The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-02-01
TRADESMEN NEEDED
! IN SIGNAL C07PS
WILL BE ACCEPTED, ALT. OUCH
REGISTERED, IF QUALIFIED
ALONG CERTAIN LINES.
BOOKS FOR OUR FIGHTERS
More Than Half a Million Already
Furnished Soldiers and Sailors by
American Library Association
What the Hat Cord Denotes.

| what the nat OCfu DGnOLeSs
| (From Committee on Public Information.)
| Washington-Men qualified along
certain lines, although registered I'M
der the selective-seryice law, may be
| indicted into the land division of the
Signal Corps, which is in need of men
for the following duties:
| Chauffeurs 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 APP
! paratus; men qualified as cooks,
| clerks, stenographers, blacksmiths,
| meteorOlogists, cobblers, cable men,
| etc.
Men indicted for this division, I'M
less otherwise requested by the chief
| signal officer of the army, are sent to
| Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
| More than half a million books al
| ready have been furnished soldiers and
| sailors in training camps and in France
| by the American Library Association
| War Service, and the flow is steadily
| increasing, according to the director
of this work.
A campaign for funds inaugurated
| by the association last autumn netted
| more than $1,5OOOOO 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 $4,000 for the
! erection of camp libraries. Nearly
all camps now have libraries and in
| the others the buildings are in course
| of construction. The reading rooms
| each accommodate 25O men.
| For the men in France the associa-
! ton has organized distributing sta
| tons at all points Of embarkation,
where books are assorted for shipment
| abroad Soon every soldier who steps
! on a transport will carry a book with
| him, which he and his companions will
read on the way across, after which it
| will be forwarded to the men back of
| the trenches. No attempt will be made
to establish libraries in France, but
| the association will have representa-
| tives there to supervise the work of
| distribution.
| Just as the sleeve chevrons and
| bars, stars and eagles on the shout
| 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,
| Quartermasters corps; scarlet and
| white, engineers corps; orange and
| white. signal corps scarlet and black,
| ordnance; black and white field clerk ;
maroon, medical corps: black and gold,
| officers; silver and black, adjutant
generals clerk; green, instructor home
| guards; green and white, home guards.
| These cords are worn only on serv-
| ice hats.
| Cadet aviatOrs wear as hat bands
| inch and a half white ribbons and on
coat collars insignia representing the
| aviation branch of the Signal corps,
| propeller blades.
There were, 1,42S65O enlisted men
! and 110,S65 officers in the United
| States army at the opening of 1913,
| more than one and a half times as
| large as any force ever before mo-
| bilized by this nation. according to
j a statement by Secretary of War
| Baker
| During the war with Spain the army
/ of the United States at it's maximum
strength aggregated 272,000 men and
| officers. The army in the field and in
| training now is practically six times
| as great as the maximum number I'M
| der arms in the Spanish-American war.
| About $4,000 officers were commits
| stoned from civil life in the two series
of training camps, nearly eight times
| as many as the number of officers in
| the regular army April l. 1917.
| Postmasters are directed not to ac-
| cept for shipment to members of ex-
peditionary forces packages contain
ing matches, cigar lighters, OR solicited
alcohol, including the preparation call
| ed "Sterno" or canned heat.
1t is not deemed safe to admit these
| articles to mails for foreign countries
or for United States naval vessels, in
| Guiding marines on shore in other coun-
| tries.
Contractors working on orders for
| the navy are required to provide
! watohmen and devices to protect their