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Monaco. Monte Carlo. Casino, operas.
grand concerts. balls, all kinds of
sports. etc.'-what would you call
those civilians who are holding back +?
IF on going into the trench, wading
through mud up to your waist, you
read in this same paper an article by
war correspondent, who, in describ-
ing this particular trench, calls 1t very
comfortable, healthy and provided
with all modern conveniences,' what
would you call this journalist?
IF. after having been nearly stuck
by Boche who has just missed you
and has only thrust bayonet through
yonr thigh; if. having made him
prisoner and brought him back with
considerable difficulty and the help
of pal, you learn from the above
mentioned correspondent that the Ger.
mans surrendered without resistance,
holding up their hands and crying
'Kamarade'--what sort of face would
you pull in hospital?
"If, arriving by night at your billet,
where you are going to take a much
needed rest, you sally forth on the
following morning. after having spent
two full and weary hours in cleaning
yourself, and you hear behind you this
amiable reflection from n fellow.coun-
trywoman, 4 say. there is a poilu who
is quite clean. He hasn't suffered
much'-what sort of whitening look
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ters a conference was in session be-
tween the Board and a number of big
merchants of one of the largest cities.
The subject under discussion was a
reduction in the cost of delivering
goods.
The Commercial Economy Board
has gone into this matter very thor.
oughly. 1t has held conferences
with representative merchants in
various parts of the country, and 1t
has sent its agents to typical stores
in a number of the great cities. By
means of correspondence IT, has OBJ
tanned statistics from over five hun
dred retail grocery stores and over a
thousand dry goods and department
stores rs to their methods Of delivery,
its cost and the waste of men and
material implied.
AS result the Board estimates
that the dry goods and department
and grocery stores Of the country EN-.
ploy over two hundred thousand de-
liverymen. 1t was found in the City
of Washington that four per cent. Of
the gross sales of food is absorbed In
its delivery. The Commercial Econ
omy Board finds that similar condi-
tons exist in every other part of the
country. 1t Is estimated that the gross
delivery expense of retail grocers of
the country is over SIS, 100000 a year.
What is this sum used for? It
goes for the hire Of men to put up
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handed him by contributors in his
sector Almost all of his fellow-sol-
diers know a good joke, or they have
heard d bit of news that their friends
should know. Then the man, acting
as editor. illustrator. designer and
printer, lays out his pages and copies
the letterpress in clear hand and
traces the pictures on a frame OF
gelatine, after which he carefully pulls
or the Impressions The edition is
necessarily small one. Fifty copies
offer no difficulties, but after that
number is reached, the impressions
become faint and blurred. It Is be-
cause of this that big Calculations
cannot be encouraged.
But in not all OF these chronicles
OF the trenches are the difficulties Of
production SO great. Some of tho
journals are issued from small print.
ing press, which is allowed n place in
the company wagon or the troop
train. Other journals. again, emanate
from the towns and villages farther
removed from the firing line. These
are very dignified and professional pa
pers in comparison. with half-tone
illustrations. display headlines and
parodies Of popular advertisements.
OF these journals every impression is
easy to read, and there is no limit
placed on their circulation. But they
do not possess the quaintncss and
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HON eliness of their elementary con-
temporaries.
It Is very difficult to make extracts
from the trench journals Of the
French soldiers. The simple prayers,
little nature poems, editorial asides
and such-like features that are scat
tered through their pages. no less
than the strokes Of humor hardly
bear transplanting. A specimen or
two may serve to give an idea of
their contents. The following appears
in the "agony column" of lie Canard
Poilu":
Lost, on Sunday last, at the Cafe
Richie. in Paris. by a soldier of leave,
n flea of medium build, dark chestnut
color wearing round his neck a little
aluminium collar. on which Is printed
the name of the owner. Any one re-
turning this faithful insect-which is
n remarkable specimen and which an.
.wers to the name Of Bijou--to Polyte
Jutubier, bomber in--of infantry. Sec
ton N, Trench A. dugout f, will be
rewarded with a tin Of bully beef"
The following Is from lie Poilu:"
III during a lull in the battle of
verdun you md a paper of the day
beforc yesterday and are struck by
mi. naring advertisement - The
riviera. Season 1sl6-1s17. Nice.
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helping the public save the Nations
wool and other everyday comm obi.
ties number six. The Chairman of
the Board is A. w. Shaw, of Chicago,
a publisher Of business books and
magazines.
The other members are Wallace D.
