The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-01
TRADESNEN NEEDED
IN SIGNAL CO1IP s
WILL BE ACCEPTED, ALTHOUGH
REGISTERED, If QUALIFIED
ALONG CERTAIN LiE--S.
BOOKS FOR OUR FIGHTERS

More Than Half Million Already
h Furnished Soldiers and Sailors by
American Library Association
What the Hat Cord Denotes.
From Committee on Public Information.)
ashington.-Men qualified along
/ in lines, although registered I'M
he selective-service law, may be
Ted into the land division Of the
bl Corps, which is in need Of men
the following duties:
ghauffeurS, motorcycle drivers, and
Us engine repairmen for duty in field
Egnd telegraph battalions; telegraph
yers, 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 ap-
paratus; men qualified as cooks,
clerks, stenographers, blacksmiths,
meteorologists, cobblers, cable men,
etc.
Men inducted for this division, un-
less otherwise requested by the chief
signal officer Of the army, are sent to
Fort Leayenworth, Kan.
: More than half q 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 S1,5OOO00 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 25c men.
For the men in France the associa-
ton has organized distributing sta
tions at all points of embarkation,
where books are assorted for shipment
abroad. Soon every soldier who steps
on transport will carry book with
him, which he and his companions Will
read on the way across, after which 1t
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-
tiyes there TO supervise the work Of
distribution.
Just as the sleeve chevrons and
bars, stars and eagles on the Shoul-
der proclaims ranking officers, the hat
cord denotes che 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 1.42S,650 enlisted men
and 110,S65 officers in the United
States army at the opening Of 1913,
more than one and half times as
large as any force ever before mo-
bilized by this nation. according to
a statement by secre8ry Of War
Baker. -
DuHng the war with Spain the army
of the United States at it's maximum
SCF0uSlu dSS1SSdlCC St@,OSV AaSS& ohA
officers. The army In the field and in
training now is practically six times
as great as the maximum number un-
der arms in the Spanish-American war.
About $4,000 officers were commis-
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-
eept for shipment to members of ex-
peditionary forces packages contain
ing matches, cigar lighters, or solidified
alcohol, including the preparation cali
ed "Sterno" or Gained heat.
It is not deemed safe to admit these
articles to mails for foreign countries