)- fwSfya VViT^K ^L. r .'-S Iv^pv 85Z^TjfcSfca . I ll 1 flj I Pntf AH IMer Anpwe* < -"1* l ' j 11 Natwnal War Work Cmmco. ' | Y.M.C.A. ?f d? Uoted Stela ivoLi iilELPiiliir I BY COOKING FOR KAISER . School for Cooks and Bakers Being Conducted to Teach | i How and What to Cook. * JfisOne very important part of the fighter's anatomy is his stomach, "therefore Uncle Sam, who is now E* training: a considerable number to lick eXj^the kaiser is seeing to it that the \Otomachs are Jcept In good repair and comfortably filled with well prepared ^fffftlood. To the end that this may be ffc accomplished, the war and navy de; JKLpartments are laying great stress on gXjlhe proper selection and preparation .of food for the soldiers. The mess ^Hoft&ck has come to be regarded as al' Inmost as important a training place for ,tw*ne soiuier as wie una gruuuu ui uii \ get range. "Army cooks are being .trained by experts, as are also the ^: mess sergeants, who have to do with $^the arrangement of the menu and the Purchasing of the food. ?&,-- One of the most interesting spots at jbv Camp Oreene at the present time is aeronautical cooks' and bakers' ^^^Kools, which is being conducted for ie Instruction of the men in the aviate bread used In camp 'is cooked bj camp bakory. 8ergeants Apg&r ^,-Oruder and ^Puclnni are the tnstructors in the bther cooking subjects. Wj. ." The course wMch is given these -jK^ -cook candidates Extends over a pe^yxiod of 90 days. At present the perio< ?Vof daily instruction is only for thlE ^ morning. Later, the period will b< p7>r^*tended to-bust, through the day. The school for mess sergeants also wil !?^>:COntinue through the 90 days. Sclentlflc methods are being taught. There . Will not only be an effort made N-tc ?$*?ach the men how to prepare edible ?pfloods, but a study will be madex Oi KpflOod values and food selection. " "c" l,,u| oiuuciho 6i?uuam *-?*w v?will be given the rank of cook. Theit f'vpay la rated between that of a ser:i, geant and a corporal. They are mer a fine type. Though they may not < . take an active part In the'actual flghtIng at the front, the stamina of the JE* cooks aa a class Was well demonstrated c* in the early days of America's particlJL' pation in the. war, when a number oi tcooks performed valiant servioe in the idefense of a sector that was stormed by the German troops. "soldier families' are given much money bKt ~r~*? ^Cti-Morethan 3,200,000 r/ovemmenl Sfe* checks have been sent out tp- date bj . the bureau of war risk insurance. - Most of these have gone in the form f of'allotment and allowance payment* to the families of the enlisted men in * the army and navy. , The grand total disbursements ol the bureau up to June 10 aggregate Mnore than $98,000,000, of which $97.r'y^ldO.OOO is -for allotments and allow( ances. M?. Checks are gwing forward at the *&&rate of more than 850,000 a month. && -' About 38,000 checks for May allot*iro rfavohlA I** Iiino A ; have already been mailed. KtV Approximately 35,000 are going forward every day. Payments under the war risk ineurance act are being rushed to the v limit %by a force of more than six . tnoMand^employes, working on nigljt ; - Under the terms of *the war 'risk ' insurance act, allotments made from June pay, together with the-government -allowances added thereto, can' T.not be paid untir July. i&i'-.The first checks for June,allotments Jglhd allowances will go forward on WJf?ly. 1, Just as the first May payments on June 1. Under the law, ?BB?e'-pAyments cannot be started any i'Spooner. Relatives of soldiers and sailtf?ors aro urged to remember this fact save themselves unnecessary s Printed Weekly for the T. **'' _ .v'V ?&t (Sftarlxrl Edition for CAMP GR JUNE 21 NEW COMMANDER 0 li' I i 1 5 i ! II COL. L. M. 9 Col. Kennon was a brigadier gener-fl _ al of the national army until a few |1 weeks ago, when he was found, after > undergoing a physical elamination, J to be physically incapable of endur- i ing the heavy strain required of genl i erals under present methods of war- ] fare. He later was returned to his t previous,rank of colonel in the regu- < CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY INVITES SOLDIERS The Christian Endeavor society of i the West Avenue'Plfesbyterian church i extends a cordial Invitation to the sol- i dier members of the Christian En- < de&vor society and their friends to ^ attend the meetings een that Col. Kennon will be comj; p nander of the camp during' its ex" c stence or until transferred. Col. n Kennon is known to be ah enthusiastic t] Ldvocate of good roads, and is a strict c lisciplinarian. ti ======== G DETENTION CAMP ATHLETICS. fi a x Interest In all forms of athletics Is fi trery keen ajrlhe Camp Greene deten- & tion camp. An athletic committee n composed of Messrs. Peterson, Comp- ? ton,;Tewell. White and Wolf was reuently appointed, whose duty it will t*e Lt> maintain