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PERsHINo ASKED FOR A CAM
OUTAGE CORPS.

Tho American Camoufiage Corps
was organized by American artists.
headed by Edwin II. B~lashheld. the
well known mural decorator. The
War Department was at first inclined
to think the artists overestimated
the importance OF camouhage, but
when Gen. Pershing cabled that he
wished an official camoufiage corps
might be organized, this company was
accepted and attached to the engt-
neer branch OF the service. Lieut..
Towle wishes II were attached TO the
Signal Corps, since so much OF Camou-
nage work is done in conjunction
with the aviation section OF that
corps. The chief business OF the
camouieur Is to fool the aviator"
says he, and who can whisper to him
how that can be done better than the
aviator himself"
Lieut.. Towle has already made a
good start with his school. The New
York City Board OF Education Is sup
plying material for the class. Through
tho efforts of Henry r.. jenkins, SUI
| perintendent of evening schools, and
Patrick Jones, Superintendent OF
school supplies, all red tape has been
| cut and accommodations and supplies
furnished. At present there are two
classes. They meet every night eX-
| cept Friday, and have two afternoons
n week for field instruction and prac-
tice. The plan liz to make the men
soldiers first and Camoufage special
lists neXt. Men for tho classes are
obtained through tho draft boards
and with the aid OF the New York
school OF Industrial Arts on 242d
street, near Third Avenue, where APP
plication should be made. Any draft
ed man in classes l and ., whose
calling is such that he would be
acceptable, may register. At the end
| OF three months those who have been
accepted will have been put through
the school OF the soldier and OF the
SQUAD, so that when they arrive at
their training camps they will be
more than likely 10 be good material
for non-Commissloned officers. 1t is
not promised that these men on ar
rival Mt their training camps will be
assigned to camoutiage companies,
but the chances are favorable. Ger
tainly the best OF them viii be-"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
ARMY OFFICERS WIVES
WORKING FOR RED CROSS

Wives of army officers are setting
the pace in providing comforts for the
soldiers At the various United States
army posts they are knitting assidu-
ously, supplementing their own work
with Red Cross supplies in order to
give every man who goes out from
the forts complete sets of knitted gar
ments. In addition, they are turning
out vast quantities of surgical supplies
for the Red Cross.
At Fort Jay, Governors Island,
Red Cross auxiliary meets every
Thursday at the commandments resi-
dence The group, composed of a
score of women, spend the day making
congresses, folding bandages or roll
ing gauze.
Wives of officers at Fort Hamilton,
have with the help of the Red Cross
fitted out a regiment of soldiers going
overseas with complete outfits of knit
ted garments.
At Fort Totten, Mrs. Aston Hamil-
ton, wife of Colonel Hamilton, com
handing the post, and group of army
women, began last fall to knit for the
soldiers, and not man sailed for
France from this point without being
fully supplied with knitted apparel.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04

The Red Cross is now placing two
home service workers in every camp
and cantonment throughout the coun.
try to get In touch with the men who
have family problems in which the
service may be of assistance. Proba-
bly, not one-half of the cases they
work on require financial assistance.
But every conceivable family difficulty
that can come to a group of $4,000
men has to be met and dealt with by
the Red Cross workers. The following
which a Red Cross man has brought
scattered families together.
Patrick Sullivan was the strong
man of Camp Dix. Six feet two in his
stockings, with arms like a gorilla, 1t
was an unfortunate recruit who got
into the grip of his iron paws. Few
did.
The second day after coming to
camp Pat announced he was champion
wrestler, boxer and strong man ex-
traordinary of the camp. And to date
there is no one who has not taken his
word for it. He had big, genial
Irish face, too, that should have been
laughing at the whole world.
Lonely and Unsociable.
Instead of that he would loaf around
his barracks by himself or take lonely
little strolls up and down the com
pany streets. He was lonely, no ques-
tion about that, and several recruits
who took chance on the natural So
liability in his face tried to make adj
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04

