TilE ~ ~7 -~ ~.1 £ t~' .11 A 4J ~ Ii D \I A-,' _ _ . _. Specialized Program Trains Army Engineers at University Picked Men Taught in 12 Week Course Trainees Study Civil, Mechanical, Electrical And Chemical Branches, Over 100 picked Army men, who have (demonstrated aptitude at the highest possible Army Specialized Training Program levels' are now taking ASTP courses in the College of Engineering. These Army engineering students arrived in Ann Arbor early in April. When the men were classified in the engineering college it was found that their previous training placed them in a wide range from basic freshman courses to senior and even graduate work. Prospective plans were quickly changed and the men were placed in their proper classes for a term of 12 weeks. The men of the engineering group, which is the first such contingent to be established in the Sixth Service Command, are studying civil, me- chanical, electrical and chemical engineering. Since the Army Spec- ialized Training Program terms are only 12 weeks long, it has been necessary to strip the usual engineer- ing course down to minimum essen- tials. Special emphasis is placed on the practical aspect of the subjects. Courses in the engineering col- lege studied. by students - under the Army Specialized Training Program are considered on a par with or more advanced than the regular University courses in engineering, according to a statement issued by the Army Ad- visory Committee. Under the ASTP academic pro- gram, the engineering trainees put in 25 hours per week of classroom and laboratory work plus an equal number of periods of supervised study. Each week's routine includes six hours of physical and five hours of. nilitary training. Technical in- struction and physical training for the Army engineering students is provided by the University. . Although aptitude was the main consideration in choosing the men for training, attention was also paid to asuch qualities as leadership, in- telligence, knowledge of a specific and demonstrated skill, cooperation and ability to work with others, and physical stamina. In order to come to the school for specialized training, all men had to relinquish the rank they held before this special as- signment. SALUTE 4°to MOM Dernonstration Shows Army Engineers'The Works' 4 bay iti the (nfineePing 14it A demonstration in the mechanical, engineering laboratory is being given to these members of the engineering unit of the Army Specialized Training a t the University. (See the story in adjoining col- umn.) Soldiers Asked To Field Day WAA Institutes New Sports Program Today Enlisted men on campus will have a ghance to play on Palmer Field froms3 to 6 p.m. today under the Wo- men's Athletic Association's "Service Men's Field Day." Under the direction of Nancy Hat- tersley, '44, WAA president, a new type of entertainment for soldiers is being instituted-in the form of baseball, badminton, tennis, archery and golf-putting.j The field day originated when ser- vice men asked for the use of the athletic equipment at Palmer Field and the Women's Athletic Building. The WAA is furnishing all the equip- ment for the soldiers. Under the WAA sports managers, committees of girls are being organ- ized as hostesses to play with the soldiers in each sport. Any service man stationed on campus and all University women are invited to at- tend. Should Ann Arbor's proverbial spring rains decide to force cancella- tion of the program, bridge, archery, ping-pong, bowling and other indoor games will be featured in the Wo- men's Athletic Building. LaneHall To Hold Coffee Hour for Soldiers Today The library will be converted into a music room when the weekly open house for service men is held from 3-5 p.m. today at Lane Hall. Every Sunday soldiers are welcome to attend these "coffee hours" and to listen to the afternoon broadcast of the New York Philharmonic. Coffee is served all afternoon and the ser- vice men are invited to come when they can and leave when they wish. WASHINGTON, May 1.