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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

army. There is some pine in this dis
trict, and all the wood, pine or not, is
small in comparison with American
timber. The greater part of 1t is no
much of it is around eight inches.
These northern French forests suggest
the wood lots of Massachusetts, Vir-
ginia, Maryland and Connecticut, and
the most careful operation and use
of the timber is necessitated.
For many years the woodlands of
our sister republic have been pre-
served and utilized with superlative
skill. and if we are to accomplish good
in the opinion of NJ. Poincaire's people
we shall have to exercise much
thought as well as labor. One of our
important tasks will be to cut these
forests to the requirements of French
forestry. The French, notwithstand-
ing the reputation of the Germans in
this line, are the best foresters of Eu-
rope. They are just as intensive.
They get the best maximum growth
of wood possible. To respond to their
methods in our efforts to aid them we
must have trained foresters directing
our regiment. Future production of
wood must be considered
THE War Department desienates
our regiment as the 10th Reserve En-
gineers (fores). There are, with the
two Regular Army officers, fifteen for
esters from the service and two from
the forest branch of British Columbia
One lumberman from the. Indian for
est service is singled out for member
ship, and there are thirteen foresters
and lumbermen taken from private or
institutional labors. There are three
captains taken from chairs in univert-
ties, on account of their wide expe-
rience in practical woods work These
are David 7. Mason professor of for
estry at the University of California:
Dorr Skeels, logging engineer and
professor of forestry at the University
or Montana, and w. n. Millar, pro-
fessor of forestry in the University of
Toronto, Canada. Supervisors from
the Florida national forest, the Cocomimo
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
The War Garden.

ID REPRESENTATIVE MASON OF I'LL
Nv nois said in Chicago the other day:
one way to keep down prices is for
every family to set upEits own vegetable
garden. but the trouble is that most of
us are as ignorant of gardening as the
chap who wrote to the seedsman:
-, AS wish to to do my bit for the
allies by. growing my own provisions
or, on strip of rock ground back of my
mouse, please send me, f. o. b., one dozen
potato seeds, one bee with hive complete
one dozen fruit seeds assorted. ten
square yards of grass, one path, six feet
OF wall flowers with wall and one dozen
npur plants. L am especially particular
gardens" 80 ~ A'''''''
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

life habit has been uprooted, throwing
them into q new environment.
There is one point which Mr.. Fosdick
and his associates insist cannot be en-
phasized too strongly. They are not
trying to make mollycoddles out of
Americas young men. They do not
seek to substitute one form of alb
normality for another.
Look back on the list of San Antonio
community activities and you will note
Sunday base ball game advertised.
A newspaper conceived the idea that
u fund for tobacco for the new Ma
tional Army encampments would be a
happy contribution, and it wrote Sec
retary Baker accordingly. He, referred
the letter to Fosdick. When the edi-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

organizers from the association of
which he is head already have gone
into communities adjacent to the camp
sites, and they have sought to aid
churches, societies, clubs, fraternities
and all other groups which plan to help
entertain and make life pleasant for
their soldier guests.
AS an example of what communities
may do. take the big placard bulletin of
activities of the war recreation board
of San Antonio, volunteer organiZa-
tion affiliated with the commission, which
scheduled the following events:
June 2S-Base ball, pm, San Antonio VS..
Dallas. Texas League Park. Musical concert, s
pm, First Baptist Church Swimming and dane
ing, free at Hot Wells Hotel and bathhouse.
June 29-Lawn party, pm, Prospect Hill
Baptist Church; bring your musical instruments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

