Show Woman Wr Writer ter at Camp 4 rc 1 I L 4 s 4 11 a 4 44 1 Lauds Community Idea 1 7 4 I p p c V 4 e c Z 4 r I Mary Roberts Rinehart Mary Alary Roberts Rinehart Says Plan to Give Soldiers Normal Nor Nor- inal mal Life Is Noble Effort WI Well ell Carr Carried J cl Out Chillicothe Ohio Jan 7 Mrs far Roberts Rinehart one of Am Americas America's foremost women writers has set up tiP her desk in a little hotel here and ann here herc shell she'll be until th the boys at nt Camp Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man just outside the city go abro abroad ld For among the boys at the national cantonment are two of her boys her hel husband Capt Stanl Stanley M M. Rine- Rine hark harU who Is instructing the selective p service ervice men and amI h her hr r son Stanley Stanle M M. Jr Then there is another son at Harvard Har lIar yard vard training with a college regiment regi regi- ment mont and another In a preparatory school In New r Jersey I In there has line been established e established tab what Is known as the Camp Sherman Its aim is toI to I afford comfort quarters for the kin of tho the soldiers Mrs Rinehart has hns had her part with Ith the other mothers and wives In establishing the community I and she I is enthusiastic over o it 31 Inn ny The community covers co thirty-one thirty acres and on it have ha been built hullt a big big- hotel-club hotel building In the shape of or a across across across cross and a group of surrounding buildings Including Including- a Masonic house D. D A. A R. R house and Y V W. W C. C A. A house Then there are eighteen guest lo lodges The rue idea was conceived by MaJ Gen Edwin F F. Glenn commandant at the camp and was executed by the mothers and wives and various arlous women's organ organ- I wish evel every mother who has a son here could see for hers herself elf Just how well vell this community idea is working out said Mrs Rinehart recently And iid AndI I wish every very cantonment in the country had a community like lUce Shermans 1 Nowhere hero else have I seen such t p l kindly consideration for or the thc soldiers soldiers' personal welfare as here at Camp Sherman she continued and I think the officers in charge e of or the canton- canton are me to be Je commended for Cor trying to preserve the normal life uro of or the sol soldiers as far tur as possible Thc They see seethe seethe the soldiers' soldiers needs from the tho human standpoint and endeavor ol to supply them in a wholesome manner Anyone who understands conditions ons that exist near an any camp carni will readily understand how necessary this is is The Camp Sherman community unique in It Its conception and execution I believe this to be the only cantonment cantonment canton canton- ment so fortunate as q have hav so comprehensive comI com corn a plan to bind tho the soldiers to the folks back home I At At present It is a pleasant pheasant means of affording comfort quarters for tho families When those grievous days come upon us when farewells will have to be 10 said hurriedly an and without much notice then this this plan of or the tho generals general's will be appraised for tor its real value value and greatly greath appreciated has S Seen fn Camps Abroad And Mrs Rinehart has seen a number number number num num- ber of military camps She Sho has visited man many in this countr country and has penetrated pen pen- farther Into the French front than any other American woman haYIng having haying haY haY- ing Ing- been abroad early In the war She takes her recreation here In the saddle She Is an experienced horsewoman horsewoman horse horse- woman and find Is a familiar figure around I the camp riding with her husband or orI 1 her son when whet they have leisure I Her bo boy Stanley Stanle has has Just been chosen from among the selective service service service I ice men as one to be tutored In tho officers' officers training camp about to bo be Os established t a hI I h ed |