- (P)-On his first visit to the national capitol in nine years, Irvin S. Cobb, noted humorist, told a group of senators today he found Washington "a won- derful place to go crazy in." "Nobody would notice it," he said. FOREIGN SERVICE DELUXE: Lt. Fulton Underhav Describes Life o Remote .eIslaod- Outpost By CAPT. H. W. SULLIVAN Scotland, 'Sir, it is worth seeing but Judge Advocate General's School not worth going to see.' If you stood at Broadway and 42nd "The climate was pleasant and the Street, you would see everybody you land dotted with cocoanut palms. ever knew, it used to be. The weather remains almost con- Today, if you visit the campus of stant and there is but one season, the Judge Advocate General's School. what Melville, in Moby Dick called you will meet officers who have seen 'The Eternal August of the Tropics.' duty at every pinpoint on the global "Amusements were the same every! map. night. One could read, play chess For strategic reasons, there are or cards or listen to radio, if recep- many unmentionable pinpoints on tion were good, but there was no beer, the global map. From one of these no ice cream, pop. movies or girls. lost horizons, 2nd Lt. Fulton C. Un- "Sunday of necessity was a day of derhay flew in ten thousand miles recreation, and one could collect to attend the 11th class of the Staff shells or curious bits of coral. Many School, of the Judge Advocate Gen- fished for tuna and barracuda. While eral's Department. the weather called for shorts in day Trickling in through sticky eyelids that will not open came a conscious- ness of light. The CQ had just turned on the light in the room, which, in- formal as a bolt of lightening, an- nounced the arrival of six o'clock and the end of the best thing in a sol- dier's life. In somewhat less than no time we should be dressed and listen- ing for . . . Twee--twee--twwee-t . . . "Field jackets!" Oh, so the OD thinks that summer hasn't come to Ann Arbor yet, and we are to bundle up like De- cember for reveille this morning. But this is a heck of a time to worry about that. In next door to nothing flat it will come again ... Twee--t. It might have been OK when the caveman had to be on the lookout for some of the best warriors becoming a midnight snack for a sabre-tooth tiger, for the tribe leader to bring his tribe together in the dawn light of every morning to count noses. But in this man's army we're even strong enough to ride our own nightmares: so why should we fall out in the street every morning ... " . ..Second Squad. Private Jones sick in quarters" . . . "Company E, all present or accounted for, Sir." "Dismiss your companies." Race for the door, stumble through the mob . Oh, why didn't old Shakespeare figure out something to do when you wake up, while he was glorifying a dream. "Hey, who's got a broom? Take the wrinkles out of that blanket. Fix up that drawer. Get the dust out of that corner . . . Cleanliness is next to Godliness. "Chow!" Hurry up and wait, hurry up and stand in line . .. The Army's built on that kind of stuff: Hurry up and wait, for everything from the monthly scream of the Eagle to getting bawled out by the CO. But the chow around this place is worth the waiting we do for it. No Army mess ever put it out like this. The dif- ference must be the understanding and even decorative touch of the ladies in the kitchen here, as op- posed to the methods of a disin- terested, soldier-cook going at it with the finesse of the proverbial china- shop bull. Anyhow, they don't get a chance to hollor "Chow" twice around here. Get that broom yet? We gotta hurry; it's almost time for class. Open the windows. Omigosh, one of Pope's famous couplet, 'Vice is a monster as hated needs but t be seen, but seen too often, we first endure, then pity, and then embrace. "Natives received 10c an hour fo working for the Army. Before the Army came, the only local native government jobs were pig chaser an policeman. "The Post Exchanges could not legally sell to the natives. Occasion- ally a native would ask, as one did a soldier to buy him a wallet. He had the soldier buy him three wallets on separate dates. Finally the soldie asked him what he wanted the wal- lets for, and the native told him he needed three wallets to keep all the money he had." In civilian life, Lt. Underhay was a practicing attorney in Boston. f 11 straighten up those shoes under your bunk. Be sure the light's out, and last man close the door. Field jackets again. Wonder how many gigs we'll get on inspection of quarters today. If ever they open my desk drawer, they'll find out why the rest of the place looks 'neat 'and straight. There's got to be some place for junk. Twee---t. When I get out of the Army, if anybody blows a whistle at me I'll either jump sky-high or kill him, and I'll probably be too tired to jump. Duration-and-six-months to think about that, but right now, time to go to