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 Published Weekly by the University of Iu^'nois 
 
 
 Vol. XIV AUGUST 27, 1917 ' • No. 52 
 
 
 [Entered as second-class matter December 11, 191 2, at the post office at Urbana, Illinois, 
 under the Act of August 24, 1912] 
 
 RESPONSE OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 CALL OF WAR 
 
 AVIATORS IN TRAINING 
 
 AT 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS 
 
 Will the Kaiser look with scorn when these men invade the air above him? 
 
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 )AN 2+ 1918 
 
RESPONSE 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 TO 
 
 THE CALL OF WAR 
 
 How well an individual or an institution can respond to an 
 emergency call like that of war depends in great measure upon the 
 preparations made. 
 
 EARLY PREPARATION BY THE UNIVERSITY. Ever 
 since its esta!blishment in 1867 the University of Illinois has been one 
 of the Land Grant Institutions that has endeavored to give instruction 
 in military science and tactics in accordance with the letter of the 
 Federal law and the spirit of the founders. In consequence of this 
 policy consistently followed the military department had grown by 1916 
 into an organization of considerable size. •. 
 
 THE ESTABLISHMENT enrolled by this time a total of 
 2279 men, consisting of two regiments of infantry (twelve companies 
 each), a full battery of artillery, a signal company, an engineer com- 
 pany, a hospital company, two bands, a trumpet and drum corps, and a 
 reserve band. In 191 5 there was organized among the faculty and 
 students a Battery which was one of the six batteries of the First 
 Regiment of the Illinois Field Artillery. During the summer of 191 6 
 this Battery ("F") spent several months acquiring valuable training 
 and experience on the Mexican border. 
 
 In 1 916 there was some reorganization and additions due to the 
 passing of the National Defense Act of June 3. Certain units of the 
 Reserve Ofificers' Training Corps were organized. 
 
 Beginning in the autumn of 1916 there was assigned to the 
 University by the War Department five commissioned officers and 
 three non-commissioned officers from the active list and four retired 
 non-commissioned officers. Previous to this only one officer from the 
 United States Army had been assigned though the need for additional 
 officers for the proper training of the University cadets had been urged 
 frequently by the President of the University upon the United States 
 War Department. 
 
 Expenditures on account of the military had greatly increased 
 
by this period. During the two years ending March 31, 1915, $227,- 
 918.87 was expended upon a new armory (floor space 200 x 400) to 
 complete which it will require about $250,000.00 more. For inci- 
 dental expenses, military scholarships, for the Armory and other build- 
 ings to be used by the military an amount about equal to the original 
 Federal Grant ($600,000) to the University has been spent by the 
 State to build up the military department of its University. 
 
 RECENT PREPARATION. With the rise of the war-cloud 
 aibove the horizon in Alarch 1917 other preparation was begun. A 
 branch of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau was organized with 
 Assistant Dean H. W. Miller of the College of Engineering serving 
 as director or adjutant. 
 
 On March 23, 191 7, the Board of Trustees on the recommenda- 
 tion of President James set aside sufficient money to print the desired 
 blanks, mail them to all students and alumni and make the necessary 
 permanent records. On March 24, fifteen thousand letters and inform- 
 ation blanks were sent to the alumni and students of the University of 
 Illinois. On the information blank which was to he checked by the 
 alumnus and returned there were listed services under 102 general 
 heads. .A permanent record card was prepared and a special punch 
 constructed to punch the card in a manner somewhat similar to the 
 scheme used by the Census Bureau. To date approximately 4,500 
 replies have been received from the 15,000 students and alumni and all 
 of these replies have been reduced to permanent record cards. 
 
 By the punch card scheme it is now possible to go through all of 
 the record cards in five minutes or less and find all of the men qualified 
 for any given occupation. To date the Bureau has answered calls for 
 more than two hundred men. On June 6-9 it made up three ambulance 
 units of thirty-six men each in response to the call from the War De- 
 partment. These men left for Allentown, Pennsylvania, on June 28, 
 1917, where they will remain for three months and will then be sent 
 to France. Calls are being answered every day for men for chemical 
 laboratories, topographic service, inspection work for the Ordnance 
 Department, and so forth. 
 
