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Popular Science Monthly 



Your campaign hat 

 serves as a lining 

 for the steel helmet 

 shown at right. It 

 can be removed and 

 used as a tool in 

 an emergency 



Cowards in the Army Are Rare. 

 Some Are Merely "Deficient" 



MANY a man is mentally unfitted to 

 stand the strain of war. In ordi- 

 nary civil life he would be able to do his 

 duties successfully but under the stress 

 of modern warfare he would col- 

 lapse. Considered a coward he 

 would not in reality be responsi- 

 ble for his actions. In order to 

 weed out men who are unfit for 

 the work of the war a unit of 

 thirty beds will be attached to 

 each base hospital in the training 

 camps. The men assigned to 

 these beds will be those accused 

 of cowardice by their mates. 

 They will be under the watch- 

 ful eyes of physicians trained 

 to detect signs of mental weak- 

 ness. Those who show such 

 signs will be rejected. This will 

 save many men from severe 

 punishment for cowardice arid 

 weed out the unfit. 



A Versatile Helmet. Take It Off and 

 You'll Have a Shovel 



\\ 7HEN Leonard D. Mahon, of the 

 VV Washington, D. C, Detective Bu- 

 reau, designed a helmet with a detachable 

 lining he had more than a helmet in mind. 



Unfasten his helmet from its lining and 

 take it off. Behold ! You are still wearing 

 a hat — the regulation campaign hat, upon 

 your head. The campaign hat is itself the 

 lining! The steel shell you may put to 

 any of four unusual uses. If you should be 

 pressed hard by the enemy, you can, as a 

 last extremity, employ it as a hand 

 spade and intrench 

 yourself in a rifle pit. 

 If you are on the 

 march, on the other 

 hand, it will serve you 

 as a wash basin for face 

 and hands or for your 

 tired and aching feet. 

 Especially will this im- 

 provised basin be nec- 

 essary when you come 

 to a stream where you 

 may take a much- 

 wanted drink. 



In camp, the versa- You can mal f e a per- 



tile helmet will make a JJ SSTJSww^" 



, . . ., ing gale with this de- 



good water bucket, or it vice without spilling 



may be used for bailing. a particle of tobacco 



The Mechanical Cigarette-Filler. It 

 Supplies Its Own "Makings" 



NOT since the first safety razor has 

 there been any novelty invented 

 which gets so close to the heart of a man 

 as this mechanical cigarette-filler, invented 

 by Dr. Edward P. Delevanti, of New 

 York city. The device is a pouch made 

 of nickeled steel or strong leather, in which 

 rice paper, tobacco (your favorite brand) 

 and matches may be kept. At the bottom 

 of the pouch is a groove-like arrangement 

 into which just the proper amount of 

 tobacco slides down into the rolled 

 paper, which you hold in 

 position to be filled. A 

 metal plunger, or ram- 

 mer, packs the tobacco in 

 the paper roll. 



Nozzle- 



Cutter disk 