Simmons, Of st. Louis; e. F. Gay,
Professor of Economics ut Harvard
and dean of the Harvard graduate
school of business administration f:
George Rublee. former member of tn
Federal Trade Commission and n
member of the Eight-Hour Commits
sion. and Henry s. Dennison. of Franz
ingham, Mass. DR.. Hollis Godfrey,
president OF the Drexel Institute, and
a member of the Advisory Commission
Of the Council of National Defense is
an ex-officio member of the CONNER.
cial Economy Board. The secretary
of the board is DR.. Melvin T. Cope
land.
Board Works On Broad And Advanced
Lines.
In talk concerning the methods
of the boards operations Mr.. Shaw
said:
1.-THE problem of the Commercial
Economy Board is quite as much with
the future as with the present. In
deed, our task is to plan ahead; to
keep in advance of needs and COM
modities of the moment, so that when
the time comes for action we shall
better understood what requires to be
done and stand fully prepared to do Il.
1.-THE Board is at all times carving
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shown tho Frenchman's love of peace,
his love Of home life and the love of
his country.
The story of how the trench journal
is produced Is an interesting tale in
itself. For instance, a company of
soldiers arrive back of the lines from
duty in the trenches. They are quar-.
tered in an old, shell-rddled barn.
Flinging themselves down, the men
satisfy hunger and thirst. and then one
by one drop off to sleep. All except
one man. He squats in a corner of
the barn, busy at something by the
aid of a candle-quite against the
regulations. He is the editor of a
trench journal. such a one as "le Ga.
fouilleur" perhaps. or lie Mouchoir."
Outside the barn the din of shell.fire
continues. Explosions far away or
nearby do not interrupt the soldier at
his work. His only menace is a stray
bit OF equipment flung at his lighted
candle by comrade, who says the
light Is shining in his eyes and he
wants to sleep. II the aim IL good,
the candle Is relighted and the edi.
torial labors continue.
Tho French Editor At Work.
The editor selccts tho articles for
publication from the many good things
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on Investigations in various directions,
gathering facts and statistics relating
10 labor and material to meet contin.
gencies as they come about. We make
every effort to find out where labor
and material may be saved, and we
are accordingly obliged to work fore
handedly to be of real service. We
take each proposition as it comes, and
going back to its source work down
the line, showing where the non-essen-
tials may be eliminated in the interest
Of effectuhl and economic distribution
Of commodities--that Is part of our
problem"
The first work undertaken by the
Commercial Economy Board last
spring had to do with the conservation
of flour. 1t had long been known that
there was an enormous waste in
bread, and it did not take the Board
long to find out that the leak oc-
CURED on the retailers shelves, which
were daily storing far more bread
than they sold. This meant that the
bakers who were supplying them were
baking far more than they regularly
sold to families.
The Boards investigators found that
the retailers were privileged to return
to the bakers the unsold bread, who
went to the trouble of making daily
collections of it. This leftover bread.
which represented four per cent. of
all baked. was sold at reduced price
to those who went for 1t to the bak
crs; but far the greater proportion
Of it was sold to farmers to feed their
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packages, to run the number of
wagons and trucks required to put
them at the househ older's door, not
once but many times a day. Natural.
~ 1t costs more to deliver some things
than others. Ice, bread, milk and ice
cream were the commodities which, 1t
was found. cost Washington most
"Rcturn" Privilege In Stores
Expensive.
Another costly non.essential service
found by the Commercial Economy
Board in its Investigations was the
return goods privilege of the dry goods
department stores. Its Investigations
In one store discovered that the aver.
age cost in that store Of delivering
package was 25 cents, and it also
found that rs per cent. of the goods
sold were returned. Investigations
made in a typical store showed that
Of annual sales amounting to $4,000.
600, the returns amounting to 20 per
cent. of the sales involved an extra
expense Of $4,000 in the office, $20,.
900 in the packing and $4,000 in
delivery.
In their conferences with the mer.
chants the Board has recommended
that the practice of returning be
severely curtailed in the interest of
material, labor and equipment. It
has also recommended that retail de-
livery Of groceries and Of dry goods
and of other necessities be generally
reduced to one delivery a day, and
that special deliveries" be stopped
entirely. These recommendations are
very generally being put into effect in
many localities.
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pigs and chickens And this condition
was in vogue, despite the wall about
the high cost of living until last spring
when the Commercial Economy Board
took 1t in hand.
NoRcturn System For Bakers Bread.
1t is a very interesting fact that
among the people most interested in
the Investigations were the bakers and
retailers themselves. 1t was not by
their wish that this waste existed, but
was result of competition and accom-.
mediation to the public demand
Through mutual conferences between
bakers, retailers and the Commercial
Economy Board. a no-return system
has been established throughout the
country, and this prolific source of
bread-waste has been remedied.