for immediate use wherever they
might be desired.
1t was discovered that Swiss man.
ufacturer had ON hand 43 buildings
that were not needed by the italian
army, for which they had been con-
structed.
The Red Cross Immediately con-
tracted Tor the entire number, 0btaln-
ed them and now can ship home for
40 people to any part of France ON
few hours notice and erect 1t in less
than two days. 1t has even supplied
the United States army with ten of
these buildings for immediate use.
The buildings are unique in con-
struction. Each weighs about FIVE tons
and can be easily skipped in one
freight car Unlike many demountable
or "knock-down" buildings, these are
absolutely rain and weather proof,
thus assuring adequate protection in
unreasonable weather to refugees, hos
pital patients, etc.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
$500 COO APPROPRIATED
FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF.

The War Council has appropriated
the sum of 100000 as a contribution
to the American Committee for Arme-
nian and Syrian relief, to cover the
months of February and March, 1918
with the expectation that 100000 a
month for the following four months
will also be appropriated, but making
no commitment to that effect.
The War Council had already given
$1,S00,000 to this committee in the
form of contribution of 100000 a
month for the last six months of 1917
The restitution among the Armenians,
Syrians, Greeks and other suffering
races in the Russian Caucasus, Per-
STA, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and
Syria is on, the increase, and those
peoples are more than ever dependent
on American charity as administered
in large part by the commissioners
and agents of the Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04

the gathering and distrihuting of sup
plies for shipment to France anG Bel
GUM.
The London chapter of which Am
bassador Page Is president and Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid is chairman, operates
a workshop where aboGt 1000 women
are employed in making dressings,
bandages, splints and other hospital
necessities. About one-third of the
work force is American, the rest Brit
ish.
The London chapter also maintains
st. GATHERINGS Lodge Hospital for Off
GERS with 40 beds for orthopedic cases.
Other chapter activities include the
distribution of books for American
soldiers in France and American sail
ors in European waters, entertainment
for American soldiers and nurses in
London and the maintenance of club
house for nurses.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
CHILDREN SHELTERED
FROM BOCHE SHELLS
Taken Into Cellars Beyond
Harms Reach.

lies caves Les cavesp' want
to go in the cellarp
Shrill cries from Jean and Marie
and Felix and hundreds of other
French youngsters, huddled together in
little frightened groups, answered the
booming of the big guns, the crackle
Of the mitrailleuses and the intermit-
tent hum of Boche airplane.
The children were gathered in the
old fort on the hill, overlooking town
very close to the front, where the Red
Cross takes care of them. The cathe-
dral bell had tolled for five minutes,
though you could hardly hear it for
the roar of the guns, and the siren
had blown. Then the people in the
town below had scurried to their cell
lars, for that was a warning of raid
er coming.
In the cellar they would have been
quite content and unafraid. For more
months than they could remember they
had been living in cellars in the little
shell swept villages near the town and
sometimes In dugouts in the hills. But
the Red Cross and the project had
taken them away from their homes,
and now there were no cellars.
dozen little girls crowded into one
big bed. With the bedclothes over
your head it was dark Perhaps the
bomb wouldn't get you there. Half
an hour seemed ten hours.
Then the guns stopped firing, and
it was quiet again. The Boche had
gone. Only the restless searchlights
still guarded the sky.
Below there in the town a tenement
house had been cut in two A poilu
had come all the way from Salonica,
1000 miles away, to see his wife and
three children. But the German
bombs found them first.
On the-hi the children were safe
this time. You can't always be safe
from the bombs when the Boche car
ries them. But the children are always
safe from guns and gas and disease
and filth and hunger. So much safety
the Red Cross can and does give them
for the sake of tomorrow in France
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
CLUB HOUSE FOR OFFICERS
PLANNED AT CAMP MERRITT.

