THE OMAHA BEE.
FOREIGN TERMS,
USED BY ARMY, TO
GO IS THE ORDER
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"Over the Top," 'liaison"
And Other Borrowed Ex
pressions" Left Out of
New Manual of Arms.
Washington, 'March 17. Such
phrases as "over the top" and
f "liaison," which' were a common part
1 - of the parlance of war literature and
if conversation, are doomed to disap-
i pear from American military phrase-
ology and will not pc included in
j the army text books of the future.
i The new field service regulations of
the United States army and ths
t manuals of the various arms of the
1 ' service, now being prepared by the
; general staff, will differ in but minor
details from the regulations in fqjrce
; before the world war, and will show
f . practically no traces of the passing
; vogue of foreign methods.
; The formulation of a strictly
4 American doctrine of tactics, and
' the establishment of a system of
:f uniform instruction in all military
ichools is the aim of the training
i. section of the general staff, accord
sl ing to high officer here. So-called
"trench warfare" was only a passing
' episode in military history1,' in the
i view ot the othcers, while the funda
t mental principles of war are the
$ . same as those employed by Napo-
leon at Fena and by Grant at Gettys-
ourg. '
This policy was stated to students
of the present class at the army
service' schools at Fort Leaven
worth Kan., by Brig. Gen. Hugh A.
Drum, director of the line school,
who was chief of staff of the First
army overseas:
Foreign Terms Go.
Our experiences in the Euro-
pean war have been sufficient and
the results so creditable," General
Drum said, "that we have little or
fo need to borrow 'tactical doctrines
Vrorn a foreign country," General
Drum said that such terminology as
"avtn." "position." "stabilized" and
( "trench" warfare would not be rec
ognized or employed, as the same
tactical principles apply to all of
tnose so-called classes of warfare.
Just as General Pershing insisted
i on training the American expedi
tionary rorces tor "open" warfare,
so at the service schools. nnral
Drum said, "the inculcation of an-
ottensive spirit, which must be the
primary object of the course, is best
: obtained by the study of open war
fare offensive situations." .
At the same time, it is the plan
of the general staff to make due
: allowance for new weapons devel
: oped in j-ecent years, especially in
fantry weapons such as the one
pounder, guns, automatic riflesand
, machine guns. These weapons have
made necessary the creation of sev
'. eral new ' units and slight modifi
cations of old infantry formation.
. . "Liasion" Must Go.
Foreign words will be eliminated
from the termology of the manuals.
.For example, "information" will
i take the place Of rliaigon." "Liaison
; officers," a war product, will be
, known hereafter as "information of
ficers." The service schools will compile
their own text books, General Drum
said, and German authorities studied
j before the war will be discarded.
While the use of new weapons
has, caused some changes in organ
ization, it must not be forgotten,
officers emphasize, that infantry re-
mains the principle branch of the
army and that other services are
- auxiliary arms.- In this conaection
it was recalled that General Persh-
, ing, in a letter to the chief of the
air service commenting upon func
tions of airplanes, said that "an air
force by itself cannot obtain a de
cision against forces on the ground."
''An air force," the general added,
, acting independently, can of its
" own account neither win a war at
the present time, nor, so far as we
, ' can tell,; at any time in the future."
t HShriners Convention to
Open In Portland June 22
, f Portland, Ore.? March 17. Port
land expects to make or break its
reputation on the Shrine convention
to be held in this city beginning
June 22. Four distinct conventions
will be in progress in this city at the
". time the Shriners come here to hold
. their annual meeting. Living quar
' ters for more than 100,000 persons
" must be had.
Every available hotel and boarding
house room in the city has been
booked for the convention by the
advance agents of the Shriners, it
was announced at their headquarters
yesterday.
( The convention will continue four
days. Thousands of dollars will be
'spent by Portland temples of the
.- Shriners to make. the convention a
happy one for all concerned;
Elgin's "Welcome Home"
Arch Down at Last
Elgin, III., March 17. Elgin's
"Welcome Home" arch, erected by
the mayor in the town's main
, thoroughfare to greet returning A.
E. F. heroes, has at last been pulled
down after a controversy over it
which lasted many weeks. Many
citizens objected to it on the ground
, that it was an unsightly object and
offended their aesthetic sense. Re
cently a number of frankly un-
appreciative A. E. F. heroes tried
to burn it , down. The mayor
threatened to have 'em jailed, but
finally capitulated and made a
, present o? it to a city employe, who
, took it, home for kindling.
