The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-08-11

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1t is not likely that this army camp
will be kept in the service, although.
Of course, there is a possibility that
1t may be. About a year ago the writer
of this was at Chillicothe, and he
asked the commanding officer what his
chief duties We're. His answer was,
keeping a lookout for fire"
1t is said that the Chillicothe camp.
which is a fair sample of the other
camps, cost the government about 500
100000. If the material used for the
| buildings, now more or less decrepit,
is to be sold, how much money will
Uncle Sam get for 1t? ASK the same
/ question about other cantonments and
| YOU have the multiplied problem now
confronting the War department for
solution.
Some May Be Used for Reserves.
At nearly all the cantonments there
are some buildings which We're built
with a view to permanent or at any
rate to semi-permaneut, use. These
buildings may be saEed, and IL is pos
sible that many of the environments
may be used for the purposes of train
ing the reserves, or for TIE annual en-
equipments of the National Guard out
fits, or for service schools of some Kind
vet to be determined OF course not
all the environments so can be used
Some of them must be dSmantled and f.,
| sold.
Army authorities are approaching
the problem with misgiyings. Why? Be
cause there is not cautonment In the
United States apparently which the
people of the immediate vicinity wish
| to see given over to the auction block.
Efforts are being made by the resi-
/ dents of various sections of the coun-
| try to secure the retention of their
particular pet cautonmeut. Senators
and representatives are busy in this
matter.
The United States is to have an
army of only 15O,OOO, just about
enough to look after our non-contlgu-
Gus possessions in a half defensive
way with remainder of troops sutti-
Client to do some police duty in the
United States and, of course, to give
our coast batteries enough men to do
Il little something toward managing
the guns
This cutting down is good policy
/ from the point Of view Of people who
( think that there are to he no more
wars mon even rumors of wars, but
from the point of view of the other
great body Of American citizens who
/ believe i'm certain amount Of prepar-
odness the cutting down of the army
is something rather far from jusudable.
Girl Scouts Study Birds.
In the course Of one Of their week
end outings on the navy yacht May
flower, the President ana Mrs Hard
ing showed an active interest in the
girl scout movement of America by a
visit to one of the girls summer camps
on the headwaters of Chesapeake bay
at the mouth of the Gunpowder river
Mrs. Harding is an official, or at any
rate an honorary official of the girl
scouts Her interest in the work is
keen and therefore as is usually the
case in American domestic life, the
husbands interest is also keen.
ON Maryland peninsula, one side OF
which is washed by the Gunpowder
river, the government maintains its
great chemical warfare service plant
The place is known as Edgewood ar
senal The work Is under the direc-
! ton of Brig Gen Amos Fries, chief
| Of the chemical warfare service, whose
| headquarters are in Washington; while
the First Gas regiment stationed at
! Edgewood is under the command OF
| Mai. +. j. AtlisSou, who was the col
onel of the First Gas regiment in
! France when his present chief was
Of the chemical warfare service.
General Fries turned over 10 the
girls scouts Il fine camping site be-
tween the woods and the beach on the
elevation Of the peninsula CLOSE 70 the
mouth Of the GunpoWder river, Mrs.
| Fries IS closely associated with the
work of the girl scouts, and one OF
her daughters is member Of the
present camping party.
To get right into the middle Ct
things, | was asked to go 70 the camp
Of the Washington girl scouts to lead
a class Of them into the fields and
woods for the purpose Of bird study.
/ / never had been near a girl scouts
camp before. 1 have seen one NOW
at close range. and know the interest
the children take n Woudcraft and in
nature und the helpfulness which is
mculcatcd and / know the thing Is
/ good
took about dozen Of the girls
/ on tramp along the edges of the
woods and along the country roads.
lordored by the tangled thlckets which
I buure>scd the fences Somebody must
have been doing good nature work,
| either i'm the homes or the schools, FOR
/ / found q basic knowledge Of bird life
already In the mInds of these girl
scouts II never has hurt any child. to
hc led into the field of appreciation of
the appeal Ok nature. In the course
of a tramp Of am hour and % half We
saw twenty-five species Of American
birds, some Of them of appealing ard
curious interest
The scouts were particularly inter
psted I'm the nests II the barn swal-
lows Why? Because the homes OF
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