What will be the first club house in
the Atlantic division designed exclu-
sively for officers is soon to be built at
Camp Merritt, New Jersey. More than
$4,000 has been donated to the Red
Cross for the purpose, and the plans
have already been drawn up.
While a club for enlisted men was
recently given by Ms Merritt, widow
of Gen. Wesley G. Merritt, no provi-
sion has heretofore been made for the
officers, and since thousands of them
pass through this military post en-
route to France the need is great.
The structure, covering 10000 feet
of ground space, one story in height, is
to include billiard room and lounge,
dining room, kitchen, women's dining
and rest room. with barber shop and
five modern baths fitted with porcelain
tubs instead of showers.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
Pat Sullivan N01U His
Same Old Self Again

vances. He wheeled round on them
like a shot, and they remembered
pressing business over the other side
of camp.
Finally the Red Cross man noticed
him and after much diplomacy got at
the heart of his trouble. Pat had no
family except an older sister, with
whom he had had a fight way back in
1901 They had never spoken since.
In camp he began to think about him
self, and the idea of going off to
France with no one to say goOdby
and no one to write letters or give a
damn if he got shot was getting on his
nerves. He thought about his sister,
and the more he thought the more he
realized what a darn fine woman she
was and what fool he'd been. He'd
about sell his soul to get in touch with
her again, but he had no idea where
she lived. He knew she was married,
but did not know to whom, but that
was all he could tell.
By communicating with the Red
Cross Chapter in Sullivan's home town
the home service man finally got on
her trail. Having located her, he
wrote the prettiest letter he knew how,
telling how her brother had repented
and wanted to hear from her, ETC.
For days there was no reply, and
the secretary had about given 1t up
when Pat burst into his tent one eve
ming waving letter wildly around his
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
AMERICANS TO BE NO DRAG
ON ITALIAN GOVERNMENT.

In order that the personnel of the
Red Cross and the American ambu-
lance drivers and rolling canteen
workers shall not lie drag upon Italy
or the Italians the War Council has
appropriated the sum of $16S,3O0 for
the purchase in this country of six
months supply of gasoline and army
rations for 500 men per month for a
period of six months. These supplies
will be shipped abroad.
This sum of money was set aside
for this purpose on the recommended
ton of Major Perkins, A. r. c. com
missioner to Italy, who advised that
the American Red Cross should not
accept or buy any food or gasoline
from the Italian government for its
service in Italy.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
CANTEEN WOMAN TELLS
OF WORK IN FRANCE
Tells How Workers Meet Re et! 5
With Boilers Filled With
Coffee.

The following is an excerpt from a
letter of an American Red Cross can
teen worker in France, describing the
work of the canteen women and the
experiences which enliven the daily
routine of their lives:
1--WE meet the trains at the station
they have only a short stop-with
great boilers full of hot coffee, and on
these cold winter nights you don't
know how grateful the Poilus hold out
their battered tin cups to have them
filed.
The canteen itself is very pleasant,
with brightly colored walls, beauti-
full painting by a former judge of the
Salon, who has country home near
by, son who is prisoner in Germany
and a charming daughter who is one
OF the helpers at the canteen. He has
donated large seascape and wants
the Red Cross to take it back to Amer
lea after the war.
Good Food Served.
Then we have photograph which
- an endless source of pleasure to the
men, and soon when our new recrea-
, tlon room is in order we shall hire a
piano. We serve good food at much
lower price than they can get at the
railroad restaurants, and, as the Poilus
receive cents a day, 1t means a lot
to them.
The bread ration is very strict Mt
present. and it is hard to have to re-
fuse more than one sou of bread to
each man when he looks up In a hun
cry fashion and says: But how can |
eat this cheese without little more
breadT The one expression that seems
to cover everything over here is c'est
la guerre, but sometimes you see it
brings very little comfort.
The suffering in the world comes
home so to one here. Why. lust the
other night when was on duty at the
canteen, which is at the station, a
roor soldier had both legs run over
and torn off by a train. We tried to
do what we could to help the doctor
who just happened to be changing
trains. Our Red Cross car took the
man off to a hospital. | shall never
forget how, while | was holding his
hand trying to comfort him, he repeat
ed over and over, Mes trois pauvres
enfants! (my three poor children)."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
EVERY AMERICAN SOLDIER
is GIVEN A COMFORT KIT