 The P.ureau has a central office in the Munsey Building in Wash- 
 ington, D. C. This office is under the direction of William McClellan, 
 with Mr. James L. Phillips as first secretary. Practically all of the men 
 who are working in this office are doing so without pay. These volun- 
 teer secretaries were sent from the various universities. The repre- 
 sentative from ihe Cniversitv of Illinois is '\\v. Edward B. Haves. 
 
Previous to this the University authorities foresaw the coming 
 paramount importance of Aeronautics and appointed a professor to 
 give instruction to the students in this wholly new line of science. ■ ' 
 
 OFFER OF RESOURCES. Early in February when it 
 seemed inevitable that the United States would be drawn into the war, 
 President Edmund J. James of the University sent the following 
 telegram : • , 
 
 To His Excellency 
 Honorable Frank O. Lowden 
 Governor of the State of Illinois 
 
 "In the name of the trustees and faculty of the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois, I beg to tender to you, and through you 
 to the^ President of the United States, in case of war, the 
 facilities of the scientific and technical laboratories of the 
 University of Illinois, as an aid in solving such problems as 
 the federal government may assign to us." 
 
 EDMUND J. JAMES. 
 
 BARRACKS FOE THE AVIATORS— Y. M 
 
 BUILDING 
 
This telegram was communicated to the President of the United 
 States who repHed as follows : 
 
 "THE WHITE HOUSE, 
 
 Washington. February lo, 1917 
 
 My dear Governor : 
 
 May I not thank you cordially for your letter of February 7th? 
 I am very much gratified by the generous action of the University of 
 Illinois. Please be good enough to convey to Dr. James an expression 
 of my hearty appreciation of his offer. 
 
 Cordially and sincerely yours, 
 
 (signed) Woodrow Wilson. 
 
 Hon. Frank O. Lowden, 
 
 Governor of Illinois, 
 
 Springfield, Illinois." 
 
 When war was actually begun the President of the University 
 in a statement to the faculty and students urged among other things 
 the following : 
 
 Friends : 
 
 In the great crisis which now confronts our beloved 
 country two things are very apparent : 
 
 First, the nation expects every member of the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois to do his "bit" ; 
 
 Second, every member of the University is anxious to 
 respond to this expectation. 
 
 It does not yet appear, however, just what he can do or 
 where, or when he can best do his part. 
 
 I hope it will become clearer in the course of a few 
 days. 
 
 One thing is fairly evident. Men and women will be 
 wanted for many dift'erent purposes. University men and 
 women should be distinctly more available for a variety of 
 positions and work than the average run of the commvmity. 
 
 For the present, students and members of the faculty 
 alike can do their best service by giving their utmost energy 
 to their college work so that in any case they can come as 
 near as possible to completing the work of the academic 
 year in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. 
 
 SERVICES RENDERED. The National Government took 
 the University President at his word and soon began to call on the 
 University for service. The Ordnance and Quartermaster's depart- 
 
ments needed trained men. To supply this need, special courses in 
 business organization and operation were conducted during the period 
 from April 23 to June 28 to prepare students for the ordnance enlisted 
 reserve corps and for the quartermaster's enlisted reserve corps. About 
 one hundred and twenty students enrolled for these courses, the ma- 
 jority of whom were promptly enlisted in the Federal service upon the 
 completion of the work. 
 
 During the same period courses in Red Cross work were given 
 at the University for which college credit was granted. One hundred 
 and forty students completed the courses. The work was conducted 
 by a registered Red Cross nures, by memhers of the faculty and by 
 practicing physicians. It included instruction in first aid, surgical sup- 
 plies, home nursing, field proiblems and dietetics. 
 
 One of the most important services now being contributed by 
 the University for the conduct of the war is the preparation in its lab- 
 oratories of certain chemicals which are indispensable for the manu- 
 facture of munitions, nickel steels for projectiles, etc., and which — in 
 some instances at least — can not be procured from other sources. Not- 
 ably among these chemicals of which there is a shortage is dimethyl- 
 gloxime which is now being supplied from the University of Illinois 
 laboratories in sufficient quantities to meet all demands of the whole 
 country. 
 
 Dr. Roger Adams of the division of Organic Chemistry with a 
 group of graduate students is engaged in preparing other chemicals 
 as well — some seventy-five in number — that are being sold to as many 
 as fifteen different university laboratories, to the Bureau of Chemistry 
 at Washington, and to large distributing houses and commercial firms. 
 
