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...facts of the case are very simple. General Crozier, Chief of Ordinance, has admitted that although the Browning gun was adopted last May as the official light machine gun for our armies, not a single one of these weapons has as yet been turned out; moreover, it will be spring before the Ordnance Department will have them ready. So it is with all other necessary armaments. The French and English, anxiously awaiting our artillery, have to give up their own in order to equip our expeditionary force, and will have to continue to do so for many months...
...Whether Crozier or Baker is to blame is immaterial. The fact remains there is marked inefficiency in the War Department. The sooner we can weed out this element the sooner we can begin real fighting. The Allies are counting on our guns, our shells and our men to win this war; we have the men, but without arms they are useless. The Lewis gun scandal was apparently not sufficient to stir our Ordnance heads; if the present trouble does not wake them from their coma there ought to be a general house-cleaning in the War Department...
Three months ago, Secretary Baker of the War Department declared that there were "plenty of arms for a force of 1,000,000 men," but General Crozier, chief of ordnance, has estimated that by June 30 we will have probably only 850,000 rifles and it will undoubtedly be necessary to make changes in existing private plants making rifles for the Allies, as no two European rifles are the same, and all are different from the American rifle. Moreover, it is probable that these plants could not be in working order inside of a year. For the army planned...
...appointments are as follows: William John Crozier 5G, of Agar's Island Bermuda, in Zoology; Raphael Demos 4C of Constantinople, Turkey, in Philosophy Willard Edward Farnham 2G, of Cedazedge, Colo., in Modern Languages; Herbert Feis 1G, of New York, N. Y. in Economics; John Raeburn Green 3L, of St. Louis, Mo., in Law; Albert Richard Carl Haas 2G, of Scranton, Pa., in Botany Norris Folger Hall 4G, of Cambridge, Chemistry; Harold Calvin Marston Morse 3G, of Waterville, Me., in mathematics Hyder Edward Rollins 2G, of Asperment, Tex., in Modern Languages; Harold St. John 3G, of Philadelphia, Pa., in Botany...
...Physical Colloquium. "Penetration of Tissue by Acids," by Dr. William J. Crozier, of the Bermuda Biological Station. Conant Common Room...