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U. S. Army Makes
Mobility Keynote
! Of 1037 Program
To Replace Outmoded World
War Equipment With
Lighter Instruments
Mechanized Units
Add Speedier Tanks, Armored
Cars, Motorized Cavalry,
Radio Units
A turnover of the equipment of
the United States army with the
intention of creating a force thaw
can move quickly, easily and ef
ficiently is now in progress by
army officials. Modern transporta
tion units, lighter tanks, more
mobile armored cars and machine
gun carriers, and mechanized
cavalry units are replacing the old
cumbersome, obsolete machinery
of world war days.
Army officers are now working
with the national budget bureau to
get funds for this modernization.
Since the general staff has already
received approval of a plan to
raise man power to 14,000 officers
and 165,000 men by July, 19:17, it
is now concentrating upon im
provement along mechanical lines.
Since the world war there has
been an advance in the efficiency
of war instruments, and the army
now is in its second year—of a
projected five-year program—of
replacing obsolete and outdated
equipment.
Maintenance of the army, plus
expenditures for the first of the
new vehicles and weapons, neces
sitated an appropriation of
$377,647,269 for 1937. The 1938
appropriations are expected to ap
proximate that figure.
To speed up its movement the
general staff set as an - objective
the mechanization of one cavalry
brigade of two regiments, and or
ganization of two regiments of
tanks, seven armored car troops
for use with the cavalry, 13 pla
toons of scout cars for use with
the cavalry, and seven companies
of tanks to support infantry
units.
The final light tanks for one re
giment are being delivered, 75
tanks were provided in the last ap
propriation bill; and one of the
eight companies of medium tanks
for the other regiment has been
supplied.
Scout cars for 13 cavalry pla
toons have been provided and onfe
of the seven armored car troops
for the cavalry has been organized
and equipped.
Each of the 15 tank companies
in the National Guard also has
been provided with one tank, and
provision made to supply each
with one more. Two more tanks
for each., National Guard unit are
needed, however, officers said, to
provide the necessary training.
The 1937 appropriations carried
funds for armored ca^s, combat
cars, machine gun carriers and ra
dio for one-half regiment of
mechanized cavalry, making the
program three-quarters complete.
A detailed program for the
army’s motorization has been
worked out to provide automotive
transportation for every arm and
service where it has been proved
advantageous.
An estimated 7,000 trucks, trac
tors, cars and motorcycles for the
regular army and 5,000 for the
National Guard are needed from
the $1,000,000 provided this year.
Approximately 725 vehicles were
added to the 13.000 the regulars
now have in use.
The infantry’s chief require
ment, according to the rearming
program, is a new semi-automatic
rifle—to replace the Springfield—
for each of the army’s 45,000
riflemen. The new guns shoot
faster, hit harder, and are more
satisfactory generally than the old
fashioned rifles now carried, but
they also are expensive.
Toward the objective of 45,000
the army now has only 3,450 and
has requested funds for manufac
ture of a similar number to arm
selected units for training pur
poses.
At present there also is only one
master set of gauges, dies and jigs
for manufacture of the new rifles
at the Ordnance Arsenal. The army
will ask for funds to provide that
expensive equipment.
Modernization of World War ar
tillery, incorporating the newest
developments and improvements,
and adoption of new weapons pro
vides the artillery branch’s major
problem.
The general staff, in its pro
gram, recommended the moderni
zation of all field pieces of the
regular army and National Guard
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This year Congress provided
$666,000 for modifications in 14
batteries of 75 mm. guns to permit
motor traction, longer range ami
greater traverse, and for 1937 ap
propriation funds were asked to
modernize 14 more batteries, leav
ing 17 still to be improved.
Since the World War 75 mm.
howitzers have grown in favor and
the army has secured five bat
teries. The general staff has re
commended 41 more batteries.
To permit batteries of 165 mm.
howitzers to be moved by motors
instead of horses the artillery is
installing adapters on the last of
its 16 batteries of that type gun.
A major improvement in anti
aircraft defense has been the de
velopment of searchlights, sound
detector and gun units. Two of the
army’s anti-aircraft regiments are
supplied with the new equipment,
and $623,000 was requested to
equip one more regiment. The
three others are scheduled to be
equipped in the future.
The general staff’s five year pro
gram envisaged a gradual accumu
lation of ammunition in essential
calib-es to meet the needs of the
army and National Guard for 30
days in active operations. By that
time they figure production will be
gin to come.
Reserve ammunition — along
with new and more weapons of
less essential need—remains an
accomplishment of the future.
Kansas Newspaper
Claims Roosevelt
To Carry Kansas
The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle re
cently carried the following display
advertisement sponsored by citi
zens of Kansas who believe that
President Roosevelt will carry
Governor Landon’s home state in
the coming election:
Roosevelt will carry Kansas be
! cause his agricultural policy has
| been the most constructive in the
history of the industry. Farmers of
Kansas, faced with low prices and
then drought, were on the verge
of bankruptcy. Many stood to
lose their homes. Roosevelt made
it his first business to aid them,
with the result that all have been
given a new lease on life, their
farms have been saved from fore
closure, and they can now see
their way out of the black despair
which enveloped them. Farmers of
Kansas are for Roosevelt.