 Since June 30, three aditional am'bulance units, one hundred 
 and eight men in all, recruited from Illinois Alumni and students, have 
 left the University for Allentown, Pa. to go into an army train- 
 ing camp prior to their departure for "Somewhere in France". Enhst- 
 ment^ in the ordnance and quartermasters reserve corps number about 
 seventy. 
 
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OTHER PERSONAL SERVICES. .A'lany faculty members 
 have tendered their services to>-t-he State and National Governments 
 in various capacities. President Edmund J. James is chairman of a 
 committee formed May 21 to consider ways in which the state universi- 
 ties .may cooperate with the Federal Government in its conduct of 
 the war. 
 
 Seventeen members of the faculty are imparting instruction to 
 220 aviators in the School of ]\Iilitary Aeronautics. 
 
 On the Avoman's committee of the national council of defense 
 are : Aliss Isabel Bevier, head of the household science department 
 of the University; Mrs. Henry M. Dunlap, (76) of Savoy; two mem- 
 bers -of the board of trustees, Mrs. J\Iary Busey of Urbana, and ]\Irs. 
 Laura B. Evans of Taylorville. 
 
 Some have enlisted in the officers' reserve corps or other 
 branches and will soon see service at the front. Others are serving on 
 committees, and acting in advisory capacities for National and State 
 Governments, aiding in war relief or doing their "bit" in some other line 
 as important and vital, perhaps, as these mentioned. ■ 
 
 FOOD CONSERVATION. The Extension Division of the 
 Household Science Department is organized for a food conservation 
 campaign. During the current year this Division has served twenty- 
 one types of organization throughout the state, reaching through them 
 more than 70,000 housekeepers. The cooperation of all these organiza- 
 tions is now being enlisted and the cooperation of the local press has 
 been secured in this service which is concerned primarily with the con- 
 servation and utilization of foods, food materials, and textiles. 
 
 This campaign will be carried forward under close cooperation 
 with the agricultural extension work of the state. 
 
 SCHOOL OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS. On April 30, 
 191 7, in response to a call from the War Department the University of 
 Illinois agreed to establish a school of IMilitary Aeronautics, which will 
 likely continue throughout the period of the war. This school was to be 
 established with an officer of the regular army detailed as Commandant, 
 and a technical staff made up under the direction of the University. 
 The ftien who are instructed in this School of Aeronautics are enlisted 
 in the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps, and are sent here on orders from 
 Washhigton. They come at approximately the rate of twenty-five men 
 per week and remain eight weeks. The number of men on hand at the 
 present time is approximately 220. 
 
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The entire large armory is being used at the present time for 
 instruction. The building belonging to the Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation has been leased by the University and turned over to be used 
 as barracks by the School of Military Aeronautics. The dining room 
 facilities in the basement of the building have been increased to accom- 
 modate two hundred fifty men. In addition the new Woman's 
 Residence Hall which is just 'being completed has been turned over 
 by the Board of Trustees of the University for use of the Aviators 
 as barracks. Instruction is being given to the men on Military 
 Drill, Army Regulations, Theory of Flight, Cross Country and 
 General Flying, Telegraphy, Construction and Operation of Aircraft 
 Engines, Construction of Airplanes, Artillery .Observation, Construc- 
 tion and Operation of Machine Guns, Meteorology, Astronomy, Re- 
 connaissance, Map Reading, Contact Patrol, Bombs, Motor Transpor- 
 tation, and so forth. The men are under rigid military discipline at all 
 times and because of the extreme requirements of the service no lax- 
 ness is permitted. 
 
 Captain G. W. Krapf of the regular army. Aviation Service, has 
 'been detailed by the War Department to act as Commandant. Assist- 
 ant Dean H. W. Miller of the College of Engineering, Captain in Ord- 
 nance Department, has been assigned by the University as President of 
 the Academic Board in charge of the technical instruction. At the 
 present time seventeen instructors from the College of Engineering are 
 giving the technical instruction. It is expected that by the first of Sept- 
 ember a permanent staff of twenty-two men will have been made up. 
 
