The Green Forest tribune., 1917-06-22
FOR NEW REGIMENT
FoRESTERS ARE TO BE RECRUIT ED AND SENT ACROSS TO
 HELP FRANCE.
THEIR WORK IS IMPORTANT
Will Give Vital kid to the Engineers In Rebuilding and Maintaining the Lines of Communication-P of Regular Army.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

regiment of foreSterS to France, men hardened to the service of field and flood and representing the best of Mother Natures breed.
 It is wholly within the range of pos abilities that these trained woodsmen of the United States may turn the scale in some of the important opera tons Of the war; Ii will be the duty of these experts of inc forest service of the United States to get out" ma tertal necessary for trenches bridges, railroads and other construction work of vital importance not only to the fighting line but to the means of keeping if supplied. The foresters will be aS much part of the military force of the United States as any other unit that We send save only that the men will be armed with the implements of their calling. They will not fight but they must at times run the dangers of those who do fight.
 Some of the foresters who will go are engineers. but the actual work of rebuilding the railroads which feed the fighting lines and the bridges which make the advances over rapid running streams possible will he the duty of the engineering detachments of the United States army. The forest CTS, however, will get out and supply the tested material for the use of their engineer brethren. The foreSterS who go into a wood like that of Bois le Pretre on the west front, which daily is shell-pounded, will know what it is to risk their lives for the cause of de- mocracy.
 French Railroads Have Suffered.
 Concerning the condition of the means of rail communication in France at the present time this was written today:
 The French railroads, like those of Germany, have suffered terribly from the neglect imposed by the use of men on the firing lines. The German rail- roads have suffered most, perhaps, be- cause of the lack of lubricating oils, want of which has played havoc with their rolling stock.
 However this may be. the French cannot properly care for their rail ways without taking men who are vii tally necessary for the defense of the country. The railroads which provide important avenues of communication between the base and the front for the movement of troops and supplies can not be neglected without seriously en- dangering operations against the en- emy. The engineers, the railway men and the foreSterS who will be sent to France by Uncle Sam will solve the grayest problem which has confronted the battling republic"
 The new forestry regiment will be commanded probably by a colonel of the regular army, or by junior of the service promoted temporarily to the rank of colonel who will have with him a few other officers of the regular es- tablishment to keep the organization in military trim and charged with the military spirit. The men of the regi- ment will act in cooperation with the French foresters and all the timber that is to be cut will be taken in such q manner as to guarantee the perpetu- ation of the forests which furnish it.
 "coId Steel" in Warfare
 \ day OF two ago an order was is sued, or an intimation was given that it was 10 be issued, that the re- cruits of the new American army would be taught the British bayonet drill instead Of that which has been in use. in the American armies for good many years. The reason is quite plain.
 The lessons of the present war, in which there has been an immense amount of hand-to-hand fighting, have taught the British that new feints and cuts and thrusts with the baYonet- tipped rifle are an essential to success. The war has brought d good many changes in fighting methods and the change in the use of the bayonet has not been the least of them.
 sField guns and the bayonet will win the war for America and for its allies"
 This is the word frequently spoken by army men in Washington. Of N!A-I'Ne- il tf'NtH E8 tllVtEtit OL tit4 Itb' sibility of success of the German sub marine campaign, nor of the possibil- ity of a great German naval victory for these two results vital from the German point of view, are considered so remote of accomplishment that they do not enter into the military mans calculations.
 Bayonet by No Means Obsolete.
 Ii was only a few years ago that the military authorities of the world came 10 think that the bayouet as d weapon of offense was becoming obsolete. There has been complete reversal of opinion. The British and inc French have won many trench and many a hand-to-hand conflict in the open by the use of the bayOnet B8yonets are sluesome weapons. but they quickly put an end to an opponents ambition to fight if he finds that he is out pointed by his adversary in the use of this particular implement of warfare.
 When the present war began an American who had seen service in the regular army, and who during the time had been instructor of recruits, said ~S~O~-~-o~~O~~o-~-~-~~~~~-