Til DAILY NBDRA8KAN
GIVES INTERESTING
ACCOUNT OF CAMP LIFE
j Ciulet Glenn Wallace Sends
Letter From Camp John
Wiie, Texaa
A bit ot the soldiers life I related
In an exceedingly Interesting manner
hat and altitude therefore have
n automatic vahe arrangement that
gmern the valve when the gas 'x
panda to a certain point, thereby al
lowing; the escape t " nl Prevent
In bursting ot the balloons. Such a
thing would be "Jolly elt uncomfort
able" should It happen. The valve
eWe on losing pan to a tertatn point.
We also have a hand rope to the valve
n in rase cf trouble automatically, we
can xalve by han.t. Then we have
up evrd attached to a rip panel, that
we can pull out It we should ever
n.vl to.
We lme at present X tympanies o! ,
j.w men c.vh here. Ka h company (
will specialite In a rertatn thing and
loe for 1-Yvuo i
iii'-n i i -
hev will be made p of men from av I
rr A verv fine system. Company J
No. SS will specialise In balloon raorn
sr.d cordage.
. The weather is very warm here
:. "4.S minutes right and over." or
lil minutes left and Just short." etc.
; We have telephone wires running from
"(he battery (trenches In our oase to
(he hart room in our camp and then
;to the balloon. Five seconds after the
fchall explodes we In (he basket tele
phone the correction back to the bat
tery and he is firing a new shvll hav
ing made his correction. Our balloons
are W) feet long and 27 feet wide at
(he widest point. They have fins on
each side near the rear and have a
rudder underneath and to the rear.
The fins and rudder are both filled
iti ir which enters at a scoop at,
(he base of the rudder. These (hings
..lahalize (he balloons. i ne ks
kydrogen generated by (he silica
process and when in the balloon it
occupies the fore part. The capacity
is 35,000 cubit feet gas and 7.000 cubic
feet air. hdyrogen. such as we use;
lias a lifting power of 71 poinds per
1.000 cubic foot, so yon see we can go
up.
As you know hydrogen expands with
as follows:
"1 am instructing in artillery obser
vation from the captive balloons, in
the morning. In the afternoon I am
drilling Campany No. 58, and in the
evening I am attending lectures or
working out problems of the day. Just
when do I write? Whenever I am
sot too tired to sit tip till midnight
to finish the letters. Tonight I am
pretty tired, for I bad to engineer
the layout of a new balloon banger this
afternoon. This morning 1 observed
(with another cadet) at smoke bombs
set off at Camp Travis trenches 7.000
yards east of us.
Ill try to give an idea of how we
work. You have seen those sausage
haped balloons. Two of us cadets
go up to an average of 2.500 feet.
Our trenches are 7,000 yards east, an
ideal condition for direction and dis
tance for "over there." We then
choose a target and part of our fel
lows go on bombing detail. They will
go to the trenches and set off smoke
bombs around our target. These we
will observe on by means of our
binoculars. In these binoculars is a
minute and degree scale. That is, 20
minutes and 1 degree. We observe,
in a lelter received by the editor of
The Xei.raskan from Cadet Benn Wal
lace, who is located at Camp John
Wise in San Antonio, Tex. Wallace
tells of his experiences as an airman
and explains in a very' clear manner
some of the duties that follow in the
general routine of th? men at the
camps. A part of the letter reads
now and we go with the lightest of
clothing on. The birds are singing and
it all seems like spring time. Its
great to be alive aDd about to go over
to help.
"I have received by "pilot's license"
and am now a member of the Aero
Club International. My whole course
Is over and I am eligible for my cci
Tuiseiuii. Twelve ot ns expect them
any time now, but there is more or
less delay in vetting them though.
"One of my brother cadets 1s a Beta
from Nebraska, about t'he class of
20, 1 guess. We share our Nebras
kans when we get them and it Iceeps
the home fires burning for us. His
tame is Walter Chamberlain.
'We all like our work fine and fully
believe that ours is the "cream of the
service."
"I probably will 1h over in two
months now. We are all anxious to
get over and do our bit to belp our
rood old TJ. S. A.
