The number
of female nurses has increased from 160 to 880.
The President at the outbreak of war directed the Navy Department to
take over such radio-stations as might be required for naval
communications, all others being closed. Fifty-three commercial
radio-stations were thus taken into the Naval Communication Service.
Because of duplications, twenty-eight of these stations were closed.
Thousands of small amateur radio-stations were closed. At present no
radio communication is permitted on United States territory (not
including Alaska), except through stations operated by the Navy
Communication Department or by the War Department,
With the need of operators apparent, a school for preliminary training
in radio-telegraphy was established in each naval district, and when the
need for a central final training-school developed, Harvard University
offered the use of buildings, laboratories, and dormitories for this
purpose. The offer was accepted, and now the naval-radio school at
Harvard is one of the largest educational institutions in the country.
There is another final training-school at Mare Island, Cal. The navy
supplies the operators for the rapidly increasing number of war vessels,
and has undertaken to supply radio operators for all merchant vessels in
transatlantic service.
At Harvard and Mare Island the radio students are put through four
months' courses, which embraces not only radio-telegraphy and allied
subjects, but military training. Some 500,000 men have been undergoing
courses at these two schools alone.
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