Show AMERICA BUILDS SALVAGE CITY Soldiers' Soldiers Clothes Will s Be Scrubbed Scrubbed Scrubbed Scrubs Scrub Scrub- bed and Mended T uIE IE MAUi MAIN THINS THING Each Battalion Returning From the Front Will Have Its Bath Parade Soldiers Soldier Will WI Discard Their Their Clothes Clothes E Enter Enter t the Baths Baths' and Come Out in Another Room Where Clean Dry Clothes Will Be Waiting Waiting for Them Uncle Sam Sara Is moving In his washtubs washtubs wash wash- tubs to wash the undershirts and und things that come back from the time trenches Wash Washtubs tubs are the main timing tiling In the big salvage base hase which Is Just being finished In a n city far back from the I lines In France There are also shoe- shoe repair machines and machines for darning socks spelts and patching breeches The fhe quartermaster took tool n a l broad loop look at the future In planning this base He visualized hundreds hundreds' of thousands of in the tho mud and filth of or the trenches battalions trenches battalions coming out everyday every everyday day wearing the same clothes down to the time last stitch that they wore when they marched In He saw that these battalions would need hot baths and clean clothes as much as ns rest and recreation They're going to get em baths em baths and clothes Cities for Repair Back Bacle In the cities salvage denotes a careening red wagon fire piled high with waterproof wat blankets with helmeted hel- hel helmeted helmeted meted salvage corps firemen clinging to the handrails Over here bere its it's something else again Salvage means menns repair reclamation saving There will be bath stations Just back backof of ot the front and each emerging ion will willi have e its bath parade oncoming on oncoming oncoming coming out As they enter the building building build build- ing the will discard their duds jackets duds jackets breeches shoes socks shirts and underwear They will go through the baths baths and come out in another another another an an- other room to find clean dry clothes and sound shoes waiting for them Meantime the salvage folk will have gathered up the discarded clothing I First off ofT every garment will go through the lousing de wagon where I steam bathes will kill em I Work to Be Inspected ext the garments are piled Into i freight cars which come up to the line with supplies and otherwise might go goback goback o back empty empt At the base the Uncle Sam laundry thoroughly launders every every ev ev- evI I ery cry garment and sends them on to I Iother other departments In the same plant for inspection and repair If It a garment has been repaired several sev sev- several eral times before most likely it will go into the time discard Otherwise it will willbe willbe be De patched and sent forward for tor the next man who comes out wet muddy and craving to be clean again I I IThe The horse Is very susceptible to cold and the horses that are stabled when not being worked or exercised feel the changes of weather quite as an i readily as do those enjoying a port moro free life All stables should be fairly lofty because because because be be- cause horses need plenty of fresh air all and this can only be properly given during intense cold when venti- venti atlon can be given above the heads of the animals so far tar as elevation elevations of tho the ventilators ventilators ven ven- is s concerned the tho position I mattering little so long as they are at a good height and placed wit with judgment The stable should feel reel cozy upon going in but not stuffy otherwise the horses will feel chilly upon coming coning cowing cow con ing out |