Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-02
Pine Bluffian Named Chair man of Committee of
 Army District IF.
GOOD PAY OFFERED
 MEN FOR SIX WEEKS
HCtel Men of Three States to Meet Here Friday to Make Plans for Providing Cooks for Canton.
 ment at Little Rock.

The problem of supplying cooks for the selective army to be raised under the draft act in the interim between the assembling of the men and the time when cooks can be selected from the men drafted has been put up to the hotel men of the United States. Following conference at Washing ton between Joseph Beifield. manager of the Hotel sherman, Chicago, chair man of the national Committee to fur nish cooks for the United States army, and Maj-Gen. Henry A, Sharpe U. s. A., relative to the big problem w. N. Trulock, manager of the Hotel Pines and Hotel Jefferson. was asked by Mr.
 Beiffield and Major General Sharpe to accept the chairnanship of the committee of District Mo- 12, con- prising the states Of Arkansas, Lou isiana and Mississippi Mir. Tru lock was given authority to select his own committee of co-workers. whose duty it will be to supply 240 cooks for the cantonment at Little Rock. Anxious to do his best for his coun- try in the crisis. MT. Trulock accepted the responsibility, anO has summoned to assist him the leading hotel men of the three states. A meeting is to be held at the Hotel Pines here Fri day, August 5, when plans for pro- viding the cantonment with cooks will be formulated. About 20 hotel men are expected at this meeting, and MT. Trulock probably will find it neces- sary to go to New Orleans next week to confer with a subcommittee he has authorized organized in the Crescent City.
 Good Pay Offered.
 The cooks will be asked to serve only six or seven weeks. By that time it is expected that sufficient cooks will have been found among the drafted men to do the cooking for the different regiments in each anton- ment. While Mir. Trulock and his felloW-workers are engaged in raising an army of 240 cooks for the Little
 Rock cantonment, similar committees of hotel men cwiH be at work in the other 15 districts to procure cooks for the remaining camps, 3,S40 cooks being needed for all cantonments. Two classes of men are wanted: l Class Amen who have held positions as chefs and are able to give lnstruc- tion. These men will be paid $125 a month and given board and lodg- ing free. Class B-Men who are able 'to fry. roast and make stews, bake biscuits and pies, and make buildings" general all-'round cooks. The pay for this class will be $90 a month, with free board and lodging. Trans l portation for the men from their homes to the cantonment will be fur nished by the government. Women are not wanted, but the secondary places are open to negro men who can qualify as "all-'round cooks" According to letters received from MT. Beifield, every hotel man in the country is expected to furnish at least one cook. The Chicagoan says he is confident this will be the case, even tho it becomes necessary for no tel men to put their stewards in the kitchen. "The country's needs must first be met."r
 Service to Be Brief.
 While it is realized that most of the class men must come from the ho- tels. it is believed that there are many men not now engaged in cook ing as a means of livlihood who can oualify for places in class B.. Upon the patriotism of these men the gov ernment. MT. Trulock, and his asso- ciates are depending to provide sui ficient cooks to feed the big armies and from the time of their assemblage ! at the cantonments until cooks are obtained from the drafted men and or ganized for army service As soon as this is done. the men who have otfer- ed to serve as cooks will be released.
 It is just as necessary, MT. Trulock noints out, for men to volunteer TOT this service, as it is for men to serve in the fighting forces. An lll-fed army cannot fight, and Uncle Sam wants to make sure that none Of the drafted men want for good, we'll cooked food from the time they are aesemhled at the cantonments until they are organized. The man who can, not enter the army as bearer or arms. can render his country just as great service by volunteering for this work and he will be considered just as good a patriot as the man who goes into the battle lines.
 Applications for positions as cooks hermit the applicant to stipulate the length of time he will serve. Blanks may he obtained from Mir. Trulock here, and the applications should be filed with hil
 DDI1NyHJrCN1u,, ,CINNEpS