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Show Uncle Sam's "Lumberjacks Now in French Forests, Finest Types of Outdoor Men in the United States A porlahlo American saw mill of the typo operatel now bv American InrodTH in tim!er tiuu n( I ranee they have been raised by hand a i : 1 :no t ho lis of t l.i" ir iiwihts .' N" w a M o-ful o-ful forest hut-kery such an is pt act toe in tliis count y could bo thu;;ht of In Franco. Now the Forest Service i.f the Unitel State." had been pifjrhtiiiT the t'i1''! of utiliz-iti-m of timber and junior enttiluc of t: 1 and (.up that lepio-(in- !::! It was the apoMto of yi: i thii thing. Theiefore it u.n tho :i.."icy to nit tin"? timber m the prfva tey owned Hil l Government develop,. de-velop,. d v.-.ilt:ni'!s of ma belle Fiance. The Forest Svr ice should uran !,'. the Inmhi i j.ir ii i rainier. t. Sn the unrs t h;i t a regiment of forfait forfa-it rs was t.i he o r ; 1 1 1 1 ' ' I unit out or II. n f ! . n i Washington to 1 1 1 o 1 i . - .VUlio stl etches of the timber country. In the We.-d. where the t loj; :.i pli ended, the telephone took up the uoij and il along, up distant valbv, fa r hack to Im.;h, -.1 locoing camps. Air! fi utn the end of the teb-phoiie lit.es lun seni'-n rode to the outlying St.'ltlonr.. Lonely forest lire lookout.-. on their ;,.ftv perches on the mountain tops, flashed the word n-re;.s the hills by heilogi aph. "Uncle Sam uant.t fol -e-t-a-- to lo their hit in the great War," they said. "Will you cmo.'" L ery Man a S peri a li-l The ni a n yj t Ion of the ruic! Sei v-i' v-i' p was made an iu;eney for enlisting lit men, Kaeh Jl 1 ( .1 :i 1) t Was require to .-how proof of his ahility to per-f! per-f! 111 (I l.tveu ji.h ill the Woods or to (111 some spci'lM-'d place around sawmill. The lesult v. a;, an oir-a n i.a 1 ton that was the pieh of one of the llnet bodtea of outdoor men in the mm I Ion. Them fire private-; aiming them who are gind-tr.s gind-tr.s of I tn'rvai .1 and Yale It nd Mlehi-V.nn. Mlehi-V.nn. Them Im .Jack llamon nnd Paiker Anderson, who pla ed, reaper t ively, (!oI. Jam-; . ondrnir. rtnmuaiuling tin Tenth l.ii'.ineer,- ( Forestry I ceu t.T nd halfback on t he foMjh.ill Nam of tiie Univr:s:tv of M;::;t.. i The i:. a vup :irt :ide:it of a g i at s.i v. mill w ho ,l:d riot hea r of the i uJ-no-ut in 1 ,nir t f:-t a o iimu i and mil l"d as a prhate T'.ie :a'es mail-iiL mail-iiL ri of a New Yoik hun'-or e. mp-i !1V u lio had woi ked up f i om toe u o,.,ls -h i lil,"U iMi, Thei u Is a 1 'ei,: i.i u, a graduate grad-uate of Illiuoy atld Jl s,-. nttlic fi'!"e.;iT. who s a sc;.,eant In the lv-mimt. A fi'i'iiii.l lieu,eiuuit .s fore t.T for the lVr,n.vvh .nii.i La ih o ol. a n.i s ir n-.rn f:,jin Mi.-h oit.aul -i:;ei; t hi o u : ; iioj : t the Coillltr- o h I M I led The nail m fol . I !-. m ln'ol- i hi ;..,! oui t he coun-l coun-l ry pi e '"ni. d t hem eh ex ahiniM cn mi.1- - a in I ma n v wiih a-t ua 1 e v pe iet.ee , u en ; Ci pti d l"'l oil' all point:, of the e..liip ; the call tu for-e'-;oi ;; tl,o en-am of the cilHm;. "Ihllv" .M'M'-hon, whoso lather invii.i fhe I iiuher that c.o ei m t wo conn! i s up Michigan a-. is a n'i ..