j fC hr,ica! Training of Seasoned Mechanics Solves Problem of Keeping Up Adequate Supply of Licensed Men to Drive New

Stopsr^Land-TralKed Engineers Taught Secrets of Engine-Room Practice on Salt Water.

OAFS HAY comm- TIMER BBA IgLIc CITtf. W. J.

Pig* Seven

COLLEGE STUFF” DOES WONDERS SUv/^L IN SHAPING OUT MARINE ENGINEERS { ^ se m” 0 - "

t Komancg of war

V-‘'iJastoo—“WAwre you pda* *•[«»* >i)A (&-.,Wrnhis eo^nrors. I*ro- ,. .npincei* fnr (.11 idem . ( rp*.soh K. KjJltleV. lumd ->f ilic i ncin7l^. r Miiopvbat <oll<K)uUl luqultri ‘•crlnc *tt*HoTi cf that Jn«tl- ’«< dlri-rti-d oianr ttin«-9 to .trpresPO-1 ttitlon. h<5l«U a marine engineer - * IIillre* of the United S&a*oeu»r. nod U an aothorltj <m marine uerd recrtUtln* aenrlca vUVn lBe‘b1c | prnrtlre In englneennc _« ,rf the pUu for bridcWc IK* At-' The firm uhlmilni: «Kiord elo*» at

• - - - “Tech” approved of I’rofeaaor Miller and the “college muff" ho decidedly that it had not been at the roller' a week before the vnhie of the new *y»-

tetn wna ftslly demnnatrated.

ProVwteor Miller liad been dealgnnted by the board a* Pa chief luatrurtor In marine eagineeiing. and rlaaae* were waned at other technical c liege*. Including Tnlonc unlvendty at New Orleans. Armour Institute at Chicago, the Ca»e School of Applied Science. Cleveland. L’nlvendty of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. John* Hopkins university. Baltimore, and Washington unlvet*lty. Seattle. Later school', were Marled at the Cnlveratty of California. (Berk-

Mch It has de- aiey). In New York City and Jersey

ith American

-jpjly car armies and alltes In KoruK ir,- projected Itself npoa the lay mind

the country.

The public had In-en told there were ,i even enough marine engineers who . re cl tiaras to man the ship* flying m- flog In peace times. So the man the street could not see where the mpply ua* coming from for the thoud hhips to be manoed as merehaati oat of the 2.000 to be Imllt by the ping bonrd for the new mercluuit

arlae.

Th.- i-hlpplag board has prorlied.

larlfle eogtm

: HUN HATES COLUMBUS;

HE FOUND AMERICA

Pittsburgh. Pa.—Bev. Daniel L. March. Just returned from hr western front after a sis Booths' visit, tells this frtury: A Orman prisoner was rat of humor and was being “klildeJ” by the Americans. "Why so glnm. Fritrle'i” asked one doughboy. "Are yott ‘sore - at Fronde?" No. Fritzle wasn't sore at France, nor England, nor Betglum. “Well, what's the matter?" “I'm sore at Christopher Columbus." was the reply. “He discovered America."

tails, slide-valve setting, gauge testing. Indicator raid taking and Anally Indicator card reading, which involves familiarity with a special Instrument,

the plnnltneter.

During the week every man In the elass has hi* special practice In these matter*. In the second week the subjects are measurement of horsepowe-. lining up of engines, piston valve setting and the condenser and air pump. The third w«**k the laboratory sub- i Jed* are the sallnometer. duplex pomp, mater column and safety vulvar while In the last week there are cxerdsea ; with Injectors, turbine-driven pumps, and an afternoon spent In a large du-

ll onary power bouse.

Special Course* for Special Work.

This Is the course at Massachusetts “Tech." It may .-ary at other schools, but the underlying principle* of ln*truction are the same. In the school , at Philadelphia, the largest In attend- j ance. now bolding Its session* In the Bourse building with a class well over a hundred, special attention is given

to refrigeratlr; machinery.

It l* part of the plan of the hoard to train men In a knowledge of every kind of special equipment carried la the mechanical out lit of a modern ship. Turbine ship*, for example, must

Recognition as An Independent Nation BringsNewStrength to Remarkable Fight-, ing

HEKF. has been no more romantic episode in tbc present war than the role played therein by the Cxecbo-Slovak troops who are now endeavoring to hold the fort In Siberia for the cause of the entente

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Turblno ship*, fra exarap^ muM ^ dv|I|uMoD aKulnst Ul e Voroe. of

ronder

machines for drivln" ship* are In the geared tnrblne. a complicated and highly dehrate piece of mechanism.

bolshevik anarchy united

barbarism.