Because labor in Kansas is now
employed. Roosevelt’s various
plans have put more men and wo
men to work in Kansas than, have
been employed in years. Skilled
and unskilled labor is now busy at
living wages and with decent
hours. Labor in Kansas is for
Roosevelt. •,
Because business is better in
| Kansas. Small as well as large
concerns are enjoying a volume of
sales which insure a profit at the
end of the year. Business is reap
ing the benefits of Roosevelts con
structive policies. Business in
Kansas is largely for Roosevelt.
Because Roosevelt’s bank policy,
whieh makes the deposits of all
banks secure, will bring the great
leader many votes in the state. He
has laid the foundation for a con
structive social security plan, the
benefits of which have denied
Kansas because of the failure of
Governor Landon to cooperate with
ithe federal plan.
Because all walks of life in
Kansas have benefited directly or
indirectly from the many construc
tive and rehabilitation plans pro
mulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
And Kansas, knowing this, will see
to it that he gets a rousing ma
jority in this state in November.
Sea Island Fast
Becoming Extinct
In United States
College Station, Raleigh, Oct.
5.—Puerto Rico, the United
States’ Southern insular posses
sion, may become a valuable do
mestic source of long-fibre Sea
Island cotton in the opinion of C.
W. McSwain, stationed by the
federal Department of Agriculture
at North Carolina State college’s
school of textiles.
Ten thousand bales of the valu
able fibre, used in the manufacture
of airplane fabrics, auto tire cords
and line dress goods, could he
grown, there annually, he conclud
ed after a month-long survey of
crop conditions and manufactur
ing possibilities on the island.
Now doing cooperative work
with Dean Thomas Nelson's textile
school in cotton utilisation, Mc
Swain, who is with the cotton
marketing division of the De
partment of Agriculture, was
loaned to the Puerto Rican Recon
struction Administration to carry
out the investigation.
“There is a possibility of rais
ing Die finest types of Ses Island
cotton in Puerto Rico,” he said.
“The small amottnt now grown
there is superior to Imported
Egyptian cotton and any raised in
the United States. Its fibre ranges
in length from one and three
quarters to two inches.”
<■§ grown extensively on is
lands off the coasts of South Caro
lina and Cfeorgia, Sea Island cotton
has become almost extinct in the
United States after fifteen un
successful yean to eradicate the
boll weevil which ^
the rainy
Rico.
U.S. Prepared To
Increase Pacific
Fortified Bases
Expiration Of Treaty Limit
ing Fortifications Causes
General Concern
Fear Japanese
United States Favors Reten
tion Of Status Quo.: WHT
Arm If Necessary
Secretary of the Navy Swanson
has served notice that the United
States is prepared to match any
nation in fortifying the Pacific.
The Washington naval treaty cov
ering the building of naval bases
in the Pacific expires this year, and'
considerable apprehension has been
felt about the possibility of great
er activity by Japan in that re
gion.
In a declaration interpreted by
many observers as an indirect
warning to Japan not to disturb*
the Pacific “status quo,” the Naval
Secretary told his regular press
conference:
“Fortifications are intended to
answer fortifications. One menace
must be met by another menace.**
His statement was made while
the state department studied a
communication from the British
government proposing an exten
sion of the treaty pledge of Great
Britain, the United States, and
Japan not to build new fortifica
tions or naval bases in certain of
their Pacific possessions.
Note Sent To Japan
The main proposal was sent by
the British office to Japan.
In London, diplomatic quarters
said Britain’s move was prompted
by uneasiness lest a Competitive
race to fortify Pacific insular naval
bases develop from the approach
ing termination of the Washington
treaty. The view was expressed
that England sought to check Jap?
anese strengthening of bases on
the Gulf of Tartary.
State department officials, in the
absence of Secretary Hull, declin
ed to discuss the probable contents
of the American answer to the
British proposal.
Secretary Swanson’s declaration,
was generally accepted, however,
as the navy’s attitude that if
Japan inaugurates a program of
fortification of the north Pacific
islands under her control, tha
United States must do likewise.
“We’ll have to wait and see what
happens,” Swanson said.
Wait For Congress
He added that even if the
United States felt obliged to
strengthen its. own outlying* fagtir
ficatiohs, nothing cook) ' be dorvS
until after the expiration of the
treaty and Congress authorized
funds for such work.
There were indications, however,
that prevailing opinion in both
State and Navy departments fav
ored a renewal of the status quo
pledge if the three, nations could
reach an agreement.
Since Japan renounced the
Washington naval treaty almost
two years ago, thus bringing about
automatic termination of fleet
limitation at the close of this
year, there has been considerable
uncertainty in both Washington
. and London over the Japanese in
| tention with respect to the fortifi
cation provision of the pact.
