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Show Special courses of training for athletic ath-letic Instructors have been established at Camp Kearney, Linda Vista, Cal. One lieutenant and one noncommissioned noncommis-sioned officer from each company have been detailed to take the courses which include boxing, wrestling and calisthenics. The classes are held three times each week, and the officers In turn Instruct their men. Two athletic fields hHve been laid out at Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash., and stands with seating capacity capac-ity of from 16.(HK) to 18.(KK) persons builf at a cost of $8,000 each. The expense ex-pense was met with funds derived from athletic contests and entertainments entertain-ments given by the men. Attendance at boxing at Camp Upton. Up-ton. Yuphank, N. Y., to which officers and noncommissioned officers have been assigned, has been made compulsory. compul-sory. According to a late report, of the 1.800,000 women engaged in agriculture agricul-ture in the Cuited States, 7.r0,000 are under twenty years of age and 1.050,-000 1.050,-000 are negroes. A majority of the woman workers are found In the Southern states. The lines of work In which women will be likely to Increase their farming farm-ing activities, according to the report, are vegetable gardening, poultry raising, rais-ing, butter making, hog raising, etc. It is suggested that women who know how to operate motorcars may with little additional training operate tractors. trac-tors. ' Now that American troops are taking tak-ing their places In the trenches, attention atten-tion Is again directed to an estimate by the secretary of war, that the losses up to June 1. 1917. of the British expeditionary ex-peditionary forces from deaths In action ac-tion nnd from wounds amounted to but 7 per cent of the total of all men sent to France since the beginning of the war. The ratio of losses of this character today, because of Improved tactics, Is less than 7 to every 100 men. It Is the opinion of the United States food administration that the gross maximum profit for wholesalers In fiour should not exceed from 50 to 7."S cents per barrel. The profit to re-tall re-tall dealers In original ndll packages should not exceed from 80 cents to $1.20 per barrel, depending upon the character of service performed. Where retailers sell In amounts less than the i original mill packages, the gross profit should not exceed 1 cent a pound. Women with a fluent knowledge of French are being trained In severnl cities for work In France as telephone tele-phone operators with the expeditionary forces. They will not be sent over In one unit, but ordered to go In groups from time to time. No Information Infor-mation can be given as to the locality In which they will be stationed. Men who are capable of handling horses are still wanted for the veterinary vet-erinary corps. They must be physically physi-cally fit and not of selective-service i ag. I |