-eant; l-"i.i::k McNa)le. of a well Known N vv York lumhet lh in. Is a huek pi i a t f. list li-st audi UK. t w o -listed rhaps they are. who Know how to take cue of them-Helvcs them-Helvcs and how to -,et o'lt tlmhet . Colonel oodl 1 1 rr l-i hut fo; (y two hluiM-lf a phenoineiialU oinhlul colonel except In I he-e t hue ; W heil 1 .; - olar Hi iiiy men net promol ions e ci y A coii'any tif the Miunbrrjarks'1 uncr arms Uncle Sam s Lumberjacks, " -v- : v Now in French Forests, - " .-, -T . -fA Finest Types of Outdoor - ' ' ' ; , ' ';-.' yii-'p0:Bl Men in the United States ' ' ' WM&ri , '-.. 'H ,4 ill 1 i ' , - i . U . .... -.. M , ,,,,-p in iiwumm ii imiiw.i i w in i.iiwi.in h ' ' i y j ' s s , - . vN ' i i A roirany nf t ho "liimbrrjacks'' under arms t - ' ;ij Ten Engineers (Forestry) Performing Highly 4 . : V 2r- . , 1 Important Service in Getting Out Needed Tim- f : .VT.:." r Vv' ' ber Supplies for Our Army Abroad They v ".'f IZZTZ: ! iy?re Recruited Among Rangers; Sawmill L : 'r I am College Boys All Over the Country . " ' .V Kl . ;v fl ' ' . ;: ; , - , . - . ) -;. Vr, x , B ronntries of the world. More than turning out the maximum right r. : ; ; , .. i V , - jj S-'- " S. per cent of thu area of that country is There were preat numbers of double- ' :?- 5 .: : i ;?r V v . , :" - covered with productive forests. All Ntted axes. canl h0oks. chains, loosing ------- ' - V ."; V the forests of France are rroduct.ve cart8 an1 otl,er mi5cei!any o the bust- -- ------ - - W . Kn,e,,s there are as carefully tended r;,rtiou,a,,,v well surrhed with v . r. - - i " V ' - ' .' - " s . jis ajt? piain hntls or orchards. hor- . . ,. . .A4- I v , . ... , three-ton trucks was tee expedition. ; v , V . ( s W over tiiere an acre of Kind that , , - . fa . - . , These w nl take the place of animals P c.-.s-t r-t'x K -.--.v- - ; . . r ' . -ft.' r,ot cay.ahle of ra'.Miit; other crops . . t . Jj ; ,. - - '. - . - -? .. v-. ' for draft purposes, and thus cut down E - - -s . . - ''-' I ' is P"1 to ui-owinc trees. Kvcry steep t ? : o. -. - . r ? . hillside, hroken mountain stretch, "ccd 5 I s:- -;..v.-: ,J Mtf Si" ... 1- : rocky promontory, is laid down in Captain, Inman F. Eldridtre, befort ii ii mr i trees. Vsoful varieties are selected for his enlistment, was the Government ' . pinntinp. The undesirables are elim- fcres-er for Florida. In that capacity ! I I I !' ' . lnatc.1. Where trees do not come nat- chief study was that of methods uralty they are planted. The wood- of increasing the output of naval A porlahlo Amoriran saw mill of the W pr- oporalorl now bv Ainrricati Torotcrs in liinlirr tract' of I'raticc lands are not alinwi; to become too stores of this country. Chief of these t densely forested or too thinly covered. is turpentine and resin. He had been , yyvv - ,r 1 1 For :oo years Franco has been pivinc a preat student of this problem. Much h?r lorests this thoughtful care. In of what he learned about it was from S - tiiis way s!ie has been controlling the France. Today he is wnrkint: in the trndencv of her rivers to flood. Gen- turpentine forests of that country, 4 nations" before GitTord Tinchot bepan And these, by the way. are examples of . h.s campaipn to arouse the Cnited nne of the most striking results oT . - . - States to the advantapes of proper scientific forestry in all the woild. . for.station. France had been prac- Generations apo France came to a ' ' tiv-irp all the lessons that he taucht. prelate the menace of the sand dunes sA . : ' 1 ' He learned much of scientific foresta- nionp her coast. For miles inland ' tion in France. there was a useless stretch of shKtir.p X Much of this land Is owned by the sand, and observations showed that it in prov.hw and sent abroad to cut lies Nnmpic. M. I.. Nenem.t. an American emua-. o, , - ..no ....