class. All that 'ritual of finding out how many gold-bricks went to sick call or found another excuse to stay in this morning, while' civilized traffic waits for the Army to clear the streets, and then we march up the streets to the Engi- neering Arch. Oh, here comres a. section of the Air Corps boys . . . "The Air Corps Song. Sing!" So.now they even have glee clubs drafted. and do their sing- ing with preparatory and execution commands like any other marc'hing order . . . Oooh! Well, that's what you can expect when a draft board builds a choral group. Why can't we go 'em one better with our song for the Air Corps . . . Shut up, you dope, you know darned well you like the few cheerful-sounding things there are in this cramped atmois- phere. "Section Leaders, Fall out . . . Fall out on your Section Leaders." And so the Company breaks up to go to the individual classes. Drawing this morning. Nice kit of tools they give us here to work with. I can rememiber When I paid a fancy price for a set like that, and still hated the course. Now everything is laid out for us, and Mr. Hoisington makes 'usixig them quite a lot of fun, too. 'Maybe going to school in the Army has 'a few advantages at that, particularly with such a faculty as this, as yet untainted with too much gold braid. ____ it Educated in Canada, Oxford and Yale, Lt. Underhay enlisted as a private in March, 1942, and is one of the many offieers commissioned dir- ectly from the ranks while on foreign service who have attended the JAGD School. He has a year of foreign1 duty to his credit. "The only drawback to foreign ser- vice on a remote island is you cannotI spend all your money even as a pri- vate. If you can spend ten of your fifty dollars a month, on these re- mote islands, you are going some, provided you do not gamble," con- fided the Lieutenant. Continuing, the Lieutenant said: "After seventeen days on a crowded transport, we disembarked at our destination on a palm fringed coast, lined by way of greeting with juven- ile representatives of the native pop- ulation. There were several damsels in the crowd who executed South Sea capers upon our approach to the. shore. "That night we slept on the ground in our blankets and were surprised in the morning to wake up and find land crabs crawling over the blank- ets. Later we learned to kill land crabs with slingshots. "As to the scenery of the island, it can be best described," declared Lt. Underhay, "in the words of Dr. John- son, who replied, what he thought of time uniform, if an officer went fish- ing and knew he would not be back until after retreat, he dressed even for fishing in the formal uniform re- quired after retreat. There was also pearl fishing on the reefs. "Due to our inability to spend money, the Finance Officer did not have to keep a great deal on hand, for it all came back to him by way of purchases at the Post Exchange or money orders. "However, gambling for high stakes, especially among colored trcops, was common. A stake of three thousand dollars on one table was not uncommon, but the players got so excited they rolled up and twisted bills. The currency soon wore out, and had constantly to be ex- changed for new crisp bills. "One of the sports was teaching the natives our English. They had difficulty pronouncing words with the letter F. There was no equiva- lent sound in their language to our letter F. Hence the soldier would have the natives repeat words in which that sound occurred, such as: 'Foiled by the fickle finger of fate.' "The native girls did not resemble the lurid temptress of Hollywood. But there is a saying in the Islands, for the first 6 mionths, the native women are repulsive, after a while cute, and finally beautiful. Reminds I Fine Candy and Nuts for Mother's Day 339 South Main I' I I REMEMBER I ".: _ . r : ' ';.. .yt ' tT ..>.'. T, r Z .r T : 1. Sri ' : f: : C'. that MO M WHO'S REMEMBERING YOU IMPOiTANT NE W BOOKS 1. Wesley Bready: THIS FREDOM WHENCE? 2. C. S. Osborn & S. Osborn: SCHOOLCRAFT LONGFELLOW HIAWATHA 3. Douglas S. Freeman: LEE'S LIEUTENANTS 4. Karl Menninger, M.D.-: LOVE AGAINST HATE 5. Fritz Kahn: MAN IN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION 6. A. Woollcott: AS YOU WERE 7. Carl Van Doren: MUTINY IN JANUARY 8. Mark Aldanov: THE FIFTH SEAL 9. Margaret Carpenter: EXPERIMENT PERILOUS 10. Marcia Davenport: THE VALLEY OF DECISION 11. Lloyd C. Douglas: THE ROBE 12. 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