Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-10
AMERICAN CHILDREN
 ASKED TO ENLIST ID SAVE MEN FROM GAS
BOY SCOUTS AND CAMP FIRE GIRLS AS WELL AS OTHER CHILDREN OF NATION ASKED TO GATHER FRUIT PITS AND SHELLS OF NUTS

NEW YORK, Nov. 9-Every boy and girl in this country is again asked by
 the United States government to help
 save American soldiers from the hor-
 TOTS of German gas The chemical war
 fare division of the army has urged them to gather every walnut, hickory
 nut and butter nut in the woods about their homes this fall to help make gas masks for the American troops in
 France. It is from the shells of these nuts that the charcoal for gas-masks come for the next six months or more. There is said to be a ready and prof itable market for the nutmeats, mak- ing it practicable to turn the shells in to the government immediately. 1 Whole nuts can also be used. For col
 lection purposes the Red Cross has ar ranged 160 collection centers through
 the country for the concentration of shells. They will be shipped from
 these points in carload to the govern ment carbon plants at New York and San Francisco.
 The Boy Scouts have enlisted the aid of their 442,000 young members in this work, as have the Camp Fire Girls. Through the department of ag- riculture all county agents of that de- | partment will organize nutting parties. i In addition every school is urged to arouse the interest of its pupils and to
 encourage nut gathering in every spare moments of the pupils time.
 The aid of the young people will be absolutely necessary to supply the 100000 pounds of shells and fruit stones that the government prOduc- | tion schedule calls for The govern ment cannot buy more than one-third | the necessary shells at present. In
 fact, they declare, that the shells of | all the cOcoanuts grown in the West
 Indies and Central America, if they could be obtained, would not fill the needs They are making arrangements to get the shell from the East Indies, | but it will be months before this plan can be put into cooperation. In the
 meanwhile they must mix the avail
 able shell charcoal with wood char
 coal This is not to the best interest
 of the men because the wood charcoal | settlers, making breath difficult, and | it has not the absorptive qualities i of shell charcoal.
 The people, because of the small
 ness of the task asked of them, failed ' to realize it's importance and did not 1 respond well to the appeal made dur | ing the fruit season. What the help i of each person means is shown by the
 fact that two peach stones or two i large nuts turned in each day by each person in the nation would supply the needs. It is hoped, however, that no one will hold to this schedule as there will be many minimizing persons quota to fill. O.. Gas barrages for some time have been one of the principal factors in
 German warfare. Their mustard gas, with it's horrible after affects, is one
 of the worst atrocities of the war. 1 Even now, in their retreat, the Ger mans are using a nOn-eXplOding, per
 forated gas shell which they fire into
 marsh lands and which makes the en-
 tire district into which they are
 thrown a section of death" for days
 afterward.
 This can all be successfully combat.
 ted if Americans will turn in their
 hickory. brazil. walnut and butter nut
 shells and peach. apricot, prune, plum, olive, date and cherry stones. for gas
 masks for American soldiers.