Fompdled to flght for their Austrian

and Hungarian oppressors against

their Moagovite kinsmen, they

re-enforce the comrades whom the* bod left behind them pending the ar-

rival of troops of the entente.

Several America^ regiment* have already been disembarked at Vladivostok. ell as a large Italian contingent. French troops have been hurried thlth- : from Tonkin and Indo-Oilna and large British force from India. The bulk, however, of the allied army hlch 1* to preserve Siberia, with all her boundless Industrial and commercial possibilities and her literally Inxhaustible Intent riches, for the Russian people from die euconomtc and IHilltlcal despotism of Germany Is be-

ing furnished by Japan.

Released Prisoners Oppose Them. The Czecho-Slovak forces have re-

tained their arms. But they

dlrapped by the lack of nnimunlth

Enginsermg StudenU of United State* Shipping Bosrd In Marine Enginwring

laboratory at MaasacSuaetts Institute of Technology.

'eloped since the war began. This I City, and at the Pratt Institute. Brook

system is entirely novel and distinctly I lyn.

American. Under it no outside trlent The attendance a*, these schools To has been required to provide Inairur-1 date has been more than SA00. tom and no student not a citiaen has r ' *“*—“

be<-n given Inst run ivtj.

_ ttn-ir Mo*c"VHc Kinsmen, mey iw* Tn I.n.vw, . ■’T’-Vwponuultj of .orroolonos nob of torblno eottaooro to o.Mfnfo: In tbe onrl, Onse. of Ibc mob. !b. dilpr-oif bf«b rootle o.|-o*UI> m U.o boifo. fbot fJrtri moo to tb. •boro mo.1 w^oomoa • iib opon of It. rerbio- to m.ilo. g ,n« Korbiob Koto, of tbootlons that tbe men "grow up with their - . .

way. Indeed, for Germany's mastery of Asia, which would give her that world supremacy which Is the goal of

kaiser.

Repairing Great Wrong, roust never lie forgotten that in restoring sovereignty and Independent?# to the Ciecho-Slovak* we are not cre-.-lUng anything new. but merely repolrIng a great wrong. Few nation* have contributed moro to the prosperity and to the progress of central Europe than II..hernia, whose people were in an advenred state of civilization when Gerluciiy was a region of bugs and of rob-

ber baron*.

Their university at Prague, founded In 1348. Is the oldest seat of learning east of the Rhine, and It served us a mcilel of most of the universities subscquently created on the continent.

When the war began tlte hooru pro-n-eded on the theory that there was plenty of material In the V-ountry for an adequate supply of mahne engla* eem It estlmatad thaj there were several thouanrvd men in tbe engine rooms •ad flr>-ruodu of existing aMrchaat »hl|is—oilers, water trader* and firemen—who Could'Ve made Into engineer* by a little encouragement and inntanign It estimated also that there • err many hnndrvd* of marine engineer* following other pursuit* ashore •hen the war began, who could be Interested by the government In a propo-

"itlon to return to the sea.

Mnally It estimated that there were tbonsaada of stationary engineers, lo■'UiotiTe driver* and machinist* who lead worked on marine engine construction or repairs a«hore who could be quickly trained to become marine engine**. These men were known to ha<<- the groundwork of knowledge ■f-eemaiy fra handling marine dn'-v It remained merely a queMion

Tlie course of Instruction I* based on the premise that the man taught Is already a thorough mechanic. Instruction Is given him In the thing* be would And hard to pick up by rule of

thumb experience.

Jyome of the school* bold day sessions only, other* have evening class e* In order that the student* may follow their usnaJ occupation* by day. SUbJscta for lfrt*n*lv« Study. In a day peKbol. as at the Ma*anchuaeils “Tech," the forenoon* are usually- devoted to lecture* and the afternoons to laboratory and demonstration

The men are tested first in rimple

mathematic* and given a texi

aid them. They are then Instructed In such subjects as the action of suit water under beat, chemical tests of water. the character mnd use of fusible plug* for boilers, capacity of coal bunker*. the character and combustion of coal used on shliw. tbe relation of coal consumption to speed, the character of propellers, the element of ”*llp." pumps, valves, gauge* and Indkati

