The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-01-01
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FOR THE SOLDIERS
PRESENTS THAT WILL ENABLE
MEN IN CAMPS TO SEE HIGH
GRADE PRODUCTIONS.
PLANS OF THEATRICAL MEN

PLANS OF THEATRICAL MEN
Secretary Lane Reviews the Develop
ment of the Science OF War-PuSl!c
Lands to Be Opened for Cultivation
in 1918.
Washinstop.-Thes sale Of 'fsniies5e
books. to be presented to men Ut army
camps and cantonments, Is DeAn2 -
ranged by 8 subcommittee OF Sha war
department commission on training
camp activities. At each OF the l6 Ma
uUual army environments the&tef h;1S
been erected which seats 3,UOO ueh.
Marc KlaW, Of Klaw & Erianger Il
member Of the commission, has ar
ranged for four companies OF the
brightest theatrical stars to pay
"Chcatins Cheaters, Inside lhe
Lines" Turn to the Right, and "ilere
CoLcs The Driue"-;.!l big successes
last year in New Iorli. lie has a:So
planned 10 have four &C ~'p&nies OF th"
highest-grade yaudeyil performers
play ut these theeters.
at National Guard camps large chau-
tauqua tents. with seating capacity OF
froll 1900 t. 1000, have been put up,
ard frst-class vaudeville Is being pre-
Senled.
The expense Of operating this cir
cult of CT theaters is met by admis-
sion charges which run from 10 to 20
cents.
"Smileage" books contain 20 or 100
Scent coupons, which may be pur-
chased by anyone for 81 or $5, respec-
lively, and sent to soldier friend at
the camp. The coupons will be eX-
changed at the box office for admiS-
sion tickets. Sending man smile
age" boon is equivalent to giving him
passes to from 10 to 50 performances
of VGriO ,ls kinds.
Included in the recent annual report
of Secretary Franklin X. Lane IS the
following:
When the bureau of mines was Gre
ated b. congress five years ago it was
hardly to have been imagined that the
methods used for the saving Of life in
the coal mines ef The United States
would become Of vital use In the prob
lem Of saving lives and destroying lives
in q world way; yet this is just Taat
has happened
The solcier's kit, which was 20 SIN
pie thlcS in other WARE, has had to
be increased by 8 gas mask not unlike
the helmet Of a aeep-ssa dvsg, with
box Of chemicals adapted for odsetting
the effects Of the various kinds ct gas
the enemy Ia known to use.
when we came into the war we
found ourselves prepared with the
knowledge, the machinery, and the men
to promptly meet the need Of gas
masks in great quantity ard OF a su-
perior type. Thus the men who had
been on this work Of meeting the gases
compounded In ma, .lre's laboratory
were found to have reserve OF knowl-
edge as to what gases will kill and
what will choke and what will burn
and what will hasten disease which
in war of cumulative frightfufness
would make the United States modest
" distinguished If it wished 10 SO
shine. AS one Of the group said:
1--WE chemists in America have new
er turned cur minds to the destruction
of human hfe. Our work has been con-
structive-the chemistry Of the soil,
Of cement, Of printers ink, OF tho by
products from petroleum and tar, Of
10000 things which will make for
longer, happier life for man. But II
the world is to be turned upside down
and instead OF staying death and d.
sease and making new things that man
can use for his own ennoble1nent we
are wanted to push forward the work
of the destruction Of man and all his
works we can become rivals OF tho
worst IN Such enterprise.
"This Is not the time to present the
things done and the things doing by
these men OF the necromantic science,
but when the day comes for casting up
accounts and giving credit their work
will not 90 unrecognized."
Hundreds Of thousands of acres Of
lands in the United States, hitherto
untitled, may be placed under cultiva-
ton during 1918.
An inquiry by the department Of the
interior shows that approximately 600.-
600 acres on various reclamation pro-
iects and an area Of indian lands al
most rs large are susceptible OF cult