Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-11-16

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neers, a graduate of Cornell university
J and West Point. who has specialized
In electrical and mechanical engineer.
ing. For Is months he worked under
General Sibert OH the Gatun locks on
the Panama canal.
When the regiment reaches France
| 1t viii be in command of Col Amos
A. Fries, a regular officer OF engineers
| and already attached to the American
army in Trance. Colonel Fries in of
fetal documents IS given the formal
title of "chief If the gas service"
Elaborate Experiments Made.
For months one of the great build.
ings of the American university has
been given over exclusively to the
making of experiments in gas and
flame warfare under the direction of
the bureau of mines. The best chem.
lists available have been engaged in re-
search work in connection with the ok
periments and some of the results OBJ
tanned are said to be wonderful. The
army authorities apparently have been
provided with complete information
concerning the chemistry and appli-
ances used by both the German and
the allied armies. but there also has
been much Independent investigation
and the combination of results If Il
believed has produced deadly eff
cheney.
The American chemists and d-,,gn-
ers not only are confident that already
they have matched the effectiveness
of the Germans In the use of these
new Observation-Disclosures of war, but they
believe that the new inventions are
being and can be developed which will
make the gas and flame regiment of
the United States the terror of the
battlefield.
Recreation Plans for Soldiers.
A national conference of men and
women interested in what is called the
war community recreation service has
just been brought to a close in wash
ington. It's main object was to discuss
means to provide adequate recreation
facilities for the American men-at-
arms.
This convention of persons interest
ed i'm the matter was one of the most
largely attended one of the most seri-
ous-minded. and one of the most ctfec-
lively disposed gatherings ever held
IN this city
The week of November 40 viii he
devoted to nationwide intensive
campaign to secure funds with which
TO carry out the plans of the recrca-
ton service. Old soldiers who have
gone through years nf camp aud bar
racks life under old conditions, say
the saving work of today should have
been begun generations ago and that
an army that has in it high-grade nor
ais and lowgrade munitions can lick
an army which has high grade muni-
lions and low-grade morals
The soldier, army men say is no
whit worse in intention than the civil
IAN The trouble is that the soldier
since before the day that the israel
ties fought the PhiliStines has been Il
mark for every kind of a predatory
creature which the world has pro
duced, The attacks center and al
ways have conferred on the military
camps.
Plans to Keep Out Vice
A chain of sentinels is to be thrown
around every American cantonmeit in
this country and in Europe to keep
vice from passing the lines. Today
there is being undertaken a work vir-
tually new TO the armies of The world.
The soldier is to be safeguarded
against himself and against those who
would tempt him to forget himself.
This is no miner matter. There are
soldiers here, men of high rank who
have served their country in every
field in which it has been possible to
serve it, who say that If the soldier
conquers himself he can conquer any
enemy that the world can put against
him
An American soldier when ne is
back Of the line, even in war .ime is
not overlooked. He has time on his
hands and it hangs heavy there. To
get recreation he will seek it where
it is most readily to be found Amlse-
mentS in camp will put dives near the
camp out OF business. This always
has been found to be true.
AS to Wine in France.
The United States government can
not overturn the traditions and the
customs of France. SO it is probable
chat Uncle Sans troopers, or such of
them as care for it, can get daily or
weekly glass or two of red wine or
white from the little storekeepers in
the villages 1t probably cannot be
helped However, the attitude of the
American commanding officers in
France the division commanders al
ready in the field. toward the wine
drinking is shown in an extract from
n French paper which / have just re-