Article 19 of that accord, signed
at the Washington arms conference
in 1922, embodied a pledge on the
part of the three governments to
preserve the then existing status
of fortifications and naval bases in
their respective Pacific territories.
Great Deer Hunt
Planned To Thin
Out Excess Game
Because of over crowding in a
North Carolina game preserve the
state department of conservation
and development is planning a deer
hunt which will put to shame any
thing seen in the United States
since pioneer days.
J. D. Chalk, State Game and
Inland Fisheries Commissioner,
announced following a conference
with U. S. Foresters that hunters
would be called up to “remove” a
surplus of some 1,000 bucks on
Pisgah National Forest game re
fage, in Western North Carolina.
The dear population of the re
fuge has grown to 7,000, he ex
plained. There are facilities for
only 6,000.
ACTUARIAL MATHEMATICIAN
EXAMINATIONS ANNOUNCfeP
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open!
competitive examinations for as
sistant actuarial mathematician,
12,000 » year, and junior actuarial
mathematician, $2,000 a year, hi
the Railroad Retirement Board,
and the Social Security Board.
Applicants must have had cer
tain specified education and/or ex
except Massachusetts,
i, Nebraska, Washtng
iesota, Vermont, Colo
Hrginia, Maryland and
of Columbia have »
ban their quota of ap
Suffer Less Than
Periodic Drunks
Medical Authority Deplores
Tendency Toward Drink- .
ing Hard Liquor
People who drink for a period
and then go on the water wagon
for a. spell suffer more than re
gular drinkers, asserts a Chicago
medical authority, Dr. Joseph A.
Capps, professor of medicine at
the University af Chicago. The i*
rlar drinker is apt to develop
of will power and confidence
in himself which may eventually
lead up to a mental breakdown,
while the chronic tippler is more
prone to fall a victim to organic
maladies such as cirrhosis of the
liver.
These terrors are not so prone
to dog the chronic tippler, who in
stead insites cirrhosis of the fiver
as the price for his indulgence,
said Dr. Capps.
Mare Difficult
“Strangely enough, it seems easy
for the steady drinker to stop
drinking entirely,” he declared.
“Periodic drinkers are much more
difficult to cure.”
The doctor, an internal medicine
authority, made it plain, however,
that he did not advocate anyone
becoming a steady drinker, as he
criticized sharply the nation’s
drinking habit.
“Our danger is that we’re be
coming a nation of hard liquor
drinkers. Over a period of years,
this is going to mean a decline in
the health and mental integrity of
our country,” he declared.
“The effect of drinking on our
young people is to break down
both their moral and morale. It
also is making our highways more
dangerous. There is nothing that
I know of that can defend the use
of liquor by young people.
“What we need is moderation,
,**Tie modern generation is going io
’for excesses.
“If young people must drink, the
sensible thing is to use mild drinks
(beer and wines) and keep away
from hard liquor.”
However, drinking may play a
legitimate part in the lives of per
sons beyond middle sge, the doctor
said.
“Work recently done by a Boston
j amount of spirit# late in life tends
i to preserve the arteries.
"I’m for abstinence in all per
tons until they reach the age of
66 years.
"You see," he smiled, "I’m over
60 years myself ”
N. C. State College
la Agricultural
Pjiii* Utnenir Wrrlf
rafr i/tiniig Tf tTIt
College Station, Raleigh, Oct/
12.—Heralded! as the biggest and
best in history, tile North Carolina
State College Agricultural Fair
made its. bow to State fair visitors.
Planned by students in the
School of Agriculture, the exhibits
Jill be housed in the newly rebuilt
ist wing of the main exhibit hall.
This section of the hall was des
troyed by fee during fair week in
1994, and many of the students’
valuable displays were lost in the
blase.
The central theme around which
the ten departments will base
their exhibits is the way in which
different departments of forestry
and agriculture may be combined
to benefit the farmer.
The student fair, held annually
by the State College School of
Agriculture, is a direct outgrowth
of the old corn show which came
into existence at the institution in
1913.
Established by Prof. C. L. New
man, then head of the department
of corn crops, the com show was
held on the campus each year un
til 1928 when, at the suggestion of
M. E. Sherwin, it was formed into
a fair association and consolidated
with the N. C. State Fair.
Awards will be presented to the
departments having the best ex
hibits. Last year the horticulture,
department captured first place,
the forestry department was
second, and the animal husbandry
exhibits ranked third.
H. B. Hunter, Charlotte, is presi
dent of the Agricultural Fair this
year. Directors of the various
agricultural departments are as
fellows: engineering, W. E. Gar
rard, Durham; education, L. E.
Overman, Raleigh; economics, H.
G. Brown, Beleross; agronomy, L.
W. Coates, Smithfield; animal hus
bandry, J. S. Hollamon, Farmville;
botany, J. L.- Rabon, Chadboum;
forestry, F. L. Woodard, Hayes
ville; horticulture, H. > L. Brake,
Rocky Mount;; poultry, J. N.
Thompson, Black Cr^ek; and iou
logy, J. F. Giles, Archdale.
VISITORS EXPECTED
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