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stiles. tenor Of the Philharmonic
Society. has gone to Aver, Masa. to
the cantonement there. to direct music
for the War Department. He IL called
the cowboy" tenor, II a good mixer"
an important qualification, and studied
for ten years the music used in the
armies Of France. England and Italy
during his foreign residence.
Percy Granger. celebrated pianist.
followed the call into the ranks last
June. enlisting as second class
musician" in the Fifteenth Coast Ar
tillery He is now taking advantage
Of six months furlough to begin a
concert tour in the interest OF the
Red Cross. The organization expects
to benefit to tire extent Of 340,0 900 from
his work. His first concert was held
Saturday night in Bangor. Me.
Ernest Schelling, pianist, satisfied
his ambition to serve the Government
three weeks ago when he received
orders at Bar Harbor to report to
Washington. He has been commits
stoned as q captain and will probably
be attached to some overseas command
az interpreter.
Before his orders were received
Sckelling was contributing with Nc
Cormack. Paderewski and one or two
others prominent in the musical world
to the work Of the Red Cross. The
unit thus formed assisted at concerts
at army camps.
Probably none Of the music men
went into the service more cheerfully
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CALLS LOW FLYING SAFEST
N American aviator. invaded to

A N American aviator. invalided to
~ his home In Brooklyn from the
French front, says that large
part Of Gen. Haigs recent success Is
duo to the increased number of air
planes now possessed by the Entente
Allies. That the airplanes are the
eyes Of tho commanders In present day
warfare and that binding the Ger
mans is an important part Of the Of
fensive appears clear when tho re-
turned aviator tells of the work of
pilot In contact patrol. 1t is the pilots
duty to keep a clear and calm eye on
events when the battle RACES below
him in all its confusion and churn.
Sailing up and down his section Of
line the pilot keeps In touch with the
infantry and reports to headquarters
how the push is proceeding. The bar
rage fire falls q few yards In front OF
the advancing soldiers and the counter
barrage Is trying to stop them, while
all the time the roar Of battle Is
reaching tho pilot with such force cal
culated to make him imagine the
world Is coming to an end.
The contact patrol has to be on the
alert for many things. 1t may be
that a couple of machine guns skill
fully hidden are holding back the NEIL.
or perhaps dangerous salients are
growing. It is tho work OF the con-
tact patrol to sec these menaclng fea-
lures and report to headquarters.
On the other hand. the advancing
troops may lose direction, which Is not
uncommon In the incredible uproar; or
they may get In the way OF their own
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comradeS hre. or they may be In dan
ger of being cut OF or caught by 1t.
At the same time the pilot must watch
for the signals Of each section as II
reaches Its objective.
Danger from his own shells as well
as from those Of the enemy menaces
the pilot at such time. az no prob
ably is flying at 500 feet. A machine
caught by a big shell simply vanishes
In splinters.
Much difference OF opinion exists
among the aviators as to the safest
height at which to fly when on con-
tact patrol. Many contend that 500
feet Is more dangerous than 800 or 200
feet. One pilot whose reputation at
the front gives weight to his opinion
has been trying for a long time to con-
vince his comrades that 100 feet, point
blank range for any rife bullet, is the
best height. Few Of the other airmen
share his opinion. although admitting
the soundness OF some of his argu-
ments.
The greatest drawback to low flying
In that an aviator has no room to save
himself II he gets into difficulties. Al
titude gives the greatest safety factor
for the airmen.
The fighter. the reconnaissance pilot,
the bomb dropper, all may ny high,
but the contact patrol Is deprived Of
that privilege. For that reason. says
tho United States airman. who hopes
to 60 back to the front when his
wound has healed and he has aided
Americas flying programme a. much
as possible. the contact patrol 10 work
| for only the pluckiest Of men.
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Red Cross Benefits Also by Sacrifices
Made by Singers and Pianists to
Enter Uncle Sans Service

NJ. c. A. war work council to give
nightly concerts In camps all over the
country.
John Alden Carpenter, the composer,
1t has recently become known. is work.
ing with Sousa to standardize the band
music for the army.
A list containing many names cur
rent in prominence among musical
people of the community chorus ap-
pears on tho tally sheet of Lee
Hammers workers for the army cause.