- .m. ' lEzr V: zr '.overnment. There are few lorpe es- moved a little way inland each yoar. and props an. I hoards for the fiphtin who hud be-n admimstorii t!ic f-r- mc -o i h- r ... :11 ,-d 1 1 v. as t he a poM Ic k .---.' tatcs in France, and almost none like ratine into the Tortile lands of th , of I;-iiOi Cohmihia f..r tho Cana- of c;. t tliii thinp. 'Iheiefoie tt u.n . .. , . ........ ,... , ,. , , By William Athrrton Du Ptiy SOMF-WHIiKK in l-'rance an inclsne "oung American .'o!oi;el of r.?; peers, .lames A. Woodruff by name, is eommandmp a inotR-y crew of woods-n'n woods-n'n sera pod toco the r a hni s o cr-nipht cr-nipht from the lonesome places of tbe United States where timber Is cnu'aed in piov.iiii; and sent abroad to cut lies and props a nil hoards for the liphtin 1 fo.-ces a little further on. His organization is th.c Tenth Engineers Engi-neers (For str.v. v. lien the reference is Oltieial, and ."the I.umht-rj.ick I'.eci-mcnt." I'.eci-mcnt." otherw ise. The command is r'"fl stronp and. aside from Colonel Woodruff, there is one other man, Captain Cap-tain i-'evorly C. Dunr.. who wore n urn-form urn-form a yea r aio. ("u h.e rwise. officers and men . are lumberjacks, forest innper, s n wmill men. fm-es t i y experts, ex-perts, collree students a nd professors of silviculture,, thrown t"C.-'t her in ;i gtrapKe liodL-epodt:'; to ere on this unusual mission in a foii i'ii hind. Sonif I annul' oml.-mcti Coionel Woodward a-. the nnt s'lr-p: s'lr-p: ied man in the world v. hen. !; 1 August he v..r, iven command of the lumbej-;ai h yiU'-r,: . ;h-;i .lust form- If:;;. He u;i ; an r n r i iK'"r fV. er. ;i m.ljor. w ho li id bt-en icnderiii;; expert se. - t i if War I )epa 1 1 nv-ut In "ahir,p'on. What he knew ;ihout f i it s t y was me. rly incidental. To 'be sure, he had b' a station.-d at Viol-.---b;n cr, in M i s -,is. i ppi, on the M .:-sis -ippi, find there his lask had bcen to cut il'iv u willow ti'-. s and weae tla-ir hiHti'-liev into mats and spi'.i I tl.- ni al'.lip Do- f.'.'.ll Str'-am to pie'-rnt the (liii-'iit f iv. in ashiiif.' a .. a " the hank?. The mats we:e n hundied f.-rt wide :m-i some! imr- il . e mi h-t? ion . Thev weir., in re-ilit',. tier cloth, and jaoh-fildy jaoh-fildy the joa u-t.jtie.; J, i. i.f i )al That comes f : om any loom In the world. Such v. i 'i'k as this, l.ov, e er. w .is t ho limit of Colonel Woodru ff's educat ion as a w o' ulsma n. His p;oiiiee was to furnish the military mili-tary element to an orpani;'.:i tion that knew more about timber than a Cav-lit Cav-lit u-ie libr.iiy. lie had as majoi . for i-xa tuple. It. II. I a-n edict . an America n who had be-n administering tlie fur-osN fur-osN of Ih itish Cohnnbia for the Canadian Cana-dian Go ernment, and C. S. Chapman, manau-er f-f the Timber l'rotrt,e A-stuiati'in A-stuiati'in of hi''''i.-nn. As captains he had K dward S. lh j ant. inspector for our forest seiwice; Inman 1-. Flrhide. supervisor of the Na th ma I I' ret of h'lorid.'i; J. f. Cutluie, Miporvi.-or for Arizona; lv.,m W. Kelly, foic-t examiner. ex-aminer. Da." id T. Mason, pi cfesor of forestry. I'niveisity of California; W. X. Millar. profe--or aft'ie Fnivt-r.