 The School received its first men on May 20, and graduated its 
 first class on July 14. The men who are sent here come from all parts 
 of the United States. Part of the first graduating class was sent to Ran- 
 toul, Illinois, and others to Fort Wood, New York. It is very probable 
 that in a comparatively short time the capacity of the school will be 
 increased to accommodate 400 to 500 men, graduating approximately 
 50 per week. The staff of the School has had to prepare the notes used 
 by the men, and on July 13 the first bound copies of these notes con- 
 taining approximately 500 pages were available for use. Until that 
 time the notes were simply given out from time to time as they were 
 prepared and had to be used. The men who are sent here are of the 
 very highest caliber. The physical examination is very rigid and the 
 men seem to realize the responsibilities that they are expected to carry. 
 
 ENGINEERS FOR CANTONMENT CONSTRUCTION. 
 In response to a call recently received from the Federal Government 
 
NEW WOMAN'S RESIDENCE HALL 
 Turned for the use of the Aviators 
 
the University secured for cantonment construction work twenty grad- 
 uates of the College of Engineering. These men are enlisted in the 
 National Guard and have now been detailed temporarily for this special 
 service. Thus the government through the aid of the University is 
 enabled to make the very best possible use of the expert training of its 
 enlisted men. 
 
 ' DEVELOPMENT OF AERONAUTICAL DEVICES FOR 
 
 U. S. NAVY. In response to an offer made the Navy by the shop lab- 
 oratories of the Mechanical Engineering Department, the Navy asked 
 the laboratories to design and develop an instrument capable of meas- 
 uring the tension in kite baloon cables. These kite baloons have sprung 
 into great importance during the war and have brought about special 
 (methods of operations. It is found that it is difficult to estimate 
 whether cables holding these baloons to the ground are under great or 
 little tension; hence the desirability of an instrument which can be 
 applied to the cable and show at a glance the tension in it. 
 
 Such an instrument was designed by the instructor in aeronaut- 
 ics from photographs roughly illustrating similar devices used abroad ; 
 and the sample has been built, calibrated and shipped to the Navy de- 
 partment for trial. It is understood that the manufacture of these in- 
 struments for further use by the Government will be done in the shop 
 laboratories which are Avell equipped for various sorts of work and are 
 capable of employing one hundred fifty mechanics. 
 
 WAR RELIEF. Early in the war a call came for aid to the 
 Belgian suft'erers in England. In response the University in a short, 
 vigorous campaign secured a carload of clothing, consisting of 50 boxes 
 with 5,000 pieces of serviceable winter wear for men, women, and 
 children, and $1,500 in cash. 
 
 In addition to this individuals, committees, and various organ- 
 izations composed partly or entirely of faculty people' have done much 
 in securing relief for the Belgians, for the Red Cross, and for other 
 purposes. 
 
 Since last April three distinct campaigns for war relief have 
 been conducted in the University. 
 
 Early in April a special canvass was made in the University 
 Community for the Belgian Children's Relief Fund. As a result of 
 that campaign a -total of $13,625.02 was raised. The general committee 
 having this campaign in charge started out to raise $6,900.00 to care for 
 
the children of Muysen, Belgium. They accomplished much more — 
 fortunately for other Belgian children. 
 
 Early in the summer, a special campaign was made to secure 
 funds for the University Ambulance unit that was already in France. 
 As a result of this effort about $10,000.00 was secured for this cause. 
 
 During July a committee on Armenian and Syrian Relief by 
 means of a garden party and direct collections raised $500.00 that was 
 sent to the central committee in New York. The committee at the 
 University is a continuing organization and plans to send other aid 
 from time to time. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL WORK. Lectures on many phases of the 
 War have been given- during the summer session by members of the fac- 
 ulty from the department of Political Science, from the History Depart- 
 ment, and others. A series of ten lectures by members of the faculty 
 were arranged by request of Mr. Herbert C. Hoover on the conserva- 
 tion of food and textile material. Five of these have already been de- 
 livered. Faculty people are called on constantly for addresses to public 
 meetings throughout the state and for expert advice on many subjects. 
 
 WORK FOR THE COMING YEAR. The University will 
 open as usual in September, 191 7 and carry forward the many lines of 
 work that it has been accustomed to do with as little change as circum- 
 stances will permit. The University believes it is extremely important 
 that during these trying times the educational interests of the country 
 be not neglected. It urges students who are not actually needed in the 
 armed or unarmed forces fighting the Nation's battles to return to their 
 college or university courses. If war continues the nation will be better 
 served if it has available the largest possible body of trained men and 
 women. 
 
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