Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-24
TRADESMEN NEEDED
IN SIGNAL CORPS.
MLL. BE ACCEPTED, ALTHOUGH
REGISTERED. IF QUALIFIED
ALONG CERTAIN LINES.
BOOKS FOR OUR FIGHTERS
More Than Halt, a Million Already
Furnished Soldiers and Sailors by
American Library Association
What the Hat Cord Denotes.

(From Committee ON Public Information)
Washingten.-Me qualified along
certain lines, although registered un-
der the selective-service law, may be
inducted into the land diyisionlof the
Signal Corps, which is in need of men
for the following duties:
Chauffetirs. motorcycle drivers, and
gas engine repairmen for duty. In. field
and telegraph battalions; telegraph
ers, both wire and radio; telephone
men, including switchboard operators
telephone repairmen, and men skilled
in testing and repairing telephone
lines; telephone and telegraph line
men; photographers. still and moving:
] homing-pigeOn men; radio men who
are familiar with installing radio ap-
paratus; men qualified as cooks,
clerks stenographers, blacksmiths,
lnete0rologists, cobblers, cable men.
Men ind,cted- for. this division. un-
less otherwise requested by the chief
signal officer of the army, are sent to
Fort 1.eavenwortll.. Kan.
More than half n million hooks al
ready have been furnished soldiers and
sailors in training camps and in France
I0by the American Library Association
War Service. and the flow is steadily
increasing. according to the director
of this work.
campaign for funds inaugurated
by the association lnst autumn netted
/ more than sl.Soooto and real results
in the tangible shape of books and
comfortable libraries are. being felt by
! the soldiers and sailors. The Carne
gle corporation gave s3a0.o 600 for the
erection of camp lihraries. Nearly
all camps now .h,tye Libraries and in
( the others the. buildings are in course
Of construction. The reading rooms
/ each Accommodate 250 men
i For the ltien in FRANCE the associa-
| tion has .ol'gail!aed' distributing sta
tions II, all points of embarkation,
abroad Soon every. soldier who steps
/, on transport will carry a book with
him, which he and his companions will
4 read on the way across. after which it
1 will be forwarded to the men back Of
the trenches. No attempt will be made
10 establish libraries in France, but
4 the association will have representa-
tives there to supervise the work of
distribution.
Just as the sleeve clieyrons and
Il bars, stars and eagles on: the shoul
der proclaims ranking officers, the hat
cord denotes the branch of service
each private has entered.
Light blue signifies Infantry; scar
let, artillery; yellow cavalry; buff
duartermasters. corps; scarlet ant
white, engineers corps: orange ant
white, signal corps :: scarlet and black
ordnance; black and white, field clerk
maroon, medical c6rps; black and gold
officers; silver and. black, adjutan
generals clerk /; green. instructor hom'
guards; green and white, home guards
These cords ore worn only on serv
ice hats.
Cadet aviators wear as hat band
inch and half white ribbons and OF
coat collars insignia representing tn
aviation branch. OF 1.-the Signal corps
propeller blades.
There were 1,42s,6 $50, enlisted mel
and 110,sG5 officers I'm the Unite
States army at the opening Of 1915
more than one and q half times a
large as any force ever before mt
{ bilized by this nation. according t
statement by Secretary Of Wa
Baker,
nurias tae war With 1nais ~ E,-