-lty of Cinturio; I)orr Skeels, hi;i:in engineer engi-neer nnd profr-sMr at tl.e Fnivrrsitv of Mo; in:i;i; I'.ari iimton M on re, a forestry r o i -, , 1 1 1 i 1 1 lj expert . of New YorK rily, ;i.ei Uoii h other lal.-nf. Th" re ;iment hid ' f n oivanied at the rerrst of the Uritish commission, and had h'-on on" of the first thiuKs m ked for w hen that t nmtim ion ir-ached Ameiica. Modejn wtirfaie re-fj'iirrs re-fj'iirrs immense amounts of woor n various forms. I,uinb"i- for tiinehen, cantonments, bridges; plops fur mines, i 1 1 t i e s for i a th i . ids. iaw m.'i tei lal for makinp charcoal and fai;ois for the J n a -a n t ' Lumber is ln.ny and bulky, and occu pies mm h sp.oa. wln-u s h tpted. a:,d -hniiId Iheieloic hv ma n u f . i ct u red close to the pa ee ,f o n s 1 1 m p t i " n in these tinc-i f iraflie d i llicii 1 1 h-s. Would America please (t't the lumber for Die V.ar foil of the l'l e;ie!t f nrc;. t u '.' Lut n'r would the I'nite.t States bo (aieful witll the-e 1'lMlch foie.-ts, for Tenth Engineers (Forestry) Performing Highly Important Service in Getting Out Needed Timber Tim-ber Supplies for Our Army Abroad They Were Recruited Among Rangers; Sawmill Men and College Boys All Over the Country Ihl-'o kf.-. Kilt h.. !..is lihtnd him i;n:.-h s. . i.-t' m th,' riulippi:!'' ;ln' M l.ulat'.. Iwmi's :ui.l r,f,-Mi'ships t w . t I'.'ir.t. Mo t'M.; his leiinont In han.l in iji,. outskirts of W;ih!uiu.-ton l:i-t sunuu.r f.nf thi-ni two n:..::lhs ,:' uit,.r.M-t. iiiitit.-ivy training. Tl.c ui'.'i.i'is ha. I if.vi,i..ly mostly i;,ti tlM-otiKll otlli-.-rs" trnutltie o.uill... Tln-vr iik-h !., mo i!,. ,l.l.oi m n ; iti pi i imi-' .sin. i t tmio. 'I'hiy nlii,:ul' t hut tin- tnihtm y tivhui.ii. I',,ll,'l Woi.ilruff tolirtltoil th.llt It r.-,T.,.-.l 11, lit ivi'i U in a u,c :ini; uil,. with hlK,' Mini "i!c .lll.l pi'.ivy. m:s t . i 1,1 ; t,' t,..ll,1 t MTt!10sS Wltll thr h.n,.i:,-t. hi 1 ri in'li W ooill.mds So it eninr alollt thut tiuso l-'OO turn. ,iss,.s,.,i of liHlrll hue ami ox-l-oi i..n, , ..f tlio wo.xls. : .-ni i i o.l that in otloionoy in nnlitai y mat tors that is 1 1 ti i' ,lov ,-.M',',l 111 tho oonr.-., s of tiahl-S tiahl-S ii,- i on a! tho onoaninmoiilN that aro ni.iKin;: tho Xaiional At my. Thus pro-paro.l. pro-paro.l. the- ,o il.ll, l.-alion wont to 1'ialioo alom; In S, 'pi, mliof an,l lninio,hatoly i.ot ahont tho tilsKs i'n hamt. Tho tiinh.'i lands of 1'iail. o won soinolhlin: of a tmvrlly to thorn. U is a sm pi i.-o. for Instanoo. to ,,-ai n Hint 1'ianoo Is olio of tho best voo,lo,l JUlT ' ' ' T;lrT I. ."..' A . i. i i li-l ,- ' , . '! i! i;i J .1 111:, , '. ' " .. .-'', .. ,f"-'f Ih Id liU fi' -V?:- AJ. r ,r " V, A:? &:? r :f''.;'i -: ',: ". : ,,r-,: - P Ml; .''X- : - :, : - - 'A , ft , - '.-..-rTv ::'. " '.'-' jj ' Itr "ItitiilM-t .u k" rreimi-nl in coiii-r nl fm t it a m countries of the world. More than Z$ per cent of tho area of that country is covered with productive forests. All the forests of France are productive. Korc.