The Commercial Economy Board is
about to be housed in the new build.
ing, now nearing completion. for the
Council Of National Defense. When
the interviewer called at its headouar-
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trations-and there will be great
many of them-are made by the art
lists Of the division, and they describe
funny incidents of camp life, peculiar
predicaments of their fellow-soldiers,
etc. All sorts of reading matter are
selected for the journal. after being
passed by the editors, and an adver.
Using staff has also been selected.
The "Camouheur." in its first issue.
has this to say regarding itself and
the men who produced the paper:
I'VE are the camoufeurs, the first
of our breed in this land. At the
age of less than two months we are
already father of an offspring which,
1t is claimed. can speak for itself.
That sounds like rather speedy ma.
turity; yet the 'Camouheur' editors
insist that we have become the proud
parent OF camoufage newspaper
which, while 1t may not look like a
newspaper, will. nevertheless, have
the secret Of journalism tucked away
in its warm insides. In such a happy
estate, they request US to help feed
the child and teach 1t to say its Papa
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The Commercial Economy Board Is
deeply interested at this time in the
| cooperative delivery system, and a
study of the subject made several
months ago has shown that such sys.
TENS have commonly saved from 40
per cent. to so per cent. in investment
and operating costs as compared with
the individual systems replaced.
Women Help In The Big Work.
One of the main allies of the Com.
mercial Economy Board, in the dis.
semination Of its information, so far
as 1t affects the people, Is the Woman's
Committee of the Council Of National
Defense. This committee has since
its creation, followed up the recon.
mendations Of the Board by exhorta-
lions to the women Of the country to
do their part in the matter.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, chairman
Of the Woman's Committee, and Miss
Ida NJ. Tarbell, an able member Of the
committee, have sent innumerable
messages down through the ranks of
the women's organizations Of the
country to every housekeeper in the
Land, urging them to heed the call to
conserve wool that the soldiers In the
trenches may not suffer for its lack.
These women have asked them to
take heed to the waste in bread, espe-
cially by taking note that the retailer
keeps no undue surplus on his shelves,
and they implore women to consider
how they may save the men who have
been delivering their daily commodi-
ties, not once, but many times a day
in order that those men may go to
the front, or to the making of NUM-
lions, or to shipbuilding. or to agricul.
ture-where the need is far greater
than the supply!
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the French were first to show the
need of a newspaper for the fighting
men. The poilu in the trenches was
lost without his illustrated papers
from Paris, and these came few and
far between. They were usually sew.
eral months old when they reached
him. and their value for the news
they contained did not amount to
much. Now, there Is even nothing in
the British Army quite like the
Trench Journal of the poilu. Nothing
Is so intimately connected with the
stark actually of warfare, nothing SO
poignant in its realism of a nation
in the supreme ordeal of battle. A
great many of the British newspapers
published for the soldiers are printed
in the tranquility of an uninvaded
countryside. designed principally to
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Column Heading From The "Camou.
hcur."

Column Heading From The "Camou-
hcur."
the performance. But as ne turned
away, he was forced to remark: The
blooming thing Is out of tune
1--WE are bound to grow like one Of
these men: SO we can do no better
than to let the 'Camoufieur' make our
choice"
Many Of the illustrations OF the
"Camoufeur" are drawn by well
known American artists who have
Joined the force. and 1t will. there
fore, probably be the best illustrated
of all the camp and trench journals
OF the American fighting forces The
first edition Of the paper contained
eight pages. but 1t will probably be
enlarged as time goes on and it, cir.
o'alation grow larger.
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Editors Show Trench Life As 1t Really Is = "The
Camoufleur' and Trench and Camp, Two
Newspapers of American Soldiers.

ter being done by q city newspaper.
The first idea was to confine the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the camp.
but this has developed to such an
extent that it will probably have a
nationwide circulation. and 1t may go
into the trenches abroad. Members
Of the camouflage division-some-
where around five hundred in number
AFRO nearly all college men, and
many are prominent artists and writ
ers Their paper should become al.
most a model for other trench and
camp newspapers. All OF the illus.
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ganizaiion Which Aims
ToHelp Both Producer
and Consumer SCOPE
of the Boards Work =
Great Savings Effected
In Commodities.
Copyright, 1917. by The international
Syndicate.

Syndicate.
~ NE of the departments of the
'ouncil of National Defense tina,
increasingly and untiringly on
~ its LOB" Is the Commercial
Economy Board. That Job" is by no
means an easy one, its object being
to make the way of the peoples sacri.
flee for liberty easier for both the
producer and the consumer-especial.
ly the consumer.
war means sacrifice, real sacrifice,
and the man or the woman who shirks
sacrifice for the war is a Stacker in
every sense Of the word. The Com
mercial Economy Board, however. is
making 1t its business to make those
SACRIFICES as light and gradual as pos
sible. especially for the public.
Saving Wool Supply At The Source.
