Show UNCLE SAM WILL DO DOHIS HIS Jils MAP MAKING IN RIGHT WAY 7 1 P Powerful y Auto Trucks With Printing ting Outfits and I Y Experts Ready dy By Special News Nev service Service WASHINGTON D D D. C C. Dec 29 29 Civil engineers plus plus' plus aviators plus airplanes observers armed with cameras cameras cam cam- eras plus plus printers equal what To the army officers rs the answer is printed maps s for the use of the army y Uncle Sam is going to have in France Prance Somewhere re In the United States behig being being be be- ing hig prepared for somewhere in Trance France there are mounted on big powerful auto trucks some printing presses presses- Without t their work the big guns might be blind It works this W this y Liberty airplanes carrying our our expert camera men will mount Into the air and survey the lay of the land where the Germans are Snapshots will be taken The results will be turned over to civil engineers who are expert and who will have before belore them the best maps the French have Putting the maps and and the photos together they will nil make new maps The drawings will be etched on zinc ant and amY th the c completed en engravings en- en enI I gs will wUl be put fn in such shape that the p printing press can run off oft heaps I Ithe of copies of of- th the new map I The These e copies cople will go to General I Pershing and his chis staff to the field officers and to the batteries of artillery ar ar- ar- ar tillery When our army makes kes an advance the business of mapmaking will W start all over again u until as everyone sincerely sin sin- ho hopes hoes es our men will be making maps of Ithe the German territory into which they will be marching Secretary of the Interior Lane re recently recently re- re in speaking of a group of men menon on their way to France summed up their Job in a paragraph Theirs is to be the game of surveying surveying sur sur- eying platting and presenting to the eye the land over which railroads will run to carry carty men and munitions to the front Fr From m their maps artillery officers will determine where big guns shall be he placed rivers that must be crossed their fords and ferries terries Now too they fire guns and unseen unseen unseen un un- un- un seen and men by the million move move by the map thap |