Dance, $50 pm; men Of Camp Kelly invited to
attend an invitation dance at Menger Hotel
Base ball, pm, San Antonio vs. Dallas
June 30-Base ball. San Antonio vs. Dallas
Texas League Park. Dance, s:30 inyltationai
TO Camp Wilson men, under the auspices of
Catholic Women's Association.
July 1 tSunday yl-Church services all demoni-
nations, Take Soldier Home to Dinner -
Band concert, 1870, Breckenridge Park near
beach. Base ball. 1890 pm, double header
General recreation for entire week-Swimring
Brackeprdge Park Beach, the Salado river
near Camp Wilson; Hot Wells bathhouse West
End Lake. Sports Breckenridge Park golf
rife range, tennis, base ball, bathing, geological
gardens.
Soldiers ClubrOoms-Y. NJ. c. A. extends use
Of its facilities to men in khaki. knights OF
Columbus Hall extends of its clubrooms to
members and friends OF the order. ST. Mark $
Church extends use of gymnasium and reading
room to soldiers. Dinner served to soldiers at
tending church. Elks' Club extends use of club
rooms to members and sons. Odd Fellows ex-
tend use Of clubroOms TO members and sons
Knights OF Pythias Hall extends use of club
rooms to soldiers.
That is the provision of a small COM
munity for n weeks entertainment of
soldiers. and similar programs of larger
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Special Correspondence
ASHTNcT0N n n

Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON. D. C ...- .-.. 1917,
], went into public ouse to get pint o beer.
The P@SlieabR g6ats her., P an ses We serve no red
~ o far "Sammy's" experience will
~ be akin to "Tommy's." with this
nj important distinction. that Tom
w my was excluded from getting
his pint by social ostracism, while Sam
my won't be served because his govern
ment respects his uniform too much to
wish him to face the temptation of not
stopping at a pint.
went to the theater as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but admit
They sent me TO the gallery or round the music
'alls.
There's where Sammy will have the
edge on Tommy" for about a million
Sammies, members of the new National
Army, regulars and national guardsmen
will have theaters all their own, and
theirs will be the orchestra seats. To
civilians will go the gallery seats, II
there are any left, and If Sammy" in
vites them.
Young Americas workaday life in the
sixteen National Army cantonments and
in the sixteen National Guard mobiliza-
tion camps will be a strenuous and ardu-
Gus one, and his leisure hours will hold
forth not only theatrical entertainments
for him, but boxing and swimming
matches, hand ball and basket ball
games, Libraries and writing rooms,
dances and social diversions of all sorts.
He will be so busy that he won't have
time for the saloon or resorts that are
morally worse.
All of which is the idea Secretary of
Dali a t., 4
an appropriation of $500, 900 for this un-
precedented thing, that of providing rec
reation for soldiers. and appointed the
commission on training camp activities.
with Raymond b. Fosdick as its chair
man, to work out plans for, the recrea-
ton OF the army which will fight to
make the world safe for democracy.
The principle behind this departure in
many Of the means by which it will be
applied. Two great theatrical circuits
presenting the latest Broadway successes
with casts made up OF the country's most
camps to s. r o. signs, at nothing per
orchestra seat, will be no more Of a nov
city than the reason for them.
In view of his training and public
career, It is not surprising that X re-
mEined for Newton d. Baker to get the
conception that an army is a social or
ganism as we'll as a fighting machine He
became mayor OF Cleveland because he
conceived that a city, after all, is a collec-
ton of human beings as well as a sort
of civic automaton. When he concluded his
second term as mayor of Cleveland some
one wrote of him, His ideal was a city of
modern schools and colleges and trade
training, a good place for boys and girls
TO grow up in, community which cared
for it's children as a family does. in which
every citizen felt toward all children as a
father does toward his own" One might
paraphrase that and come pretty close TO
the truth by saying, His IDEAL of a ma
tional army is an army of modern train
ing in warfare and modern provision for
recreation, good place for boys and
girls tfor girls have, a place in this rec
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

moved from the influences of women in
home and their. own social circles
therefore keynote of the community
ehdeavor is to afford the young soldiers
the opportunity they want, and the
young women of those communities
want, of meeting girls of the right sort
at the right sort of social functions
Hence the tea dances, balls and socials
abound in every prospective list of COM
munity entertainment.
1t is hard thing to call upon mil
lion or so men to leave their homes to
serve their country, and that is why
TINS commission is seeking to bring the
very best substitute it can for home to
these young men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
John DIS Charities.

noHN ID. ROCKEFELLER, congratu-
lated on his recent $1,000, 900 gift to
the Red Cross, said in New York:
Thank you for your congratulations.
So many people. you know. take my Civ
ing as a matter of course 1t rather
puts me in the position of the divine.
This divine was very charitable. and
lady said one day to one of his aged
pensioners:
ing you were i'll, to walk six miles 70
your cottage in all this heat with a big
basket of fruit and port wine and
chicken and coffeeP 'N
The old lady frowned in puzzled sur
Kind? she said. Why, what's he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
Girls and Soldiers.