-ts there are as carefully tended as ate pram Hnds or orchards. Wherever Wher-ever there is an acre of hind that not capable of raising other crops it is put to srowiiK trees. Kvcry stoop hillside. broken mountain stretch, rocky promontory, is laid down in trees. Useful varieties are selected for plnntinp. The undesirables are eliminated. elim-inated. Where trees do not come naturally nat-urally they are planted. The woodlands wood-lands are not allow c; to become too densely forested or too thinly covered. For 200 years Franco has been ptvlnp her lorests this thoughtful care. In tiiis way she has been controlling the tendency of her rivers to flood. Generations Gen-erations before GitTord Tinchot bepan h.s campaign to arouse the United States to the advantages of proper fortstaiion. France had been practicing prac-ticing all the lessons that he taucht. He learned much of scientific foresta t ion in France. Much of this land Is owned by the Government. There are few larpe estates es-tates in France, and almost none like those in Knpland, where much land is used that a few men of the upper class may have an opportunity for seasonal shootlnji. Therefore the cut-tint- of trees is either on the Government Govern-ment lands or on small nnd privately owned tracts that, in the United States, would be classed as wood lots. It Is Into this sort of timber that the Tenth Knsineers iForestr are going. These Fi ench timber lands are to be fully utilized, but ;is growing forests they are not to he injured. This means thru the principles of scientific foi es-try es-try are to ho applied to all that is done. The trees that arc of a sire for usefulness useful-ness are to be cut. This is timber that has attained a diameter of from nine to sixteen inches. Thus ould be regarded re-garded as mighty small timber in the United States, but the Furopean standards are different from those in America, with her forests that are 3 et. stranger to the ux. Whenever n tree is cut it must be done in such a wny that in falling H will do no damage to the growing crop of timber. A tree that has used tip ten years in .-.etting half grown must not be broken down. Tho logging must be done carefully, that the forest for-est be not injured. Then there is tho problem of utillvation. In France there is no waste of any part of the tree. Tho body of it is made into lumber or t rench t imbers or railroad t ies. Tho smaller limbs serve lesser purposes In building or are used for wood to bo burned, Tho charcoal industry In Fiance Is great, and any available w nod is ut Uk'.ed in Its ma nutaot ure. Tho twigs and branches of each tree are cut up nnd bound together a farots for fuel for t ht peasants. Finally Final-ly the leaves are gathered and used ror beddlng for sdook, from which service they find their way to tho 1elds, where they servo as manure. This handling of a forest and this iitlhaMon of each tree is a task dear to tho heart of the .scientific forester. The task given these experts will be rxaotty that which (bey have neen try-in try-in t: to tench the lumbermen of the United States. Takr Sawmills Alone, ' Hefore Colonel Woodru fl's regiment went abroad tt provided Itself with all t he much in cry that tt would need In Its work, It boxed up a number of American portable sawnillh. that could hp Mt up heiv nnd there In the woods hit ok of the line--. Those tu e now i I p p I m; up t imbei bci e and t here alom; the ha t tie line. Fa oh one of t hem 1m capable of mwIiii; fi om S0ih to K000 tort of lumber n da nnd is piobablv turning out the maximum right r.. There were preat numbers of double-bitted double-bitted axes, cant hooks, chains, logging carts and other miscellany of the business. busi-ness. Particularly