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Show RECREATION CAMPS FOR SOLDIERS ILLUSTRATED AT UTAH STATE FAIR An exhibit depicting how the recreational recre-ational facilities of the army and the navy camps and adjacent communities communi-ties have been organized for the soldiers sol-diers and sailors la training has been spocially prepared by the commissions commis-sions on training camp activities of the war and navy departments for exposition ex-position at state fairs this fall in conjunction con-junction with displays of tne Department, De-partment, of Agriculture and the Committee Com-mittee on Public Information. The exhibit will be shown at tho State Fair, which will be. held In Salt Lake City from September 29 to October 5. ORy photographs, charts and paintings paint-ings the exhibit portrays how the training camp commissions are directing di-recting thentrical entertainment, athletics, ath-letics, mass singing, club life, educational educa-tional courses and other forms of re- , creation within the military camps, and how hospitality has been organized organiz-ed in the outlying cities for the men on leave. It also shows the work that is being done in this atrectlon by the Y. M. C. A. the Y. W. C. A., the Knlght9 of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Wel-fare Board, the American Library Association As-sociation and tho War Camp Community Commun-ity Service, organizations whtch have been correlated under the training camp commislons in a common ministry minis-try to the men in the service. - The illustrations and print describing describ-ing the camp activities have been arranged ar-ranged by panels eight in all which trace the history of the training camp commissions from their creation shortly short-ly after the outbreak of the war to the present day. The first panel deals Iwith the conditions along, the Mexican Mexi-can border in 1916 when war with Mexico was momentarily expected. There,, no well ordered system of recreation re-creation and relaxation was provided for the "men. For the most part the paloon and the red light district were their chief sources of amusement and the consequences were ofttlmes disastrous. disas-trous. It was here that the need for regulated recreation In the military camps presented Itself and ultimately brought about the organization of the training camp commissions. The panels that follow are In striking strik-ing contrast. The second one contains con-tains the message of President Wilson to families with sons in the service which says in part that "no army and mvy ever before assembled have had more conscientious and painstaking thought given to the protection and stimulation of its mental, moral and physical manhood" The Presidents message is illustrated by a copy of a painting bv L'elenewood, "These, my boys," which shows the solicitude of Uncle Sam for his fighterB both on land and sea. Panels threo and four describe the theatrical entertainment, athetlcs and mass singing in the camps, the activities activi-ties which are carried on through direct di-rect representatives of the training camp commissions. There are pictures of the Liberty theatres which have been established in the principal cantonments, can-tonments, and pictures of soldiers and sailors singing and playing sports hundreds hun-dreds at a time. One of the photographs photo-graphs shows a group of Boldiers entering en-tering a Liberty theatre with their open books of "Smileage" In their hands. "Smileage" is the term applied to the coupons that the soldiers use for admission to th Liberty theatre In lieu of cash. The work conducted by '.he Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Y. W. C. A. the Jewish Welfare Board and the American Library Association under the direction of the training camp commislbons, Is shown In the fifth and sixth panels. Photographs show the huts, recreational buildings, canteens, hostess houses and libraries that these organizations have established estab-lished in camps and naval stations all over the country. What has been done by the War Camp Community Service to organize the recreational and social facilities in the cities and towns In the vicinity of war camps for the soldiers and sail ofors on leave is told in panel 7. This work is intimately related to the work of the Law Enforcement Division of the Training Camp Commissions which Is described in panel 8. This division also operates outside the camps enforcing federal laws pertain-iuC pertain-iuC to the suppression of vice and the j prohibition of thw sale of liquor to mn in uniform. Through its efforts red light districts in over 85 cities have burn abolished, booth pging ha bvn reducrt to a minimum, and the .trwts cloared of immoral women This panel winds up the exhibit. |