The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-18
War Department Tells of Classes of Workers
 Are Needed for Service.
AND HOW TO ENLIST
Many Classes of Mechan- ics Are Needed, and a Few StenographerS
 for Office Work.

Engineers, the Lumbermen's Regi ment, needs quick for immediate ser vice in France 5000 experienced woodsmen and lumbermen:
 For Woods Work
 Woods bosses, woods sawyers woods filers, logging teamsters, tol loaders, saddlers, wagoners, skidder men, blacksmiths, gasoline motor truck drivers, gasoline motor tractor drivers, gasoline motor repair meE stationary engineers, stationary firemen, log scalers, tie hackers pole and piling men, charcoal burn CTS, cooks, woods laborers. For Logging Railroads Track bosses, track men, locomo tive engineers, locomotive firemen brakemen. machinists, laborers. For Saw Mills
 Sawmill foremen, construction mill Nvrights, operating millwrights, ma chinists, sawyers, filers (circular and inserted tooth only) carriage men edgermen, trimmer men, stationary engineers, stationary firemen boiler makers, gasoline truck drivers, gas 0line tractor operators, gasoline mo tor repair men, cooks, mill and yard laborers.
 1 Also few all around blaming mill mechanics, and few stenograpkers experienced in sawmill office work
 Their Organization and Work | The Twentieth Engineers, the larg est regiment in the world, known as the Lumbermens Regiment, consists of 7,500 men, divided into ten bat talions of 750 men each-each bat talion divided into three companies of 250 men each.
 Their work will be in France where they will convert forests into the various requirements of the En gineering Corps of the United States among which are sawn and hewn ties, bridge timbers, bling. telephone 1 poles, trench blanks, pit props, lum l Ter for cantonments and hospitals firewood charcoal, etc.
 Officers-How Selected
 
 l Through the cooperative work oi the Lumbermen's Committee, the 1 Forestry Bureau, and the Chief oi i Engineers Office of the War De l.partment, all of the commissioned of ficers of this regiment have been l elected from the various numbering districts of the United States, with special regard to their practical ex 1 rerience as woodsmen, logging rail road builders, and operators, and sawmill operators.
 1 Office experience, and experience 1 in the wholesale selling of lumber has not qualified men for selection as officers, nor will it qaulity men as 1 privates, or for consideration as non commissioned officers in the 20th En gineers.
 Years of practical experience as 1 woodsmen or saw mill men is abso l lately necessary. The quota of men with technical forestry experience has been filled. | Other Provisions | Ablebodied white men, not subjec: to draft, IS to 21 and 31 to 40 citizens of the United States, with experience as woodsmen or sawmill employees, or any of the classes oi work specified heretofore, can en list at any United States recruiting ! station for service in the goth en gineers. The recruiting office will l forward them to concentration camp. where they will be outfitted and sent to regimental headquarters of the goth engineers, at Camp American University, Washington, b lC.
 1 Ablebodied white men, subject to draft, between the ages of 21 and 31 can be inducted into the goth En gineers under the selective service law, provided their number is so low that they do not come within the current quota of their focal board.
 The local board will furnish all transportation as provided in section | TO, Selective service regulations, and with meal tickets covering travel to regimental headquarters, 20th Engin eers, Camp American University, al Washington, D. c.
 F However, men subject to drafl must obtain permission to enlist III the goth Engineers, and this per mission is granted only to men who are QAaalified by reason of experience in woods or sawnill work or the oth CT branches of work specified above
 Men who consider themselves qual flied and desiring to enlist in the Lumbermen's units of the goth En gineers. should wire or write Ma i jor c. E. Clark. office of the Chiei of Engineers. Room 25. War Depart ment, Washington D. C.. advising their age, full name and address number of years experience in woods, sawmiIl or other classes of work specified heretofore. also class of work they are best qualified to per form.
 Upon receipt of this telegram or letter-if applicant properly quail