and direct the activities at this camp. A strong baseball c team was organized some time since, a md it has met and defeated a num- t] t>er of the strong teams in camp. T Captain McGeehan, who is the ath- ? letic and welfare officer at the deten- ? lion camp, is greatly Interested in all rorms of sport. (By the way, Captain e McGeehan was in private life the b sporting editor of The New York Tribune), One kind of exercise that the ? men of this camp get is quite unique 0 In military circles. As was stated g some time since in Trench and Camp, \ 'arming operations on rather an ex* ti teilSIve scale are carried on by the c soldiers. The work on the farm not ft Dnly furnishes good -exercise for the F men', but they are aiding materially E in the production of the food which C they .will consume. . r ir ARMY NEWS I | VI FOR ARMY MEN J? A THEIR HOME FOLKS | N?. 38 in/j| lOUFLAGE UNIT IRS , ISff -5 INTERESTING HISTORY pjl ^ omprises Men Who in Private m uj ffl J] Life Were Painters, Sculptors, an mW Etc.?Pioneer Organization. Camp Greene now houses what is. I ^ erhaps one of the most unique bodies \ M f men in the army service today in ||| te CamouflaRe unit, which recently RI uflhI rrived from Waco, Tex. The personel comprises men who in eivU life ^TOTVTp^H V ere artirts, cartoonists, scene p~aintrs. stage directors, moving picture R irectors, sculptors, architects, land- m>f\\ Ihwl :ape ffardeners, mining men. news- ft" 7 jffl aper men. construction workers of H ]|] III arious lines, and many others too 89 j If 18 umerous to mention here. Most of rtT\in 111 lese men were among the highest jOu Kil ilaried of their resnective i>rof?-.ssions ii om army camps all over the t'nitcd ' The first American camoufieurs 1 'ere amateurs and volunteers?ar- QjTTnTTW sts and sculptors who saw the posbilitios in applying their knowledge nd skill to the conduct of our war. HkB>B M ?ss than a year ago. Berry Faulk- 111 flKBvB erTTi New York artist,'and Sherry K HTnlSHl 'rey, a New York sculptor, started If U UtfTM volunteer "organization of 19 men pJB B llfl rbo^tralned in a studio In" Greenwich IB illage, the Latin quarter, so to speak, Ut JR J# fin Opportunity soon knocked at the B P B oor of the little band of camoufieurs. D oon General Pershing waa cabling 2fmJm ack to the war department for cam- C mlM] (ill ufleurs, to the perplexity of the men B JW W] Hi l Washington, for camoufiage was HQ lift m II len but little more than a mvs- ' jrlous word to us who \vcre still uniinili;rr with the ways of modern Hi Jm In mt At this moment, however, Faulkner vR B ml jj9 nd Frey and their 19 men offered x leir services to Secretary Baker, and tJI rere accepted in a body. Recruiting cij. mm ay ras started in earnest and soon the flf t!i ttle band of camoufieurs was ex- \W anded to a full company, with many mJMjR&n f America's widely known illustrators | epresented in .the roll call. This jRJrKjJ ( ompany was attached provisionally o the Twenty-fifth U. S. Engineers Wi t Fort Meyer, V'a. Since then camouflage experiment- Ijr JS/, ig and training has forged ahead |V^Jv?L>. a leap* and bounds, the American niversity at Washington being the hief center of activities in this coun- ^ " ry. American ingenuity has had an / A pportunity to display itself in our ew camouflage art. and already it is yfl afgkA eported that Homer Saint Gaudens. on of the great sculptor and a first wj?J eutenant in the first camouflage com- 1 wr I any organized, has invented a mahine that converts old newspapers ito blankets that can be tinted like y(^i fie surrounding grass and used% as a | ^4 over for a body of men going up to fie front. If \ | The camouflage unit at Camp \Vtil freene is the pioneer camouflage ont- V* I t provisionally attached to the avi- Y 1 M tion section, and with its present of- v h v "??-o and nersonnel promises to make jf| 14x4 place for'Itself In the history of this I I I jost Interesting branch of service. |t| OLONEL KENNON GUEST Hi OF HONOR AT DINNER Col. L. M. Kennon, commanding !amp Greene, was the guest of honor t a delightfully appointed dinner at KBWBBi tie Myers Park Country club on 'hursday evening of the past week, IMJBlMB V ' > iven by the board of directors of the harlotte chamber of commerce. The inner was informal, and those presnt made the occasion most enjoyable Rj rjl I III y informal talks. W nM Jib Officers who were invited guests at If /II ID he dinner were Colonel Miller. Colnel Register, Colonel Renn, Major Iff nil Ifl rreene, Major Kaempfer, Captain fl llfl [J| Vhlte, Captain Huffman, and Cap- If Hif [HI lin Wright. The following named If In l|| ivilians were present: Mayor Mc- If III frlfl Tinch, John M. Scott, David Ovens. II || llfl I. A. Dunn, W. A. Wheatley. C. A. |] RR J||| hand, Robert Lassiter, Franklin B. II Pill ||| treen, Clarence O. Kuester, A. Mor- f * is McDonald and C. A. Williams. W - -mmm _ _