Show fAMOUS ARTISTS TO FIGHT HUN WITH PAINT PAINTBRUSH BRUSH Men Who Have Achieved Note in Art World Serving Serving Serving ing U. U S. S at Front By Dy Special New News Service WASHINGTON Nov 17 The The classiest classiest class clus iest lest company In all nil Undo Uncle Sams Sam's armies Is encamped on the outskirts of WashingtOn Washington Wash Wash- ington learning how to fight tight the Hun with paint brushes and nd bales bales of raffia graj grass gras s. s This Thia company of suggests nothing of ot the highbrow or tho the aesthete when ono one one drops In on Its Us practice trenches I It contains enough artists to paint a whole art gallery and sculptors who could use up a big marble quarry Engineers architects scene painters and costume d designers whose income In peace times runs into five figures are drawing the he pa pay of privates and corporals corporals corpo corpo- rals rids along with stage hands bands carpenters electricians 1 plumbers lumbers and nd other skilled work workers rs v It is Uncle Sams Sam's only II- II camouflage I Mh toU outfit to date company date company a F. F Twenty fifth engineers ers While the company commander Is In InFranco France Franco with Pershing gathering new ideas Idea for the eurs the tho company Is In charge of Lieutenant Homer tit Mt Gaudens a tall bronzed young man al almost almost almost al- al most as a big as his fathers father's famous statue of ot Abraham Lincoln ST. ST GAUD ENS EN'S TRAINED St. St Gaudens Gauden's military training was garnered garnered garnered gar gar- in three weeks at Plattsburg but butas butas butas as an artist and he had long experience as a stage director r a and designer de Ce- signer of t the e ew w wonderful l f scenic IC ICa effects which helped make Maude Adams famous There are five painters In the company whose pictures exhibited In Europe have hare taken the Prix de Ce the Rome the highest honor an American artist can hope to win wiry These Thel men are now splashing canvas tent cloth and burlap along with house painters painters making making artificial roads to fool enemy airmen painting fake villages and false cannon to draw bombs and shellfire shellfire shellfire shell- shell fire away from the real thing to the tho fake With scene shifters ana and carpen carten carpenters tera they ate are festooning hay underbrush dyed ded excelsior and raffia grass to conceal trenches observation posts and snipers' snipers nests Their work worle on practice trenches drew the warmest praise from General Vig- Vig nard of the French military mission on a recent visit to the camp The Tho general who has had had- long experience of all the tricks of camouflage on the w western stern front was completely taken In at a n distance of only yards by the concealment work planted over some snipers' snipers posts Major l Evarts Tracy one of the organizers organizers organizers or or- of ot compan F o Is In France Franco with Captain Nixon A A. Miller the first captain captain cap cap- tam tain of the company On their return It tt ItIs ItIs Is lii probable company F will be expanded into a II number of ot companies and the tho bulk of or Its privates and anel noncoms w wt l Decommissioned be De commissioned officers of new companies of s sent nt to France Two American painters Barry Faulk- Faulk ner ncr and Sherry Fry both Fry both Prix de Rome Home men originated men originated the idea of company I F. F They are earning their 35 and 40 o per 41 Vr month mJ t eating sowbelly and beans b s living In the pine board bunks of tho the cantonment canton canton- ment ment and and having the time of their lives Leslie LesUe Thresher whose whoso girls on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post have hav been gazed at b by over per perI week Is ig a corporal and his brother Harry Thresher the sculptor Is a a. I vate rate Burnham Hoyt who designed many of the Liberty loan posters is a a. private te |