Koenigsdorfs Eggs Start
Miniature Panic In Court
Kansaa City, March 17. In Order
; to test the veracity of a witness in
' the case of Horace Johnson, cotn-
plainaut, and B. K. v Koenigsdorf,
. grocer, defendant, an , egg was
broken in the south municipal court
' here the other day. A miniature
panic followed, while a bailiff , was
. hastily ordered to remove the egg
from the courtroom. Koenigsdorf
drew a fine of $100.
Johnson bought a dozen eggs
from Koenigsdorf found eight of
them to be bad, and had Koenigs-
dorf arrested when -the grocer re
fused to refund his money-
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Four New Planets Are Now
Visible in the.Sky During
Early Hours
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
With NeptUne Less So Communication With
Bodies Possible ; in Future Life on Mars; is
Doubted by Astromoners.'
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By DR. C. S. BRAININ.
Of the Columbl linlrrlty Observatory.
The present evening sky is cer
tainly a "planet" sky, for the 'map
shows us no less than four planets
above the horizon in theearly eve
ning" And' of these, three are the
best known and most remarkable
'.anets of the entire solar family
itrs. the ruddy planet: Jupiter, the
giant of the system, and Saturn, the
wonderful ringed planet The fourth
is, as in the previous few months.
Neptune, whose orbit lies' farther
out from the I sun than anv other
planet It is so far away that it
cannot be satisfactorily obseved,
even with the largest telescopes,
and very little beyond its move
ments is known about it.
The other three, however, are the
easiest planets of all to observe, for
Venus and Merurv. which would
be not unfavorable for close study
on account ot their distance, are al
ways, too near the sun. Venus is at
present a morning star and can be
seen shining beautifully several
hours before sunrise. Mercury also
will be a morning star for about 10
days before and after the 16th, and
can he looked for near the eastern
horizon within an hour befdre the
rising of the sun.
Visible in Northwest.
Amone the" newcomers on thi
April map you. will find in the ex
treme northeastern sky the brilliant
Vega once more above the horizon.
In the MCt- th Nnrttiorn frnmw
Corona Borealis, with its central
jewel, Gcrmma, forms a unique I
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group' which is unmistakable. Spica,
the sparkling white frrst-magttude
star of Virgo, is now well above the
horizon and will be found above
Mars in tW sky.' Spica js what is
known as a spectroscopic double
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Y OU visitors at the Skinner
Packing; Plant while passing
through the many corridors, store
rooms, .cooling rooms, etc., will
walk on cement floors. Over
30,0Q0 barrels of cement and a
large quantity of the sand of which
' these floors were, made was sup
plied by
ThePlatner Lumber & Coalf
Company
4601 Farnam Street. Walnut 330.
No Springs Honest Weight
Sales and Service Station
407 South Fifteenth Street
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star. It appears as a single star, of
course, to the naked eye. and even
the telescope fails to resolve it into
its components But the spectro
'scope shows a' doubling of the
spectrum lines in its light, which re
veals' its true nature. The Spica
system is approaching us at the
rate of 9.2 miles per second.
This past winted the question
of the possibility of talking with the
planet Mars and the attendant
question of the existence of the
much-spoken-of Martians have oc
cupied the public mind to a large
extent. The statement , of Marconi
that he had again received with his
wireless-receiviug iiistruinentSi mes
sages whose terrestrial origin he
doubted has brought forth opinions
of many experts in the science of
radio-communication as to the feas
iWlity of sending and receiving over
interplanetary distances ether
waves such as are used id wireless
telegraphy. '
No Reason for Doubt
From the purely physical stand
point there seems to be no reasona
ble" doubt that such interplanetary
communication is possible, either
by radio or, as some have suggest
ed,, with a greater promise of suc
cess, by means of gigantic, search
lights. The question of the possi
bility of starting , some wave im
pulse which will travel from Earth
to Mars can hardly be raised; it is
simply necessary to have the ra
diating source powerful enough and
the receiviug apparatus sufficiently
delicate. It seems to be in the
power of the modern terrestrial
scientist to have both if he be per
mitted to utilize the terrestrial re
sources to the utmost ' '
That , is the first phase of t'.ie
great question; the second is the
more important Is there anyone
to communicate, with on the other
planets of the solar sjtetem? Every
man, - including the astronomer,
would like to answer this question
in the' affirmative, for it would ex
tend science to an unimaginable de-
Evidence Not Direct. .
