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Saturday, August 3, 1918 THE TECH 3

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MIDSUMMER PICNIC
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This is surely a preliminary action to the noisy smile which every one must wear for the rest of the day. From the great court they go en masse, as it were, and besiege the 2.15 boat. Then it will be a case of each for himself, and God for us all, because there has been no space reserved. This was deemed the best plan because passenger agents have a habit, amongst other idiosyneracies, of placing reservations in the stern. Now it only takes half an eye to see that bright and brilliant Technologians are not going to take a back seat from any passenger agent, even through they do descend to the disgraceful depths of dissipation that a picnic involves. 
The boat reaches Nantasket at 3.30, and immediately all present will don their bathing suits whether the have them or not. Bathhouses are reserved for the proud possessors of Tripandinner tickets, so there is no excuse for the bashful boys. Then will take place the relay race. It is open to all except the professionals. This is to be followed by a tug of war in the water; undoubtedly this will be a moist ordeal for some, but there is still the consolation that water is soft stuff to fall into. For these events there are prizes for all:- how the judges will discriminate is quite beyond us, but we are sure that where all the contestants are winners there can be no partiality. 
At about 6.30 p. m., after the fun on the beach, the survivors will each be presented with a supper at the Nantasket Cafe - Oh, Joy! The supper will naturally be accompanied by an entertainment-not to be eaten- which we have reason to believe will be good. 
After supper the men will be entirely free to follow their own wilful fancies, and unless we be much mistaken, Paragon Park will be a lively place for a couple of hour. N.B.-The last boat leaves at 9.45 p.m.; after that we recommend walking or swimming to Boston for those who really must return. 
HIGHEST EXPLOSIVES ARE NOT BEING USED
According to a Swiss chemist named Stellbachen, quoted in the Scientific American, the most violent explosives theoretically possible cannot be, or at least are not, used practically. 
"Nitroglycerin," says Mr. Stellbachen, "although considered one of the most violent in present use, develops only 1580 calories per kilogram, since the nitric acid which it comprises does not take part in the reaction, and the hydrogen and the carbon therein give only 43 per cent of the energy of combustion which they would disengage if they were alone. 
"Explosives of liquid air, or oxyliquite, give as high as 2200 calories, because the liquid oxygen combines directly with the carbon and the hydrogen. The combinations of the hydrocarbides with ozone, ozonid of ethylene, and benzin triozonid, though liberating no more heat of explosion, have a higher 'breaking value' because of the greater speed of decomposition. 
"Theoretically, still more powerful explosive are conceivable; a trichlorate of glycerin should develop 3000 calories, twice the force of nitroglycerin; and, finally, a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid ozone, if it were practically realizable, would give about 4500 calories and would be the most terrible substance possible to obtain."

FIRST FLYING SQUADRON TO GRADUATE SINCE ARMY AVIATORS RETURNED TO TECHNOLOGY
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Beginning back row, left to right: Joseph H. Moore, George P. Luckey, Herbert R. Plimpton, Charles T. Rogers, Roland V. Tracey, Harold R. Turner, Allen D. Elred, Charles A. Morse, Jr., Raymond V. Hayward, Frank H. Trumbell, Howard S. Lee, John W. Totten, Harold K. Smith, Alton L. Fahey, John H. Brewer, John D. Snow, Allen D. McLean.

SUMMER CAMP STARTED
Special Correspondent of THE TECH Tells of Opening
We left the North Station about ten p. m. Monday. The party consisted of about seventy men. Eleven men, including Dean Russell, had previously arrived Friday night to open the camp, making a total of ninety-four men. 
About seven miles beyond Bangor, the connecting rod on the engine of Bar Harbor train broke, and as this train was preceding the two sections for East Machias, we were delayed three hours until another engine was obtained. We arrived at East Machias about 1.30p. m.
The fellows hiked to the landing on Gardners Lake, about two miles, at a good brisk pace. Came across the lake in a motor boat and scow. First, we had dinner, and the fellows were pretty hungry, and ate with a relish. Then we registered, and after arrival of trunks  and bags, got tent together. Had supper at seven. 
At 8o'clock there was a general get-together meeting in Bemis Hall. The Dean of the camp, Russel, and Professor Robins, addressed bunch. Professor Robbins told about the work and the schedule. We start work at 8 a. m. and work until 12, and again from 1 until 55. Wednesdays we quit at 4, and Saturdays at 1. We work Tuesday and Friday evenings from 7.15 to 9.15. Extra hour on Wednesday gives chance for ball games. We hope to form teams and league soon. Professor Robbins is in charge of instruction. 
Professor Russell spoke on customs and rules of former camps which will be in vogue for the presnt camp. Thursday night there is to be a meeting to elect camp association chairmen and other officers, and various committees. He also spoke on personal responsibility and obligation of the students. The keynote of advice and rules is to make the came a good time for everybody. For this week revellie is sounded at 6.30 a. m. The schedule after this week is Revelli at 6.00; calisthenics at 6.10; breakfast at 7.00; work at 8.00; dinner 12.00; recreation 5.00; supper at 6.00; tents at 9.30, and taps at 9.45. 
There are six men in the mining section, with Professor Howard in charge. 

WATER FOR POWER DIVERTED TO CROPS
To save many million dollars' worth of rice, beans and alfalfa now growing in California, the State Railroad Commission, acting in conjunction with the United States Food Administration, has ordered the Sutter, Butte and Western canal companies to divert water, impounded in Lake Almanor for power purposes, to the irrigation of 65,000 acres of land needing the water for irgation. These crops are threatened, and the action has been taken on request of farmers in Butte and Sutter counties. 
This use of water from Lake Almanor will lower the reservoir about 5 per cent. The Railroad Commission takes the ground that the nation's need of food supersedes even the need of power. At the same time, it is not believed that the use of so small a portion of the storage will greatly interfere with power development. Lake Almanor gets its storage supply from Feather River. 