SGT OWE and war go together" said
Ia a well known novelist mo young
man out of uniform need expect much
attention from the girls for the next
year or two to come.
IAN aviator from the Escadrille La
fayette met French girl in Paris.
Have you killed any .boches? she
asked him. eagerly. n
yes, he answered; with this good
right hand I've settled three
she snatched his hand in both hers
she was very pretty girl-and printed
warm kisses on it,
Gee. said the young aviator, why
death%"
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reational scheme for soldiers. as will be
shown) to grow up in, in which the gov
ernment cares for its young men as a
family does"
Back in June. 1879 Mr.. Baker said
TO the Fairgrounds and Recreation
Association of America: There are
only two ways to prevent unwhole-
some and unhealthful recreation in a.
city. One is to have none, the other
is to provide a fine, wholesome sub
stitute for the bad that springs up"
Up until now the way of armies, in
respect to recreation, has been to have
none. Wherefore there came about
drunkenness and disease born of vice.
Wherefore, s expressed both by Sec
retary Baker and by Raymond Fosdick,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
Going the Rounds.

A LFRED MOVES, of making poetry
6S pay" fame, sat in the Players Club
in New York, when waiter brought
him long, suspicious-looklng en-
velope.
Mr.. Noyes opened the envelope. A
printed slip fiuttered to the floor, The
poet heaveA a sigh.
yet, after all" he said I'm not sur
ptised to get this poem back"
SNo?" said a critic.
No" said Mr.. Noyes. "You see tt,s
the thirteenth time I've sent Il out ;"
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cial Correspondence
WASHINGTON d. C.,

WASHINGTON D. G..
1917.
HH6N ELL me-" quoth curious
w correspondent, what is the
newest thing you have in
the way of regiments"
And the War Department answered:
The United States Foresters." Then
there were more questions, more an
swers, and w. B. Greeley, assistant
forester OF the United States forest
service, operating under the DEPART
ment of Agriculture, told the story of
the regiment" This was one after
noon about the middle of July. He
said:
I'VE expect the Forest Regiment to
be among the first to carry the Stars
and Stripes into France Recruiting by
Army officers began on July o and will
continue until the ranks are filled. This
will be accomplished before August l.
we think.
The demand for lumber in England
has been very keen since the war
started. You know there are very few
forests there and few skilled timber
workers. Recently the New England
states took this up as private en-
terprise to raise and equip ten porta-
bic sawmills to send to the British
Isles. Horses, mules and a sufficient
number of men were also sent for op-
GRAFTON of the mills. This oreaniza-
tion is to work in England and Scot
land, but it is not military organi-
zation like ours, and has no connection
whatever with the Army.
Our purpose is wholly unconnected
with the New Englanders'. 1t orig
mated when Gen. Bridges came here
with the British commission. 1t was
an especial request of his made to the
War Department, that a regiment of
foresters and lumbermen be organized
for the purpose of going to northern
France to work there for the British
army IN getting out railroad ties, ma
terial for tunnels, etc. Trenches are
lined with timbers, you know and
great quantities of lumber are con-
sumed for this alone
In fact. the whole military opera
uon consumes enormous amounts of
wood Every mile of railroad. for in
stance, takes 1000 ties, and railroads
are being extended and intersected to
such degree that one of the most
immediate needs of our allies is sci
entifically cut lumber. The demand is
pressing.
The forest service has been asked
TO undertake the job, and Lieut.. Col,
Woodruff is designated as commanding
officer. 1 am going with him as major
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the purposes of providing clean, whole
some and acceptable recreation are
two-fold:
Preventive. For by so doing the
temptation to abnormal forms of So
called amusement that follow upon the
abnormal conditions of camp life will
be removed.
Constructive. For. as DR.. Thomas w.
Salmon, neurologist and psychologist.
who has just returned from a study
of men on the battlefields of Europe,
puts it, Diversion is as important for
mental hygiene as sanitation is for
physical hygiene"
To carry out these principles the
commission on war activities is charged
with a three-fold duty:
First, il is responsible for keepine
the Secretary of War informed of the
conditions in training camps and in the
zones about them, with especial refer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