The evidence which Percival
Lowell, mainlv. and a few others
have laid before us in favor, of the
existence cf intelligent beings on
Mars is still the only testimony in
the affirmative, and it can hardly be
called direct. It has so often been
reviewed in the press that it is harfc
ly necessary to go into detail here.
Jt' depends entirety upon wc ac
ceptance as true ot tne so-caueu
Martian canals.
These were observed by only a
few astronomers; the very large
majority, and among them the men
having at. their disposal the largest
and most up-to-date instruments,
have been unable to observe them
at all. If the "canals" exist, the
next step m the argument is not
difficult to make, for they would
certainly be anything but tne nann
iwork of nature alone. But can we,
under the circumstances, just take
them for granted?
Other . facts concerning the
physical condition of the planet
should aiso'De consmweu, w i
mnenbere. the presence of water
vapor and the surface temperature.
We can sum tip the result of the
astronomer's work so far in these
directions by saying that Mars
seens not to p6ssess the necessary
physical qualifications for support
ing the kind of life which has de
veloped upon the earth. An entirely
different kind of being may have
been developed, however. We can
give our imagination free rein, but
this is beyond the realm of the as
tronomer. The astronomic world
strongly doubts, to put it mildly, the
existence of life on Mars.
Mars Smaller Than Earth.
Mars is considerably smaller than
the earth, its diameter being only
4,339 miles, compared with 7,918 for
the earth, and its volume is, there
fore, approximately one-quarter that
of the earth. As its mass, however,
is only about one-tenth that of the
One Large Omaha Firm
Congratulates Another
We congratulate
UJL UlCil great
list of food producers. pAXTON & GALLAGHER CO.
tinner's Macaroni
part of the stock of this
grea t wholesale grocery
store.
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pavement of Puritan Paving Block1 that
:otals about ten thousand yards. It was laid
by us notice it.
Upon walking through the plant you will be
supported by one hundred and twenty thou
sand square feet of mastic, asphalt flooring
that was also laid by us. Notice it also.
This floor and pavement representee high
est grade of construction that is known to
modern science. Laid by experts, such as
we employ, no better flooring or paving can
be procured. Such is the quality of every
-factor that entered into the construction of
The Skinner Company Packing Plant.
We v will be pleased to make an estimate on
&ny work that you contemplate. Wanting
the best of everything, it is only natural
that The Skinner Company entrusted their
work to ,
PHILLIP McARDLE
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
earth, the average density, of the
material making up its Substance is
only about 3.6 times the density of
water, whereas the ear(h is on the
whole 5.5 times as dense as water.
The force of Martian gravity on the
surface of the planet is only about
a third of the force of gravity at
the earth's surface. It is upon this
fact that imaginative people base
the statement that the possibility ex
isting Martians would be three times
as tall as we Earthmns, which is
absurd, as the force of gravity does
not affect the height of animals on
the earth, or they would be found
to be slightly taller, on the whole,
at the equator than nearer the poles.
The Martian day is about half an
hour longer than our day and 'the
Martian year is as long as 687 ter
restrial days. The average distance
from the sun is about 141,500,000
The Skinner Company on the opening
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miles, and as a consequence the
strength of sunlight, falling on the
Martian surface is only about .4 of
what it 5s here.
"Perfect Jewel" Makes
Off With Family Jewels
Chicago, March 17. "Edith" was
a "perfect jewel of a maid," so it
was believed by Mrs. Walter Scott,
a Chicago society woman, when she
employed her. But Mrs. Scott
quickly changed her opinion when
"Edith"' celebrated her first day off
by disappearing with family gems
and heirlooms valued at $20,000.
The police suspect "Edith" of be
ing an apparently well educated
woman who, is accused of victimiz
ing other mistresses here.
PHONE HARNEY
Salesman Gives Bankers ,
A Speed Demonstration
Kansas City, Mo., March 17.
Three wealthy Oklahoma bankers
and a fist demonstrating car, piloted
by a peed-!oving salesman, proved
to be a combination that was almost
too much for Matt Clark, motor
cycle squad "ace" here, a few nights
ago. ;
When the car was finally over
hauled by Clark after doing 60 for
several blocks, the bankers could
only gasp: "Thank the Lord 'you
stopped him; ve couldn't"
In the market for "speedy" cars,
the Oklabomans admitted the sales
man's product was entirely, satisfac
tory. It is also understood the
salesman will never miss the $26
bond he forfeited.
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