10 effect saving in wool the Com.
mercial Economy Board. as early as
last spring, Immediately after its or
ganization, indeed, began treating, not
with the man in the street, asking
MIN to buy only one or two suits a
season; neither with the woman, ask.
Ing her to restrict her purchases. or
TO buy anything different from what
She ordinarily has bought; but it has
gone to the root and source of the
clothing supply. 1t has taken the
matter up with the garment manu-
kacturers, the wooden and worsted
weaVers and the makers of styles.
AS a result, there have been certain
notifications of styles in the garments
that are reaching the consumer of
1918. skirts little less full perhaps
on women's clothes, fewer patch
pockets and belts on mems coats, and
so Generalization so carefully
planned by manufacturers and style.
makers that the average person will
scarcely notice the difference. But
the result will be material conserva.
ton of WOOL
The group of men who were chosen
to make the war burdens easier by
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and Mama with volubility and per.
sistency.
whatever makes for our self.
satisfaction and assurance in our
work. whatever aids to our cheerful.
ness towards one another in our play,
is bound to add to our efficiency in fad.
ing our army from the eyes Of the
bewildered Hun. We have troubles
and plenty in store. The 'Camou.
fleur' will help US remember that and
continue to laugh.
mot long ago a novelist, so we'll
known as to be very seriously minded.
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the boundary of his cantonment. From
this need has sprung the camp news
paper-or rather, half newspaper and
half magazine-from which may be
CLEANED the news of the world in gen.
eral and a single camp in particular.
The camp journal. although new to
war. has arrived to stay; 1t will be
welcomed in all the great canton.
ments and even in the trenches
abroad, where it will also be published
for Uncle Sans fighting men.
Ono of the earliest camp journals
in the country was started at Camp
Meade, between Washington. d. c.,
and Baltimore. where 1t Is issued
weekly to the men Of the National
Army. 1t Is called the Trench and
Camp" and Is printed for the Y. M.
c. A., by courtesy of a newspaper in
! nearby city. The first page of the
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How They Are Published The Trench Journals of
the French Written and Printed While the
Shells Scream Overhead

journal gives the information that 1t
contains Army news for Army men
and their home folks" Each issue Is
profusely illustrated, in many cases
with special pictures drawn by ma
tionally known artists who have con.
tributed their services to the cause.
Another camp has selected the
name, 1.-THE Fighter" for its news
paper. A great deal of the work of
getting out the newspapers falls upon
members of the National Army them
selves. in most instances upon the
shoulders of newspaper men who have
been called to the colors. 1t is a
chance for the Cub reporter" to be-
come an actual editor and show what
he would do with newspaper:
Trench Journals OF French.
In the early days of the great war.
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foolscap sheet OF from two to eight
pages to several times that size. Some
are printed in orthodox style. others
are but impressions in various degrees
Of clearness. But the papers have one
characteristic in common; they show
an intense realization of war. In all
the trench journals Of the French is
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OF LONG AFTER the first men
selected for the new National
Army arrived in the various
- camps, it was shown that there
should be some method of disseminate.
ing news TO the soldiers. Thousands
of the boys, hitherto always in touch
with current events, were placed out
of range of the newspapers. Even
the great war, into which they had
entered, seemed at a greater distance;
a large part Of the news they received
was secondhand and old by the time
it reached them.
OF course, the soldier was mainly
interested in his new environment, his
fellow soldiers and their doings, but
he was also in need of news from the
outside world. He required a knowl.
edge Of what was going on outside
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would you give the gentle lady critic ?"
The "CamOuflcur."
One Of the very newest things in
the line of a camp newspaper in Amer
lea Is the "Camoufieur." published
by the camoufiage section of the
Twenty-ffth Engineers, in camp near
Washington, d. c. The plans for this
weekly were recently drawn up. artists
and editors assigned and arrange
ments made for the printing. the lat.
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visited a raw. shell-pitted spot in the
Flanders trenches. where an ingenious
Frenchman had set up an octave or
so Of claret bottles. filed with various
amounts Of water. in such q manner
that he could make shift at playing
the 'MarseiIlaise' ON them.
THE novelist gave patient heed to
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relieve the boredom of men in train.
ing and provide them with light
amusement in their hours of relaxa-
ton.
But the war journals of the French
are very different. They vary in many
respects, ranging in size from a plain
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IN MEAlORLAM

Whereas. h.. pleased the War Department. In its insn
the members q this command did appear At ali time.
We did appear were greeted with and .stonhment
hereby appreciation and
Of these copy of these resouons
be their relatives In the National Museum
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~ NE OF the departments of the
'ouncil of National Defense tha
increasingly and untiringly OF
~ its lob" Is thu Com rnnrnin
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