the large numbers of woods workers in
the United States, active enlisting is a
surety The right type of men must be
secured and a group of forestry Off
cials has been selected to procure and
consider applications from woodsmen
in their various vicinities over the
country.
There will be sergeants of various
kinds, corporals, cooks, first and second
class privates, buglers, saddlers, wag-
oners, stablemen, horseshoers and 9TH
ers recruited, and the salaries monthly
while in training or active service will
run from $50 to S51 while in America.
and ION $36 to $61.20 when in foreign
service.
THE Canadians have organized forest
units and sent them to France. Our
head forester, Henry S. Graves, has
gone into the same districts there to
size up the situation as to the number
of regiments needed, where they should
work, the scope of the equipment re-
quired. etc. With him is Capt. Barring
ton Moore, n trained forester. Word
from them indicates that the demand
is very great for the kind of help we
hope to render.
this first regiment. One battalion will
be in Washington at the university
training camp and one at the engineer
ing camp at Fort Leavenworth. Kan.
about the 1st of August. BY the end
of August the second battalion will be
brought to Washington, and from here
will go abroad.
"Organized, trained and equipped for
their prospective duties, the forest reg
iment will consist of six companies of
l64 men, the battalion and regimental
staffs, the commissioned officers and
the necessary number of drivers. Re-
cruits must be under forty years OF
age and unusually well fitted physi-
cally. No youth under eighteen is ac-
cepted And all enlistment covers
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association on commission on train
Ing camp activities.
tor heard that he was fearful. He
had no cause for worry. Fosdiclk wrote
back
"The committee with which am as
sociated has already given some
thought to this matter (supplying men
with tobacco), and we are very glad to
indorse your movement. I know of no
single factor of greater Importance to
the morale and spirit of the troops
than an ample supply of tobacco There
should be plenty of it and of the right
kind"
And the last sentence ,epitomizes the
commissions mottof about all sorts of
snort fun. amusement and recreation; /;
There should be. plenty of it and of
the right kind"
For further example, the commission
knows that nine-tenths of the tempta-
tion afforded by the woman camp fol-
lowers accrues because of the normal
desire of young men for feminine as
sociation. This desire for companion
ship of the other sex is especially keen
when men are thrown together. re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

for the regimental staff. The War De-
partment sends Beverly C. Dunn, cap
tain of engineers, as adjutant. The
rest of the officers are from the forest
service, and the men come from the
ranks of the lumbermen.
I'VE are organizing a force of ten
complete sawmils, a whole fleet of
auto trucks, tractors and trailers-
those large lumber wagons which may
be hooked on in strings behind the
tractors-450 horses and mules, to act
as floating squadron of lumber
camps. The idea is 10 have a mobile
service Of lumber camps and sawmills
to go wherever required and get out
material needed from the forests of
France.
What is the character of the French
woodlands? Well. take southwestern
deauN, and forests there are very much
like those of Florida. The region is
hot and rather dry. In the central and
northern parts of France, oak, beech,
hornbeam and other hardwoods are
most prevalent. 1t is these we shall
work with most. In the mountains, the
foothills of the Alps, are coniferous
forests.
Our work in northern France will
largely be in cooperation with Brit
ish and American forces, and may lie
frequently within the danger zone. On
the other hand, our labors may lie one
or two hundred miles away, wherever
timber is to be had and wherever best
located for transportation. Such an or
ganization for military purposes is
something entirely new in the United
States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

When sent behind the battle lines
our men will convert the timber Of
the sprout forests there into railroad
ties, trench timbers, mine props,
bridge timbers and the cord wood needed
in the military operations of the British
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

the Idaho national forest are enroll
ed as officers, either as captains or
first lieutenants. From the Caribou
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

