New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1918, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1918, IULFS []AMPFUR | BUILDING ONE OF AMERICA'S IMMENSE FIELD ARTILLERY hree Year Military Course to. Open Next Fall New Haven, Feb. over vo years Yale University has been uilding up a school of field artillery view of the pr a battery Fyench 75-mm, an art ¢ armory and a hall sub-cali- actice, it is not surprising that acuities of the undergraduate hools have now decided to create three-year military to begin ext fall and to continuo while the ar -continues to fit men specifically br commis s in the artillery This is the decision reached logic- ily ®o meet a demand. The purse, which has been carefully orked out, will carry the student rough the theory and practice of feld artillery up to the point final course of training at a brve Officers’ Training Corp. ake of the successful candidate ceptionally well prepared officer In the meantime, the insistence up- an intensification of the present burs® has been promptly met al- wing the undergraduate enrolled in e R. O. T. C. to drop three more burs a week of his regular work hd to substitute three h of mi y work. It is, of cou impos ble to put into immediate effect the | W course. | The evolution of the Yale R. O. has been rather striking. Field illery training became a fixture in e fall of 1915, when, upon the ad- e of Major General Leonard Wood, e university was definitely commit- to training in this arm of the | ryice. The four batteries formed this time responded to the call | the time of the Mexican trouble Rd spent the summer of 1916 at bbyhyanna preparing for an expected | | to the border. When these National Guard bat- ries had been honorably discharged, | was possible to organize a unit of | fe R."O, T. C. This was a year ago, d four vears of military work mad pplementary to the regular ulum was to count in all as purs’ credit toward the kel 7 required for the . The declaration of war bring and the emergency formation alarge training group of 1,500 and ore students temporarily disorgan- ed the R. O. T. (. When college opened last fall, the purse_ had again been made definite. or three hours of work including irteen hours a week in all_ (one yenig lecture, three hours of sreci- tions, three hours of calisthenics, d six hours of drill) and covering ree years, the student was to bhe | edited nine hours in al] (for the ree years) toward the B.A. or the h.B. A decided step For nce of guns and for course owing where Re- will i cur- | de further away from e mormal undergraduate curricu- . the new R. O. T. C. course will | ovide an intensive schooling in jch every subject will contribute ectly to the training of an artillery ficer in accordance with the exact- demands of such a commission. the colleze man who completes work and is sent to a Reserve cers’ Training Camp to receive ad- jonal training before receives | commisson( as he has an excep- fal chance of doing), sort of r certificate or war degree will in probability be granted. The stu- t in the select course of the Scien- ¢ school may substitute the R. O €. course for a large part of his hdies and receive his Ph.B. degree the end of the three vears. The eff® student taking an engineering a chemical course will be able to ain his technical studies while pur- ng the R. O. T. C. course, thus, paring for a commission in the | ineers’ Reserve Corps he artillery student will pr he some find his DRINK HOT WATER BEFORE BREAKFAST Says you really feel clean, sweet | and fresh inside, and are seldom ill. It you are accustomeu th a coated tongue, fo dull, dizzy headache; it als sour and turn gas jds,"you have a real surprise : you. fPomorr6w morning, immediatel on arising, drink a gl of hot | ter with a teaspoonful of limestone osphate in it. This is intended to t neutralize and then wash out of | lur stomach, liver, kidneys and rty feet of intestines all the indi- stible waste. poisons, sour bile and ins,s thus cleansing, sweetening and | pritying the tire alimentary canal. Those subject to sick headaches, ckache, bilious attacks, constipation any form of stomach trouble, are Jzed to get a guarter pound of lime- ne phosphate from the drug smrp‘i begin enjoying this morning in- | e-bath. It is said that men and | me'\ who try this become enthu- stic' and keep it up daily. It is a endid health measure for it is more portant to keep clean and pure on inside than on the outside, because b skin pores do not absorb impuri- L into the blood, causing disease, ile the bowel pores do. 'he principle of bathing inside new, as millions of people prac- e it. Just as hot water and soap nse, purify and freshen the skin, hot water and a teaspoonful of nestone phosphate act on the stom- g ‘liver, kidneys and bowels. Lime- bae phosphate is an inexpensive hite powder and almost tasteless, wake up ul breath or or vour | na wait- into is VICTORY - BEARERS BRITISH “TA of the British have effective against the even these powerful The tanks proved very Germans, but \ | plos photograph, just recel One of the immense freighters be- ing built for the United States ernment supplies abroadl to our hundreds of others in the many throughout the United States. ships are being built, but still ¥ | must be had to carry our troops This ves- | supplies overseas. Skilled worl | are being formed into a huge indus- my under the department of , and each worker will receive a certiticate and button showing him to be a volunteer in this work upon which directly rests the fate of world- wide democracy. g0V~ to carry more our troops and allies. sel is nearly completed, and there are TAKING ON BOMBS FOR AN AERIAL RAID work laid out in three groups desig- nated by the first three letters of the alphabet. A" subjects while techni- cal will have value for the civi well as for the soldier. Allied sub- | jects bearing a close relation to these subjects will fall under the “B'" group; thus an R. O. T. C. student will take a French course that iill familiarize him with spoken French and with books relating to artillery, he will be drilled in English com- position with a view especally to his gaining facility in writing clear and well-constructed letters, report and various military document he will take work in science which will be upon firing, signaling and other tails of artillery, and he will study history which will reveal to him someo of the cau leading up the present war. Afternoon drills, equita- tion and other practical instruction will comprise Group “B. If a student is not of age upon coin- pleting the prescribed three years of work, he m the fourth vear ¢ work which consists of principles of strategy, may mancuve equitation and other subjects, l"'h, », to L Yale has recognized the urgent need of training men ifor the service in the most effective manner at its mand. It is a war measure, ten school of artillery, thoronghgoing and promises to bring results ¢ more notable than the results thus far attained. Alreads than hundred Yale men have heen commissioned in the branch of the in the sity has specialized. the continuation makes th need of officers highly trained in the use of the guns imperative, Yale promises to make her contribution to A the nation a notable one. com- this in- ive but it is I more seven fili service which Unive While war French aboard his aviator machine taking bombs i in preparation | for a raid over the milita lishments of the enemy. WHERE AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE FIGHTING AND LEARNING ARTILLERY WORK IN FRANCE dispatches say that they the part of the front to the north. of Toul. This would indicate t they are probably on a scctor fanious St. Mihicl salient, According to the reports from Gen- cral Pershing’s headquarters in ¥rance our troops are facing the Hun at the picturesque spot in France shown in the upper photograph. The eleventh shown be- are holding | magnificent chateau of the century at Fontainebleau low is where the Americans are train- of | ing under Fremch instructors for The | commissiong in the artillery. the