The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-03
's|M|LEAGEE' BOOKS
FOR THE SOLDIERS
PRESENTS THAT WILL ENABLE
MEN IN CAMPS TO SEE HIGH
GRADE PRODUCTIONS.
PLANS OF THEATRICAL MEN
Secretary Lane Reviews the Develop
ment OF the Science OF War-Publtc
Lands to Be opened for Cultivation
In 1918. 1880

Lands to Be- Opened for Cultivate
In 1918.
Washington.-Thes sale Of "smfleage
books to be presented to men at arm
camps and environments, is being a1
ranged by q subcommittee of the wa
department commission on trainin
camp activities. At each Of the 16: Ne
tional army environments a theater ha
been erected which seats 5000 mer
Marc Klaw, of Klaw & Erlanger,
member of the commission, has III
ranged for four companies of tn
brightest theatrical stars to pla,
Cheating Cheaters," Inside tn
Lines" Turn to the Right" and Her
Comes the Bride"--all big successe
last year In New York. He has aIs'
planned to have four companies of thu
highest-grade vaudeville performer
play at these theaters.
At National Guard camps large chau
tauQua tents, with seating capacity Of
from 1900 to 1000, have been put up
and f1rst-class vaudeville is being pre-
sented.
The expense of operating this cir
cult Of "a theaters Is met by admis-
| sion charges which run from 10 to %
cents. IL,
"Smileage" books contain 20 or 100
6-cent coupons, which may be pur-
chased by anyone for 81 or SIS, respec-
lively, and sent to soldier friend at
the camp. The coupons will be ex-
changed at the box office for admis-
sion tickets. Sending man a "smile-
age" book is equivalent to giving him
passes to from 10 to so performances
Of various kinds.
of Secretary Franklin K. Lane is the
following:
when the bureau of mines was Gre
ated by congress FIVE years ago it was
hardly to have been imagined that the
methods used for the saving of life in
the coal mines of the United States
would become of vital use in the prob
lem of saving lives and destroying lives
In a world war; yet this is just what
has happened
The soldiers kit, which was so SIM
pie thing In other wars, has had to
be increased by gas mask not unlike
the helmet of deep-sea diver, with a
box of chemicals adapted for offsetting
the effects of the various kinds of gas
the enemy is known to use.
when we came into the war we
found ourselves prepared with the
knowledge, the machinery, and the men |
to promptly meet the need of gas !
masks in great quantity and of SUI
perior type. Thus the men who had |
been on this work of meeting the gases t
in natures laboratory
were found to have reserve of knOwl-
edge as to what gases will kill and
what will choke and what will burn
and what will hasten disease, which
n war of cumulative frightfulness
would make the United States modest
Y distinguished if it wished to so
shine. AS one of the group said:
1--WE chemists in America have new
r turned our minds to the destruction
II human life. Our work has been con-
chemistry of the soil.
Il cement, Of printers ink, of the by-
PRODUCTS from petroleum and tar. of
|
Onger, happier life for man. But if
he world is to be turned upside down
nd instead of staying death and di-
ease and making new things that man
an use for his own ennoblement we I
re wanted to push forward the work .t
the destruction of man and all his Z
'orks we can become rivals of the '
'orst in such ENTERPRISE
This is not the time to present the
llngs done and the things doing nv Z
lese men Of the necromantic science, q
ut when the day comes for casting nm II
counts and giving credit their work
Ill not go unrecognized."
Hundreds Of thousands Of acres OF ;,
nds in the United States, hitherto n
1t1lled, may be placed under cultiya- :,
On during 1918. -
An inquiry by the department of the =
terror shows that approximately 6OO.- q,
10 acres on various reclamation pro-
cts and an area of Indian lands al
ost as large are susceptible of cult q,
tiOn.
Dancing is one form of amusement 10
ing provided on large scale for
men or the army and navy. IT Is
e or the ways the war camps COM Sc
unity service. under direction of the d,
If and navy departments, provides be
loiesome pleasure for the troops. Isl
There are now approximately $1,000
eakers j.. the -four minute men" #,
nation wide organization of yolun- tn
II speakers who assist the govern tn
mt In the work Of national defense tr,
presenting messages of vital ma SO
nal Importance to Iaetien-picture in
.ater audiences. 10,
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