well supplied with three-ton trucks was the expedition. These will take the place of animals for draft purposes, and thus cut down feed bills. Captain, Inman F. Eldridge. before his enlistment, was the Government forester for Florida. In that capacity his chjef study was that of methods of increasing the output of naval stores of this country. Chief of these is turpentine and rosin. He had been a great student of this problem. Much of what he learned about it was from l-'rance. Today he is wnrkirg in the turpentine forests of that country. And these, by the way, are examples of one of the most striking results oT scientific forestry in all the woild. Generations ago France came to a predate the menace of the sand dunes along Iter coast. For miles inland there was a useless stretch of shKtir.p sand, and observations showed that it moved a little way inland each yoar, eating into the Tortile lands of th farmer people. The farmers were pew. erless to stop the onward march of the sand dunes. Then Franco, after much experimentation, determined to stop these sands from shifting by planting then in trees. Filling: Important ?Yccl The result is a great stretch of pi" lands of tho very best varieties en what were formerly sand dunes. It is from these pine trees that the- French turpentine comes. The sands no longer shift and the encroachments on th farm lands long ago ceased. Captain Fid: idee has long known the lesson, and has soucht to introduce the methods meth-ods into Florida. Likewise has he urged that the shifting sand-dune country coun-try of New Jeis-oy be planted Into these pine trees. Quite naturally Captain F.Mridce has been given chars o of the lumbering that the American' are to do in this sand dune pine foiest. There he will cooperate with the French women nnd o'd men. who arc doing the turpentining tur-pentining while the men capable of flgntios Are at tho front. Tho regiment in Us ser too in Franc is broken into fragments. It is or-ganirod or-ganirod into crews to serve the specific purposes of maiking. logging, skidding, skid-ding, sawir.g the timber. Kaoh crrW is highly skilled In its specialty and sticks to its last. Most of the tunbor to be cut is ha i d wood oak, beech, hornbeam and the like. Vl en the tm-dei tm-dei brush is carefully cut and utili.cd FiMil Ihitnan is the patron saint of the f.umberjack Kecimeut. Tho groat uotth woods know the legend vf F;u;l Hun, an w ell, for he of them a'l . the greatest lumberman. He it was who logged otT the great ph'his from Canada to Texas and left th.mi the tieeler-s piairies inhabited b numberless num-berless buffalo which the white man lound when he pushed Into t,h Ameit-can Ameit-can unknown. In Fiance, it has beei promised, the Amei lean lumber lack will, with their exploits, rival those of the legendai y Paul l!un an. The w ork of the Tenth Fnorre;- (Forestry 1 has been ptononrced s ". ccssfnl. It has been show n to til! a important im-portant military need As a result, the outer has gone foith to cieate second and much hn ;ei unit. Thi second l ei;iment will he tu ide op cf ten h-ittalious of T.-a men rich, dh ided Into lb, ee . otvo uues of men. Thus i!-. total Mien.th hi about 1,-00 men. a-.aoist the 1 .''V m" of the ie.;,nient now in Fiance Tw-' of the battalion t,(" this soeo-M ivC 1 ment a, e now m ti amim:. nnd othei a-n lapMb being ImohuM together i |