The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-21
TAKING PICTURES
/ ON BATTLE FRONT
Increased Facilities for Aerial Photo
sraphers Being Secured by
Uncle Sans
Corps.
CAMERA TELLS STORY
No New Trench, No cIeveriy Placed
Machine Gun Nest But Which 10
Unrnasked by AL
Seeing Lens.

The signal corps authorizes the fol-
lowing statement:
Plans have been completed for the
great enlargement Of facilities for
training and equipping the aerial
Photographic force for photographins
| the German trenches from the skies
and keeping up to the last minute
the large composite picture OF the
whole German front. Future facil-
| tiles will be three times those at pres
ent existing and will be in full oper-
alton In three weeks.
/ The three schools now operating at
Langley Field, Fort Sill, and Cornell
will be consolidated into one large
school of aerial photography at Roch-
(! ester, N. Y, where all the primary
ktraining will be done. Special equip
ment has been provided. with over
I 100 instructors. The present schools
| will be used for special and advanced
training, particularly for the photo
graphic intelligence officers who will
| accompany the planes into the air on
| special occasions.
| Printing to be Standardized.
| The bulk Of the training, however.
will be for the developing and print
ling work which must be done on a
J
specially developed during the war.
and often in great haste on special
motor lorries close to the front and
! to the staff. After a months course,
/ the men will be given a short advanc-
ed training and Immediately sent
overseas for operation in the Ameri-
can sector.
Aerial photography has greatly de-
veloped during the war. During the
single month Of September, British
official reports state that 1887
aerial photographs were taken by the
British alone No new trench can
be dug, no new communication sXs-
tenn opened UP, no new batteries
placed. but the ever present and in
fallible camera above records 1t for
piercing has been this work that
camouflage has been developed as
protection, thus forcing aerial pho
Biography to even greater ingenuity.
Every Sector Plotted.
| Every sector of the front is divid-
ed into plots about half mile square.
each one numbered and intrusted to
squad of photographers who become
| fully familiar with it. AS fast as the
| photographs are made they are de-
veloped, printed, reduced or enlarged
! to a standard scale, and then fitted
into their place on the large com.
posite photograph of the sector. This
| work requires a force OF experts In
developing, printing, and enlarging,
as well as in map reading and inter
probation.
Instances Of Quick Work.
Cases are on record where only 20
minutes have elapsed from the time
photographer snapped his camera
over the German trenches until his
batteries were playing upon the spot
| shown. In that time the airman had
returned to his lines, the photograph
been developed and printed, the dis
covery made, and the batteries given
the range and ordered to fire.
| -$-DAY-$ MARCH e.
! Babies Cry MusicaIIy.
CBy United Press]
| CLEVELAND, March 21.-Ghe cry
Of the baby, analysed, Is music, not
noise, says G. J. Jones, of the Cleve-
land public school music instruction
staff.
Most babies cry in three or four
tones" he said today.
| Jones carries tuning fork and a
Pitch pipe with him as he goes from
school to school and analyses the
tones Of the city's crash and clamor.