1 i.lw thin'lT .Ulmi 'W ; 0 ^£ flOT01lTO , OM .T . ' ■fllt-waterjwwellt^to ra w . v .-nt: meotea 1* divided ■ : r ng and «o give them their “sew- ^ each under an In•fore starting them tdl on voy- rtnj( . tiir , vho „ ( „ducl* the lest*. Thrae m the new mmhnnt Aeet. fnr |h# weak include engine de"College Stuff" Makes Its Bow. _ •

my revolulkHiary training

sands of them volunteered to s

bllng In the shop, snd then follow It

aboard ship, superintend It* erection ( there and run It when finally the ship

by whott they had been .mbjected Intolerable tyranny, write* F. CunUffe-

Owen In New York Sun.

The Czecho-Slovak* fought hard and well to tbe very last for the cause of

“ ™ lr r ' ,r |'Sr5 «T a .l iTtrrti™. I »- of watertube betrayed Russia and her allies by cooIian- eluding a dishonorable and utterly con-

Tbe

Is applied In the

bollera. 'course ! ‘emptlhle jieace at Breat-Utovak they

nr.r:

. r,r

in auuiuwu ! heJncd everywhere by tiie rt»i«-ctab!c thTSet’lt Wishes inhabitant*, who were wearied to death J-r? " X .WM^. b-rt r— ! ol tb. MWMB M •> IHM .» rf.- .to owl' 'Oonoo- i T "'>' —" Ob"'.™ "" >;«'• " coounill- »«nb.. . u»lt uMr lo.tob .oOO of annllcants Muvh of this l* contained Imve offered too many dlfflcultle* In t a raTphie. entitled "How to Be tke way of food aud transport Th^r com,- an /rthcer in the Merchant Ma- separated Into several veil disciplined rtnT” National headquarter* of -he armies. A“ • dv « c ',»“ r, J - rt “ “ ,in - re.-rui.ing service U at the custom aged to reach Wadlvostok and then . ‘ lo*ton ! got Into touch once more with the out- ' ,, world, ud WOLIIT -lib tbo Substitute* for Sugar. ognlteil l.wdcrs of Czechoslovak naTbe principal sugar substitutes rcc- tlraallsm. foremost among

and above all by the absence of artfl- , iro nu ancient race. They lery, both light and heavy. Tliey have | , V(Tp ii, lur i K i,i n g In Bohemia away back against them not alone the boUbevtkl, „ |( . | H -fore Christ, and but also considerably more than 100.- j hnvp B ] U oys tMt-n noted for their 000 German and Austrian prisoners of j spirit, for Uielr longings In war wko after their rapture were In- the dif^lon of liberalism and democterned In Siberia, who were released ] nn j n i, 0 ve all for their Indusunder tbe terms of the bolshevik treaty i (rla | , im j cmmertlal enterprise, tluvnk* of pence at Brest-Utovsk and who (>| ,i, C j. have been for the past have been since then furnished by the ^ years the economic I backbone of the

bolshevik government and by the Ger- Hnpsburg monarchy,

man military authoritle* with arm*. wrrr Bn d tberomunltions. artillery, supplies, ntoney ; forVj unfH|rrw j. unUI they f.w.ll.hly and even airplane*. They constitute dcc|p| j Kml>Cl „ r Ferdinand of Austria - formidable enemy. i ag ^i.t In 1320 not only because Fortunately for our cause, the bulk he lnarr|ed to the dnughier and of the people In Siberia are for us. Ttw heiress of their last klug of the dynasty white population of Siberia 1* com- i o , g t Wcno-sbius. but also because be posed in tbe main |«rt of a das* Im- ^ v phdc'tl himself to respect measurably superior In Intelligence, od- Jh( ,, r lial |onnl rights and llbertlea. ueatlon. progrosslveness and blood to NrlKlInt( t „ U) i d that Ferdinand I fnll-

the Muscovite mujlks. who form AS per

i keep hi* promises. This is i

„.*»ded b/ government chemist* *r» Dt. Tbomaa Mnsaryk. the eminent earn'strap, maltose (sirup mad- from erbolar and »tate«nan. who lay • -

;Nitutoes) honey and high-grade ' “* " “

mine, away bacl^to the Rhln«

go any Idea of dominating Bulgaria and Turkey: In one word, to abandon well nleh all her most loudly pmclaim-

at'l’rague ’under'sentence «rf death and j r^riahed ambition In oth-

who Is now In America.