Among them are Geoffrey O'Hara. at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Kenneth Clark. at
Allentown. Pa. Robert Lloyd. at Fort
Niagara; Stanley Hawkins, at Madi-
son Barracks: John Archer of Provi-
dence. r. I. Holmes Cowpcr has left
his duties rs dean of music at Drake
University. Des Mot,es, Ia. to take
charge Of singing at Camp Dodge.
II. w. u. Barnes, formerly head Of
a school of music at San Antonio, Is
now at Camp Travis, directing. How
ard Wade Kimsey and his brother,
Rolla w. k!mscy. have left the Chau-
tauqua circuit to become song leaders
at Camp Pike. Arkansas, and Camp
Gordon. Georgia.
David Griffin. barytone concert artist
OF Philadelphia, Is directing singing
at Camp jackson. Columbia, s. c., at
sacrifice Of his contracts. Herbert
Gould is conducting music at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station. Chicago.
and at the Philadelphia navy yard
Albert n. Hoxie will soon come under
direction of the army and navy COM
mission.
With the organization Of the United
States committee on music for the army
and navy completed early in Septem-
Der every possible phase Of the work il
advancing with convincing stride
Little has yet been done to strengthen
the acoustic organs Of the navy, but
there is progress Immediately ahead.
The difficulties that confronted the
pioneers in soldier singing are being
gradually overcome. and the training
school under Mr.. Barnhart, which
starts soon, will end whatever indirec-
ton still exists. Mr.. Hammer illus
| trates something VI the work to be
done In these words:
"The question of music in the camps
Is not only entertainment to make
| camp life more endurable but to make
better and more efficient soldiers. II
the unit from Texas and the unit from
Fort Oglethorpe and the unit from
New York can sing the same songs
when they come together In European
training camps it will mean q much
better fighting machine over in Europe
This is no play war. 1t is going tc
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SWORDFISl.

NOWN EAST swordhsl .ermen ar
riving here report the season
very profitable one. Out on
the Block Island grounds and near
Great Round Shoal. northeast of
Nantucket. swordfish have been espe-
cially plentiful.
An idea Of the profits made can be
had from the record Of the schooner
Anita, Capt. Albert Larson. which has
Just completed two weeks trip,
During that timo 1913 swordfsh were
taken, They were sold for a total Of
$500 and the members Of the crew
got $3.50 each for fourteen days work.
Great schools Of mackerel have been
striking In along tho coast down Nan
tucket way and the swordhSh kave
come in their wake, to do some nsh-
ing on their own account
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batch of 5000 men 800 are demanded
by the engineers and 600 have chosen
that branch in their first choice. Then
the job Is to deal the cards so that
the 800 most valuable men Of tie 600
are placed in that branch and in the
800 every one of the forty trades de-
manded In an engineering outfit is
represented in its proper proportion.
Each of the twelve unit organiza-
ton or final tables now slowly receives
its proper quota of men. Where 1t Is
not possible to place a man in his first
choice of service every effort is made
to place him in His second choice; but
II It is found ttat his training would
make him much more valuable in some
other branch then he must be as
signed to it. Before 1t is placed on
the final table each card is carefully
studied and surveyed, and when It is
definitely dealt 1t is to branch of the
army that the rookie not only kas
asked for but is also fitted for.
BY 4 in the morning the game Is
over and the last card has been dealt.
Each one OF the twelve different
branches of the service has received
It's full proportion and every man IL
valuable to that particular unit. Sixty
trade classifications have been used in
the assigning. so that from the very
start every unit in the division will
have trained speciality men to do its
work
Every regiment will have its proper
number of mechanics, cooks. cobblcrs
and its other special trades. In camp
life the unit will be self-sustaining-
all that 1t will need to he taught will
be plain fighting.
Men Fitted to Jobs.
Marked cards they are, but not a
man gets anything but fair deal.
But like every other game known to
man, the house wins. It's Uncle Sam
that gets the big rakeoff. For instead
Of hodge podge. happy go lucky out
nit the old gentleman is going to have
scientific army chosen by experts
and with every last rookie in the par
ticular branch of service that he
should be in.