Every American soldier now enter
ing the trenches carries an American
Red Cross comfort kit containing tow
ell. shirt, writing paper, pencil, soap,
handkerchief, socks, mirror and tobac-
co, according to cable message just
received from Major James H. Perkins,
American Red Cross commissioner to
Europe.
More comfort kits are wanted with
socks and tobacco, Major Perkins ca
Bile stated.
The number of kits cannot be stated,
but the fact that every soldier has one
means that the work done by Ameri-
can women is big comfort to the
s~ldinrs now on tha firing limo
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
RED CROSS ASKS AID
FOR BELCIAN SUFFERERS

Thousands of shoes needed destitute occupied Bel
GUM and northern France Due leather Belgium
tuay impossible the
Is being made of leather
board scarcely durable and all costing exobant
them being S25 a pair-$1S pair the
Rec
conducting nationwide
the
Red chapters
by H. p Dawson chairman
the
In the photograph shown Belgian relief helpers
clothing repaired
Into efficient organization
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
UNDER THREE FLAGS
IN THE
TRAIL OF GERMAN T. N. 7
American Red Cross,

4, Place de la C0nc0rde, Paris.
When Germany plunged the world in
war the United States waited-hoping
against hope-but there were some
Americans who did not wait.
You found them, here and there, in
the ranks of the British army, among
the Canadians and in the Foreign Lee
gion of France.
You found them, too, soldiers of hui
manity, driving ambulances behind the
French front and feeding the men, wo-
men and children of Belgium under the
very shadow of German authority and
"reminiscences.
Today, though its work has not
stopped, the Commission for Relief in
Belgium must do without the service
of the Americans in the field. Other
neutrals have been found to take their
places. The question has been asked:
What has become of the American
field workers of the Commission for
Relief in Belgium?
Some of them are In France. They
who once had to work under the Ger
man flag are now proudly working I'M
der the flags of the two republics.
They are inside the lines.
Making Belgium and France Whole
Again.
One of them, Edward Eyre Hunt,
the former delegate for the province
of Antwerp, is now chief of the Blu
reau of Rehabilitation and Relief of the
American Red Cross in France. He
has at least four of his old associates
working in that bureau.
L. G. Wellington, who used to care
for the welfare of the people of Lille
and Valenciennes and the Belgian
province of Luxembourg as representa-
tive of the Commission for Relief in
Belgium, is now in charge of the Ar
ras district as representative of the
American Red Cross, where he can al
most see the very towns for which he
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
$1,s16,o45 APPROPRIATED
FOR SHIPMENTS TO ITALY

At the request of Major Robert Per-
kins, Red Cross commissioner to Italy,
the War Council of the American Red
Cross has appropriated the sum of
81 ,316,045 for the purchase of certain
supplies to be shipped to Italy. These
shipments will comprise two months
supply of foodsuffs of which the fol-
lowing items make up single months
supply:
Two hundred tons each of condensed
milk, rice, canned meat, dried meat,
beans and peas; and one hundred tons
each of concentrated soups and
cheeses, as well as twenty tons Of
lard.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
BUILDINGS WHILE YOU WAIT;
APPLY TO THE RED CROSS
Portable Houses Shipped to Any Part
OF France on Few Hours
Notice.

The American Red Cross in France
has established a record for home
building. A call came to Paris from
somewhere in France" for three bar
racks. The Red Cross was told that
it would take the workmen at least
five days to erect one building. With
in that time the Red Cross workers
had all three buildings up and ready
for occupancy. They employed just
% men on the job.
Red Cross officials determined some
time ago to place "in stock" a number
Il portable or demountabie barracks
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
PORTO RlcAN SCHOOLS HELP.

