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PAGE 4 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN W A R NOTES Four concrete ships only, the emergency fleet cor poration announces, are to be built under the first con crete ship program recently decided on. If these types prove satisfactory more of the same kind will be con structed. Plenty of time should be allowed for mail to reach the soldiers in France; according to a report issued by Postmaster General Burleson between 15 and ¿0 days are required. And incases where the forces have been shifted even a longer time than that is sometimes ne cessary. Secretary of War Baker announces the dissolution of the board of control of labor standards which was formed to keep plants employing sweat shop methods from getting contracts for army clothing. Hereafter the duties of the board will be performed by the quartermaster general’s office. A training school for army chaplains has been or dered erected at Fort Monroe, Va., where candidates will be taught military law, international law, military science and tactics and hygiene. Men who fail in the examination will be returned to their civil pursuits and compensated for the time spent studying at the school. partment favors the plan and efforts are being made to bring the enterprise to a realization some time in April. The shortest distance between the two ter minals is 225 miles. The proposed route will extend through Philadelphia, three hours being allowed for the entire trip. About 300 pounds of mail will be carried by each machine, at a postage rate of 25 cents an ounce. An exhibition of motion pictures showing the Ameri can navy as it is today was given recently in Washing ton. Secretary of the Navy Daniels commended the way in which the navy had grown from a comparatively small number of men a short time ago to more than 300,000 men now. It is a question of a little longer, he said, when it will take its position as the “ incompar able and unconquerable navy of the world.” He re commended that the pictures be displayed in every city, town and hamlet so that the people of the country could see the great strides that have been made. ELECTORAL COLLEGE The president and vice-president of the U. S. are not elected directly by the people but by electors who are voted for on the party tickets or, in some states, nominated by petition. The chosen electors meet on the second Monday in January, following their election in their respective states, and vote by Loyal Americans are called on to assist in appre ballot for president and vice-president of the U. S. hending alien enemies who fail to make proper re The result is transmitted to the president of the ports of their property holdings in this country to senate. On the second Wednesday in February, suc the alien property custodian. Persons convicted of ceeding the meeting of the electors, the electoral making untrue statements regarding their possessions votes are opened and counted in the presence of both are liable to a $10,000 fine or ten years’ imprison houses of congress and the result is announced by ment. the president of the senate. Candidates for the offices After a thorough investigation the federal grand of president and vice-president are nominated at jury brands as utterly without foundation the changes national party conventions. These conventions are not provided for by the con made by C. H. Thompson, a former member of the American Defense Society, that there had been a num stitution but it has become the invariable rule that the ber of spies in this country shot and that ammunition candidates presented by them are voted for by the had been sent to Germany. Thompson, himself, it is presidential electors. The latter are nominated at the announced, now admits that he may have been misin state party convention or primaries and are elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November formed. of every fourth year preceding the end of the presi Approximately 1,080,000 soldiers, sailors and nurse3, dential term. Each state is entitled to as many elec nearly 90 per cent of the fighting forces of the country, tors as it has senators and representatives. No senators have applied for government insurance. An extension or representatives or persons holding an office of trust of time from March 12 lo>April 12 has been made in or honor under the U. S. may be an elector. The which to make application; it is hoped that during number of electors depends on the population within this time every man will take out a policy. Automatic the districts or counties represented. Therefore it is insurance—giving the benefit of policies tcrmen who not the same in all states. have not made application—has been discontinued. The sixth grade pupils are reviewing the study of Congress has appropriated $100,000 for the manu our first eight presidents, and the events leading up to facture of five airplains to carry mails daily between the Revolutionary War. All are interested in the Washington and New York city. The post office de study of history.
