The Tomahawk., 1918-01-31
TRADESnEN NEEDED
IN SIGNAL CORPS
WILL BE ACCEPTED, ALTHOUGH
REGISTERED, IF QUALIFIED
ALONG CERTAIN LINES.
BOOKS FOR OUR FIGHTERS

Adoro Than Half a Million Already
Furnished Soldiers and Sailors by
American Library Association
What the Hat Cord Denotes.
g-<From Committee on Public Information)
Washington.-Men qualified along
certain lines, although registered I'M
der the selective-service law, may be
indicted into the land division of the
r Signal Corps, which is in need of men
for the following duties:
Chauffeurs, motorcycle drivers, and
gas engine repairmen for duty in field
and telegraph battalions; telegraph
ers, 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 indicted for this division, I'M
less otherwise requested by the chief
signal officer Of the army, are sent to
Fort Leavenworth, 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 $1,5OO,OO0 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 100000 for the
I 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 $50 men.
Z For the men in France the associa-
{ ton has organized distributing sta
lions at all points Of embarkatlon
; 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 It
will he forwarded to the men back or
the trenches. No attempt Will be made
: TO establish libraries in France, but
the association will have representa-
tiyes there to supervise the work or
distribution.
Just as the sleeve chevrOns and
bars, stars and eagles on the shoul-
der proclaims ranking officers, the nat
cord denotes the branch Of service
each private has entered.
Light blue signifies infantry; scar
let, artillery; yellow, cavalry; bun,
uuartermasters corps; scarlet ana
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
V generals clerk !; green instructor home
.r,,c -ds: green and white. home guards
r,Thfsn cords are worn only on Srrr
ice hats.
Cadet aviators wear as hat bands
inch and half white ribbons and or
coat collars insignia representing the
aviation branch of the Signal corps
propeller blades.
There were 1,42SG5O enlisted mel
and 11O,S65 officers in the United
States army at the opening of 1918
more than one and a half times a.
lnrpe as any force ever before mo
hilized by this nation. according t.
statement by Secretary Of Wa
Baker.
During the war with Spain the arm!
Of the United States at its maximum
strength aggregated $4,000 men an
officers. The army in the field and II
training now is practically six time
as great as the maximum number un
der arms in the Spanish-American wal
About $4,000 officers were commits
stoned from civil life in the two serie
OF training camps, nearly eight time
as many as the number OF oHcers 1
the regular army April l. .917.
Postmasters are directed not to a
cept for shipment to members of e,
Evolutionary forces packages contain
ing matches. cigar lighters. or solidihe
alcohol, including the preparation cal
ed "Sterno" or canned heat.
It is not deemed safe to admit thes
articles to mails for foreign countrie
or for United States naval vessels, II
Guiding marines on shore In other cou'
tries. 5-s.. 1874. ..
Contractors working on orders II
the navy are required to provi'
watchraen and devices to protect the
plants and property and the work
progress against espionage. acts
war and Of enemy aliens Upon 7
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