The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-22

CARNATIONS on the Post.
In between the training and
other posters designed to edu-
cate, it gets out a miscellany of
display announcements of pro-
grams and entertainments at Fort
Huachuca. Although the Silk Screen
Shop is under the sponsorship of
the Special Service Divisions Edu-
cation Office and supervised by Mr..
Lew Davis, well-known artist. three
men are directly responsible for the
splendid poster art that is widely
displayed throughout the Fort.
Pvt. George A. Everett, of Brook
lyn, NY, is outstanding among
these three men. Acting sergeant
in charge of the Silk Screen Shop,
Pvt. Everett was the only Negro silk
screen process man in New York
City where he worked with the Cen
trail Display service for four years.
An au-arOUnd pTOceSSer, he is cap
able Of doing the whole silk screen
job. However, under his tutelage,
the other two men, Pvt. William I.
Scales Of Baldwin, Miss, and Pvt.
Charlie w. Evans of New Rochelle,
NY. have become quite proficient
in certain phases of silk screen
work
Should you be inclined to under
estimate the work of the Silk Screen
Shop, trip to the work rooms in
the rear of the Special Service
Building, Barrack No. IT, would soon
convince you of the error of your
thinking:
The artists design for poster
display is turned over to Pvt. Ever
EFT, who cuts the design on a mate
rial called profilm. A separate sheet
must be cut for each color in the de-
sign, stencil knives being used for
the task. The profilm sheets are
then adhered to silk stretched on a
frame (hence the term silk Screen).
This business of adhering the pro-
film sheets to the silk screen is in
itself skil1ful process, because if
more than one color is used, each
section of the colored design must
fall in the right places.
The next process is to squeeze
color through the silk onto the post
er cards laid underneath. Pvt.
Scales, who performs the business of
squeezing paints, is known as the
Squeeze" operator After one color
is applied, the screen is cleaned and
the next color is applied until all
colorS in the design are on. If more
tina none color is used each screen
must be carefully applied so that
each color will fall in the right
place.
The silk screen process is a deli
cate one, requiring definite artistic
precision and skillful blending Of
colors.
In a one-color run it is possible
to complete $50 posters in one hour.
The length of time required to get
out job depends largely upon the
intricacy of the design and the num-
ber of colors used.
Pvt. Evans is pickup man in the
Silk Screen Shop, his job being to
take the completed poster cards out
of the press and stack them in the
drying rack. He also keeps the paint
in condition.
OullcIlG1S, IIlS Sllop ID OS1IIS ou~
pervised by Lew Davis, nationally
famous artist and painter of mur-
ais, who is responsible for much Of
the poster designs which are exc
cuted by the Silk Sreen Shop trio.
Before Mr.. Davis coming on the
scene, however, a great many of the
poster displays were executed (and
still are) by WAC Sgt. Anna r. Rus
sell and the poster jobs were pro-
duced by Everett, Scales and Evans
by direct arrangement between the
Silk Screen Shop and organizations
desiring poster publicity.