, I8 pleased over the results obtained by the mem- bers of the Chmical Warfare Reserve Offigers’ Training i Corps _unit from s achusetts In stitite of Tech- melogy. svhich this past week end concluded its siX_weeks® course of ‘nstruction, at t h e Chemical Warfare School, Edgewood Arse- nal, Mary land. The success of this organization was such that plans are being formed to have a second ; one in training ne x t year. Recommendations have been made on several different occasions that authority be given for the organiza- tion of a second chemical warfare unit, but up to this time it has never been given War Department sanction: MAJ. GEN. FRIES, There will be shown in the report of the Surgeon General of the Army a totai strength of about 17,500 in the Medical Department Reserve Corps. The strength of the various corps of the Medical Department Reserve 1s as follows: Medical Corps, Dental Corps, 1,041; Medical 1.496; and Sanitary Cor accomplishment. it is pointed out in the War Department, is largely due to the interest and zeal displayed by physicians of the country in their.en- deavor to attain the proper medical service for the Army under a general mobilization plan. The number of physicians now en- rolled in the Reserve Corps and avail- able for assignment to units and training, it will be observed, is less than 50 per cent of the number Which will be required under the general mobilization plan. It is the desire of the Surgeon General that the medical profession ‘of the country be kept fully informed as to the status of the medical preparedness program, and the hope has been expressed that the military obligations of the medical profession for the development of a ealthy Reserve Corps,,will result at an early date in the successful frul tion of the War Department plans for an enrollment sufficient to complete the organization of units which will be necessary for military service un- der the general moblization plan 1t will be of interest to all Reserve chaplains residing in Washington to know that Army regulations govern- ing the chaplain school and the ap- pointment and promotion of chaplains in the Officers’ Reserve Corps are in the process of revision and publica- tion. These regulations will be pub- s Army regulations 300-1,500 respectively. The regula- tions pertaining to the chaplains’ school have been printed and will be distributed shortly, while the Reserve Corps regulations, which have been under consideration In_the War De- partment general staff, should be printed in the near future. Instructions _have been issued by 80th Division headquarters, of which all Washington units are a part, that all Reserve officers assigned or at- tached to that division and unassigned Reserve officers residing in the 80th Division area who have not been ordered to active duty training ‘for periods since June 30 will be given &n opportunity to attend camp. The War Department has advised the above headquarters that not less than 85 per cent of the funds allotted for the entire fiscal vear 1927 to the 3d Corps Area, for the training of Reserve officers on 15 days' active duty be expended during the first quarter of the present fiscal year. In order to comply with the War Department in- structions, directions have been issued that all officers assigned to the 80th Division as well as those unassigned officers residing within that division’s area. ~vho have not been ordered to active duty during the present fiscal {er«rv will be given ample opportunity o apply for training prior to Septem- ber 15, 1926. Training will be held for 15 day riods between July 15 and Septem- r 15, except division headquarters, which is between August 15 and 29, as follows: Assigned officers—Division .~ head- quarters, location to be designated later: Infantry, Fort Eustis, Va.; Fleld Artillery, Fort Hoyle, Md.; Engineers, Fort Humphreys, Va.; Air Service, Langley Field, Va.; Medical Depart- ment, at- posts, camps and stations under the jurisdiction of 3d Corps Area headquarters;- Special ~Troops {less tanks), Fort Eustis, Va.; Tanks, Camp Meade, Md. Those unassigned officers from Washington who will apply for 15 days' training duty between now and September 15, 1926, will undergo their active duty instruction at the places indicated—Adjutant General’s Depart- ment, 3d Corps Area Headquar- ters, Baltimore; Air Service,” Langley Field, Va., Chaplains, Fort Eustis, Va., or Fort Hoyle, Md.; Chemical Warfare Servcie, Edgewood Arsenal, Md.; Engineers, Fort Humphreys, Va.; Field Artillery, Fort Hoyle, Md; Finance Department, Fort Eustis or Yort Hoyle; General Service, Fort Fustis or Fort Hoyle; Infantry, Fort Mustis,- Va.; Inspector General’s De- partment, 34 Corps Area Head- auarters; Judge Advocate General's Department, 3d Corps Area Head- quarters; Medical Department, same as assigned officers; Military Intelli- gence Department, 3d Corps Area eadquarters; Military Police, Fort Fustls, Va.; Ordnance Department, Fort Eustis, Va.; Signal Corps and Quartermaster Corps, to posts, camps and stations under the jurisdiction of 34 Corps Area Headquarters; and Specialists Reserve, heéadquarters 3d Qorps Area. Provided proper energy is devoted to the task, large and efficlent Air Reserve Officers'- Training Corps can be built up in this country, is the opinion of ‘Maj. Maxwell Kirby, Air Service, who is in command of the Ain Corps, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit at the University of Illin- ols. That university, one of the largest educational institutions in the country and whick has an enroliment of approximately 10,000 students, has two years of compulsory military training, while in the last two years of the university course such training is elective on the part of the students. e Chemicals Imitate Life. MaXking -lifeless chemicals act as though they were allve is the feat reported by M. Herrera, a widely knowh. French chemist. M. Herrera made a solution of 14 parts of caustic soda and one part of rhodamine in 100 parts of water and poured a few drops of this into a second solution consisting of one part olive oil and two of gasoline. The drops staged a close imitation of the behavior of amoebae, one of the simplest of animat They divided, moved about vy, elongated, formed vacuoles within theémselves and constantly changed their shape. Under proper. conditions they kept up this perform- ance for as long as an hour. M. Her- rera made no claim that the drops had any properties of life. The phe- nomenon, he said, is probably due to diffusion currents, changes in osmotic pressure, surface tension and other physical and chemical influences. Damocles a Flatterer. Damocles was a flatterer in the court of Dionysius of Syracuse, says The Dearborn Independent. By way of answer to the constant praise of the happiness of kings, Dionysius seated him at a royal banquet, with a sword hung over his head by a single horse- hair. In the midst of the banquet Damocles, chancing to look upward, saw the sharp and naked weapon. This immediately taught him that, flattery was a dangerous course to pursue when dealing with kings. 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