effective. On those Sundays the roads were almost completely deserted, 

 in most striking contrast to their usual crowded state on holidays. The 

 people did their own police duty on the roads and it went hard with 

 any motorist who could not show very good cause for his disregard of 

 the Government's request. In the Cataumet post office I saw a printed 

 handbill, caUing on the grocers of Barnstable County not to sell sugar 

 to two women, whose names were mentioned, because they had clan- 

 destinely exceeded their allowance. 



Since the war, I have heard complaint that all this self-inflicted annoy- 

 ance and deprivation (there never was any question of real hardship) 

 was unnecessary and that there were abundant food supplies for all 

 the Allies and ourselves as well. Such criticism, however, overlooks the 

 fact that the "Allied and Associated Governments" expected the war to 

 continue, at least to the summer of 1919, and that the submarine peril 

 was mastered sooner than had been anticipated. The small amount of 

 self-sacrifice which was asked of us hurt nobody and enabled even the 

 noncombatants to feel that they were doing something to help win the 

 war. Servants, especially those of Irish birth or descent, were the most 

 recalcitrant and often refused to stint themselves of anything they 

 wanted; our coloured servants accepted the restrictions without the 

 least complaint. 



The passage of the conscription act and the formation of the immense 

 armies emptied the colleges and universities; the students and all but 

 the oldest professors entered the services wholesale. These institutions, 

 especially the privately endowed ones, would have been crippled for 

 years had not the Government given efficient help by establishing and 

 paying for training schools of different kinds in the colleges. At Prince- 

 ton there were three such units, each with one commanding officer. 

 There was the Officers' Training Corps, Infantry; the Ground School 

 (U. S. School of Military Aviation) which had its seat in Guyot Hall 

 and in two immense temporary structures to the south of that building. 

 I was glad to give up my own room to the aviators, but it involved real 

 sacrifice, for my books and papers were hastily stowed away and many 

 of them I never saw again. 



A training corps for naval paymasters, under the command of Ad- 

 miral Goodrich, occupied the Graduate College. As the course of in- 

 struction in the Ground School took only six weeks, there was a 

 continuous stream of students passing through it and, at any given 

 moment, there were some 2,500 men present in the various training 

 corps. This enlightened policy on the part of the Government enabled 



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