"Give my bept regards to any and
all of my old friends you may bappen
to ee and accept the same yourself.
I hope that 1 have made things rea
sonably clear. Oood-bye, good luck.
Sincerely,
GUESS.
Camp John Wise. San Antonio, Tex.
UNIVERSITY SOON TO HAVE
THREE NEW COURTS
profit In the financial report of the
athletic association last year, and the
petition ahowa that there It a large
number of tennla tana among rhe stu
dents.
J. BLAINE KUHN,
FIRST NEBRASKA SOLDIER
(Continued from page one)
family moved to Lincoln In 1S99 and
he wa educated in the Lincoln public
schools and the State I'niveralty. He
w an a senior In school and a freshman
In the law college w hen he entered (he
service He la survived by hla mother,
two sisters and a brother, his father
halng died In 1907.
The pallbearers were lwlht Thom
as, Harold lxng. Raymond Parry. Har
ry Reynolds, Max Taylor and Wayne
Ralston.
The military escort was composed
of IV C. Rasmussen, acting corporal,
Harold Huling. Krank Nelson, lw
rence Finney, Oswald Mack. H. S.
Stoa. Seth Taylor and M. B. Shea.
Chauncey Reddish was the bugler.
WAR WILL LAST TWO YEARS
ENGLISH OPINION
(Continued from Pare On)
Information I get from various good
sources here, the war will last at least
two or three years longer, and every
month America must assume more and
more ot the burden of It. This is a
very critical time because ot (he short
age of tonnage, but lm confident (ha(
America's determination and resource
fulness will win through in grea(
shape.
Everyone here is " fedip" with (he
w ar, but determined to hold out until
the last man. The sacrifices made al
ready are too great to (urn back be
fore the result hoped for is realised.
OTIS K. TAYLOR.
March 2 1918.
0RD EDITOR EXPLAINS
COUNTRY NEWS WORK
(Continued from pagw one.)
than the ten dollars I get from my
advertiser."
Opportunities for Women
The rise of women in Journalistic
fields is firmly expected by Mr. Davis.
He believes that they have an unex
celled opportunity presented them
with so many men at the front, and
sees a wonderful field opening for
them in both the editorial and the me
chanical sides of the profession. He
stated that there was right now a
shortage of one-third of the help in
the newspaper plants in Nebraska, and
urged that the students spend their
summer vacations in doing work that
would be pleasant and profitable, and
that would be Invaluable to them when
they left school and entered into th:
profession for good.
Mr. Davis also warned against neg
lecting the "Job work" to be done in
a country shop the printing of all
sorts of small bills, posters, cards, etc.
Coach Stewart seemed much more
pleased with the prospects of affairs
yesterday, and expressed more satis
He declared that this was one of his
most profitable sources of income, and
that it was an important factor in
making a paper pay.
One of the points featured in the
address was that the editor is the
servant of the public. Nothing per
sonal should appear in the columns of
the paper, anad its editorial policy
should be of a constructive rather
than a destructive nature. Mr. Davis
is enthusiastic regarding the power
and position of the country weekly,
and declared that there ooul dbe no
better way for a young man to "break
into the game" tian to start in the
country. He said that the paper
should have a steadfast policy, and
this policy should be mirrored in ithe
columns. A reporter w-bo is true to
his paper will nnconsciously express
its policy without indulging in tabooed
editorial comment. This policy should
be especially emphasized in the coun
try weekly, both, in the handling of
news stories and in playing them up.
Above all, the country editor sbonlfl
be in close personal touch with bis
paper. In bis concluding remarks. Mr.
Davis said "The personality of the
country newspaper is what puts it
across."
WOMEN'S COUNCIL ISSUES
IMPORTANT WAR LETTER
The first cony of "Nebraska Women
in War Work," the official bulletin of
the Woman's Committee or the State
Council of Defense, is ready to be pent
out to those who wish to know more
of the organization.
Tt tells what the committee is and
gives a summary of the work it has
accomplished, as well as many other
articles in which the women of the
state are interested.
Any rniversirv women wishing
copies of this paper are requested to
lepve their names and addresses whb
Prof. Sarka Hrbkova.
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