Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-04
"SM|LEAGE' 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-Public
Lands to Be Opened for Cultivation
in 1918.

Washington.-Thes sale of "smileage"
books, to be presented to men at army
camps and cantonments, is being ar
ranged by a subcommittee of the war
department commission on training
camp activities. AT each of the 16 Ma
tional army cantonments a theater has
been erected which seats 5000 men.
Marc Klaw, of Klaw & Erlanger, a
member of the commission, has ar
ranged for four companies of the
br 5htest theatrical stars to play
Cheating Cheaters," Inside the
Lines" Turn to the Right" and Here
Comes the Bride"-all big successes
last year in New York He has also
highest-grade vaudeville performers
play at these theaters.
At National Guard camps large chau-
tauqua tents, with seating capacity Of
from 1,500 to 1000, have been put up,
and first-class vaudeville is being pre-
sented.
The expense of operating this cir
cult of 81 theaters is met by admis-
sion charges which run from 10 to %
cents.
"Smileage" books contain 20 or 100
5-cent coupons, which may be pur-
chased by anyone for 81 or $5, 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 a man "smile-
age" book is equivalent to giving him
/ passes to from 10 to 80 performances
of various kinds.
Included in the recent annual report
of Secretary Franklin X. 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
compounded 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
In a war of cumulative frightfulness
would make the United States modest
ly distinguished if it wished to Sc
shine. As one Of the group said:
1--WE chemists in America have new
er turned our minds to the destruction
of human life. Our work has been con
Structive-the chemistry of the soil
Of cement, of printers ink, of the by
products from petroleum and tar, O.
10000 things which will make for {
longer, a happier life for man. But 4
the world is to be turned upside dowI
and instead of staying death and di
sease and making new things that mai
can use for his own ennoblement W.
are wanted to push forward the worl
of the destruction of man and all hi
works we can become rivals of tn
worst in such enterprise.
"This is not the time to present tn
things done and the things doing b.
these men of the necromantic science
but when the day comes for casting u
accounts and giving credit their worl
will not go unrecognized."
Hundreds of thousands of acres O
, lands in the United States, hithert
untitled, may be placed under cultivs
ton during 1918.
An inquiry by the department of tn
interior shows that approximately 600
600 acres on various reclamation pre-
jects and an area Of Indian lands a
:. most as large are susceptible Of cult
: walton.
Dancing is one form of amusemer
2 being provided on a large scale fc
Y the men of the army and navy. 1t
$ one Of the ways the war camps con
e munity service, under direction of I'll
= war and navy departments, provide
wholesome pleasure for the troops.
There are now approximately 1906
speakers in the -four minute men
Ii the nationwide organization of volu
u teer speakers who assist the COVER
j. ment in the work of national defen;
), by presenting messages of vital n
tional Importance to motion-pictu,
e theater audiences.
o Retail dealers of insecticides are e
8 empt from the licensing regulation
covering trade in white arsenic al
arsenic insecticides. The only col
d panies required to obtain licenses a
wholesalers and jobbers.
Late reports on health conditions