And one of these fine days when the
men in France begin sending their
compliments to one Wild Bill Hohen-
ZOlleTn tNere VIII come a CalI TO the
National Army of Freedom for, say. a
complete railroad and artillery repair
foundry back of the trenches on the
line of communication. Will this little
order for 5000 or 10000 men, or even
ten times that number. bother the
! army? A chorus OF loud "Nos."
| Capt. Perry and the fifteen other
personnel officers located in the six
teen training cantonments will very
quietly get down their card indexes
| run them down to the Fs--oh, yes
here II s-foundry--foundry workers
Let's see, "core maker" flask man,
'ladle tender" pattern maker" sand
mixer" Well, what do you think OF
that? Here are enough men all ready
to step into the score and more
specialized Jobs around foundry. All
we'll have to do is to draw them from
The fighting units and organize then
into a special foundry battalion and
ship them across.
Pretty soft for your old Uncle Sam
Eh--whatf
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been selected at tho great lottery in
Washington With only a little more
fuss and feathers than the city's
workers display when they tramp
through City Hall Park on their way
homo Of An evening these 5000 future
soldiers are led to their receiving bar
then one by one have private confer
ences with the company officers.
This II where the big card game really
begins, and It's here that each man has
his own bit Of pasteboard filled out and
then passed along to fiirt with chance
and the silent mistress called "for the
good of the service" He writes on 1t
his name. facts about his education.
what he has been doing and how long
he's been doing It.; his salary and his
first and second military preference.
Work Of Classincation.
It's anywhere from s p. NJ. to mid
night before all the cards in each re-
ceiving barracks are finished and gath
cred up and sent over to Capt. Perry's
office in the mastering building. Any
way. when they do finally arrive there
the second hand in the game is played.
mo ase se.uns 'he'uues ,ons
.ao'o o.hnu wn'em arc .~en,S ,toui
smaller tAoles aho tns reh'a'i',ns ooAeh
only the twelve unit classification ta-
bles are used. one being designated and
marked for each unit Of service In the
division-infantry heavy field artillery,
lisn. neiu ai'i'er'' e"s'"ee'e' ''s""'
eoIps' e.c'
AS ias' US Tue a'aCNs U. e"ius .o,.e
.,o'" .he oaI'a.Ns '"oy arg taAen "
'no pis i' .ans' anu noh 'ne,e
ai'er oo.ns s.uueu anu su,'eyeu AZ
espec. W ooousa.'o"a. auao anu s sps'.n'
Iaihs w a" o'n.o, e ~
.., .o'"ns " .no ns si~..n. 80 o .oS % &C. T,a.
W. on '"T '"eN' ,,' a..
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at Camp Upton Turning Drafted Men Into Ideally Sc
That Mean Efficiency in Record Time

who lave given their lives to the
training Of men 60 into superlatives
whenever they mention the remark
able personnel and wonderful adapt
ability Of the selected men. Old cam
paigners, who lave followed the army
since they first slipped into a plebe's
Jacket at the Point when they were
nineteen. talk Of the spirit of the rook-
les and the way the romance Of the
service has gripped them almost before
their marching shoes have bfen COW
cred with camp dust.
And best Of all IL the talk Of the
men themselves. Once they get on
Uncle Sans gray woollen socks and
simply can't hold out any longer.
There's adventure here. and all their
subway riding. grassless. hard pave
ment lives they've been starving for
adventure. They've been fed up on
the city and work, and here 10 some
thing new and different and thrilling.
Caught BY Army Spirit.
Hep! Hep! Hep! Hep!" can't be
very exciting to the man who has
never swung along In column Of fours
with his shoulders thrown back and
the music Of the cadence fairly singing
In his heart and the delicious feeling
Of a dinner coming that's been well
earned. But they're wonderful words
to every man who has ever caught the
thrill Of the march and found the Joy
Of the great game.
of nj the
men get bit tired singing around the
numerous barrack pianos or OF listen
ing to the tales Of the yodeling Mexi-
can horned toads and the humming
border owls and the musical Texas
rattlers as related by beardless Regu-
lar Army sergeants. they stroll out IN
pairs and threes and talk things over.