SOLDIERS OF STEEL
An "automatic soldier" is one of the latest developments in weapons of war. A Danish engineer has a recently taken out a patent for an apparatus to which he has given this name. It consists of a steel cylinder normally within a large cylinder, the whole being sunk into the ground vertically. By means of a mechanism operated by wireless the inner cylinder rises to a height of 18 inches from the ground and an automatic rifle mounted on the inner cylinder fires 400 shots in any given direction. 
These "automatic soldiers" can be controlled from a central position some for or five miles behind the line of defense, according to the inventor. They may be seen by the enemy only when they rise from the ground. From trials already made it has been shown, so it is reported, that a few hundred of these steel soldiers can easily defend a position against infantry attacks, however numerous the opposing force may be. They blaze away their 400 shots without flinching, and never retreat.  In order to overcome the "automatics" they must be destroyed one by one. 

YANKEE INVENTIONS
Germans are confronted not only by Yankees who fight and drive as victoriously as they did, but also by the scientific and inventive brain of Uncle Sam. American genius is giving invaluable aid against the enemy. Henry Ford is making thousands of "light" tanks and on the field of Gettysburg a special army is being trained to man the rapid fire guns with which the tanks are armed.
Our scientists, notably a Boston professor, whose name is a military secret, have given the army a gas shell, even more deadly and effective than the one used by Germans. Then there is the American airplane with its Liberty motor, admitted by English experts to be the best motor ever made. There are the depth bombs that have made the life of the U-boat miserable, new ordinance, flame throwers and star shells. We have forged an enormous long-range gun, capable of shooting an far as the German guns that have been bombarding Paris.
These but represent a few of the Yankee creations. If there is anything lacking "to win the war" then all that Washington has to do is to present the need to our men of special ability and requirements are met. Yankee valor and Yankee inventive skill are going hand in hand to re-establish the civilization of the world.

WAR WORK OF INSTITUTE WOMEN IS PRAISED HIGHLY
Western New York Branch of War Service Auxiliary Aiding Wounded.
From the War Service Auxiliary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology there come reports of the excellent work in mercy fields of its Western New York Branch. Some time ago in the middle of the winter a speaker was sent from Boston by the M.I.T. Alumni Association to Rochester and Buffalo to tell the local alumni associations about the war work of the Institute. Although the story was largely about the school work, the mercy work of the Technology women appealed to their sisters in Buffalo and a branch of the [[??]] Service Auxiliary was there established its secretary being the wife of the president of the Buffalo Alumni Association. The Buffalo branch has devoted much time to its labors of love and has sent during the month of July about one hundred pieces of work to the Boston Headquarters for distribution among Tech men in the service. In addition to this the active women of Buffalo, wives and sisters of Technology graduates have entered heartily into the amelioration of the lot of the poor men in the hospital at Fort Porter. This is devoted to sufferers from shell shock and similar nervous ailments, and one of the devices given has been a hand loom for the use of convalescents, while a previous gift was a Victrola. Fruit, flowers and delicacies are constantly supplied by these devoted women.

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF WORKMEN SUGGESTED
Physical examination of a workman before he is employed, so that both he and his employer would receiv a fair deal in the fixing of compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act, should the man be injured, was mentioned by the William W. Kennard, chairman of the Industrial Accident Board, as a possible improvement of the present law, at a hearing before the Recess Committee on Workmen's Compensation today.
Mr. Kennard stated that in passing upon appeals from the decision of the Industrial Accident Board the Supreme Court has comments on many parts of the law which might stand improving. In some instances employers had pointed out that they should be relieved of paying compensation to an employe for an injury arising out of a preceding one with which the employer is not connected.
After hearing Mr. Kennard the committee went into executive session.

CAMOUFLAGE IS REALLY AMERICAN INDIAN ART
That the art of camouflage as now practised in Europe is an American institution and originated by the American Indians, is the latest suggestion, according to The Scientific American. It is claimed that the Indian children were taught to place flowers in their hair as
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-well as twigs, leaves and other bits of foliage, and that they were able to move along the ground in such a stealthy manner that they were not discernible to the rest of the tribe.
Before a young buck could become qualified as a warrior he had to make his approach to the Indian camp almost in the midst of the assembled warriors without being detected. The real origin of paint on the faces, as well as the wigwams and horses, was apparently in the desire to make the Indian blend with rocks, trees and dirt, so that he could approach his prey or remain hidden without detection.

LONDON WEEK-ENDS FOR SERVICE MEN
The American University Union, recently organized here as a club for college men on war work in England, has inaugurated a series of week-end excursions to places of historic interest, as Oxford, Cambridge and Stratford-on-Avon.
The first of these excursions, which occupy about two days, was to Oxford, and the second to Stratford. The parties in each case included mostly men in uniform, including representatives of the American army, navy, aviation service, Red Cross and Y.M.C.A.
At the Magdalen College, Oxford, the visitors were welcomed by the president, Sir Herbert Warren. The trip to Stratford was made under the escort of Sir Sydney Lee, the great English Shakespeare scholar.

Transcription Notes:
MC 12/16/2020 - I transcribed the top line then the columns working from top left down then across the page. MH 12/17/20 Reviewed entire document correcting a small handful of minor typos. MP 12/17/20 - I transcribed from the beginning "Yankee Inventions" until the end of "London Week-ends for Service Men". I did not transcribe the parts above the last column as I wasn't sure how.