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Beyond these obvious lacks, Hugh Drum found others to point at. One of them was a shortage of troops. He turned it into a plug for conscription. Said he: "We are wasting time and ignoring basic lessons of history by months of discussing the volunteer versus the conscription system." Other faults he blamed on lack of training. He found smaller units (com panies, battalions, etc.) weak on the basic mechanics of fighting - patrolling, reconnaissance, communications. He found waste of man power. "Too many com manders," said he, "expected all officers and all men to be at work...
This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...
...with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...
...wonder if it has occurred to our patriotic Congressmen that a minimum of $75 to $100 as basic Army pay would draw perhaps 1,500,000 into the Army...
...Perhaps viruses are related to genes, the basic units of heredity. For genes also seem to be active chemicals which can duplicate themselves. Some scientists also suspect that viruses are the agents which cause cancer in man, for they often stimulate cells to abnormal, erratic growths...