"If 1t wasn't for the idea of having
been drafted. certainly would be
nutty about the army" the boy from
upper Manhattan will remark.
go right ahead and be nutty," the
chap from Yonkers allows. Il heard
the Major tell our Captain to-day that
this was going to be the greatest army
in the world. You should worry whether
you were selected or not. This Is the
real stuff out here. and when we gel
to France we'll show those birds thai
! a selected army Is some selection"
Say, Bill. when are we going to get
our guns--do you know
Not for sure, but one Of the SER
| zeants told mo to-day that he heare
that q lot of the rifies were here al
ready and that they would be issuing
them to US old men In about a week
Waitll We get them-e-h. boy!"
Strange to say, Bill was right, ant
it's probable that very soon rifles vii
be issued and another big boost giver
to the drill. Right now the division
lacking only about 5000 men Of beini
completely nlled, Is we'll organized TO
training purposes, and with the las
large increment of troops arriving ant
being distributed this week the activ'
business Of training for war will reall,
get under way.
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be a long. hard, cruel war. ana We
have got to give our men every weapon
that will make thom better fighters.
The right kind of songs. the rigt. kind
OF leadership cnd opportunities for the
men to sing together will help them to
fight better
Leading the Great Problem.
Tho peculiar key to this broadly or.
ganized movement is not that Of
making the soldier sing but of
leading him TO sing" And therein Is
the secret of whatever success has
been had to GATE.
THE Long TRAIL 1.-THE Great Red
Dawn "Ovcr There" "Send Me
Curl" "1 Don't Care Where They Send
Me- arc put on the camp song pro-
grammes as often as the more sober
ing melodies of the South or the sacred
songs.
The American soldier likes ragtime
and ragtime he shall have. Later. af-
ter the spirit Is moulded and the first
racketing enthusiasm is dimmed. "Ole
Virginny" and "Abide With Me" may
become more popular. 'Home Fires"
probably is peer of all the songs In
American camps.
Reveille is no longer referred to as
"a disagreeable noise heard every
morning at 5:45 o'clock" and taps be-
comes sweeter than a rose in a moon
light garden. The soldier will learn
the words when he gets the new song
book the War Department commission
soon will issue. There is something in
the words that will sing in soldiers
minds far from home. in places under
fire where tho regimental bands never
follow. Here they arc. Taps Is the
soldiers Good night:
Fade tho light and after
Goeth day, cometh night:
And a star leadeth all,
Spcedeth all to their rest.
Love. good night must thou 20
When the day and the night leave mo so?
Fare thee we'll day Is done, night Is OH.
And when tho boys get to France
the poilus are going to have nothing
on them in the matter of singing. This
same song book is going to teach them
the French for THE Marseillaise." It
will be funny French, but it will bs
earnest. This Is the way the chorus
looks in the self-pronouncing book:
OOhs arm ceetwayen
Formay vo battaiyawn
Marshohng Marshohng
Quun sahng ahmpoor
Ahbruhve nos siyyawn.
And to this tho poilus may reply,
"Welcome, Sammee. you zing fine!
! Ah-h. you aire ze,gran' soldaires!"
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CIENTIFIC ARMY BEING ORGANIZED BY OF
By FRAZIER HUNT.

II HREE weeks old and walking.
In fact marching. Tho husk-
= lest. most promising nephew
Uncle Sam ever had. A credit to his
pa and his ma and all the folks back
tome.
Such is Upton Yaphank. At birth
the lad was backward and apparently
would always have his growth stunted.
but after three weeks under Gen. Bells
treatment he has suddenly outgrowu
his dresses. shot up through. his short
trousers and 10 now clamoring for long
trousers and . regular shooting gun.
All Of which 10 rather q roundabout
WY Of saying that to-day Camp Up.
ton IL booming along like Kansas
cyclone. sweeping every obstacle out
Of the way. tearing civilian clothes of
city men and with the same magic
breath shooting them into olive drab
and blowing them together to form
hghting units and battle organizations.
Tonight the Seventy-seventh d.