Lumbermen of the
United States Are Or
ganized Into a Unique
Force for Work Behind
the Firing Lines-Skilled
Woodsmen to Prepare
Timbers for Military
Railways, T r e n c h e S,
Mines, Etc.-Character
of the French Wood
lands--The United States
Forest Service and What
it Plans to Accomplish
Abroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

went into public-ouse to get a pint O. beer /
The publican e Up an seq, We serve red !
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-06
ASKOV NEWS

Valdemar Petersen left this
morning to spend a few days at
the state fair.
Jens Krag went to Minneapo-
lis yesterday to visit his daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Magnus Hansen and
Mrs. Bent Jorgensen.
Hans, Theodor and Chris Han
sen of Tyler. visited. here over
Sunday with their grandfather,
.Jens Bagge, and other relatives.
j. Coulter of Bruno, was in
Askov on business yesterday.
Mr.. Coulter had an auction re.
Gently and will move to the state
of Idaho.
J. p. Nielsen, who has land one
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-06

mile north of town and has Just
put up a building on same, left
yesterday on a business trip to
Coulter, Iowa.
Martin Sorensen and family
motored over to West Denmark,
Wis. Sunday morning, returning
the same evening with their two
daughters, Ellen and Alva who
had spent two weeks there with
relatives. On their return home
they were caught in the rain and
encountered some very slippery
roads between Pine City and
Hinckley. spending three hours
on this stretch.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-06
LOYALTY MEETING IS
STAGED At new UlM

New Ulm, Mimi, Sept. 6.-New Ulm
placed itself four square with the m
ton and declared 1t was ready to tight
wherever the call Of democracy may
lead
More than 10000 men, women and
children participated in q great pa
rade and educational program In hon
or of the drafted men Of Brown coun-
ty and voiced in cheers their approval
of Governor BurnQuist's injunction to
give the kaiser the war he wants
1T is not the German people We
are fighting, but the German govern
ment," declared Governor Burnquist.
The German people have a kaiser
who believes that he has been de-
signed by the Almighty to rule the
universe 1t is not the German peo-
pie we are opposing. God bless them:
there are no better or truer people on
the face Of the globe.
"But We will show the kaiser that
he has made mistake: that his DOW
ers OF which he boasts have not been
derived from heaven. but rather are
the forces Of hell" -
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-06
MEETING
OF LABOR LEADERS

Minneapolis, Sept. 6.-The Ameri-
can Alliance for, Labor and Dem0c.
racy, organized for the purpose of
squelching the activities OF pacifsts
and pro-German propagandists and
bringing the nations labor forces up
solidly behind the government in its
prosecution of the war, opened a
three-day loyalty conference here.
E. G. Hall, president Of the state
Federation of Labor, called the meet
ing to order and Frank. P. Walsh.
chairman of the United States com.
mission on industrial relations, acted
as temporary chairman.
After the appointment of q commit
tee on permanent organization the
delegates recessed until mid-afternoon
and then received the committees re-
port, which was followed by an ad-
dress by Samuel Gompers, president
Of the American Federation Of Labor.
Speakers at the meeting denounced
as disloyal and seditious the actlvi-
ties of the Peoples Council of Ameri-
ca for Democracy and Terms Of Peace,
which was barred from holding its pro.
posed national peace conference In
Minnesota. The motives Of its lead
ers were sharply questioned.
1t was confidently predicted by
leaders that as a result of the work Of
the alliance and other similar Or
CARNATIONS the activities of pro-Ger-
mans will have been curbed to such q
degree that in three months there will
be no disloyal utterances in any part
of the country
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-06
MILWAUKEE CONTINUES TO
TEACH GERMAN.

Milwaukee, Sept. 6.-Teach-
ing of German in Milwaukee's
public schools must continue,
according to edict of the school
board.
German has been taught
here fifty years. Efforts to
throw it out were opposed on
the ground that It would open
the door to racial prejudice.
Failure to provide textbooks
will be considered ample notice
that parents do not wish their
children to have foreign Ian
guage instruction, which IL
not compulsory.