Children in the Porto Rican public
schools are giving practical demon
stration of their patriotism. They are
not only making Red Cross pajamas
for hospital use; but in their cooking
classes they are learning how to sub
stitute gondulas, frijoles and garbanos
for meal cocoanut and cacao for fats
and platanos, batatos and amarillos
for wheat bread.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
OPERATE PORTABLE LAuNpRIEs.

The Red Cross has now five portable
laundries in operation at the base hos
pitfalls abroad. These laundries have
proved of great value to the hospitals
and others are to be installed as soon
as possible.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
AMERICAN WOMEN DOING
RED CROSS WORK IN LONDON.

American Red Cross activities in
England cover a wide field, ranging
from a contribution of $953,000 tt200,-
0o0) to the war work fund Of the
British Red Cross, to the promotion
of social welfare work involving wo-
men and children They include also
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
AM ENTITIES.

Belief hear the government is
badly in need of camoufage artists.
Nell-It is a wonder you have not
been snatched up with that COM
plexion, dear.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
A MEAN SLAM.

''I was in the mob scene," boosted
Yorick Hamm.
'T don't doubt it," responded
Hamlet Fatt, his rival. "And were
you the entire mobP"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
CONVERSATION Tagging.

She-Did / hear anything fall?
He-Why, no.
She-Oh, excuse me. l thought
you dropped remark.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
ONE COMFORT.

'It seems from the explanation
that this drastic closing order is to
clean up things"
ooh, then they can't shut up the
laundries."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
PATIENTS SOLE SLIPPERS.

Some of the patients in the tuber
culosis barracks in France have been
taught to sole slippers. A commercial
organization pays them for this work,
thus enabling them to earn a little
spending money.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
A GOOD REASON.

Teacher-Why has the giraffe
such long neck?
Charlie-Because its head is SO
far away from It's body.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
LIKE THE WORLD.

Mother-Come, Charlie, it's time
to get up.
CharHe-Then I'll lie abed till it
comes around again.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
AN EXCEPTION.

"You surely do not approve of the
mailed hand in business?"
"0h, yes, l do, if it is the post
man S.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-04-04
CONSTITUENTS GOT BUSY.

"They went over that candidates
career with rake.o
Il heard he was an unusually
well-cultivated man."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-12-13
Of SALTS
CLEANS KIDNEYS
{ your Back b aching or Bladder
81 botherR drink lots Of water
.s and sat lsaS msat =

When your Kidneys hurt and your back
keels sore, don't get scared and proceed
10 load your stomach with Q lot of drugs
That excite the Kidneys and irritate the
sntire urinary tract, Keep your Kidneys
clean Like you keep your bowels clean,
|by flushing them with q mild, harIalebs
balts which removes the body's urinous
1vaste and stimulates them to their nor
hal activity. The function of the kid.
Ihsys is 20 alter the blood In "a hours
hey strain from 1t 500 grains of acid
Ind waste, 30 we can readily understand
HE vital Importance Of keeping the kid
beyS active ~. ): i, - 5
Drink lots Of water-yoa can't drink
koo much; also get from any pharmanist
bout four. ounces of Jad Salts; take
tablespoonful in 9 glass Of water
Before breakfast each morning for q few
lays and your kidneys win oct fine.
This famous Ssalts Is made from the
&cia Of grapes and lemon Juice, combined
Nth ithis, and has been used for genera
lions to clear and stimulate clogged kid.
keys; also 70 nsutraiizs the acids In
hrine b It no longer lis g sourcs Of irri-
ation, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts s Inexpensive; cannot In.
lure; makes b delightful efervescent
ithis.wster drink which everyone should
1aks now and then to keep theirs kid
leys clean and active. Try this, also
keep up the water drinking, and no
lOubt you will wonder what became of
Puur kidney trouble and backache.