Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-06
BOYS AND GIRLS
 ASKED TO HELP GATHER WOOD NUTS
It Is From These Shells That Gas Masks For
 Soldiers Are Made.

New York, Nov. 4.-Every boy and girl in this country is again asked by
 the United States government to help
 save American soldiers from the hor-
 TOTS of German gas. The Chemical
 Warfare Division of the Army has
 urged them to gather every walnut. hickory nut and butter nut in the
 woods about their homes this fall to l halp make gasmasks for the American , troops in France. It is from the shells of these nuts that the charcoal for gas-masks must come for the next six months or more.
 There is said to be ready and pro- fitable market for the nutmeats. mak- ing it practicable to turn the shells in- to the government immediately. Whole nuts can also be used. For col lection centers through the country for the concentration of shells. They will be shipped from these points in car loads lots to the government car- bon plants at New York and San Fran cisco,
 The Boy Scouts have enlisted the aid of their 442,OO young members in this work, as have the Camp Fire Girls Through the Department of Agriculture all county agents of that department will organize nutting par ties. In addition every school is urg- ed to arouse the interest of it's pupils and to encourage nut gathering in ev- cry spare moment of the pupils time.
 The aid of the young people will be absolutely necessary to supply the l. 0O0,000 pounds of shells and fruit stones that the government product ion schedule calls for The government cannot buy more than one-third the necessary shells at present In fact. they declare that the shells of all the cocoanuts grown in the West Indies and Central America if they could be obtained, would not fill the needs.n They are making arrangements to get the shell from the East Indies. but it will be months before this plan can be put into cooperation. In the mean while they must mix the available shell charcoal with wood charcoal. This is not to the best interest of the men because the wood charcoal set ties, making breathing difficult, and it has not the absorptive qualities of shell charcoal.
 1un pcOplc. UcCdUSc u LIIc SIudll- ness of the task asked of them fail ed to realize it's importance and did not respond well to the appeal made during the fruit season. What the help of each person means is shown by the fact that two peach stones or two large nuts turned in each day by each person in the nation would sup ply the needs. It is hoped however. that no one will hold to this schedule as there will be many minimizing per sons quota to fill.
 Gas barrages for some time have been one of the principal factors in German warfare. Their mustard gas, with it's horrible ater effects. is one of the worst atrocities of the war. Even now, in the retreat, the Germans are using g. .non-exploding. perforated gas shell which they fire into marsh lands and which makes the entre district into which they are trown "section of deat" for days afterwards
 This can all be successfully combat ted if Americans will turn in their hickory. brazil, walnut and butter nut shells and peach, apricot. prune. plum, olive date and cherry stones, or gas masks for American Soldiers. }Al