Vision. National Army, which II to
number approximately $1,000 men.
stsnds almost three-quarters COM
pleted. With the increments arriving
this week this model unit will be more
than hlled and generous start made
on the depot brigades. numbering 49,
VOC men. which will be used to fill up
gaps in the Regular Army and Ma
uonal Guard and to act as extra troops
Tor the whole service.
And 1t has all been done with raw,
green material. The camp and the
'army 1t Is to hold have both been
made from clear blue sky and brains
and whole cloth. What was q worth
ess scrub oak waste three months ago
now city Of many thousands, and
What three weeks ago was q mob of
unframed civilians is now transform
ms itself into a war machine.
Rookies Quick to Learn.
America has never seen anything
IKE 1t before. And wkats being done
IN Camp Upton Is being repeated In
h'teen other great cantonments. Uncle
eams Soldier Incubator Company
me- apparently is quite growing
concern after all.
Look at those men march," high
'An officer fairly shouted the other
nay as he watched Il company Of &C.
'ected rockies swing by like border
regulars. DO you realize that those
men have been in this camp less than
week and that every officer they kave
~ Plattsburger and not one Of
mem has ever seen day Of active
Service?
Born marching, that company was
~ the old days in the army we'd al
ways drill rockies in squads Of foul
sh1 bound away at 'em until they had
mastered the simple movements ol
me school OF the soldier and the schoo
>o' The squad. Then slowly the ole
company would be able to absort
mem To-day these young officers arr
ewing their commands company for
nations about the third day they'r'
aere' Born marching. l tell you"
30 1t goes all over the camp. Onncsr
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Musicians Doing Much to Make Dem
ocracy's Fight Pleasanter and End
Tedium of Camp Life

operating directly with Mr.. Hammer.
mas now twenty song leaders In mill
tary camps organizing glee club work,
and will soon appoint as many more.
The Y. M. G. A. also intends to send
musical directors to the armies In
France.
Major-Gen. Bell, Camp Upton COM
mander. is generally credited with in
spring the movement that led the
War Department Commission to ap-
point a musical director for our armies
Gen. Bell back in the Philippines
erected great auditorium for his men
ito sing in. He says mass singing Is the
most effective binding cord he knows.
THE mere presence Of large numbers
Of men together for the same purpose
makes them feel their unity, and the
singing army Is the victorious army
There have been soldiers songs and
soldiers songs, the best OF which most
probably were written in peace times.
Few OF those written expressly for SOL
der singing have proved successful.
Mr.. Hammer and his associates say.
"The American soldier does not want
to be sung at" Mr.. Hammer said the
the newly written patriotic songs is
that they are an attempt to glorify the
soldier. The soldier is a man who Is
patriotically doing his duty. and he
has no desire to be glorified The uni
form he wears is sufficient indication
Of his personal attitude"
II the drafted soldier or the volun-
teer does not want even little pecan
addressed to him, what does he want?
And the answer is Private Perks.
who was set forth as person Of note
some time back.
Private Perks. his grin. his phtloso-
ply that nothing Is bad for long and
rarely bad at all. his gay. quick step
In the line and his we'll directed shaft
at the burdensome kit bag" hits the
bullseye.
Listen this time to Kenneth 8.
lance unit training camp at Allen
town. Pa. one Of the foremost Hammer
men:
"Our song writer's ought to take a
leaf from the book of our English
friends by emitting all reference to
nag or country. The soldier shows
his respect for the national emblem
by standing at salute as II passes by.
not by singing about II.
What We want Is ditties Of the
cheer up kind. These songs have only
an inferential connection with the war,
or these The Long. Long Trail Home
Fires and Pack Up Your Troubles
are among the best. Carrie Jacobs
Bonds "A Perfect Day is cheering up
Tommy Atkins"
RevivinG the Good Old Songs.
The song leaders are doing one great
work for the army that Is not confined
solely to the uplift that comes from
actual singing. They are compiling
the service songs that have sprung
from the regular ranks In campaigns
past. The words OF these songs have
been pretty generally. scattered amone
the cantonments Of the East and. the
veriest recruit has come to defame the
'tnfantree" IL he belongs to the cav
alree," or vice versa.
The artillery has one of the best
ballads, though 1t Is not heard so COM
mculy as. those OF the other service
branches. In II runs the jangie Of