cent of the population of European pppui^rity of the house of Hapsburg. Russia. ! when he found that his powers, which We of the entente ewe a debt of grat- „ er< . n h*olute in Austria proper, were bode to these gallant Czecht-Slovaks r<>tr j rt „| i, ; Bohemia he proceeded to who have rrmalncd to champion our n , Mll)Ml i Btler -* national privilege#

cause In European and Asiatic Russia. (in(- ( , )>Il(l

Were it not for U»e fight which the, Xp|irl „ bundrM , lalrr , b « have put ap la S.berln against i,er- ( - il . rh , ' 1 „, ,. y |h .. lr l ,. rrl torial arlstocmany and the bolshevlkl the Teuton organized r. revolt against the domination of that enormous territory. AuMr ,an emperor, almost a continent In itself, would tw | F>nlllllU(1 „ who had * h own himself well nigh complete and almost beyond far mnrf und Boreclamation. , # , b.-mla an ally than as an open enIf Germany had contrr.l of Hlberta t . inv Th( . wer ,. In she could afford ts surrender, not alone ^ m ,. miirnl ,,,. hult |e of the White Belgium and the lnvwde.1 districts of Moun , Illu whlcb , u .,rk.sl the . France, but even all Al«.-e and Enr- „ f Bohemia as

nd of

* growing out of 0>1* war, none •re striking than the dipping plan fur giving thcM' men te<-b-rilling. The plan originated In with Henry Howard, the director of recruiting- Mr I. is I. graduate of tin- Massa- - Institute of Tertroolwgy and a llever lo-the vale# id technical l to evi-ry kind of m'-riioulenl Ire ws* tn give tbe men needed

WOUNDED BUT HAPPY BUNCH OF SCOTS

Always Oppressed by "eutona.

com that time forth the Ozecho-Slo- * have been a constant subject of

direction*. j oppression and tyranny of the govern-

D rmni.fJt .. . Nation Would Be Immune to Boycott. nicnts of Vienna and of I'eMh. endour- *• 1 „ ^ t , h .iSrSSe had ll-n rec- mdostrie. and all the market* that *!«• < »* I,.. Slovak natlonallsiu and ecu-

j It* sovereignty from Ber-

J hring

" treat tL«-l

tie powers of the entente and that .hr would render her wholly Icdependent ha. latler had pledged themselves to tbe of any economic boycott that we might of ezranripatlra of Bohemia. Moravia and raganlze against her after the war-i lu. Slovakia from the de*,K.tlc rule of Mat « h “* ** * bu '- " f Austria-Hungary and to their forma- all th.- other force* that wt tlon into a sovereign stab. They also to hear against her. It won were apprised that Doctor Mnsaryk >« her a pnwnerity and an had l>ern rl.- ted by the Czechoslovak 1 Sttength that would Mkm lu leaders a* their president and chief . a* of u» lm|>ortnnce her fall t<

and lo.ll been accepted »• *u. h by the ta® Indemnities.

XrointTof ,he 1 entente. I It would culminate In or ' It was brought home to them that and commercial toaMery of China, they had raised to the atntus of the latter * busy l*"l’<'lution o «*' allies Of France. «>f the United Hint.-*, H'*n*. and it w..u d " . “ ‘ of Great Britain. Italy and Japan, and Ing menace !<• ^

that their lull It ary seftrtose would Im - »g-

the

Wei

the bend every rulvlgivi hltuIier of hi*

useful t

i and I

the I’h

• Brt

- the I

■rted from the firm,

! Hue to the hospital by '

-Parsec" Is a Long. Lonp Way. | A “parsec" I* * distance that the ...... rclous iwdestrian would hard., tefore breakfast. In . rotor Into the apbera ,t» ration* a! all. but It I* nit In astronomy. It la litai.uikl.ano.tssi mile* Btwl ance 'r-vVlod by light In A few of the nearest star# nr to five parsers distant at most of the Mars that dot the sky are score# or hundred*

0t parsec* away.

day. The girl took her ed by her mother for steal drngg.d to the fiffice to i the theft. Explanation*

• more clearly.—Japan

Latin Oerivatlv

f., r Teach Children to Be Kind. ma>!-'. *• * ,a * been truly said that any pera» nd- *" > n •l 1 " di-lllx-nitely torture* n dumb -tat log animal would commit any crime no*, reI hrm»- qulrlng eournge Teach children kind* . lie.* to animals.